Do You Need a Detox and If So, How?

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What are you waiting for? Good night. Whether it's the beginning of the year or a new season, or you're listening later to this episode, cleanses and detoxes are prevalent topics. But do you need a detox? How do you answer that question? I may have answered that very question very differently 10 years ago. This episode follows two very recent episodes I'm going to include in the show notes, and it answers some of the questions that have come out of our community about what it is and why it might be needed. And it's probably not what you think. I'm Debra Atkinson, and you're listening to Flipping 50. I started this podcast over a decade ago to answer questions about fitness and menopause and beyond before you know to ask them. The goal: to help you accelerate your results with science and the practical application of proven protocols. While living your best life. There's no more powerful health influencer in the world than a midlife woman. It's not just you, but it's the 3 generations that you influence benefiting from what you do. My unique 40-year fitness career, including being a university lecturer in kinesiology, an industry subject matter expert, and international speaker to founder of the first and the only exclusively made-for-menopause fitness membership in the world. Every week I interview experts behind the science of optimal hormone-balancing fitness and longevity and share answers to our community's questions so you can have the vitality and the energy that you want, need, and deserve. So whether it is the beginning of the year or a new season or any time you're listening to this episode, cleanses and detoxes are prevalent topics. But are they trending, or do you really need a detox? I may have answered that very question very differently 10 years ago. This episode follows two recent episodes on detox, on what it is, what is a cleanse, and answers some of the questions from our community members about what it is, when it might be needed, how to know. And it's probably not what you think, but once you know something, you can't go back. So in the last two years, I've done three liver detoxes. I have I have a recent episode on biohacking I've published, never thinking I would publish something on that. And I admit I dislike the word hacking, hacks, forever. And yet many of us are biohacking as we gain insight into the what and the why of the body, but we didn't label it. We do, for instance, elimination diet, we sauna, we steam and we sweat, and those all help us naturally detox. But does the body need a detox boost from time to time? That's the question. And if so, why? So why am I answering this question, you might ask? How is this relative to fitness? Because when a woman asks me, why am I gaining weight when I'm doing everything right? Or someone asks why they can't lose weight, I've had to have an explanation for that, and I've had to get more educated in order to do so. So while the After 50 Fitness Formula and the Flipping 50 methodologies taken from science can support an updated version of healthy for you that replaces healthy for all that we've grown up with, there are stubborn cases. I've witnessed them for 40 years, and I would say I've had to solve my own mysteries along the way. This past 5 years more than ever before, not accidentally or uncoincidentally, that would be that I hit menopause at age 56. And if you're listening to this, I am dangerously close to putting 60 candles on a cake. Many fitness pros deal with the same thing that you do, and it's often what leads us to dive deeper into what it is we can do for clients. It's what often brings the health coaches and personal trainers that we train to the Flipping 50 Menopause Fitness Specialist. And we'll link to that in case this might be you listening. In this episode, we're going to talk what is detox, do you need a detox, what could interfere with natural detox, the body's ability to take care of itself, how can we support our natural body detox processes, and what a detox experience might be like. If there is a difference between cleanse versus detox. So first, let's start with what is detox? It's a process of clearing toxins out of the body. The body does it really well automatically, except at a tipping point. Let's say you get bogged down. Tipping points, for instance, are one cause of cancer. Combine your epigenetics, or I'm sorry, combine your genetics, your DNA, And don't blame your parents, we can't do that. We all have potential cancerous cells within us, but not for all of us do they express. And with other two factors, combine your genetics with these two factors, the saying goes, genetics may load the gun, but lifestyle habits pull the trigger. And then there's environment, and that's the third. So genetics, lifestyle habits, and environment all play a role. Genetics, out of the three, plays the smallest. Lifestyle habits plays the biggest. And yet environment could play a bigger part depending on where and what it is. So consider this. Maybe genetically you're more predisposed. Your environment, let's say, is contaminated because you live in a location where air quality or water quality is loaded with heavy metals and you weren't aware of it. And let's say in effort to do the right thing, you clean within an inch of your life and you always have. But if this was true before toxin-free products were even discussed, then you've used toxic products to kill germs, eliminate odors, sanitize your kitchen where you eat, the bathtub where you and your family bathe. This could be enough to reach a tipping point for someone. When families endure cancer, they begin to learn this. And in fact, this is how I first learned it and/or maybe how it stuck. When you hear a story from a cancer survivor or from a parent of a child who's a cancer survivor, you pay attention. Because I remember having chills hearing it, wondering, Why hers and not my child? And what do I need to do to keep things going in this direction? So often before those, those moments, we ignore or we figure that it's just someone trying to sell us a product or service. And we collectively often ridicule something that we aren't ready to accept. If it's too far from our belief system, beliefs we've always had, it feels threatening. And that's often the human reaction to something. We hear first judgment, skepticism to anything that makes us uncomfortable with knowledge we thought we had about habits we thought were good. And when those are challenged, we first get defensive. Curiosity isn't unfortunately our first response. But the heavy metals in your fillings, from tuna or other fish high in mercury, in drinking water, and we're talking also about the chlorine in your drinking water or tap water, chemicals in cleaning products, hair products, body products, things we thought were good, like fluoride in drinking water is a bonus, is not so much. And the BPA plastics that we not only were not aware of, but we ate and drank from them, but we also stuck them in the microwave so we could amplify the plastic going into the foods we ate or the drinks we had. And then we stored it for days in the refrigerator and used it for years. I don't know about you, but until very recently, I had a piece of Tupperware in my cupboard that I remember buying from one of Dustin's babysitters when he was 6 months old. He's now 29. All right, time for that to go. And if you've microwaved it, stored it in the refrigerator for years, bye-bye, bye-bye. Get glass. Okay, these are really important things, but I think we've all done them until we knew to know better. Toxins make fat, fat loss hard because toxins get stored in fat by the miracle of the body, removing them from circulating through your body. And toxins are hormone disruptors. So if you're struggling with high estrogen, estrogen dominance, often it's called, you know, we've got to look under the hood there too. So your body can deal with toxins, and it does. One of the ways is to remove it and put it in fat, and that's not great, right, when you want to lose that fat because your body is reluctant to release this. And that interrupted process is the combined overload mentioned above or earlier here, and too few ways to eliminate those toxins if you're not regularly sweating. And during exercise, we could say that, or in sauna, or both, let's hope, and infrared, um, can be more optimal, or you're not pooping daily at least once, supporting yourself by drinking purified water and inducing plenty of fiber into your diet, natural detoxification will be limited. So I would try to check all those boxes as starting place. If you continue exposure to processed foods, to artificial sweeteners, polluted water or air, or you have a mouthful of old amalgams, you're making it harder for your body to detox. So imagine that. And I know some of you, I— like me, number one, I guess I, I struggle with, is it the time or the money? I've still got some silver amalgams and it's I know I need to have them removed. And number one, I just don't like drills. I don't like that vibration. I would much rather get on a Power Plate if I want a vibration. I don't love all of that. And then I don't love being numb and drooling and the whole nine yards. That's just not a fun time. I think we can all agree. So I've put that off, but it's not just, okay, well, I have that, but I'm doing all these other good habits, but all those other good habits that help you detox won't be helping as much because you put the brakes on with the constant exposure. Just want to kind of illustrate that in a way that you might not have thought about it. So even eating what seems to be healthy foods that, that aren't for you, this can be a real issue. And I don't know who was calling, but hopefully an angel got his wings there. I hope you didn't hear that. But you've got to look at, you know, if you're eating foods that aren't really healthy for you, you can contribute to this disrupted detoxification because your body isn't processing them well. I didn't understand the mechanism behind this, and if you have a queasy stomach, you may want to turn this off, but I vomited like directly onto my laptop keyboard while drinking a really Poor quality coffee. And I've also had that same thing happen while eating sulfur-rich vegetables. So imagine roasted vegetables made a pan and a batch in advance, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, and something even about the smell of them. But, you know, being hungry when they came out, I salted them and they're yummy with sea salt, right? And almost within minutes, I had to go over the sink, right? So I realized this is not painting a really lovely picture of me, but it's happened. And it happened a couple of times. And the first time I thought, this is a fluke. But the next time it happened at the exact same time, a vegetable plate of roasted, freshly roasted vegetables, exactly the same ones, pulling it out, nauseous. Vomiting and I wasn't sick. And then all of a sudden felt better because that was over. But that's telling you something about what's going on. So you may wonder why I talk about clean sources of your matcha, your coffee. Well, it matters. Even if you're getting away with it, it doesn't mean there isn't damage being done. So maybe you're not vomiting, but something else could be happening under the hood. If you have 95% of everything done well, missing a step may not be a problem here and there, but when your body becomes loaded down, bogged down, even with those of us that live health consciously, your body can rebel somehow. So I put together a list of things that I did last year, you know, and I looked at how many podcasts did I publish and just how many hours did I spend X, how many walks have I gone on since July 1st when I started just odd numbers that, you know, we don't always think about these. But among those numbers: 182 gallons of water drank, 109 Epsom salt baths, 730 mugs of matcha, 500 or more showers. Now look, consider that first and foremost. What if my drinking water or tap water used to fill that bathtub and take those showers is contaminated, fluoride in the drinking water, chlorine in the bath water, or I was drinking out of plastics. How bad would that be soaking in water regularly? What if I wasn't careful with my matcha and I was just buying cheap matcha? It's all the same, right? No. And I was drinking moldy coffee, heavy metal-laden green tea. You know, I'm doing all those things every single day. They. That's a big cumulative effect. And until I put them in numbers, it was a little curious to me as to— I wasn't even thinking of it in that volume or term. So by the way, the tea I choose is Peak, the coffee I choose is Danger. I'm gonna link to mine and to special codes that you can use if you too want to try it from my link. You know, it took 3 or 4 times— I'm a slow learner evidently— to roast a pan of veggies, eat them almost immediately get nauseous and throw up to put the clues together. It was the food for sure, especially sulfurous foods. I often ate broccoli, Brussels sprouts, sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, onions, and garlic. Those are sulfurous vegetables. So I was actually putting in the things that were making it more difficult for my own body to detox. Now we've— I think I've got your attention, right? So I would never have put the two together. Now, sulfur can be good for the body, but if something else is off, it can trigger the issues like I've described. It's not about eliminating those foods 100% all the time. It's about fixing the root cause of the problem. So why would you need a detox? Here's what I find is the kicker. Signs you may need a detox mimic many signs of menopause. Hey, this is Debra Atkinson. I love creating the Flipping 50 podcast for you, and I have for over a decade. I've also loved helping midlife women shift not only their physical energy but their beliefs about what effective exercise looks like and how much it can positively and powerfully impact your life. If you're not exercising right now, you're getting tired but not stronger, or you think you don't have the time or the energy to do so, do a 5-day flip with me. I'll send you one short video a day for 5 days. It's just 15 to 20 minutes long, and you can see exactly how I prepare a fitness plan for myself and for thousands of clients. You can get this at flipping50.com right now. What are you waiting for? Let's start flipping 50 together. They are those signs of menopause and detox that are both A and B: weight gain, inability to lose weight, bloating, constipation or diarrhea, puffiness, lethargy and fatigue, insomnia, elevated cortisol, water retention, headaches, skin rashes, acne, moodiness, unstable blood sugar or insulin resistance. Oh my goodness, all of these reasons why you might need a detox and signs of menopause. So is it— do you think that it, it is women suffer from signs and symptoms of menopause because of hormonal changes alone, or do you think that certain women maybe predisposed because they're almost already at a tipping point but don't know it, and those hormonal changes put them over the edge. I would suspect the latter. I think we have to ask that. So it's not a coincidence at a time when your hormones change, you tolerate things less well. Your body has the hormetic stress of the phase of life you're in. And possibly it can't work as hard to process all the toxins from your past and your present as well. And this is where exercise comes in. The exercise you used to do doesn't work anymore. It either may make you exhausted or it just simply isn't getting results. And it's because your body is fighting too many other things that it won't naturally work. So how can we support natural detox? Well, number one, we have to eliminate some of those exposures, right? Like you may need to test or want to test your tap water. So I will link to the exercise supporting natural detox episodes. So number one, that can really help. And I'm going to link to a recent episode with Sarah Banta, who is phenomenal. Her son is one of those children that got cancer, and she looked for every possible solution, as any parent would. To help him heal and get better. So first and foremost, start exercising regularly if you're not already. Exercise moves everything, so your circulation, respiration, digestion, elimination, all going to be enhanced. You'll sweat, you'll expire, breathe out and eliminate toxins better. The lymphatic system is part of that, and you'll hear more about that in that podcast on natural detox with exercise if you haven't listened to it already. It's a It's, by the way, it's a huge argument for the power of both rebounding. And if you can get access to or bring it into your home, whole body vibration or Power Plate that I've talked about so much in the last 6 months for so many reasons. Natural detox occurs with the liver first every single day. It filters everything. But if it's on overload, as from all the things above, it can't do its job. There's 3 ways to lighten the load. First, and this is like work, I'm thinking, oh my gosh, this is like work in our team. Like, do we need to delegate it? Do I need to dump it? Do we need to ditch it? We just stopped doing it anymore. But anyway, back to the moment. First, reduce your exposure to the toxins, right? Second, reduce the load on your body because it's already at overload. If you take away the exposure going forward, that's great. You're not adding more, but it's still in overload. You're not going to remove the damage done. We've got to fix that. Third, support the key ways toxins are eliminated: pee, poop, and sweat. So we're going to drink more filtered water. I would add electrolyte to that, by the way. Poop more. More water may help that. Exercise may help that as well. You may need probiotics, prebiotics, but also fiber in your diet from whole foods first. And then once you're at a point where I can't figure out how to get it more, you know, adding a fiber boost as we have and promote at Flipping 50 to add it to your smoothies, stir it into a glass of water and sweat. So you can do that with infrared saunas. You can do it if you live in Louisiana, step outside a minute. You can do that in many other places. I know it also— sweating and getting to a sweat point. Some of you I know say, I don't sweat. We probably want to look at that, and you need to make sure that— is that because you're dehydrated or simply because it's always been true for you? I found that you can actually train your body to sweat at a lower rate, and that can be a really healthy thing. So if you wanted to do a natural 3-day detox, you could upgrade all the products you use on a daily and weekly basis. Perfumes and fragrance in lotions and shampoos are toxic, so look everywhere. And I know some of us like perfume, and it's a hormone disruptor. Eliminate foods that you know are toxic for you— processed foods, those with preservatives, additives— and use organic where possible. And eliminate your alcohol and your sugar. The obvious kind as well as the— are you eating a lot of carbohydrates that maybe is not helping you? You can eat lighter with soups and smoothies, cooked vegetables to reduce digestive stress, you know, and consider intermittent fasting for a longer period of time during this 3-day detox. Move, but don't do strenuous for a long intense— think of this as like a spa at home. Like, so you're gonna have a staycation, give yourself time in Epsom salt baths, you know, sleep a little bit more, nap, read books, move, go for walks, do yoga. If you've got access to infrared sauna or to a Power Plate or rebounder, use those intermittently throughout those days. Drink lots of pure filtered water, increase your fiber intake, and, you know, Take care of all of those pieces just little by little. And those are not strenuous activities really, right? Should sound like this is a heaven. I would do that. What is the detox experience like? So I'm gonna answer this question with a question. A detox can be any level of removing toxins from your environment to those stored in your body and slowing it down, right? So if something's slowing your liver down, you may want to actually remove it. For me, I I know my digestion and my gut health were not right. You know, it's just, I'm not functioning as well. And if you're, for instance, trying to lose weight or boost metabolism and you're unable to make changes in spite of getting the right exercise, boosting high-quality protein sources, and sleeping, then a cleanse or detox of a next step may be where you wanna go. Is there a difference between a cleanse and detox? I'm using those interchangeably a little bit, but a cleanse is like a prep for a final detox. But it could be all that you do if you decide, I'm not going any further than this. So a cleanse might be your elimination diet. I'm removing that. It might be including digital detox. I'm going to try to stay away from technology, my computer, remove electrical cords plugged in close to my head at bedtime. That might be a part of your detox. But you're preparing. So a dedicated time of elimination of foods, certain products that you might use, maybe just around toxic people even. And, you know, so here's the deal. I started one, you know, and then I wanted to chicken out of the final stage of my liver flush, but I didn't because that would be silly, right? I've invested these like 3— actually, 28 days. I invested 28 days in doing all the prep to get ready for it so I could support my liver. And then not doing it would be like be pregnant for 9 months, but don't actually have the baby. I mean, which is kind of impossible, but I gotta tell you, I started to get cold feet. I was like, I don't really wanna do this. It sounds painful. I'm like, I want this baby out, but like, do I really have to do that? And in the end I did. So there's that. Nature's a wonderful thing. So stop this pain right now, right? So I think for many of us, a cleanse is the way we live. I'm preaching to the choir, I think. Maybe you're sticking a toe in the water and that might not be you, but once you feel good, you don't want to go back. But that's not the same as going through a detox. So with the liver, for instance, you're going to go through 2 weeks specifically supporting your body, breaking down some of the substances that accumulate in it. And I liken this to An old Ford Escort I used to drive. It was my very first car. It had a stick shift, if you can imagine. My, my stepfather bought me that car on a weekend as I was a senior in college because it just was out of necessity. My grandmother on my mom's side had cancer and I needed to come back regularly, and my stepdad needed to be there to support my mom, and he couldn't come get me. And it was just Finding a way home when I wanted to be there was impossible. So he bought me a car on a weekend. Jesse and I went shopping. We left and I left the car, the lot to drive back to college in a stick shift, never having driven a stick shift except illegally in a best friend's car, very rarely. So imagine. I had to come uphill in town to get to my apartment, and I cannot tell you how many times it stalled. Okay, side note. However, that car, when I was going for my first job, and it must have been one of the first or second days of that job, and what happened is I can't even tell you the name of the part, but essentially it's like little particles get clogged, and so it no longer can shift and move and it just stops. And then they settle. And if you wait long enough, you can start it again and drive a certain distance. And, you know, until you get this car fixed, you're going to have that issue. That kept happening to me, but that's always come into my head when I'm thinking I need a bigger detox than that. Like, I've got the junk is all there, so my body can't operate really well. So this is how you might go to sleep, you wake up in the morning, you feel a little bit better, but then by the late in the day you don't feel so good anymore. Uh-huh, bingo. Okay, so you have to break down some of those substances potentially in the liver when you're doing a liver detox. In my experience, you know, I used glutathione and charcoal as well when I was healing from mold exposure because they help with detox. And charcoal you know, is something you can take when you've been exposed to a food that's moldy. You take it on a regular basis. It does not, it does not cause you to like have diarrhea. It just helps bind to toxins and remove them from your body in your poop. There's nothing about it that's going to change the consistency of your poop, so don't get nervous about that one. In order to do a liver cleanse, I took supplements with scalar frequency. Again, listen to my interview with Sarah Banta. And those help me intermittent fast with some boosted benefits for the body's own rejuvenation. Inside of the Flipping 50 membership, we regularly do a self-directed kickstart, 28 days, and it's a very simple elimination of foods. We reintroduce, we become aware of other toxins in the environment and focus on a knowledge of how to support your own system and tracking progress from start to end. But sometimes it takes more. And I've done a liver cleanse with Sarah 3 times, and Sarah is of Accelerated Health Products. She's the founder. And each time I do it, it gets better. My results were the best I've ever had a few weeks ago when I went through it. And it's really kind of geeky science. If you want to turn around and look in the stool when you do this, you will see what what you've eliminated and the small particles that were making your carburetor or whatever it was not work well in your car. So again, if you're queasy, you probably have turned this off long before this, but you've got to think about other things as well. So Sarah really goes over and above in elimination and removes amyloid proteins and sulfurous vegetables and, um, We've gotta think about some of those things related to our recent past, the pandemic and what vaccines have done to us and exposure to that virus have done to us all. Even if we didn't get vaccinated or didn't get the virus, we all have been exposed because so many around us have. So for me, that final cleaning out, there's no other way to say it, was no less pleasant, I promise you. But it was also a huge eye-opener about what was going on in my body and why I felt less than 100%. And for those of you that do well, I do fine, I feel good, you may not realize how good you could feel. And that was the case for me. It was like, okay, well, do I tolerate this? Although I'm not one to do that. I'm one to realize, no, no, no, there's a better way here. So you do so much, you know, I don't know how you do it. I know you, you know, if that is you, I've had people say that to me too. And I expect to, you know, I expect that we should be able to and not to the point of exhaustion, but because I have a ton of energy, my brain works really well. And so I'm not doing things out of compulsion or to exhaustion. It's just, I have a mission and I wanna feel good carrying it out and have time. Leftover for the things I love outside of work as well. But if you don't feel 100%, you're not. End of story. You know, don't look at other people and them complimenting you on, you get, you do so much, you're already way ahead. You know, if you don't feel you're 100%, only you knows that. I, in the show notes, will share how to get access to Sarah's cleanse, and she does them monthly. With a coaching group where she is extremely interactive with the group. If you have a question, she will be on it. You know, she has a very complete PDF. So if you like to read and have access to things that way, she also puts things together in video so you have them on demand when you want to. Or there's the group so you can get response to, and that's a WhatsApp group, I do believe. Or, ah, you know what, she doesn't use it. She used something like Telegram. So those of you who are familiar with that, works the same way. I will share other ways I detox every day and every, every week of the year. I'll share links to what I use for coffee and tea, sauna, and what we do inside our members area. You'll be able to search for detox options if you're there and do it yourself whenever you're ready and with support in our Facebook group. So all of our listeners who are listening um, appreciate you, know you, love you, and we are here to help so that you can make the most of it. Okay, what are you waiting for? So whatever you're doing now, there is more, and you can take the very next step. The show notes for today will be at flipping50.com/need-a-detox. Okay, there you have it. Really, what is a detox? Do I need a detox? We talked about those things, answered those questions, I hope, for you very thoroughly. But most of all, I went over the symptoms of needing a detox that mimic the signs of menopause. Remember those: weight gain, inability to lose weight, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, puffiness, lethargy and fatigue, insomnia, elevated cholesterol. Water retention, headaches, skin rashes, acne, moodiness, unstable blood sugar levels, or insulin resistance. And I'm going to also throw in there, you know, poor functioning thyroid might also be a sign. And that was one. What it's like, natural ways that you can detox, we covered those, like exercise, like checking in with your water. So drinking more water is important, but I do think we've got to go deeper and say pure filtered water. And if you don't know what's in your tap water, please get it tested because a lot of tap water has heavy metal in it or chlorine or fluoride in it. Important things to consider if you're sitting in a bathtub, you shower every day, and you're drinking it and/or you're making your food with it or feeding it to your pets. Yeah. Okay. So there's that. But I also want to leave you with this. If you want to look at the steps that I've taken with Sarah, and chances are if you do a liver cleanse, I will be in there with you. So I will not wait as long this time because I think now the value of being proactive has really been revealed to me. But if you care to do that with me, flipping50.com/cleanse, flipping50.com/cleanse, and you can look at the Liver Cleanse, the Liver Detox. I would do them both. Just plan on being in there for 28 days. Get Sarah's wisdom. And I will tell you, the first time you're in there, you're going to say, whoa, this is an overwhelming amount of supplements. I understand it, but it will all come together for you potentially. So there you have it. If you're going to join me, let's do that. Come and listen to the show notes. Be sure that you've done that at flipping50.com/nitadetox. The links will be in the show notes to my Masha, my coffee, my sauna, and to the cleanse with Sarah. Thank you for listening. To listen to a decade of episodes and get the show notes, visit flipping50.com where you'll be able to find all the previous episodes. I made it easy to make the most of your listening time with the top 10 podcast episodes in areas that you really care about most—protein, weight loss, or 3 other areas we often cover in depth. If you know a midlife woman or a soon-to-be one who wants to optimize her midlife energy and time with the right exercise and lifestyle changes and a mindset shift about just what is possible, please share the podcast with her. There is no more powerful health influencer in the world than you, midlife woman.