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In his 2015 article "Activated charcoal: The latest detox fad in an obsessive food culture", he said: [1] Fake detox, the kind you find in magazines, and sold in pharmacies, juice bars, and health food stores, is make-believe medicine. The use of the term 'toxin' in this context is meaningless.
Detoxification (often shortened to detox and sometimes called body cleansing) is a type of alternative-medicine treatment which aims to rid the body of unspecified "toxins" – substances that proponents claim accumulate in the body over time and have undesirable short-term or long-term effects on individual health.
Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is a chronic condition involving non-specific physical and psychological symptoms that appear when the affected person has been exposed to "chemicals", or at least believes they have been exposed to. [1]
The name multiple chemical sensitivity has been criticized, partly because MCS is not a sensitivity in the allergic or immunological meaning of that word. [5] Being more sensitive than average to some chemical exposures (e.g., secondhand smoke) is fairly common. [5] MCS is generally used to refer to more significant disability. [5]
The water sampled before the detox foot bath was activated contained only 0.54mg per liter of iron and after the treatment was complete it contained 23.6mg per liter. For reference, Goldacre's water sample from his original experiment contained 97mg per liter. [1] [11]
Drug detoxification (informally, detox) is variously construed or interpreted as a type of "medical" intervention or technique in regards to a physical dependence mediated by a drug; as well as the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome or any of the treatments for acute drug overdose (toxidrome).
The Malaysian Health Ministry determined that the treatment could cause serious harm and had no scientific support as a treatment for any condition. [ 35 ] On 7 August 2023, the Brazilian government legalized ozone therapy as a complementary therapy , ignoring a request for veto due to lack of scientific evidence made in an open letter from the ...
Clinical ecologists claimed that exposure to low levels of certain chemical agents harm susceptible people, causing multiple chemical sensitivity and other disorders. Members of the academy may have a background in the field of allergy , and their theoretical approach is derived in part from non-standard concepts of allergic responses that were ...