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Your liver already does this for free, but wellness marketing needed a hobby.
means The process of removing toxins from the body or, in the wellness sense, the thing you pay for while your liver does the actual work for free.
from Built from 'toxic' (poison), which traces to Greek 'toxikon' — poison used on arrows, from 'toxon' meaning bow. The prefix 'de-' adds the sense of reversal or removal. 'Detoxification' as a medical term emerged for treating poisoning and addiction withdrawal; its leap into juice cleanses and spa menus is a much newer, much looser borrowing of a word that originally meant something closer to 'surviving arrow poison.'
- actual organs
- liver and kidneys, filtering 24/7 unpaid
- juice cleanse myth
- mostly sugar water and expensive urine
- real exception
- medical detox from alcohol or opioids, under supervision
- sweating toxins
- sweat is mostly water, salt, and hype