Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Nutrient deficiencies: It is also important to remember that exposure to environmental toxins depletes certain vitamins and minerals from the body and can lower the immune system's ability to fight off infections. "When nutrients such as the B vitamins, iron, antioxidants and specific trace minerals are depleted in the diet, the liver's ability to function effectively as a detoxification organ is impaired. This impairment causes the individual to become more vulnerable to the environment," according to nutritional medicine specialist Dr. Jeffrey Bland. |
Sandra Ingerman
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 The thyroid is a part of us that is affected by environmental toxins. I am also meeting more and more people suffering from allergies and environmental illness.
Many individuals who face these kinds of environmental illnesses and sensitivities feel that they have become weak. However, it's a mis-perception to consider these illnesses as weakness. These particular illnesses and allergies are the sign of an intelligent body, not a weak body. The body is saying, "Something is wrong here, something is out of balance, something is polluted. |
David Steinman
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 But researchers such as the psychologist Helen Daly, of the Center for Behavioral Effects of environmental toxins at SUNY, worried as more and more families began consuming significant amounts of the Lake Ontario salmon, which were highly contaminated with chemicals, particularly PCBs. To determine the effects of such consumption on these families, Daly began a series of experiments in which she fed rats Lake Ontario salmon and a control group either less-contaminated Pacific salmon or a diet without any salmon whatsoever. |
Hyla Cass
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 Chapter 2, "You Hold the Keys to Your Health—Even If You Need Prescriptions," describes what nutrients are and provides the big picture of the ways in which poor diet, environmental toxins, and lifestyle choices can set the stage for nutrient depletion, with or without medications. It also notes the consequences of these depletions, and explores how getting all the right nutrients will enhance your overall health.
?Chapters 3 through 7 go into specifics, addressing specific conditions and individual drugs used to treat them, and how they affect nutrient balance. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 We still don't know yet the origins of autism but it's curious to see a rise in autism alongside a rise in environmental toxins. Many doctors are no longer using vaccines containing thimerosol, but you must be specific when requesting them for your children.
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
The human immune system is a vast and complex area of continued study. The variables of immune parameters from one individual to the next makes the study of environmental and occupational exposure on human immune function somewhat difficult. |
| And with an increase of environmental toxins comes an increase in the risk for health problems, notably those that gain momentum with continued exposure and worsen over time as the body begins to rebel in unexpected ways. Eventually, a nagging illness sets in.
The statistics continue to be staggering. Nearly 20 million Americans have diabetes, which is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States (and largely preventable); millions more are prediabetic and don't even know it. |
| From there they are carried eventually into the blood in the chest cavity. All environmental toxins such as solvents, pesticides, food additives, and air pollution can be either fat-soluble or water-soluble, depending on their specific chemical makeup. Once in the blood, either directly through the intestinal wall or via the lymph system, the toxins will make their way to the liver. See the illustration on page 86 to put this into perspective.
Example: When you eat a mercury-laden fish, such as tuna or swordfish, it gets broken down and digested by our body's enzymes and bacteria. |
| Although we can certainly have toxic relatives and relationships, I generally use the term to discuss two broad classes: environmental and internal. environmental toxins include household chemicals, industrial pollutants, food additives, and pesticides. Internal toxins consist of waste products created by normal metabolic processes within the body. Such digestive toxins are produced as a result of breaking down proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
But I also want to point out another dimension to this definition that's frequently overlooked. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Similarly, better measurements of ROS status may help predict the potential for antioxidants in individuals exposed to specific environmental toxins, including but not limited to cigarette smoke, which may influence the magnitude and direction of the response.
Current measures of antioxidant status in an individual vary greatly among different research settings making comparison of results problematic. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Doctors never mention the chemical poisons used in the producing of the food, the chemicals used in the processing of the food, the microwaving and irradiation of the food causing it to be energetic toxic, the growth hormones and antibiotics used in the meat and dairy, and the other environmental toxins that get into the food in the cooking, storing, and manufacturing. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Since an overweight child has leptin resistance, and thus less leptin in the brain, their brains are more susceptible to damage not only from environmental toxins but also from any ingested amphetamine.
We see that leptin is not only involved in regulation of food intake and craving issues; a proper amount of it is essential for the protection of the brain against damage.
SUMMARY
Food addiction, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction share a common communication signal gone awry - leptin resistance or leptin signals that have been destroyed. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Many plastics, household chemicals, personal care products, and environmental toxins, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics and other synthetic drugs, send manmade hormone-disrupting chemicals into our bodies and the natural environment. Although the extent to which this exposure affects human health is unknown, there is growing evidence that suggests it may be responsible for recent worldwide increases in health problems, including precocious puberty, breast and prostate cancer, infertility, low sperm counts, auto-immune diseases, and even osteoporosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. It is an artificially processed food. It doesn’t have any justifiable purpose for human nutrition. Hydrogenated milk would probably kill baby cows just due to the negative effects of eating homogenized fat molecules. |
Paula Begoun
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 Nioxin acknowledges that hormonal influences (in men and in women) are the major players when it comes to hair loss and baldness, but Nioxin literature also includes falsehoods that attribute hair loss and thinning to such elements as styling product buildup, environmental toxins, and a malnourished scalp. As causative factors, none of these affect hair growth, yet that's what Nioxin's claims depend on. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If something similar were to go wrong with your car, you wouldn't call it "squeaky brakes disease" -- you would say the brakes need to be repaired. If the engine started knocking because of a lack of oil, you wouldn't diagnose your car with "engine knocking disease" - you would change the oil. The same thing is true in the human body. What we name these diseases doesn't mean anything; it's just a name. It's a short cut that says nothing about the underlying problem.
Poor nutrition and exposure to toxins are really the root cause of all these mysterious disorders. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are carcinogens that are formed when meat is cooked, and red meat is also high in saturated animal fats, which act as a concentrated storehouse of environmental toxins. Saturated animal fats will make our cells more insulin-resistant, which puts us at risk for type 2 diabetes.
It also causes our insulin levels to go up. Insulin actually acts as a growth factor for not only breast cancer, but colon, prostate cancer and so forth. There are little receptors on the cell and when it hooks onto it, it causes cell division to increase. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can reverse and eliminate all of these chronic degenerative diseases by changing what you eat, how you exercise, your exposure to environmental toxins, your stress levels and by availing yourself of natural sunlight and fresh water and air.
You'll never hear that from the federal government, and you won't hear that as a benefit program, because no one profits from it. No one profits when the U.S. population is healthy. Pharmaceutical corporations only make money when you're sick and when you stay sick.
I'm curious as to what program they'll come up with the next. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm talking about medicinal herbs, reishi mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, outstanding nutrition and avoidance of certain food ingredients and environmental toxins such as plastic cookware -- measures like that. It's not overly difficult to reverse this disease or even prevent it from happening in the first place, but what modern medicine wants to do is take away your organs.
When they're not removing your organs, they're irradiating them: "Let's smash your breasts between this machine like a pancake and irradiate them to see if we can find some tumors in there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is only prevention, only the reversal of disease through nutrition, physical exercise, avoidance of chronic stress, avoidance of environmental toxins, and participation in healing therapies, such as vibrational nutrition, healing touch, nutritional supplements, acupuncture, chiropractic care, and superfoods. The way to "cure" these diseases is to prevent them. And if you already have such a "disease," the way to cure them is to stop treating the symptoms of that disease and, instead, treat the whole patient (you). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's actually very helpful to me, because a person can eliminate all symptoms of cancer and be declared "cancer free," or in remission of cancer by a Western doctor, but then they go back to an unhealthy lifestyle and they expose themselves to dietary and environmental toxins, and they can have a recurrence of that cancer.
Frank: And in most cases, will. Another interesting thing we don't hear a lot about in these circles are HIV-type diseases, but many of the HIV-type diseases or related conditions will respond to one or more alternative therapies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only way to achieve a high state of health is to pursue a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, physical activity, exposure to natural sunlight, strong social interaction, brain exercise, good breathing, staying away from environmental toxins, and so on.
But while the study shows St. John's Wort to be more effective than antidepressant drugs, an educated naturopathic physician or nutritionist may not suggest that you simply switch from antidepressants to St. John's Wort. That is still an allopathic approach. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They meanwhile help patients undergo major, fundamental reforms in their lifestyle consisting of food choice, dietary habits, and physical exercise, avoidance of environmental toxins, lower levels of chronic stress, better sleep, better hormonal balance, and so on.
Marketing to children
Here's another similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: They both love to market to children. For years, tobacco companies have been trying to edge and wiggle their way into the adolescent market, targeting teenagers and children. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 While smell loss from these culprits can be permanent, prompt treatment may be able to restore your ability to smell.
If you've recently had nasal surgery, a diminished sense of smell can alert you to the fact that something went awry during the procedure. It can also be a reaction to radiation therapy or chemotherapy, as well as to certain drugs such as decongestants and medications for hyperthyroidism. Speaking of drugs, smell loss—like a runny nose—can result from snorting cocaine or other illicit drugs. It can also be your body's way of warning you that you're smoking or drinking too much. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It could also mean that you are poisoning your body with cancer-causing substances such as sodium nitrite or chemical sweeteners, artificial colors, refined carbohydrates and environmental toxins such as the toxic chemicals found around your home. Common antibacterial soaps, for example, contain a chemical ingredient known as triclosan that, when combined with chlorine in tap water, generates highly carcinogenic fumes. Merely eating processed meats, recent studies show, boosts your risk of pancreatic cancer by 7600%! |
| They are a result of nutritional deficiencies, chronic stress, environmental toxins found in the air, the water and even personal care products like shampoo, deodorants and anti-static dryer sheets.
You see, when a person has a cancer tumor, it's something that the body actually built. Conventional medicine tends to think of a tumor as some sort of alien invader, as if it swooped down from the sky and latched on to your body. But in fact, your body built the tumor. Cancer comes from within the body. There's no microbial invader responsible. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And if you want a strong immune system, you've got to stop poisoning your body right now through foods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins and chronic stress.
If you wait for the virus to hit, it's going to be too late. You can't reform your immune system in 24 hours. You can't just change your diet one day and expect to be healthier the next day or the next week or even the next month. It takes many months of healthy eating and wise lifestyle choices to make strong, lasting changes in your health and immune system function. |
Alex Steffen
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 Mycelia—the parts of the mushroom that absorb nutrients and turn them into usable matter and waste matter-are able to eat up some environmental toxins and efficiently break them down into nontoxic components. Mushrooms can remediate soil and sediment contaminated by heavy oils, petroleum products, pesticides, alkaloids, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and even E. coli.
One of Stamets's best-known case studies involved cleaning up a diesel-oil spill using oyster mushrooms. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| 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.
We suggest that you limit your intake of red meat (beef, veal, or lamb) to no more than two servings per month and choose the leanest cuts possible. Do not charbroil or cook the meat until well done, as this increases the formation of cancer-causing compounds. Also, consider some of the alternatives to beef, such as venison, buffalo, elk, rabbit, and ostrich. |
Greg Critser
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 When it comes to drugs (as well as to alcohol or any environmental toxins), this excreting function is the most important. The liver's main cells, called hepatocytes, take drugs, which are fat-soluble, and add another molecule, making them water-soluble, and hence excretable. We can get rid of them. The fate of the hepatocyte is, then, the fate of the body, at least concerning drug-induced problems. As all drugs are, to the liver, a "poison," so all drugs go through this process. But some drugs are more toxic and demanding of the hepatocytes than other drugs. |
| His work centers on "health worry," everything from concerns about cell phones to environmental toxins to genetically modified foods. He has found a consistent connection between the degree to which a person worries about such things and individual complaints to doctors about chronic fatigue syndrome and food intolerance. As he notes, this phenomenon is relatively new. |
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