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Detoxification |
When I began practicing naturopathic medicine over 10 years ago I introduced many of my patients to the ideas of cleansing and detoxification. Now in 2010, patients come into the office asking me what they should do to detoxify their bodies. It has become common knowledge that the world we live in is polluted and that this has ill effects on our health.
Many people are familiar with the idea of cleansing the bowels. Indeed this is one important aspect of detoxification, as the health of the intestinal tract is central to over all health.
Colon hydrotherapy, or colonics, have a strong place in the history of natural medicine. They have been used successfully for many years to treat conditions of the digestive tract.
There is an entire ecosystem in the gut made up of immune tissue and bacteria, some 'bad' some 'good.' Digestive diseases and diseases of the immune system increase when this ecosystem becomes out of balance due to poor dietary habits and exposure to toxins from the environment. I often refer to this condition as 'dysbiosis'. Toxins, just to name a few, include pesticides, herbicides, PCBs and PVCs from plastics, hormones and residues of pharmaceutical medicines in our water supply.
Toxins are likely to be stored in fatty tissues of the body. Recent research has found that people who are even just 10 pounds overweight likely carry a toxic load that is contributing to overall poor health.
In other words, eliminating toxins should be an integral part of any wellness or weight loss program.
My recommendations for detoxification or cleansing include colonics, the use of beneficial bacteria, or 'probiotics' and specific homeopathic medicines which will focus on the other major organs of elimination. Those organs are the liver, kidneys, lungs and skin. One person's weak spot may be the lungs, another's the skin and the homeopathics I employ will focus on one or another of these organ systems.
Colon hydrotherapy treatment is available exclusively at the Wilton Clinic. You can schedule a visit at the Wilton Clinic by contacting Becky Errera at 203.777.7911
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