Preparing Your Body for Effective Drainage and DetoxificationPreparing Your Body for Effective Drainage and Detoxification
Immune Health

Preparing Your Body for Effective Drainage and Detoxification

It’s important to consider how to protect the body from side effects as you walk through the drainage and detoxification process.
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Perhaps you’re at the point in your health journey at which you’ve identified a parasite infection that needs to be eliminated. As you’re ready to begin your healing protocol, it’s important to consider how to protect the body from side effects as you walk through the drainage and detoxification process.

What’s Drainage? Drainage Versus Detoxification

Many people consider drainage and detoxification to be one and the same. However, drainage and detoxification are two distinct methods of supporting the body. Detoxification is mobilizing elements to leave the body, and drainage is the pathways they take on the way out. When it comes to taking part in any sort of detoxification, opening up drainage pathways is a crucial first step. Drainage involves many organs that release substances such as waste, debris, and toxins.

Think of the body’s drainage systems as a garbage disposal and the food waste as the substances released during detoxification. When a garbage disposal works properly, the food scraps go in and are quickly emptied because the drain is open and clear. In the same way, when drainage pathways are open, the toxins can quickly be removed. However, if the garbage disposal is clogged, the food waste begins to pile up and will eventually overflow into the sink.