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| The importance of reducing environmental toxicity to promote health and healing |
By:
Rolf Rasmusson |
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In understanding the fundamental causes of disease and the aging process, research is pointing more and more to the interplay of stress, nutritionally-depleted foods and the impact of environmental toxicity.
The degree to which the individual cells that make up the entire body are functioning at their optimum level or are in some degree of dysfunction is a consequence of the degree of nutritional deficiency, toxicity and stress. When properly understood, this perspective gives us a means to safely and effectively get help get people well, reduce the risk of serious disease and promote the highest level of healthy aging.
Most people recognize that personal dietary habits, stress and environmental toxins can greatly impact their health.
Toxins poison our air, our water, our food and our bodies at an unprecedented level. According to the EPA, 70,000 chemicals are used commercially in the U.S., 65,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health.
The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, including 7 million pounds of known carcinogens. Toxins from our air, water, food and other sources have poisoned our bodies.
A joint study by Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and the Environmental Working Group in 2003 reported:
a total of 167 hazardous compounds in the blood and urine of American adults with an average of 91 per person tested.
A study by the Environmental Working Group in 2004 reported:
a total of 287 industrial chemicals in babies’ umbilical-cord blood, including 180 known to cause cancer, 217 that are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 that cause birth or developmental defects in animals.
An average of 200 of these chemicals was found in each baby tested.
Pesticide residues, known as xeno-estrogens, wreck havoc on our endocrine glandular system. Automobile exhaust and other air pollutants bring lead and other heavy metal poisons into our bodies. As many as 25 percent of Americans are estimated to suffer from some degree of heavy metal poisoning, particularly from mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic.
Did you know that the incidence of autism has increased from 1 in 2500 in the 1970’s to 1 in 166 today?
Did you know that one of every six pregnancies is exposed to mercury levels above EPA's safe level from maternal consumption of contaminated seafood?
Self-help solutions that help to cleanse the body of environmental toxins and reduce on-going exposure include:
Air and water filtration
Nutritional and dietary supplements to support cellular excretion as well as liver and other detoxification pathways
The regular use of whole food concentrates, especially marine phytoplankton, which have a natural capacity to bind heavy metal toxins and support their elimination from the body.
Reducing toxicity with Marine Phytoplankton |
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