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Water Detox (helpful or harmful)

drunklioness
drunklioness Posts: 1
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I was reading about detoxes online and was just curious as to how helpful those are in terms of starting a diet and weight loss.

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  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    You don't need to "detox" anything and they don't do anything to help you lose weight.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Pointless. Your body has all the equipment it needs to detox itself - liver and kidneys.
  • feralkitten1010
    feralkitten1010 Posts: 219 Member
    If you feel that any part of you is malfunctioning to the point of needing a detox, I'd highly suggest seeing a doctor. Your body is a pretty cool thing, it does all the detox stuff itself if you're healthy.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Detoxes are pointless at best and dangerous at worse.
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    No.
  • martyqueen52
    martyqueen52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    I heard dog feces is the best cleanse in 2015, srs. Eat between whole grain bagel and smile.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    drunklioness wrote: »
    I was reading about detoxes online and was just curious as to how helpful those are in terms of starting a diet and weight loss.

    How helpful it is would really depend on your personality. Fasting for a day is not harmful for a healthy person, but it's also unlikely to be of much help in losing weight except perhaps on a psychological level.
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