I love the euphanism “body toxin remover.” Although I know of no law that prevents advertising for what they are truly used for, fooling a urinalysis. I saw a site about a week ago that truthfully explained its use, a link from Erowid, I have been unable to retrace my steps to provide a link, so please suspend disbelief in anything I say when I tell you that it promises (not guarantees) about a 5 hour window of opportunity where drug levels in your urine will be below standard positive use levels.
Seems to me, your body is going to remove the “toxins” at its own pace. How fast this occurs is related to metabolism, body fat, and physical activity. To lower the levels of “toxins” in urine, one should do something to increase the liquid in urine. Which makes me assume that these potions are diuretics. Seems to me, drinking large quantities of water would have the same effect.
Have studies been done on the effectiveness of body toxin removers for this function? How does it compare to a control group, or one who drinks lots of water in anticipation?
FTR, I have no personal stake in this. I am now keeping clean the old fashioned way, by self restraint. Although I do get some exposure to second hand smoke.
Rather than look for studies that try to prove a negative (“chemical detoxifiers don’t work” – what are they going to do, test all known chemicals for a detoxification effect?), let the people selling you the detoxifier show you the study that shows what they’re hawking does work.
Aside from your liver and a dialysis machine, I’m willing to bet most of my liquid assets there ain’t such a detoxifier.
(Although, it might be possible for certain chemicals to mask and fool a specific drug test, such research is most likely immoral [unless you’re the producer of the drug test and you’re trying to see if it can be fooled].)
Peace.
And to answer the next question of, “How can I make my liver do its job better?” – Eat, sleep, exercise, and recreate well and in moderation.
Well, EDTA is a pretty good detoxifier, if you happen to have lead poisoning. See your doctor to manage the IV therapy properly. And activated charcoal can prevent absorption of some toxins which have been ingested, but not yet absorbed from the GI tract into your bloodstream.
But otherwise moriah has it pretty well right: Your detoxifiers are your liver and kidneys. If you’re willing to spend the money and find an unethical doctor, you could get dialyzed, which does remove some drugs of abuse from the system.
And don’t believe anything told to you about ‘detoxifiers’ by someone trying to sell them to you to pass a drug test. None are effective, and many are not safe.