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DETOXING Your Body vs CLEANSING Your Body: Which One Is Best?

Dr. Bobby Price · 20:57

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Understanding the fundamental difference between bodily cleansing and detoxification
  • The profound impact of environmental and dietary toxins on overall health
  • The importance of systemic detoxification for optimal well-being

Ideal for

  • Individuals interested in holistic health and wellness
  • Anyone seeking to understand the concepts of detoxification and cleansing
  • People exploring natural methods for internal purification and health improvement

Lesson

Instructions

Today we live in a toxic world. The food supply is toxic, water supply, air, and even children's toys. We're getting toxicity from virtually every angle. We're getting exposed to over 80,000 chemicals that didn't exist 70 years ago.

This is why it's crucial to make cleansing and detoxing part of your health maintenance plan. Otherwise, these toxins begin to accumulate in the body, then irritate and inflame the tissues and organ systems which leads to disease. But what is there a difference between cleansing and detoxing? Or are they one in the same. That's what I'll be breaking down in this video.

Once I understood the impact of toxins that's what inspired me to create my Full-Body Herbal Detox to reclaim my own health.

If you are asking any of the following questions or searching for: - The difference between detoxing your body and cleansing your body - How to detox - What is a body cleanse - Cleansing your body - Detoxing your body - Health coach - Holistic health - Holistic nutrition - Doctor holistic and more, well, I believe this video will give you the clarity you need.

Steps

  • Mindful dietary choices to support internal balance and reduce toxic load
  • Understanding the role of specific herbs in detoxification processes
  • Conceptual framework for body purification (distinguishing input-focused cleansing from elimination-focused detox)

Benefits

  • Improved energy levels and vitality
  • Enhanced clarity on health maintenance and purification strategies
  • Better understanding of how to support the body's natural detoxification pathways
  • Potential for improved skin and hair health
  • Support for healthy organ function, particularly the liver and digestive system

Transcript

peace and blessings people welcome back to the channel once again for those of you this is your first time to the channel welcome make sure you hit the button and the notification button so that you'll get notified whenever great videos like this come out in the future now most people know me for my book vegetation over medication and if they don't know me for that they'll know me for my full body herbal detox now I'm always getting questions about well what is it about the detox that makes you feel so much lighter what is about the detox that makes all of that waste disappear from your gut area what is it about the detox that makes your skin and your hair better what is it about the detox that gives you more energy I'm always getting these questions because people go through the detox and they think to themselves like well damn that's all I had to do and uh what I explained to them is that there's a few things that's really causing most of the diseases today and two of those things is a toxicity B deficiency and most of the deficiency is coming as a result of the toxicity that you're consuming okay and so people are always thinking that they're doing a detox when they're actually doing a cleanse because people will say well you know I haven't did your detox but I did a detox and I'll say well what kind of detox did you do explain it to me and when they started explaining to me I said like no that's not a detox that's a cleanse and so I started doing a little bit of research and wanting to kind of figure out well I'm sure like somebody's sort of dove into what is the difference between a cleanse and what is the difference between the detox and to be honest with you I couldn't find that much so I said you know what if I can't find it and people are looking for it and people are confused about it let's break it down so that's what we're going to get into today and the reason why it's so important is because you can be doing cleansing and it can be beneficial to you but detoxing is really what we need today because there's over 80 000 chemicals in the American food supply and environment that didn't exist 70 years ago that we're being exposed to if not on a daily basis if on an hourly basis and much of that is what's causing so much illness everything from autoimmune conditions to even diabetes and hypertension and so we're going to dive into that today and I'm kind of going to kind of break down the difference between cleansing and detoxing now before we get into that I want to give you an example of how they are different because most people think that they are the same but they're different and so the example I would give you is the difference between a cleanse and a detox is about levels baby all right and so the levels are it would be as if you wanted to take a bath okay or wash your body you know it's the difference between a shower and a bath right okay we can go another level there's a difference between a shower and a bath and then out also adding soap into the equation too right so if I jumped into the shower and just sort of bathed my body with water versus bathing my body with soap there's a difference there's levels same thing if I took a bath okay I'll give you another example we could get our card washes and we go to a car wash and we think to ourselves you know I could either go to that car wash where you put five dollars in and this is an Express Car Wash and you whip through and you come out and you notice that your windows are still dirty you know there's the tires are still dirty there's things that didn't get cleansed okay or you can go to a hand uh held Car Wash where it's manual and they're actually washing and getting into the crevices okay it's all about levels okay when you're looking at the difference between cleansing and detoxing and today I know that you know we think that they're the same but it's important that we know the difference because you could be attempting to cleanse yourself of something but you really need to detox yourself of it okay and the Very definition of a detox means the removal of toxins toxins D to remove okay so we want to detox ourselves sort of like if somebody were to get intoxicated with alcohol you know you would have to go through that process of detoxification that our bodies naturally have but it's important to know that you know if those become you know uh compromised like if the liver becomes compromised now you can't remove these toxins and now your liver gets to a state where it becomes hardened and there's cirrhosis and now the liver starts to get fatty and uh starts to dysfunction and so forth and so on and so cleansing cleansings to a certain level would help but they wouldn't necessarily detoxify the organs and tissues and so it's so important that we just distinguish those too so let's jump into it today uh cleansing so I'm gonna give you some cross comparisons between the two so you'll know what the difference is by the time this is over and then I'm going to also talk a little bit about some of the benefits as we go through this okay so cleansing cleansing focuses on what's coming into the body okay so a lot of times when you do a cleanse you're saying okay I'm not gonna put this in my body I'm going to put this in my body so during during a cleanse you may be drinking you know like I've seen people drink what's called a detox solution and I've seen it where it's like a lot of like citrus fruits maybe some cayenne pepper and I've even seen people put some apple cider vinegar in there and they'll call that a detox and that is not a detox okay that is uh what people would consider a cleanse a cleanse I wouldn't do personally but that is more of a cleanse than a detox and it's important to know that it's about what's going into the body okay and so a cleanse as opposed to a detox a detox is more about what's being eliminated from the body okay a detox focuses on what am I going to be eliminating for the body because the body has to figure out how it's going to get that toxin out okay if it's a heavy metal versus waste in your gut you know undigested fermenting fecal matters how do you get those two out of the body is going to be very different in some cases okay and so it's really important for us to know and understand when we look at the two cleansing is about we're going to focus on what's coming into the body we want to be putting a lot of nutritious food in our body okay and trying to abstain from the food that isn't nutritious okay during that period okay and then detoxing is really about how do I get things or eliminate things from the body okay now what else is the difference between the two a cleanse focuses on as I mentioned before the abstinence the abstinence of things that are unhealthy or that clog the body okay hopefully because a lot of times what I see people doing cleanses like they're putting clogging things in their body and the whole idea of a cleanse should be to cleanse not to clog and so if you're putting something that's clogging then you're defeating the idea of a cleanse okay whereas uh when you look at a sort of a detox that's a little bit different a detox is going to use specific herbs and specifically bitter herbs to actually detoxify the body I've said this on many occasions herbs were made for the healing of the body okay and specifically one of the things that herbs do that are very healing to the body is detoxify the body okay the rid the body of things that shouldn't be there the rid the body of stagnation okay and so as opposed to a cleanse like again you're focusing on getting things the right things coming into the body okay and the unfortunate thing is like when you're focusing on what's coming in to the body you're not really thinking about all the the bad things that you put in into the body that are still there that are causing blockages that are causing stagnation that are accumulating in the tissues that are accumulating in the organs and so it's important for us to know and understand like we have to get the tissues and the organ systems back online because guess what the way that we eliminate things from the body because that's the whole point right the whole point is to get things out of the body all right and if that's the point to get it out of the body we got to think about how we do that and that's through the elimination Pathways okay the liver the lungs the lymphatic system the skin okay the bowels Etc okay we got to open up those elimination Pathways because they have been shut down and why did they get shut down because toxicity and waste has accumulated in the body and it cleanse quite often isn't enough to get that going okay specifically because people don't live a cleansing lifestyle they do a cleanse for a weekend and then it's over okay so again herbal detoxification is part of what is detoxing okay so herbal herbs for me are the foundation of how you detoxify the body because that's how nature actually um sort of set things up for us to detox our bodies even listen this is really crazy when you really think about even Earth even Earth I was living in Japan for over four like four and a half years and before I moved there they had that uh explosion in Fukushima with the nuclear plant exploded and they went out there in hazmat suits after the explosion happened and they started planting these herbs all around the areas where the explosion occurred because Guess What that particular herb soaks up toxicity okay they're trying to re-establish the earth and its nature and its cleanliness using herbs even in nature okay so I'm trying to teach you something herbs were made for the healing of the earth Foods were made for energy and fuel okay and if you eat the right Foods specifically fruit they're made to cleanse the body okay so it's hugely important you know to know and understand that again cleansing comparison cleanses on the surface level okay but but in in the process provides some nourishment and can correct some deficiencies so cleansing is useful and helpful and necessary okay but it's important to understand it only cleanses on the surface level why is that important if you bought like an abandoned house that had not been taken care of for so many years and when the people moved out they left food on the counter and they left all kind of furniture and things in the house and when you went in there was mold on the floor now if you went into that house and just cleansed with water on the surface level you I mean you would stand to get some type of fungus in the house some bacteria on the counter you wouldn't want to eat off of that but if you went into that house and disinfect it and detox the house then it would be cleaning up clean enough for you to to live there right so that's how you got to think about the differences too just giving you some more examples okay detoxification doesn't cleanse just on the surface level it cleanses down to the cellular level so this is below the tissue okay so we got cells cells made tissues tissues made organs organs make organ systems okay and when you're using herbal detoxes they cleanse down to the cellular level to the individual cell they can cleanse okay that's hugely important because now you got something that's removing not just the surface level of stuff it's removing the waste okay it's removing the mucus it's removing the heavy metals the blockages the stagnation that is in the body and now you have this flow going through the body and now you feel this energy which explains why when people do my full body detox now they have more energy okay because now these blockages and the stagnation and the heavy metals are leaving the body the mucus is clearing the sinuses the mucus is clearing the gut okay the mucus is clearing out of the eyes and all of a sudden now you can see better feel better and uh actually look better in the process okay also with cleansing just another comparison it should be done as a lifestyle okay you should cleanse as a lifestyle your the way you eat should be cleansing the way you live should be cleansing let me give you an example a lot of the foods that people eat clog the body when they should be eating foods that cleanse the body if you eat a lot of starch meat and dairy they clog the body now you're probably saying come on Dr Price milk does the body good guess what when you're in kindergarten you got a few things on the list that your parents have to buy when you come there one of those things is glue when you look on the front of that glue with the orange top there's a cow on it and you want to want to know why because that glue is made from dairy okay and that glue is the same thing as dairy when you eat it it clogs the body okay same thing with meat has no fiber in it so when you eat meat if it doesn't have fiber you have to remember what I always say to have a bowel movement you got to have fiber and you have to have water okay meat doesn't have either of those things so you know when you're doing your cleanse you have to eliminate the things that clog so that's why your lifestyle has to be a cleansing lifestyle okay should be done as a lifestyle now let me give you a couple examples of ways I cleanse okay because again I try to cleanse on a daily basis where I have fruit so I have my My Thai bananas I have my avocados so I eat cleansing things you know on a daily basis but I have periods where I'll say for a week I'm gonna do a cleanse and that cleanse may be fruit fasting so the only thing I'm consuming are fruits that could be a juice fasting only thing I'm consuming are green juices okay you know so you gotta figure out what form of fasting cleansing you're gonna do okay so do it not only as a daily lifestyle but also do it as a periodic cleansing as well too okay and so and most cleanses will often last somewhere between three to seven days three to ten days uh and I've I've actually done them longer I did a juice cleanse for I think about 21 days only juices okay I've done a water a water fast I've done a water fast I think for about 10 days okay so those are the type of cleansings I'm talking about and a good thing about cleansing is it helps to restore healthier habits too because now it helps to kind of reshape your taste buds a little bit whereas when you look at a detox a detox should be uh and especially if you know you've done my full body detox you heard me say you should do a detox as a maintenance plan it's not necessarily a lifestyle even though for me it is because I drink herbal teas every day as well too but when you're doing a full body cleanse like mine is you got to do that on a maintenance plan so that's something that you do you know every quarter you know three times a year it's almost like an oil change really it is an oil change it's like going in and taking your car in getting a spark plugs the wires the tires the brakes and the um the oil change okay the car is going to run better and not only is it going to run better but the car is going to last longer what's the same thing with the herbal detox you know if you're doing this herbal detox on a you know quarterly basis or at least twice a year which you're going to experience is is that you know those toxins on it I'm going to accumulate in the body like they would normally do okay so again a full body detox is more of a maintenance plan okay so you should do it you know three or four times a year twice a year minimum okay another cool thing about detoxes is that it restores function okay and especially the detoxification organs which are really important the kidneys the liver the lymphatic system the lungs okay the skin okay the bowels okay these are detoxification organ because they eliminate things and that's one of the huge benefits as a compared to a cleanse that you get because you're cleansing out those tissues and those organs okay so you're going to see an improvement in that system other thing is it opens up those elimination Pathways so now you're more regular you know now your skin is clear okay and Etc the other thing about a cleanse is as opposed to a detox is that cleanse result in in a more subtle um sort of benefits so the the benefits are a little bit more subtle okay and to us an extent a little bit more short term okay because I see people do cleanses they do a 10 day cleanse or a three-day cleanse or seven day cleanse and then the next day they're eating the food that clogged them okay so you know what you tend to see is people don't make it a lifestyle when they don't make it a lifestyle they go back to the old habits okay the other thing I'll say now I'm going to just talk about the cleanse and then we'll talk about the detox and then we'll wrap up today cleanses hydrate the body really well that's how you know you're doing a cleanse like I said before I do a fruit cleanse where I do only fruits because as you know I'm a co-owner of a uh tropical fruit company and I own a farm and we produce only organic seeded seasonal tropical fruit so I will do a fruit fast okay and when I'm doing that fruit fast guess what most fruits a lot of the fruits that I'm consuming are about 80 to 90 percent water okay that's why you can juice a fruit because it's it's very hydrating to the body so that's one of the benefits of doing a cleanse again a cleanse is something you need to do okay but again this you should have more of a cleansing lifestyle okay other thing really good you get to abstain from all these unhealthy foods that you know are unhealthy uh and in the process of doing a cleanse you're adding a lot of nourishment to your body that's those are The Telltale sounds signs of it as opposed to a detox it's removing heavy metals that you can't you don't remove with a cleanse it's also targeting parasites which quite often you do not get rid of with a cleanse it's also targeting yeast which again quite often you're not getting rid of yeast when you're just cleansing it's also done for a longer period okay so you go you will typically do a detox for 14 to 28 days which is what my detox is and sometimes even 30 because I have a group detox as well too as opposed to doing like a three-day cleanse okay the other thing is is that um a detox is more high powered so uh it's another level like I said again in the beginning it's all about the levels and my last piece of advice to you is that when you do a detox you should be doing good cleanse together I call it detoxification Rejuvenation because you should be using herbs to pull the toxicity out of the body and simultaneously the Earth will also nourish you because the herbs have a lot of vitamins and minerals in them but you also should be cleansing by eating a cleansing diet as well too because they work hand in hand so I hope you have enjoyed this video I hope it has given you more of a foundation of what the difference is between a cleanse and what the difference is with the detox and now you know that you should be doing them in unison and you should be doing a cleanse as a lifestyle your lifestyle your food habits should be cleansing and detoxification is more of a maintenance plan until the next time peace and blessings and Godspeed

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
12 minutes
Equipment
None
Target areas
Digestive systemInternal organs (liver, kidneys)Overall cellular health
Energy
balancing

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