Why detoxing and ‘diets’ generally suck and a argument for consistency.
I guess I’m in the unique position that I deal in great depth with peoples physical health and their emotional health.
Now it baffles me but it’s still true that people are disconnected from what they eat, why they eat it and how they FEEL.
It’s all too fashionable to say ‘I’m on a liver detox’ or I’m doing this ‘shred diet’.
- Can you actually detox a liver, errr no.
Unless you understand stage 1 (p450 cytochrome) and stage two clearance then you are just being sold a bunch of likely poor quality supplements that someone is making at least 25% on.
It’s TRUE that there can be issues with the function of stage one and stage 2 in the liver, pathways can down regulate and up-regulate.
Yet, the liver is pretty amazing when you don’t for 11 months of the year hammer it with alcohol, drugs, poor quality food etc
I won’t go deep into this but honestly, a liver doesn’t choose what to do, it’s actions are the result of MANY systems and hormonal processes.
Let me also say when you do a ‘detox’ and you feel shit for days on end, that’s not a good sign you need it, it’s a sign your system is overwhelmed.
It’s a sign you are mobilising things from tissues (not in the liver) that you can metabolise and handle.
In fact you are CREATING inflammation increase.
And to diets.
Technically the way we eat is our diet but we both know when the words ‘I’m going on a diet’ come out of someone’s mouth, it often signals the latest magazine or social media fad to follow.
In my experience with helping hundreds of people with health I see a lot of issues caused emotionally by the above approaches.
Not to mention the issues it causes physically.
Now this is a BIG subject. Very.
And I don’t profess to have all the answers.
It’s just an opinion but if people were committed to just being consistent with single ingredient, while food a majority of the time, disease and obesity would drop.
But here’s why it won’t.
Your dopamine reward system.
Our brain LOVES the anticipation of change and a possible result.
It just doesn’t love the actual result as much.
So we stay excited about all these new ‘diets’ yet let’s be honest, a chronically low amount of people ever follow through.
When I work with people or our coaches do, we do a full emotional and health history AND test them.
Our job is to take away the overwhelm and the guess work and give people personalised approaches to health.
For many it’s actually quite straight forward.
For some, the very reason they diet so much, emotionally eat and have a rollercoaster ride with good is because they have underlying issues that they don’t even know about.
Maybe it’s a parasite
Maybe it’s imbalanced bacteria and the waste of that bacteria is affecting your brain.
Maybe it’s an infection that’s causing low level inflammation which triggers over eating.
Maybe not.
Just some evening thought.
