Toxins that Can Adversely Affect Your Health
What the body sees as a toxic substance is one of two forms exotoxins (toxins that originate outside the body) or endotoxins (toxins that develop within the body).
An exotoxin could be any one of tens of thousands of household, agricultural or industrial chemical substances that we are exposed to on a very frequent basis in our everyday life. To a certain degree, we can moderate and limit our exposure to these environmental toxic chemicals. The choices we make when we shop is one place in our lives where we can be in almost complete control. More and more shops are offering good quality cleaning and other products that are non-toxic.
Endotoxins are more challenging to control. Endotoxins are the by-products of our body’s natural metabolic processes. An endotoxin can be a bacterial waste product, antibodies, hormones and material component parts need to be recycled or eliminated.
Many of us who live in first-world cities today suffer from an increasing amount of toxic overload. Although our body is created with the ability to process the detoxification and excretion of endotoxins, the body is not able to deal with the increasing number of exotoxins that we absorb through our air, food, beverages, household products and personal care products.
Despite our most zealous attempt to avoid environmental toxins, our power to do so is very hard-fought. Our bodies are simply exposed to a large number and variety of toxic chemicals that are altogether foreign, if not completely harmful, to our body. Unsophisticated ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to buy natural, organic personal care and cleaning products, and to always buy organic produce when available.
As well as restraining our exposure to internal and external toxins, we can do a great deal toward assisting the body’s natural detoxification operations. Doing a seasonal body cleanse detox program will detox your body and greatly minimize the chemical burden on your body.
