The World’s Toxic.  Is Your Body Toxic, Too?

All of us are aware of poisons and toxins in our environment.  We hear about factory waste, car exhaust, polluted water, polluted oceans.  Not just T.V. and Radio.  It’s common knowledge for us who live in the 21st century.  It’s one of those ubiquitous facts of our lives.  Unavoidable.  Even children know.

What Exists in Our Environment Exists in Our Bodies

Many see the environment as separate, “out there.”  They don’t realize that what’s “out there” is also “in here,” inside our bodies, a part of every cell.

No matter how much we exercise, wash, shower, eat organic fruits and vegetables, our bodies absorb pollution because toxins are everywhere. 

In the bathroom, showering, fixing breakfast in the kitchen, driving to the grocery in the car, mopping, vacuuming, dusting the house. Every activity takes place in our toxic 21st century environment.  Poisons that surround us are also within us. 

Possible 116 Chemical Toxins in the Human Body

We’re walking, talking toxin carriers.  Toxins. We’ve got lots of them.  Some estimates put the toxic load in each one of us at over 116 chemical compounds. 

Toxins Are Present in Every Activity 

We wake in the morning wash face, shower, apply makeup and shave, brush teeth, drink water, and brush hair.

Unless you carefully read labels of personal products before you buy you’re exposing your body to toxins proven to increase cancer:

Parabens, PTH, pthalates, chlorine, mercury, aluminum, and fluoride in water, toothpaste, shaving cream, cleansing products, cosmetics, fingernail polish, and hair spray. 

Processed Food, Cleaning Compounds Dangerous to Health

Preparing breakfast you’ll encounter PaH PCBS, and nitrates in bacon and sausage, and antibiotics and hormones in meat and milk.

Cleaning the kitchen you’re using manmade chemicals DECA, BDE, PBDES, Phenols, Chlorine, Ammonia, and Formaldehyde which make up common cleaning solutions.  Many chemicals are impossible for the liver to break down and send to kidneys, skin, lungs, and colon for excretion.  They accumulate in the body in fat and water deposits

Products containing flame retardants, lead, heavy metals, Disphenols, Pthalates, PDBE, and BDE, all of which increase cancer risk, can be found throughout the house in furniture, paint, bedding, pajamas.

Driving the car, you’ll run into Triclocarbans, bisphenols, phthalates, phenol, and more chlorine, ammonia, and formaldehyde.

Fruits, vegetables, meat, soda, desserts add pesticides, herbicides, Dioxins, BHA, BHT, Phosphoric Acid, Bisphenol A (BPA), Preservatives, and Coloring Agents toxins to the load.

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That’s you and your children.

Share with me and others in the comments below what YOU do to avoid toxic compounds.  What products do you buy? I have a few suggestions which I’ll share in a future post.

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TOXINS MAKE YOUR STOMACH FAT

Your body stores toxins in fat cells. If your liver can’t break poisons down, it keeps them away from important organs by hiding them in fat and water, and that’s usually around the stomach. 

We’ve all known people, and perhaps we ourselves, who have lost weight, but who even with weight lost still have fat stomachs. 

That’s roughly where the liver is. When toxins overwhelm that organ, so it can’t do its job, it does the next best thing. It surrounds toxins in fat and water and “sequesters” impurities. Fat doesn’t have much blood circulation so toxins stay out of touch with the rest of the body.

Brilliant mechanism, but a fat stomach is annoying and not healthy. Fat bellies, if they stick around too long, are risk factors for metabolic syndrome, which includes diabetes, heart, and blood pressure problems.

So, it’s not just that we don’t like the look of fat bellies, they really are a sign our health is out of whack.

LIVER, MYSTERIOUS DETOX LAB

At the source of the problem is toxin overload. If I could encourage my body to get rid of poisons–help the liver detoxify–then maybe the fat would release naturally because it wouldn’t be needed any longer.

See, when the body recognizes a substance that can’t be used for fuel, mechanisms kick in to break it down to get rid of it through the skin, lungs, colon, and kidneys. 

To my mind those mechanisms are miraculous and mysterious, and most of the time they’re effective at keeping our bodies free from poisons.

DIETS DO NOT TAKE CARE OF TOXINS 

Restricting calories (diets) does not help the body handle toxins.  Nutritional cleansing is different from dieting and counting calories.

Traditional cultures have used certain natural ingredients for centuries to encourage toxin release. 

Aloe Vera is one of the best known.  And Licorice root, Burdock, and Yellow Dock.  Burdock has been used for centuries to clear the blood stream of impurities.  Yellow dock is a spring tonic to improve general health.  Licorice root is an over-all body tonic, and Aloe Vera is known for its healing properties.  Peppermint, and Fennel, too.

But, I’m not ready to start taking any of these without some advice on how to use them.  How would I go about putting them all together?  All herbs have effects in the body.  I don’t know enough about them to jump right in and start medicating myself.

Our youngest son Daniel is an herbalist.

The “Berry Boy”

He could help me identify cleansing herbs.  He’s loved plants since a little boy.  On family hikes his nickname was the “berry boy.”  He stuck by that early interest and studied in New Mexico, Alaska, and now California.  He understands it can be difficult to use healing herbs in proper combinations to gently encourage the body to release toxins.  Practitioners can help, but it does take patience and knowledge.

YOUR BODY IS EQUIPPED TO DETOXIFY

I’m probably not going to put my own herbal concoction together. 

But I know I need to consciously take steps beyond just eating good food.  My body needs a little more than that.

HELP THE BODY DETOXIFY AND LOOSE YOUR FAT STOMACH

Healing herbs and whole, natural foods used to be viewed as medicine.  That is not the case today in America for a couple of reasons.

• Corporate food production today has become a money-making industry.  More money can be made processing natural foods than selling those foods unprocessed.  Processed foods with low nutritional value and long shelf life, are what most Americans eat today.  The bottom line is profit, not good health.

• Foods grown in soil depleted by chemical fertilizers, devoid of minerals and living organisms, do not contain the full complement of vitamins and minerals that were present in food tested only twenty years ago.

• Personal products, cleansing products, exhaust from vehicles and factories, manmade chemicals in water and air, and pesticides and herbicides on our fruits and vegetables surround us and threaten health daily.

The knowledge of what is healthy food is largely gone from our culture.  The preparation of healthy meals from “scratch” is a lost art in many homes.

Most Americans have no idea what food is healthy and what food is nothing more than empty calories.  Our culture is no longer the repository of that knowledge.  Our bellies are satisfied temporarily by bulky processed grains and our taste buds by high fructose corn syrup.

So, what to do today?  Today you can make a difference in your health.

• Begin carrying around a water bottle with filtered water everywhere you go, Drink from it all day. Water is the great purifier. Your kidneys, lungs, colon, and skin will begin throwing off poisons almost immediately when you furnish your body with plenty of pure water.

• Become aware of processed food. Anything in a package is processed. Become aware of how much food is processed, not “real,” food.

Check the Blog for articles.  Do you know what happens to food animals in America? http://cleanse-for-better-health.com/blog/factory-farm-or-family-farm/

 We’ll talk more about that issue in future issues, for right now get into the kitchen and fill your water bottle… 

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YOU, a person.  You’re one bundle of lots of things.  Everything that is YOU is in one package.

One package with your beliefs about the future.  Viewpoints of the world and of yourself. Habits.  Behaviors.  Patterns of thinking.  These are YOU.

When we cleanse we think of what we’re eating.  It doesn’t occur to us that we’re beginning to affect every part of who we are.

Nutritional cleansing changes everything.  Because those changes are foundational every part of you is affected. 

Your thoughts, your beliefs, the friends you attract, your view of the world.  These are transformed when you cleanse at the cellular level. 

Yes, even your friends change and how you see the world.

A circle around the triangle will represent the SOCIAL CONTEXT. Everything that is YOU (the triangle) lives within a social context (the circle).

None of us lives in a vacuum; humans are social animals. To discover what makes a person tick, for example, study the five people with whom he spends most of his time. 

We’re influenced by the consciousness of the people with whom we spend most of our time. We’re part of a culture with ideas, philosophy, and a viewpoint of the world.

WE’RE ACCEPT THE BELIEFS OF OUR CULTURE

Cultures rise and fall, of course.  The familiar example is the Roman Empire which climbed to its zenith before crumbling apart when attacked by marauding tribes.

Every tribe has its golden years followed by decline.

Most of us stick to old beliefs from the dying culture, even when no longer true, justifying why they no longer work instead of admitting they simply are no longer true.

“Go to college, get a degree, get a job, stick with it, and everything will be fine,” doesn’t work anymore.  People haven’t admitted that yet.

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A Colon Cleanse doesn’t go far enough!

Your body needs to rest and cleanse, but is a colon cleanse the answer?

If you’re going through the day tired, headachy, sluggish, no energy, and every time the weather changes it’s another cold or the flu because your immune system is weak.  If sore throats, headaches, indigestion, facial acne, eczema, and break outs are part of your daily life your body may be overwhelmed by toxins.  Its natural cleansing functions are blocked.

Every cell, overloaded with toxins, needs cleansing, not just the colon.

If you decide to cleanse should you do a colon cleanse? There are many on the market.  If toxins are everywhere and your body is overwhelmed by poisons perhaps you need to cleanse your entire body, not just the colon.

From car exhaust, to pesticides and herbicides–toxins–in our food we’re surrounded by industrial pollutants.

Fruits and vegetables are sprayed in pesticides, and herbicides.  Soil is sprayed with pre-emergents before potato planting, fruit trees are sprayed 3-4 times before harvest, row crops of beans are blanketed by spray planes several times a season.

Much of our food is grown in depleted soil, packaged and shipped, robbed of what little nutrition it might have once had.

Every cell in your body needs cleansing

Our bodies have built-in cleansing mechanisms, but they need rest to activate natural cleansing actions. And every cell needs cleansing, not just the colon.

During a colon cleanse, herbs, sometimes quite powerful herbs, increase muscle contraction to eliminate impacted waste. The process can be harsh and require frequent visits to the bathroom.  Regular ellimination (some say daily) bowel movements is a good thing. It’s essential to your good health. Toxic waste that remains in the colon will be reabsorbed and can result in disease.   But after years of living with exhaust, industrial waste, and food additives, every cell in the body needs rejuvenation, not just the colon.

Spring herbs such as dandelion aid in cleansing

Our great grandparents, and perhaps even our grandparents, knew that when seasons changed their diets changed. These changes supported liver detoxification functions to keep the body healthy.

Spring brought dandelion greens, burdock, spinach, radishes, and herbs that support the body’s need to replace cells and the liver’s detoxification.

Summer turned to fall and the diet changed once again. That change supported bodily changes in preparation for winter.

Today when we eat strawberries and peaches in the dead of winter and winter squash in summer. It’s easy to ignore our body’s need for change and rest.  We don’t give the liver the support it needs to filter and disarm toxins.

Colon cleansing is good, but it’s not enough.  Organs (liver, kidneys, skin, and colon) that disarm and excrete poisons must be supported. Colon cleansing is good, but it’s not enough. Every cell in the body needs to be renewed.

 
Nutritional cleansing supports the body’s natural cleansing actions while it builds muscle

Nutritional cleansing supports cell renewal.  In the presence of high-quality protein during a cleanse your body builds lean muscle which supports organ health, gives you more energy, and keeps blood sugar stable.

Whole-body nutritional cleansing cooperates with the body’s innate wisdom, supporting each body system, including the immune system. 

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