Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Sources of Toxins
We are exposed to toxins every day of our lives, in air and water pollution, chemical and pesticide residues, mercury amalgam dental fillings, biological contaminants such as pollen and parasites, and genetically altered foods, among other sources. Even our own bodies can produce toxins, called endotoxins, which can be harmful if their numbers become excessive or if they aren't adequately neutralized.
Environmental Pollution
Toxins emanate from a variety of sources, but chiefly from environmental pollution. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Compare indoors with outdoors and you'll be able to tell whether it's the outdoor pollution, the lawn spray next door, the mold, pollen, or pollution in the air that is causing problems outside versus inside. You can easily figure out many, many answers by checking your child's pulse, his breathing, and how he writes, draws, feels and looks. Check these same parameters on yourself as well. If you have high blood pressure, you can even use a blood pressure cuff and check your pressure before and after each of these exposures and you'll turn up answers. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 With the collapse of the Soviet political structure, suddenly we learned that the most massive pollution in the history of the world occurred in the socialist countries of the world—the Soviet Union and Eastern Block nations. Entire lakes were so polluted that not a single living organism could be found.
Millions of children were deformed by chemical pollution from factories and mining operations. In Romania, thousand of mentally deficient children are left to languish in filthy, poorly staffed, living hells run by the government: all the result of mass pollution and rape of the environment. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Compare indoors with outdoors and you'll be able to tell whether it's the outdoor pollution, the lawn spray next door, the mold, pollen, or pollution in the air that is causing problems outside versus inside. You can easily figure out many, many answers by checking your child's pulse, his breathing, and how he writes, draws, feels and looks. Check these same parameters on yourself as well. If you have high blood pressure, you can even use a blood pressure cuff and check your pressure before and after each of these exposures and you'll turn up answers. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Environmental Pollution
Toxins emanate from a variety of sources, but chiefly from environmental pollution. Unavoidably, many of us carry around an internal chemical cocktail of toxins we've absorbed: industrial by-products (coal tar or fuel exhaust), pesticides, herbicides, household contaminants (found in cleaners, paints, plastics, and solvents), and biological contaminants (pollens, molds, dust mites, and parasites). |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
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 We are creating a dangerous sea of electromagnetic energy pollution, as Dr. Robert Becker reminds us in Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution, the Promise of Electromedicine. The systemic memory process makes the challenge of pollution even more complicated. As a dynamical system, the planet is theoretically learning and remembering, and we may be making it sick. If earth is designed like we are to have a functional immune system, the earth may be learning to recognize the danger we are imposing with the goal of inactivating or destroying us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Firing ranges expose the environment and the ecosystem to lead pollution caused by the presence of lead in ammunition projectiles. This makes lead pollution a major concern for the public. When these bullets are fired, they emit lead particles that are then inhaled, absorbed into the skin or disposed of in community landfill facilities. Currently, very few cities are taking action to reduce the health threat and environmental burden of lead bullets.
Similar to mercury, lead is both a heavy metal and a potent neurotoxin that builds up over time in bones and soft tissue. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 One of the best-known examples of toxic water pollution to date is the infamous Love Canal, where according to the New York Times in 1984, thousands of tons of toxic chemicals were dumped, including 60 pounds of the deadly poison dioxin.
The pollution situation is so out of control that in monitoring cancer rates in Philadelphia, one researcher was able to correlate the different rates and types of cancer in the population with the specific river the people lived near. |
Ron Garner
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 By correctly addressing malnutrition and pollution, many degenerative conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, type II diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, asthma, and hypoglycemia can often be completely reversed. Changing the kinds and quantities of fats we eat, as well as how we process and use them is part of addressing both malnutrition and internal pollution.34
Essential fatty acids and unsaturated fats are good oils for the body. Trans fatty acids and hydrogenated oils are harmful oils. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 It would seem plausible to extend this consideration to environmental effects on women, especially when it was reported that the highest dioxin pollution in the world was in
Belgium, which also has the highest incidence of severe endometriosis.27 In two studies since, however, one in Belgium found no significantly increased risk with dioxins or polychlorinated biphenyls,28 and in Italy, no significantly increased risk of endometriosis was seen in women who had high levels of dioxin in their blood. |
Mark Schapiro
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 That effort was led by the United States and established a model for trading pollution credits that is now being adapted by the EU and other signatories to the Kyoto accord to fight global warming—but without U.S. participation. American business has been left struggling to keep up with a multibil-lion dollar market steeped in the values of sustainable development.
The shrinking of U.S. leadership in environmental regulation is compelling U.S. |
| There were costs, to be sure: compliance with the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts from that period required billions in investments for pollution scrubbers, cleaner gasoline, and new waste-filtration technology. But there was no economic catastrophe, as industry had predicted at the time. New industries were created to develop those and other clean technologies, which cemented U.S. leadership going into the 1990s. Back then, America wrote the rules and the world followed.
But no more; leadership has switched. |
| It has a cumbersome name: Management
Methods for Controlling pollution by Electronic Information Products. But it arrived like a spike in an assembly line, and is based largely on the EU's law. Mike Kirschener began expanding his consulting gigs to Shanghai and Hong Kong, to share with his China-based colleagues how international companies could adapt to China's new laws governing toxics in electronic equipment. |
| Eight months after RoHS, the EU's directive banning all hazardous chemicals and minerals in electronic devices, the Chinese equivalent came into force: the "Administration on the Control of pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products" sent a signal that China would no longer allow itself to be the world's dumping ground for hazardous products.9
As a Basel Action Network investigation showed, at least 50 percent of the e-waste that is collected for recycling in the United States is shipped to scrap yeards in developing countries like Taiwan, the Philippines, Nigeria, and China. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Disputes over the misuse, overuse, and pollution of the environment and natural resources will become more commonplace. Around the world, such tensions will give rise to full-scale military encounters, often with minimal provocation.
In some instances, economic conditions will serve as a convenient pretext for conflicts that stem from cultural and religious differences. Alternatively, nations may look to divert attention away from domestic problems by channeling frustration and populist sentiment toward other countries and cultures. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 They have been used, for example, to monitor heavy metal pollution.77 Changes resulting from GM soy may be an impairment of gene expression due to toxins in the soy or it may be the cells' attempt to protect itself in response to toxins. In any case, findings are preliminary and require follow-up studies to determine what component of the GM soy (or herbicide residue) is the cause and if the changes impair fertility or offspring health.
Changes in Sertoli cells
Sertoli cells are known as the "nurse" cell of the testicles. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Free radicals are also formed when hard radiation impacts living tissue. pollution and cigarette smoke are two more causes of free radicals.
Antioxidants can be found in foods. Also, the body produces antioxidants. The antioxidants produced by the body are dependent on certain nutrients to function.
Vitamin C is one of the most powerful antioxidants. Vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables. Like all good antioxidants, vitamin C can neutralize a free radical without becoming a free radical itself. |
| Other sources of free radicals and other oxidative stresses include environmental factors such as pollution, hard radiation, cigarette smoke, and certain pesticides.
Two molecules share electrons in q a stable carbon- The stable compound is broken by a
¦ carbon bond free radical into one stable molecule and a new free radical molecule.
This starts a chain reaction that can be stopped by an antioxidant such as vitamin C
Carbon
Figure 2-3 Free radicals in action.
To neutralize a free radical, vitamin C can donate two hydrogen atoms, thus becoming dehydroascorbic acid. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Your thymus gland has to deal with massive amounts of negative influences, considering the almost daily exposure to radio, television, newspapers, junk food, chemicals in foods and beverages, indoor and outdoor pollution, and people with negative attitudes, etc. that you encounter. Even advertisements that show people smoking cigarettes or drinking alcoholic beverages have a weakening effect on your thymus.
Most people are not aware how much of their life energy is drained by exposing themselves to stressful situations. |
| Wouldn't it make more sense to say that a preference for unnatural things like junk food, stimulants, alcohol, drugs, medical intervention (unless it is for an emergency), as well as pollution, irregular sleeping and eating habits, stress, excessive greed for money and power, and the lack of contact with nature, are more likely to cause such diseases as skin cancer and cataracts than natural phenomena that have ensured continued growth and evolution on the planet throughout the ages? |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Normally, glucose is what gives our cells energy, but when we develop insulin resistance (from having a genetic predisposition such as a family history of type 2 diabetes or from being overweight), the figure El The Great Ooop Like pollution or acid rain, glycosylation junks up the beautiful parts of the city. insulin can't effectively get all the glucose into our cells. If glucose can't get into a cell, it stays in the blood and gunks up the proteins in our body. It's a little bit like acid rain—it damages the things it touches and makes them leaky. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The latest research has added a few more, such as free radicals, pollution, poor circulation, certain drugs and chemicals, and a decreased ability of the blood to digest protein, which may lead to the formation of blood clots. When protein is no longer able to be broken down due to insufficient proteolytic enzymes (bromelain, trypsin, and chymotrypsin), the most likely consequences are heart attacks, phlebitis, and strokes.
The major physical cause of coronary heart disease, however, is the overeating of animal proteins. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| If combustion is 100 percent efficient, there are no free radicals and no air pollution. As combustion becomes less efficient, free-radical levels increase proportionately.
Now, inside our cells, the process of cellular respiration breaks down a molecule of glucose into carbon dioxide, water, and energy. This energy is stored as ATP (the adult human produces 150 pounds of ATP a day). It's your gasoline. The process of breaking down sugar is no different from the process of combustion in the car. In cellular respiration, sugars are literally burned up just as a car burns gasoline. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Due to the pollution particles in our atmosphere and soil, even natural organic foods are usually somewhat polluted. Such foods are also impacted by ozone depletion and exposure to electro-magnetic radiation in our planetary environment. These negative effects tend to be neutralized through the specified use of Ionized Stones.
Ionized Foot Bath
By placing Ionized Stones (preferably pebbles with rounded surfaces) under the soles of the feet, while the feet are immersed in water, the body begins to break down toxins and waste materials into harmless organic substances. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Non-specific, non-allergic irritants: such as exercise, emotions, atmosphere, pollution, chemicals, food additives and infection.
Allergic Triggers
Allergic triggers are often very small particles: small enough to be mistaken by the body for viruses or bacteria (which are not as large as human cells).
DUST MITES
The most common allergic trigger is dust mite populations. The mite is too tiny to be seen, but it is still too large for the human body to have an allergic reaction to it. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Millions of children were deformed by chemical pollution from factories and mining operations. In Romania, thousand of mentally deficient children are left to languish in filthy, poorly staffed, living hells run by the government: all the result of mass pollution and rape of the environment. Even when all of this was known to the West, these loud, often-obnoxious defenders of the environment, remained silent to this disaster. Most of the destruction and environmental contamination by socialist countries will take hundreds of years to correct, if it can be corrected at all. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 For instance, next time you buy a car, consider buying a used hybrid; you'll emit less pollution into the environment as well as avoid owning the car during the period of time when the "new car smell" is at its peak as the vehicle releases manufacturing chemicals such as flame retardants and plasticizers. Drive a few extra miles (in your hybrid) to use organic dry cleaners; buy wooden toys rather than plastic ones for your children; avoid installing new carpets (which are loaded with flame retardants). |
| But over the past five years, they have begun studying pollution in people, and the findings are causing many researchers to reevaluate their assumptions about how successfully our bodies interface with the chemical-laden world in which we live. The most telling work detailing what contaminants are entering our bodies and how much toxicity accumulates in our cells and bloodstreams over time comes from a 2003 study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, in collaboration with the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. |
| Recent studies also show that mice exposed to fine particles of pollution at concentration levels equal to those found in the air in major metropolitan areas are more likely to develop atherosclerosis, which researchers now believe involves an autoimmune response.
One of the most potent by-products of exhaust fumes is di-oxin, which is carried into the air by the fuel combustion of diesel trucks and buses. |
| THE SITUATION IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK"
That night was the first time the community heard about the full extent of the pollution on the East Ferry site from the DEC's representative, David Locey. Many sat there in utter disbelief and horror as they listened to the report: the lead ash, which in some areas existed at a concentration nearly forty times higher than the EPA's safety limit, sat two inches to as much as two feet thick on the surface of the property. |
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