Thankfully, our bodies are equipped with sophisticated detoxification and cleaning systems—our liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, and digestive and lymph systems. The liver is an extraordinary organ that takes up toxins, transforms them, and excretes them through your bile into your gut to be eliminated. The kidneys filter waste from your blood and turn it into urine. The lungs get rid of carbon dioxide, the metabolic waste made by processing food and oxygen in your mitochondria that must be released from your body. The skin allows you to sweat out toxins. The digestive system removes waste from
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