Medical Detoxification
Detoxification Therapies
Medical detoxification at St. George Hospital uses structured, evidence-based protocols to reduce the body’s toxic burden, support organ function, and create better conditions for healing and treatment response.
What it is
What Is Medical Detoxification?
Detoxification therapies are designed to support the body’s natural elimination pathways and reduce the accumulation of harmful substances. Environmental toxins, heavy metals, metabolic waste products, and pathogen-related toxins can impair immune function, damage mitochondria, and sustain chronic inflammation. Medical detoxification addresses these burdens systematically.
How it works
How Does It Work?
Our detoxification protocols may include IV chelation therapy for heavy metal removal, liver support infusions, colon hydrotherapy, lymphatic drainage, far-infrared sauna therapy, specific nutritional supplementation, and oral binding agents. The specific combination is determined by the patient’s toxicological assessment results and clinical needs.
Who it is for
What Conditions Does It Treat?
- Heavy metal burden
- Environmental toxin accumulation
- Chronic Lyme disease (Herxheimer management)
- Chronic fatigue with toxic component
- Pre-treatment preparation for cancer patients
- General health optimization
Could this belong in your plan?
That depends on your findings, not on the therapy. Send what you have with a short history; a physician reads it before the video call and tells you whether this treatment belongs in your program.
Patient Experience
What Does a Session Look Like?
Detoxification sessions vary by modality. IV chelation therapy typically takes 1-2 hours. Colon hydrotherapy sessions are approximately 45 minutes. Far-infrared sauna sessions last 20-30 minutes. A detoxification program usually combines multiple modalities over the course of a treatment stay.
Evidence
Evidence & Safety
Chelation therapy for heavy metal toxicity is well-established in medical literature. IV glutathione and other hepatoprotective agents have documented mechanisms and published clinical data. While some detoxification modalities have less formal trial data, they are used at St. George Hospital based on decades of clinical observation and their established safety profiles.
Where we use it
Used in These Departments
Request a consultation
A video consultation in English before you travel. A physician reviews your findings first; we reply by email within one business day (Mon–Fri).
Mon–Thu 08:00–17:00, Fri 08:00–14:00 (CET/CEST)+49 8061 398-0info@clinicum-stgeorg.de
St. George Hospital is a specialist hospital, not an emergency department. In a medical emergency in Germany, dial 112.