Please remember that every person living with environmental sensitives has their own journey. There are many paths up the same mountain. Please take what resonates with you, listen to your own body, and please don’t do anything that doesn’t feel right for you in the present moment.
Why is it important to gently support detoxification in the body?
Supporting your body’s natural detoxification pathways helps your body process and eliminate toxins and waste, and prevent them from building up in your body. This can increase your energy levels, reduce pain, increase your resilience, and prevent future health challenges. While it’s easy to get caught up in extreme detoxification programs, it can be much more beneficial for people with environmental sensitivities to use more gentle practices which result in fewer side effects.
Ways you can gentle detoxify your body
These are suggestions only, and you may wish to discuss them with your medical practitioner to make sure that they are okay for you today. As always, please listen to your body. The goal is not to push yourself or struggle. Pain does not equal gain. Here are some gentle detoxification strategies that many people with sensitivities have found beneficial when incorporated slowly and gentle over time:
- Drinking at least 8-10 glasses of filtered water per day (room temperature or warm and at least 30 minutes before or after meals)
- Sauna (hot sauna or infrared sauna)
- Gentle exercise such as brisk walking or yoga, enough to cause sweating
- Qi Gong exercises specifically for detox
- Dry skin brushing (or rubbing skin with a towel)
- Lymphatic self massage. or going for a massage if that’s available to you
- Deep breathing exercises
- Work with your health practitioner to determine what other detoxification methods would be most helpful for you at this time
- Incorporating gentle detoxification herbs (e.g., milk thistle capsules), if tolerated