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Detoxify
The process of bodily accumulation and storage of toxins is known as “toxic bio-accumulation”. Though the
predominate storage site in the body is the fatty tissue, toxins may re-enter the bloodstream during times of physical
stress (i.e.. illness, fasting, excessive heat, exercise) or emotional stress. Every organ that is accessible to these
chemicals, which have been mobilized or released from the fat, is being continually exposed at low levels. As stated
by Dr. William L. Marcus, Senior Advisor and Chief Toxicologist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “It’s a
chronic exposure. That’s why chemicals like dioxin, even in small amounts, are extremely dangerous. Unfortunately
the human body has no previous experience with these chemicals and there is no natural machinery in the body to
break them down, much less eliminate them.
Human accumulation of such compounds as DDT, PCP, PCB, and dioxin, reflect biologically persistent chemicals
which are partitioned in the body from water into lipids. Eventually the metabolizing of xenobiotics (chemicals
foreign to the biological system) leads to the accumulation of the chemicals and/or their products in lipid deposits
throughout the body, particularly in adipose tissue. The simple chemistry involved in this process can be illustrated
by the fact that some chemicals readily dissolve in water, whileothers dissolve only in oil bases. Oil soluble chemicals
therefore have a tendency to accumulate in body fatty tissue or lipids, which are also insoluble in water. There is no
such thing as a fat “cell”...[rather] almost every cell has a fat component.
The brain has a high fat content as does virtually every organ.
Directly or indirectly, toxic residues find there way into our air, food and water supplies. The net effect of this
ecological overload is to alter the body’s balance or “homeostasis”. This interference with our natural biological
tendencies to restore internal balance, results in “disease” in one form or another. According to Professor Edward J.
Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts, and author of Pollutants and High RiskGroups, “It is this homeostatic
process which neutralizes the pollutant’s effect and returns the system to equilibrium.”
Marshall Mandell, MD, nationally renowned in the field of bio-ecologic medicine, wrote in a recent publication that the influx
of chemicals in our society today “has resulted in a lowered threshold of resistance and subsequent inability to cope with
the natural and unnatural environment due to altered body metabolism, enzyme dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies, and
hormonal imbalances.” Health depends on the balance of both external and internal environmental forces.
In response to the above facts, many health care practitioners have been recommending a vast array of
detoxification programs. Circulating toxins and toxic bowels need proper cleansing. The removal of these
toxins is relatively well known. When toxins are deposited in fat storage sites this becomes much more
complicated. The only way to remove toxins from the fat storage sites is to mobilize the toxic fat. Heat-stress [of a
sauna] is an effective method of removing fat-stored toxins from the body.
