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"Dioxins may be linked to endometriosis. dioxins are chlorinated hydrocarbons and can be found in feminine hygiene products as a by-product of the bleaching process. Dioxin can be absorbed into the body where it collects in fatty tissue. Pesticides are another source of dioxins, as is the effluent from some types of waste incinerators. Q Endometriosis is a benign (noncancerous) condition, but research shows that women who have endometriosis are at greater risk of developing breast cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, and ovarian cancer than women who do not." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Cancer has a multitude of contributing factors, such as: heredity, beliefs, attitudes, habits, excesses, nutrition, environmental pollutants, and stresses, as well as various carcinogens like radiation, pesticides, toxic chemicals, dioxins, and asbestos—to name a few. It is an enzyme deficiency and an autointoxication disease. It is a failure of the body's cells to obtain all the building materials essential for their construction and functioning. It is also the result of excess toxicity, which affects and eventually destroys cells, or transforms them into abnormal, wild, growing cells." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"These included perfluorochemicals, or PFCs (found in some stain and oil repellants); flame retardants used in the manufacturing of furniture foam, computers, televisions, and kids'furniture; metals (lead, mercury, arsenic, much of which enters the environment through burning coal, gasoline, and garbage), and chlorinated dioxins." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Scientists are beginning to link these and certain other common exposures—like heavy metals, pesticides, dioxins, flame retardants, and PCBs—to different health problems. And a number of recent studies reinforce links between prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants and childhood health problems. A 2004 Columbia study, for example, showed that babies born to nonsmoking women who lived within two miles of the World Trade Center weighed significantly less than full-term infants born in other areas of New York City." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"PCBs, dioxins, and fluoranes. You can and should consume more ALA from sources such as walnuts and flaxseed, but know that its rate of conversion to EPA and DHA becomes inefficient as we age. ANTIGLYCATION AGENTS Preventing glycation is one of the main goals of everyone concerned with reducing the risk of diabetes-related complications as well as premature aging. Along with intelligent food preparation/cooking methods that reduce dietary glycotoxin ingestion, there are several dietary supplements that can be a helpful part of an antiglycation strategy." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "These nutrients are also available as dietary supplements, which may be preferable because of the contaminants—mercury, cadmium, polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs], dioxins, and others—that pollute much of the world's seafood supply. High-quality supplements can be purchased that have had these toxins removed.) Technically speaking, DHA and EPA down regulate the gene expression of ChREBP, which results in better glucose control. Nutraceuticals also can influence gene expression." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"For example, Vietnam veterans exposed to endocrine disruptors such as Agent Orange (a potent mixture of several hormone-disrupting pesticides such as dioxins) have a higher incidence of diabetes, as well as abnormal glucose and insulin levels.101 Women are even more strongly affected. A follow-up study on the dioxin accident in Seveso, Italy, examined blood from 31,000 people within months of the accident and followed the exposed people for more than twenty years. They found an increased incidence of diabetes, but only in females." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"At room temperature, vinyl chloride releases dioxins in the air to produce that characteristic "new car" smell. Vinyl chloride, which is thought to be the most troubling kind of plastic from a health perspective, is also found in the discharge of exhaust gases from factories that manufacture or process vinyl chloride, or evaporation from areas where chemical wastes are stored. Most of the vinyl chloride produced in the United States is used to make polyvinyl chloride, or what we know as PVC." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Like all other animals, we store heavy metals like lead and mercury and other toxins such as dioxins, PCBs, and organophosphates in our fat cells because they're all fat soluble. That is why women are told to avoid consuming fatty fish during pregnancy-the heavy metals and other toxins in fish could possibly damage the developing fetus. During rapid fat loss, these heavy metals are liberated from the melting fat and enter the bloodstream. Unfortunately, we don't excrete these compounds well in our urine." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Specific compounds it bioenergetically correlates to include PCPs and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), vinyl acetates and chlorides, dioxins, methyl mercury and methyl tin, and nitrates. It also may address field damage caused by chronic exposure to artificially created electromagnetic fields (e-smog). Any detoxification process is going to be long term because as creatures of technologically advanced societies we have extreme difficulty controlling our exposure to environmental toxins and electromagnetic pollution." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Pregnant or not, why would you want to contaminate yourself with mercury or other highly toxic bioaccumulative substances found in fish, like dioxins and PCBs? I wouldn't ever eat fish, period—at least not until we've cleaned up the mercury in our environment. For more information on fish and mercury, visit the Natural Resources Defense Council's Web site, www.nrdc.org. The NRDC has the answers to many frequently asked questions about fish during pregnancy, as well as a mercury calculator and a consumer guide to mercury in fish (www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/guide.asp)." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (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.)

"In a 2005 study, researchers found 287 industrial chemicals, including pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame-retardants, and the breakdown chemicals of Teflon, in the fetal cord blood of ten newborn infants from around the country—transmitted to the infants by their mothers' exposures before and during pregnancy. We are facing both an increasing prevalence of autoimmunity and an increasing exposure to environmental toxins. Is it clear that the increased exposure of environmental toxins is causing the increase in autoimmunity?" - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"But when samples from around the world—some from stores in London and Edinburgh—were analyzed, it was discovered that levels of 14 "organochlorine" toxins, the most hazardous of which include PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin and toxaphene, were significantly higher in European and North American farm-raised salmon than in fish caught in the wild. According to U.S. and Canadian scientists and reported by the journal Science, fishmeal was traced as the source of most of these poisons. New research shows dioxins to cause breast cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"These chemicals included pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame retardants, and breakdown chemicals of Teflon, among other chemicals known to damage the immune system. Shortly after, investigators in the Netherlands turned up similar findings: they discovered an array of chemicals commonly found in household cleaners, cosmetics, and furniture in the cord blood of thirty newborns. OUR AUTOGEN-FILLED WORLD: HOW DID WE BECOME SO CONTAMINATED? How do these chemicals creep into our bodies?" - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"These include not only mercury, but also dioxins, pesticides, cadmium, petroleum hydrocarbons and virtually all other poisons present in salt or fresh water. Bon appetit! Perhaps one of the most toxic of all raw animal products is dairy. Humans stop making rennin, the enzyme needed to digest casein, at about age three, by which time they are weaned from their mothers' milk. I remain unconvinced that there are very many, if any, people who can truly digest the casein in even raw dairy." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"One example of this comes from a 2003 study in which blood and urine samples from Americans were tested for 210 substances, including industrial compounds, pollutants, PCBs, insecticides, dioxins, mercury, cadmium, and benzene. The volunteers, none of whom had any occupational or residential risks for such exposure, had detectable levels of 91 of these. In other words, these are ordinary people with ordinary lives who have numerous toxins in their body from ordinary exposure." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Supplementing with fish oils should be done with purified fish oil supplements, which can reduce or practically eliminate exposure to mercury, PCBs, dioxins, and pesticides. Due to how we have contaminated our ocean waters and the wildlife that inhabits these waters, high-quality fish oils supplements may in fact be a safer alternative to fish in food form and enable us to gain the benefits of omega-3s while reducing the risk of toxicity." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "In two studies since, however, one in Belgium found no significantly increased risk with dioxins or polychlorinated biphenyls,28 and in Italy, no significantly increased risk of endometriosis was seen in women who had high levels of dioxin in their blood.29 Currently, there is no epidemiological study definitively linking any one class of chemicals to the risk of endometriosis, although there appears to be some suggestion of a link with estrogen-like compounds in the environment30 called xeno-estrogens, which can disrupt estrogen and estrogen metabolism." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Dioxins are chlorinated hydrocarbons and can be found in feminine hygiene products as a by-product of the bleaching process. Dioxin can be absorbed into the body where it collects in fatty tissue. Pesticides are another source of dioxins, as is the effluent from some types of waste incinerators. Q Endometriosis is a benign (noncancerous) condition, but research shows that women who have endometriosis are at greater risk of developing breast cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, and ovarian cancer than women who do not." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Energetic Integrator 10 is particularly susceptible to distortions correlated to physical ot emotional shock and trauma, surgeries, chemotherapy, and exposure to chemicals including asbestos, dioxins, and PCPs." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"It also produces a class of persistent, highly toxic, carcinogenic chemicals known as dioxins (16 ) ?an ingredient in the Agent Orange defoliant used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In 2005, an advisory panel to the FDA concluded that triclosan and triclocarbon posed "unacceptable health and environmental risks," but the FDA hierarchy still ignores this conclusion and its implications. (See chapter 10 for more on triclosan and triclocarbon." - 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.)

"In fact, in a study published in the journal Science in 2004, researchers discovered that farm-raised salmon had more dioxins and other chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined are carcinogens, than wild salmon had." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Like DDT and PCBs, when dioxins are released into the atmosphere (as they are in manufacturing, as well as through the burning of trash, hospital debris, and trees), they become attached to particles and fall back down to earth, where they are consumed by fish and other animals and concentrated and stored in their fat—before eventually ending up on our dinner plates. All nine people tested by Mount Sinai researchers tested positive for blood levels of dioxin, and every infant's cord blood carried dioxin. Dioxin is a recognized immune suppressor." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"New research shows dioxins to cause breast cancer. Not just that poisons in fish can cause cancer, they also can cause diabetes. Korean researchers have recently found evidence that people who consume fish containing high levels of persistent organic pesticides (POPs) are more prone to developing insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes. POPs are synthetic chemicals that accumulate in the fatty tissue of animals." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Some of these chemicals, such the PCBs and dioxins, persist in the environment and bio-accumulate in the food chain. In addition, most of our food has been treated with pesticides, designed to kill small organisms, but capable of affecting our health in larger concentrations. These are trace elements found in our food and water. Autoimmune Diseases The majority of cases of cancer are due to environmental factors - chiefly, the chemical pollutants in our air, water, soil, and food. These contaminants break down or block our natural immune defenses." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"They include especially nasty agricultural pesticides like chlordane, dieldrin, and DDT, as well as PCBs and dioxins from industrial wastes and emissions. Although most of these chemicals have been discontinued or banned for years, they persist in the environment and thoroughly pollute streams, lakes, and oceans. PCBs cause the most concern so I will use this term as collective shorthand for the hundreds of such chemicals that contaminate commercial and sports fish. PCBs —and their relatives —are not likely to be good for you." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "The Hites group confirmed that PCBs, dioxins, and a dozen more such chemicals were higher in farm-raised than in wild salmon, but also found the levels to vary widely with geography. Salmon from fish farms in Europe had the most PCBs while those from farms in North and South America had the least." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Also called xenoestrogens, these chemicals are widespread and ever more present in our environment; some of the most common are pesticides (such as DDT, PCBs, and dioxins) and industrial by-products. According to some researchers, environmental estrogens may contribute to testicular cancer, urinary tract disorders, and low sperm count. In men, a high level of estrogen slows down the production of testosterone.19 Exposure to lead, mercury, cadmium, and other heavy metals also inhibits testosterone production.20 Men's hormone levels can be adversely affected by certain lifestyle choices." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Farmed salmon were found to have up to 10 times higher levels of PCBs and dioxins than wild salmon. Farmed salmon are frequently fed antibiotics, which contribute to the growth of drug-resistant bacteria. In addition, chemical are often added to their food to color their flesh pink to resemble their wild cousins. Otherwise, they would remain an unappetizing grayish-brown color. Sales have increased up to 15 percent a year as more people eat oily fish to prevent heart attacks, or so they are made to believe." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

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