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When people talk about detoxifying their bodies what exactly are they able to rid the body of?

[Bobin]

toxins.

heavy metals, like lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium.
by-products of metabolism.
drugs.
yeast and by products of yeast metabolism.

Bobin

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You can get medications out of your body?
Is there one detox that will get them all out or do you have to do different ones for certain things?
Will you correct the spelling on the topic title? LOL!!!! Please

[Bobin]

Detox is very specific.

different toxins require different detox agents.

for heavy metals, a chelation agent is used. EDTA is a classical one, but better and more specific ones have been developed these days. they are usually expensive.

drugs eliminate themselves from the body over time. the 'half life' of a drug is the time it takes for half the drug to be broken down by the body. for some drugs, complete elimination could take many days or weeks.

alcohol, for example is broken down into ketone bodies by the liver enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase. these ketone bodies are what causes the hangover. lots of water and lots of moving around is the best detox for this. pretty simple.

some things are next to impossible to eliminate, because the body cannot easily break them down. DDT is one of them.

Bobin

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Great!! That's exactly the information I need. Thanks!
BTW thanks for fixing the "word"