From the chemtrails being
sprayed over our neighborhoods to the poisons killing our bees and
making our food toxic ‘medicine’ we need a way to purge the deadly
elixirs of a greedy government, owned and run by corporate interests.
For the sake of keeping your attention, I won’t go on ad nauseum about
fluoridated water, oil spills, and contaminated air and water due to
fracking and mining.
As research since the early
1900s suggests, our bodies simply cannot handle the level of toxicity in
our environment without some help, though it was originally designed to
cure itself from every conceivable toxin – from heavy metals to the
common cold. We have simply burdened the mechanism so profoundly, that
the intelligence of the human form is being strained to its acme. We
either learn to adapt to the toxic environment that our governments so
blatantly support, or we die. We can’t wait for congress or the senate
to do the right thing. It’s time to get radical. It’s time to tell your
friends about this, even if it is absolutely rabble-rousing.
For some time we have been able
to simply ignore, or turn an apathetic ear toward warnings about our
food, air and soil being polluted, but when the EPA and FDA, arguably
puppet institutions meant to placate farmers and citizens into thinking
that their concerns over our war-time and consumer-based lifestyles are
benign, states that yes, pesticides ‘are harmful to human health,’ then
its time to pay attention. That kind of confession is like telling us
the sky is blue. If they didn’t at least state the painfully obvious, it
would be very difficult to maintain even a modicum of respect in social
and political circles. Most people are already laughing them out of
the room.
Our Blood and Bones Contain Over 85,000 Different Toxins
We are a toxic world. Our blood
and bones now contain over 85,000 different chemical pollutants.
Depleted uranium from bombs, and nuclear energy sites like Fukushima, as
well as chemicals as sinister as Agent Orange and toxic mold are now
part of our genetic make up. There are too many other toxins to name
here. Their names and devastating health effects could fill books. These
toxins have seeped into our cells, causing cancer, depression and even
insanity.
These pollutants are making our
children less intelligent and slowly breaking down our immune systems
until they can’t even fight a simple virus. Our hormonal systems are so
out of whack from these toxins that both boys and girls are starting
puberty way too soon, and fetuses are not developing properly. ADHD,
ADD, and Autism are on the rise like never before. Our bodies are fat
and tired too, because a toxic body can’t metabolize fats and proteins
properly.
Channels of Toxic Elimination
Under better conditions our bodies can get rid of toxins through numerous natural channels:
· Hair
· Finger and Toe Nails
· Skin
· Bowels
· Sweat
· Blood
· Bile
· Urine
In lab tests, extremely high
levels of toxins can be found in a single strand of hair, even in people
who think they live a ‘healthy’ lifestyle – they workout, don’t smoke,
try to eat their vegetables, etc. Hair is actually one of the most
telling when testing toxicity levels. It even contains remnants of LSD
and cocaine in people who used drugs more than six months prior to
testing. It also shows traces of aluminum, mercury, bismuth, lead,
arsenic, tin, titanium, silver, asbestos, chlorine, tar, uranium and
antimony, just to name a few toxins.
If any of the channels of toxin
elimination are compromised, it can make the body very ill and
eventually cause it to die. Our liver works diligently to eliminate
toxins through bile production. Our skin, one of the largest detoxifying
channels, is constantly shedding skin cells to rid itself of poison.
Our bowels and digestive organs including the bladder and kidneys, large
and small intestines also work very hard at keeping us toxin free. The
lymph system keeps T-lymphocyte cells circulating to help kill foreign
invaders like viruses that come from mold exposure.
Recycling of Toxins Leads to Disease
The problem is that once the
body tries to get rid of a toxin, repeatedly trying to make it water
soluble, for example, (though this is just one way of eradicating a
toxic poison from our systems) so that it can be excreted, then it
starts to recycle that toxin in an effort to find some channel, any
channel that can expel it properly. This is how disease starts to
happen. A Russian scientists and naturopath named Eli Metchnik did
extensive research on this phenomenon in 1904.
In Ayurvedic medicine this is
called the ‘multiply and localize’ stages of disease development. A
toxin starts to move through blood plasma, and into the reproductive
cycle of cells and tissues, so wherever you are weakest in your body,
you are likely to develop disease. A disease is ‘born’ in the physical
body when genetic predisopositions for disease give way to environmental
stress – i.e. toxicity.
What Can I do to Detoxify My Body?
Fortunately, there are
inexpensive ways to start to cleanse the bowels, hair, skin, lungs,
liver, kidneys, and even the cells, but it starts with realizing we are
toxic. Then we must take action.
· Install a HEPA filter or a
High Quality Air Purifier. You can also spend time in nature, since
trees and flowers act as natural air purifiers.
· Start by throwing out all the toxic cleaners we use to spruce up our homes. Turn
to vinegar, baking soda and citrus, particularly lemon juice, and
sunlight. These four items can clean our houses (and sometimes us) from
top to bottom without causing depression, hormone disruption, cancer,
and a host of other diseases caused by the carcinogenic and toxic
substances in household cleaners, like diethanolamine (DEA) and
triethanolamine (TEA) just to start.
· Sweat.
Indian sweat lodges aren’t just for inducing a vision quest. While many
people attain spiritual insights from participating in a sweat lodge,
they also help to clear the mind and body of toxins, so we naturally
become more lucid. You can also use a dry-heat sauna for the same
effect.
· Fast.
Most of us don’t want to skip even a single meal, but just taking one
day off form eating to allow the body to purge toxins stored in fatty
tissue can make a world of difference. Fasting has been practiced by
different cultures and religions around the world for centuries as an
effective way to detoxify. Nutritional cleansing programs like the Isogenics cleanse include periods of intermittent fasting (alternating periods of fasting and non-fasting).
· Purge.
There are ancient yogic teachings, which cleanse the mouth, tongue,
trachea, stomach and intestines by drinking sea-salted water and then
eliminating it. Much like a natural enema, Shankhaprakshalana helps to
clean out the entire intestinal tract. The term is actually a Sanskrit
word meaning Conch, as in the shell, and it refers to the circular and
winding shape of our internal cavity – from mouth to anus.
· Use the six Shat kriyas or Shat Karmas practiced in Hatha Yoga.
These Sanskrit words refer to six ancient cleansing techniques.
Shankhaprakshalana is just one of them. Some like, Nauli, or stomach
churning are difficult for beginning students, but Jala Neti, nasal irrigation is easy for almost anyone to practice.
· Drink more water, but only if its purified.
Many toxins are water soluble, so if you drink clean, purified water,
you can help to remove them. Just make sure you aren’t drinking
unpurified municipal water, it is often full of hundreds of toxins.
· Bathe in hot then cold water.
Bathing in the ocean was practiced by the Kumu Hula (master teachers)
as a means of purification, but not everyone has ocean front property,
so bathing is a great purification ritual. It is also practiced all over
Japan, Turkey, India, Africa, and Australia, just to name a few
countries with bathing purification traditions or rituals. Bathing in
first hot water, expands the blood vessels, and helps the ‘brown’ fat
cells work more efficiently to reduce fat and toxins from the body. The
cold water allows multiple dips, and also allows us to remain in the hot
water longer. If you live near a hot springs or untainted, natural
underground water source, many of these pools have excellent nutrients
in them, which help to draw toxins out of the body. Also, just warming
the body improves the lymph system and immune function. Epson salt baths
can help if you don’t have a natural hot springs or the Dead Sea near
you (but even the Dead Sea is becoming toxic!)
· Try one of the myriad natural cleansing products available on the market today. There are lots of products that are affordable and help to cleanse everything from the bowels to the liver.
· Eat Detoxifying Foods.
You can detoxify with green tea, coffee enemas, and cilantro even.
Turmeric is great for detoxifying the body, as is sour sop fruit. Apple
Cider Vinegar is wonderful and so is lemon juice and ginger.
· Use Shaolin Clay to Draw Impurities From the Skin.
Shaolin Monks used a special clay to help draw impurities from their
bodies and to heal more rapidly from injuries received practicing
martial arts. It was made into a paste with several herbs and placed on
the skin, or ground into powders and taken with herbs (like Dan Gui, Nan
Xing, Bai Zhu, etc.) as an oral herbal treatment. Clay baths are
especially effective at removing heavy metals and mercury or lead.
· Take Milk Thistle, or Dandelion Root to Detox the Liver.
This important organ removes toxins from our blood stream. These two
herbs can greatly help the liver process toxins before they ever reach
the bloodstream, so that they can be purged from the body via the feces
or urine.
· Increase Your Vitamin C.
Several studies pointed to a simple Vitamin C supplement in higher
doses (which are safe since Vitamin C is water soluble) as a very
effective means of detoxiing from Nuclear Fallout.
· Consider Aboriginal Kanwa Minerals are extracted from bubbling pools
deep in the desert areas of Australia that are full of hundreds of trace
minerals that can help detox the body. Also known as Calcium
Montmorillonite Clay, this special ‘mud’ can do everything from absorb
bad bacteria to reverse bone decay. Only because this soil had been
untouched for millions of years, is it filled with important minerals
like calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, silica and manganese, as well
as other trace elements that help restore a toxic body.
Even though companies like
Monsanto, Bayer, Pfizer, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and the military
industrial complex want to keep pouring toxins into our world and us, we
can detox with some simple remedies to make living a healthy possible
in a contaminated world. We may not be living in a pure environment, but
we can still treat our bodies as temples, and purify them of the spoils
of war and a fast food, pharmaceutical empire.
References:
http://www.sott.net/article/226021-Detoxify-or-Die-Natural-Radiation-Protection-Therapies-for-Coping-With-the-Fallout-of-the-Fukushima-Nuclear-Meltdown
http://www.oprah.com/health/Toxins-in-Our-Environment
http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/marapr2007p37.shtml
About the Author
Christina Sarich is a musician, yogi, humanitarian and freelance writer who channels many hours of studying Lao Tzu,
Paramahansa Yogananda, Rob Brezny, Miles Davis, and Tom Robbins into
interesting tidbits to help you Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See
the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World.
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