Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 In many cases, the culprit is found to be environmental toxins of one type or another. Dr. Harold Buttram has been pointing out for the past two decades that "while most of our knowledge of the effect of environmental toxins comes from reports of occupational exposure in adults, there is no doubt that developing children are at even greater risk. It is a known fact that pesticides are toxic to the nervous system. Most of our knowledge in this area comes from studies of occupational exposures in adults. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Section 6: GM crops may increase environmental toxins and bioaccumulate toxins in the food chain............143
6.1 Glufosinate-tolerant crops may produce herbicide "inside"our intestines............................................144
6.2 Herbicide-tolerant crops increase herbicide use and residues in food..................................................146
6.3 Tiny amounts of herbicide may act as endocrine disruptors.................................................................148
6.4 GM crops may accumulate environmental toxins or concentrate toxins in milk and meat of GM-fed animals. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 We are facing both an increasing prevalence of autoimmunity and an increasing exposure to environmental toxins. Is it clear that the increased exposure of environmental toxins is causing the increase in autoimmunity? Several lines of evidence suggest that this jury, too, has issued the verdict—"guilty. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 When I speak to general medical audiences on occupational and environmental toxins, I often ask how many physicians in the room have ever treated a patient with bteathing problems following a household bleach mishap. Typically, about 15—20 percent of the audience raise their hands. When I ask in follow-up how many in the room have actually had to treat themselves for this same exposure, several hands always stay aloft.
It would be easy to assume that these overzealous bleach attacks are a peculiarly American problem. |
Tom Bohager
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 When the body is constantly exposed to and threatened by these environmental toxins, the immune system can become depleted. A compromised immune system, in turn, can contribute to the development of imbalances and disease in the body. |
| Recommendations include diagnostic tests and evaluations to ascertain the underlying cause of the condition, eating a well-balanced diet and avoiding sugars and foods with a high glycemic index, and ruling out or treating sensitivities or allergies to foods, preservatives, additives, and/or environmental toxins. Also recommended are detoxification and drainage products to regenerate the liver, lymph system, and blood cleansing process. Enzymes and nutritional products can support the digestive and immune systems. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Optimize nutritional intake and avoid environmental toxins.
PREVENTION
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Eat nutritious whole foods. Include foods known to reduce inflammation such as fish, curries, and garlic and high amounts of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. Reduce red meat, especially grain-fed meat.
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Get regular exercise.
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Avoid pesticides, chemicals, solvents, and heavy metals.
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Eat organic foods.
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Drink purified water.
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Maintain good digestion and regular bowel habits.
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Avoid alcohol. |
| Research on baboons with endometriosis suggests activation by environmental toxins that mimic estrogens.16
Whether implants are caused by retrograde flow, decreased immune function, genetic factors, environmental influences, or embryological development or are stimulated by high estrogen levels from the environment or within the body, the worsening of symptoms prompts individuals to seek medical help. There is not necessarily a correlation between pain and the extent of the disease. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Like all environmental toxins, mercury accumulates up the food chain. (The tiniest fish are consumed by bigger fish, which are eaten by large swordfish and tuna, so that by the time the tuna consumes his dinner, he's packing in all the mercury ingested by the smaller creatures.)
How did so much mercury get into the oceans and lakes to be consumed by fish in the first place? |
Bill Sardi
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 Regardless of what you may have read elsewhere, cancer is a disease of aging, not primarily caused by environmental toxins such as pesticides or industrial chemicals, which may be cancer causing agents (carcinogens), but do not significantly contribute to cancer mortality rates. This is often difficult for cancer patients to comprehend. Carcinogens are tested in lab dishes, or administered to animals in unnaturally high doses. The human body has defenses against carcinogens. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Chapter 2 will help you to understand how age, body fat, and environmental toxins can join forces to sabotage your inner hormonal equilibrium.
DOMINANT? velyn, a thirty-seven-year-old graphic artist and mother of three, walked into my office literally dragging her forty-three-year-old husband, Richard, behind her. I had delivered all three of her children and had been her gynecologist for years. Evelyn related the following:
Dr. Randolph, remember how trim and athletic my body was even after three kids? Even two years ago, I was a perfect size 8. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Many things increase our free radical load, from stress to environmental toxins to a poor diet. Unfortunately, there is a limit to the body's enzyme production, and our society seems to have pushed the body to that limit. Too often, it seems, the antioxidant defenses of the body are overwhelmed, and free-radical damage accumulates and contributes to degenerative diseases. Just as a general reinforces an army with new troops, we can reinforce our body's defenses with antioxidant nutrients in our diet. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Harry explained that "Peter's system of testing showed correlations to environmental toxins, particularly cadmium, dioxin, radiation, organochlorides, and organophosphates. Immunity is heavily affected by energy compartments 4, 10, and 11, and these showed significant damage in me. . . . The main distortions in compartments 4, 10, and 11 are energetically related to hormones (compartment 11, correlating to the male hormones), causing severe stress, which in turn affected compartments 1, 7, and 12. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Chapter 2, "You Hold the Keys to Your Health—Even If You Need Prescriptions," describes what nutrients are and provides the big picture of the ways in which poor diet, environmental toxins, and lifestyle choices can set the stage for nutrient depletion, with or without medications. It also notes the consequences of these depletions, and explores how getting all the right nutrients will enhance your overall health.
• Chapters 3 through 7 go into specifics, addressing specific conditions and individual drugs used to treat them, and how they affect nutrient balance. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| GM crops may accumulate environmental toxins or concentrate toxins in milk and meat of GM-fed animals
The Division of Food Chemistry and Technology of the FDA outlined four potential dangers of GM crops. In addition to a potential "increased levels of known naturally occurring toxins," the "appearance of new, not previously identified" toxins, and "undesirable alterations in the levels of nutrients," they said that GM crops might gather "toxic substances from the environment" such as "pesticides or heavy metals. |
| Robert Mann, biochemist, University of Auckland
SECTION 6:
GM crops may increase environmental toxins and bioaccumulate toxins in the food chain
GM crops do not exist in isolation. They are a component of industrial farming practices and part of a complex ecosystem and food web. This section looks at potential health problems that may arise from these relationships. |
| GM crops may accumulate environmental toxins or concentrate toxins in milk and meat of GM-fed animals...............................................................................................................150
6.5 Disease-resistant crops may promote new plant viruses, which carry risks for humans........................152
Section 7: Other types of GM foods carry risks..................................................................................................155
7.1 Milk from rbGH-treated cows may increase risk of cancer and other diseases.................................... |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Birth control pills that have high levels of estrogen
4. environmental toxins that mimic the actions of estrogen (xenoestrogens), most notably pesticides
5. Exposure to radiation, which increases estrogen levels in the blood
6. Chronic constipation, which Interferes with the body's ability to eliminate estrogen properly
7. Supplemental estrogen as part of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms
Too little progesterone may be caused by:
8. An underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism)
9. Chronic stress
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Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 It protects [J| against environmental toxins, enhances immunity, and may even help with sleep disorders.
Taurine for Bloat and Water Retention
IN A MINUTE, I'm going to tell you how good taurine is for the heart (and for arrhythmias). But first let me just pass on a little folk wisdom to you. If you've got PMS— and especially if you feel bloated—think taurine.
One of the most popular products on my website is a product by the wonderful vitamin company Designs for Health called Water Ease. Water Ease is 700 mg of taurine, with a little B6 thrown in for good measure. |
Ron Garner
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 It contains powerful immune-building and growth factors, antibodies, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, plus other substances that fortify the body against harmful microorganisms and environmental toxins. Research has identified at least fifty processes, from immune system development to the growth of all body cells, which are triggered in the newborn by colostrum. Evidence shows that these same immune-system-modulating benefits are also available to adults who supplement with colostrum. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Is it clear that the increased exposure of environmental toxins is causing the increase in autoimmunity? Several lines of evidence suggest that this jury, too, has issued the verdict—"guilty." Researchers recently showed that when added to the diets of rats, PFOA (perfluoroocta-noic acid, a breakdown chemical of Teflon and one of the chemicals found in the blood panel screenings mentioned above), causes significant impairments in the ability of rats to develop an appropriate immune response. |
| In all likelihood, much of the reason for this often catastrophic mistake of the immune system comes from the countless environmental toxins to which we are currently exposed— toxins that interfere with the way the immune system communicates with the rest of the body. To paraphrase W. B. Yeats, when that communication is lost, "things fall apart, the centre cannot hold."
The numbers are staggering: one in twelve Americans—and one in nine women—will develop an autoimmune disorder. |
Stacy Malkan
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 What is the connection between environmental toxins and breast cancer? And why has the incidence of breast cancer risen, despite the 'war on cancer' and all the money spent on research?"
The nation's largest breast cancer charities fall in line with similar messages about early detection and cure, and divert public attention away from prevention strategies in ways that are sometimes not so subtle. The American Cancer Society (ACS), for instance, is frequently quoted in the press urging cautious interpretation of evidence linking chemicals to disease. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Consider for a moment just how important these components are in the grand scheme of biology—the intestines are the first exposure point and thus the first line of defense against environmental toxins to which we expose ourselves daily.
Imagine what would happen if you never cleaned your house, never took out the garbage, never vacuumed your car, or never took a shower. What would happen to your body (or your social life for that matter) after 10 years of wallowing in filth? Your body would likely be repellent and disgusting beyond belief. n x >
Guess what? |
| However, to ensure that you continue to stay as clean inside as possible, you should eat only live, raw fruits and vegetables and should completely eliminate as many environmental toxins as possible (see Part 2). Because the Standard American Diet (appropriately called "SAD") is so poor, you will need to cleanse on a continuous basis to help keep your entire intestinal lining clean. Therefore, I recommend a continued maintenance dose using a oxygen based cleanser 2 to 3 times weekly (especially after the consumption of red meat meals). Use your bowel activity as a guide. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| There is almost universal agreement among scientists and physicians that the environmental toxins and chemicals to which we are increasingly exposed are interfering with the immune system's ability to distinguish self from non-self. Most of the risk of autoimmunity comes from environmental exposures rather than from genetic susceptibilities. So, have those environmental exposures changed over time? The answer is clearly yes. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Avoid environmental toxins.
• Reduce stressors.
• Avoid smoking and excess alcohol and reduce caffeine.
• Maintain optimal weight.
• Minimize exposure to environmental chemicals and toxins.
• Treat any underlying medical conditions related to infertility (exometriosis/endometriosis, polycystic ovarian dysfunction) nologist. After a detailed history and physical including pertinent lab work, treatment can be targeted to address any identified underlying causes. Unfortunately, in many cases, no cause can be determined. |
Ron Garner
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| Exposure to environmental toxins, emfs, and geopathic stress. Belief system.
As well, a commitment to:
Healthy attitudes. Wholesome diet. Regular exercise.
Health-building supplements that cleanse the body and replenish its workers.
Continual understanding of symptoms and causes.
Whenever we have a physical problem, or symptoms of a malfunction, or disease within the body, we should be asking:
What is causing this?
Why is my body acting this way?
What is it telling me?
What is it trying to correct?
What experience(s) in my past could be contributing to my present condition? |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| As with any detoxification involving environmental toxins, the process can take many months and will likely have to be periodically addressed over the long term because it is next to impossible to limit your exposure.
NES Case Overview: Mark
Lynette Frieden, a naturopathic physician and chiropractor, began seeing Mark when he was seven years old, and he has been under her care for a year. Although he has never been medically diagnosed with autism or attention deficit disorder, Mark displays most of the symptoms. His mother tells his story in her own words. |
Ron Garner
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| They are imbalances in the body's hormonal system brought on by nutritional deficiencies, stress, pharmaceutical drugs, unnecessary surgeries, and environmental toxins. An industry has been created to exploit, and unfortunately, exacerbate these problems. It is estimated that 500,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in North America, 90% of which are classified as "elective surgeries."13 This procedure, when combined with removal of the ovaries, immediately triggers menopause. |
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