"Detox" Myths vs Reality with Dr. William Li
NC3DK5NnO9Q • 2025-01-29
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Kind: captions Language: en and enema does nothing to remove toxins from your colon so don't even go there you don't need to get anybody to stick something up your butt in order to flush out toxins that's not where toxins get cleaned out if you want to actually just be healthier overall and let your body do all the work to detoxify here's what you do today we're going to be looking at some of the myths and truths about detoxing and cleansing if you've been keeping up with diet Trends you'll have heard about detox diets they're everywhere these are the diets that claim that they can cleanse your body from toxins and pollutants that accumulate from the environment from around us from a stressful living and also from eating unhealthy foods and usually the detox diets make you fast they change your diet by making you eat fruits and vegetables and sometimes you got to drink only water or tea and then take a bunch of supplements sometimes the programs even include enimas to clean the toxins out of your colon like the tailpipe of your body so as a medical doctor as a researcher I want to actually give you the truth behind the concept of detox turns out that the detox diets themselves don't do anything to remove toxins from your body they do not remove toxin from your body your body actually is hardwired to remove toxins all by itself here's how it actually works your liver is a powerful detoxifying organ that removes virtually all harmful chemicals from your body it breaks them down it eliminates them your kidneys filter your blood produces urine which you pee out and often you can pee out stuff that's accumulated in your body as well those are two ways that your body uses to detoxify your liver okay and your kidneys and that's why by the way if you have liver disease or kidney disease oftentimes toxins do build up in your bloodstream but really those organs are the ones that do all the heavy lifting now there are some toxins that are not so easy to get rid of even though your body does a pretty good job to eventually get rid of a lot of it and some of them are toxic like heavy metals like lead or cadmium or Mercury you can get these from foods that absorb a lot of these heavy metals from the ground or if there's they're growing in contaminated environments some chocolates are like this very high in heavy metals or Seafoods that are high in the food chain if you eat a lot of it if you eat a lot of tuna if you eat a lot of swordfish for example heavy metals will accumulate in your body fat but even then most of it gets eliminated over time and flushed out of your body all right so here's the thing your body does all the heavy Li lifting and there's no evidence that the detox diets themselves actually break down or remove toxins that have accumulated in your body so what do the detox diets actually do well here's the truth a detox diet keeps you from building up new toxins in your body and partly is because they stop you from eating unhealthy Foods so by going onto a plant-based whole food diet and specifically they are removing these detox diets are removing from you Ultra processed foods that can contain artificial preservatives and additives you're eating less toxic material to begin with so less toxins in gives your body a chance to naturally remove the toxins that are there without more buildup most detox diets also remove alcoh alcohol from your diet okay now what does alcohol do alcohol is a toxin for your liver so when your liver is compromised by drinking alcohol guess what you your blood starts to build up more toxin because your liver doesn't function as well as it should out with the alcohol in a detox diet your liver will recover liver is a really regenerative organ and it regains this detoxifying capacity so yes um uh by removing alcohol you're allowing the liver to recover and then to do its thing all right hey there have you heard of intermittent fasting I'm sure you have it's not what you eat but it's about when you eat and I've got a simple guide to help you get started with intermittent fasting if you're looking for an easy way to boost your energy and improve your health and maybe shut a few pounds along the way this could be the perfect solution for you in my guide I'm going to show you how fasting helps your body burn fat and also repair itself it's an easy thing that you can do effortlessly every single day plus I'll give you tips on how to succeed with intermittent fasting and I'll tell you the science behind why this works just click the link below to grab your free copy or scan the QR code on the screen right now now let's get back to the video the third thing is that detox diets give people permission to focus on their health if you're somebody who going on a detox diet chances are that you're you know you've decided it's time to put a little attention uh to try to get healthier so you're going to eat less you're going to eat more healthy foods you're going to drink more fluids that help flush uh your blood uh use your kidneys here it's their own advantage and you're going to focus on becoming healthier people who are naturally more focused on their health tend to have healthier behaviors and their body will respond accordingly and become healthier by the way and enema does nothing to remove toxins from your colon so don't even go there you don't need to get anybody to stick something up your butt in order to flush out toxins that's not where toxins get cleaned out all right now an enema will clean out your colon but then you know that should be something you do before a colonoscopy to check for pilps and make sure that you don't have colon cancer all right just remember anema does not flush out accumulated toxins because your poop doesn't accumulate toxins that need to be flushed out in order for Better Health okay so what's the best way to achieve a detox diet whether you go onto a uh a prescripted diet or not here's my recommendations number one if you want to actually just be healthier overall and it let your body do all the work to detoxify all right here's what you do switch your diet away from Ultra processed foods to whole plant-based Foods vegetables fruits okay uh legum nuts and seeds healthy oils that will actually be tremendously healthy for to help your uh body overall your health defenses overall um uh get better uh cut out without Ultra processed foods and all those things that have artificial coloring flavoring preservatives and additives and emulsifiers all those things actually interfere with your uh Health overall and uh so less toxins in uh faster you can actually clean your liver can kidneys can clean out the toxins that are already there stay diluted all right drink water tea coffee those are all great ways to remain hydrated the more fluid you have as part of the uh start for your to help your liver push out and process those toxins and your kidney to eliminate them the better it is this might seem obvious to you but our bodies are made out of 60% water H2O if you weighed 150 lbs that means 90 lbs of you is actually water that's about 11 gallons or if you want to actually translate that into the um bottles of a beverage that's 22 lit bottles of a beverage your favorite beverage now think about it you have to maintain this amount of liquid in your body for your health every single day doesn't mean you have to drink it all you're going to keep a lot of it with you but we all lose about half of the liquid every day through urine stool in our sweat and of course that depends on how active we are if we're exercising and sweating a lot we're going to actually lose a little bit more if we're going to the bathroom a lot we're also going to lose a lot as well whether that's urine or stool got diarrhea you're actually flushing out a lot of water and by the way there is also evaporation from your skin and you lose about another half gallon invisibly through the humidified air as you exhale right so you know you go in front of a mirror you go right you'll see that uh uh the fog on the mirror that's water vapor that's coming out of your breath all right that part the evaporation uh the H the humidity in your breath when you lose that that's called insensible loss of water you don't even know it all right so you lose 3/4 of a gallon of liquid every single day that you need to replenish and drinking water is the best and easiest way to be able to do it water helps flesh toxins now let me explain to you whenever you drink water goes into your gut all right I'm going to do it right now goes right down water absorbed from the gut okay from your stomach and your intestines right into your bloodstream and once it's in your bloodstream right you've got more liquid in your bloodstream you've got more blood volume in your bloodstream that fluid has got to get filtered now the filtering takes place in two locations the first location is an organ it gets filtered in your liver your liver actually is your body's detox organ so the water gets filtered right out of there okay anything that you flush through that water into your liver is going to get filtered all right so you're actually putting pushing more liquid right through your detox system when you drink water and the second place that water gets filtered is in your kidneys now your kidney which is in the shape of a like a kidney bean all right located in your back lower back all right on both sides of your spine these are the filtering mechanisms of your body you have a swimming pool that has a filter in it that's what your kidney actually does the more water you drink the more filtering takes place because at the end of the day the kidney helps to balance the amount of of water that's in your bloodstream as well so uh think about the sink that you like your kitchen sink you fill it with water the more water you have the more there is to drain and the more pressure there is to drain the the sink faster this is also going to help flesh toxins out of your body so one is actually you're putting the the amount of fluid in your body through your liver which is a natural detox uh machine and the other one is actually flushing the water right through your kidney and the kidney actually releases toxins and things right out through the glom maruli these are the little filtration units in your kidney and then you just pee it right out okay reason number four you should drink uh water every day is that it keeps your kidneys working in good shape now as just explain water that you drink helps flush your kidney and the kidney needs to be constantly flushed in order to be able to uh stay in shape I don't know if you have a a bathroom uh in a house uh maybe that doesn't get used very often or maybe an extra house you have somewhere a vacation home or something or an apartment building if you don't flush that uh toilet eventually the plumbing is going to get rusty it's going to get flaky and crusty and dry out and then eventually that plumbing is not going to be working well same deal with your kidney your kidney needs to be constantly flushed in order to stay in good shape use it or lose it basically and plus your kidney does not like to be dried out so that's why dehydration is really really bad if you got stuck in a desert someplace and had no water all right and you crawled around in addition to actually being parched and drying your blood volume out and your brain out eventually your kidneys would fail as well so drinking enough water replenishes your body with liquid and then your body will flush that water out through your kidneys and you keep your kidney in good shape I frankly giving them a a workout so think about your kidney as part of the plumbing system in order for your plumbing to work well it need it needs to have liquid water running through it um in order to for the pipes to stay clean uh for the pipes to stay intact uh so basically you're just you know taking a shower every day flushing the toilet running the sink that's what's happening to your kidneys is you're you're uh using the and exercising the flushing capacity hey there if you're ready to take control of your health using the power of food then I encourage you to check out my eat to beat disease online course more than 4,000 people from 80 countries have taken it and now they know how to eat to beat disease and you can too I personally developed all the material in this course drawing from my latest research and my years of experience it's designed to give you practical science-based strategies that you can use to boost your health every single day to learn more click the link below the key of you're drinking tea or coffee though is avoid sugar sweetening them or putting additives you know when you go with your favorite driveby and you order your pumpkin flavored whatever don't do that enjoy tea straight okay uh that's what you would do at a spa do want on a detox diet or coffee straight okay if you want to put a little bit of uh something that cut the strong Taste of coffee use a nut-based um milk right so almond milk uh oat milk soy milk those are actually fine all right uh and avoid soda you definitely don't want to be drinking soda whether it's regular soda or diet soda uh just stay away from those when you actually want to clean out your body and help your body reset here's the other thing don't overeat don't overeat if you want to actually help your body clean itself out all right stick to the uh confusion principle of hara haachi banm harachi banm is a Japanese saying coming from confusion principles which means stop eating before you are uh stuffed stop when you're about 80% full when you eat slowly and you uh and you pay attention to how your body feels you'll know when you're about 80% full so your hunger is satisfied but you're not feeling stuffed leave before the part is over that's actually the best way so you don't overwhelm your metabolism with calories all right if you want to push this a little bit further try intermittent fasting now we already do intermittent fasting every single day because when we're sleeping we're not eating when we're not eating we're fasting so we're always intermittently fasting but if you actually want to push your health a little bit more uh you can actually try deliberate intermittent fasting the traditional intermittent fasting program is 16 hours of fasting with eight hours of eating look the research shows that if you just fast for 12 hours half the day and you eat for the other half of the day which is a much more reasonable way actually to do this that's something I can actually do in fact I do do that every every single day that's a healthier and easier more practical way to actually practice intermittent fasting all right and when you're actually doing intermittent fasting the key is that when you are uh eating you're going to be hungry don't overeat and don't eat junky food all right so this is a five-part solution I just gave you uh to actually help you detoxify naturally without having to go on someone's program without having to get an enema all right this program I just gave you helps you cut out um some of the harmful toxins so that you're not building up more in your body and let you take that time gives your body the room to breathe to be able to do its own detoxification by dilution with fluid with your liver working uh on its own to be able to churn out um and get rid of all the toxins and from your kidneys to be able to pee out anything that you shouldn't be accumulating in there this is the most natural way to detox I hope you've enjoyed this video and thanks for watching hey if you like that video then you're going to love this one check it out
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