Daily Detox Tips

What comes to your mind when you hear about detox? Probably, you think about a week-long experience of keeping yourself from your favorite foods and replacing them with vegetable juices.  If it is so, know that you are making mistake. The truth is that the process of detoxification means that you have to take smart daily steps instead of starving yourself. There are numerous ways that can help you to nourish your body with foods and release it from harmful chemicals. Here are the top 15 daily detox tips to keep you feeling your best.

1. Drink Lemon Water On Empty Stomach

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Lemons are the kings of detoxing. What is more, they are extremely nutritious. It means that drinking lemon water in the morning before your first meal can help your body to release from toxins and get a lot of essential nutrients. Nutrients stored in lemons help to improve digestive health, strengthen immunity, promote weight loss, improve mood, and rejuvenate skin.

2. Drink More Detox Tea

Drinking tea is a good way to clean your body. Most of the teas such as green tea, ginger tea, lemon tea, turmeric tea and many others, are not just a good for detox, but also serve as natural diuretics.

3. Drink Homemade Detoxing Tonics

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There are some detox foods such as aloe vera, apple cider vinegar, ginger and chia seeds, you can incorporate to your daily meals by making  refreshing tonics. All you have to do is to combine them with water and lemon. As an alternative, you can use them as salad dressings.

4. Drink Two Liters of Water a Day

Drinking enough water is one of the easiest and well-known ways to release your body from toxins. The thing is that increasing your water consumption to two liters a day allows to keep your body hydrated, so it can perform its natural cleansing functions. Drink a glass of water 15 minutes before every meal and drink a glass of green tea right after you finish it. It will help you to provide your body with maximum power for detoxification.

5. Add pH Treatment Drinks

All you need to make a wonderful restorative and purifying drink is a glass of water, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and baking soda. Such drink can help your body to stabilize pH level. Just make sure to drink it when your stomach is empty, at least one hour before your first meal.

6. Add Superfoods to Your Meals

Some foods are much richer in antioxidants and other nutrients than others. Such foods are known as superfoods as they provide the body with all the essential elements and help it to release from harmful chemicals and toxins. The top superfoods you can add to your meals are acai berries, spinach, kale, spirulina, avocado, grapefruit, apples, turmeric, strawberries, and maca.

7. Eat more Herbs and Spices

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Did you know that the main purpose of spices in Asian cuisine is to eliminate bacteria, fungus, and microbes?  What is more, most of spices and herbs help blast toxins in the body. So why not add basil, parsley, garlic, ginger, turmeric and some other herbs and spices to your meals to enrich the flavor with nearly zero calories and help your body to get rid of toxins and other harmful elements?

8. Choose Organic

Pesticides are very harmful to your body. Meanwhile, they are used worldwide to hinder competition and allow the vegetation to produce more. It means that when you eat conventional plants, you feed your body with toxic chemicals and GMO’s. In order to avoid negative effects on health caused by these elements, always try to choose organic foods over conventional ones. Just note that there are certain fruits that are protected from pesticides by their skin, so you can choose conventional ones to save your money. These fruits and vegetables are avocados, pineapples, cabbages, onions, mangos and some other.

When it comes to meat, note that conventional products are also harmful to your health. The thing is that too often, conventional meats contain pesticides, hormones and antibiotics. The higher up the food chain, the more harmful substances they have in their body. Choosing organic meats can save you from negative impacts of these substances on your overall health.

9. Add Probiotics

As 70 percent of your immune system is in the gut, it is very important to take care of your gut flora, so adding probiotics to your diet is the best way to do it. You can just take a high-quality probiotic supplement daily in order to help your gut create a healthy environment for healthy bacteria. By doing so, you improve your immune system and allow it to release your body from toxins.

10. Try Oil Pull

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Oil pulling is an easy procedure with a lot of health benefits. By simply putting a spoon of oil into your mouth, swishing it around for upwards of 20 minutes, and then spitting it out into a trash bag, you improve your oral health by removing bad bacteria from your mouth.  What is more, such procedure promotes healthy teeth and gums. So the fact that it is used by Ayurveda for centuries is not surprising.

11. Have an Early Dinner

Did you know that the food that makes up your dinner directly affects your liver? This organ is responsible for cleansing your bloodstream. In order to improve its functioning,  choose early dinners, so your liver can use early morning hours to regenerate. If you do the opposite, your liver will have mo time to regenerate as it will have to digest your food.

12. Exercise

Exercising is not just a good way to stay in shape, but also one of the greatest ways to detox your body. The thing is that intense, hot exercising makes you sweat, eliminating your body from toxins. If intense workouts are not for you, you can try a hot yoga class or hot sauna.

13. Get Fresh Air

Spending time outside helps your body to cleanse and oxygenate, so do not forget to include it such easy and essential step into your detox plan.

14. Dry Brush Your Skin

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Turning dry brushing into your healthy habit is a good thing to do, as such easy procedure helps to get dead skin cells off your body, unclogs your pores, prevents and fights cellulite, stimulates the lymphatic system and improves circulation. What is more, it helps you to wake up and increase your productivity. All you have to do to enjoy all the benefit mentioned above is to take a bristle brush, take it to the bathtub and run over your dry skin before your morning shower. While such procedure takes a little of your time and requires minimum effort, it can work wonders. 

15. Take Detox Baths

A detox bath is an ordinary bath with a little essential oils and Epsom salt. Epsom salt is rich in magnesium, so it is good for those who have a magnesium deficiency, linked to such serious health issues as heart attack, type 2 diabetes, constipation, anxiety, depression, and chronic fatigue. So taking evening bath is not just a good way to relax but also a way to release your body from toxins and feed it with magnesium.