The average woman uses 12 different personal care products, exposing them to about 168 chemicals per day, and then the average man uses six different personal care products daily, exposing them to about  85 chemicals per day.

And when it comes to health, prevention is always so much easier than cure.  To prevent serious health conditions, rather than turn them around.

Today, we see a stark intersection between our environment and the rise in chronic health illnesses.  Our polluted world is the trigger for our growing infant mortality, childhood cancers, childhood developmental delay.  Toxic metals, flouride, glyphosate, and fertilizers have a synergistic effect and can affect neurodevelopment and can affect our children.

Environmental pollution starts in the womb, with the maternal-fetal transfer.  Maybe mum has amalgams or high stores of lead in her tissue.  The baby then receives the Hep-B vaccine at birth – full of aluminium.  Formula milk is full of glyphosate and GMOs, perhaps combined with unfiltered water with heavy metals such as lead and hormones recycled from the pill.  The combination of toxicants from conception paints a perfect storm, where 1 + 1 toxic ant does not equal two.

One environmental toxicant, heavy metal, for instance, can be a neurotoxin, it can be a carcinogen, it can be an endocrine disruptor.  toxicants are not mutually exclusive, and that’s why they are so dangerous to our health.

Toxicants

• Carcinogens cause cancer
• Mutagens mutate the DNA and can also lead to cancer, but affect the genetic expression.
• Teratogens are going to affect unborn babies.
• Allergens have an overexcitable response to the immune system leading to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and have a hard time with the environmental pollutants.  In this way, some of the environmental pollutants actually become allergens in the body as well.   Meaning people can start off with a heavy metal burden, but they can also have the heavy metal allergy, and that can just create a cascade of more severe symptoms.
• Neurotoxins affect our nervous system, our cranial nerves, our peripheral nerves.  When neurotoxins have a strong affinity with these nerves they create a lot of havoc.
• Endocrine disruptors are toxicants that mimic our natural hormones.  Xenoestrogens are endocrine disruptors that look like estrogen which have an estrogen stimulating effect on the body and can lead to what we’re seeing as estrogen dominance and estrogen-positive cancers. As well as early-onset puberty as well as infertility at the other end of the spectrum.  Endocrine disruptors have a big role in our health.
• Biotoxins are produced by microbes and pathogens.  Biotoxins + environmental toxins in combination together create a dramatic and overwhelming effect on our organs of elimination and so we have to look at both when we consider exogenous toxicant loading in perspective with the individual pathogenic loading and endogenous biotoxin production.  Since this will have everything to do with whether the client is able to open their pathways of elimination successfully, or not. 
• Mycotoxins come from fungus. Mycotoxins have an overwhelming effect on our body, because they have to also be metabolised by the same pathways as toxicants: hepatocyte and gallbladder.  

When the body is unable to eliminate these environmental burdens the body becomes sluggish.   But the body is wise, it’s not going to allow a lot of these environmental toxicants to just flow freely in the blood.  We usually store them, and that’s why they’re hard to identify and also to eliminate.  We sequester them so they don’t damage more vital organs even though they can be affected, by we can sequester them to scar tissue or fibrosis or adipose tissue, like fat cells, or things like calcium deposits or lipomas.  

Weight can be another mechanism of environmental toxicant protection since the body trying to store and protect vital organs from environmental exposure. 

And then we have bones.  Heavy metals, especially lead is stored in bone leading to osteoprosis. 

Heavy metals damage our central nervous system. 

Heavy metals damage our cells and cell membranes, triggering the Cell Danger Response (CDR), creating a whole paradigm of why people are chronically ill and how the cells get threatened.   The CDR typically perpetuates and prolongs chronic illness, because it shuts down the mitochondria, keeping the body starved from energy causing the person to feel really sick and fatigued.  

Staying healthy means preventing disease as well as reversing disease. So really, in order to successfully stay healthy, we need to get rid of a lot of these environmental toxicants. Considering our epigenetic profile if you have this completed already helps to understand exactly where you may be getting stuck with detoxification. If you haven’t completed a genomic wellness test, and you have a chronic condition then you should do so right away.  If you are thinking of working with Anna, please contact her first for her recommended genomic profile panels.  

There are different phases of detoxification for excreting different toxins and toxicants. Phase I detoxification such as our CYP450 enzymes, or Phase II such as acetylation, sulfation, glucuronidation, oxidation and others allows us to take something that’s toxic and process it. Phase 3 takes this journey a stage further.  

So health is a lot about getting the routes of elimination moving.  Getting the bile moving, opening the bowel, healing the gut, diversifying the microbiota, strengthening the blood-brain barrier, cleaning the brain, opening the extracellular matrix, getting the interstitial tissue flowing and moving.  Coffee enemas (if suitable).  

• Toxicants in the form of heavy metals block mitochondrial function, activate CDR and diminish energy production. 
• Toxicants lower our thresh-hold to stress, by re-wiring the nervous system through limbic kindling. 
• Toxicants rewire our immunological responses to stress leading to Mast Cell Activation, and an allergic response to the toxicant.  This further perpetuates an inability to deal with stressors. 
• Toxicants rewire our limbic system to stress, fusing our nervous systems to a wider range of stressors such as electrical stress – the back-drop to our modern age. 
• Toxicants affect our mood, via the CNS and serotonin production system, inflaming our gut, joints and even brain.  
• Toxicants can all be identified with the right choice of functional panels with a focus on identifying body burden toxicant levels and the immune system’s response to toxicants.  Symptoms can then be ameliorated and even resolved with correctly identified nutritional therapy, supplement, and lifestyle intervention.  
• Compliance is paramount for the success of this type of comprehensive programme.