Does Sea Moss Detox and Cleanse Your Body?

Body detoxification is more popular than ever, and hundreds of marketed detox diets exist. While some suggest using natural ingredients like herbs and spices, others focus on fasting, calorie restriction, and sometimes even more radical methods. 

Detox is essential. But our body is already well-equipped to get rid of toxins on its own. So, there's no reason to make it go through radical detox diets and cleanses. Moreover, these methods rarely have lasting effects and often leave you less healthy than you were when you began. 

Instead, what our body needs is a little help. Something to boost its natural detox process so that it can remove the abnormal amount of toxins our unhealthy environment sends its way.

That’s where sea moss comes in. Packed with antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins, this edible seaweed is one of the best detox foods.

Detoxifying with sea moss is safe and all-natural. It does not involve any fasting or restriction. Instead, it naturally, gently, and efficiently strengthens our body's own abilities to get rid of toxins and rejuvenate.

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Does Sea Moss Detox Your Body?

If you're into healthy lifestyles and detox diets, chances are you've already heard of sea moss. This edible seaweed, scientifically known as Chondrus crispus, is a nutritional powerhouse on top of the best superfoods list.

Sea moss is also known as a great natural body detoxifier. But let's start by understanding why our body needs a detox.

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Why your body needs help detoxifying

Detoxification is a metabolic process that converts the toxins in our body into waste. It happens naturally in the body through our main detoxification organs: the liver and kidneys. Our lungs, digestive tract, lymphatic system, and skin also play an important part in how our body gets rid of toxins.

The problem is that we're all exposed to much more toxins than the body can detoxify alone. According to research, the average American is exposed to more than 700,000 toxic chemicals each and every day.

When we say toxins, we mean all kinds of toxic substances we absorb through the air we breathe, the foods we eat, the products we put on our skin, etc. It includes exhaust gas, tobacco smoke, particles from industrial emissions, pollutants, mold, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, harsh chemicals, and many others.

Therefore, our body sometimes needs a little help to cleanse itself. We do not recommend marketed “detox diets” as they’re often inefficient or dangerous for your health. 

Instead, many natural ingredients can boost your body’s natural detoxification process and easily incorporate into your nutritional routine, like sea moss, lemon, ginger, garlic, fresh fruits, berries, leafy vegetables, artichokes, beetroot, or apple cider vinegar.

Clarification: While the terms detox and cleanse are often used interchangeably, they're not exactly the same. Both focus on a clean, healthy diet but body cleanses are usually short-term diets intended to clean out the digestive tract. In contrast, detoxes require long-term lifestyle and diet changes to remove toxins from our entire system.

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How sea moss helps remove toxins

Sea moss is very nutrient-rich and contains up to 92 of the 102 minerals and vitamins our body needs to function daily. That's why consuming it regularly helps prevent and treat a wide range of chronic and acute health conditions, including a weak immune system, diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory diseases, digestive disorders, infertility, and even mental health issues like stress, anxiety, and depression.

Among its great nutrient variety, sea moss contains essential detox minerals and vitamins, including the following:

• Iron: a key ingredient to support the liver breaking down toxins
• Vitamin B complex: helps improve the liver detox function
• Vitamin E and C: help neutralize free radicals causing cell damage
• Copper, zinc, and selenium: potent antioxidant minerals that are crucial for body detox
• Vitamin A: helps support the body during detox and nourishes the skin, an often-overlooked detox organ. 

By supplementing the body with these essential detox nutrients and many others, research shows that sea moss helps detox the entire system, including the urinary system, lymphatic system, digestive system, lungs, and skin.

Sea moss is packed with antioxidants that help combat free radicals responsible for cellular damage in our body, illnesses, and aging.

It's an excellent source of prebiotic fibers, another critical element in reducing the body's toxic load. Besides balancing the gut’s microbiome and promoting healthy bowel movement, prebiotic fibers are known to increase antioxidant and detox enzymes in the liver. 

Sea moss is also a natural diuretic that promotes the production of urine. Natural diuretics are essential to cleanse the body, as they help flush excess water and toxins out of the kidneys and urinary system.

The large amount of alginate (alginic acid) contained in seaweeds is known to boost liver detoxification and reduce DNA damage.[1]

Finally, sea moss is also believed to help cleanse the blood from toxins thanks to its high content of flavonoids and chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a key nutrient for detoxifying the blood, cleansing the intestines, and energizing the body. Meanwhile, flavonoids play an important role as antioxidant and oxidative stress preventive molecules, binding to heavy metals in the body and aiding in their removal through urine. 

As you can see, there are many ways in which sea moss helps detox and cleanse the body. But ultimately, it all comes down to the incredible density and variety of nutrients it contains.

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Sea moss detox benefits

Sea moss detox benefits are similar to other detox ingredients. Boosting your body’s natural detoxification process with sea moss helps with the following:

• Increased energy levels
• Healthier and younger-looking skin
• Weight loss
• Reduced inflammation
• Better blood circulation
• Strengthened immune system
• Clearer thinking and stress relief
• Improved sleep quality
• Healthier hair
• Improved breathing
• Sense of well-being

But what makes sea moss so unique is that, unlike other detox ingredients, its benefits don't limit to detox and cleansing. There are so many more health benefits to reap from sea moss. 

Warning: while sea moss helps eliminate toxins, poor-quality seaweeds may contain high levels of heavy metals themselves. Make sure to purchase products grown in unpolluted waters and laboratory-tested like the ones at Organics Nature.  

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How to Use Sea Moss for Detox?

Another benefit of detoxing with sea moss is that it’s very easy! Sea moss detox does not involve any fasting or strict diet.

All you need to do is add one serving of sea moss to your daily nutritional planand let the seaweed do its job. But of course, it can only work if taken within a healthy lifestyle!

You can either use sea moss gel, capsules, or powder. Detoxifying the body takes time, so the important thing is to keep a consistent routine and have sea moss every day for at least 4 to 6 weeks (and longer if possible).

Make sure to stick to a safe daily amount (2 tablespoons of sea moss gel or 2 capsules daily). While sea moss can do wonders for your body, excessive consumption can cause severe side effects.   

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Sea Moss Detox Drinks & Smoothie Recipes

The most popular way to use sea moss for body detox and cleansing is to have sea moss detox drinks and smoothies. Sea moss gel incorporates very easily into beverages and foods. 

Detox drinks help flush out the harmful toxins in your body. They're an excellent opportunity to combine sea moss with other powerful detox ingredients and get them working together in synergy.

Here are two of our favorite sea moss detox drink recipes.

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Sea moss detox smoothie recipe

This sea moss detox smoothie recipe mixes sea moss with several of the best natural detox ingredients, like green apples, pineapple, spinach, ginger, and lime juice. It's absolutely loaded with antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins that boost your body’s natural detoxification process while providing you with lots of energy for the day!

Ingredients (2 servings):

• 2 green apples (peeled and sliced)
• 1 cup frozen pineapple
• 5 cups fresh spinach
• ½ cup avocado
• 1-inch fresh ginger (peeled and minced)
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• 4-6 tbsp pure organic sea moss gel
• 1 cup water

Instructions: Combine all the ingredients in a high-speed blender and blend until smooth.

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Sea moss juice cleanse recipe 

Juicing is great detox practice. It extracts vitamin-rich juice from fresh fruits and vegetables, so your body can absorb the nutrients better and rest from constantly digesting fibers.

Adding a few tablespoons of sea moss gel to your juice cleanses multiplies the benefits and helps remove more toxins from your body. Here’s our favorite recipe: 

Ingredients (2 servings):

• 3 medium beets
• 6 carrots
• 2 green apples
• ½ lemon
• 1–2-inch fresh ginger
• 4 tablespoons Organics Nature sea moss gel

 

Instructions: wash, peel, and chop the fruits and vegetables. Add them to a juicer one at a time. When the juice is ready, add sea moss gel and stir well until completely dissolved. Serve cold. 

What are your favorite detox foods and recipes? Have you tried sea moss yet? Share and comment below!

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References: 

[1] Oladokun, Olanrewaju & de maio, Anna & Lionetti, Eva & Bianchi, Anna & Rabbito, Dea & Ariano, Andrea & Majdoubi, Fatima & Guerriero, Giulia. (2021). Sea Farms as a Safe and Sustainable Food Source: An Investigation on Use of Seaweeds for Liver Detoxification and Reduced DNA Damage in Lates Calcarifer (Bloch, 1790). 10.1007/978-3-030-51210-1_106. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350764252_Sea_Farms_as_a_Safe_and_Sustainable_Food_Source_An_Investigation_on_Use_of_Seaweeds_for_Liver_Detoxification_and_Reduced_DNA_Damage_in_Lates_Calcarifer_Bloch_1790