You shower in the morning (or at night) to remove dirt, debris, and otherwise stinky stuff from your surface, to make yourself more presentable, right? It even makes you just feel better being clean, doesn’t it?

But have you ever showered… on the inside?

Secret #5 will soup up your general process of elimination. But that's just one of your primary toxin elimination systems. Keeping the colon clean and working is like taking a garbage out of the house once the bag is full. It's makes sense to do so, and it's necessary to do so... but what about some of the garbage that hasn't made it's way into the bag? What's going to happen with that?

There are two organs that help to sweep wastes out of your body, and into the body's "garbage bags":  your liver and your kidneys. Like any housekeeper who gives their all day in and day out, they become overloaded and overworked.

Your liver is the largest internal organ in your body; it removes wastes and toxins both through your colon and your skin.  But it is also responsible for implementing a mind numbing variety of other tasks. In a document at 'The Canadian Liver Foundation' website, located online at http://www.liver.ca/docs/liver.html, states that the liver helps you by:

• "Cleansing blood:
  • metabolizing alcohol and other drugs and chemicals
  • neutralizing and destroying poisonous substances
  
  
• Regulating the supply of body fuel:
  • producing, storing and supplying quick energy (glucose) to keep the mind alert and the body active
  • producing, storing and exporting fat
  
  
• Manufacturing many essential body proteins involved in:
  • transporting substances in the blood
  • clotting of blood
  • providing resistance to infection
  
  
• Producing bile which eliminates toxic substances from the body and aids digestion
  
  
• Regulating the balance of many hormones:
  • sex hormones
  • thyroid hormones
  • cortisone and other adrenal hormones
  
  
• Regulating body cholesterol by producing it, excreting it, and converting it to other essential substances
  
  
• Regulating the supply of essential vitamins and minerals such as iron and copper
  
  
• Performing literally hundreds of other specific functions!"

They're right about it performing literally hundreds of other specific functions. There are now over 500 scientifically identified functions of the liver -- probably with more to be discovered as our technology and techniques of discovery expand. Because the liver is such a workhouse, you are just about as healthy as your liver is.

Now, your kidneys are also a part of the body which remove a number of different kinds of waste products from the blood. It removes them by placing them into your urea (your pee), and out through your skin's pores, in the form of sweat. Though the kidneys are not known to be as vastly multifunctional as the liver, they're still an essential part of your body's detoxification system, and their health mustn't be ignored.

A distressed liver or pair of kidneys does not make you into a pleasant feeling or pleasant looking person. It's not just one of the many actual liver or kidney diseases that can overburden them. There's also the burden of living in a fairly toxic environment, as well as the intentional ways we pollute our bodies (through alcohol consumption, for instance). Even though these toxins don't always cripple these organs enough to cause disease, they almost always take quite a large toll on how you feel and look. De-stressing them, similarly, can be quite beneficial to how you look and feel.

As an example of what poor function of these organs can do, take famous artist Andy Warhol. On June 3, 1968, he was shot, and sustained injury to his spleen, stomach, lungs, and liver. If you look at pictures of him just before this time, he looks fairly young and vibrant. Well, as vibrant as he ever looked, anyway. After this time, and very rapidly, it almost appears that his age doubled. It's quite shocking. In a year, he looked 80 years old, yet he was still a young 38 or 39. He actually looked like he was dying of an extreme case of AIDS, even though, of course, AIDs wasn't known to exist back then.

Seriously, while glancing through a pictorial biography of him one day, his before and after pictures really started to make me think, and think hard, about the functions of the organs which had been injured in his attack. Obviously, the function of the stomach and lungs is clear to everyone. But it's the damage he sustained to his liver which, I believe, had a major impact in his sudden aging.

Keeping these organs functioning at peak helps you to really sparkle. And it's not just theory. I've tried numerous approaches to keeping my liver and kidneys working at optimum, and a few of them gave me remarkable results... Increases in energy, skin and eye clarity... I just looked more vibrant, even sexually vibrant, and people commented on this. The healthier you are, the better mate you'd make, so your health makes you move and otherwise act in ways that are sexually seductive. It's an automatic reaction ingrained in the deepest part of us. It's literally impossible not to be sexually turned on by a healthfully radiant member of the opposite sex.

There are two main approaches I use to keep myself healthy and free of toxins that you can try:

1. The first method of detoxification is very cheap and extremely effective. I simply drink a glass of pure, distilled water once immediately upon awakening, and then again before bedtime.

It's only after the initial glass of distilled water in the morning that I then drink or eat anything else -- including nutrient drinks, etc.

Drinking distilled water on an empty stomach acts as a kind of 'solvent'. A 'solvent' is merely a substance that can dissolve other substances. Distilled water is pure -- i.e., it contains nothing except good old H2O. It has nothing bad in it whatsoever. And, yes, aside from the H2O itself, it contains nothing good for you, either -- no minerals, no anything. Since it contains NOTHING, it's quite ready to start dissolving stuff.

Drinking it before bedtime, and first thing in the morning not only helps to helps move toxins from your bloodstream into your urine, but I've also noticed that it tends to promote an easy, first thing in the morning bowel movement. Similar to taking an early morning shower, it's also refreshing to be internally 'clean' in the morning.

You might consider drinking pure, distilled water throughout the whole day, as well. Drinking distilled water 24/7 and also getting your minerals from supplementation is most effective. Again, distilled water is free of anything bad, and also anything good -- it contains no minerals. So, if you're depending on water for your minerals, please stick to either non-distilled water, mineral water, or water with minerals added -- it's dangerous not to be getting your minerals from some source.

Finally, whatever you do -- avoid tap water. There's too much of everything bad in tap water, for it to provide anything even remotely similar to a cleansing effect. Tap water probably has about as much of a cleansing effect on you as hot dog water. Blech!

2. There are plenty herbal recommendations I could give you for an extra 'cleansing effect'. As this is written toward people toward people who live in the real world, though, I know that whatever you do will have to be fairly convenient for you, so I'll get into combined herbal products that are available. They make life a whole lot easier. (If you are interested in particular herbs, though, email me and I'll expand this section sometime)

There are two easily obtainable teas with most of the cleansing herbs available in one convenient, affordable little package. There's also a new formula packaged in capsules, that might be better in some instances. .

2a. The "Yogi Tea" brand has a few of these such teas, with the one of most use to you being their "De Tox Tea(tm)". It'll help clean your liver and kidneys and in general, get you squeaky clean inside. A 16 bag box costs about $4. It's expensive for a tea, but truly inexpensive for a health product.

One friend of mine, after using "De Tox Tea" just a few times, supplemented with the use of Milk Thistle Herb, reported that it got her eyes to 'clear' up. Basically, she had noticed that after abstaining from drinking for quite a while, she got these funky rings around the irises in her eyes. She also noticed that her otherwise blue, brilliant eyes weren't quite as blue or brilliant anymore. In fact, they looked dull and even cloudy. After doing a regiment of detoxification her eyes began to be as brilliant as they ever were, and even more so.

2b. Other detox type products that I've gotten good results with are "Daily Detox" and "Daily Detox II" teas. Each contains 30 tea bags and costs about $7-9, so the cost is just about the same as the Yogi teas.

These products are designed to be alternated. You use one for 30 days, then switch to a different herbal formula for 30 more days, and then back to the original. This is wonderful thinking. When our bodies adapt to certain herbs, we lose their affects -- by switching the herbal formula you're taking every 30 days, you avoid this immunity and maintain positive results.

From what I understand, the guys who make "Daily Detox" I and II also make the teas drug users use to come out testing 'clean'. For this reason, I tend to believe they know what they're doing as far as detoxification goes. After all, drug residues ARE a kind of toxin, and people passing drug tests are essentially passing actual medical analyzation of their urine. If their teas work well enough for them to pass these tests, you can almost rest assured that the teas are actually doing what they're claiming and helping your kidneys, livers, and other bodily tissues to release and discard toxins.

I do have a problem with the teas from this company, though. They're essentially odorless. The teas they make are also rather bland, unless it's one of the 'flavored' type teas they produce -- like the Tropical Passion one. It makes me believe that their herbs are old or impotent. As if they bought them from the lowest bidder, and didn't care too much about their sources. I'm not an herb expert here, but, because of this fact, I tend to lean on the Yogi tea formulas. Their teas almost always have a strong smell in the bag, and a potent flavor.

2c. The inexpensiveness of teas really appeal to my cheap side. Products packaged in capsules are almost always more expensive, but they are indeed available for detox type purposes. Additionally, many of them contain detoxifying ingredients that you just can't easily package in a tea.

One that I just spotted is is "Liver Shield" from Life Services Supplements. It's a very new products that I've only recently even noticed that they carry, so I can't say I've had much experience with it. However, it's ingredients are all commonly known to be excellent for liver health and detoxification. It includes milk thistle, as well as several other herbs. Luckily, milk thistle has no known toxicity, nor is it known to lose it's effects with long-time use, so you can presumably continue to use it long term.

It also includes two things which would be impossible to include in a tea -- N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine, an amino acid, and Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA). I see lots of studies and people's personal testaments to the benefits of the substances all the time. I'm going to hold off comment, though, until I have more personal experience using them in my own irresistible health enhancing program. I'll give you an update on this later.

This product costs $20 for a one to two month supply -- depending on whether you take one or two capsules a day. That's up to twice what a tea will cost you, which doesn't happen to appeal to my cheap side. In my update, I'll let you know what I think of it's cost versus it's benefits.

From what I can tell, however, I don't think it even replaces the occasional use of a detoxification tea. It seems to be designed differently. Detoxification teas contain a much greater number of synergistic herbs, which more than likely have a much more pronounced effect when used short term. They sort of cleanse, stimulate and provoke your internal organs into a greater level of higher performance. Using a car  metaphor, the ingredients in this and other capsule-type products look like they're designed to be used daily -- like using a better grade of gasoline. They help to prevent fuel injector clogging, give you overall better performance, reduce knock and ping, etc. Whereas, a strong tea product like "De Tox" Yogi tea, would be more like a temporary 'gas' treatment that gets in there and does some extra cleaning and lubrication of your fuel injectors. Something you'd want to do every 2500 miles or thereabouts, but not every single day, necessarily.

In conclusion, to be absolutely shiny and wonderful on the outside, you must created a shiny, wonderful environment inside your body. That way, you can avoid looking like a 120 year old Andy Warhol wasting away. Try the water method of keeping your body clean and clear, and maybe some of the herbal and/or nutrient based detox solutions, and see for yourself to what extent they can increase your irresistibility. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.