What do toxins do to your bodies?

Answer 1

The foods people put into their body today cause a lot of toxicity and really tear down the organs in the body, especially the liver. Foods such as processed sugars, gluten and dairy are some of the worst things you can put into your body. To detoxify, you should focus on eating green, leafy vegetables and whole grains such as brown rice, kasha, and quinoa. These whole foods have the nutrients needed to clean out your body and rebuild your organs. If you are not a fan of vegetables, look into liquid chlorophyll (e.g. wheat grass). You can mix this into water or juice, and one serving is equal to eating 1 kg of vegetables.

Answer 2

What causes toxins to build up in the body?

Same reasoning goes for “how do I build up my bank balance?”, doesn’t it? (The Problem With Accumulations In Our Body)

When our money outflow is more than our money inflow into that bank account, we’d go down to $0 and then be in a deficit.

When our money inflow is more than our money outflow, we start to build up a positive bank balance.

Now, consider the body as the bank…

We’ll get toxins building up in the body when we have more toxins in than what is being excreted. Therefore, we’d have to look at why there are more toxins going in than coming out… which isn’t as straightforward as it seems.

We’re ingesting more toxins without realising it - such as inhaling air pollutants and consuming pesticides, for instance. Andrew W has a brilliant answer on how an overexposure to manganese, long-term, resulted in him suffering from manganese poisoning and subsequently cervical dystonia (Andrew W's answer to What is the best treatment for cervical dystonia?).

We’re unable to excrete out the toxins that are pummelling our bodies efficiently enough. The liver tends to detoxify all these things prior to excretion. The more water soluble metabolites (after liver detoxification) get flushed out via the kidneys and the urine, while the more fat soluble metabolites (after liver detoxification) get flushed out via the intestines and the faeces. Therefore, it could be a case of liver failure, our intestines not working properly (such as in constipation), or our kidneys not working properly.

Any unexcreted toxin has the potential to be reabsorbed. Cholesterol, for instance, is processed into bile salts and dumped into the faeces, with potential for reabsorption (Blocking intestinal cholesterol absorption for optimal lipid lowering). So even if our liver function were great, constipation from an insufficient dietary fibre consumption may let us down.

So we have 3 factors: ingestion, excretion and reabsorption.

Ideally we’d want excretion rates of toxins to be higher than ingestion + reabsorption such that we’d have less of these toxins swimming around in our blood (the fat soluble ones can be entrapped within the lipid-rich portions of cells in our body too).

Otherwise, that’s when our bodies would start to accumulate toxins.

Answer 3

they make you live longer.