Foods that contain sulfur like broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, cauliflower and kale are valuable for two reasons. Their sulfur releases a substance that activates potent antioxidant and detoxification enzymes say reports. Meanwhile, another substance in such cruciferous plants, indole-3-carbinol, helps deactivate potent estrogen metabolites which may protect against cancers caused by the hormone-mimicking endocrine disrupters. The sulfur-related compound , MSM, is also useful in detoxification say some practitioners.
Chelation
For decades, natural clinicians have recommended chelation, the administration of substances like porphine and EDTA, to trap and usher toxic metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury out of the body. But chelation's acceptance in the scientific community has been slow in coming. Recently, a large federally-funded chelation trial, known as TACT, showed positive results and scientists are giving the metal reduction method a second look. A study in the Scientific World Journal says in describing how it works that peptides "chelate both essential and toxic elements as they are sequestered, transported, and excreted"enhancing natural chelation detoxification pathways."
Wolfberry (also called Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, LBP)
Ingredients found in the wolfberry plant called LBP has demonstrated antioxidative, antiaging properties and antitumor activities in scientific studies. A study in the Journal of Drug Design, Development and Therapy says "LBPs protect the liver from injuries due to exposure to toxic chemicals or other insults" and "reduce irradiation- or chemotherapy-induced organ toxicities." The wolfberry agents are also thought to protect against "neuronal injury," amyloid-related harm and factors thought to contribute to Alzheimer's disease, says the article.
Intestinal Treatments
Colonic cleansing routines including coffee enemas have been the basis of many natural detoxification methods for years including the Gerson regimen. Though they no longer have medical standing, coffee enemas were found in the doctors' Merck Manual until the mid 1970s. To empty if not "cleanse" the gut, some health practitioners also recommend cascara sagrada, burdock root, psyllium husks and other fiber containing plants. Scientific literature cites the value of activated charcoal in gut cleansing and probiotics to replenish a "microdome" compromised by toxins.
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