The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.

This can happen with detox too!

According to Dr. Jill Crista, the definition of detox insanity is pushing the body to detox while constipated.

If you’re constipated, excreted toxins that hang around too long are recirculated and reabsorbed into the body. The toxins are delivered again to your liver, which has to process and package them all over again. This process can happen with the same toxin multiple times, making you feel worse. Processing the same toxin over and over again and expecting detox results is detox insanity.

This is why, before using a binder, you must make sure you are moving your bowels at least once every day. If they aren’t, you should consider using pre-binders first.

What are pre-binders? These are the things that induce digestive function and secretions. Eating in a relaxed state, smelling food before eating it, hydrating between meals but not during the meal, bitters with meals, cholagogues (herbs that make and move bile), foods like beets that clean the liver while thinning and moving bile, phosphatidylcholine, ox bile, and sometimes betaine HCl.

For chronic constipation, you want to add things that work lower down in the gut, which are called natural laxatives and they can be in the form of foods that relieve constipation like, beets, high dose vitamin C, magnesium, or herbs.

Before considering a binder, move your bowels daily so you don’t put your liver into a state of detox insanity.

Therapy Recommendations to move things along:

Life's Healthiest Drainage Pre-Binder

Life's Healthiest Binder

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