Tired outselling bloated? Sick of feeling sluggish from eating unhealthy and heavy meals? If so, then it sounds like you need a detox. A detox is the best way for your body to flush out all the bad and unwanted toxins.

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Many adults and children in the UAE are subjected to junk food, poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and overall unhealthy culture. This is why it’s important to know what detoxing is, and the best drinks you can try to help you start your detox.

The Importance of Detoxing

Detoxing helps your body get rid of its waste. This is important because if waste builds up in your body, that’s when you get sick and your health goes spiralling out of control. In theory, detoxing helps to remove bad toxins and harmful chemicals that come from food, drink, air and environmental elements that enter the body.

Detoxing helps to flush out the harmful effects of these toxins by boosting and enhancing your body and health with healthy nutrients and reset your body. 

The benefits of detoxing include:

  • Removal of harmful toxins and chemicals that cause complications
  • Immunity booster
  • Weight loss
  • Improved skin and complexion
  • Improved mood and mental wellbeing
  • Balancing pH levels of the body
  • Increased energy
  • Better digestion

The Best Drinks for Detoxing

Healthy Drinks for detoxing

1. Cucumber Mint

Perfect for sunny weather and hot temperatures, cucumber and mint are a simple and effective beverage for detoxing. Mint is an anti-inflammatory that can help to soothe your stomach and digestive tract, while also helping your mind to calm down.

Cucumber is rich in antioxidants and along with mint can help to reduce inflammation and cool the body down from the hot weather we are accustomed to in the UAE. One of the simpler drinks for detoxing, all you need are a couple of mint leaves and sliced cucumbers before infusing them with cold water.

2. Orange, Carrot, and Ginger

Another simple detox drink to prepare is orange, carrot, and ginger-infused the water. With a bit of ice, this is the perfect summer beverage. Oranges bring a strong profile of antioxidants and vitamins to the table.

Carrots are loaded with fibres and beta-carotene that help to improve digestion and can lead to weight loss. Ginger is an anti-inflammatory that is popular for improving and aiding gut health. Ginger can aid bloating, stomach aches, as well as nausea.

3. Fruit detox

Perfect for summertime, fruit juices are a tasty, easy to prepare and very effective detox drink. Choose your most favourite fruits and blend them into a juice. Do not add extra dairy or artificial ingredients, or it would defeat the purpose.

Choose fruits that are high in fibre, high in antioxidants and vitamins. Fruit detox drinks can help to replenish the essential nutrients your body is missing as well as boosting your immune system, gut health and overall body to cleanse and flush out harmful toxins. 

4. Green detox

Just like fruit juice, you can do the same with vegetables. This is particularly handy for people who don’t enjoy munching on veggies during mealtime. Vegetables such as kale leaves, spinach, cabbage, parsley, carrots, celery, and other greens are great detox drinks.

Not only do they boost your immune system and aid digestion, but they can also kill and aid in flushing out harmful toxins in the body, giving your body a hard and healthy reset.

5. Pomegranate Juice

Pomegranate juice is extremely good for your health due to its anti-inflammatory profile as well as helping to aid digestion. Pomegranate is very popular for people looking to clean out their digestive system and cleanse after a heavy meal. Furthermore, studies have shown that pomegranate juice can help to lower the risk of heart disease.

6. Apple Cider Vinegar 

People don’t like drinking apple cider vinegar as it has a very bitter and intense flavour. However, apple cider vinegar is one of the best liquids you can consume for cleansing. Apple cider vinegar is an anti-inflammatory that can help to reduce bloating as well as helping you shed fat. Apple cider vinegar can be mixed with water and honey to even out its intense taste.

7. Green Tea

One of the best, if not the healthiest amongst most teas, green tea will certainly help to detoxify your body, boost your immune system and cleanse out the harmful chemicals and toxins in your body using its strong antioxidant and mineral content.

8. Dandelion Tea

Dandelion tea is a great source of vitamin A, calcium, iron, and potassium. Dandelion tea is known to kill and remove toxins and harmful elements found through your kidneys and liver. 

Keep in Mind

Healthy Drinks for detoxing

Some people don’t believe that detoxing is necessary. Some believe that living a consistently healthy lifestyle should mean there is no need to detox. Whether you find detoxing of the body as essential or not, living a healthy lifestyle should always be the main priority.

There’s nothing wrong with detoxing once a week should it work for you. Just be mindful that detoxing doesn’t mean you can binge eat and disregard your health on all the other days. If you are sick or notice your irregularities in your health, speak with your doctor before you try any special detoxes. 

Head over to the Okadoc app to immediately book an appointment with your health practitioner.