Body Toxins
To know about detox, you need to know about body toxins. Body toxins are the toxins that build up in your body and cause bloating, pain, disease and even death.
Tom’s Story
I met my husband Tom in 1996. Tom spent 20 years working in a vinyl chloride plant, and was loaded with toxins. His hands are deformed with rheumatoid arthritis, although most of the rest of his body shows little signs of the same malady.
At the time he had pains in most of his joints, but after months of taking various supplements they mostly receded. The hands remain a problem.
I believe he was one of the lucky ones. We have attended several funerals of other workers from the same plant. Tom says there are no more than a handful still alive today. Nearly every one of his coworkers from that plant who have passed on died of a similar brain cancer.
After we had been together about five years he came down with another problem. This one was much more serious, if you can believe that. He began having pain in the bottom of his feet. Tom described it as feeling like he had golf balls in his shoes. It progressed to the point of becoming serious pain.
It went up his legs and finally ended just short of his lungs. The disease has been known to paralyze a person’s lungs and even their swallowing mechanism. His case simply caused his legs to be paralyzed and his arms to be partially paralyzed.
Finally he was diagnosed with a nerve disease called Guillan Barre’. The disease can be short-lived or of longer duration; it’s different in each case. Many cases I’ve read about have come and gone in a couple of weeks.
In Tom’s case, he was fully paralyzed with no movement at all in his legs for a year and a half. I’m not sure how he made it through such agonizing pain, but today he walks with somewhat of a limp. Most other symptoms have receded.
There is no known cause, and no known cure for Guillan Barre’, but in my opinion there is a definite link between the toxins in Tom’s system and the disease that caused his life to become a living hell. If I had known as much about detox then as I know now, perhaps I could have reduced the severity or the duration of his pain. His level of body toxins was extreme.
Why do we suffer?
Now what could be the problem that one person could have such complaints while others live a healthy life? I believe the difference lies in the body toxins that we live with.
For example, why do so many smokers get lung cancer and emphysema? Here is just one instance where the toxins are known and the likelihood of contracting a certain disease is calculated by scientists. There are many other circumstances where disease can be related to toxins, but no cause and effect correlation has been documented.
Does this mean that some toxins are ok and others cause disease? Or does it simply mean that those toxins have not been linked by scientists to disease? Is that the only way we should believe the truth, or should we perhaps look to the evidence of our own eyes?
That is why I have compiled this list of body toxins. I believe the toxins on my list of toxins are the exact reason people suffer disease and even death. Body toxins are believed to be the culprit in many diseases known today. Each of these different types of toxins can have a single effect, or many different effects.
Other pages on this site detail symptoms of toxic loads in our bodies and solutions to the problems brought on by these toxins. This page is simply my “hit list” of toxins, the body toxins that can, may or are known to cause problems.
List of toxins
Heavy Metals:
Household toxins:
- Formaldehyde
- Radon
- Perc or Perchloro-ethane
- Carbon Monoxide
- Vinyl Chloride
- Aromatic hydrocarbons
- Hydroflouric Acid
- Chloramine – created by mixing bleach and ammonia
- Herbicides
- Fungicides
- Benzopyrenes
- Household Cleaners
- Chlorine
- Chloroform
- PFC's - Perfluorinated Chemicals
- Alcohol
- Drugs (Prescription, over the counter and street drugs)
Cigarette Toxins:
Visit this page about Cigarette Toxins to learn what toxins we are exposed to daily which smoking cigarettes.
In our food:
- Aflatoxin
- Nitrosamines
- Excitotoxins (Aspartame, saccharin, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, MSG)
VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds):
- Solvents – benzene, methyl ethyl keytome, toluene, xylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and trichloroethylene, acetone
- Pesticides – aldrin, dieldrin and chlordane
- Disinfectants - penols, including phenolics, pentachloraphenol and biphenyl
Reproductive Toxins
Acrylonitrile, Aniline, Benzo(a)pyrene, Beryllium, Boric acid (Boron), Chlordecone (Kepone), Chloroprene, Dibromochloropropane (DBCP), Dichlorobenzene, 1,1-Dichloroethane, Dichloromethane, Dioxane, Epichlorohydrin, Ethylene Dibromide, Ethylene Dichloride, Ethylene Oxide, Fluorocarbons, Formamides, Manganese and its compounds, Methyl n-butyl ketone, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone, Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), Polychlorinated bipenyls (PCB), Styrene, Tellurium and its compounds, Tetr achloroethylene, Thallium and its compounds, o-Toluidine, Trichloroethylene, Vinylidene chloride
Highly Acute Toxic Materials
Abrin, N-Acetoxy-2-acetylaminofluorene, Actinomycin D, Aldicarb, o-Aminoazobenzene, 2-Aminofluorene, Anabasine, Apholate, Arsenious Acid, Monosodium Salt, Atropine, N,N-bis(2-chloromethyl)-2-Naphthylamine, Bromoethyl methanesulfonate, 1,4-Butanediol dimethylsulfonate, Canthardin, 2-chloro-4-Dimethyl-amino-6-methylpyrlmidine, Cyanogen Bromide, Diazomethane, Digalen, Digifolin, Digoxin, 7,12-Dimethylbeze[a]anthracene, 3,3'-Dimethoxybenzidine, 3,3'-Dimethylbenzidine, Dimetthylethylenimine, 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine, 3,3'-Dimethoxybenzidine, dihydrochloride, 1,4-Dinitr osopoperazine, Duboisine, Ethionine, Ethylenimine, Ethylene glycol dinritrate, Ethyl methanesulfonate, Fluroactetic acid, Gitalin, Heroin, Hexaaethyl tetraphosphate, Hydrazoic acid, Hydrocyanic acid, N-Hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene, Hyoscyamine, Inorganic arsenic, Isobenzan, K-Strophanthin, Lanatoside, Lysergic acid diethylamide, 3-Methylcholanthrene, Methyl chloromethyl ether, 4,4'-Methylene bis-(2-chloraniline), Methylhydrazine, Methyl methanesulfonate, Nicotine salicylate, N-[4-(5-Nitr o-2-furyl)-2-thiazoly]-formamide, Nitroglycerin, N-Nitr oquinoline-1-oxide, N-Nitr osodimethylamine, N-Nitr oso-N-methylurethane 2H-1,3,2-oxazaphosphorine ,2[bis(2-chloroethyl), mino]tetr ahydro-,2 oxide, Pantopon, Parathion, Paroxon, Phosphine, Phosphorodithioic acid, Phosphorous (Yellow), Propylenimine, 2-propyl-piperidine, Ricin, Scopolamine, Sarin, Sodium Azide, Sodium Selenate, Sulfotepp, Tabun, Tepp, 2,3,7,8-Tetr achlorodibenzofuran, Thimet, m-Toluenediamine, Uracil mustard.
Now, I told you Tom's story about how toxins caused him disease and pain. I know you have your own stories, and people love stories, so feel free to enter your own story. You'll get your own page about how toxins have affected your life, and our readers will get a chance to find out how you got over the effects of the toxin.
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