Re: Remove toxins and cleanse for a healthy body

louisesweeny wrote:

> I'm interested in finding out how to cleanse and remove toxins from
> your body.  Are there any benefits and drawbacks of this.

Why, yes. Soap and water do wonders for the outside, and clean water, 
air and food do wonders for your insides.

The "remove toxins" idea is one often used by spammers and herb 
salespeople, especially since it's really easy to give someone a steam 
bath and laxatives to make them *feel* like they must be being cleaned 
out. But how much they do depends a great deal on the toxin in question. 
Heavy metals, for example, bind to your bones and other tissues, and the 
 chelating agents to help bind them to other molecules you will excrete 
are themselves pretty nasty. Cleansing poisons you just ate involves 
throwing up, but that does its own damage to your throat and stomach and 
teeth.

What toxins are you worried about? And why are you posting to all these 
newsgroups like misc.health.diabetes and misc.health.arthritis where 
it's off-topic? You're going to try to sell us something, aren't you?