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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.
As the colon normally expels waste, colon cleansing is generally unneeded. [12] [13] Colonic irrigation can disrupt the bowel's normal flora, and, if done frequently, can result in electrolyte depletion with dehydration. [13] Rare but severe adverse events have been rectal perforation, [14] as well as amoebic infection, from poorly sterilised ...
Colon cleansing supplements may lead to dehydration, Hussan says. If you have a pre-existing kidney condition, cleansing your colon may cause an electrolyte imbalance in the bloodstream, he adds ...
Anxiety about COVID-19 makes people more willing to "try anything" that might give them a sense of control of the situation, making them easy targets for scams. [5] Many false claims about measures against COVID-19 have circulated widely on social media, but some have been circulated by text, on YouTube, and even in some mainstream media ...
On Oct. 7, the FDA authorized the first over-the-counter home flu and COVID-19 combination test outside of emergency use authorization, which can detect SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19 ...
Madej made headlines in June 2020 after posting a video on YouTube in which the osteopath claimed “The COVID-19 vaccines are designed to make us into genetically modified organisms.”
Heavy metal detox, or detoxification, is the removal of toxic heavy metal substances from the body. In conventional medicine, detoxification can also be achieved artificially by techniques such as dialysis and (in a very limited number of cases) chelation therapy.
The FDA has a list online of authorized home COVID-19 tests, along with links to “updated expiration dates” so you can check to see if your test’s expiration date has been extended.