Holistic Health
November 29, 2012
Detox
A method must be used to help humans’ live healthier lives. Hospitals, clinics, and health professionals are primary sectors who we often reason with when dealing with health; however, to further the life of human beings we must be more cautious to the world around us. The earth is distributes lesser gains. Each year the U.S. releases four billion pounds of toxins into our environment contaminating the air, water, soil, plants, animals, and humans (Sellman, 2009). Our resources are diminishing and changing by the minute. As the world changes our environment does too. Everything that used ours is now altered. Statistics show that the earth is producing more deprived resources than ever (Gonzales, 2009). Today, 80,000 toxins are in the airs that were not present in 1950 (Ketteler, 2011). The food we eat now is about ten times less nutritional than it was (Trudeau, p. 147). Our general concern should be our overall health as human being. The pollution of planet earth has a severe impact on our health (Sellman, 2009). We are exposed to toxins every day; we consume several hundreds of toxins in each breath (Trudeau, p. 56). We are all toxic. We need to eliminate toxins. We all need to improve our body’s ability to metabolize these toxins, however, with the abundance of chemicals in the human body our organs cannot properly function (Trudeau, p. 278). In order to achieve a healthier lifestyle we must cleanse our bodies and practice in detoxing methods. We have to clean out toxins that are raised in the human body. The definition of a toxin is defined as a poisonous substance that grows inside a cell and within an organism (Fitzpatrick, 2003). Dr. Klinghardt states, “The presence of stored toxins causes immunity system deficiency that supports the growth of pathogens such bacteria, virus, fungi, and parasites” (Sellman, 2009). From a personal experience many toxins accumulated in my back
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