Aerobic Exercise: Helps Detoxify Your Body
Posted in Healthy Diet Recipes on 29. Dec, 2009
One of the many benefits of aerobic exercise is that it helps detoxify the body. Aerobic exercise encourages sweating and sweating helps toxins inside the body exit through the skin. Most people don’t know it, but the body is supposed to be eliminating two pounds of toxins each day, just through the skin. Aerobic exercise is needed to make this happen and it’s important that the skin is able to breathe properly to release those toxins, which can be easily accomplished by regular dry skin brushing.
Skin brushing is a simple technique where the skin all over the body is brushed daily, in the direction of the heart, to remove any dead skin so the skin can breathe freely. Dry skin brushing compounds the benefits of aerobic exercise by making sure that the toxins wanting to leave the body in the sweat can actually make it out the body.
In addition to helping the body remove toxins through sweating, aerobic exercise also stimulates the lymphatic system, which is a key detoxification pathway. The lymph is similar to blood; it brings nutrients to our cells and importantly, it removes waste from our cells. But, unlike other the blood which is pumped by the heart, lymphatic requires movement from exercise to function properly. Movement through aerobic exercise encourages the movement of the lymph and prevents it from becoming stagnant. It also encourages the removal of waste from the cells. Just like water easily becomes polluted when stagnant, so also does our lymph.
Old lymph, and its accumulated waste from the cells, is deposited in the colon for removal from the body. Therefore, to get the most detoxification from aerobic exercise, you can also do colon cleansing to ensure that old toxic lymph and cellular waste leaves your body. Many health problems are caused by a dirty colon in the first place, so cleaning your colon can also be an important health measure – one just as important as aerobic exercise.
