Environmental Toxins

Environmental toxins are omnipresent and unavoidable, both visible and invisible, and often imperceptible in smell and taste. So they may appear to be harmless. Until they enter our body. There they alter our gene-regulation (epigenetics), ), influence our metabolic processes, hinder our regulatory mechanisms, and often cause latent, subliminal, permanent inflammation ("silent inflammation"). All environmental toxins ultimately damage the immune system. They are a major contributor to many ailments, especially chronic and debilitating diseases. That's why we urgently need precise and targeted environmental medicine in modern healthcare.

Omnipresent Environmental Pollution

Today everyone is exposed to countless everyday toxins. Cumulatively over time, the level of toxicity increases. Depending on an individual's ability to detoxify, people cope with it very differently. In today's disease patterns, environmental toxins often play a central role. So an analysis of the individual exposure is almost always helpful to understand the main causes of a disease. Nowadays a causal analysis without a precise diagnosis of the everyday environmental toxins would be incomplete. This is why environmental medicine is a central component of modern medicine.

The most frequent, most important and most threatening pollutants in the world are assessed and ranked by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). From millions of poisons, the 250 most important and most common everyday pollutants are selected in terms of distribution and toxicity. Topping the CERCLA list (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act) are metals and metalloids: 1. arsenic, 2. lead, 3. mercury, followed by PVC (polyvinyl chloride), PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) and PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in ninth place. Cadmium, another metal, comes in seventh place, and the insecticide DDT, which is banned in Europe yet still sprayed by the hundreds of millions of tons annually in the rest of the world, takes 13th place. Aluminum is only found in 183rd place and formaldehyde, the nerve poison often mentioned in the media, is listed in 224th place (as of 2017).

Initially, only the most critical everyday toxins can be addressed here. It is important to know that other metals such as silver, platinum, palladium, gold (all of which are frequently found in dental gold), thallium, nickel, beryllium and radioactive uranium also play a significant role in many diseases. For example, if the body has already been exposed to mercury or lead, which almost every individual has, additional exposure to silver, gold, palladium, platinum, aluminum, cadmium, iron, copper, titanium or nickel can have a multiplying effect on toxicity.

Consequently, studies show that even small amounts of aluminum (often in vaccines), iron, copper, uranium, and nickel have adverse health effects on humans. Uranium, which is increasingly being ingested through drinking water, has similar toxicity to lead. As a result of the widespread application of phosphate fertilizers in agriculture, about one-third of Germany's drinking water sources already contain an alarming amount of uranium.

85,000 synthetic substances dominate everyday modern human life

Ignoring environmental toxins in modern medicine is irresponsible. In addition to the virtually unmanageable number of everyday and omnipresent pollutants in both outdoor and indoor environments, this also includes industrially produced food. The eternal land of milk and honey at the supermarket, with its unlimited quantities of fruit, vegetables, salads, dairy products, meat, and grain products always available, can only be achieved with the help of several thousand chemicals.

For example, household dust still contains formaldehyde, the flame retardant bromine (PBB) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), which, in addition to the neurotoxic fluorine compounds in toothpaste, suppress the vital iodine in the thyroid gland and thereby promote thyroid diseases such as Hashimoto and Basedow. The consequences are impacting more and more people.

Iodine is not only essential for our thyroid gland, as conventional medicine teaches, but also the female breast, male prostate, pancreas, pituitary gland (hormone control system) and our connective tissue all depend on iodine. In the majority of our patients, we find an iodine deficiency.

In a world where ever-increasing amounts of chemical substances dominate everyday life, and the seas and lakes along with their inhabitants are all now contaminated with microplastics, heavy metals, and pesticides, and the industrialized large-scale production of food using an almost unlimited number of synthetic chemicals is granted virtually unlimited freedom, everyone should be aware of the vital role played today by environmental medicine.

One of the consequences of the increase in ubiquitous environmental toxins is a significant increase in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome (MCS).