Why Detoxify?
Detoxing your body must effectively start with the rejuvenation of your digestive system, as this is the only way to remove large amounts of toxins, pathogens, over-grown yeast (Candida) and parasites that can build up in your body over time.
This is caused after eating and drinking excessive amounts of the wrong foods. Ever increasing air pollution and taking various medicines also helps towards free radical damage and acidosis. This change of environment is the perfect breeding ground in your body for pathogens to grow whilst the liver and kidneys struggle to keep up and fight the acidic environment.
Just like cleaning your car or house, your body’s organs need cleaning too, or symptoms will start to show themselves in different ways such as:
Frequent headaches, premature ageing, low energy levels, depression or mood swings, allergies, weight gain, excessive body odour, indigestion/acid reflux and recurring yeast infections
The human body is a self-defending, self-repairing and self-replicating machine, but you have to give it the right materials to detoxify properly. Sometimes toxins are stored instead of filtered out your body, which leads to different types of effects and complaints; toxins stored in joints, result in arthritis, in the muscle tissues they cause rheumatism and in the skin and organs, cysts and benign tumors can form. Are you storing internal toxins?
7 things you should know about your digestion:
Click on the titles below:
The functions of the body
What probiotics actually do
The good guys
The bad guys
An acidic pH can lead to cell malnutrition
Candida
How does the body naturally detox?
How do toxins weaken my immune system?
What you DON’T want to know about colon parasites
The functions of the body
The human body is constantly rebuilding itself on a scale of 300 billion cells every day of your life, combusting oxygen and glucose for energy, constantly rebuilding tissue, replacing the worn out dead cells with new fresh ones. Virtually every cell in the body is replaced every seven years, estimated to be 750 trillion cells. Some types of cells are programmed at the DNA level to be replaced more frequently. For example, scientists discovered that red blood cells are replaced every 120 days; heart cells every 2 months; colon/intestinal cells every 5 days; skin cells every 4 weeks; bone structures every year; stomach lining every 2 days.
Marvel in this understanding because we all take it for granted by not giving our body the nutrition it needs to grow, repair and detox properly and we wonder why we are ill?
What probiotics actually do
Having good digestion and a healthy diet is the secret to good health allowing you to maintain constant energy levels. You have about 3-4 lbs of probiotic bacteria living in your intestine (the good guys), which help you break down and absorb nutrients. When you eat to much acidic food your body’s cells are unable to absorb much needed nutrients. These acidic foods also create a breeding ground for pathogens, bad bacteria; mould, fungi, yeast and those pathogens rob you of the nutrients you're eating to grow and repair your body, weakening and damaging your body, by creating wastes that burden or even poison your body.
The good guys (probiotics)
Probiotics maintain the intestinal wall keeping a healthy environment and preparing food for absorption into your blood stream. Probiotics also create beneficial substances including a natural antiseptic acidophilin which aids digestion. They protect you against germs such as mild strains of salmonella; with a stable alkaline environment and your probiotics working efficiently, it wouldn’t be possible to get yeast over growing in your intestine (Candida).
Probiotics have 3 main jobs:
-
Stop bad bacteria over growing
-
Neutralizing toxins
-
Helping the absorption of nutrients whilst keeping the intestine clean.
It is estimated that an average person has less than 25% of the normal amount of probiotics due to an acidic diet from processed, high protein sugary foods which create a better environment for bad bacteria to grow. The modern diet encourages yeast and fungus to overgrow which in turn overpowers your probiotics, stopping the well needed nutrients that you eat being absorbed into the body.
The bad guys (pathogens)
Regardless of what you eat, to much bad bacteria can leave you literally starved of all the nutrients you put in your body, causing illness and disease. To make things worse, the pathogens (the bad guys) create more waste acid increasing the problem.
If you do not digest and convert your food into red blood cells for growth and repair it will have a negative effect on your health, affecting your energy levels, making you sick, whilst also increasing the ageing process. Your red blood cells transform into different cells around your body, your liver, brain, skin and even heart. Without converting the food you digest into red blood cells your body will struggle to grow or develop and fight disease.
The small intestine must be alkaline for the food you eat, to be transformed into red blood cells. With a constant consumption of processed foods, along with excessive dairy and meat, the intestine is constantly bombarded with acid, allowing pathogens (the bad guys) to overgrow living on your food. Not a nice thought I know, however, you can do something about this.
An acidic pH can lead to cell malnutrition
The cells in your body bathe in the fluid that surrounds them and we are approximately 70% water. This fluid allows nutrients to go into cells and toxins to come out. If the fluid has a pH level of between 6.3 and 6.6, the cells can accept nutrients and release toxins easily, anymore acidic and your cells struggle to grow and repair efficiently.
If the pH of the body is acidic so is the fluid and the cells outer membrane becomes a little thicker to protect the cell from acid. The body is very versatile and will adapt to change in order to survive, much like the body will protect the hand, by toughening the skin to a callus.
The daunting task of breaking down, recycling and eliminating the wastes created by processing several hundred pounds of dead cells is quite amazing.
Candida
A pathogen called Candida is one of the biggest problems in the human body; it is a form of yeast that can overgrow in the intestines, which effects both males and females. An easy test is to see if you have white growing on your tongue, as this is a common sign that you have an overgrowth of Candida. This is a sign that you have a yeast infection (Candida) in large amounts; this can lead to further yeast infections in women like Thrush. This microorganism lives in your intestines, eating carbohydrates and sugars, which can lead to uncontrollable urges and cravings to eat high sugar content foods, allowing yeast to grow and form colonies around the body.
Test yourself for Candida for free from home
How does the body naturally detox?
The whole process of metabolic rate and digestion is poisonous. The waste from cellular breakdown, needs to be constantly drained from the body and this is a reoccurring life long process. The body has natural systems to take toxins away before they build up and start to damage the body, tissue and organs. If these toxins were to remain and accumulate in your body you would suffer an agonizing death through poisoning. The two main organs for detoxification are the liver and kidneys, which filter your body’s fluids, removing toxic substances and purifying the body constantly.
If toxins remain and accumulate in the body, you would quite simply die of poisoning.
How do toxins weaken my immune system?
Toxins weaken the body’s immune responses, creating stress on the immune system, leaving a gap for organisms and pathogens to successfully invade, using your body as a host. When the body is faced with an overload of toxins, your secondary organs such as the large intestine, lungs, bladder and the skin start to help eliminate the extra toxins, putting the whole body under much stress. This can result in skin irritations, bacterial or viral infections, asthma, sinusitis and a whole host of other issues depending on the area involved.
What you DON’T want to know about colon parasites
Parasites.... the single most missed factor in health.
What do informed people say?
We know most animals are full of parasites but thankfully dogs, cats and horses are regularly treated, but what about humans?
Dr Hulda Clark, a world authority on parasites, states that "We are heavily parasitized beings”. Our bodies are perfect hosts for parasites providing food and shelter. If they settled outside our skin we would see them and take the necessary precautions.
Threadworms are a common parasite, with up to 4 in 10 children in the UK having threadworms at some stage in their childhood. Threadworms live in the gut and lay eggs around the anus, which causes itching. Children may pass them on to adults living in the same home. Consider this, particularly if there is more than one person in your home with an itchy bottom.
Ann Louise Gittleman in her book, "Guess what came for dinner", says of parasites "They are insidious because of the common misconception among medical people and the general public that parasites are generally a third world problem where malnutrition and poor hygienic practices exist. Nothing could be farther from the truth."
It has been estimated, that the average human has about a kilogram of parasites in their body. Worm parasites are more common than most people expect, and they are listed as The Center for Disease Controls number 1 Health Risk. "Hookworms sink their teeth into the intestinal walls of more than a billion people every day to drink their fill of blood." According to the World Health Organization, 3.5 billion people suffer from some type of parasite infection and not all of these people live in third world countries.
A Scientist at Ohio University in the US stated "It is estimated that pinworms infect more than 400,000,000 people throughout the world and in many areas of the world (e.g. North America and Europe) it is the most common nematode parasite of humans. On a world-wide basis, however, Ascaris lumbricoides ranks number 1 infecting more than 1,000,000,000 people."
"Ascaris lumbricoides is one of the largest and most common parasites found in humans. The adult females of this species can measure up to 18 inches long (males are generally shorter), and it is estimated that 25% of the world's population is infected with this nematode. The adult worms live in the small intestine and eggs are passed in the feces. A single female can produce up to 200,000 eggs each day!."
"Fasciola hepatica is found in parts of the United States, as well as in Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, Far East, Africa, and Australia."
Can parasites live inside our organs?
Parasites by Location within the body:
Alimentary Tract 197 species
Cavities, Organs, and Tissues 107 species
Circulatory System 21 species
Skin and Tissues 56 species
How Can These Parasites Affect Our Health?
Louise Gittleman says ‘that many unexplained health conditions often disappeared when parasites were eliminated from the body’. These conditions included "environmental illness, skin problems, digestive problems, excessive fatigue, hypoglycaemia, arthritic like pains, long standing obesity, and even depression."
What are the symptoms of internal parasites?
Possible signs and symptoms of internal parasites:
-
Feel tired most of the time (Chronic Fatigue)
-
Digestive problems
-
Have gastrointestinal symptoms and bulky stools with excess fat in faeces
-
Suffer with food sensitivities and environmental intolerance
-
Developed allergic-like reactions
-
Joint and muscle pains and inflammation often assumed to be arthritis
-
Suffer with anemia or iron deficiency (pernicious anemia)
-
Rashes, weeping eczema, cutaneous ulcers, swelling, sores, papular lesions, itchy dermatitis
-
Suffer with restlessness and anxiety
-
Experience multiple awakenings during the night particularly between 2 and 3 am
-
Grinding your teeth
-
Excessive amounts of bacterial or viral infections
-
Depressed
-
Difficulty gaining or losing weight no matter what you do
-
Just can’t figure out why you don’t feel really great and neither can your doctor
-
Itchy ears, nose, anus
-
Forgetfulness, slow reflexes, gas and bloating, unclear thinking
-
Loss of appetite, yellowish face
-
Fast heartbeat, heart pain, pain in the navel
-
Eating more than normal but still feeling hungry
-
Pain in the back, thighs, shoulders
-
Lethargy
-
Numb hands
-
Burning sensation in the stomach
-
Drooling while sleeping
-
Damp lips at night, dry lips during the day, grinding teeth while asleep
-
Bed wetting
-
Women: problems with the menstrual cycle
-
Men: sexual dysfunction
These are only possible symptoms, so please keep in mind that not everyone that has a few of these symptoms should automatically make the assumption that they are infected. However, if you suspect infection or have been unsuccessfully treated for a problem, it is worth doing some specific parasite cleansing.
How do we become infected?
Everyone is susceptible.
Let’s look at some of the reasons for rising parasitic infections. This list is taken from page 9 & 10 of Louise Gittleman’s book, "Guess What Came to Dinner":
-
Rise in international travel.
-
Contamination of municipal and rural water supplies.
-
Increasing use of Day-care centres.
-
Influx of refugee and immigrant populations from endemic areas.
-
Return of armed forces from overseas.
-
Continued popularity of household pets.
-
Increasing popularity of exotic regional foods.
-
Use of antibiotics and immunosuppressive drugs.
-
The sexual revolution.
-
The spread of AIDS.
There are four pathways that can be infected:
-
Via food or water which are sources of the roundworm, amoebae, giardia.
-
Through the nose and skin where pinworm eggs and Toxoplasma gondii can be inhaled from contaminated dust, hookworms, schistosomes, and strongyloides can penetrate exposed skin and bare feet.
-
Via a vector - e.g. a mosquito (carrier of dog heartworm, filaria & malaria); a flea (carrier of dog tapeworm); the common housefly (transmits amebic cysts) and the sand fly (carries leishmaniasis).
-
Via sexual contact where partners can transmit trichomonas, giardia, amoebae.
Some food sources are pork, seafood and undercooked meat.
Having too much waste in our bodies, due to improper eating and accumulated toxins leads to low oxygen levels which in turn can lead to parasite infestation. As the body looses oxygen levels, fungus or massive parasites overwhelm the body and this can be a factor or cause in most diseases.
For many centuries mankind has sought the aid of herbs to regain control over waste that has accumulated in the body. Remove the waste and the parasites can be controlled.
"Another parasitic pathway is the airplane. Extensive foreign travel has exposed people to a whole range of exotic diseases never before encountered in their homeland."
