If you've taken illegal drugs, you may need to get them out of your body quickly, perhaps to make sure you pass a drug test at work. You may have the same desire if you are trying to let go of the addiction and cleanse the body. All types of drugs can be excreted from the body in much the same way: by increasing hydration and consuming healthful foods, clearing drug toxins with cleansing drinks, and exercising to expel them through sweat. Completely detoxing from any type of drug takes time, so give yourself at least a week to flush the drugs out of your body.
Steps
Method 1 of 3: Hydrate to Cleanse Your Drugs
Step 1. Drink at least 2.5-3 liters of water over the course of the day
The best way to expel all kinds of drugs from the body is to keep the body highly hydrated. Try to drink plenty of water every day, from morning until evening. Over the course of a few days, the water will dilute the concentration of drugs in the body, and urinating frequently will help you expel drug residues that may be detected during a drug test.
- For drugs that are stored in body fat cells (e.g. cocaine and THC from marijuana), increasing water consumption cannot guarantee relevant effects.
- On average, an adult man should drink at least 3.7 liters of water per day, while an adult woman should drink at least 2.7 liters.
- If you want to try to cleanse your body of drugs, you need to drink at least 500-700ml more water than you normally drink.
Step 2. Also drink cranberry juice or tea daily
All types of tea have excellent detoxifying properties, while cranberry juice helps you urinate more frequently. Drink at least 3-4 glasses of tea or juice a day when trying to get drugs out of your body. You can choose from green, black, white, jasmine or any other variety. The tea will provide your body with antioxidants and electrolytes that help speed up your metabolism.
- You can drink hot or cold tea, as you like.
- You can enhance the taste of hot green tea by adding a few drops of lemon juice to each cup.
Step 3. Stay away from alcoholic beverages if you are trying to get drugs out of your body
Alcohol easily binds to drugs - especially cocaine and the THC in marijuana - and causes them to attach to fat cells. Once the cocaine and THC are stored in the fat cells, it is difficult to remove them from the body. Drinking alcohol, especially in large quantities, only aggravates the problem.
Even alcohol alone can have negative effects on the body and tends to make you lose inhibitions. There is therefore a risk that you may decide to take new drugs while you are trying to excrete the ones you have taken in the past from the body
Method 2 of 3: Expelling Drugs Through Sweat
Step 1. Practice aerobic exercise to burn fat
Certain types of drugs (especially cocaine and the THC contained in marijuana) accumulate inside fat cells, so if you reduce fat you will also reduce drug levels. One of the most effective ways to burn fat is through sweating and especially aerobic exercise tends to make you sweat a lot. As you get rid of the fat and sweat, you cleanse the body of the residues left by drugs in the body. Aerobic activities and more generally those that cause you to sweat include:
- Cycling and trekking;
- Running or jogging;
- Jump the rope.
Step 2. Spend 20-30 minutes in a sauna every day to sweat and then excrete drugs
Even though it doesn't require any kind of physical exertion, sitting in a sauna filled with hot steam forces the body to sweat profusely. It is an effective method of clearing the body of drug metabolites. You can find a sauna in gyms and beauty or sports centers. The other methods to sweat more and expel drug toxins that accumulate in the skin and fat cells include:
- Practice hot yoga (or bikram yoga);
- Sunbathe;
- Keep in mind that by sweating in the sauna you will only be able to excrete a small amount of metabolites. Also, if you've been abusing drugs recently, the heat from the sauna could be dangerous.
Step 3. Add 400 grams of Epsom salts to the bath water
Pour them into the tub as it fills and stay submerged for at least 15-20 minutes. Epsom salts will open pores allowing toxins to escape. Epsom salts can be purchased in pharmacies, herbalists and stores that sell organic and natural products.
Epsom salts contain magnesium - an important mineral that can help your body excrete toxins (including chemical residues left over from drugs you've taken)
Method 3 of 3: Modify Your Diet to Accelerate Metabolism
Step 1. Limit your consumption of sugars and fats that are harmful to health
The body already has a lot of work to do to process narcotics and excrete toxins. Harmful sugars and fats, such as saturated and trans fats, are difficult to break down and process. If you consume large amounts of sugars and fats that are harmful to health, it will take your body much longer to excrete drug residues that can be detected during a drug test.
- In particular, fizzy drinks, precooked foods, sweets and industrially processed foods contain large quantities of sugars and fats that are harmful to the body.
- Industrially processed foods also contain large amounts of sodium, which is responsible for fluid retention. Water retention slows the rate at which the body excretes drugs.
Step 2. Eat lots of fiber-rich foods, such as vegetables
Your daily diet should consist mainly of vegetables and other healthy foods to meet the body's daily needs for minerals and vitamins. As your overall health improves, your body's ability to process and excrete drug residues will increase. In particular, foods rich in fiber accelerate metabolism and, consequently, the elimination of drugs.
- While this alone is not a solution to passing a scheduled urine test any time soon (rather focus on drinking plenty of water and other detoxifying fluids), adopting a healthy diet will help the body remove drug residue in the long run and you will see your general health improve.
- Among the foods rich in fiber we can also include legumes - such as lentils, black beans and pinto beans - oats and most cereals, in addition to broccoli and most of the vegetables.
Step 3. Increase your consumption of antioxidant-rich foods
Antioxidants promote the body's overall health, making it more efficient at processing and excreting both toxins and chemical residues left behind by drugs. Foods that contain a significant amount of antioxidants include:
- Berries, including strawberries, blueberries and raspberries;
- Green leafy vegetables, including kale, lettuce, and wheatgrass.
Advice
- Drugs do not stay in the body for a fixed amount of time, each individual processes them at a different rate. The time within which a drug can be detected in the body depends on several physical factors, including the usual dosage and the degree of personal tolerance.
- Drugs can be detected in the blood, urine and hair. Traces of drugs can generally be eliminated from the blood in the same way they are eliminated in the urine. Drugs can be detected in hair for months, so wash it as frequently as possible to try to pass the hair toxicology test unscathed. The most extreme option is to cut them.
- As a general rule, marijuana stays in the body longer than other drugs. It can be detected in the blood even after 2 weeks and in the urine after 30 days.
- Drugs like morphine and codeine stay in the body for less time. They can be detected up to 6-12 hours in the blood and up to 1-3 days in the urine.
- Generally, cocaine can be detected for 1-2 days in the blood and for 3-4 days in the urine.
- Heroin, on the other hand, can usually be detected for up to 12 hours in the blood and up to 3-4 days in the urine.
Warnings
- Even if you are in a hurry to get drugs out of your body (for example because you have to undergo a urine test), avoid so-called "THC detox drinks". They have been largely demystified by doctors and are practically useless for removing drug residues from the body.
- Many types of narcotics, especially natural and synthetic opiates, are harmful to the body and can even be lethal. If you are addicted to any drug, take all necessary steps to quit.
