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I changed "none have" to "none has" in the Methods of Detoxification section because "none" is singular rather than plural (i.e. "not one has" or "not a single one has"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.187.187 ( talk) 06:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
The article previously ommitted to include the gut as an organ of detoxification so I included the phrase 'lower gastrointestinal tract' early in the piece. However, the description of the gut's role is so significant in detoxification much more needs to be written here on the subject. Adam 14 January 2007.
i was searching for information about "detox" and came to this article. prima facie, the tone of the article sounds biased, but i don't know better. can someone more knowledgable (and objective) tidy it up a bit?
I fail to see where this article is biased...
I think that the word "quackery" might be a little biased.
Detox also refers to a natural detoxification of the body in which a person stops eating processed foods, meats and dairy products in an effort to cleans the body. I don't know whether or not it works, but in its truest form, detox does not involve chemicals or pills.
I've done some serious detoxing myself and written a book on it now and can honestly say that it does work. The primary thing that gets eliminated from the body is old mucous, which contains harmful substances consumed in the past. Much of the food people consume leaves an acidic residue in the digestive tract and the body is forced to secrete mucous to protect the delicate lining of the intestines, when a person does this everyday the pancreas doesn't have a chance to dissolve and remove the mucous (using the enzyme pancreatin). This mucous then becomes hard and difficult to remove, digestion becomes inhibited, parasite have a place to live etc. Check out this detox and cleansing website for a more thorough explanation.
Just had a friend do one of the cleanses spoken of on the website and he feels much better now, back problems gone, more energy etc.
Your argument against American Eating habits have little bearing on the whether or not these detox practices work. It’s a straw man. 155.178.180.5 ( talk)
I propose moving this article to detoxification and having "detox" redirect there. It is the proper name and consistent with other titles like drug rehabilitation rather than "rehab". OneVeryBadMan 12:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
This discussion happened two months ago, but nothing's been done. If there are no objections, I'll move this article to Detoxification tomorrow. Amp 14:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
This page leads to the norwegian version 'Narkomani'. 'Narkomani' and 'Detoxification' are two very different things, the fact that the norwegians page doesn't link back suggests it too. I suppose I should have editet it, seing as I am from norway, but I honestly can't figure out a good word for it and I'm definitely sure there doesn't exist any article regarding this subject in norwegian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.202.167.250 ( talk • contribs)
Some of the statements may be erroneously requiring citations. This is because the burden of proof rests on the positive assertion. Some of these statements are negative assertions. Additionally, since these statements are based on assumptions that are widely held across sciences (regarding burden of proof), I think these {{ Fact}} templates should be removed. 155.178.180.5 ( talk) I signed above Oobyduby ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:36, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, this is my 1st attempt at entering a discussion.
In the begining text we have "Detoxification, or detox for short is the removal of toxic substances from the body[citation needed]."
Is a dictionary definition sufficient for a citation?
Such as:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/detoxification
3. Physiology The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body.
4. A medically supervised treatment program for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances. Such a program is used as a first step in overcoming physiological or psychological addiction.
If yes, or at least not no, I'll return when I have time and attempt to cite this dictionary definition. Thank you. Don Arnold Donarnold ( talk) 14:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
There is such a wealth of information - principally through orthodox physiology - that could be said on this subject. Looks like some further information, clarity and subtlety could be brought to the entry. If not, are there links to other WP entries that could be included here, such as discussion about the cytochrome pathways, glutathione, other nutrients essential to the steps here, phase 1 and 2 detox pathways, nutrients essential for phase 2, biliary excretion, portal vein reabsorbtion, kidney detoxification, etc etc etc? Four lines is a little thin - there is much out there in terms of orthodox verifiable science that could, and maybe should, be included. And that is without even entering the realm of contentious alternative theory. Antoniolus —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.215.236.47 ( talk) 07:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Very badly-written section. It starts with a broad uncited claim that seems to cover a whole range of activities. Certain approaches in alternative medicine claim to remove "toxins" from the body through herbal, electrical or electromagnetic treatments (such as the Aqua Detox treatment). In spite of having made no specific claim, much less a cited one, it then goes on to say that These toxins are undefined. That's a good rhetoric technique, but not particularly encyclopaedic. Again, a vaguely cited There is no evidence for toxic accumulation in these cases. What cases would those be? It gets worse, as this unexplained theory is a load of nonsense since the body already does excrete many toxic materials. Excreting many is hardly the same as excreting all, and accumulating heavy metals and so on in the body is hardly controversial. People die of mercury poisoning, as one example, this would seem to be impossible according to this section :) Vague innuendo, needs a complete rewrite, with proper citations. Greenman ( talk) 11:00, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Agreed. While there are detox programs and cleanses out there that are not supported by scientific evidence, I find it hard to believe that some programs wouldn't be beneficial in helping remove toxins and restore beneficial bacteria to the gut. There must be scientific data on this subject, and I was hoping to find out about some of it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.176.6.68 ( talk) 10:15, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
-- 222.64.221.37 ( talk) 03:21, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:55, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:56, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:57, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hah....hah.... gossypol vs Gospel ^___^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 09:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I've been looking at the Detoxification page and this talk page for a few months now and it seems to me that there are at least 4 main ways that people use the term "Detoxification", as Science, as Medicine, as Psychology, and as Religion/Spiritualism and that these usages are not always mutually exclusive from each other.
The current structure of this article:
* 1.1 Alcohol detoxification * 1.2 Drug detoxification * 1.3 Metabolic detoxification * 1.4 Alternative medicine o 1.4.1 Diet detoxification
as well as the introductory paragraph:
"Detoxification (detox for short)[1] is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including, but not limited to, the human body and additionally can refer to the period of withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term use of an addictive substance[2][3]. In conventional medicine, detoxification can be achieved by decontamination of poison ingestion and the use of antidotes as well as techniques such as dialysis and (in a very limited number of cases) chelation therapy[4]. There is a firm scientific base in evidence-based medicine for this type of detoxification.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Many alternative medicine practitioners promote various other types of detoxification such as "diet detoxification," but there is no evidence that detox diets have any health benefits.[13] Furthermore, Sense About Science, a UK-based charitable trust determined that most commercial products' "detox" claims lack any supporting evidence and can be considered a "waste of money".[14][15]"
seem to speak as if any usages other than scientific (specifically biological/chemical sciences) and/or medical are of less value or validity.
I want to suggest that,
since Wiki appears to be a general encyclopedia (not exclusively a science encyclopedia),
we consider changing the structure, introduction, and "tone" of this article so that additional aspects of human "detoxification" endeavors like, but not limited to, Psychology, and Religion/Spiritualism can be presented in ways that are balanced, useful, correct, and meaningful descriptions of current usages of "detoxification" while still being respectfully separate from the scientific and/or medicinal usages.
I have, and will continue to, focus my referencing efforts on the "hard/medical science" aspects of this term because, for me, they are easier to find and "lock down" than other, equally valid, but "softer" usages found in psychology, sociology, religion, spiritualism, etc.
Reading the discussions here and elsewhere about "detoxification" reminds me of two things I have observed:
1) Some people wish to validate, or at least buttress, their own personal, social, religious, etc. beliefs, customs, and word usages with science. There are heated discussions in certain religious and cultural groups that I am a participant in as to the usefulness of such "faith versus fact" dichotomies which haven't been settled in the 30 years I've been watching/listening. Still, the study of how and why people do this is as valid and useful and any other scientific endeavor.
2) The philosophy of rationalism, or science, is, IMHO, strong enough, and large enough, to accept that, since all people are not always "equal" in their education, experience, etc., most people, including "scientists" (in areas outside of their scientific specialty) will often create and/or accept/support weak or disproved science as well as fraud and/or quackery.
The philosophy of rationalism, or science, but not all rationalists and/or scientists, are, IMHO, strong enough, and large enough, to accept this "un-science" without feeling threatened or the need to attack such un-scientific positions. Correct, perhaps, but not attack.
Again I think that this phenomenon is an area of study in the "softer" sciences.
Donarnold ( talk) 02:32, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No move. There is consensus against moving Detox to another location, considering it's a disambiguation page that contains a number of items called just "Detox", including several not related to detoxification). Further, the creation of Detoxification (disambiguation) negates the necessity of moving "Detox" (which, again, contains several items called just "Detox"). There is no discernible consensus that "Metabolic detoxification" would be a better title for this article for other reasons, so the status quo prevails. Cúchullain t/ c 15:45, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
– Detox is an abbreviation of Detoxification. It is not a different thing. Detox should just redirect to Detoxification. However, there are several things called detoxification/detox that are different things with the same names. They shouldn't be within one article. They should each be separate articles with a disambiguation page here to separate them. The current article is basically like a disambiguation page with overly long descriptions and without the disambiguation headers. Separate articles already exist for Detoxification (alternative medicine), Drug detoxification and Alcohol detoxification but not for metabolic process done by organs such as the liver. I suggest this omission is fixed by making an article titled Metabolic detoxification. I have already gone through all the incoming links to this article and disambiguated then such that only links on the metabolic detoxification point here, and the other links point to the other related pages directly. Rincewind42 ( talk) 14:44, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I have been wondering why—given that most medical articles on WP get allot of attention form medical students who fill them out with dense medical speak—that this article hasn't had such attention. The thought occurred that perhaps the subject is covered under a different name. A few days ago I created detoxification (disambiguation) and in the process added a few other meanings and re-read several articles. It became apparent that metabolic detoxification is the main subject described within the article drug metabolism and I wonder if there is any need for the topic to be treated separately here/there at all. To back this up it may be noted that Xenobiotic metabolism is synonymous with metabolic detoxification and that Xenobiotic metabolism already redirects to drug metabolism.
One more point. On researching for the disambiguation page, I search google books and google scholar and I am now of the opinion that Detoxification (alternative medicine) qualifies as the primary topic as by far the majority of books and articles I found were talking about the alternative medicine treatment rather than any other usage of the word. Rincewind42 ( talk) 08:15, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I've just merged Toxification into Toxication and was about to do the same with Detoxication and Detoxification (long overdue on my todo list), when I noticed that User:Klbrain beat me to it just yesterday. However, since there was nothing worth saving anyway from Detoxication ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), do you agree that it should be retargeted here? After all, most dictionaries treat the two words as synonyms, and it's arguably a more narrow target than Drug metabolism. Or even to Detoxification (disambiguation), since the alternative medicine article is also a likely target? No such user ( talk) 09:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
May I get a clarification why we need "
this". The first three lines currently read:
"Detox" redirects here. For other uses, see
Detoxification (disambiguation).
Does anyone share with me an impression of, erm, certain redundancy here, such as doubly linking the dab page, and explaining the very definition twice? Just because some cranks will inevitably come and insert their detox ads is not a reason to keep a bunch of self-evident stuff to an innocent reader.
No such user (
talk) 11:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
This article is about the removal of toxic substances from a living organism. For other uses, see
Detoxification (disambiguation).
Detoxification or detoxication (detox for short)[1] is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism,
I have found some Detoxification facilities located in New York City and Florida. New York Drug Rehab and Summit Detox, Florida based Drug Rehab -- 77.243.183.70 ( talk) 12:12, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello No such user. I want to discuss your whole-sale deletion of my material. You stated as the reasons:
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Why aren't glutathione and metallothionein proteins added on this page as detox proteins? Since they are detox proteins and it seems like there is a lot of suppression of facts on wikipedia. 50.101.82.237 ( talk) 17:04, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114003/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05207.x/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.465.6453&rep=rep1&type=pdf 50.101.82.237 ( talk) 04:29, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
This article's main goal should be on detoxification not drug detoxification like Alcohol. I highly recommend the author should talk more about the benefits and side effects of detoxification and talk about different type detoxification not just drug related. The author should talk more about how to perform alcohol and these other kind of detoxification as discussed by the author. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anwaramna15 ( talk • contribs) 23:31, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Re this. [1] repeated edit - we cannot use a source about diets (what you eat) to imply it's all about colon cleansing. The Mayo source already said this is based on little scientific evidence (=woo). I've added a SBM source to clarify. Bon courage ( talk) 16:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
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I changed "none have" to "none has" in the Methods of Detoxification section because "none" is singular rather than plural (i.e. "not one has" or "not a single one has"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.135.187.187 ( talk) 06:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
The article previously ommitted to include the gut as an organ of detoxification so I included the phrase 'lower gastrointestinal tract' early in the piece. However, the description of the gut's role is so significant in detoxification much more needs to be written here on the subject. Adam 14 January 2007.
i was searching for information about "detox" and came to this article. prima facie, the tone of the article sounds biased, but i don't know better. can someone more knowledgable (and objective) tidy it up a bit?
I fail to see where this article is biased...
I think that the word "quackery" might be a little biased.
Detox also refers to a natural detoxification of the body in which a person stops eating processed foods, meats and dairy products in an effort to cleans the body. I don't know whether or not it works, but in its truest form, detox does not involve chemicals or pills.
I've done some serious detoxing myself and written a book on it now and can honestly say that it does work. The primary thing that gets eliminated from the body is old mucous, which contains harmful substances consumed in the past. Much of the food people consume leaves an acidic residue in the digestive tract and the body is forced to secrete mucous to protect the delicate lining of the intestines, when a person does this everyday the pancreas doesn't have a chance to dissolve and remove the mucous (using the enzyme pancreatin). This mucous then becomes hard and difficult to remove, digestion becomes inhibited, parasite have a place to live etc. Check out this detox and cleansing website for a more thorough explanation.
Just had a friend do one of the cleanses spoken of on the website and he feels much better now, back problems gone, more energy etc.
Your argument against American Eating habits have little bearing on the whether or not these detox practices work. It’s a straw man. 155.178.180.5 ( talk)
I propose moving this article to detoxification and having "detox" redirect there. It is the proper name and consistent with other titles like drug rehabilitation rather than "rehab". OneVeryBadMan 12:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
This discussion happened two months ago, but nothing's been done. If there are no objections, I'll move this article to Detoxification tomorrow. Amp 14:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
This page leads to the norwegian version 'Narkomani'. 'Narkomani' and 'Detoxification' are two very different things, the fact that the norwegians page doesn't link back suggests it too. I suppose I should have editet it, seing as I am from norway, but I honestly can't figure out a good word for it and I'm definitely sure there doesn't exist any article regarding this subject in norwegian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.202.167.250 ( talk • contribs)
Some of the statements may be erroneously requiring citations. This is because the burden of proof rests on the positive assertion. Some of these statements are negative assertions. Additionally, since these statements are based on assumptions that are widely held across sciences (regarding burden of proof), I think these {{ Fact}} templates should be removed. 155.178.180.5 ( talk) I signed above Oobyduby ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:36, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, this is my 1st attempt at entering a discussion.
In the begining text we have "Detoxification, or detox for short is the removal of toxic substances from the body[citation needed]."
Is a dictionary definition sufficient for a citation?
Such as:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/detoxification
3. Physiology The metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison or toxin are reduced by the body.
4. A medically supervised treatment program for alcohol or drug addiction designed to purge the body of intoxicating or addictive substances. Such a program is used as a first step in overcoming physiological or psychological addiction.
If yes, or at least not no, I'll return when I have time and attempt to cite this dictionary definition. Thank you. Don Arnold Donarnold ( talk) 14:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
There is such a wealth of information - principally through orthodox physiology - that could be said on this subject. Looks like some further information, clarity and subtlety could be brought to the entry. If not, are there links to other WP entries that could be included here, such as discussion about the cytochrome pathways, glutathione, other nutrients essential to the steps here, phase 1 and 2 detox pathways, nutrients essential for phase 2, biliary excretion, portal vein reabsorbtion, kidney detoxification, etc etc etc? Four lines is a little thin - there is much out there in terms of orthodox verifiable science that could, and maybe should, be included. And that is without even entering the realm of contentious alternative theory. Antoniolus —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.215.236.47 ( talk) 07:56, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Very badly-written section. It starts with a broad uncited claim that seems to cover a whole range of activities. Certain approaches in alternative medicine claim to remove "toxins" from the body through herbal, electrical or electromagnetic treatments (such as the Aqua Detox treatment). In spite of having made no specific claim, much less a cited one, it then goes on to say that These toxins are undefined. That's a good rhetoric technique, but not particularly encyclopaedic. Again, a vaguely cited There is no evidence for toxic accumulation in these cases. What cases would those be? It gets worse, as this unexplained theory is a load of nonsense since the body already does excrete many toxic materials. Excreting many is hardly the same as excreting all, and accumulating heavy metals and so on in the body is hardly controversial. People die of mercury poisoning, as one example, this would seem to be impossible according to this section :) Vague innuendo, needs a complete rewrite, with proper citations. Greenman ( talk) 11:00, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Agreed. While there are detox programs and cleanses out there that are not supported by scientific evidence, I find it hard to believe that some programs wouldn't be beneficial in helping remove toxins and restore beneficial bacteria to the gut. There must be scientific data on this subject, and I was hoping to find out about some of it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.176.6.68 ( talk) 10:15, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
-- 222.64.221.37 ( talk) 03:21, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:55, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:56, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
-- 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 08:57, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hah....hah.... gossypol vs Gospel ^___^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.64.210.124 ( talk) 09:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I've been looking at the Detoxification page and this talk page for a few months now and it seems to me that there are at least 4 main ways that people use the term "Detoxification", as Science, as Medicine, as Psychology, and as Religion/Spiritualism and that these usages are not always mutually exclusive from each other.
The current structure of this article:
* 1.1 Alcohol detoxification * 1.2 Drug detoxification * 1.3 Metabolic detoxification * 1.4 Alternative medicine o 1.4.1 Diet detoxification
as well as the introductory paragraph:
"Detoxification (detox for short)[1] is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including, but not limited to, the human body and additionally can refer to the period of withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term use of an addictive substance[2][3]. In conventional medicine, detoxification can be achieved by decontamination of poison ingestion and the use of antidotes as well as techniques such as dialysis and (in a very limited number of cases) chelation therapy[4]. There is a firm scientific base in evidence-based medicine for this type of detoxification.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Many alternative medicine practitioners promote various other types of detoxification such as "diet detoxification," but there is no evidence that detox diets have any health benefits.[13] Furthermore, Sense About Science, a UK-based charitable trust determined that most commercial products' "detox" claims lack any supporting evidence and can be considered a "waste of money".[14][15]"
seem to speak as if any usages other than scientific (specifically biological/chemical sciences) and/or medical are of less value or validity.
I want to suggest that,
since Wiki appears to be a general encyclopedia (not exclusively a science encyclopedia),
we consider changing the structure, introduction, and "tone" of this article so that additional aspects of human "detoxification" endeavors like, but not limited to, Psychology, and Religion/Spiritualism can be presented in ways that are balanced, useful, correct, and meaningful descriptions of current usages of "detoxification" while still being respectfully separate from the scientific and/or medicinal usages.
I have, and will continue to, focus my referencing efforts on the "hard/medical science" aspects of this term because, for me, they are easier to find and "lock down" than other, equally valid, but "softer" usages found in psychology, sociology, religion, spiritualism, etc.
Reading the discussions here and elsewhere about "detoxification" reminds me of two things I have observed:
1) Some people wish to validate, or at least buttress, their own personal, social, religious, etc. beliefs, customs, and word usages with science. There are heated discussions in certain religious and cultural groups that I am a participant in as to the usefulness of such "faith versus fact" dichotomies which haven't been settled in the 30 years I've been watching/listening. Still, the study of how and why people do this is as valid and useful and any other scientific endeavor.
2) The philosophy of rationalism, or science, is, IMHO, strong enough, and large enough, to accept that, since all people are not always "equal" in their education, experience, etc., most people, including "scientists" (in areas outside of their scientific specialty) will often create and/or accept/support weak or disproved science as well as fraud and/or quackery.
The philosophy of rationalism, or science, but not all rationalists and/or scientists, are, IMHO, strong enough, and large enough, to accept this "un-science" without feeling threatened or the need to attack such un-scientific positions. Correct, perhaps, but not attack.
Again I think that this phenomenon is an area of study in the "softer" sciences.
Donarnold ( talk) 02:32, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No move. There is consensus against moving Detox to another location, considering it's a disambiguation page that contains a number of items called just "Detox", including several not related to detoxification). Further, the creation of Detoxification (disambiguation) negates the necessity of moving "Detox" (which, again, contains several items called just "Detox"). There is no discernible consensus that "Metabolic detoxification" would be a better title for this article for other reasons, so the status quo prevails. Cúchullain t/ c 15:45, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
– Detox is an abbreviation of Detoxification. It is not a different thing. Detox should just redirect to Detoxification. However, there are several things called detoxification/detox that are different things with the same names. They shouldn't be within one article. They should each be separate articles with a disambiguation page here to separate them. The current article is basically like a disambiguation page with overly long descriptions and without the disambiguation headers. Separate articles already exist for Detoxification (alternative medicine), Drug detoxification and Alcohol detoxification but not for metabolic process done by organs such as the liver. I suggest this omission is fixed by making an article titled Metabolic detoxification. I have already gone through all the incoming links to this article and disambiguated then such that only links on the metabolic detoxification point here, and the other links point to the other related pages directly. Rincewind42 ( talk) 14:44, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I have been wondering why—given that most medical articles on WP get allot of attention form medical students who fill them out with dense medical speak—that this article hasn't had such attention. The thought occurred that perhaps the subject is covered under a different name. A few days ago I created detoxification (disambiguation) and in the process added a few other meanings and re-read several articles. It became apparent that metabolic detoxification is the main subject described within the article drug metabolism and I wonder if there is any need for the topic to be treated separately here/there at all. To back this up it may be noted that Xenobiotic metabolism is synonymous with metabolic detoxification and that Xenobiotic metabolism already redirects to drug metabolism.
One more point. On researching for the disambiguation page, I search google books and google scholar and I am now of the opinion that Detoxification (alternative medicine) qualifies as the primary topic as by far the majority of books and articles I found were talking about the alternative medicine treatment rather than any other usage of the word. Rincewind42 ( talk) 08:15, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I've just merged Toxification into Toxication and was about to do the same with Detoxication and Detoxification (long overdue on my todo list), when I noticed that User:Klbrain beat me to it just yesterday. However, since there was nothing worth saving anyway from Detoxication ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), do you agree that it should be retargeted here? After all, most dictionaries treat the two words as synonyms, and it's arguably a more narrow target than Drug metabolism. Or even to Detoxification (disambiguation), since the alternative medicine article is also a likely target? No such user ( talk) 09:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
May I get a clarification why we need "
this". The first three lines currently read:
"Detox" redirects here. For other uses, see
Detoxification (disambiguation).
Does anyone share with me an impression of, erm, certain redundancy here, such as doubly linking the dab page, and explaining the very definition twice? Just because some cranks will inevitably come and insert their detox ads is not a reason to keep a bunch of self-evident stuff to an innocent reader.
No such user (
talk) 11:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
This article is about the removal of toxic substances from a living organism. For other uses, see
Detoxification (disambiguation).
Detoxification or detoxication (detox for short)[1] is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism,
I have found some Detoxification facilities located in New York City and Florida. New York Drug Rehab and Summit Detox, Florida based Drug Rehab -- 77.243.183.70 ( talk) 12:12, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello No such user. I want to discuss your whole-sale deletion of my material. You stated as the reasons:
Let me unpack that:
1. "The main article for that is Detoxification (alternative medicine)"
2. "However, a single podcast quote is unlikely to be a RS/DUE even there."
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Detoxification. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
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Why aren't glutathione and metallothionein proteins added on this page as detox proteins? Since they are detox proteins and it seems like there is a lot of suppression of facts on wikipedia. 50.101.82.237 ( talk) 17:04, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114003/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05207.x/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.465.6453&rep=rep1&type=pdf 50.101.82.237 ( talk) 04:29, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
This article's main goal should be on detoxification not drug detoxification like Alcohol. I highly recommend the author should talk more about the benefits and side effects of detoxification and talk about different type detoxification not just drug related. The author should talk more about how to perform alcohol and these other kind of detoxification as discussed by the author. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anwaramna15 ( talk • contribs) 23:31, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Re this. [1] repeated edit - we cannot use a source about diets (what you eat) to imply it's all about colon cleansing. The Mayo source already said this is based on little scientific evidence (=woo). I've added a SBM source to clarify. Bon courage ( talk) 16:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)