How often should we detox our bodies?

Do you detox? Are you clear on what detoxing is? How often do you detox your body?  Talk Show Host Doctor Oz stated  “I usually have my patients do a cleanse for 7 days to 6 weeks, or even longer, depending on their particular needs.”

According to http://en.wikipedia.org.  Detoxification  is defined as: (detox for short)^[1] is the physiological or medical removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including, but not limited to, the human body and additionally can refer to the period of withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term use of an addictive substance.^[2][3] In medicine detoxification can be achieved by decontamination of poison ingestion and the use of antidotes as well as techniques such as dialysis and (in a limited number of cases) chelation therapy.^[4]

Many alternative medicine practitioners promote various other types of detoxification such as detoxification diets but scientists have described these as a “waste of time and money”.^[

A popular cleanser is the  Master Cleanse which is simply a juice fast,consisting of Sea salt, lemonade , Smooth Move Laxative made with Maple Syrup   and Cayenne Pepper.

How to Do the Master Cleanse

• The diet takes at least 10 days (up to 40 days, the period of time that Jesus fasted after his baptism, as Burroughs points out)
• The only nourishment that you take is a special lemonade concoction made from the Master Cleanse ingredients: lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and water, six to twelve glasses per day, each glass containing about 110 calories in sugar carbohydrates
• An herbal laxative tea is drunk at night and a quart of salt water is drunk first thing in the morning, resulting in several liquid bowel movements every day — you need to always be near a toilet when you do this diet, and you need to stock up on toilet paper
• You come off the diet by transitioning to solid food over a few days, ideally becoming a raw food vegetarian in Stanley Burroughs’ version of the diet
  For more info visit http://calorielab.com/news/2008/07/17/master-cleanse-in-detail/