Body Pollution
For decades, scientists have been studying the pollutants in our air, water, food, and soil. Now scientists are beginning to examine pollution levels in humans and their findings are unsettling to say the least. Environmental chemicals are all around us and there’s no way to escape their harmful effects. Our bodies are not capable of eliminating all the different toxins and chemicals we inhale and ingest every day. They simply accumulate in our cells (especially fat cells) tissues, blood, organs (such as the liver and brain) and remain stored for an indefinite length of time – eventually leading to numerous health conditions. Our bodies are simply not designed to metabolize these new chemicals which humanity has never been exposed to in the history of the world.
“I Am Polluted”
“Researchers at Harvard's School of Public Health examined my blood, hair, urine, toenails and bones,” reported Mark Stevenson in Canada 's National Newspaper The Globe and Mail on March 5, 2005. “It's all in the name of the emerging science of body burden, a concept referring to the amount of chemicals that accumulate in the human body. As it turns out, I am polluted. Everyone is to some degree. But as the list of toxic chemicals identified in people continues to grow, scientists are trying to figure out what the implications are for human health.
‘It is alarming,’ Professor John Spengler says. ‘This is not meant to be settling information. I think if more people wake up to this fact, the better we are going to be... and the more demanding we're going to be of our governments and our industries.’”
Body Burden
Researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants and chemicals in the blood and urine of nine volunteers and a 167 chemicals in total for the entire group. According to the research, conducted by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York with the Environmental Working Group, "76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain or nervous system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development." None of the people tested worked with chemicals or lived near an industrial facility. These results, presented in great detail on the Body Burden website, “represent the most comprehensive assessment of chemical contamination in individuals ever performed.”
“Six Trillion Pounds of Chemicals a Year”
The blood and urine samples taken from the nine volunteers were only tested for 210 different chemicals. U.S. chemical companies actually hold licenses to manufacture 75,000 chemicals for commercial use. The federal government registers an average of 2,000 newly synthesized chemicals each year. U.S. industries manufacture over 6 trillion pounds of 9,000 different chemicals a year. In 2000 alone, major U.S. industries reported dumping 7.1 billion pounds of 650 types of industrial chemicals into our air and water.
It’s no wonder there are “hundreds of chemicals in drinking water, household air, dust, treated tap water and food. They come from household products like detergent, insulation, fabric treatments, cosmetics, paints, upholstery, computers and TVs, and they accumulate in fat, blood and organs, or are passed through the body in breast milk, urine, feces, sweat, semen, hair and nails.”
Cancer, Birth Defects, You Name It
In total, out of the 210 chemicals tested for, the nine subjects carried:
- 76 chemicals linked to cancer in humans or animals,
- 94 chemicals that are toxic to the brain and nervous system,
- 86 chemicals that interfere with the hormone system,
- 79 chemicals associated with birth defects or abnormal development,
- 77 chemicals toxic to the reproductive system, and
- 77 chemicals toxic to the immune system.
What mixtures of industrial chemicals are found in the bodies of the general population? How can we find out what industrial chemicals are in our body? “Not easily,” say the researchers at Environmental Working Group. “In this study the laboratory costs alone were $4,900 per person. Scientists spent two years designing the study, gaining approval of the study plan from Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Institutional Review Board, and recruiting subjects. People can request body burden tests through their personal physicians, but in general the methods used by available commercial labs are not sensitive, the available tests are limited, or both.”
If you’re not ready to spend close to $5,000 on a comprehensive test, you can use the Environmental Working Group’s online questionnaire to build a “virtual” body burden profile based on lifestyle questions.
Deadly Combination of Chemicals
“When it comes to toxic chemicals in everyday products,” explains the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, “there is surprisingly little information available about how they behave in combination. How, for example, are our bodies affected when the chemicals in paint thinners interact with those in dark hair dyes, or when we are exposed to one pesticide on a fruit, and another from our neighbor’s lawn?
Here is an analogy: Compared with non-smokers, cigarette smokers have ten times the risk of contracting lung cancer. We also know that workers exposed to asbestos have five times the lung cancer risk compared with those never exposed. You might think, therefore, that smokers exposed to asbestos would have 15 times the risk of getting lung cancer. In fact, they face 55 times the risk… Dutch scientists have documented that when PCBs, at a non-toxic level, are mixed with dioxin, at a level that produced only minor liver damage, the combination produced 400 times the damage of the dioxin alone.”
The Toxins Within and Without
Environmental pollution is just part of the problem as our bodies are forced to deal with the chemical cornucopia that is poisoning our food s upply. More than 3,200 chemicals are added to the food we eat, and as many as 10,000 more additives find their way indirectly into our food as it is grown, processed, packaged, and stored. This includes hormones and antibiotics fed to animals, as well as pesticides and heavy metal residues , such as lead and mercury, in plants.
As dismaying as all this may sound we must face the fact that our external environment is not the only contributing factor to internal pollution. Our health is equally disrupted by toxins that are produced inside the body, primarily due to the body’s inability to cleanse itself adequately and improper digestion. “A poorly functioning digestive tract can turn even the best of foods into metabolic poisons in the form of acids, gases, alcohols, and carcinogens,” explains Dr. Linda Berry, clinical nutritionist, in her best-selling book Internal Cleansing. “Autointoxication is the process of the body poisoning itself with toxins, from internal sources, that cannot be processed by the body’s elimination systems because they are overloaded, undernourished, genetically compromised, or diseased.”
The nutritionally inferior processed and junk foods consumed by many Americans are contributing to digestive disturbances, which in turn leads to an even more toxic internal environment.
Mercury - “Our Preferred Poison”
Another common form of toxicity comes from mercury amalgam fillings. According to the latest data, American dentists use 44 tons of highly toxic mercury to fill some 100 million cavities each year. Despite all the safer alternatives available today, 92% of dentists still prefer to work with amalgam fillings. The March 2005 edition of Discover magazine reported the following in its article entitled “Our Preferred Poison - A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surely:”
“Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the fish in it unsafe to eat… In the modern era, [mercury] became a common ingredient of paints, diuretics, pesticides, batteries, fluorescent lightbulbs, skin creams, antifungal agents, vaccines for children, and of course, thermometers. There is probably some in your mouth right now: So-called silver dental fillings are half mercury… Seafood is one of the two most common sources of mercury exposure in adults. ”
Parasites
Parasites that infest the digestive tract constitute another common source of inner toxicity. The activity of these invading organisms irritates the intestinal lining causing chronic inflammation and intestinal permeability. The rate of parasitic-related disorders in North America is on the increase. Humans can actually play host to more than a hundred different types of parasites, ranging from microscopic ones to tapeworms that are several feet long.
It is extremely easy to come in contact with parasites. Contaminated water, undercooked meats, improperly washed fruits and vegetables, are just some of the common sources of infections. Transmission from pets or other infected persons is also quite common. Overuse of antibiotics further adds to this problem as this can interfere with normal intestinal flora and lower the body’s resistance.
“Detoxify or Die”
Sherry Rogers, MD, a well-known international specialist in Environmental Medicine and the author of the book Detoxify or Die sees environmental toxins as the cause of all disease. In her book she describes the major health-destroying chemicals and heavy metals, their sources, EPA studies, and how ever-present these substances are in our everyday environment. Studies are cited showing that 95% of cancer, for instance, is caused by diet and environment. Dr. Rogers writes at the beginning of Detoxify or Die:
"If you are serious about healing, then brace yourself for a crash course in curing whatever ails you. …the secret is in getting your body so chemically unloaded and nutrient primed, that it heals itself."
Dr. Rogers explains the body's own “built-in” detoxification system:
Phase I - enzymes and minerals work to remove toxic material from the body
Phase II - a powerful detoxifier called glutathione sends chemicals through the liver and out with the garbage.
Unfortunately, as sophisticated as this system appears, it is not designed to deal with the literally thousands of chemical assaults on our bodies. The system also needs specific nutrients in order to function properly.
Cleaning Out the Toxins
Pioneering nutritionist, Dr. Hazel Parcells, who lived with boundless energy to age 106, wrote: “A healthy body begins with cleaning out the accumulated toxins of the past and preparing it to accept new and efficient nutrients. When the body is cleared of poisons, nature will take over and provide us the gift of health.”
Detoxification therapy is an ancient concept that appears as part of many healthcare systems around the world. Detoxification and internal cleansing is more important today than ever before in history because we are exposed to more toxins than ever in the past.
Where to Start
“Any cleansing program should begin by ‘pulling the plug’ that blocks the passage of waste,” details Dr. Linda Berry in Internal Cleansing. “The ‘plug’ is in your colon, the last portion of your food-processing chain. If you try to clean your blood, lymph, or liver without first addressing a stopped-up large intestine, the excreted toxins will get right back into your body and make you sicker than you were before you started.”
The concept of cleansing the colon as the most important first step of a detoxification therapy is unfortunately missed by many detox programs sold on the market today. Without cleansing the colon, it is impossible to effectively detoxify other bodily systems or the body in general.
“If you want a high quality of life in the 21 st Century, it is crucial to become educated regarding your body’s natural detoxification processes as well as detox techniques you can effectively use,” writes Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald in her book The Detox Solution – The Missing Link to Radiant Health, Abundant Energy, Ideal Weight, and Peace of Mind.
“The major parts of our body involved in physical detoxification are the digestive tract, the liver, our lungs, the lymphatic system, our skin, and the urinary system. These systems and organs are the sites designed within the body to process toxins either by eliminating them or transforming them into less threatening substances.”
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