Do You Need Detox Supplements On A Health Detox Diet?

It is not essential to add detox supplement to your diet with herbal preparations or vitamins while on a healthy detox diet. They may, however, help you progress a little faster, and give your body the boost it needs, particularly if you are feeling lethargic, suffering from bloating and finding it hard to shift excess weight.

Most of the vitamins and body detox supplements I talk about are readily available from health-food shops, high-street chemists, nutritional websites and homeopathic outlets – as well as occurring naturally in many foods.

For the purposes of a detox diet, there are three major families of body and liver detox supplements of particular interest: amino acids, antioxidants and digestive aids.

Amino Acids

Amino acids are essential to make all cells, hormones and enzymes, and are used by the body to repair and maintain muscle tissue and nerve fiber. Amino acids are found in such proteins as chicken, fish, eggs and soya products.

Glutamine: important for muscle growth and nourishment and for preventing muscle tissue breakdown (anti-proteolytic). Helps maintain the correct acid/alkaline balance of the body. Promotes mental clarity and a healthy digestive tract.

Found in protein such as fish, meat and beans.

Choline And Inositol: good for liver cleansing, formation of lecithin, metabolizing fat, gall bladder and kidneys, also brain function, stress reduction. A report published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition claimed that poor memory could be significantly improved by the intake of foods containing choline.

Found in fish, eggs, legumes.

Phenylalanine: for brain activity, mood and alertness. Also for headaches, muscle cramps and enhancing production of an appetite suppressant cholycystokinin. Not recommended for diabetes sufferers.

Naturally found in fruit, cereals, meat, eggs, bananas.

Arginine: a vital amino acid that causes the body to release essential hormones. Stimulates sexual maturity, increases lean muscle mass and burns fat, lowers cholesterol, boosts the immune system, speeds recovery from surgery and injury by promoting wound healing.

Found in nuts (coconut, pecans, cashews, walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, hazel nuts, peanuts), seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower), poultry (chicken and turkey light meat), wild game (pheasant, quail), seafood (halibut, lobster, salmon, shrimp, snails, tuna in water), chickpeas, and cooked soybeans.

If you already eat plenty of the foods mentioned above you probably don’t need any additional body detox supplements, but if not, you may want to consider researching some that contain the amino acids mentioned here.

 

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