Detox cleanse

Many alternative medicine practitioners promote various types of detoxification detox cleanse as detoxification diets. Scientists have described these as a “waste of time and money”.

Alcohol detoxification is a process by which a heavy drinker’s system is brought back to normal after being habituated to having alcohol in the body continuously for an extended period of substance abuse. Serious alcohol addiction results in a downregulation of GABA neurotransmitter receptors. Detoxification may be achieved drug-free or may use medications as an aspect of treatment. Drug detoxification varies depending on the location of treatment, but most detox centers provide treatment to avoid the symptoms of physical withdrawal from alcohol and from other drugs. Most also incorporate counseling and therapy during detox to help with the consequences of withdrawal. Certain approaches in alternative medicine claim to remove “toxins” from the body through herbal, electrical or electromagnetic treatments. These toxins are undefined and have no scientific basis, making the validity of such techniques questionable.

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