Sources of Body Toxicity
What the body construes as a toxic substance can be one of two types — exotoxins (toxins that external to the body) or endotoxins (toxins that oringinate from within the body). An exotoxin is typically any one of thousands of househole, industrial or agricultural chemical substances that we are exposed to on a fairly regular basis in our everyday life. To some point, we are able to restrict and limit our vulnerability to these types of toxic substances. The types of household products and produce we purchase is one place in our life where we can be in near total control. Increasingly more shops provide good quality cleaning and other household products that are free of toxins. Endotoxins are less simple to control. Endotoxins are the by-products of regular metabolic actions that take place in our body. An endotoxin can be a bodily waste product, antibodies, excess hormones and cellular material whose biochemical constituents need to be excreted.
Many of us who live in modern cultures today deal with at least some amount of toxic overwhelm. While our body is fitted to do the filtering and elimination of endotoxins, the body is increasingly unable to deal with the rising sum of exotoxins that we take in through our beverages, food, air, cleaning products and personal care products. As much as we may try to avoid environmental toxins, our power to do so is very hard-fought. The truth is, we are simply exposed to a tremendous number and diversity of toxic substances that are completely foreign, if not really damaging, to the body. Uncomplicated ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to purchase 100% natural personal care and cleaning products, and to always choose organic produce when available.
In addition to avoiding our exposure to environmental and dietary toxins, we can do a great deal toward assisting the body’s natural detoxification operations. Doing an occasional body detox program will detoxify your body and greatly subdue the strenuous burden on your body caused by toxicity.
