Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¡Cuánto sufre el cuerpo para purificar el organismo! - How much the body suffers to purify the organism!

We add el before an infinitive when we want to use the action as the subject of a sentence, acting like a noun (for example: El purificar el organismo es importante - Purifying the organism is important). In this sentence, however, purificar follows the preposition para to express purpose ("in order to purify"). After prepositions, you just use the bare infinitive without el.

Why is the word order sufre el cuerpo rather than el cuerpo sufre?

In exclamatory sentences starting with words like cuánto, qué, or cómo, the verb normally must come immediately after that exclamation word. This naturally pushes the subject (el cuerpo) after the verb. Saying ¡Cuánto el cuerpo sufre! would sound very unnatural to a native speaker.

Why use both cuerpo and organismo in the same sentence? Don't they both mean body?

While they are closely related, cuerpo refers to the physical body as a whole entity, while organismo highlights the living, internal biological systems. The sentence specifically paints a picture of the physical body enduring suffering in order to detoxify its internal machinery.

Could we say purificar su organismo (to purify its organism) instead of ?