Detoxify Fat Cells

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21^st Century has brought stress, unhealthy diets, environmental pollution and fast foods. We have unbelievable rates of cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and other lifestyle based medical conditions that are happening to us more frequently despite plentiful food supplies and medical facilities. Only 1.5% of our population is considered healthy.

Modern farming methods are geared to producing bigger and better yields, rather than food that is healthy and life sustaining. The so called healthy foods are full of hormones, pesticides, herbicides fungicides and other chemicals that interfere with hormone production and balance, nutrient absorption, immune response and other essential body functions.

I would like to make a present day case for the level of toxicity in our environment right now.  We are getting exposed to chemicals in processed food especially pesticides and herbicides.  There are preservatives galore. Sugar in large quantities is also a toxin to our body.  Our children are being exposed to vaccinations so much more than when we adults were young.   We get frequent exposure to infectious agents, medications, air pollution, heavy metals; just lots of chemicals.  There are >350 new chemicals being put into our environment every year.

We are exposed to trauma in our lives…burns, injuries, death, work pressures.  Excessive exercise creates toxicity in our bodies as well.  Sleep deprivation leads to increased toxicity as well.  Nutrient deficiency leads to greater toxicity b/c our detoxification systems require nutrients.

The EPA has been looking at these issues to some degree. In 2001 the EPA looked at waste water treatment facilities. At that time they concluded the concentrations of chemicals were too low to pose any health threat.  Five years later there was another study done prompted mostly by public concerns  about drugs in the environment.  Then they tested for a much broader range of contaminants in the sewage treatment plants.

You see, when the waste water is cleaned in the plants so we can reuse it, the things removed from the water are then recycled as fertilizer on agricultural lands.

What they then looked at were 97 different pharmaceuticals, plus another 145 chemicals, 27 different metals, plus flame retardants and antibacterial chemicals.  They tested 74 plants.   ALL had high levels of the 27 heavy metals, flame retardants and antibacterials, 12 of the medications showed up in high levels.  The most common chemical found was triclocarbons and ciprofloxin.  

Triclocarbon is an antibacterial in our antibacterial soaps.  Ciprofloxin is an antibiotic that is very broad spectrum and commonly used today.

We are showing huge amounts of chemicals in our environment and especially our water.  It is coming though our own bodies and coming thru them as our own waste.  And again, it is being spread on the ground so we get it again in our food and water.

Now many of these chemicals are like neno-estrogens or act like or interfere with hormones in our bodies.   Some actually act like estrogen in our body, other interfere with estrogen or testosterone in our body.

How is this affecting us and our children?  Our children process more air, water and food per pound of body weight than we adults do. The toxins in our children are flabbergasting.  One study done by the environmental working group (EWG) on the chord blood of newborn infants showed that the average industrial chemicals were over 200! 18 forms of dioxin were found in these samples as well.  It is amazing that our children are only having behavioral problems and medical problems. It is amazing they are being born at all.  For the first time in a century, the new generation has a shorter life expectancy than we do. 

By far the majority of toxins found in our bodies are lipid soluble meaning they like to live in fat.  The detoxification systems in our body need to take these toxins and change them into something that is water soluble so they can pass out of the body. It’s a big job to do. In order to get well, we need to address symptoms, conditions and imbalances in metabolism and what is toxic in the body.

Another point I want to make is this whole issue of genetically modified food. Most of our corn and soy grown in this country is genetically modified.  These genetically modified foods don’t just have the chemicals on the outside, they’ve been altered so there is a chemical now within the food so that the bugs don’t eat that food.  You can’t wash it off anymore. (Now you can ask your kids, do you want bug spray on or in your food?)   BTW, GMO food is illegal in Europe. 

Shaklee does not use GMO grains in their products.

What’s the connection between the toxins in our environment and our weight?  Research has shown for quite a few years now that environmental pollution enters the blood stream via many routes.  The food, the water supply, the atmosphere, the out-gasing of the carpet, the paint, the furniture, chemical stabilizers, emulsifiers and preservatives in our personal care products and cleaning products are common sources of body pollution.  Also, carbonates, steroids, antibiotics, lots of medications all alter the body’s metabolism. What happens is our weight control mechanisms are poisoned. We have increased feed efficiency. We need less food to maintain our metabolism once we have a toxic system.  This leads to weight gain.

Actually almost half of all the antibiotics produced in the US are used in animal feed. This is not to protect against disease necessarily, but more to produce fast weight gain.  Hormone injections also increase feed efficiency.

This is another reason that organic food costs more.

One terrific resource is a book written by Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton. The Body Restoration Plan.  (She is an expert in human metabolism.)  Her premise is: eliminate chemical calories and repair your body’s natural slimming system,

So now the body is putting on more fat and fat, itself, is a major source of inflammation. 

We know the pear shape is better than the apple shape. Abdominal fat acts differently than any other fat on the body.  It is kind of like a punk, a kid that doesn’t listen to authority; does what ever it wants.   There are all kinds of hormones that can be produced by abdominal fat all by itself.  Those hormones and the chemicals we are being exposed to are all having an effect on a long list of neuropeptides and hormones that affect our appetite and obesity. 

Some of them may have been in the news recently. You may have heard about growlin, leptin, galanin, neuropetide Y. Everyone knows about insulin.   That’s the one that is out of wack with people that have metabolic syndrome or diabetes.  Glucagon, estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone balance is being affected. Thyroid hormones and functions are being changed.  These are all interconnected.

The story of how they are interconnected is still not put together. It is a very complex story. For instance, people would take leptin thinking it would produce weight loss, but it produced weight gain because it effected other hormones that were not expected to be effected.