
Detoxification is the metabolic process by which toxins and changed into less toxic or more readily excreted substances. Toxins are produced in the body during normal physiological functions such as breathing, digestion and metabolism. Toxins also enter the body from drugs, pollution, smoking (even second-hand), alcohol, chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, cleaning products, etc. Heavy metals are found in a lot of these items and can bind deep in our cells slowly causing dysfunction. Eventually this dysfunction can create diseases, some as serious as cancer. This is why whole body heavy metal detoxification is periodically necessary to keep a healthy quality of life.