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when your liver is ready to process Detoxification can be stunted by
and release it. a few things:
Fatty liver - people think alcohol
Phase 1 of detoxification is the is the only thing that damages
liver’s process for converting fat the liver, but fatty liver for
soluble (absorbed into fat) toxins most people comes from over-
into water-soluble (absorbed into consumption of SUGAR.
water) toxins. Continuous exposure - Detoxing
while still using chemical cleaning
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but we products or eating toxic food is a
don’t SWEAT fat. We don’t excrete great way to burn out your liver.
fat, and we don’t breath out fat. All Inflammation/Stress - The body
of those activities are water-based. is a survival machine, and it will
So in order for the toxins to be not allocate any resources to
released from our bodies, we need healing if it’s constantly putting
them to be able to be absorbed into out inflammation and stress fires.
water. This process is often called Nutrient deficiencies - Balanced
“unlocking your toxins” so they can nutrition is vital to shift from
be released. These “unlocked’ water- phase 1 into phase 2. If the liver
soluble toxins are actually more has to stop at phase 1 because
harmful in this state than they were there aren’t enough resources,
originally, but that’s where Phase 2 there are highly dangerous
detoxification comes in. water-soluble toxins circulating
your bloodstream.
Phase 2 of detoxification is called Healing crisis - This happens
the “conjugation pathways”, where when you start detoxing without
the liver gathers nutrients to render proper internal support.
the water-soluble toxins non- You may start experiencing
harmful. From there, they can be headaches, nausea, exhaustion,
safely excreted out of the body and diarrhea if your body is
through the sweat glands, the urine, trying to detox faster than it is
stool, and mucus membranes. physically capable of doing.
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