ANH Feature: Detox works—we can prove it!

DEBUNKING SENSE ABOUT SCIENCE’S STAND ON DETOX

Sense About Science, with the aid of the Voice of Young Science (VoYS) network of over 300 eager, early career scientific researchers, have launched a nationwide campaign to debunk what they call the detox myth. They argue that there is no evidence that any of the so-called detox products on the market do anything that our detox organs—our liver and kidneys—are not already doing. Many of the scientists involved, says the Sense About Science website, will be distributing their own leaflet, entitled Debunking Detox to the public outside high street retailers in central London. The leaflet has apparently been authored by 38 of these young scientists. 

Further debunking has been undertaken by Dr Ben Goldacre, in his recent article: Detox Debunked, published in The Sunday Times Style magazine in the UK. Astonishingly, he claims that the notion of ‘detox’ is medically meaningless, and seems to overlook the existence of the liver and kidneys by suggesting that that there is no physiological detoxification system or mechanism in the body.

TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ANH REBUTTAL, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A DOCTOR AND ALSO A SCIENTIST, CLICK HERE.

 

TAKE HOME MESSAGES FROM
THE ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH

  1. Contrary to the view of Sense about Science and Voice of Young Scientists the need for detoxification support is well established.
     
  2. Significant numbers of people are genetically unable to detoxify chemicals in our food or the environment adequately.
     
  3. The ability of various amino acids, herbs and phytonutrients to enhance the body’s natural detoxification mechanisms has been widely documented in the scientific literature for over 40 years. 
     
  4. Disorders and diseases, including cancers, of our eliminatory organs are on the rise, suggesting our bodies’ are having difficulty coping with the chemical load to which we are exposed.
     
  5. There is ample evidence to show that our ‘normal diet’ and natural detoxification processes are, for many people, no longer capable of managing the chemical burden to which we’re exposed.

Read the ANH's full feature as a PDF download.

 

Updated: 9 Jan 2009