Scientifically speaking, “detoxing” isn’t a thing. Your body doesn’t retain so-called toxins ingested via food or drugs or plastic dishes, or breathed in through air. You don’t sweat them out at yoga, get rid of them via special massage, or purge them through colonics. As writer Dara Mohammadi put it in a scorching takedown of the dominant wellness watchword of the past decade: “If toxins did build up in a way that your body couldn’t excrete, you’d likely be dead or in need of serious medical intervention.”
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Our world is full of nonsense. Its the old signal-to-noise ratio thing again.
He may be partially correct but as is often the case statements that are absolute in position cannot be correct all of the time. Mercury, lead, air pollution, cigarette smoke et al do bioaccumulate. Lead in bones. Benzene in the blood. The humble broccoli has been shown to reduce benzene in the study participants by 61% by upregulating glutathione activity which is a detoxification enzyme. He is suffering from unconscious incompetence. The Dunning Kruger effect also comes to mind.