Proven ways to cleanse the body of toxins?

Just yesterday I started taking Diatomaceous Earth food grade, as it's supposed to be a good cleanser.

[Fresco]

^^^ yes, its really good for killing parasites, and its cheap too

Try doing a liver tonic! I've heard good things about deep tissue massages too for getting the toxins out of your body.

[Belle]

The withdrawal effect of reducing toxins is not pleasant, but persevere.

I know I eat too much processed food, I'm lazy when it comes to cooking. But hopefully I will adjust that behaviour shortly and get more inspired and excited about cooking nourishing and healthy food.

One thing that is difficult to manage is the air we breathe, I think of the great gulp of exhaust fumes that I inhaled the other day, or that I regularly breathe in when I'm out and about. But a lot of it is being healthy to process the toxins.

A good place to start.......

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I recently did an herbal detox and yes, it was stressful on my body, however I feel as if I am healthier as a result. Some days it felt as if my cerebellum was tinsel, and on at least one night my dreams were kinetic. Very rare thing with me so probably no co-incidence as it was probably the most intense kinetic dream ever. I felt mild seizures across my face as well.

Basically some of the ingredients are considered toxic in high doses. The main ingredients of the whole concoction were, wormwood, black walnut hull, and cloves, along with a good handful of other herbs. Got it from kaicollection on ebay.

I'd say yeah, some herbal detoxes do work. Now I am onto an intestinal cleanse.

[MuadDib]

My notes about cleansing of body (not mind) contain (some research of) vege(raw) diet, water, breathing, and exercise so.
I was shielded by colloidal silver in the beginning, and discovered vitamins as useless (for healthly person).
Be known the fastest one-time technique doesn't sense as long term remedy.
Cleaning of mind is necessary after all...

Originally Posted by Fresco

Thats nothing, Kurzweil takes 150 vitamin pills a day

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467514/Ray-Kurzweil-shares-plans-immortality.html

Unfortunately, he may kill himself through this faster than he would otherwise. Vitamins are practically useless for healthy people if they have a good diet and exercise regime. Antioxidants are good in small amounts, but taking 3x or more of the recommended allowance has been proven over and over again, huge quantities of the population, to actually protect cancer cells against your own defences and cause higher cancer rates. That and a lot of pills don't have the best manufacturing process.
Be careful what pills you take.

This is a carry over line of thinking from Orthomolecular. In a sense there is some merit with this line of thinking. Deficiencies with some vitamins will lead to degenerative diseases. Vitamin C and Scurvy are good examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine

The term "orthomolecular" was coined by Linus Pauling to mean "the right molecules in the right amounts" (ortho is Greek for "right").[11] Proponents of orthomolecular medicine hold that treatment must be based on each patient's individual biochemistry.[12][13]

It does however neglect pathology in some regards, and this is where herbalism and nootropics may be beneficial considering the use of anti-biotics are in decline.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18646395

The decline of antibiotic era--new approaches for antibacterial drug discovery.

Infectious diseases still remain the main cause of human premature deaths; especially in developing countries. The emergence and spread of pathogenic bacteria resistant to many antibiotics (multidrug-resistant strains) have created the need for the development of novel therapeutic agents. Only two new classes of antibiotics of novel mechanisms of action (linezolid and daptomycin) have been introduced into the market during the last three decades. The recent progress in molecular biology and bacterial genome analysis has had an enormous impact on antibacterial drug research. This review presents new achievements in searching a new bacterial essential genes, a potential targets for antibacterial drugs. Application of metagenomics strategy is also shown. Some recent technologies aimed at development of anti-pathogenic drugs such as inhibitors of quorum sensing process or histidine kinases are also discussed. Extensive research efforts have provided many details concerning structure of bacterial proteins playing an important role in pathogenesis such as adherence proteins or toxins, what allowed searching for antitoxin drugs or drugs interfering with bacterial adhesion. As an example, the review focuses on anthrax therapies under development. Additionally, the article presents the progress in phage therapy; using bacteriophages or their products such as lysins in antibacterial therapy.

Anyways, those undergoing chemotherapy should be advised to take vitamins as when their bodies fight back, they deplete vitamins at a faster rate. So metabolisms and vitamins are something worth considering, most certainly.

Originally Posted by tigereye

Unfortunately, he may kill himself through this faster than he would otherwise.

Most certainly, Vitamin A overdosing is not healthy, and Vitamin K thickens blood in some regards where thinner blood may be the desired effect.

Originally Posted by MuadDib

Cleaning of mind is necessary after all...

I believe a universal and spiritual law which transcends many religions and binds them together is temperance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_(virtue)

Temperance is the espousal of moderation, marked by personal restraint. It has been studied by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. Upheld as a virtue throughout time and across cultures, it was one of the cardinal virtues in Greek philosophy, being believed that no virtue could be sustained in the face of inability to control oneself, if the virtue was opposed to some desire, and was subsequently incorporated in the Catholic catechism's Seven heavenly virtues. It is also one of the six main categories of the VIA character strengths. Temperance is generally defined by control over excess, so that it has many such classes, such as abstinence, chastity, modesty, humility, prudence, self-regulation, forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger.

[Fresco]

Originally Posted by tigereye

Unfortunately, he may kill himself through this faster than he would otherwise. Vitamins are practically useless for healthy people if they have a good diet and exercise regime. Antioxidants are good in small amounts, but taking 3x or more of the recommended allowance has been proven over and over again, huge quantities of the population, to actually protect cancer cells against your own defences and cause higher cancer rates. That and a lot of pills don't have the best manufacturing process.
Be careful what pills you take

You are partially right. Many vitamin pills come from China and dont have good quality control. Also, its important to take vitamins and minerals that are NOT synthetic and are extracted from either food or plants. That way they are in their complete natural state.

But to say taking vitamin supplements is useless in healthy individuals is wrong. At least in my opinion