Detox metamorphoses: when garlic is more dangerous than lead

From the Austrian mountains to the American seas

The fashion for detoxification and a variety of body cleanses flourished at the beginning of the last century on the shores of the warm Carinthian lake Wörther See, in Austria, thanks to the studies of German therapists Franz Mayer and Otto Buchler. And, perhaps, she would have withered there, covertly existing under the inconsistent German term enthslaking. If this German idea hadn’t flown into the wild head of Ron Hubbard, the famous father and founder of the Church of Scientology, who decisively called clumsy entslacking with the beautiful word detox and elevated it to the rank of a ritual procedure for his followers.

The right marketing policy, the charisma of the author and the undoubted literary gift, after all, Ron Hubbard is a science fiction writer and author of many bestsellers, and now millions of people around the world have realized themselves biochemically dirty, felt traces of radiation, heavy metals, food preservatives in their bones and fat and other poison ... With the blessing of the founder’s father, the followers of the teachings sweated to hallucinations in the sauna, drove themselves to exhaustion, swallowed vitamins in handfuls in the hope of freeing the bodies from the chemical demon, thereby purifying the deputy Oren consciousness, bringing intelligence to inhuman heights. Numerous lawsuits about harm to health by these crazy procedures soon forced the Hubbardists to temper their ardor and transfer their detox from wellness treatments to the body into psychophysical methods to strengthen the spirit. But one way or another, the tsunami of Scientology detox crossed the Atlantic, calmed down and reached Russia in the form of countless sprays - methods and methods of cleansing the body for everyone from radish to hydrogen peroxide.

Will mournful labor be lost?

Is not the total cleansing of everything and everything a struggle with windmills? Alas. According to the UN, up to 100 thousand per year of previously non-existent chemical compounds are synthesized in the world, of which 15 thousand are potential poisons. It is believed that up to 80% of these compounds sooner or later get into food and drinking water, and from there through the digestive tract into the blood, soft tissues, and bones. Among the main pollutants is lead. Lead poisoning slowly but surely destroys the hematopoietic system, immunity, leads to brain death.

But the human body is not at all vulnerable to a chemical attack, more than 90 percent of the lead that enters the body with water and food is excreted in the feces and urine, about 5% is retained in the form of relatively safe hydroxyappatite in the bones, and only 5% remains for up to 40 days in blood and soft tissues, managing to thoroughly harm the body.

Is it possible to starve, sweating in a sauna, performing special exercises (this is how detox looks with Scientologists) to make the body remove lead faster, turn these sinister 40 days into ten, for example? Unfortunately, this is exactly the opposite. Complete or partial starvation increases the concentration of lead in the blood, the release of sweat, magnesium, calcium, iron in the sauna or during training accelerates tissue pollution with this insidious metal.

Lead, you will not pass!

So what remains - to escape into the thickets untouched by civilization and save the liver from lead expansion there? Fortunately, we are able to keep lead out of the body using fiber-rich foods: it binds metal salts and removes them from feces.Collagen fibers have the same property, these are all kinds of jellied meat, jellies and other dishes with gelatin or bone broth. Calcium-rich dairy products help the kidneys better filter and quickly evacuate lead in urine. Magnesium and iron, which are abundant in parsley and spinach, actively prevent lead compounds from binding to red blood cells.

Proper nutrition, daily routine, refusal of alcohol, tobacco - this is enough to not think about slagging the body of industrial poisons. But just fans of a healthy lifestyle, who have expensive water filters and devices for cleaning street air in their apartments, those who carefully monitor food nutrients and buy expensive environmentally friendly products, those who spend a significant part of their lives in gyms and massage rooms , make up the bulk of the clients of detox tours, they are ardent followers of detox diets and lovers of detox training. What are they cleansed of? What got their sports young bodies dirty?

Poison itself

The human body is somewhat reminiscent of a huge intercontinental airport - a hub, where every minute, or rather, a second, dozens of planes take off and land, the delay of even one flight causes outrage, and sometimes the whole system collapses. In the cells of the body more than a hundred enzymes and hormones are synthesized, the life of each of them is strictly defined: they live a second longer - dozens of red displays with terrible messages about delays and cancellations will light up. Yes, a person inside himself is capable of producing many medicines and vitamins, but if something prevents them from using, they turn into poison.

It was not possible for either a certified auditor (advanced connoisseurs of the depths of human consciousness at Scientologists) or the luminaries of academic scientific thought to get into the control room of this neurohumoral airport: modern neurology and endocrinology for almost a century of history could not even figure out a tenth of the processes that take place in hormonal system.

Strange tastes of the sacred cow

Only Ayurveda - the thousand-year experience of observation and reflection of a whole ethnos, the intellectual and spiritual power of a truly universal scale, could unravel the intricacies of intracellular logistics and transportation. It is the Ayurvedic meaning that is now embedded in the concept of detox: creating the conditions for self-healing and self-healing of the body. But like any system born in the eastern cradle, Ayurveda is not always understood by Western consciousness.

Onions, garlic, citrus fruits, tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, cheese, cottage cheese - everything that is so beloved, tasty and like everyone used to is useful - is strictly prohibited in detox diets. If you want to know why, then be prepared to read the following in classic Ayurvedic texts: “When the gods ate the drink of immortality, the demon Rahu was able to trick himself into accessing the cup, but as soon as he took a few sips, the supreme god Vishnu cut him in half. Drops of demon blood spilled on the ground and turned into onions and garlic. "

Garlic demon, tomato curses and citrus horror

Do not smile arrogantly, hiding behind medical diplomas, this tale is not all a lie. Garlic does demonize some individuals (most often men) - they become prone to antisocial behavior. Studies of allicin - this substance makes garlic so special in properties and smell; it has been shown that it can accelerate the transmission of impulses through cell membranes, enhancing sexual reflexes and aggression.

Fans of tomatoes, eggplant and other solanaceous ayurveda predict the transformation into a fixed stone.

The alkalioid corned beef, which is found to some extent in all solanaceous, promotes the removal of calcium from the bones and its deposition in the cartilage, which destroys the joints. For this reason, it is recommended to exclude nightshade products from the diet of patients with gout, arthritis and rheumatism.

A wary attitude toward citrus fruits, especially grapefruits, has long migrated from Ayurveda to traditional medicine. In annotations to almost any hormonal drug they warn menacingly: “Do not use grapefruit and orange juices during treatment”. Furmarins contained in grapefruit interfere with the liver: they prevent it from neutralizing the spent drug. It turns out that in a cellular airport on a runway, a certain snowthrower begins to rush about, who had long had to leave a dangerous place. Everyone remembers how such surprises end.

And everything will repeat as if old ...

I would like to warn readers who are not familiar with Ayurveda from a hasty conclusion, they say, garlic, grapefruit tomatoes in Ayurveda of the person “non grata”. Not at all, Ayurvedic treatises teach: "There is nothing in this Universe that does not have a healing effect, nothing that cannot be used for many purposes and in many ways." The healing properties of these products are not denied, in certain cases they see a panacea for fatal diseases. But as dishes for the daily diet, Vedic cooking does not favor such potent remedies.

It is difficult to say how well Ayurvedic principles are combined with Russian reality. Although Indians and Slavs have the same Aryan roots, all the same climatic differences, religious and philosophical contradictions are serious obstacles to the promotion of Ayurvedic nutrition in Russian open spaces. Perhaps this is another cleansing tsunami, this time from the Indian Ocean, flashing noisily over our gardens, destroying onion-garlic beds and greenhouses with tomatoes, and then again turning into harmless drops. Ten years will pass and the concept of detox will take on a different, completely unexpected meaning.