Detoxification and Drainage
The poisons in our environment effect our bodies everyday. These poisons, or toxins, permeate the environment so completely that they are often beyond our senses. They are as insidious as the pesticides farmers use on their crops and in their animal feed, the hormones and drugs the ranchers inject into their livestock, the insecticides sprayed on suburban lawns, the chemicals in our household cleaners, the exhaust from our automobiles.
However wonderfully convenient it is to live in a modern and industrial society, there is a cost. That cost is reflected in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. That cost is the toxic waste that invades our bodies and that our bodies must handle everyday.
It is the purpose of this writing to explain what we can do about the ill effects these toxins have on our bodies. By helping our bodies handle these toxins, we can live healthier and happier, as we will be less prone to degenerative diseases and the common aches, pains and organ dysfunctions of aging. Natural supplements will be described that aid in the detoxification and drainage of environmental toxins. Detoxification can be defined as the ability to neutralize poisons that enter the body. Drainage is then the elimination of those neutralized poisons via the bowel, kidneys, skin, or lungs.
Taking A Different Point Of View
"My doctor says that if I eat a good diet, I don't need vitamins."
This would be true in a perfect world. That is a world where our soil is not depleted of minerals, the growth of our fruits and vegetables is not artificially accelerated, we do not have genetically altered foods, we do not need preservatives to increase the shelf life of our food, and a world where our food is not so refined as to hardly have any real nutritional value left. Food should be our medicine as nature planned, but in this extraordinary world, we must take extraordinary means to live as healthfully as possible.
"I'm already taking so many pills; I don't want to take anymore."
The great majority of illnesses can be traced back to a long-term lack of nutritional support especially for the immune system. As the body becomes more and more toxic, the immune system has a bigger and bigger job to do in keeping the body functioning, and a lesser ability to do so. Therefore, as the years go by, patients are typically prescribed more and more pharmaceuticals that do nothing to enhance the immune systems ability, but rather suppress it. Only natural, nutritional support can restore the immune system's function and get the body healthy again. Only then will all those pharmaceuticals that we often rely upon to keep us feeling good become unnecessary.
"This is just another expense I don't need."
On March 11, 2001, USA Today writes, "The nations bill for health care has risen to a record $1.2 trillion, with prescription drugs accounting for nearly 10% of the cost." Much of these costs could be avoided. Often, it just takes a cleaner body, and hence a less taxed immune system that can function more efficiently, to ward off disease. In the long run, supporting the body with nutritional supplementation not only saves money, but it also helps you to be more productive with less sick days needed to take off from work.
What Do These Toxins Really Do To Me?
Are you experiencing bouts of diarrhea alternating with constipation, sometimes diagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Do you get stress headaches or headaches for no reason at all? Do your joints ache some days and not others? Are you more tired than you think you should be? Are your sinuses very stuffy every morning and/or do you experience a constant post-nasal drip? Do you have adult-onset allergies? Are you plagued with skin rashes and irritations that come and go? Do you take pain relievers and over-the-counter medications? Have you been diagnosed with a condition you are told is incurable and that you'll just have to learn to live with it?
All of these and more are, to a greater or lesser degree, related to toxic accumulation in the body. Even if the toxic accumulation is not the cause of the problem, it is at least an exacerbating factor (i.e. it worsens the condition). You could continue to mask the symptoms with medication which, of course, would insure a continued rise in the toxic accumulation, or you could choose to detoxify your body and have a much better chance of living healthier. Often people do not even realize how unhealthy they have become over the years until they regain a more youthful health.