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Medical Video: Benefits of Activated Charcoal | Dr. Josh Axe
Drinks activated charcoal lately it increasingly shows its popularity as a healthy drink. Many juice producers offer charcoal lemon juice (activated charcoal lemonade), which is a mixture of water, original lemon juice, natural sweeteners, and aka activated charcoal activated charcoal. Although the color is jet black and often reminds us of stagnant water in culverts, it seems that it is described as not changing ordinary lemon juice even though its texture is slightly calcareous.
Manufacturers claim that drinks containactivated charcoal can give you the appearance of a healthy glowing skin, better digestion, eliminate the rest of drunk overnight, and get rid of all the nasty poisons in the body. Is this true jet black drink beneficial for health?
What is that activated charcoal?
Charcoal added to your drink is not from the same type of charcoal to bake at a barbecue. Activated charcoal is carbon produced from old palm shells, bamboo, or wood powder that have gone through a special activation process to increase its absorption.
The process of activating charcoal is done by soaking it with certain chemicals. Then the activated charcoal will be processed further so that it is safe for consumption, and put in drinks that you see in health drink outlets.
What are the benefits of drinks activated charcoal?
The main claim of the drink activated charcoal what you usually find in commercial outlets is to help detoxify and get rid of harmful foreign substances in the body.
Charcoal is known to absorb impurities up to 100 to 200 times the weight. While through the activation process, activated charcoal is claimed to be able to absorb mass of poisons and impurities up to thousands of times its own weight, so activated charcoal is claimed to be an excellent natural ingredient for rinsing poisons in the body.
In addition, this jet black drink is reportedly beneficial to provide extra energy surges, smooth-looking skin, and heal you from the hangover of the last night's alcoholic party. This is because activated charcoal works to cleanse toxins and residual alcohol in the kidneys and bloodstream. Drinks activated charcoal also claimed to be able to cut belly fat.
isactivated charcoal really effective at removing toxins?
Activated charcoal is effective for attracting toxins in the body. The efficacy of detoxification from activated charcoal it has long been proven by medical professionals as treatment for alcohol poisoning and drug overdose. This carbon substance works like a sponge, by binding itself to toxins and absorbing them before they are transported in the bloodstream.
But what needs to be understood is, activated charcoal can not be digested by the body. This means that after absorbing toxins in the body, active charcoal residues that now contain toxins will remain in the digestive tract and will be disposed of along with other food scraps. If the poison is already digested by the digestive tract (no longer in the intestine) and carried by the blood flow throughout the body, then activated charcoal it will not be of much use to eliminate poisons. Thus, some of the claims for the benefits of charcoal drinks described above are considered inappropriate.
In addition, the "dose" of activated charcoal contained in drinks activated charcoal counted very little. For comparison, usually patients with poisoning or overdoses will be given about 5-10 tablets activated charcoal for one stroke to achieve the optimal detoxification process. Whereas in commercial drinks, at most only contain about 1-2 tsp of activated charcoal so that this drink does not necessarily give the effect of cleaning the poison you want. Plus, the effectiveness and benefits have never been truly proven by strong clinical evidence.
Do not arbitrarily drink activated charcoal drinks
What people know as "detox" may be different from the detoxification process in the medical world. In an emergency, such as a drug overdose, spending large amounts of toxins will be very useful for the recovery of patients in a short time. But if you are not heavily poisoned, regular consumption of active charcoal drinks is not a wise idea.
Activated charcoal is a detoxifying substance that is very strong and does not have "terms and conditions" specifically about what it can and cannot absorb. Lauren Minchen, a certified nutritionist from New York warns that due to its non-specific nature in absorbing certain compounds, charcoal can also bind with a number of nutrients such as vitamin C, niacin, pyrodyxin (vitamin B6), thiamine (vitamin B1 ), and biotin. This makes the food or drink that you consume so losing the important nutrients contained in it. Activated charcoal can also absorb the medicines you are taking for your recovery.
The body actually has its own mechanism for removing toxins with the help of the kidneys. If you want to achieve the most optimal detoxification results to enjoy the benefits, it will always be better to prioritize the health of the kidneys and the body as a whole rather than just relying on healthy food trends that always come and go.
