Be introduced to activated charcoal, and learn how this all-natural substance is great for detoxifying or purifying your body. There's quite the buzz about it!

1. Activated Charcoal
The Perfectly Natural – And Extremely Effective - Way to Eliminate
Toxins and Impurities from Your Body

2. Charred Just Right
• Activated Charcoal (also called
activated carbon) is created by
controlled charring of coconut shells or
wood species that feature ultra-fine
grains
• After charring, the fibres then develop
thousands of fine pores following being
subjected to oxidizing gases at high
temperatures

3. • The carbon’s negative ionic charge prompts it to attract positively charged
elements and then bind with them
• Once bound, heavy metals, toxins, and other impurities (which have that
positive charge) are then escorted out of the body by your natural waste
elimination processes
• This binding occurs via adsorption, not absorption (the much more common of
the two terms) – adsorption; when a chemical reaction leads to elements
binding to a specific surface
Opposites Attracting
Adsorb, not Absorb

4. Why do you think Activated Charcoal is a
Primary Component in Your Water Filter?

5. Primary Health & Wellness
Applications for Activated Charcoal

6. 1. Emergency Detoxification
Activated Charcoal can be helpful in any instance where you, a family member,
friend or anyone in your immediate vicinity has accidentally ingested a
potentially harmful substance.
Here’s the general dosage and preparation guideline:
• Adults – 50 to 100 grams of activated charcoal ingested immediately and all
at once
• Children – 10 to 25 grams of activated charcoal, ingested immediately but in
two 5 to 12.5 gram doses 5 minutes apart

7. 2. Digestive Cleanse
Activated Charcoal is great for improving the operating condition of your
digestive tract, and that has wide-reaching benefits for the entire body,
including a very specific connection to – among other aspects – your brain
function plus your complexion and healthy appearance!
More generally, it will remove many of the toxins that cause allergic reactions,
oxidative damage, and poor immune function.
Dosage: 10 grams of activated charcoal, ingested 90 minutes prior to each
meal over the course of 2 full days.

8. 3. Skin & Body
Activated Charcoal has all sorts of uses for addressing maladies or purifying
body components. These include:
• Body odour
• Acne
• Insect and spider bites
• Facial rejuvenation
• Detoxifying hair

9. 4. Lowering Cholesterol Levels
Activated charcoal has a natural ability to reduce LDL cholesterol, which is the
harmful type, while allowing HDL cholesterol – the good kind – to remain.
If you’re working to lower your cholesterol through diet and lifestyle changes,
good for you – and try adding to activate charcoal to your efforts for even more
in the way of positive results
Dosage: 3 doses of 8 grams at a time, but taken as an intermittent dosage and
NOT consumed daily or regularly

10. 5. Whitening Teeth & Removing Plaque
This is one of the most popular applications for activated charcoal. It couldn’t
be any easier to use activated charcoal to have brighter, whiter, and cleaner
teeth
Here’s how:
Mix activated charcoal with natural toothpaste and brush your teeth vigorously
for 5 minutes.
Rinse as you would regularly, but thoroughly
Be aware that this may discolour your toothbrush – if that’s a concern for you,
you can prepare activated charcoal in a swish solution and apply it to your
teeth that way

11. Here’s a few more health and wellness uses for activated charcoal that you
might want to consider as well:
• Mould elimination – mould spores have a strong positive ionic charge, and
as such they bind to the pores of activated charcoal very effectively
• Anti-Aging – in particular for the prevention of cellular damage to the
kidneys and liver and for healthy adrenal glands
• Alleviating Gas and Bloating – Try this simple recipe for ‘black lemonade’:
⚫ Mix ¾ cup of water with the juice of 2 freshly squeezed lemons
⚫ Add 1 teaspoon of activated charcoal
⚫ Add a small teaspoon of honey
Honourable Mentions

12. Important Reminder
If you’re ingesting activated charcoal , make sure you drink your body weight
in ounces of fresh, filtered water - and do so every day.
For example, if you weigh 160 pounds, you would drink 160 fluid ounces (4.5
litres) of water