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COLON CLEANSE, TOXINS AND HARMFUL LEVELS OF CHEMICALS IN HUMANS

September 30, 2009

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC REPORTER WRITES ON THE LEVELS OF TOXINS IN HUMANS (AND HIMSELF)

Our overall health seems to be improving over the past twenty years.  We are living longer,  growing taller, and are obsessed with Yoga.  However, the number of cases of several illnesses have been rising mysteriously.  From the early 1980s through the late 1990s, autism increased tenfold; from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, one type of leukemia was up 62 percent, male birth defects doubled, and childhood brain cancer was up 40 percent. Some experts suspect a link to the man-made chemicals that pervade our food, water, and air.

Over the years, one chemical after another that was thought to be harmless turned out to be otherwise once the facts were in.  The classic example is lead. In 1971 the U.S. Surgeon General declared that lead levels of 40 micrograms per deciliter of blood were safe. It’s now known that any detectable lead causes neurological damage in children, knocking off IQ points.

From DDT to PCBs, the chemical industry has released compounds first and discovered damaging and lethal health effects later.  Not unlike the FDA, but that’s another topic altogether.

Each year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviews about 1,700 new compounds that industries want approved. The Toxic Substances Control Act (1976) requires that chemicals be tested for any harmful health effects only if there is any evidence which suggests there may be ill effects. So if no one thinks they’re bad, they aren’t tested.  Of the 82,000 chemicals in use in the U.S. only ¼ have ever been tested for toxicity.

David Ewing Duncan, a writer for National Geographic Magazine, grew up in a small town near Kansas, City in the 1960s.  His life isn’t so different from millions of other Americans.  His summers were filled with adventures, playing with his buddies in the local swimming hole, running between the rows of corn, and rummaging through the dump looking for treasures that only boys could want.

This dump, one of his favorite romping grounds, was not required to follow any sort of code or regulation and has since been classified as an EPA Superfund Site, putting it on the the National Priority List for hazardous places.  This dump also happens to be situated ½ mile from his favorite swimming hole and the county’s water supply, the source of drinking water for 45,000 homes.

In the 1970s, Duncan went to school at Vassar College in the city of Poughkeepsie, NY, which sits on the Hudson River.  One hundred and forty miles upstream is Hudson Falls, where General Electric decided to dump all of their PCB waste.  As far down as Poughkeepsie, PCB levels are off the charts in the soil, the water, and the local wild life as the main source of water for Poughkeepsie is the Hudson.

PCBs, were once used as electrical insulators and heat-exchange fluids in transformers. However, because of its high toxicity, PCB production was banned in the United States in 1976.  PCBs will, however, stay in the environment for decades. In animals, they destroy liver function, raise blood lipids, and cause cancer. Who knows what it’s doing to us.

Drinking water after his daily workout routine, Duncan began exposing himself to Bisphenol A, an ingredient in rigid plastics from water bottles to safety goggles. Bisphenol A causes reproductive system abnormalities in animals and, for starters, effects hormone production levels in humans.

Bathing, driving, and heating up his lunch in the microwave all exposed him to lethal phthalates, which are present in everything from lotions, to car dashboards, to plastic wrap.
While doing the research for his story, Duncan has a special, toxicity test performed on his body (it’s not available to individuals so National Geographic footed the $15,000 bill).  His body was full of toxins, including dioxins (found in paper mills and incinerators), PCB, phthalates, fire retardants (which airplanes are doused in), and mercury, a neurotoxin that can permanently impair memory, learning centers, and behavior (coal plants produce the most of it).  Mercury is also present in seafood.  The higher up the food chain a fish is, the higher the levels of mercury. Swordfish has very high levels.

His body was riddled with toxins, all introduced into his system by the environment, food, and his skin.  There is nothing out of the ordinary about this reporter’s life.  He played in a swimming hole as a kid, he flies on airplanes, drinks bottled water, and used scented shampoo.  We all have similar levels of toxicity in our bodies.

With all of this knowledge about the harmful effects of these and myriad other chemicals, why  haven’t they been banned?  Why are industries being allowed to produce them and companies allowed to use them?

For some reason, the U.S. is far behind the chemical banning band wagon.  Many chemicals which have been banned by other countries are still allowed here.  For example, last year the European Union (EU) banned phthalates from all plastics.  Now in China, where many plastic items are made, they make a batch of phthalate-free plastics for the Europe, and a separate batch of phthalate plastics for the Untied States.

In 2004, both Europe and India banned penta- and octa-BDEs, extremely harmful toxins found in fire retardants causing mental illness, birth defects, and behavioral problems. They are still widely used in the U.S.

None of us realize just how many harmful chemicals and toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis.  We order french fries, knowing we are about to put trans fat, artery-clogging, supersaturated, oil-laden starches into our bodies. But bottled water we drink after cycling? A piece of salmon for dinner?  Absolutely everything we do introduces some kind of chemical into our bodies.

These adverse effects from chemicals vary depending on the PPB (parts per billion) present in the body.  Traces of these chemicals are relatively benign – most people are quite healthy.  But once these chemicals build up in the system, their destructiveness increases.

One way to expel some of these toxins from the body is though body detoxification – either through a detox diet, colon cleanse, body cleanse, or colon hydrotherapy.  Through pills, diet, or a combination of both, we can decrease the PPB of chemicals in our bodies.  Experts recommend a colon cleansing detox program of some sorts annually.

As more and more chemical toxicity awareness emerges, the more options we have to consciously reduce our intake of said toxins, such as the surge of available phthalate-free water bottles and labels on foods which do not contain trans fats.  Even if becoming a reclusive, organic farmer were an option, we still couldn’t escape breathing polluted air or drinking contaminated water.

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