The awareness of toxins and exposures is on the rise. We also know that chronic illnesses can occur from an impaired ability to detoxify. But just how many toxins can a person handle? It’s a highly individualized situation depending on genetic disposition, amount of exposures and other added stressors (such as work, relationships, food sensitivities, infections, digestive issues and so on).
I came across this article written by an author at the Global Healing Center on the amount of toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis. This is a generalized article but gives great insight into the extent of exposures and just what the body can handle.
The author notes that in a 24 hour period an optimally detoxifying individual can tolerate and process 1 million toxins. Yet here’s a quick snip of what that individual would be exposed to: air toxins 150,000; water toxins 200,000; food toxins 325,000; beverage toxins 160,000; prescription drugs 180,000; microbes toxins 525,000; emotional and physical stress 200,000, heavy metal toxins 130,000; radiation exposure (cell phones, EMFs) 230,000. The total of these exposures is 2,100,000 every 24 hours. That’s 200% of what an individual can manage that has a healthy detoxification system.
The energy, alone, required to detoxify these toxins is excessive and can be severely damaging. Please consider the exposures that you endure on a daily basis and assess what you can do to reduce your and your child’s exposures. The full article can be read here.
Be well,
Lynn
