Surely you saw in your instagram feed photos of very slender or now losing weight girls that are accompanied by a detailed text that detox / "live food" / raw food / starvation is great, they can change your life for the better and cure everyone diseases. What are the reasons for subscribers to believe them? The main argument of any leading detox author’s course: she went through it herself and came to a better life and a better version of herself. What unites all of these authoring programs is that they contradict the principle of evidence and none of the leading detox courses will take responsibility if you feel bad after a sharp change in eating behavior. The first and most important word is detox. The method of detoxification does exist and is used in the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. But in the sense in which it is used by nutritionists from instagram (cleansing the body of toxins accumulated as a result of vital activity), the effectiveness of "detox" has not been scientifically proven. This is reported by the US Department of Health and Human Services on its official website.Evidence-based medicine also calls for critical treatment of the basic methods of "detox." Besides the fact that some of them may be ineffective, many may well cause serious harm to health. For example, fasting, or fasting, as it is now called on popular resources. Also, with great caution, it is worth referring to the “antiparasitic cleansing”, which is often promised “as a gift” at detox courses on instagram. As a rule, in this context, data on infected parasites worldwide is greatly distorted and exaggerated the need for preventive measures. In the case of recommendations that rely only on the personal experience of the author and on what he read in books and on the Internet, there can be only one thing sure: you participate in a lottery, where your health is at stake.