New Year’s Day! The old year is over but the new one not yet created. Psychologically speaking, letting go can make us completely happy – but it can also make us fearful. On the physiological level, by contrast, unwanted substances are continually released and excreted in every single cell, making it the most natural thing in the world.
Big Ben has rung in the New Year. Nevertheless, the feasting of the festive season and the excessive consumption of alcohol on New Year's Eve are still fresh in people’s minds – and thus the desire to just leave behind the physical legacies of the past year. But the question is, how?
Basically, our body cleanses itself all the time and independently: the liver, kidneys, gall bladder, intestines and lungs are our central excretory organs and able to dispose of unwanted metabolites autonomously. They also simply neutralise foreign substances and toxins as well as excess acids that enter our body through our food and environment before releasing them via the toilet or through the breathing air we exhale.
But it is indisputable that we have come to expect more and more from our cleansing and regulation systems. In addition to a poor diet, our time is mainly characterised by stress and harmful environmental influences – such as polluted air, toxic cleaning agents, drugs, increasing plastic pollution and a variety of chemicals. All of these factors not only put stress on the detoxification process, but also on our antioxidant protection system and acid-base balance. It is therefore all the more important to relieve these systems.
To enjoy a liberated start to the New Year, there are a few steps all of us can take with little effort in the short term – or better still, permanently!
