Detox
Detox
Your body detoxes itself every day. The problem is how much we ask it to clear.
Fatigue, brain fog, stubborn weight, and sensitivities that keep growing. We carry more chemical exposure than any generation before us, and for some people the load outpaces the body’s ability to clear it. Detox is less a cleanse than a strategy: lower what comes in, support the organs that take it out.
Start here
Start with the idea of total toxic burden: the running total of everything your body is asked to process, and what happens when it exceeds what your body can clear. This reframes detox from a fad into a practical strategy.
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A Foundational Detox Plan
Your body is designed to detox. Amplify your natural process to eliminate toxins.
Advanced Detoxification
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What detox actually means
Your body is built to neutralize and eliminate toxins around the clock, mostly through the liver, kidneys, gut, and skin. The liver runs it in two phases, and both need specific nutrients to work. This system handles a normal load well.
The challenge is that the load is no longer normal. Tens of thousands of industrial chemicals are in use, and low-level exposures through food, water, air, and everyday products add up over a lifetime. When intake outpaces clearance, the excess gets stored and can drive inflammation, hormone disruption, and the vague, moving symptoms that never get a clean diagnosis. Supporting detox means two things at once: reducing what comes in, and giving the body what it needs to clear the rest.
Symptoms patients bring us
- Fatigue
- Brain fog
- Stubborn weight
- New sensitivities to foods or chemicals
- Headaches
- Skin issues
- Hormone symptoms
- Poor sleep
80,000
The EPA recognizes more than 80,000 chemicals in use. Fewer than 2,000 have ever been evaluated for safety.
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Free micro course
Start by lowering the load at home.
You spend most of your life indoors. Aaron’s free Creating a Healthy Home micro course walks you through reducing the everyday exposures that add up, one room at a time.
