Cleansing your system & getting a restful nights sleep can help YOU more than you think!
Sometimes your body just needs a deep cleaning. Think of it as decluttering and cleaning your body as you do your home. But even if that is a matter of choice, we sometimes forget to choose to help our bodies out first. Because if you don’t put you as top priority and do what is necessary, many other aspects of your life will suffer.
Over time and the result of many bad habits, your system gets clogged, affecting the many processes that clean your body. Your kidneys become less efficient in purifying the blood. The ability of the liver-- the metabolism powerhouse that processes, stores, or manufactures most of the chemicals passing through your body-- to detoxify your system and produce bile to break up fats, is reduced. The digestive tract from mouth to colon, digests food and moves the unused wastes out of the body-- but the highly processed food so common in our diet today can take days to digest. And the wastes that build up in the colon need to be flushed out. A malfunctioning system reveals itself in the health and vitality of our skin, nails, hair, and breath.
Relying on a cleaning out your system alone might not help if you also have other habits that are harmful to your health. For instance, If you don’t get enough sleep at night. You’re not just turning yourself into a daytime zombie -- you also could be more likely to have high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and depression. And it might be harder for you to learn and remember things. A big playing factor can be the habit of watching tv to sleep, or surfing the Internet before bed. The “blue light” given off by electronic gadgets like phones, computers, and TVs can mess up your sleep. And some studies show that too much of any kind of nighttime light might be linked to cancer (especially breast and prostate), diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Calm yourself before bed. If you want to read something, open up a book. Keep your bedroom dark and quiet for better sleep. Set a regular sleep routine and stick with it. And do your best to get 7-8 hours a night, with no electronics at least an hour before bedtime. I do know how trying this can be as I am someone who suffers with either over exhaustion, or insomnia-- but you should still try to remain consistent with your sleep whenever possible.
