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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNow let’s take a look at some interesting findings from some\nimportant research. Unfortunately, I\nwould like to preface this with the fact that not a lot of research money, or grants,\nis being made available for this topic, so there are a limited quantity of\nstudies and studies are limited in the number of participants. Unfortunately, due to the cost of doing\nresearch, most privately funded research being done ultimately is looking to be\nused to sell something at some point; or get something approved by the\nFDA. With that in mind, I still find\nthis information very helpful in first showing us our exposure to toxins and secondly\nits accumulation in our bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- “The Environmental Working Group, in\npartnership with Rachel\u2019s Network, commissioned five laboratories in the U.S., Canada,\nand Europe to analyze umbilical cord blood\ncollected from 10 minority infants born in 2007 and 2008. Collectively, the\nlaboratories identified up to 232 industrial compounds and pollutants in these\nbabies, finding complex mixtures of compounds in each infant.”<\/li>
- “This research demonstrates that industrial\nchemicals cross the placenta in large numbers to contaminate a baby before the\nmoment of birth. Of the 287 chemicals\nfound in newborn umbilical cord blood, 180 cause cancer in humans or animals,\n217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause developmental\nproblems. The dangers of exposure to these chemicals in combination has never\nbeen studied. We detected 287 chemicals\nof 413 tested (69 percent) in umbilical cord blood samples from 10 newborn\nbabies, with a range of between 154 and 231 for each child. We found 101\nchemicals in all babies tested.”<\/li>
- The National Human Adipose Tissue survey, or\nNHATS, conducted by the EPA, analyzed human fat samples in 1982 and 1987 from\ncadavers obtained throughout the nation. \nThis study found that 100% of the samples contained 4 industrial\nsolvents and 1 dioxin. In more than 90%\nof the samples there were nine more chemicals.<\/li>
- “In the first nationwide tests for chemical\nfire retardants in the breast milk of American women, the Environmental Working\nGroup (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known neurotoxic\nchemicals in every participant tested.”<\/li>
- “In the first ever testing on glyphosate\nherbicide in the breast milk of American women, Moms Across America and\nSustainable Pulse have found \u2018high\u2019 levels in 3 out of the 10 samples tested. The\nshocking results point to glyphosate levels building up in women\u2019s bodies over\na period of time, which has until now been refuted by both global regulatory\nauthorities and the biotech industry.”<\/li>
- “Early work on the hormonal basis of\nprostate cancer focused on the role of androgens, but more recently estrogens\nhave been implicated as potential agents in the development and progression of\nprostate cancer. “<\/li>
- “Your pathology report will include the\nresults of a hormone receptor assay, a test that tells you whether or not the\nbreast cancer cells have receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone.\nHormone receptors are proteins \u2014 found in and on breast cells \u2014 that pick up\nhormone signals telling the cells to grow. \nA cancer is called estrogen-receptor-positive<\/strong> (or ER+) if it has receptors\nfor estrogen. This suggests that the cancer cells, like normal breast cells,\nmay receive signals from estrogen that could promote their growth. The cancer\nis progesterone-receptor-positive<\/strong>\n(PR+) if it has progesterone receptors. Again, this means that the cancer cells\nmay receive signals from progesterone that could promote their growth. Roughly\ntwo out of every three breast cancers test positive for hormone receptors.”<\/li>
- “Eating organic reduces pesticides that are\ndetectable by urine samples.”<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTo summarize the above points, made by the resources listed\nbelow, we can safely make a few generalizations. Humans store toxins in fat cells; think about\nthat next time you eat a piece of animal fat, and what toxins might be stored in\nthat animal fat and what that fat is going to do to your health. Umbilical cord blood has been shown to have\ntoxins in it, thus exposing the child to who knows what. Breast milk has been shown to have toxic\nchemicals in it as well. These toxins\noften mimic, or act like, hormones in our blood, which likely increases our\nrisk of some cancers, disrupting our hormonal balance, and having an overall\nnegative effect on our health. Finally,\nwe see that eating organic foods reduced a family’s toxins in their urine. Wow! \nJust let all that soak in for a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am sure you are concerned of your own levels of toxicity,\nand are likely asking “how does the body get rid of these toxins?” The short version is through our liver,\nkidneys, intestines, lungs, lymph and skin. \nIn an attempt to make a broad over simplification, most of the time we\ndiscuss the elimination of toxins we are really talking about the liver. Our current understanding of the liver\ndetoxification process is in two phases: first collecting the trash and secondly\ntaking the trash out. There are key\nnutrients to support this process such as: B vitamins, folic acid, glutathione,\nantioxidants, vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium, sulphur, amino acids, and\nmore. Please understand I am not\nsuggesting going out and purchasing these nutrients, I am just attempting to\nshow the complex biochemical pathways involved in the detoxification\nprocess. Additionally there are certain\ngenetic variants that have been discovered in a particular gene that will cause\nsome people to not be good detoxifiers. Our\nbody’s natural detoxification is something we all take for granted, our body is\nmore complex than we fully understand, and does some awesome work every\nday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, ask yourself this one question, what is your #1\nasset? If you answered your 401k, your\nhome, your boat, your money, well you are wrong. Without health what good are any of those things. So, now that we have established that our\nhealth is our #1 asset, what do you base your health on? If you answered how you look and feel, you\nare again wrong. Basing your health on\nhow you look and feel can be misleading. \nMany times people find out they have cancer when they feel “fine”,\nor often the first sign of cardiovascular disease is a heart attack, or stoke,\nand by that time it can be too late. Do\nyou just put a piece of tape over your car’s check engine light? No, of course\nnot, that is just the wrong solution for the problem. We need to find the right solution to fix the\nproblem as to why the light came on in the first place. So, we need to find the right solution to our\nhealth problem. Here is the\nproblem….we know better how to take care of our cars, for which we will own\nmany in our life time, than we know how to take care of our own vehicle, our body,\nfor which we will only own one. We need\nto base our health on the facts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you think eating good clean organic foods can provide the\nfuel for health and healing with less toxicity? \nDo you think your emotions play a roll in your health (for example how\nis your digestion when you are stressed)? \nIs your structure a part of your health? \nIf you answered yes to all these questions then great now you understand\nthe philosophy behind getting healthy. \nAs a chiropractor we are educated in health and healing without drugs or\nsurgery by supporting the body’s innate God given ability to heal and want to\nthrive, by addressing your structural health, emotional health, and nutritional\nhealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are two paths.\u00a0 One path leads to increased health, the other to increase risk of disease.\u00a0 What path are you on?\u00a0 The path you are on boils down to the choices you are making.\u00a0 We can’t keep putting toxins in, on, or around our body and expect no consequences.\u00a0 So what are you going to choose to do differently? When will you start?\u00a0 When will you take action?\u00a0 Many people have good intentions, but few people take the first action and implementation steps and stick the course and finish strong.\u00a0 How? How will you achieve your health goals?\u00a0 Who? Who will help you, guide you, and hold you accountable?\u00a0 The journey of health is a lifetime commitment, not a destination. \u00a0\u00a0If you don’t take action today where will you be in 10-15 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are few easy steps to consider today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Limit exposure to toxins by eating organic, growing your\nown food, swapping to less toxic cleaning products<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Nourish the body to support its ability to eliminate\ntoxins by eating real unprocessed foods<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Keep a healthy level of percentage body fat<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Don’t take your body’s innate ability to detoxify for\ngranted, consider supporting the organs and pathways for proper function with\nsupplements and foods like the cruciferous vegetable family<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Get checked by a health care profession who focuses on\nhealth care, not sick care<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Make sure you have daily bowel movements to get the trash\nout<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is important that we focus on the rules of health, not\nthe exception to the rule. Everyone has\nthat distant relative who eats bacon and pizza, drinks alcohol daily, and\nsmokes a pack of cigarettes daily and lived to be 90+ years old; but they are the exception\nto the rule, an outlier. The majority of\npeople will not be an outlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
References<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/research\/body-burden-pollution-newborns\/detailed-findings\n Body Burden: The Pollution In Newborns: Detailed Findings. <\/li>
- U.S. EPA.\n National Human Adipose Tissue Survey (NHATS). U.S.\n Environmental Protection Agency,\n Washington, D.C.,\n 747-R-94-001, 1994.<\/li>
- http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/research\/mothers-milk-0\n Mother’s Milk Toxic Fire Retardants (PBDEs) in Human Breast Milk<\/li>
- http:\/\/www.momsacrossamerica.com\/glyphosate_testing_results\n Glyphosate Testing Full Report: Findings in American Mothers\u2019 Breast Milk,\n Urine and Water.<\/li>
- http:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/health\/topics\/agents\/endocrine\/\n . Endocrine Disruptors.<\/li>
- http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3134227\/\n . Estrogen action and prostate cancer.<\/li>
- http:\/\/www.breastcancer.org\/symptoms\/diagnosis\/hormone_status\n . Hormone Receptor Status .<\/li>
- High\n Desert Living article “Water…It does your body good!” July\n 2009 Page 30. <\/li>
- https:\/\/www.coop.se\/PageFiles\/429812\/Coop%20Ekoeffekten_Report%20ENG.pdf\n . Human exposure to pesticides from food. <\/li>
- http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/research\/minority-cord-blood-report\/bpa-and-other-cord-blood-pollutants\n . Pollution in Minority Newborns: BPA and other Cord Blood Pollutants<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- “Eating organic reduces pesticides that are\ndetectable by urine samples.”<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n