Detox Demystified

The 9 Most Powerful Binders for Restoring and Protecting Your Health

via Molly Roberson (excerpt)

In our modern world, we’re bombarded by toxins—heavy metals, pesticides, plastics, molds, parasites, and even radiation.

These toxic exposures can accumulate in our bodies, overwhelming detoxification pathways and leading to chronic symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, hormonal imbalances, and more.

Enter binders—a foundational tool in any detox protocol.

These natural or synthetic compounds “bind” to toxins and help escort them out of the body via the digestive tract, urine, or sweat.

While many people think of detox as just “cleansing,” true detox involves a multi-phase approach…

• mobilization (getting toxins out of tissues)

• binding (capturing them), and

• elimination (flushing them out)

If you’re mobilizing toxins without proper binding, you risk reabsorption—also called “retox.”

Changing binders regularly is good, too, because each binder has a different role within the body.

Here, we break down some of the most powerful binders used today, the science behind them, and when to use each one.