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What is a detox? Here's why you may want to think twice before trying one.

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There is no medical consensus surrounding the term “gut detox,” there are a plethora of supplements, trend diets and colonics that are marketed to detox or cleanse your body of harmful toxins.

Dr. Josephine Ni : "There's zero scientific evidence to support the use of these cleanses for proposed gut health".

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