Toxins
Toxins
Toxins are inescapable. They are in the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the creams we put on our faces, the clothes we wear, furniture we sit on, the cars we drive. This category looks at how environmental toxins impact our health.
Gut
Our health is inextricably linked to our gut microbes. If our gut microbes are healthy, we are healthy. If our gut microbes are sick, we are sick. The DNA associated with our gut microbes is called the microbiome. The microbiome affects our DNA and has the capability of switching it into ‘good’ working mode or ‘bad’ working mode. This is called epigenetics. Anything that keeps the microbiome healthy, keeps you healthy. Anything that harms the microbiome, will harm you.
Toxins
Environmental toxins can accumulate in our body over many years. Exposure to toxins as a child can lead to ill health in adulthood. Even though we may take in minute quantities, over time, our bodies find it more and more difficult to get rid of them. Accumulated mixtures of toxins can eventually overwhelm the system and tip us into ill health.
Food
One of the main ways that we have access to environmental toxins is through our food. Foods that we consider to be healthy may actually be harming us. Not because the food itself is bad but because the food absorbs toxins from the ground, air or water easily. The body’s immune system may become hypersensitive to the food in combination with the toxin and create chronic inflammation.
Aches and pains
Toxins that harm the gut can result in raised levels of harmful by-products such as oxalates. Oxalates can be deposited in joints and cause a type of gout. Gut dysbiosis can also contribute to joint aches and pains by sustaining chronic inflammation. This presentation will give some case studies of typical patient types that come to see me with joint pain and how I manage it with diet and supplements.
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