Your body is amazing and is detoxing 365 days a year, completely on its own, through the organs of elimination such as the liver, kidneys, bladder, intestines, lungs and skin. Waste and metabolic by-products of being alive are removed from our body without us needing to think about it, but it is so much better to have an efficient eliminatory processes than have these waste products staying in the body for too long. So how does Reflexology help to remove toxins, as is so often claimed?

For people that are in a sympathetic nervous state (stressed) most of the time, these eliminatory systems slow down and become sluggish. (fight/flight turns off digestive and urinary outputs dramatically). Our nervous systems have barely altered since we were hunter gatherers and therefore we tend to live in this modern world in a very stressed state, by being so far removed from our natural origins and way of living. That's without even considering acutely stressful situations we all deal with from time to time, as well as chronic low level stress that may be present.

When our body is in a parasympathetic nervous state, elimination is improved (rest/digest) because we have more activity in digestive and urinary systems.

Reflexology = Relaxation = Parasympathetic state = better elimination of 'waste products'.