Humanity has released approximately 100,000 new chemical compounds into the environment, mostly in the past 100 years. Compounds our bodies have never seen before and weren't designed to deal with. In this talk we will discuss some of the common environmental toxins and how they have been shown to be harmful to human health. We will also discuss: testing methods for quantifying toxicity, how the body detoxifies (the seven organs involved) and provide simple methods audience members can take to reduce their toxic burden, as well as briefly discuss more intensive, physician practices for detoxification for people who need it.
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AHS13 Tim Gerstmar - It Ain't Your Great-Grandparents World: Environmental Toxicity—Understanding It, and What to Do About it
1. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play and pray in, where nature may
heal and give strength to body and soul.”
John Muir
2. BACON
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play and pray in, where nature may
heal and give strength to body and soul.”
NOT John Muir
3. It Ain't Your Great-
Great Grandparents
World:
Environmental
Toxicity and Health
6. “I think that people who use cleanses
may have had rough anal periods
(see Freud, Sigmund)...Cleanses
and...colonics have about as much
medical merit...as the acts of penance
done by monks who’d walk across
Europe and hit themselves on the
back to purge themselves of the
plague.” --Michael Gershon, MD
7. OVERVIEW
1. Toxicity - what is it? Is it real?
2. Evolutionary context
3. Health effects – example: thyroid
4. Vulnerability
5. Detox – what is it? How to do it
6. Q&A – Fingers crossed
22. China
Huai river - 1973-2006
Cancer-related deaths >2x
Liver cancer >5x
“The data confirms a geographical overlap in the
increased cancer death rate and water pollution…
and a temporal lag - a high occurrence of cancer
following a surge in pollution - for about a decade...”
Ruled out other known risk factors – smoking, diet,
hepatitis B
24. Body Burden Studies
•9 adults
•Tested for 214 chemicals; Found
171
•Average 91 per person with 58
carcinogens
First Round - 2003
25. Body Burden Studies
•55 adults
•Tested for 528 chemicals; Found
432
•Average 156 per person with 23
carcinogens
Second Round - 2005
26. Body Burden Studies
•10 newborns
•Found 287 chemicals
•180 cause cancer in humans or
animals
•217 are toxic to the brain and nervous
system
•208 cause birth defects or abnormal
development in animals
Newborns- 2004
27. Scorecard.org – Zip 30303
In 2002, Fulton county ranked among the dirtiest/worst 10%
of all counties in the U.S. in terms of air releases of
recognized carcinogens.
1 FORD ATLANTA ASSEMBLY PLANT HAPEVILLE 788,037 lbs
2 OWENS CORNING FAIRBURN 455,505
3 PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES EAST POINT 139,424
4 KRAFT FOODS ATLANTA PLANT ATLANTA 43,579
5 POREX TECHS FAIRBURN 41,228
63. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
74. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
96. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
97. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
98. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
99. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
100. Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Detoxification
What goes in
What comes out
The body
Body burden = what
stays inside
Biotransformation
(Detox)
114. “I think that people who dismiss
cleanses & environmental toxicity
without actually researching or
understanding the topic may have had
rough anal periods (see Freud,
Sigmund)...Rationally used cleanses
have medical merit, and those who
deny it are still living in the medical
dark ages...”
--Tim Gerstmar, ND