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Detoxify Your Life - Part II: Inside Your Body
Written By Sonia Walker (Mama of Reef & True, and BaoBag Managing Director)
Our bodies were very happy about the significant reduction in the amount of everyday chemicals we had been exposing them to inside the home. (See the first instalment of the 'Detoxify Your Life' series to learn more about how we did this.) The good news was that with some of the chemicals (eg phthalates in plastics), once you stop the everyday exposure, an average adult body is able to flush them out of its system pretty quickly. The bad news was that the body isn’t able to process other chemicals (eg Teflon – the non-stick stuff on fry pans), and they just stay in the gut and irritate things. I'd been accumulating these types of toxins for 36 years! So the next step in my ‘detoxify my life’ journey, was to find a great naturopath who could take me through a serious detox of the inside of my body.
This led me to Bettina (pictured), of Harmony Pharmacy in Mosman, who shows no mercy for toxins in the body. First she took a urine sample to test the level of toxins in my gut (and yes, I did have a 'toxic gut'!). She then put me on a six week program of a slightly restricted diet (at which I was a good girl for about 85% of the time!) and all sorts of herbal supplements to flush the system including gut, lymphatic system and finally liver and kidneys. 6 weeks later my eyes are brighter, my skin is clearer and I’m full of beans. If my internal system was a computer then I have just pressed the ‘reset’ button.