Do You Actually Need to Detox? A Liver Expert Explains
And suddenly social media is full of green juices, charcoal supplements, foot patches, and seven-day “liver resets”, all promising to purge the body of mysterious toxins and return it to a purer state.
Each episode takes a popular health or wellness trend, viral claim, or bodily mystery and examines what the evidence really says, with help from researchers who study this stuff for a living.
Katie Edwards, a health and medicine editor at The Conversation, and Dan Baumgardt, a GP and lecturer in health and life sciences at the University of Bristol, share a longstanding fascination with the body’s improbabilities and limits, plus a healthy scepticism for claims that sound too good to be true.
This opening episode dives straight into detoxing. From juice cleanses and detox teas to charcoal pills, foot pads, and coffee enemas, Katie and Dan watch, wince, and occasionally laugh their way through some of the internet’s most popular detox trends.
Each episode takes a popular health or wellness trend, viral claim, or bodily mystery and examines what the evidence really says, with help from researchers who study this stuff for a living.
Katie Edwards, a health and medicine editor at The Conversation, and Dan Baumgardt, a GP and lecturer in health and life sciences at the University of Bristol, share a longstanding fascination with the body’s improbabilities and limits, plus a healthy scepticism for claims that sound too good to be true.
This opening episode dives straight into detoxing. From juice cleanses and detox teas to charcoal pills, foot pads, and coffee enemas, Katie and Dan watch, wince, and occasionally laugh their way through some of the internet’s most popular detox trends.
