Hundreds of industrial chemicals have been dumped into our rivers, freely incinerated, amassed in landfills, sprayed on food, incorporated into everyday household items, and used in so much abundance that many of them can be found in the blood or fatty tissues of nearly every American.
From organochlorines to PCBs, fluoropolymers, heavy metals, flame retardants, and dioxins, an alarming number of toxic chemicals are inside all of us, affecting the way our body functions. This encumbering storehouse of toxic chemicals, pesticides, and heavy metals we carry inside our bodies is referred to by scientists as our "body burden."
Effects of Toxins
When toxins overwhelm our natural elimination systems, cells and tissue become inflamed, bacteria and waste increase, the kidney and liver are strained, fewer nutrients get absorbed, and our health declines [2].
Short-term health effects of toxins can include fatigue, occasional sleeplessness, constipation, lowered immunity, and more. But short-term effects may be just the tip of the iceberg. Often they are outward signs your body sends to tell you something more, maybe much more, is going on internally.
Dozens of laboratory studies published by different organizations, groups, and journals have described the increasing contaminants and toxins in our bodies. Their findings: No matter how clean a life we have lived, we are all walking toxin museums.
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Studies conducted by the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York , in conjunction with Environmental Working Group and Commonweal, surveyed the chemical body burden of nine average U.S. individuals who neither worked with chemicals nor lived near industrial plants. The researchers found 167 different industrial pollutants in the group overall, with an average 91 chemicals per individual. [1]
Biolab
London-based Biolab, a medical laboratory analyzing toxins in blood and fatty tissue, found that "a fat sample from an adult living today contains up to 500 different chemicals, but one taken from an Egyptian mummy has virtually none. The reason is simple — most of them are man-made and have been released into the environment in the past 60 years" [6]
CDC
In a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2,500 volunteers were tested for 116 different pollutants. One of these volunteers included public journalist Bill Moyers. He had 84 different toxins in his body, including lead, mercury, PCBs, dioxins, DDT, and dozens more.
Other volunteers had — in their toxin storehouse — uranium, used in nuclear bombs, and cotatine, a nicotine derivative from smoke [7, 8].
National Research Council
The National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies released a press release several years ago that stunned the nation, announcing that "approximately half of all pregnancies in the United States result in prenatal or postnatal death or an otherwise less than healthy baby."
They said that major deformities, such as heart and neural tube defects, occur in 120,000 of the 4 million children born each year, with approximately 3 percent of these deformities attributable to toxins, and 25 percent attributable to a "combination of genetic and environmental factors" [9].
Chemical Body Burden
"Coming Clean," an environmental organization analyzing the effects of toxins in the body, says that of approximately 80,000 chemicals currently in commerce, only 15,000 have been tested for safety. Of these tested, none is tested for the way it reacts in combination with other chemicals.
The way chemicals react with one another can be more significant than how they behave alone. This is because "no one is ever exposed to a single chemical, but to a chemical soup, the ingredients of which may interact to cause unpredictable health effects" [10].
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The EPA estimates that the average American, without any direct exposure to dioxins, already has 13 nanograms of dioxins per kilogram of body weight — just from consuming a normal diet! [3]. Unfortunately, dioxins are one of the most potent chemicals known to man.
This dioxin level in our bodies, the EPA says, is "uncomfortably close to levels that can cause subtle adverse non-cancer effects in animals and humans." Dioxins pose a serious health hazard because they are "persistent and bioaccumulative," meaning they don't break down, and they build-up continually in the body over a lifetime [4].
The Body Detox Solution
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