Detox Therapies

We all live in a highly industrialized world. On the one hand, this offers us the highest level of comfort and luxury, and on the other hand, it has a dark side in the unavoidable production of a bewildering array of ever-present environmental toxins.

Once a year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines the most significant everyday toxins in the lives of people living in industrialized countries in its CERCLA List:

It's rare for someone to fall ill as a result of this suddenly, but people gradually build up countless everyday toxins over many years in the nervous and fatty tissues, as well as in the eyes, prostate, kidneys, thyroid gland, female breast, etc., in a slow, insidious process, and so can gradually become ill.

Many scientists see these omnipresent everyday toxins as one of the leading causes of the sharp increase in autoimmune and cancer cases, not to mention mental illnesses, which have increased exponentially in the past two decades.

In highly modern and scientifically applied medicine, the art of detoxification demands a central role.

How common toxins affect the human body: 1. enzyme inhibitors of several thousand enzymes that are vital for the metabolism and the immune system. 2. defects in cell membranes (the brain of each individual cell). 3. degradation of fatty structures in the nervous system, more than two-thirds of which are made up of fats. 4. obstructions in mitochondrial metabolism (power stations of cells). 5. obstructions in liver metabolism. 6. obstructions in brain metabolism (central and peripheral neurotransmitters). 7. disturbances in hormone production (microplastics and other toxins as hormone interrupters): reduction of sex hormones, suppression of serotonin production (the feel-good hormone), activation of stress hormones. 8. inhibition in the bone marrow with deformities of red and white blood cells. 9. disorders of the autonomic nervous system. 10. Obstructions in the clotting cascade. 11. increased formation of ROS (free oxygen radicals) that cause inflammation throughout the body. 12. reduction of blood flow in the arterial capillaries. 13. increase in body temperature. 14. all environmental toxins ultimately damage the immune system and have an immunosuppressive effect. 15. all environmental toxins that remain in the body for a prolonged period (i.e., the majority) cause underlying inflammation over time. 16 Haber's rule: The longer a poison stays in the body, the more harmful it becomes over time.

If we understand nature's logic and biochemistry, we can recognize the causes of diseases and find logical ways of treating them.