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Posted 6/16/2012 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
What are the most effective ways to detox?

I understand drinking lots of water and only water helps the process along. How often are you suppose to take detox baths?

Are there any other detox methods that are effective?
Posted 6/17/2012 1:35 AM (GMT 0)
Drinking lemon water is even better than drinking just water. Drybrushing before epsom salt bath is another great detox method. I do believe they are effective detox methods.
Posted 6/17/2012 3:51 AM (GMT 0)
Personally I find it's more of a cumulative effect - the more "positive" things I do in a day, the better I feel, but you kind of have to find your own balance - the worst thing is to take on more than you're ready for and then healthy behaviors start to feel like a chore!

Lately I've been relying a lot on yoga and contrast showers for detox. Yoga is amazing - I cannot say enough good things about it! Specifically, as far as detoxing, it gets the lymph flowing, but it has so many other great benefits as well. The contrast showers also seem to have made a difference for me - you can look it up online but it's pretty much taking a normal shower, then at the end alternating hot and cold a few times, again, to stimulate lymph.
Posted 6/17/2012 6:12 PM (GMT 0)
I have found the best detox is with a good clean diet, lemon water and the infrared sauna. I know the sauna isn't cheap, but it does work and I feel like in the long run it will save me money in medical bills. It takes up about as much room as a small phone booth and has done more for my Lyme symptoms then anything else.
Posted 6/17/2012 7:03 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting. Ok well the lemon water and baths and skin brush I can definitely do, perhaps I can find a health club that offers infrared saunas because that's a bit outside my budget right now. Thank you all for this excellent advice!
Posted 6/18/2012 1:35 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Sayersn,

There is a section in the "New to Lyme?" thread that deals with a lot of different methods of detoxing.

Like borderlyme, I find yoga very helpful. When I was just getting over being very ill, I used the method called "Yin Yoga". It is very gentle and doesn't involve strength moves or strenuous sequences. Just google it to find the different positions and method.

Other than that, gentle rhythmic exercise is a very easy way to get detox results. That means walking, swimming, cycling. Doesn't have to be heroic!
Posted 6/19/2012 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
does anything that makes us sweat help us detox? such as sitting in the sun? i really enjoy reading in the heat outside but was definitely sweating in the sun- is this something that dry brushing before sitting out would help? or is sweating from sitting not as beneficial as if we exercise?
Posted 6/19/2012 7:27 PM (GMT 0)
Any sweating is better than none -sweating pushes toxins out through the skin and the skin is our largest detoxing organ. I never thought about dry skin brushing before going out into the heat & sweating, but in theory I think it would work confused -but that's more of a guess than having hard data to back me up!

Exercising has it's own benefits - not only does it elevate the body temp (thus killing more bacteria naturally), but it increases the oxygen your body is getting (also killing more bacteria naturally) - and that's not to mention the benefits of exercising just for exercising! I don't believe for detoxing purposes that anyone must be exercising in order to benefit from sweating. No one is exercising in their saunas and yet they are detoxing very well in there through sweating!
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