There is so much you can do to counteract the toxins that you come into contact with every day. Detoxification foods and supplements boost your liver health and cleanse your body. Ground flaxseed was recently reported to contain cadmium. Tuna contains more mercury than once believed. While this can be scary at first, don’t avoid healthy foods such as flaxseed or fish because of toxins. Their benefits outweigh the risks. Instead, figure out which brands of flaxseed are better to buy. Learn which fish are lower in mercury and eat more of those. Many foods carry toxins and are never reported. Information is power. Get informed about the toxins that surround you and avoid them. Include liver detoxification foods and supplements (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids) into your everyday routine. This will build up your liver and strengthen your defenses against the toxins you confront each day. Learn more tips and tricks on my blog. Thanks to Metabolic Maintenance and Jay Prescott Videography.
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Hey, guys. Cass Nelson Dooley here, author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome and a consultant in Functional Medicine. I’m here to talk with you today about detox. It’s April, it’s spring. We want to get out the bad, bring in the new. And a lot of people are excited about liver cleanses, but really, they’re not that great all the time.
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They don’t provide what your liver really needs to do-detoxify the patient. So I’m here today to tell you about what you need to do to detox your liver every day, naturally. Also stay tuned until the end of this video for a 20% discount on some very high-quality, reputable supplements. I wanted to broach this topic because I get a little tired of talking about the toxins that we’re all exposed to.
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Unfortunately, there is cadmium in chocolate. There is lead in the air due to small engine aircraft fuel. There are even pharmaceutical medications in our water supply. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. And while it might be scary and make us worried, there’s a lot we can do about it. Mainly, we need to avoid toxins and we’ll talk about that later.
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But also we can support detox. We can help our liver get rid of these toxins every day. It is made to get rid of toxins so it’s well-equipped. And we’ll talk about the details in a minute. But the main thing with liver detox, is that toxins really drag us down. They can cause serious diseases or they can just slow us down to where we don’t feel good every day.
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Right? So they can affect our metabolism, they can damage our brain and our nervous system. They can manifest as skin problem arms because the skin helps us detox and then, of course, energy. So the list goes on and on and you can find it on my blog. Detox naturally every day with these foods and supplements. But there’s a lot of reasons for us to think about how to optimize our detoxification systems.
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So first, I like to talk about eating detoxification foods because this is something we can do every day. There are so many great foods that support the liver and help get rid of bad things. We can drink tea, green tea, black tea, peppermint tea, chamomile tea. These are all excellent for detox. Also these foods which I’m sure you know well – things like garlic, onion, cruciferous vegetables are detoxification superstars, also, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, collard greens and then lastly, amino acids or protein.
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So protein is critical for detox – turkey, pork, chicken. If you’re vegetarian, eggs, soybean and dairy are really important for detox., Sometimes food isn’t enough and we need supplements to help with detox. And the supplements I’m going to give you are specifically used by the liver to get rid of toxins as part of phase one, phase two and phase three detoxification.
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So this is well-established all over the research. Phase one is a stage where the liver takes a toxin that’s hard to dissolve and changes it chemically so that it will be easier to work with. In this process. It makes the toxin a free radical, so then it is actually worse than it was before. It’s now more dangerous and damaging to tissues and cells.
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Phase two is the step where the liver puts on or attaches a chemical group like a methyl group or an amino acid group or a glue, the scion molecule. And now the toxin is packaged. It’s not as unstable and it’s ready to be cleared out of the body. And then phase three is just the literal getting it out of the body.
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So transporting it out- this can be getting that toxin out through the stool, through urine or through sweat. So nutrients that are critical for this process and that you might need to supplement with are B vitamins, minerals, things like iron, selenium, zinc, amino acids. Remember, we talked about protein, and amino acids are antioxidants. Remember, we’re going to have free radicals- damaging molecules, circulating around.
00:04:43:03 – 00:05:23:11
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So we want antioxidants to help calm that down and protect the liver- like vitamins A, C, and E and all of those wonderful antioxidants that you can find in fresh fruits and vegetables. And then lastly, a very important thing with cleaning your body is to avoid toxins in the first place. So in my blog, you will find links to resources to help you, help you stop or decrease the toxins in your food, decrease the toxins in your water and your air, and just cut out some of the common household toxins that are all around us.
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And this is a big job, of course, but don’t be afraid. You can do it. Take small steps, stay positive, know that it’s a wonderful investment in your health and your family’s health and in your patients’ health. And it can be done slowly but surely. You can find more information on my blog and as promised, we have a 20% off discount for Metabolic Maintenance, a reputable, prestigious supplement company that has been making integrative and functional medicine supplements for 30 years.
00:05:56:25 – 00:06:15:06
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They manufacture supplements themselves and they send them out for third party testing. You can get 20% off. They have some great detox supplements too. You can get 20% off with the code Health 20. Thank you so much for watching. And I hope this gets you started for a wonderful and clean spring.
Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, is a researcher, author, educator, and laboratory consultant. She studied medicinal plants in the rain forests of Panama as a Fulbright Scholar and then launched a career in science and natural medicine. Early on, she studied ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and drug discovery at the University of Georgia and AptoTec, Inc. She joined innovators at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory as a medical education consultant helping clinicians use integrative and functional laboratory results in clinical practice. She owns Health First Consulting, LLC, a medical communications company with the mission to improve human health using the written word. Ms. Nelson-Dooley is an oral microbiome expert and author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome. She was a contributing author in Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She has published case studies, book chapters, and journal articles about the oral microbiome, natural medicine, nutrition, laboratory testing, obesity, and osteoporosis.
