Toxicity
Our human activity on this planet, particularly during the last 150 years or so since the advent of the industrial revolution, has resulted in a vast amount of poisonous toxins being released into the earth’s environment. Unfortunately, much of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat is tainted by at least some sort of toxic contamination. Studies show that virtually everyone on the planet, even including newborns, harbors within their tissues an increasingly complex combination of potentially harmful chemicals.
One of the biggest reasons why this cocktail of toxins we carry in our bodies (also known as “body burden”) is so potentially dangerous to our health, is because of the unknown synergetic effect the combination of these different poisons may be having inside us.
Although some chemicals are tested by their manufacturers to determine safe levels with regards to their exposure to humans, many of these industrial chemicals undergo no such testing. And even those chemicals that are tested are only tested in a vacuum as it were. In other words, companies test their chemicals for safe levels singly, as if their particular chemical is the only potentially toxic substance to which a body might be exposed at any point in time. Yet most of us absorb, in one way or another, small amounts of literally hundreds of toxic chemicals over the course of our lifetimes. Therefore a wide variety of many different kinds of poisons get all mixed together inside us.
The potentially detrimental impact of these of various kinds of individual contaminants is magnified manifold when we begin to take into account the possible synergetic effect these toxins may have upon our bodies as they combine and interact together as a cocktail within us on a cellular level.
When we consider that our bodies were never designed to cope with either the levels of toxicity, or the wide variety of different individual toxins to which most of us are exposed these days, it stands to reason that the chemical cocktail of contaminants we’re carrying inside us is actually having an extremely damaging effect indeed upon our collective health.
Because our bodies are carrying a greater load of environmental toxins than ever, and because these poisons can have such a profoundly detrimental impact upon our health, some of the most effective, natural paths to health and healing are those approaches that serve to cleanse, purify and help the body to detoxify from the inside out.