When it comes to making healthy choices, your diet and lifestyle can really help detox your body and leave you feeling revitalized and full of energy. To detox effectively there is no need to invest in expensive products or resort to drastic measures, which in the end may leave you feeling tired and sluggish.
Here are 8 simple and natural ways to detox your body:
- Start with Water
Drink approximately 8 to 12 glasses of water every day, this will help remove the toxins out of your body in the form of pee and sweat.
- Eat plenty of fibre
Eat plenty of fiber including brown rice and organically-grown fresh fruits and vegetables. As well, beets, radishes, artichokes, cabbage, broccoli, spirulina, chlorella, and seaweed are excellent detoxifying foods.
- Replace the morning coffee with green tea
Green tea offers important antioxidants that our body needs, in the most natural form. It offers a slight caffeine boost that can help to get you going in the morning, just like coffee does.
If you choose to replace your morning cup of coffee with a cup of green tea you’ll get your caffeine boost and some actual health benefits as well.
- Anti-oxidants
Try increasing your consumption of garlic and eggs, as they are rich in sulfuric compounds. These compounds will help your body to produce its own anti-oxidant (Glutathione). They will help to flush out toxins including chemicals and heavy metals.
- Move your body
Getting regular exercise is an important step to staying healthy and strong. Whether you enjoy light exercise like yoga or walking, or like to get your heart pumping by running or dancing, build an exercise routine that you’re excited about to make sure you keep it consistent.
- Saunas
Taking a sauna makes the body sweat and opens up your pores, which is a great way to relax and detox at the same time! Infrared saunas are the best saunas for detoxing.
- Breathe deeply
Conscious deep breathing can help reset your nervous system, leading you to feel calmer and release some of that anxious energy.
Inhale slowly through your nose, and hold your breath for 7 seconds (or as long as is comfortable for you), then exhale slowly through your mouth. Repeat 5 times.
Making the inhalation longer than the exhalation increases energy while making the exhalation longer than the inhalation promotes relaxation.
- Get More Sleep
Sleep is an important part of detoxification. When we don’t sleep enough, our immune systems don’t work as well as they should and this leaves us open to health problems and mood issues.
Shoot for getting at least eight hours per night. Some people need a little more and some need less. You probably already know how much sleep makes you feel good, so try to get this amount every night, instead of just a couple of nights per week.
Keep these easy 8 tips in mind and your mind and body will be loving you all day long!