Ingestion of high levels of toxins is well recognised to cause adverse effects to health. However, the effects of repeated exposure to lower levels of toxins is not often considered as a cause of ill health.
However, when these systems run out of steam, ill health results. When thinking about environmental chemicals, we typically think about toxins in the air such as diesel and petrol fumes. This is not incorrect; however, the toxic substances we are exposed to in our homes may be equally damaging. The substances we use regularly are often the worst culprits such as perfumes, soaps and shampoos.
Silicon contained in many everyday toiletries and hand washes can build up over time and disrupt normal cellular function. Herbicides and pesticides can harm the gut microbes and therefore increase the toxic inflammatory burden. Heavy metals displace our normal trace mineral levels of zinc, copper, magnesium and manganese and therefore also hinder normal cell function.
Heavy metals may come from poor air and water but also may come from tooth amalgams, from stainless steel pans nickel and personal care products deodorants. Many are deposited in fatty tissues. Sudden weight loss may cause these toxic elements to leach into the blood stream and to cause toxic effects. Although intracellular infections are not toxins, removing them from the body is rather like removing a toxic foreign substance that stubbornly refuses to budge.
A weakened immune system will allow entry to multiple intracellular infections. These will interfere with vitamin D metabolism and further increase the toxic inflammatory burden. Certain individuals may be exposed to moulds in their home, work or from food.
Again, acute high levels of exposure can cause acute ill health with symptoms affecting almost every system of the body. Mould in the air, from damp houses or workplaces may give allergic symptoms. Fungal contamination of certain foods such as grains, cereals, nuts, coffee and fruit has been reported in literature. Animals that eat contaminated grain can produce mycotoxins in their milk and products such as breads produced from contaminated grains will also show levels of myctoxin.
Eating grass fed meat, washing fruit in apple cider vinegar to remove moulds and limiting processed grains may help to reduce overall toxic inflammatory load from ingested moulds. Simple lifestyle measures may help us to keep our toxic stress burdens down and help maintain health. Chemicals with high toxicity only need small doses to cause poisoning. Toxicologists use animal tests and other methods to determine whether small or large doses of a particular chemical cause toxicity.
There is a tendency to think of chemicals in terms of those which are poisonous and those which are harmless. This terminology is used for convenience, but the words imply that toxicity or its absence is an all-or-nothing property of a chemical.
All-or-nothing is not the case because any chemical can cause poisoning if a sufficient dose of it is taken into the body. To put it another way, all chemicals have the potential to be poisonous. It is the amount or dose taken into the body that determines whether or not they will cause poisonous effects.
Poisoning, then, is caused not just by exposure to a particular chemical, but by exposure to too much of it. Some workplace chemicals which enter the body are excreted from the body unchanged.
Others are broken down. The breakdown products may be more or less harmful than the original chemical. Other chemicals are stored temporarily in body organs and are removed over a short period of time.
Eventually most chemicals and their breakdown products are removed as waste in the feces, urine, sweat or exhaled breath. A few chemicals such as graphite or silica dusts can be inhaled into the lungs where they lodge for many years and may never be completely removed. As a general rule there is less risk of chemically caused harm if the body can do one or both of the following:. Several characteristics of the exposed person can influence the degree of poisoning which occurs.
These characteristics include age, sex and individual susceptibility. There are two main ways that too much of a chemical can enter the body and cause poisonous effects:. A one-time exposure to relatively large amounts of the chemical can overwhelm the body. In the workplace, this exposure may happen through improper handling of the chemical, or when there is a spill or a leak from a valve or pipe carrying chemicals.
It might also happen during maintenance or cleaning of equipment that normally contains chemicals such as a solvent vat. The harmful effects caused by one-time, sudden, high exposures are often called acute toxicity effects. Some examples of acute toxicity are listed below:. A repeated exposure over a long period of time can also cause too much chemical to enter the body and produce poisoning.
This kind of poisoning occurs because the exposure is repeated day after day over many years. The exposure levels may be too small to cause acute toxicity. Harmful effects caused in repeated exposure situations are sometimes called chronic toxicity effects. The following are some examples of chronic toxicity:. Most chemicals can cause both acute and chronic toxicity depending on the conditions of exposure. The adverse acute and chronic health effects caused by the chemical can be quite different.
The food produced in these states is then shipped throughout the U. Glycophosate is heavily concentrated in all animals and fish since their water supply and grass is heavily contaminated. The farm fed animals are also fed mostly heavily sprayed crops such as corn and soy which cannot naturally digest.
They are also often fed the brains of other animals and hence, develop high levels of prions which then trigger normal proteins in the brain to work abnormally. The WHO has discovered that all animals and fish now have the highest toxin load ever noted in history. Hence, when a person consumes animal protein ie. Consumption of non-organic produce, processed foods, condiment, and items rich in non-organic corn, soy, and wheat are also exposed to high levels of glycophosate and other dangerous pesticide.
It binds to critical minerals, antioxidants, and vitamins and prevents them from being bioavailable. Some toxins can be absorbed through your skin. As these products are absorbed, those toxins come into the body too. Some toxins come in through your supplements, toothpaste, and medications since many of them contain gelatin. Gelatin is often contaminated with prions. Toxic overload can cause a number of changes in your body.
In the early stages, your body try to expel those toxins by any means necessary. You may experience diarrhea, sneezing or coughing fits, excessive urination, sore throat, heartburn, nasal congestion or runny nose from mucus overproduction , or vomiting.
Many people notice changes to their body odor or excessively oily skin, as well, since their bodies are acting to purge those toxins through their pores.
As the toxins gradually accumulate in your system, you may also find impairment to some of your faculties. Toxins damage the organs. Toxins damage nearly all your organs and systems. My book, The Toxin Solution, focuses specifically on the detox organs. If your digestive tract, liver, and kidneys are so toxic they are unable to detox effectively, your detoxification will backfire and your body will remain toxic.
Toxins damage DNA, which increases the rate of aging and degeneration. Many commonly used pesticides, phthalates, improperly detoxified estrogens, and products containing benzene damage DNA. Our genes switch off and on to adapt to changes in our bodies and the outer environment. But many toxins activate or suppress our genes in undesirable ways. Damage to these membranes prevents them from getting important messages—insulin not signaling the cells to absorb more sugar, for example, or muscle cells not responding to the message from magnesium to relax.
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