I was diagnosed with alcohol abuse one year ago. I enrolled in a recognized outpatient program to wait out my rehabilitation two weeks after receiving that diagnosis. One of the first things they tell you about withdrawal in rehab is that it will hurt to go through withdrawal. You just don’t realize how much until you get into the program itself.
During my time in rehab, I went through what I can now describe as one of the most painful experiences of my life. I was heaving my guts out almost daily at one point, I could not think, I had the chills. I was suffering from symptoms I had read about but didn’t seem real until that moment. As part of the program, we were required to take multivitamins and vitamin supplements to help our bodies cope with the stress of what they were undergoing. I took Body by Nature supplements through my withdrawal period and I will never be thankful enough for their Detox Support vegan supplements. The product, which comes from the company’s Support Range, is one of the reasons I was able to get back on my feet so fast. Let me explain how.
It’s all about the Ingredients
One of the first things I was advised to look at when searching for multivitamins and vitamin supplements is the ingredients. Did the brand have the necessary ingredients to help you through the process? Nutrients fell into two categories during detox: those that would help me flush the toxins from my body and those that would help my body get back to normal.
Reducing Toxicity
When in the rehabilitation program, I familiarized myself with the nutrients that could help me further reduce my toxicity levels (we already had drugs for that).
There were a few major minerals and vitamins the body needed for that, most of which were antioxidants. Vitamin C is a strong antioxidant and helps the body remove heavy metals. Garlic, whether from a natural source or vitamin supplements, helped make toxins and heavy metals water soluble so that they could be flushed out as urine and sweat. Magnesium and zinc played a critical part in ensuring heavy metals and other toxins made their way out of the body by forcing them out of cells into the bloodstream where they could be destroyed or sieved out of the body. Both vitamin E and zinc dealt with free radicals in one’s system.
Aiding in Recovery
I learnt that my body would need these and more minerals so that it could get back to normal. For instance, vitamin C could help my body repair its ravaged tissues. On the other hand, it would be best to supplement my body with nutrients such as copper, zinc, manganese, and calcium, all of which I would lose during the detox and withdrawal processes.
I chose Body by Nature’s Detox Support vegan supplements because they had most of the minerals and vitamins I was looking for in a supplement. I am not sure how much longer it would have taken me to recover if I did not use this product.