Let’s begin with a truth bomb:
You might be drinking green juices, counting chia seeds like they’re currency, and nodding solemnly during yoga nidra—but if you secretly believe you’re not good enough, your mitochondria are crying in a corner.

That’s right. Your self-worth (or lack thereof) might just be the most toxic thing in your system. Worse than gluten. More damaging than sugar. Even sneakier than seed oils.

Your Cells Are Listening
Science used to think emotions were all in your head. Then the field of psychoneuroimmunology gatecrashed the party, holding hands with epigenetics, and whispered seductively: “Hey, what if your thoughts can reprogram your biology?” What if your cells could feel your thoughts? What if low self-worth isn’t just psychological—it’s biochemical?

And thus began our biological soap opera.
Every negative belief, every unresolved childhood wound, every moment you thought you weren’t “enough”… your cells heard that. They adjusted their behaviour accordingly. They dimmed their mitochondrial light. They shortened their telomeres. They whispered among themselves, “I guess we’re not worthy of optimal function today.”

So while you’re working hard on ignoring the carbs and marching on the treadmill, your inner terrain might still be tuned to – “I’m not good enough!”

From Thoughts to Toxins
Let’s break this down (pun intended). Low self-worth triggers chronic stress. Chronic stress dysregulates your HPA axis. That’s your body’s stress orchestra. When it plays out of tune for too long, your cortisol spikes, digestion shuts down, your gut lining begins to leak, and unfavourable bacteria throw a rave in your colon.

The result?
• Fatigue that no amount of sleep can fix
• Hormonal meltdowns that make soap operas look tame
• An extremely sluggish liver
• Skin flare-ups that scream
• Looking embarrassingly much older than you should

If you’ve ever tried all the right “fixes” but still felt off—this may be why. You can’t detox your body while your mind is still marinating in toxic thoughts.

The Trauma of Overthinking!
Let’s take a moment to appreciate your mitochondria…those tiny power plants in your cells that turn food and oxygen into ATP, a.k.a. the energy that keeps you upright, thinking, blinking, and hopefully not yelling at your partner over dinner. Think of mitochondria as your cellular baristas—they’re caffeinating every cell in your body. But here’s the kicker: they’re highly sensitive. Toxic thoughts, chronic stress, unresolved emotional trauma…all of these send your body into “fight or flight” mode. Blood gets diverted away from the gut, oxygen drops, inflammation rises, and your poor mitochondria? They start sputtering, gasping, and eventually throwing up a “help wanted” sign.

And then there’s your telomeres…those little protective end caps on your chromosomes. Each time your cells replicate (which they do constantly), your telomeres shorten just a bit. When they get too short, cells age, malfunction, or die. But here’s where it gets juicy: studies now show that positive emotional states…love, gratitude, connection, even laughter, can actually preserve or even lengthen telomeres. That’s right: you can literally slow aging by thinking happier thoughts. So maybe the next time someone tells you to “think positive,” they’re not being annoying—they’re being anti-aging.

How Do We Heal? With Equal Parts Science, Poop, and a Dash of Emotional Resilience

1. Start With the Liver—Because Your Resentment Is Probably Parked There

Your liver is not just a detox organ—it’s also the storage unit for your emotional baggage. Bitterness, anger, old betrayals… yep, it hoards them like an Indian grandmother hoards plastic containers.

A sluggish liver can’t metabolize hormones properly, leading to estrogen dominance, fibroids, acne, weight gain, and the inexplicable urge to murder someone during PMS. (It’s the estrogen. Mostly.)

What helps? Liver detoxes and laughter…because nothing gets bile moving like a good belly laugh.

2. Colon Hydrotherapy: The Therapy That Flushes More Than Just… You Know
Let’s talk about poop.
(Yes, I specialize in it!)
Your colon holds more than waste. It stores emotions you couldn’t process. You can’t cry at work? No problem. Your colon will hold it in for you—for decades. That rage you never expressed? It’s doing the dance with candida somewhere in your sigmoid.

Colon hydrotherapy isn’t just physical.
It’s emotional. It’s spiritual. It’s sometimes musical, depending on the sounds your gut makes mid-flush.
Make sure you bring a sense of humour to the colon hydrotherapy room. It’s going to get… intimate.

3. Balance Your Hormones, Don’t Blame Them
Hormones often get blamed for everything: mood swings, acne, failed relationships, bad decisions at 2 a.m.

But guess what? They’re just messengers. When your inner terrain is inflamed, toxic, or nutrient-deficient, your hormones go rogue.

Restore order by balancing hormones and most importantly: clearing out emotional garbage so your endocrine system stops panicking.

Because no adaptogen can balance a belief that says, “I’m not worthy of wellness.”

4. Nutritional Deficiencies: Not Just a Multivitamin Problem
Low zinc, B12, magnesium, selenium… these aren’t just lab results. They’re often signs that your gut isn’t absorbing well—or that your stress is devouring your nutrients faster than you can replenish them.

And when you don’t feel safe in your body (thanks to unhealed trauma!), your digestive system shuts down.

Solution?
• Heal your gut lining (with supplements and emotional forgiveness)
• Rebuild your microbiome (and your boundaries)
• Infuse what’s missing (IV nutrition, not just kitchen supplements)
• And please… chew your food. It’s not a race.

5. Mental and Emotional Detox: The Missing Piece
Let’s be real.
You can do all the colonics, liver flushes, and IVs in the world—but if your internal dialogue is trapped in emotions of unworthiness, your cells will find a way to mirror it…your body will shift gear to survival mode.

Toxic thoughts are the mold of the mind.
They thrive in shame, self-doubt, and overthinking. And they create the perfect conditions for illness.

How to detox emotionally: Find a Emotional Detox Guru who can train you to maintain coherence despite the chaos, express gratitude, admire yourself and occasionally, scream into a pillow.

So, Why Do Cells “Need” Love?
Because love is coherence.
Biologically, it’s a frequency—a signal of safety. When you’re in love (with yourself, with life, with your journey), your vagus nerve hums, your immune system relaxes, your mitochondria light up like a Christmas tree, and your body begins to restore.

Self-love isn’t a meme. It’s metabolic.

When you believe you are worthy of health, your cells get the memo.

Remember
You are not broken.
You’re probably just constipated—physically, emotionally, or energetically.

If your body is screaming, it’s not betraying you.
It’s begging you to stop betraying yourself.

So here’s your protocol:
• Poop well.
• Breathe deeply.
• Laugh often.
• Detox yearly.
• Love yourself like your life depends on it—because biologically, it does.

Your cells are listening.
It’s time they heard something beautiful.

The author of this article Dr.Ashmita Boopathy Moturi, is a Doctor of Naturopathy. Having completed her a PhD. in Gut Health and Mental Health, a Masters in Medical Engineering and as Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, she combines age old Natural Therapies with cutting edge modern technology to deliver effective, effortless, quick, safe and convenient Detox Protocols at NineO2 Detox and Wellness Centre, for lasting wellness.