One day, Amar woke up with a mild headache. Unlike everyday, he felt like lying in his bed a bit longer. At the breakfast table, when Radhika, his wife, served him his usual baked beans on toast, he didn’t seem to have an appetite. A glass of juice was what he had eventually. When he and his partner Jay, went out for lunch at their favourite joint, all Amar settled for was a glass of orange juice. “Hey”, asked Jay, “something wrong? Better check up with your family Doc.”

In reality, Amar was fit as a fiddle. Then why was he consuming less? After partying practically everyday in the last week of the fading year, eating excessive amounts of junk, boozing and hitting the roof in discs late into the night, the party animal in him was taking a break. Yes, Amar’s body was simply following a natural cleansing cycle. No wonder Amar felt like sleeping more, eating less and guzzling lots of fluids. The headache was a signal his body was sending about the accumulated toxins. This is what Detoxification is all about: Cleansing away the toxins from your body. Before we get in to how to combat these toxins, let’s first understand the factors through which toxins enter our system.

Toxins: The terrorists within

Our body is like a warship, thriving in enemy territory. Constantly bombarded with missiles from all sides. Or in other words, being attacked by Toxins, which enter our bodies through the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. These terrorists reign terror by clogging our bodies, secretly slithering in to our bloodstreams and damaging bodily functions. The fallout of this continuous damage is needless aging. Let’s take a look at the factors through which toxins attack.