Detox Symptoms
Detoxifying literally means removing poisons from your body. Once these poisons are gone, you will feel energetic, vital, happy and healthy. It is the poisons that make us feel tired, mentally confused, irritable, unhappy, depressed and ill. Consequently you should look forward to detoxification.
Unfortunately, when the toxins are mobilized, they will bring about those unpleasant feelings and tempt you to quit the cleanse before you are through. So, you need to understand the symptoms of detoxification and ensure that you drink your laxative tea and salt water to stimulate elimination of those toxins.
My experience with the cleanse and with various people doing it has taught me that whatever symptom I experienced one day, it would be gone the next morning with my bowel movements. It is nevertheless helpful to know when you are detoxifying because it helps you to get through that symptom to know it will be gone tomorrow.
I have grouped the detox symptoms I and others have had into five groups:
- Cravings — I have only known one or two people to be hungry on this cleanse. Drinking more lemonade or water handles that. I have, however, observed that people on the cleanse crave what they are detoxifying. Proof that this is true is that the cravings usually go away the next morning with bowel movements. You can crave anything when detoxifying, but most likely you will experience cravings for the most toxic foods, such as pizza, hamburgers, barbeque ribs, etc.
- Tiredness — When your body fights toxins, whether from detoxifying or an infection, it diverts energy into healing and away from the energy you use to work and play. On my first 20 day cleanse, I was not tired except on the fifteenth day. The next morning, I experienced heat in my bowel movements, an indication that acidic toxins were being eliminated. I also lost all sense of tiredness.
- Irritability — This includes the desire to "just chew something solid."
- Physical aches, pains, nausea, vomiting, etc. — These are the most severe reactions and only occur where a person is severely toxic, only a small percentage of people experience these. Fortunately, these have gone away after only a day or two in every case I have heard about.
- Hot bowel movements — Your body wastes are acidic and when you eliminate the most toxic ones, they actually feel anywhere from warm to burning. This experience is very infrequent, but worth mentioning because hot bowel movements after a day of heavy detox symptoms will confirm that you just eliminated significant toxins.
A Special Note on Headaches
In talking to people doing the cleanse, I've learned that people with caffeine addiction (coffee, soft drinks, etc.) may experience headaches for the first 2 to 4 days.
Final Note
I hope you will have the same wonderful increase in mental clarity, health, energy and positive mental attitude that I and others have found.
I have found that sweets are just too sweet now - but it doesn't stop me from thinking about it...
Quoting incite:
I am on the 2nd day of a 10 day fast and I am craving brownies. I love a really good brownie with walnuts and fudge sauce. I don't really want to eat it I just like the memory of the last time I had a really good one.
I have found that sweets are just too sweet now - but it doesn't stop me from thinking about it...
LOL, I understand, sweets are that way for me too, then if I DO eat it I feel so crappy I wish I hadn't. Better to just think about it, imagination is almost always better than reality anyhow.
~Kate~
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The second detox I tried was a GNC complete body kit detox. I don't think it did anything for me and the toxins came out of my pores as acne. YUCK!
The third detox was the easiest and the most affordable. Drinking 8 glasses of Melaleuca Leaf Tea for 2 weeks. Wow, my skin cleared up a lot and my energy level went up. I did feel sick the very first day but that was it!
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I've deff got the tiredness and cravings. Todays Craving was Volcano Tacos and Cheeseburgers. I just kept driving when I went by Taco Bell and BK w/o getting anything, but I sure wanted it.
I've had a little nausea, but I had it b4...made me think i was preggo. Thankfully the blood test was negative (or I wouldnt be doing it).
An easy detox to handle for most people is bentonite clay and psyllium with the husks........it's a good detox and cleanse for short term use........I took it 3 days on and 2 days off for a couple of months, it really helped a lot and got rid of most of my yeast.
If you use other detox's and have symptoms, take a small amount of bentonite clay, it will reduce the effects because it absorbs the toxins.............charcoal tablets also help.
I use Primal defense and a good fiber for a slow gentle, very effective detox but it does work slowly. I started with the clay and psyllium though. I also take milk thistle for the liver to detox, cleansing the gut alone isn't always enough.
No matter what you take, always start slow, it will reduce the toxic bleed back.
Herbalife 21-Day Cleansing Program Detox
- MusikMama
on Jul. 6, 2007 at 7:50 AM