True - a regime where you drink more water, eat more fruits and vegetables and avoid large amounts of fatty, salty, sugary foods will usually make you feel better, especially if your diet actually required that sort of correction - in the same way that taking a week or two off work will usually make you feel better, if you were feeling stressed and overworked.
There is little possibility that eating this or that diet will “detox”; the organs have to work and deal with anything ingested.
Obviously one can have a diet which is less stressful and toxic for the organs.
The only genuine way to detoxify your organs is a prolonged water fast.
Well, see, that’s why “woo” isn’t so bad. We could use the term “Fake” “fraud” or “Quack” but mostly those carry a connotation of willful fraud. Often, with “woo”, the practitioners believe honestly that their program is useful and a Good Idea.
Mind you , many of them are scamsters, sure. But by no means all.
No. A prolonged water fast is a excellent way to send your organs into complete shut-down and failure. It can be deadly.
So why do you have to fast and drink lots of water before starting a sensible, healthy diet (apart from playing mind games with yourself about why you deserve to be punished for bad eating)?
Much better to start (or transition to) a safe and healthful diet which will benefit you in the long run, as opposed to fad “detox” diets whose justifications are nonexistent and whose benefits are highly dubious (if they are not actively harmful).
But face it - saying that you’re losing weight and feeling better with good nutrition isn’t as sexy as telling people that you’re detoxifying with Captain Woo’s Miracle Primitive Plan.
I would agree had I said “scam,” but I think “fake” goes purely to efficacy. YMMV
I just think “woo” is a needlessly acerbic term designed to color one’s understanding of HOW or WHY it’s fake. But it’s the internet, so I guess rhetoric and theatrics are expects. Anyway, I’ll stop derailing this thread!