Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So, if you're considering doing a detox, you definitely need to do something first before you start the detox.

To event the detox reactions.

Another name for detox reactions would be a Herk's Himer reaction.

So, you have, like, the flu-like symptoms, headache, you feel sick.

And I've experienced that many, many times because I've done a lot of different cleanses.

Let me just kind of explain what happens when you detox.

There's a right way to do it in a wrong way.

You want to balance your detox.

Because when you start taking things, certain herbs to purge poisons from the body

or kill microbes.

So, let's just say, for example, you want to kill a parasite, a bacteria.

You want to inactivate viruses or even break up biofilms, which are little,

these little shells that these bacteria hide in.

And you want to break that up, right?

What happens is that when the bacterial cell breaks open,

a lot of times it'll release an endotoxin, okay?

And that's going to create an immune reaction.

One interesting thing that an endotoxin will do, it'll turn off the bile flow

through the liver and through the bile ducts.

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