Your body has a natural ability to detox.
Everyone out there in the internet likes to talk about how you can do this to detox your
body or detox with this or detox with this creme or detox with this liquid.
The thing is, is you're never actually detoxing your body directly.
What you're doing is you're encouraging your body to have its own natural detoxing mechanisms
improved.
What you're doing you're allowing your body to detox the way that it should, sometimes
with more efficiency.
I'm Thomas DeLauer on behalf of the Antler Farms.
Today, I want to help you understand what's going on when your liver is processing toxins.
What happens is your liver has three phases of detoxification.
The first phase is where it's uses an enzyme known as cytochrome P450.
I'll save you all the specifics on cytochrome P450 but essentially what it does is it takes
toxins and it breaks them down into water and fat-soluble things that the liver can
process.
It does its best to break them down into water-soluble things but a lot of times, it can't do the
full job.
It ends up having byproducts which are additional fat-soluble toxins.
Unfortunately, when you break down poisons, a lot of times, you end up with other poisons.
An example would be alcohol.
You start with one poison.
You break it down and it turns into acetaldehyde, which is another poison.
You end up having byproducts of poisons.
That's exactly why there is a phase two with the liver.
The phase two with the liver uses additional enzymes that come in and basically attach
themselves to the byproducts of phase one.
What these secondary enzymes do is they break those byproducts into water-soluble toxins
as much as possible.
There's still some remnants of fat-soluble toxins left but, for the most part, it uses
various components and other mechanisms within the body to break those secondary toxins down
into a very, very easy-to-transport form.
Now, introduce phase three, which is the transport phase.
This is probably one of the most important phases.
This is where those fat-soluble toxins that have now been broken down into water-soluble
toxins or very, very small emulsified fat-soluble toxins are carried out of the liver into the
small intestine and ultimately leave the body.
What happens is they combine with bile.
Then, the bile puts them into the small intestine.
Then, they get excreted.
They get processes a little bit more, passed through the colon, and out they go.
You can see how important the liver and the intestinal tract is when it comes down to
having a healthy body and supporting true detoxing that's occurring within your body.
The reason that this is important is because the liver can be a little bit short sighted.
What I mean by that is the liver focuses on one thing at a time.
The liver really tries to focus on processing toxins and poisons above all else because
that is crucial to your survival but did you know, the liver is also responsible for fatty
acid metabolism and also responsible for a lot of glucose metabolism?
This means that those kind of things end up taking a little bit of a back seat while the
liver processes toxins.
We can't ask so much of the liver.
It only has so many hours to work.
If most of it's hours are focused on processing toxins, then we're in a situation where it's
not able to do the stuff that we need in order to feel really, really good and ultimately
get in amazing shape.
That's why detoxing, for lack of a better term, is so important but what we're really
talking about is encouraging our body's own natural ways to detox.
Another thing we want to talk about really quick is heavy metals.
Heavy metals accumulate in our body all the time.
There's so many different things that we consume and so many PCBs and other chlorination things
that we consume that sit in our bodies and cause our livers to consistently have to detox.
That puts a strain on our bodies.
Additionally, most of the toxins that we end up consuming end up being stored in our fat
cells.
What happens is, even if we have a small amount of body fat, which everyone does, that's typically
where those toxins hang out?
What happens when you start to lose weight?
A lot of times, those toxins are released and the body has to process them even more.
Then, the liver has to go back to work.
What is important here?
What can you do?
There's some things that you can do to start making sure that your body has the ability
to recover its detox mechanism as fast as possible.
We have a finite amount of an ability to detox.
One of the things I want to talk about the most is glutathione.
Glutathione's job is to attach itself to a toxin to make it neutralized so that the body
can process it, get rid of it, and you go along your merry way.
The problem is that you can only have so much glutathione before you run out.
Then what happens?
Then, you're victim to all the toxins that come one.
One of the things I really want to talk about is wheatgrass.
Wheatgrass gets a little bit of a bad rap and rightfully so in a lot of situations because
wheatgrass, a lot of times, if it's not the right kind of wheatgrass, can be something
that triggers an immune response.
It's much like gluten in terms of how it's very similar but if you get the right kind
of wheatgrass from the right source, it can have an amazing benefit.
One of the biggest benefits that it can provide you is sulfur.
You see, glutathione, like I talked about, requires sulfur in order to be created.
What happens is glutathione donates part of itself to neutralize a toxin.
It's very selfless.
It gives part of itself in order to kill off a toxin but in order for that partial glutathione
to become whole again and be able to do its job again, it needs to attach itself to sulfur.
We get sulfur from our deep leafy greens and we get sulfur from things like very high-quality
wheat grass.
Additionally, if you're utilizing the right kind of wheatgrass, you can be in a situation
where you have more red blood cells.
More red blood cells means more oxygen being carried.
More oxygen that is usable, that is being carried means that you can eliminate more
toxins faster.
When you're really looking at allowing your body to do its best work, you do have to put
the true detoxing power of your own body first.
The best ways that you can reinforce that are with a really solid diet but it's not
always practical to get all of your veggies and all of your fruits in and all of the healthy
nutrients that you should be getting.
I encourage you to find something that works for you and source some wheatgrass that might
not be the typical one sitting in your back yard.
Always make sure that you're keeping it locked in here with Antler Farms.
I'll see you in the next video.