Green Tea Detoxification?

Question by Erowid! *Life is Sh*t: Green tea detoxification?
which would be better used as a detox… hot or cold green tea?

Best answer:

Answer by Yamadog
Cool Sun tea

Answer by Gary Y
Green tea is good stuff, but it is not going to ‘detox’ you. In fact ‘detox’ has no meaning outside of the clinical treatment for drug addiction and poisoning. Your body has evolved over millions of years and knows how to get rid of most foreign substances. The others cannot be removed by any diet or supplements.

From Wiki:

“Many alternative medicine practitioners promote various other types of detoxification such as “diet detoxification,” but there is no evidence that detox diets have any health benefits.

Certain approaches in alternative medicine claim to remove “toxins” from the body through herbal, electrical or electromagnetic treatments (such as the Aqua Detox treatment). These toxins are undefined and have no scientific basis,[13] making the validity of such techniques questionable. There is no evidence for toxic accumulation in these cases,[13] as the liver and kidneys automatically detoxify and excrete many toxic materials including metabolic wastes. Under this theory if toxins are too rapidly released without being safely eliminated (such as burning fat that stores toxins) they can damage the body and cause malaise.

Certain diets have an underlying assumption that the body accumulates toxins that must be removed, especially after periods of over-eating or the consumption of non-nutritious and processed foods. As with alternative medicine, the ‘toxins’ removed are undefined and are ascribed to foods, the environment and the body’s own wastes, and there is no scientific basis for the hypothesis.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detoxification

I hope this helps.

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