"Detox"
(Attempt to describe a strange memecluster.)
"Detoxes" and "cleanses" may refer to any of a broad set of approaches:
- Fasting
- Drinking only juices or similar beverages
- Eating only certain foods
- Using dietary supplements or other commercial products
- Using herbs
- Cleansing the colon (lower intestinal tract) with enemas, laxatives, or colon hydrotherapy (also called “colonic irrigation” or “colonics”)
- Reducing environmental exposures
- Using a sauna.
Steelmanning
Some people use the word "toxin" to refer to anything that "should not be there", including flu viruses, errant E. coli (colonic bacteria outside the colon), and perhaps technically, a knife lodged in the flesh? In this light, a statement like "disease is your body warning you of toxins", can be paraphrased simply as "disease is a sign that something's wrong", i.e. the statement carries no specific information but gives the feeling of an explanation, like "phlogiston is the cause of fire". And the concomitant advice in order to detox is simply general advice to be as healthy as possible.
There's some overlap with the anti-vaxxers. The idea is that your body should be healthy enough on its own to face the adversities it's up against.