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One of the many benefits of aerobic exercise is that it helps detoxify the body. Aerobic exercise encourages sweating and sweating helps toxins inside the body exit through the skin. Most don’t know it, but the body is really supposed to be eliminating two pounds of toxins each day – just through the skin. Aerobic exercise is key to make this happen, and it’s also critical that the skin can “breathe” freely to release toxins, which can be accomplished by doing skin brushing.

Skin brushing is a technique where the skin all over the body is brushed daily, in the direction of the heart, to remove any dead skin so the skin can breathe freely. Dry skin brushing compounds the benefits of aerobic exercise by making sure that the toxins wanting to leave the body in the sweat can actually make it out the body.

In addition to helping the body remove toxins through sweating, aerobic exercise also stimulates the lymphatic system, which is a key detoxification pathway. The lymph is similar to blood, and it brings nourishment to our cells and carries away cellular waste. But, unlike other the blood which is pumped by the heart, lymphatic requires movement from exercise to function properly. Movement through aerobic exercise encourages the movement of the lymph and prevents it from becoming stagnant. It also encourages the removal of waste from our cells. Just as water becomes dirty when stagnant, so too does our lymph.

Old lymph, and its accumulated waste from the cells, is deposited in the colon for removal from the body. Therefore, to get the biggest bang for your detoxification buck from aerobic exercise, you can also do colon cleansing to ensure that old lymph and cellular waste leaves your body. Many health problems are caused by a dirty colon in the first place, so cleaning your colon can also be an important health measure – one just as important as aerobic exercise.