Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The bulk of body tissue is in the musculoskeletal system, which is a major repository for environmental toxins. We have already mentioned that muscles, from a bioenergetic perspective, can store memories such as physical or emotional shocks and traumas. So this Star serves bioenergetically as a major unblocker on many levels for the entire musculoskeletal system, especially concerning muscle metabolism and excretion capabilities. |
| This Integrator also regulates fields that bioenergetically help the body deal with endogenous body waste and exogenous environmental toxins. In relation to the Terrains and the bioenergetic network for toxin and microbial response in the body, Energetic Integrator 8 correlates strongly to susceptible organs, such as your eyes, sinuses, liver, and myocardium. Note, however, that the field of the actual tissue of the myocardium is in Energetic Integrator 9 and that bioenergetic cardiovascular function also is associated with Integrator 2. |
| This field can be weakened by many things but is especially compromised by environmental toxins such as fungicides, insecticides, and agricultural chemicals.
As your largest organ, your skin performs myriad functions, among them maintaining fluid balance in your body, helping with thermoregulation, maintaining mineral balance, protecting you from ionizing radiation, and aiding in detoxification. Of course, it is also your body's first line of defense, providing a protective barrier between your body and the outside world. |
| It can be compromised for any number of reasons, from poor nutrition to invasion by viruses to exposure to environmental toxins. Peter's matching experiments have shown that cell function, at a bioenergetic level, may be distorted particularly easily by the following pollutants: dioxins, phencyclidines (PCPs), xlyenes, electromagnetic radiation, and heavy metals. The Cell Driver Infoceutical bioenergetically helps to restore cell function. It generally tends to have an energizing effect on your body, so it is best not to take it around bedtime. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cows are essentially accumulators and concentrators of environmental toxins. They eat tons of grass, literally, throughout their lives. And, they tend to concentrate any toxic chemicals spread on the grass through pesticides or contaminated well water.
So, when you eat a piece of beef, you are eating, quite literally, a highly concentrated form of saturated animal fat containing environmental toxins that would never be present in those quantities in the natural environment. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Exposure to environmental toxins (pollution, food additives, radiation, pesticides, and cigarette smoke, for example) stimulates the production of free radicals. If the body is unable to neutralize free radicals, the end result may be damage to the body's cells, tissues, and organs. This damage has been associated with several complications of diabetes, including injury to the heart and blood vessels. In addition, free-radical damage is a well-known cause of the accelerated aging of tissues in the body. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Advocate locally for lead-abatement programs and attention to other environmental toxins.
Stress
•Exercise and participate in stress-relieving hobbies.
?Surround yourself with persons who calm you.
Building a Cognitive Reserve
•Engage in stimulating activities. •Get all the education you can. •Learn new skills.
?Advocate for a more equitable distribution of resources in our schools.
Staying Vital in Your Later Years
?Don't be afraid to seek help from doctors and other health-care professionals.
•Choose a job that stimulates you.
•Learn a new language.
?Learn to play an instrument. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Hormone levels generally decline as a result of aging, but they can also be affected by dietary choices, mineral deficiencies, environmental toxins and synthetic chemicals, medications, smoking, and stress.
Causes of Hormone Imbalances in Women
Estrogen dominance (excessive estrogen in relation to progesterone) can be created by numerous factors. Eating a diet high in estrogenic foods can be a major cause, because many foods are high in estrogen or compounds similar to estrogen. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Surprisingly, we gain weight when natural weight-control mechanisms are disrupted by low-grade inflammation that is caused by poor diet and environmental toxins.
When people gain weight, the extra fatty tissue produces leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite and speeds metabolism. In theory, this should cause people to lose the extra weight.
Instead, inflammation in fat tissue and blood vessels stimulates the production of chemicals that disable leptin's ability to suppress appetite and speed metabolism. This is called leptin resistance. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Choosing smaller species of fatty fish, such as wild salmon, mackerel, herring, and sardines, is best because their smaller size and shorter life span translate into a smaller accumulation of mercury, PCBs, and other environmental toxins. Wild-caught fish have less accumulation than farmed fish. Because of concerns about exposure to mercury and other environmental toxins, we recommend that you consume wild fish at least three, but no more than six, times per week. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most neurological disorders are caused by nutritional deficiencies combined with exposure to environmental toxins. If you really want the answer to all these mysterious neurological disorders -- not just the ones we have names for today, but the ones that will be named in the future -- then all you have to do is examine what the body is exposed to. Consider everything that touches the intestines, the lungs and the skin. If it contains synthetic chemicals, it's going to promote cancer and neurological disorders. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Buttram says there's a link between an increase in environmental toxins over the years and a corresponding increase in behavioral disorders in children. "What has happened in the past 50 years that has brought about this increase in behavior disorders? According to published reports, before World War II, less than 1 billion pounds a year of organic chemicals were produced in the United States. By 1963, that number had increased to 163 billion pounds per year. Today it is somewhere around 250 billion pounds per year. |
| The government agencies and the higher-ups in the medical political structure are not even half-aware of the complexity of these environmental toxins and their effect on our health," says Dr. Richard Kunin. "They see it as very rare and therefore don't include [it] as part of a routine medical checkup. In fact, doctors have been told not to test for toxins, even though these tests are the best way to screen for poisonous metals as well as to identify how much of various substances a person is accumulating in the tissues of his or her body. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Even with diet improvements and a decrease in the impact of environmental toxins, the toxins that are stored in the body will remain there until removed. This is accomplished with detoxification and cleansing.
As you've been learning since the beginning of this book, toxins can be sneaky about how they get into your body, sit quietly for years, and eventually reveal themselves through sudden or chronic illness in the long term. At that point it may be too difficult to "turn back the clock" and reverse the effects that those toxins have had. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Harold Buttram has been pointing out for the past two decades that "while most of our knowledge of the effect of environmental toxins comes from reports of occupational exposure in adults, there is no doubt that developing children are at even greater risk. It is a known fact that pesticides are toxic to the nervous system. Most of our knowledge in this area comes from studies of occupational exposures in adults. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| The purpose of this book is to provide information about the undeniable connection between environmental toxins and the health of the human body. But more than that, this book is a call to action for you to protect not only your health but also the future of our planet. I will show you how, and it's easier than you might think. It also doesn't require a serious investment of money or time. The biggest investment you will make is in taking in this knowledge. Applying it to your lifestyle will be relatively effortless. The payoff, however, can be huge. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| For instance, we must succeed in reducing environmental toxins such as lead and mercury in our homes, rivers, and parks that are responsible for producing neurological disease, particularly in young children, and we must also address the social contexts that subject many persons in our world to poverty, malnutrition, infection, trauma, hard labor, and mental lethargy that hasten cognitive decline.
I will articulate a plan for our cities to provide better care for aging persons and support their families. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Theoretically, as long as we are completely healthy and eat diets high in vitamins, amino acids, and minerals, and as long as we are not exposed to an overabundance of environmental toxins that stimulate free-radical formation, there is no need for coenzyme Qiq supplementation. But how many of us meet all these criteria?
As I said earlier, the body's manufacture of coenzyme Qiq is complex. While it takes place in virtually every cell in the body, especially the liver, coenzyme Qiq synthesis requires multiple vitamins, cofactors, and amino acids. |
Gregg Braden
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 Modern medicine typically attributes heart conditions to an array of physical and lifestyle factors, ranging from cholesterol and diet to environmental toxins and stress. While these determinants may be accurate on a purely chemical level, they do little to address the actual reason why the conditions exist. What does "failure of the heart" really mean?
Perhaps it's not a coincidence that all the lifestyle factors linked to heart failure are also linked to the force that speaks to the universe itself: human emotion. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Supplements/cleanses: Juice Feasting employs zeolite, or Natural Cellular Defense (discussed in Chapter 4) for the removal of environmental toxins. A moderate kidney-liver-gallbladder cleanse is accomplished with 2-4 cups daily of Royal Break-Stone Tea, or for a more time-intensive and comprehensive addition, the Tree of Life has available a liver-gallbladder-parasite-fluke cleanse. See the Juice Feasting timeline below.
Exercise: We know the benefits of exercise for diabetics. During your Juice Feast, if movement is difficult, begin with just practicing a light yoga routine. |
| The rapid reversal of the seven stages is accelerated by green juice fasting and natural supplements (discussed in next chapter) of herbs, minerals, high-protease enzymes, and digestive enzymes with our food to build up the amylase, and liquid zeolite (Natural Cellular Defense, or NCD) when combined with the green juice fasting to help pull out the heavy metals and 65,000 environmental toxins. We have also found that the NCD seemed to help in decreasing the FBS. With this integrated approach the results of the Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program are so rapid and consistent. |
Mark Sircus
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 Increasing rates of Type II diabetes worldwide suggest that diabetes may be caused by environmental toxins. Cadmium is a widespread environmental pollutant that accumulates in the pancreas and exerts diabetogenic effects in animals. To test the hypothesis that exposure to cadmium is associated with impaired fasting glucose and Type II diabetes, we examined the associations between urinary cadmium and the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (prediabetes) and diabetes in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Among other everyday sources of environmental toxins are paint, perfume, furniture, and carpets. Most of the fragrances on the market today do not come from natural flower scents or any natural scents; they're mostly chemicals. Some people can't go into department stores because they get violent headaches. Formaldehyde is used in inexpensive press board furniture as part of the glue. Many people get sick carpet syndrome because insecticides have been sprayed on carpets.
Patient Story: Paint Exposure_
When I was injured on the job from some paint fumes, my whole life changed. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Scan your life and home for environmental toxins. For example, check your home for asbestos (around air ducts, pipes, and so forth), lead paint (windowsills are the most common culprits), and radon. See the
YOU Tool beginning on page 359, for more ideas for eliminating toxins. While you're looking, open the windows and vent your home to air out toxins that are locked into modern airtight living spaces.
Just for today, turn off the TV and don't read the newspaper. Use the computer only as needed for work or important tasks. No Web surfing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In short, if you avoid red meat you will also be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of avoiding environmental toxins. Red meat consumption also promotes colon cancer.
I recall a recent study that showed fire retardant chemicals in massive quantities are now being found in the animal fats in red meat. That's because these fire retardant chemicals tend to collect in the fat tissues. These chemicals are found throughout our environment now. Cows are essentially accumulators and concentrators of environmental toxins. They eat tons of grass, literally, throughout their lives. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In plants, flavonoids provide important protection like shielding from environmental toxins, and when we consume plant-based foods that are rich in flavonoids, we also get a lot of the same benefits the plant gets. The particular class of flavonoids found in cocoa are called flavanols, and the flavanols in cocoa prevent fatlike substances in the bloodstream from clogging the arteries. When you reduce the blood's ability to clot, you also reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. (That's why they sometimes tell you to take a baby aspirin—for the same reason. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 As might be expected, all these odor disorders can signal olfactory nerve damage, which can be caused by many of the same things— including infections, head trauma, surgery, environmental toxins, and drugs—that lead to loss of smell. (See Loss of Smell, above.)
If the underlying condition can be treated, the smell distortions or hallucinations will probably disappear. But getting an early, accurate diagnosis is key.
SIGNING OFF
Primary care physicians—family physicians and internal medicine specialists—can diagnose and treat many nasal problems, from the common cold to allergies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, when you eat a piece of beef, you are eating, quite literally, a highly concentrated form of saturated animal fat containing environmental toxins that would never be present in those quantities in the natural environment. Thus, in addition to supporting healthy cholesterol, avoiding red meat will also save you from all of the terrible negative side effects of environmental toxins.
Avoid dairy products
Avoiding dairy products is also important for cardiovascular health. Hydrogenated cows' milk is something that absolutely does not belong in the human body. |
Marshall Editions
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 It can also be a result of hot dry conditions, exposure to environmental toxins, or chemical processing. In these cases, hair conditioners and moisture packs are appropriate. Also try to avoid exposing the hair to the conditions that cause dryness.
Diet: Increase your intake of beneficial oils, such as eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and docosohexanoic acid (DHA, found in fish oil, which can be taken at 4 g a day), and gamma linolenic acid (CLA, found in evening primrose oil, which can be taken at 3 g). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Brussels sprouts are high in isothiocyanates and sulforaphane, which are compounds known to help fight cancer by inhibiting cell proliferation, neutralizing carcinogens, and helping to detoxify nasty environmental toxins. Sulforaphane, a particularly potent member of the isothiocyanate family, increases the production of certain enzymes known as "phase-2 enzymes," which can "disarm" damaging free radicals and help fight carcinogens. It's believed that phase-2 enzymes may reduce the risk of prostate cancer. |
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