Monday, June 11, 2007

How do I Really Know if I am Toxic?

Have you had your daily dose of toxins today?

If you have breathed in the air or washed your hair, brushed your teeth, shaved, washed dishes, taken a shower, used lotion or facial care, or done any house cleaning, you have had your hefty dose of toxins.

Like it or not, agree with it or not, we are existing in a far more toxic and hostile environment than our bodies were designed to handle. Experts have shown that almost every health problem-from learning disorders to cancer to heart disease-is aggravated by the approximate 1,000% increase in lead levels in our bones. In 1999, it was reliably reported that hearts with some form of disease have 20,000 times more toxic heavy metals than healthy hearts.

Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically in the last 50 years, however, as a result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy metals in industrial processes and products. Today, chronic exposure comes from mercury-amalgam dental fillings, lead in paint and tap water, chemical residues in processed foods, and "personal care" products (cosmetics, shampoo and other hair products, mouthwash, toothpaste, soap). In today's industrial society, there is no escaping exposure to toxic chemicals and metals.

A recently concluded "Body Burden" study by New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Environmental Working Group was reviewed by University of Oregon Professor Joseph Thornton: "It shows the universality of chemical contamination of people's bodies," Thornton said. All the studies "confirm the general message that everybody in our society has these chemicals building up. Some people have it worse than others, but everyone has it. No one is clean anymore."

Cleansing our bodies on a regular basis is a must. This is not a new practice, born from our chemical world. Cleansing and Detoxifying are an age long traditions of health that dates back before the birth of allopathic medicine. Instead of putting the negative spin on it like above, we can reclaim our natural roots in purification and detoxification, and throughly enjoy renewing our body, mind, and spirit.