No real surprises in this one. Thinking of doing your 30 day cleanse challenge? After laying it all out, the conclusion is fairly obvious: detox therapies are potentially harmful, pointless pseudoscience. All of the mechanisms for toxin removal are implausible. No rigorous detox product testing has shown any effectiveness. The treatments are unregulated (and therefore are not known to be efficacious) and have a great potential to do more harm than good. Your body is the best detoxer we know of, and does not need any help. Detoxification is a real thing, and your body has evolved to be very good at it. For example, chelating agents, or chemicals which bind to and remove metal ions and molecules, are used in patients with cases of heavy metal poisoning. But beyond these few instances, there is no science to show that non-specific toxins accumulate in your body. In fact, because the science does not show that this toxin accumulation causes disease in the first place, the whole commercial detoxification industry does not have a leg to stand on. Until there is the research to back it up, I believe that we can confidently say that commercial detoxification is useless pseudoscience, joining the ranks of dejected therapies like the cranial excision of spirits. nature/scitable/blog/student-voices/the_great_8220detox8221_deception
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:31:06 +0000
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