“Through my 25 years in medical practice and health
care…I have come to believe that the cleansing/detoxification
process is the missing link in Western nutrition and one of
the keys to real healing. I have seen hundreds of patients
over the years transform regular or persistent illness into
health and greatly improved vitality.”
– Elson M. Haas,
M.D. founder and medical director of the Preventive Medical
Center of Marin and author of several popular health books
"People now carry
within their bodies a modern-day chemical cocktail derived
from industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy
metals, anesthetics, and the residues of pharmaceutical, legal,
and illegal drugs, and residues from your mercury tooth fillings."
Each year people are exposed to thousands
of toxic chemicals and pollutants in the earth's atmosphere,
water, food, and soil. These pollutants manifest themselves
in a variety of symptoms, including decreased immune function,
neurotoxicity, hormonal dysfunction, psychological disturbances,
and even cancer.
Toxicity related illnesses are caused by
the presence of toxic wastes in our system. These chemicals
and heavy metals poison our blood and are carried throughout
our circulatory system, affecting every organ. Consequently,
our cells and tissues are literally “swimming”
in contamination.
Detoxification therapy helps to rid the
body of chemicals and pollutants and can facilitate a return
to health.
Why
is every second American chronically ill?
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“Nearly half of the population
– 125 million Americans – live with some
type of chronic health condition. |
About 60 million live with multiple
chronic conditions”, according to Partnership
For Solutions, a project of Johns Hopkins University and
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This information may shock
you, but it just may be the most important report you’ve
ever read.
We are living in a sea
of toxins
Junk foods and soft drinks contain dangerous
additives, chemicals, and many are laced with excitotoxins
“found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate [MSG],
aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein,
and aspartic acid”. Excitotoxins are “substances
added to foods and beverages that literally stimulate neurons
to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.”
Food, which is meant to nourish us, has
become a significant source of internal pollution, some by
design and some by carelessness. No one’s put it more
pertinently than nutritionist, Carol Simontacchi, in her best-selling
book The Crazy Makers: “Food industries wantonly
destroy our bodies and our brains, all in the name of profit.”
Every day you’re exposed to 50,000
chemicals
“About 2.2 billion pounds of pesticides are used in
the U.S. each year. This is about eight pounds per capita.”
According to experts, only 2% of this actually serves to protect
the crops while the air, water and the food itself absorbs
the other 98%. (Over 110 different kinds of chemicals are
used on apples alone.)
Municipal water may contain up to 700 chemicals, including
heavy metals. U.S. dentists are the single largest discharger
of mercury into the nation's waters. They use about 44 tons
of highly toxic mercury to fill some 100 million cavities
each year.(6)
Thousands of different chemicals are used in food processing
and preservation. And here’s the scariest fact of all
from a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) scientist, Dr. James
Pirkle: "If you gave a sample of blood or urine to
us, we could find all sorts of things you didn't think you
had. We are regularly, every day, exposed to 50,000 chemicals."
Only a fraction of these chemicals have
been studied for their effects on humans. There have been
no studies at all showing the consequences of using these
agents in varying combinations with each other. Living in
such a toxic environment places our bodies under constant
bombardment from every conceivable angle.
To make matters worse, food and product
labels do not always list every ingredient. When people consume
these foods - especially meat, poultry, and seafood - they
ingest all the chemicals and pesticides that have remained
as accumulated contaminants in the food chain. These pollutants
lodge in the body - loading it up with foreign substances
- and can manifest in a variety of symptoms, including decreased
immune function, nerve cell toxicity, hormonal dysfunction
and psychological disturbances.
Increasingly, toxicity is being identified
as the predisposing factor in a long list of acute and chronic
illnesses, including environmental illness and chronic fatigue,
degenerative diseases like heart disease and cancer. 'The
current supply and the indoor and outdoor environment has
lowered our threshold of resistance to disease and has altered
our body's metabolism, causing enzyme dysfunction, nutritional
deficiencies, and hormonal imbalances,' says Marshall Mandell,
M.D., a pioneer of environmental medicine based in Norwalk,
Connecticut.
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In the United
States, we allow over 10,000 food and chemical additives
into our food supply.
The average American eats about 14 pounds of additives
a year.
In addition
to colorings, preservatives, flavorings, emulsifiers,
humectants, and antimicrobials, we consume on average
150 pounds of sugar and 8 pounds of salt.
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DISEASES
AND ILLNESSES FROM OUR FOOD!
“More than 200
known diseases are transmitted through food.”
These diseases have
been estimated to “cause 6 million to 81 million
illnesses and up to 9,000 deaths each year.”
“Three (known)
pathogens , Salmonella, Listeria, and Toxoplasma,
are responsible for 1,500 deaths each year.
unknown agents (toxins,pathogens)
account for the remaining
62 million illnesses, 265,000 hospitalizations, and 3,200
deaths.”
The
following are direct quotes from the Center for Disease Control
(CDC)
You can learn about
this at: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm
Almost everyone
in the USA as an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants,
in their body.
Of these 76 cause cancer
in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous
system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development.
In a study led by Mount
Sinai School of Medicine in New York, in collaboration with
the Environmental Working Group and Commonweal, researchers
at two major laboratories found an average of 91 industrial
compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood
and urine of nine volunteers, with a total of 167 chemicals
found in the group. Like most of us, the people tested do
not work with chemicals on the job and do not live near
an industrial facility.
Scientists refer to this contamination as
a person’s body burden. Of the 167 chemicals found,
76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the
brain and nervous system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal
development. The dangers of exposure to these chemicals in
combination has never been studied until now.
Learn about this at: www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/
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"Over four hundred
pesticides are currently licensed
for use on America's foods!
“Every year over
2.5 billion pounds of pesticides are
dumped on crop lands, forests, lawns, and fields."
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Household and other
Personal Toxins
There is a phenomenon known as 'outgassing'
of toxic vapors from material found in the home and office.
Examples: formaldehyde (particleboard furniture), volatile
organic compounds - VOCs (stains and varnishes on wood items
and paint on the walls), resins (adhesives that hold furniture),
numerous compounds (plastic household, office items), cleaning
products, household pesticides, synthetic carpets, drapes
and upholstery. Your greatest exposure to chlorine and other
toxic compounds is not just from drinking water, but from
taking baths and showers. Other personal concerns are root
canals and mercury amalgam fillings.
How much junk do you
really eat in one year?
Each year the average American consumes
150 lbs of sugar and 566 cans of soft drinks (“liquid
candy”). According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
that is equal to “52 teaspoonfuls of added sugars per
person per day.” Can you imagine yourself sitting at
the kitchen table gobbling down 52 teaspoons of white sugar
– every single day? Well, that’s exactly what
most of us are doing without even realizing it!
Junk food consumption has increased drastically
in the last few decades. Compared to 1981, in 2001 the average
American consumed in one year: 45 large bags of potato chips
- up 78%; 120 orders of French fries - up 130%; 190 candy
bars - up 80%; 120 pastries or desserts - up 95%; 150 slices
of pizza - up 143%
With
the proper use of cleansing and detoxification we can maintain
health and vitality, even as we age.
We
specialize in treating chronic health conditions from
diseases to pain through detoxification.
Chelation Therapy
BioMedical Body Wrap
Lymphatic Massage Therapy
BioMedical Massage Therapy
Infrared Sauna
Footbath Detox
Colon Hydrotherapy
One Day Detox Programs
Two Day Detox Programs
Fourteen Day Detox Programs
Twenty eight Day Detox Programs
Full body detoxification
to organ specific ( liver/kidney etc.) detoxification.
For
an appointment call
(253) 564-9223
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