Toxic Lives – Why are our lives so Toxic?

The scientific and medical world of the 19th and 20th centuries was dominated by the germ theory. The present century is dominated by chemicals and toxins…

The staggering fact of the matter is, the global increase of chemicals is frightening. In the United States alone, synthetic organic chemical production rose from a few billion pounds a year in 1945 to 163 billion pounds a year in 1985. Chlorine production rose from three to 12 billion pounds a year between 1930 and 1985. These chemicals include all known PCBs, DDTs, 2, 4-Ds, polyvinyl chloride, gasoline by-products and heavy metals such as lead, aluminium, cadmium and mercury.

There are an alarming number of chemicals trickling into our food chain, air and water, and are in fact responsible for the genetic changes that make micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi) more virulent and resistant to antibiotics. Contamination of the environment, long term, causes a decrease in beneficial soil organisms, creating an imbalance between beneficial and pathological organisms. Similarly, we are at the mercy of toxins and antibiotics that penetrate the human body through the food chain and damaging our beneficial gut bacteria, upsetting the body’s balance and further destabilizing bodily functions. That’s why anti-biotics can create onslaughts of thrush afterwards because the good balance is lost.

Acid rain over time, toxins in the water cycle, together with poor farming practices and increased food processing, transportation and lengthy food storage – all decrease valuable nutrient content (which is dissipating at an alarming rate). This ultimately disturbs our metabolism and even shocks and may affect our very genetic code – which initially is trying to build cells and rebuild cells from deficient raw material (nutrients) – this cycle in turn creates weaker and more vulnerable future generations and so the cycle of medical and chemical dependence continues……scary eh?????

At the basis of any state of ill-health is “toxaemia”, i.e. a (mostly gradual) build-up of retained metabolic or environmental toxins that the body didn’t manage to excrete through its normal purification channels, the only option was to store them instead in various tissues. The reason the body isn’t able to properly detoxify itself is “enervation”, i.e. lack of vital energy due to overwork of liver, unhealthy lifestyle and/or wrong treatment of the body (particularly through wrong food choices incl. overeating, toxin intake including medicinal drugs and noxious substances etc.).

The body is designed for wellness and healing. All of its innate functions and processes are focused on one thing – maintaining the health and pre-emininece of the organism. Long-term health is the goal behind the principle of homeostasis (essentially the management of internal affairs; a dynamic and complex mechanism of checks and balances that strives 24 hours a day to keep the body in balance). In this respect, balance and wellness are one. Both are concerned with the preservation of health and the body’s will to process, regenerate and heal itself. The vast majority of imbalances are corrected around the clock without our awareness.

Imbalances can be caused by the stress of relationships, worries, financial concerns, toxic emotions, toxic foods and pollution. They all take their toll and will eventually extract payments from the body – hurting the body. Without sounding like a financial outlook – if the body cannot keep up the payments ill heath will occur. The body will reorganize, downsize and declare bankruptcy if necessary for the greater good of the body.

Acute symptoms and illnesses are all part of the self-protection management plan. If imbalances are not properly addressed, and if the stresses mount, they get factored into the plan and become constraints, hindering future attempts to correct further imbalances.

As chronic stress continues for a long period of time, and this deep imbalance predominates, the cycle begins to spiral down toward degeneration and disease. At the extreme end of the plan the cancerous tumour is the body’s attempt to isolate this toxicity in order to maintain and protect overall homeostasis or balance.

Everything from allergies to angina to lymphoma is an indication of the body’s efforts to respond to a long-term stress that is creating an imbalance. The body is doing the best it can, with what it has in order to maintain life as long as possible. It may sound ruthless and self-defeating, but the body will utilize all of its available resources (note: available resources), and if necessary, will even sacrifice one piece or process at a time in order to survive. Dr Bernard Jensen feels that stress uses up valuable nutritional resources that the body needs elsewhere.