When I left Toronto to accept my first job abroad many moons ago, my dad (a.k.a The Detox Guru) gave me a very strange parting gift:

A SKIN BRUSH

It's my birthday in a few weeks and really the only ones who are genuinely excited are my children who have already put in requests as to what kind of cake we should have that day. But the truth is getting older doesn't make detoxing a straightforward task.  And one of the major reasons for this is because our digestive fire (which in science geek-speak is called Hydrochloric Acid) gets weaker & less efficient as we get older.

To recap our detox learning to date:

The more you poop, the more successful your detox plan is.  

But that alone maketh not the detox.  Otherwise, you'd get loads of people drinking crazy stuff like lemon-maple syrup-cayenne elixirs and only pooping by way of a colonic!