TOXINS!! Where do they come from and how do they get in us and how do we know these things are damaging us and creating inflammation?
Today let’s look at a study done by the Environmental Working Group in 2005. In this study, they looked at the cord blood from babies. The study found 287 known environmental poisons in various samples that they tested. EVERY SINGLE ONE had mercury which is the most toxic element known to humans. This is before the babies ever took their first breath or ate a meal. Many of them had PCB’s Chlordane, Persistent organic pollutants ( chemical that take decades to break down) and Volatile organic compounds VOC’s in them! Some of these were outlawed in the 1970’s.
So how are these chemicals getting into our children at birth? Scientists are beginning to realize that these heavy metals , chemicals, pesticides and herbicides are going from the mother to the baby. Furthermore, we are learning that heavy metals like mercury can take up to 4 generations to finally be removed from the human body. This is why every generation keeps getting sicker and sicker. If your mother, grandmother, and great grandmother all had mercury amalgam dental fillings in their mouths, as well as chemical exposures in their life times, they could have potentially ALL passed their toxins down to you.
We are learning that mercury, heavy metals and other toxins will bioaccumulate in your body if your body becomes overrun with these toxins. What that means is that if your great- grandma had a load of toxins that she wasn’t able to fully detox, then she would have passed some of those down to your Grandma, who in the same fashion, passed a portion of great grandma’s and her own mercury and other toxins to your mom, who passed a portion of great grandma’s, grandma’s and her own down to you. Then you started your life out with that load meanwhile accumulating your own load of toxins. Wow, I realize that’s a depressing thought. But it certainly would explain why every generation keeps developing more and more genetic and autoimmune illnesses at younger ages.
Statistics are showing us that autoimmune illnesses, autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities, neurological diseases such as MS, parkinsons and Alzheimers, diabetes, cancers and syndrome type diagnoses are skyrocketing in prevalence with each new generation. There is far more than 1 study to back all this up. The science is growing quickly on the subject and more and more practitioners who are actually getting people well from the above-mentioned illnesses are embracing the new science. It all makes sense when you think about it. When you look at thousands of years of human history you see there is disease, but you don’t see nearly the level of autoimmune, syndrome, and neurological and genetic disease that you see now. Not just in older adults either. We are seeing more and more illness in children and young adults than ever before in history. You see, heavy metals like Mercury have been able to accumulate in our bodies as a result of not just dental amalgams ( see studies on the iaomt website), but also vaccines, and just our air food and water as a result of coal burning power plants releasing mercury into the air around the world. Mercury is bad enough but when you also toss in there metals like lead from our pipes, food and cosmetics, paints and many other sources, aluminum from many many sources including vaccines, food air and water, thallium, arsenic, and others it becomes a real problem.
Our bodies were designed to detox certain toxic elements but never before in human history have we had SO MANY thrown at us every day. And that’s after we were already born with a load of them. To me, toxin accumulation is the epidemic of modern society. One of the worst chemicals ever introduced into the food supply was GLYPHOSATE- the main\ ingredient in Round Up. Maybe you’ve heard some of the recent reports on Round Up and how a man in California won a large lawsuit against manufacturer MONSANTO due to them knowing that their product caused cancer and covering it up. Round Up started being sprayed onto most of our crops by the early 1990’s and over 40 years we’ve all had ample exposure to this very harmful chemical. One of the things it does is to impair your body’s ability to detox other poisonous chemicals . This is a real problem when we have chemicals coming into us nearly every hour of every day through our air, food, water and body and home care products. Another thing that prominent Glyphosate researcher and MIT PhD and scientist Dr. Stephanie Seneff has learned, is that glyphosate also bonds well to heavy metals like lead. This is a real problem when farmers are spraying tons of the herbicide every day, and it is getting washed into our water supply and running through lead pipes. She theorizes that the combination of the lead In the pipes bonding to the round up run-off going through those pipes, is creating higher lead levels leeching into our water supply than ever before.
We are also learning that Flouride in our water supply turns out to be very toxic to the thyroid gland. You see the thyroid gland is like a sponge when it comes to toxins. Mercury has been found lodged there and fluoride can disrupt your body’s production of active T3 hormone. Thyroid hormone is now one of the TOP pharmaceutical sales world wide. Many pharmacies can hardly keep certain natural thyroid prepartions in stock due to the epidemic of thyroid diseases we are seeing. We are all told that these rampant thyroid diseases, even in children are all just genetic. But pioneering doctors, scientists and researchers such as Dr Izabella Wentz, Pharm D, are telling us that environmental toxins such as mercury and fluoride are just a few of the culprits behind our current epidemic of thyroid disease. Hashimotos indeed may run in your family, but we are learning through the field of EPIGENETICS that these genes can be turned off through intensive detoxification of our organs and tissues including the thyroid.
Many chemical companies have done studies showing that their products are safe when used as directed right? What no one has done up until now is to look at what happens when all of these many heavy metals, chemicals, glyphosate and other pesticides and herbicides, and now MICROPLASTICS accumulate and combine in the human body to provoke disease.
Pioneering doctors in the space of healing chronic Lyme disease, autoimmune disease, autism spectrum and other childhood diseases, are telling us that environmental toxins are coming from first mother to baby, then vaccines, medications, air, food, water and daily products that we use. As I mentioned earlier these tiny but daily amounts of toxins are accumulating, burdening our immune systems and are directly responsible for creating ongoing inflammation and damage to tissues.
These pioneering doctors, researchers, scientists and practitioners are leading the way for the rest of us to help people AVOID these toxins in the first place, and then teaching us how to DETOX our bodies of these accumulated and interacting poisons. What I love about learning all this is that it is really HOPE GIVING. My goal in teaching all this new science is to not depress or scare you, but to show you that there is a reason why your hormones and chemicals are off balance in your body. There is a reason why we have so much oxidative stress causing fibromyalgia pain, Chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme disease, PANS and PANDAS, Autoimmune disease and so many other complex chronic illnesses.
The pioneers I am referring to are also telling us that things we think are normal and that we just learn to live with like anxiety and depression, OCD and panic, IBS and brain fog, learning disabilities and ADD, all can have their roots in these toxins. What this means for you and I is that we can learn to rid ourselves of these poisons, change our lifestyles to keep our exposures to them as minimal as possible, and ultimately regain our health!!
Next week I am going to focus more in-depth on the heavy metals, chemicals and microplastics that I keep referring to and how these things are affecting our hormones, our neurotransmitters and gut and brain health. Stay tuned!