32 Popular Self-Care Trends That Are Secretly Really Toxic

Your body is an amazing mechanism. Without you even telling it to, it does amazing things: it performs all the motions and actions you need; it heals itself, even from terrible injury; and, in the right circumstances, it can even produce a whole other body! Just, you know, a little tiny one that’s mostly going to cry and eat for the first little while.

It can even—get this—cleanse itself of impurities using the liver and kidneys. This means that you don’t need to do some ridiculous carrot juice cleanse. Trust your body to do its thing! Unless your liver and kidneys don’t work, in which case, you have problems that a carrot juice cleanse can’t fix anyway.