Your Metabolic Dilemma

How and Why Environmental Toxins “Silently” Stockpile
in Your Body & What You Can Do About It

(Webinar Notes for part 2 in a 5-part series on Detoxing Environmental Toxins)

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Even though these chemicals are most often present in miniscule amounts, you body WAS NOT meant to metabolize these chemicals because they are man-made and not recognizable.

Those “unconcerned” (we know who they are) claim that these chemicals are present in such tiny amounts that the body can easily detoxify them.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Study: Biopsy studies of chemicals stored in the fat of human beings show that 100% of people had Dioxins, PCBs, Dichlorobenzene, and Xylene.  (We spoke about these chemicals last week- most potent causes of cancer known.)

These chemicals are not normal to the body therefore it cannot metabolize them, so it does not posses the capability to completely detoxify them.

They Bioaccumulate (stockpile)

REMINDER: PCBs from plastics, inks, paints, etc. Dichlorobenzene from air fresheners in public bathrooms, Xylene from plastics, carpets, traffic exhaust.  So we are ALL exposed!

Laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group have detected bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen, in umbilical cord blood of American infants. Nine of 10 randomly selected samples of cord blood tested positive for BPA, an industrial petrochemical. BPA has been implicated in a lengthening list of serious chronic disorders, including cancer, cognitive and behavioral impairments, endocrine system disruption, reproductive and cardiovascular system abnormalities, diabetes, asthma and obesity. In all, the tests found as many as 232 chemicals in the 10 newborns

Columbia University School of public health reports that 95% of cancer is caused by environment and diet.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Study: 100% of human fat samples contain Styrene (from plastics of all kind). Cancer causing!

American Physicians are NOT trained to look for or help you detox from these environmental toxins.

And when even the accumulation of on of these poisons is carcinogenic, what is the effect of multiple toxins working synergistically?
 

The Effects of Detoxification on Your Nutrient Resources

Note:  Not everyone is affected that same way.  The percentage of a chemical that winds up in the bone, liver, or brain for instance will be different between individuals.  The Detoxification capability of each person will determine how much of each chemical is eliminated and how much is stored and where.

Ridding the body of these chemical (to the degree it can) is no free ride.  It requires precious nutrient resources to do so and leaves you depleted.  This makes you MORE vulnerable to the next onslaught of chemical which in this world is NEVERENDING!

Example: If you are low in glutathione because you went to the drycleaner and your body detoxed the trichloroethylene then you may be the one to get a headache from the new paint at work.  Or you may be the one that gets cancer from spraying your home with pesticides a few years down the road because you did not have the nutrient resources on hand to deal with the poising as you were exposed.

Bottom Line:  We are all so over –exposed to these chemical toxins that we all need help staying ahead of the accumulating toxins in out bodies.  Get it?
 

Phases of Detoxification

You ability to Detoxify plays a major role in whether chemicals are detoxified or stored

Two Phases of Detoxification:

Phase I: Electrons are merely shifted around on the chemical to prepared a niche for:

Enzymes prepare the attachment site all of which require minerals like: zinc, molybdenum, copper, manganese, magnesium

Electron donors like Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Vitamin E, and Lipoic Acid (all powerful antioxidants) are also important

Phase II: A heavy detoxifier molecule is attached to the chemical site or niche that has been prepared in Phase I

This is usually and molecule the body has made like Glutathione.  Once attached, it makes the chemical very heavy and gives it a polarity (charge).  This heavy polar chemical is easily dragged into the stool or urine so the body can eliminate it

A tripeptide created from 3 AAs (Glycine, glutamic acid, and cysteine)

Glutathione can grasp on to hundreds of different environmental chemicals and drag them out of the blood into the liver, then the gallbladder and into the gut

The only complication is that for every molecule of chemical that is detoxified, you deplete one molecule of glutathione (forever) plus you lose one molecule of ATP (source of energy)

So, if you are really toxic (and everyone is), it would help tremendously if you assisted your body with the process, by supplying extra of what it needs, like glutathione, minerals, and antioxidants (like Vit C, E)

It all stresses how important a good diet is (free of junk and full of nutrient intensity)
 

The Detox Cocktail (2x/day)

*  Ascorbic Acid/Vitamin C powder (2.5g)

*  Lipoic Acid (300-600mg)- universal anti-oxidant (can quench nearly every free radical and also helps recycle other anti-oxidants like Vit C & E)

*  Glutathione (400-800mg)

*  Optional: Add Colloidal minerals (all) or at minimum zinc, molybdenum, copper, manganese, magnesium (for enzyme support)

*  Optional Vitamin E/a-Tocopherol (400-800I.U.)

Note:  Not only will detox a full spectrum of environmental chemicals, but will also help dump heavy metals (after the body has caught up on other chemicals)

 

Free Radicals (ROS: Reactive Oxygen Species)

Cause if all disease

What are Free Radicals: hungry “naked” electrons produced in the body (by chemistry or metabolism)

Tenaciously attack any place they cans steal an electron: i.e. from DNA causing mutation; from cell membrane (burning holes) causing any disease, accelerated aging and death of cell

ROS are only happy and not destructive when they have a pair of electrons in their outer orbit

The body maintains a delicate balance between ROS and its supply of anti-oxidants.

When free radicals overwhelm the body’s ability to quench or neutralize them, disease happens. Unquenched free radicals: damage hormone, genes, cell membranes and other regulatory protein that we need to be totally well

Balanced correctly and ROS harnessed inside the WBC burn or oxidize nasty micro-organisms

However, the onslaught of over 80,000 environmental chemicals creates a massive imbalance in the favor of ROS (environmental chemicals produce free radicals)

Warning signs (High blood pressure and high cholesterol); ROS burn wholes in blood vessel wall, body produces extra cholesterol to “patch the hole”

Test: Lipid Peroxide: Peroxide is formed as ROS burn holes in lipid cell membranes.  Test indicates level of oxidative stress.
 

The Right Foods to Aid in Detox

*  Whole

*  Raw

*  Organic

*  Live
 

Bad Fat, Good Fat

What you don’t eat is as important as what you do eat

Put back any food containing, soybean oil, soy oil, hydrogenated oil, hydrogenated vegetable oil, margarine, shortening.

Hydrogenation creates trans fatty acids (twisted fatty acid)

Clog cell membranes damaging basic chemistry and sets the stage for every body malfunction and disease.

When trans fatty acids replace the good fat in the mitochondrial membrane, it impossible to lose weight and every facet of disease production is increased.

Avoid bleached flour products as they do not contain proper minerals and therefore lose their free radical- fighting properties.

The creation of trans fatty acids has created more disease than any other solo manufacturing practice

Test: Fatty Acid Analysis: correct level of essential fatty acids

Use: Udo’s oil, Cod liver oil, flax seed, olive oil, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid)

Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard school of public Health: getting rid of Trans Fatty Acids in the diet would cut the incidence of CVD (the number 1 cause of death and illness in the US), by 53%

An oil change is one of the easiest and most important changes you can make.  Cells membranes filled with twisted fatty acids will prevent you from recovering from a disease no matter what else you do
 

Ways to Boost Your Detox System

The Detox Enema: as your body pulls the poisons out of your bloodstream into the liver and the gallbladder and eventually into your intestines, if it gets stuck there because of a sluggish bowel, the glutathione can fall of the chemical and it could be reabsorbed.

IdolPlex (diindolyl methane, DIM) photochemical from the Brassica family (broccoli, sprouts, etc.)- metabolizes estrogen mimics away

Test: Estronex- can measure if you have too much of the metabolite that triggers cancer (either from environmental estrogens or the estrogen your body makes)

Glycine (500-1000mg): One of the three AAs in Glutathione, but is a strong detoxer on its own

Detox your gut: The intestinal lining houses half the immune and detox systems

Kyolic- garlic that kills microbes

SeaVive- Heals leaky gut

Probiotic- restores symbiotic cultures

 

Bottom Line:

Environmental toxins are unavoidable and they will stockpile in your body. Only you can decide if you want them out!

 
 
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