You don't need a product or plan to detox

True detox starts outside the body, and in the dirt

We often talk about detox as if it’s something temporary: 3-day juice cleanses, skin resets, clean-eating challenges. But detox is not a bio-hack. It's what your body does every day through these beautifully designed organs: the liver, kidneys, lymphatic system, skin, lungs, and gut.

Detoxification was built right into the whole magical design. There isn’t a hard cap on the number of toxins our body can filter, nor is there a workload limit on the liver. The body’s detox system is incredibly adaptive and resilient.

To be fair, though, the inputs have changed with modern life. We are now exposed to synthetic chemicals in our food, pesticides in our soil, microplastics in our water, endocrine-disrupting compounds… the list is depressingly long.

The issue with this inundation isn’t that our body stops detoxing from overload, and we need to gift it with a juice cleanse. The issue is that it becomes overburdened and dysregulated under chronic internal and environmental stress. The overburde…