Toxins that Are Treacherous to Your Health
What the body sees as a toxic substance can be one of two sorts — exotoxins (toxins that come from outside the body) or endotoxins (toxins that oringinate from within the body).
An exotoxin can be any one of tens of thousands of household, agricultural or industrial chemical substances that we’re exposed to in our everyday life. To some degree, we can control and restrain our vulnerability to these environmental toxic chemicals. The choices we make when we shop is one place in our life where we can be in nearly complete control. More and more stores supply good quality cleaning and other household products that are non-toxic.
Endotoxins are far less easy to control. These are the by-products of normal metabolic actions that go on in our body. An endotoxin can be a digestive waste product, antibodies, excess hormones and material component parts need to be recycled or excreted.
Many who live in modern cultures today endure an increasing degree of toxic deluge. Though our body is fit to do the filtering and elimination of endotoxins, the body is more and more unable to deal with the raising amount of exotoxins that we absorb through our food, beverages, air, household products and personal care products.
As much as we may try to avoid environmental toxins, the ability to do so is very tough. Our bodies are simply exposed to an unprecedented number and diversity of chemical substances that are completely foreign, if not actually harmful, to our body. Unsophisticated ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to purchase 100% natural ingredient health care and cleaning products, and to always purchase organic produce when available.
In addition to reducing our exposure to environmental and dietary toxins, there is a great deal we can do toward assisting the body’s natural detoxification processes. Doing a semiannual detoxification program will purify your body and significantly subdue the strenuous encumbrance on your body caused by toxicity.
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