Clearlight ESSENTIAL C-1 - Understanding Detoxification; Importance of Detoxification

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Why Detoxify
Why Is Detoxication Important
Excerpted from: Literature Review & Comparison Studies of Sauna/Hyperthermia in Detoxication Townsend Letter for
Doctors, June 1992 Zane R. Gard, M.D. & Erma J. Brown, BSN, PhN
The past 150 years have been a time of incredible progress for medicine, science and industry. Because of these advancements
we now enjoy longer, more productive lives. However, there are many who pay a tremendously high price for our modern
lifestyle. The by-products of our chemical technology have resulted in ubiquitous contamination of our atmosphere, lakes,
oceans and soil. Our natural environment is now permeated by a barrage of “unnatural” substances.
Unquestionably, many of the chemical sources have been in existence for centuries. However, today we are exposed to
chemical concentrations far greater than were our ancestors. Although the human mechanism is known to be accommodating,
ecological alterations are now occurring at a faster rate than our bodies are able to adapt. We are now faced with a situation
where inadequacies or uncertainties centering around the manufacturing, use, storage, and disposal of toxic chemicals,
have resulted in an overwhelming number of environmentally-induced illnesses.
Since 1965, over 4 million distinct chemical compounds have been reported in scientic literature. Over 6000 new chemicals
were added to this list between 1965 and 1978. As of 1981, of over 70,000 chemicals in commercial production, 3,000 have
been identied as intentionally added to our food supplies and over 700 in drinking water. During food processing and
storage 10,000 other compounds can become an integral part of many commonly used foods. Added to this list of potential
body toxins, petrochemicals, industrial waste, medical and street drugs, radiation (X-rays, nuclear fallout etc.) and tons of
pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, the result is an incredible chemicalavalanche to have befallen the human race in a
relatively short period of evolutionary history.
There is currently a wealth of scientic evidence showing that thousands of drugs, preservatives, pesticides, and other
pollutants remain stored in the body long aer exposure. We know for example that an organochlorinated pesticide such
as the metabolites of DDT have a half life of between 20 and 50 years in the fat deposits of humans. According to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency over 400 chemicals have been detected in human tissue; 48 were found in adipose tissue,
40 in breastmilk, 73 in the liver andover 250 in the blood.