Toxins Weaken and Disrupt our Immune System
The body has an amazing design; it actually cleans itself and removes harmful toxins through various processes. Each organ and system relies on the others to due their part, the liver being the main filter, detoxifier, for the body.
Toxins come from within our body, from food and natural processes, and from external sources such as pesticides and other chemicals. While our body is made to efficiently detoxify itself, the amount of external toxins that bombard our system through food, drinks (including water), the air we breathe, and even through out skin, on a daily basis, it too much for the liver to handle.
When our liver is over-loaded with toxins it cannot function properly. This affects our immune system. Being part of the detoxification process, the immune system helps target and destroy invading enemies such as toxins, harmful bacteria, and viruses. If the liver isn’t functioning properly, the immune system will not function properly. This is one of the reasons food allergies and other allergies are on the rise, and why multiple chemical sensitivity and autoimmune illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, are affecting more and more people. The immune system is overburdened.
According to an article at Care2.com, “What’s in Your Chemical Cocktail,” by Delia Quigley:
The majority of people in America begin their morning with a cup of tea or coffee and a dose of DDT, malathion, paraquat, diazinon, and a bit of Round Up (sprayed on the coffee plant). Milk or cream comes with acceptable amounts of bovine growth hormone, a shot of antibiotics, and a few steroid molecules for good measure. One or two teaspoons of sugar filtered through slaughtered bone ash prevents it from caking, and a bowl of genetically modified cornflakes carries up to 50 different pesticides just to bring it to the table on this lovely morning. To top it off a sip of orange juice requires 253 gallons of water and half a gallon of tractor fuel before landing on the breakfast table. Good morning, America, your daily chemical intake has only just begun.
There is no way to escape the chemicals that manufacturers and the government are allowing into our society. Quigley finishes her article by encouraging us all to become “Chemical Busters” by choosing products that are least harmful to us and the environment. If our concerns and voices don’t matter, hitting them in the pockets hopefully will.
Until next time,
Karen Cioffi