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"These molecules are produced in the body by natural biological processes, and can be accelerated by external agents such as infections, tobacco smoke, toxins, herbicides, radiation from the sun, or pollutants. Free radicals can damage proteins by altering their chemical structure and DNA and potentially causing mutations. Essentially, when molecules split as a result of bodily metabolism—a natural process by which chemicals in our body are created and destroyed?free radicals are born and react quickly with other nearby compounds to try to regain stability." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Although PCB manufacture has been banned in most nations—including the United States, where Congress regulated PCB production in 1977—they continue to be persistent pollutants in the environment, especially in urban areas. As with the other tip-of-the-iceberg compounds, PCBs are more destructive to the cognitive development of brains in childhood. Pre- and postnatal exposure—the latter experienced largely through the act of breast-feeding—has been associated with lower IQs, delayed developmental milestones, and lack of endurance,41 as well as impaired motor skills and short-term memory." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"CHOOSE NATURAL PRODUCTS TO FILL YOUR HOME AND PERSONAL HYGIENE KITS The reason for the dramatic increase in our exposure to indoor pollutants is largely due to the construction of more tighdy sealed, energy-efficient buildings. These buildings are often poorly ventilated and constructed and furnished with synthetic materials. The escalating use of chemical-based consumer products inside such homes can be a recipe for disaster, especially in consideration of the fact that the average person spends upwards of 90 percent of his time indoors." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"A concern regarding granular charcoal filters is their tendency to be a gathering ground for bacteria, yeasts, and molds, and their inability to remove pollutants found in some drinking water. Some of the more sophisticated charcoal filters do have a reverse wash system in an attempt to compensate for this. Another problem with charcoal filters is that the charcoal can break down with age or from hot water and release the contaminants back into our drinking water." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Collectively, it means creating a world culture where all people have access to healthy, organic food and water, decent shelter, and a living environment free of chemicals and pollutants. Healing diabetes in this personal and global context is an act of love for oneself and the living planet. This love is an expression of the Culture of Life. The teaching of this book is that humanity is created to be vibrant, alive, and healthy. As it says in Deuteronomy 30:19 from 3,400 years ago: "Today, I have set before you life and death and a blessing and a curse." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"They include heavy metals and a range of chemicals such as pesticides, pollutants, and food additives that have become almost unavoidable—an inevitable price to pay for the advancements we have made as a human race. With the yin of progress comes the yang of consequence. We have created some toxins that are so foreign to our bodies that they just don't know what to do with them, so instead of effectively neutralizing or eliminating them, these toxins get thrown into remote corners of tissues and organs, and especially fat cells, where they can sit for years and cause irreparable damage." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Blazer said it appeared the fish had been harmed by a combination of pollutants. Among the suspected culprits were the traces of ethinyl estradiol, the active ingredient in birth control pills, that had been found in the Potomac's waters. Another scientist, Dr. Marsha Black, a professor of environmental health at the University of Georgia, has studied in the laboratory what happens when fish and frogs swim in waters tainted with antidepressants." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"It makes sense, then, that if your bowels are sluggish or if your liver is busy breaking down pesticides, pollutants, toxins, caffeine, alcohol, cigarette smoke, or other drugs, things can go wrong. Harmful metabolites place you at greater risk for hormone-related cancers. Genetics play a big role here. How you break down hormones is handed down in your genes. Fortunately, genetic tendencies can be helped with the right dietary choices and supplements. Diet, properly used supplements, and changes in your environment can help ensure that hormones will act safely inside your body. 9." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"But a groundbreaking 2004 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) showed that the umbilical cord ferries "not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol." The EWG called this phenomenon the "human 'body burden'—the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the womb." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"When the pollutants are not able to be eliminated, they contribute to degenerating health and disease. We should work and rest in well-ventilated areas; spend time in fresh outdoor air; allow our skin to "breathe" by wearing loose-fitting non-synthetic clothing; and exercise enough to cause full deep breathing every day. A healthy regimen would include five to ten minutes of slow, deep, rhythmic breathing at the beginning and end of each day." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Scientists are only just beginning to study the health effects of these persistent bioaccumulative pollutants, which are being manufactured in more astronomical quantities every year. Most people who've had their "body burden" tested for chemical exposures have had "huge levels of flame retardants," said Frances Beinecke. "And it's not from their own pajamas; it's from flame retardants that are used widely, whether in your car or the airplane you're travelling in. Obviously, you don't want to be on an airplane that hasn't been treated with flame retardants, should there be a fire." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"They include heavy metals, pesticides, insecticides, and a variety of pollutants, such as PCBs. These toxins can lodge in cells and tissues in the brain and body, if they are not properly expelled. Mercury, in particular, has an affinity for brain cells. 4. Drugs and alcohol. This category includes not just recreational substances, but also common pharmaceutical and over-the-counter drugs. These medications are generally nontoxic when taken in the proper dosages, but they can build up in the system during long-term use, if not adequately metabolized and detoxified. 5. Food additives." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Our air has been saturated with mercury from coal-burning plants, with IQ-damaging lead, with diesel exhaust (which is particularly linked to autism), and with other pollutants. In some cities, such as Leominster, Massachusetts, open smokestacks have created "autism clusters" of extremely high incidence. Furthermore, our oceans are so full of poison, especially mercury, that it's now unsafe to eat more than one can of tuna per week. Also, our foods have been fouled with chemicals, hormones, and antibiotics to a level that was unheard of twenty years ago." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "These include heavy metals, pesticides, and pollutants. • Endogenous toxins, or toxins that come from inside the body. These include metabolic waste, bacterial by-products, and necrotic matter in the gut. These exogenous and endogenous toxins can be grouped in five general categories. It is quite possible that every single day your child is exposed to every one of these categories of toxic material. The Five Primary Sources of Toxins 1. Metabolic end products. These are the toxins that are formed by the natural functions of the body." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The Nerve Driver field appears to be bioenergetically sensitive to specific pollutants, chemicals, and other substances, such as butanol, a hydrocarbon solvent; chlorpyrifos, a common organophosphate pesticide; and heptane, a neurotoxic solvent. It has a correlation bioenergetically to vaccinations for diphtheria, rabies, and tetanus." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "That is, it is a measure of the state of the body-field in relation to everything from the external environment (electromagnetic waves, gravity, exposure to pollutants and toxins, and so on) and from the person's internal state (his or her emotions, diet, cellular metabolism, and the like). You might say it is a measure of the state of the body-field's feedback loops. Biologists will tell you that nothing living exists in isolation. Even single-cell organisms need to receive input, such as food, from the environment." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "Peter's matching experiments have shown that cell function, at a bioenergetic level, may be distorted particularly easily by the following pollutants: dioxins, phencyclidines (PCPs), xlyenes, electromagnetic radiation, and heavy metals. The Cell Driver Infoceutical bioenergetically helps to restore cell function. It generally tends to have an energizing effect on your body, so it is best not to take it around bedtime. ENERGETIC DRIVER 4: NERVE DRIVER The nervous system is particularly complex from a biophysical perspective." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "It can also be weakened by stress, emotional or physical shocks, and particular pollutants, especially 4-phenylcyclohexene (from carpet backing and carpet off-gassing), dioxane (an industrial solvent), and the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. ENERGETIC DRIVER 7: LUNG DRIVER The Lung Driver field, as the name implies, is concerned with the pulmonary system. However, this bioenergetic field is generated not only by the actual oxygenation function of your lungs but also by the vibrations, phonons, and pressure waves that result from the expansion and contraction actions of your lungs." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Food enters the body and brings along with it tons of chemicals, pollutants, dirt and microbes. As such, your intestines are one of the most important gatekeepers to your body. Entrance will only be granted to those worthy of entry. Like a castle wall in medieval times, your intestinal lining has a dangerous and important job. Invaders can charge the castle at any hour. As such, your intestines need to be armed with valiant, strong knights—and the more, the better. Who is worthy of being a knight in your intestines?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"The water we consume must be free of pollutants and, ideally have hexagonally-structured molecules. Real food for the body is organic, fresh, and living. It should supply all the necessary enzymes, amino acids, essential fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, and probiotics we need. Supplements, if needed, should be natural complexes made from live, whole organic food sources, with their enzymes and electrical properties intact. The best supplements are those that are prepared with minimal processing." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In contrast, a strong body of scientific evidence demonstrates that the predominant cause of the modern cancer epidemic is directly related to the petrochemical and nuclear industry technologies and their pollutants. The explosive growth of industrial technologies since the 1940s has, to varying degrees in different nations, outstripped the development of legislative and regulatory controls. About 800 f the estimated 80,000 industrial chemicals in current U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The air in our homes might contain any number of toxins—dust mites; bacteria; particles from cooking, cleaning, smoking, and pet dander; pollutants brought in from outdoors like pollen, pesticides, and heavy metals—that can reduce our ability to perform mental tasks and even contribute to diseases as serious as cancer. By greening your cleaning, you are also reducing your everyday exposure to these toxins, which have been linked to numerous childhood health problems, everything from ADHD and asthma to birth defects and reproductive problems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Modern-day pollutants like aerosols (mostly sulphur dioxide and particulates released by fires) can also have a cooling effect, and in the absence of global warming the so-called Asian Brown Cloud' might severely disrupt the monsoon, according to one study. The authors hypothesise that a 'roller-coaster scenario' might still come into play, however, where cooling pollutants first weaken the monsoon, before pollution controls and increasing greenhouse gas levels bring it back with greater force than ever." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Chanel claims this father standard cleanser can eliminare the effects of indoor and outdoor pollution, but unless they are referring to dirr or the daily accumulation of dead skin cells as the "pollutants," the claim is not justified. And how do you wash off carbon monoxide or smog when they don't stick to the skin? The answer is, you can't. Furrhermore, rhe planr ingredient that can supposedly fid skin of pollutants (Moringa pterygosperma seed exttact) is present in such a tiny amount (listed aftef the fragrance and preservatives) that its effect, if any, on the skin would barely register." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"Where the layer is thicker, more UVB is filtered out. 5. Pollutants: Ozone produced by industrial processes is a pollutant at lower altitudes. It and other pollutants filter UVB. For example infants and toddlers in most polluted areas of Delhi, India, have less than half the serum vitamin D levels of those who live in its least polluted areas.4 Since vitamin D is produced in response to UVB, this indicates the dramatic effect of pollution in filtering it out. 6. Sunscreens: The use of sunscreens greatly reduces the quantity of UVB available for producing vitamin D." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Other pollutants such as chlorine, fluoride, and bromine negatively influence thyroid function.23 These toxins increase the elimination of thyroid hormone, leaving us with less of it to facilitate our metabolism and brain function. Another important factor in thyroid function is food allergy. Food allergies, like those to gluten, and other food sensitivities also negatively affect thyroid function and are frequently undiagnosed. I will discuss food allergies and how they relate to inflammation in chapter 8. However,you should keep in mind they can also impact your thyroid." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "What Makes Us Sick: Our Nutrient-Poor, SAD Diet and Toxins Our toxic, nutrient-poor "dietary" environment undersupplies the raw materials for proper biochemical and metabolic functioning, namely nutrients, and oversupplies a load of chemicals, additives, pollutants, and allergens. This sends the train right off the tracks. The single biggest environmental influence you can control is what you eat. Remember, food is not just calories; it is information. It tells our genes what to do." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "We are exposed to hazardous wastes, emissions from local waste incinerators, solvents, heavy metals, ground-water pollutants including industrial heavy metal waste products such as arsenic, common materials such as phthalates (plasticizers found in all plastic bottles), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants). A recent study of umbilical cord blood found 287 toxic chemicals, 217 of which are toxic to the brain and nervous system. And this is what infants are exposed to even before they take their first breath."" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Another, increasingly vociferous, school of thought argued that humanity's promiscuous use of fossil fuels and other pollutants was triggering unprecedented global warming. Could the Ice Age end precipitously within a few centuries with the wholesale melting of arctic and antarctic ice sheets, dramatic rises in world sea levels, and widespread desertification of now fertile lands—at a time when the world's population would be several times larger than today?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Rainwater is naturally distilled by solar evaporation, but it absorbs acidic pollutants from the air as it falls. The argument in favor of spring water is that this is what people have traditionally drunk, water from springs and streams from melted snow coming down mountains and/or fed by rainfall. Such water picks up inorganic minerals as it travels through the ground into the groundwater. Some maintain that drinking distilled water alone can even be dangerous, as it can cause the body to lose minerals by osmosis." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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