Since 1900 over 80,000 chemicals, most of them petroleum derivatives, have been created and released into our environment. We have no way of knowing the short or long-term effects these chemicals have on our bodies. These chemicals surround us: in our cars, carpets, shampoos, paints, and especially in our food supply. These chemicals find their way into our food through modern farming techniques that use pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, and artificial hormones.
Because these toxins are everywhere in our environment, every man, woman, and child in America is heavily exposed. And given that different people have different genetics (strengths and weaknesses), it makes sense that some people may not handle these toxins as well as others. Daily exposure slows down and damages the organs of detoxification – the liver, gallbladder, kidneys, and colon. We have elegant mechanisms to rid ourselves of these toxins, but these systems need high amounts of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids to run properly. Poor diets and modern, depleted foods don’t have enough nutrition in them to counteract these thousands of different chemicals. Over time our nutrition becomes depleted, our toxin levels rise, and our health starts to go downhill. This is where most of the chronic disease in America comes from.
Here at Red Mountain, we have seen the transformative power of detoxing. This is one of our most powerful tools, and we have seen astounding changes in our patients from committing to a short-term detox with food elimination plan.
The most common reasons someone needs a detoxification program:
- Mold exposure
- Heavy metals exposure
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals:
- plastics
- chemical birth control
- agent orange
- paint/solvents/dry cleaning/etc.
- Glyphosate and other herbicides and pesticides in our food supply
- Leaky gut from stress, alcohol, smoking and/or food allergies
- Chronic nutritional deficiencies
- Genetic imbalances or deficiencies in methylation, sulfation, glutathione, etc.
Our detoxification process has helped people recover from decades-long chronic health issues ranging from severe gastrointestinal distress to cancer and autoimmune diseases. If you are looking for the fastest way to turn your health around and optimize your body, then detoxification is for you. It doesn’t have to be painful or uncomfortable, and most of our patients will tell you it’s challenging, but totally worth it to get so much change in so little time!