Detoxing deserves a total rebrand.
In addition to nutrient-dense diets, little habits can help you detox every single day.
“Poop is such an important exit pathway for toxins.”
Even if you are pooping regularly, ensure you’re poopingproperly.
“Your poop needs to look like a long sausage,” Chen explains.
You’ve got to work on your gut health first before you do anything else."
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Now, your lymphatic system doesn’t have a “pump,” unlike your circulatory system.
“So if you don’t move your body, the fluid in the lymph is stagnant.
“You don’t need to go out and do two hours of workouts.
Every hour, just do jumping jacks for a minute or something like that,” she says.
“Get up every hour andmove your bodyin whatever way you’re able to.”
Tackle stress
“One of the most important inhibitors of detoxification is stress,” Chen says.
Tackling stress is so important, she says, that she might even bump it up to tip No.
1 (yes, above pooping properly!).
“When you are stressed out, your detox pathways are actually downregulated,” she adds.
“That’s actually the first step,” says Chen.
Red light therapy
Finally, we have red light therapy, which enhances your mitochondrial health.
As a result, the therapy can help withwound healing1,skin health2,chronic pain3, and more.
Chen is partial toLUMEBOX, the portable, versatile gadget she created herself.
“I use it on my face in the morning for [healthy] aging,” she notes.
“And then I also use it throughout the day for joint pain.”
