What the body sees as a toxic substance is one of two kinds — exotoxins (toxins that external to the body) or endotoxins (toxins that are created within the body).

An exotoxin is typically any one of thousands of household, industrial or agricultural chemicals that we encounter on a fairly frequent basis in our day-to-day life. To a certain degree, we can moderate and limit our vulnerability to these types of toxic substances. The choices we make when we shop is one place in our life where we can be in almost total control. Recently, more retailers offer good quality cleaning and personal care products that are toxin-free.

Endotoxins are far more difficult to control. Endotoxins are the by-products of the normal metabolic operations of our body. An endotoxin can be a bodily waste product, antibodies, any of the many hormones in our body and cellular material whose biochemical constituents need to be eliminated.

Most of us who live in first-world cultures today endure exceptional degree of toxic overload. Even though our body is fit to do the detoxification and excretion of endotoxins, the body cannot ordinarily deal with the rising amount of exotoxins that we ingest through our beverages, food, air, household products and personal care products.

Despite our most overzealous attempt to avoid environmental toxins, the reality of that is very tricky. We are exposed to an overwhelming number and assortment of toxic substances that are altogether foreign, if not really harmful, to the body. Effortless ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to buy natural health care and cleaning products, and to always choose organic produce when accessible.

As well as minimizing our exposure to internal and external toxins, there is a lot we can do toward assisting the body’s normal detoxification operations. Doing a semiannual body cleanse detox program will detoxify your body and greatly reduce the physiological encumbrance on your body that toxicity causes. An excellent way to detox your body is the lemon detox with cayenne pepper, lemon and maple syrup.