Is It Running Really Rough?

…time for a tune up!

Hesitating when you try to accelerate?

Idling rough?

Won’t start easily in the morning?

The exhaust not looking good?

No, we don’t mean your car, we mean you!  If this was your car, you would have it in the shop to get tuned up.  These are all symptoms of poor detoxification along with weight gain, poor sleep, poor skin quality, blood lipid abnormalities and many others.

These detoxification systems work 24-7 to clear anything we cannot metabolize out of the body.  Metabolized simply means “to burn up as energy or convert to storage fat”.  The human body can only do that with protein, carbohydrate and fat but not with the immense amounts of chemicals and internal breakdown products it must deal with each day.

What else do we deal with:

·         80,000 environmental chemicals in food, water, air

·         10,000 chemicals allowed as “food additives”

·         Hundreds of our own hormone residues

So how is that done?

Toxins have always been in the human environment.  However, it was a few hundred from sources such as volcano smoke and heavy metals in some foods sources.  Humans have always had a sophisticated detoxification system to manage these toxins. It begins with a 2-part liver enzyme breakdown process and then help from the kidneys and digestive tract to usher the breakdown products finally out. 

This process, however, requires constant “recharging” from dietary nutrients.  It is also a finite system that has a capacity that can be exceeded causing many ill health effects.  This finite capacity and its ability to be overwhelmed is why we hear the little disclaimer at the end of so many drug commercials about “your doctor may want to check your liver enzymes regularly”.  When the amount of drug residue to be detoxified exceeds that capacity, liver cells get injured and leak enzymes.

What’s the problem?

We are at a historic mismatch of a greatly increased toxic load with greatly decreased food content of the phytonutrients that help recharge our detoxification enzymes.  It is the “perfect storm” for toxic related symptoms and illnesses that have been related to toxic overload such as diabetes, autoimmune disease, cancer and several others. 

An ongoing study by the CDC of the levels of 32 toxic volatile compounds found in human blood samples found the following in 1990:

·         No subject exhibited none of the 32

·         The average across the large study population was 14

·         Several subjects exhibited all 32

·         Toxic levels were equally found in those from diverse urban/rural, occupational and age groups – none of us are immune!

·         Each subsequent decade has shown persisting and increasing levels

What is the solution?

The best solution is minimizing toxic exposures and eating an organic, high fruit/vegetable, low processed food diet which maximizes the detoxification phytonutrients.  For many this seems to be to a difficult task.  Another option is to do a detoxification program twice each year to regenerate the system for the next several months.  The Standard Process 21-Day Purification program is ideally suited for this option.  The program often leads to encouraging health effects that motivate many to make more lasting changes to their eating.

To help everyone with this process we are hosting an interesting program with Jeannine Ruggieri of Mid-Atlantic Standard Process.  Jeannine will enlighten us about this great program through her own story of how she resolved many of her own health challenges with it.  Please be our guest for this educational program.  Join us at 5:30 PM January 18, 2017 to learn about this great program.  Just call the office at 757-456-5053 to reserve a seat.  Guests are welcome.  Just let us know to save a seat for them also.