HEALTH
THE URGE WE GET TO DETOX with extreme diets isn’t based on fact, say health experts. Yet every year, come January, ‘cleansing’ and ‘detoxing’ become the norm.
In truth, our body is busy detoxing long before the new year sets in, thanks to several of our major organs filtering out the ‘bad’ bits we don’t want in our system and removing them. Our lungs, kidneys, colon, and even our skin are vital in the detox processes our bodies go through every single second of every single day. But in January – often after a booze-fuelled few weeks – it’s one particular detox organ that needs our full attention: the liver.