It takes guts to leak, here’s what your digestive system wants you to know.

If you have been following my earlier posts on detoxification you should now know that this is a step-by-step process. It’s not something you want to rush into. It’s a marathon race, not a sprint.

Minerals play an important role in helping your body expel toxins. The lions share of those minerals need to come from nutrient dense food. What we eat will either deplete our body’s mineral supply or it will replenish it. Remember, without minerals, your detox wheels will be spinning but you won’t get very far.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” Today, that statement would be more accurate if it read “Tell me what you absorb and I will tell you what you are.” Here’s the problem.

In your mind’s eye, imagine holding a bicycle inner tube. Next, take a pair of scissors and cut the tube so that it hangs down in a single straight line. Then place the tube on the floor in front of you. What you now have is a design very similar to your digestive system. Both are hollow tubes with an opening at the top (the mouth) and an exit at the bottom (anus).

If we forced food into the top of the inner tube and then squeezed it all the way down, it would eventually come out at the bottom. This would be a…