FOCUS: Professor Huber, one can detoxify his body? We need to help him, and pollutants to get rid of?
Roman Huber: In Healthy not. Of the body rational detoxification facilities. Starting at the cellular level, with mechanisms such as the so-called Autophagy. The cell cleans itself.
And then we have a lot of excretory organs, the take the Detox for us. Without the kidney, toxic substances would accumulate in the body, the liver bind toxins to glucuronic acid and eliminated via the bile, through the skin is excreted via the stool. Normally this works very well.
FOCUS: Nevertheless, a lot of people a cleanse with juices and special treatments.
Huber: I often see patients who have the feeling that you have chronic heavy metal poisoning. Want to a Detox treatment. Usually, they present me values which I have to say that they have been measured with the wrong methods and wrong interpretation.
These people are not poisoned at all, but get it from medical practitioners or Doctors to believe. If someone is actually poisoned with mercury, which fortunately happens very rarely, only to help prevent metals, so-called chelating agents.
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FOCUS: it Is to believe nonsense, the body could be detoxing?
Huber: The so-called purge is an absolute fad. The concept is on very shaky ground. In the case of a colonoscopy, you will be able to see how clean a bowel. Since there is no slag.
If one is benevolent, one could only call it so – called AGEs as a slag substances, Advanced Glycation end products. The complex sugar substances generated in metabolism can be deposited, and then, possibly, atherosclerosis, and other deposition diseases play a role.
FOCUS: Helps is there a cure?
Huber: to reduce The weight and the change in diet can AGEs reduce, but you do not need any Detox regimen. Whose elements are in the Rest of the same, which are also used during fasting. By calorie restriction, the people, the blood pressure goes down, and the sugar level drops.
Then the fasting has a lot to do with self-discipline and with the experience that the body works even if it takes a week, for example, only low-calorie liquids. The restorative experiences that can be quite positive and even healthy. But All the coats Chen Detox loose – this is Marketing.
FOCUS: so There is no cleaning of the body when fasting?
Huber: Perhaps, in a parent sort of way. Because who wants to fast must get in the mood and be open to new physical and emotional experiences. For many, it can mean an introduction to a healthier life. But it is by no means so that you live through, the fasting proved to be longer or better. Especially, if it is then just as unhealthy.
FOCUS: You don’t have to fast two to three times a year to stay healthy?
Huber: no, you have nothing. But I am, as a doctor, of course, a pragmatist. If someone tells me that it is good for him, crazy, is, of course, say nothing about it. For the Individual that may be so. To propagate, it is necessary to remain long young, however, lacks proof.
FOCUS: And I had to fear, conversely, during the fast, many of in fat-stored toxins to release and not to harm me?
Huber: no, because you would have to in a short period of time, 10 to 20 pounds, and before, often with large amounts of pesticides has come into contact. Then they would realize that it’s worse, because these substances release from adipose tissue.
Such patients we have but only very rarely, you should not be fasting. All isolated Depots in the body Yes, it is everywhere weights Flow. And so also fat-soluble toxins are excreted slowly via the kidneys or the liver.
FOCUS: Why do you think has made the word “Detox” career?
Huber: Here I can only speculate. I think the feeling that we live in a toxic environment, and this is what the people good. It could be suitable as a valve for the Stress that the man is daily exposed to. You tagged him on the environment, the feeling that there’s something coming from the outside, what is a good for, and would like to get rid of.