When you remove drug residues from your body, your physical cravings stop.
by Dr. David E. Root
A presentation by Dr. David E. Root, MD, MPH, Sacramento, California.
What is happening inside your body when you are going through detoxification process?
Mobilization of the Residual Drugs Stored In the Body.
Throughout the detoxification program your body experiences substantially enhanced excretion and evacuation of fat soluble drug residues and toxins through the body’s natural elimination routes
- Lungs
- Liver
- Intestinal Tract
- Kidneys (Urinary Tract)
- Skin
Fact
- Until you remove the drug residues stored in
the fatty tissues throughout your body, you
will physically continue to crave them.
- When you remove the drug residue from the
body, the physiological cravings stop.
Cellular Compartments of Fat Tissues
(Adipose Tissues)
LUNGS
The respiratory tract, the lungs and bronchi, mainly evacuate toxins in the form of carbonic gas
About 10,000 liters (2500 gallons) of air pass in and out of our lungs each day
LIVER
The liver performs more than 500 unique functions with one of its primary functions being to manage the detoxification process
The liver's role in detoxification is to change or detoxify harmful toxins into substances that can be safely eliminated from the body
through the process of bile secretion
Bile Secretion
- Bile secretion is one of the liver's most important functions
- A healthy liver will manufacture approximately one quart of bile per day
- Bile serves as a carrier medium for the elimination of toxins from the body through the Gastrointestinal Tract.
THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
The intestinal tract is to us what the roots are to a tree. It has two main functions:
- Digestion and absorption of nutrients, providing fuel and building blocks necessary for our continued function and survival.
- Elimination of undigested food, waster products,
harmful microorganisms and toxins, thus preventing
various harmful effects in the body.
- Our intestinal (or gastro-intestinal) tract is a pipe that extends anywhere from 25 to 30 feet, beginning with the mouth and
ending with the rectum. As food moves from the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, it undergoes
the transformation that leads to the absorption of nutrients and elimination of waste.
- The function of the digestive system includes a series of finely orchestrated steps that are aided by digestive enzymes,
stomach acid, beneficial bacteria and normal peristaltic movement of the intestinal muscles.
Preventing Drug Residues & Toxins From Being Reabsorbed
Polyunsaturated Oils
- One means of excretion of chemicals is through the bile. However, such bile excretion results in elevated levels of chemicals in the intestine,
providing an opportunity for reabsorption of these compounds.
- It has been known for many years that addition of unsaturated oils to the diet can increase the excretion rate of certain compounds. This is
due either to blocking the reabsorption of the chemical or to altering the rate at which the compound is excreted.
- Supplementation with unsaturated fats also affects the content of the stored adipose tissue. Apparently, as the stored fats are mobilized and
re-stored, the dietary supplements replace some of the mobilized fats so that an exchange is effected.
KIDNEYS (urinary tract)
The Blood’s Filtration System
The kidneys have to fulfill the important task of purifying the blood from harmful substances, such
as toxic medications and other chemical substances, by filtering them out of the blood and
excreting them in the form of urine
Did you know… Your blood plasma is completely filtered by the kidneys about 60 times per day?
Skin, Sweat Glands & Sebaceous Glands
Our body tries in many different ways to get rid of toxins. If the liver, kidneys and lungs do not fulfill their
tasks sufficiently, the body receives help from the skin via excretion of sweat and sebum (skin oil)
Low temperature heat exposure (between 140-160 degrees) is supplied throughout the detoxification program which increases excretion through both the
sweating mechanism and the sebaceous mechanism.
Heat increases not just the water excretion through the skin in the form of sweat, but also the
sebaceous excretion from the skin oil glands at the base of each hair follicle, and that heat increases
not just the volume but the rate of excretion as well.
Blood nourishes the sebaceous glands through the golgi ducts; therefore, you have a conduit for chemicals mobilized through the blood stream.
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