The Dot Com Miner

January 22, 2010

These Toxins Are Hazardous to Your Health

Filed under: Getting Fit, Health Issues, Living With Nutrition — @ 5:02 pm

What the body considers a toxin is one of two forms — exotoxins (toxins that come from outside the body) or endotoxins (toxins that oringinate from within the body).

An exotoxin is generally any one of tens of thousands of househole, industrial or agricultural chemical substances that we’re exposed to in our daily lives. To a certain degree, we can restrict and limit our vulnerability to these environmental toxic substances. The types of household products and produce we buy is one place in our life where we can be in nearly complete control. Increasingly more shops are supplying good quality cleaning and other products that are toxin-free.

Endotoxins are far more tricky to control. These are the by-products of normal metabolic processes that occur in our body. An endotoxin can be a bacterial waste product, anti-bodies our body makes to fight against a contagion, excess hormones and cellular material whose biochemical component parts need to be recycled or excreted.

Most of us who live in urban societies today meet exceptional amount of toxic overburden. While our body is created with the ability to process the filtering and elimination of endotoxins, the body is increasingly unable to deal with the rising number of exotoxins that we consume through our beverages, food, air, household products and personal care products. As much as we may try to avoid environmental toxins, the actuality of that is very troublesome. The truth is, our bodies are simply exposed to a phenomenal number and diversity of toxins that are totally foreign, if not very detrimental, to our body. Simple ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to purchase 100% natural health care and cleaning products, and to always purchase organic produce when accessible. As well as restraining our exposure to environmental and dietary toxins, we can do a great deal to foster the body’s normal detoxification operations. Doing a regular detox program will purify your body and greatly curtail the chemical encumbrance on your body caused by toxicity.

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