Due to toxins in the air, water and soil, residues build up inside of our bodies (i.e. in the liver, colon, etc.). Fasting or cleansing from time to time helps to flush these out.
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I thought this article had some potential up until this point. Obviously the metaphor of toxins building up in the body like this has a lot of resonance for a lot of people (seeing that i hear it all the time, even at work where i am surrounded by people educated in the biomedical paradigm) but i don’t get why people perpetuate this idea.
I mean, yeah, there are things like heavy metals and etc that can accumulate in your body. But anything that’s staying there definitely isn’t leaving just because you go on a juice fast or give yourself an enema. I know that we exist in a novel new world of chemicals, but … idk. I just find this folk medical idea that toxins are like, lining your colon to be tremendously irritating. I guess this probably makes me a pretty bad anthropologist!