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2. Detoxification - Wikipedia

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   Detoxification. Detoxification or detoxication (detox for short) [1] is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including the human body, which is mainly carried out by the liver. Additionally, it can refer to the period of drug withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term ...

3. Detoxification (alternative medicine) - Wikipedia

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   Detoxification. 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.

4. What is a detox? Here's why you may want to think twice ... - AOL

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   To the body, “toxins are bacterial products, viral fungal products, [or] plant and animal products,” that act like a “poison to human cells or nerves,” Dr. Sarah Kahn, MD, a board ...

5. 10 Best Foods to 'Detox' Your Body Naturally - AOL

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   Glutathione is an antioxidant that is involved in the body's natural detoxification process, helping the body rid itself of certain toxins. In addition, garlic and onions contain allicin, a ...

6. Xenobiotic metabolism - Wikipedia

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   Xenobiotic metabolism (from the Greek xenos "stranger" and biotic "related to living beings") is the set of metabolic pathways that modify the chemical structure of xenobiotics, which are compounds foreign to an organism's normal biochemistry, such as drugs and poisons. These pathways are a form of biotransformation present in all major groups ...

7. Drug metabolism - Wikipedia

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   Drug metabolism is the metabolic breakdown of drugs by living organisms, usually through specialized enzymatic systems. More generally, xenobiotic metabolism (from the Greek xenos "stranger" and biotic "related to living beings") is the set of metabolic pathways that modify the chemical structure of xenobiotics, which are compounds foreign to an organism's normal biochemistry, such as any drug ...