Skin
Detoxification
Contents:
• Overview
• ILIV Skin Detoxification Program
• Definition
• Benefits of Skin Detoxification Therapy
• Risks of Skin Detoxification Therapy
Overview:
We all live in a very toxic world. Our environment is filled
with toxic substances. Substances that we can see, touch, taste
and smell; however, there are many-fold more that we are not
aware of.
The toxins first contact with our bodies is our largest organ,
the skin. On average is approximately 9-10 pounds of our body
weight, usually somewhere in the range of 7-9% of our total
body weight. It covers anywhere from 19-23 square feet!! Our
skin is an amazingly complex organ system and acts as our first
line of defense against the outside world.
ILIV Skin Detoxification Program:
Ecologically, ILIV views the skin as the organ that processes
the exchange between the internal and external environments
thru the functions of absorption, respiration and elimination.
This makes it a primary target for health, prevention and wellness.
ILIV has the ability to customize the best therapeutic regimen
for your skin detoxification program. Your thorough medical,
psychological, nutritional, social and environmental history
will provide the needed information to design a program just
for you!
When appropriate a predictive genomic profile is obtained
to weight the level of risk you are under the toxic load placed
on you from the environment you exist in.
Definition:
Skin Toxicity is simple defined as the state where the skin
is unable to perform its functions at the optimal level.
Our skin has many tasks that it continually does without us
even being conscious of it. These include temperature regulation
via pore expansion or constriction, regulation of fluid/substance
absorption to control hydration status, secretion of a substance
that provides a bacteria-inhibiting acid barrier, and an innate
chemical detoxification system thru enzymatic protection against
DNA radiation damage.
Once any of these functions become impaired, it can easily affect
other functions. Therefore, prevention therapy becomes essential
for skin.
Benefits of Skin Detoxification:
• Heat treatments allow rise in body temperature, peripheral
dilatation, blood pressure decreases, and changes in alkalization
of blood, increase in metabolism, stimulation of the immune
system.
• Moist heat can allow for sweating with loss of water,
salt, and minimal results of urea, uric acid, sulfates, creatinine,
phosphates and lactic acid.
• Depending upon the type of treatment selected many positive
results can be seen. Including increasing oxygen availability
to the body, improved overall sense of well being and rejuvenation,
broad spectrum cleansing, decreasing lymphatic congestion, removal
of selected heavy metals, removing residual radiation, decreasing
chemical exposure, restore natural Ph of the skin and hair,
• Decrease the bodyıs burden of toxins.
• Treatments can have sedating and relaxing effects on
the body.
• Relieve minor aches and pains.
• Assist with massage therapy and body work treatment effectiveness.
Risks of Skin Detoxification:
• Caution should be used with patients that suffer from
blood pressure problems, pregnancy, thyroid conditions, and
vascular disorders including heart disease, seizures and diabetes.
These patients need specific directions from their practitioner
as to how to make this therapy beneficial for them and not suffer
any adverse side effects.
At the Integrative Longevity Institute
of Virginia skin detoxification is a modality that is incorporated
into treating the totality of the individual.
