{"id":19066,"date":"2016-01-30T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T10:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19066"},"modified":"2016-01-30T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:57:05","slug":"is-it-necessary-indeed-is-it-even-possible-to-give-your-body-a-detox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19066","title":{"rendered":"Is it necessary, indeed is it even possible, to give your body a detox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time of year, several of my friends tell me that they are on a detox and seem astonished why I explain that I actually I don&#8217;t believe detox is necessary or even possible.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take it from me. Listen to Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If toxins did build up in a way your body couldn\u2019t excrete, you\u2019d likely be dead or in need of serious medical intervention. The healthy body has kidneys, a liver, skin, even lungs that are detoxifying as we speak. There is no known way \u2013 certainly not through detox treatments \u2013 to make something that works perfectly well in a healthy body work better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/gu.com\/p\/43nhd?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to be healthier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/healthy.html\">here<\/a> is how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time of year, several of my friends tell me that they are on a detox and seem astonished why I explain that I actually I don&#8217;t believe detox is necessary or even possible. Don&#8217;t take it from me. Listen to Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University: &#8220;If toxins did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19083,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19066\/revisions\/19083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}