Episode 67: The Fifth Emunctory: The Emotional Key to Finally Releasing Toxins

If you’ve done all the detoxes, followed every protocol, cleaned up your diet, and still feel stuck—there’s likely one system you haven’t supported: your fifth emunctory.

In biological medicine, emunctories are the body's natural drainage pathways—most people know the physical ones: skin, lungs, kidneys, and colon. But there’s a fifth that almost no one talks about… and it’s the one that holds the key to why your body can’t let go.

👉 Your nervous system—and your ability to process emotion—isn’t just involved in healing. It’s essential to elimination.

In this episode, we explore how emotional congestion shows up as physical stagnation, how trauma impacts drainage, and why many people stay “toxic” despite doing everything right.

We break down:

• Why your nervous system is a functional emunctory in biological medicine

• How unresolved emotions and nervous system dysregulation block detox

• The difference between pushing detox vs. supporting drainage

• How somatic work, nervous system regulation, and emotional release create true momentum in healing

• What it actually looks like to create space in the body—physically and emotionally—for release

If you’re stuck in chronic symptoms, always bouncing between protocols, or feel like your body is holding onto something—it probably is. And this episode helps explain why.

We don’t offer quick fixes, but we do offer a new framework: one where emotions are not separate from the body—they are the body.
And when you work with them, not against them, your biology responds.

• Learn more about drainage-based healing at: www.biomed-drainage.org

• Join us in person: Omega Institute Workshop, Oct 10–12 in NY

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Welcome back to Connecting with the Thom’s!

If you’ve been doing “all the right things” for detox—supplements, cleanses, infrared saunas, lymphatic massage—but you still feel inflamed, foggy, or downright exhausted... this episode is for you.

Today, we’re exploring one of the most misunderstood and skipped steps in the healing process: drainage.
Not detox. Not forcing your body to push harder. But instead, gently supporting your body’s natural elimination pathways—starting with your lymphatic system and lungs.

We’ll walk you through:

• 🔍 The real difference between detox and drainage

• 💨 How nebulizing can support lymphatic movement and lung-based toxin release

• 🚫 Why most detox protocols backfire without open drainage pathways

• 🌿 How to safely exit the “healing crisis” loop by working with your body

• 💡 Simple, terrain-based tools that align with biological medicine and trauma-informed care

This is the conversation your nervous system, liver, and lymph have been waiting for.
We’re not here to push harder—we’re here to clear smarter.

• You feel worse after detoxing or supplements

• You're stuck in cycles of inflammation, fatigue, or brain fog

• You’re curious about nebulizing, drainage-focused healing, or biological medicine

• You want a trauma-informed approach that supports your body’s rhythm

• You’re a practitioner ready to better support drainage in your clients

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Explore our brand-new education hub: biomed-drainage.org

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Until next time—stay grounded, stay curious, and keep connecting.
—The Thom’s

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Purchase the book: https://drdicksonthom.com/product/the-brain-protocol-book/

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