Clear for Life

In this post I’ll answer Mickey’s questions about detoxes and how to use them in a way that helps your skin and overall health in the long run.

First, let’s see what Mickey asked.

Also once you do a detox and you go back to your oldlifestyle habits, even if they are averagely healthy, wouldn’t that just ruinall work you did in the fast in the first place? How does the detox help youoverall health in the LONG RUN?

Excellent, excellent points.

This is the reason I keep saying detoxes alone won’t solve anybody’s acne problems. Detoxes are very useful tool for curing acne when used in combination with lifestyle changes. Alone they, at best, produce short-term results. It’s possible to get clear after a three day apple fast (such as in Acne Free in 3 Days) but the results won’t last if you go back to your old diet and lifestyle - unless the lady luck happens to fancy you a lot.

This is reason I keep saying over and over that for you to permanently cure acne this has to be a lifestyle change. That’s the reason I named Clear for Life the lifestyle for health, happiness and clear skin.

Lifestyle is the key. Anything else you add on it is just dressing on top. And detoxes are a particularly useful dressing.

Here’s a good way to think of detoxes and detoxing.

Imagine your body is like a water glass. And the toxin load is like water in the glass. When you keep adding more water at one point it overflows. That’s when you start getting problems, such as acne.

Now this happens to be a special glass because it has a drainage valve. And through that valve water can flow out of the glass. This drainage valve is the constant detox work your body does.

So if more water flows in than flows out the water level increases - and vice versa. Quite simple.

Please understand that you cannot directly control the amount of water flowing out. How fast the body detoxes is up to the body. But as a general rule the less toxins enter the body, and the less stress it faces the more resources it can put on detoxing. And both of these things are to a large extend under your control.

In the long-term they are both tied to your diet and lifestyle choices. By making healthy choices you minimize the amount of toxins that enter your body. This allows the body to crank up the detox work. So over time the water level in the glass comes down.

Going on a detox is just a way to temporarily allow the body to throw toxins out even faster. You do this by eating as simple diet as possible (to reduce digestive stress) and reduce all forms of stress (by giving your body as much rest as possible).

Going on a detox and then right back to your old diet and lifestyle is pointless. Sure during the detox the water level comes down, but as you return to your old diet and lifestyle it starts to increase again. And who has the time and patience to detox every few weeks? And it’s not good for your body anyway.

That’s why it always comes down these three things: lifestyle, lifestyle and lifestyle.

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Clear for Life - The lifestyle for health, happiness and clear skin