Health
fromFast Company
3 days agoIs detoxing worth the hype?
The body’s liver, kidneys, and gut naturally detoxify; most commercial detox products and extreme interventions are unnecessary for healthy people.
The liver's primary function is to detoxify things — break them down and make them into usable units of currency for the body, or get rid of them if they're harmful. As we get older, toxic byproducts of alcohol linger in the body The liver breaks down alcohol with the help of enzymes, but as we get older it produces fewer of them, meaning toxic byproducts such as acetaldehyde — the compound responsible for many hangover symptoms — linger in the body.