Toxins that Are Hazardous to Your Health
What the body regards a toxin can be one of two kinds — exotoxins (toxins that external to the body) or endotoxins (toxins that originate within the body).
An exotoxin is typically any one of thousands of househole, industrial or agricultural chemical substances that we are exposed to on a fairly frequent basis in our day-to-day life. To a certain point, we can moderate and limit our vulnerability to these types of toxic chemicals. The choices we make when we shop is one domain of our life where we can be in almost complete control. Recently, more shops supply high quality cleaning and other household products that are toxin-free.
Endotoxins are more difficult to control. These are the by-products of regular metabolic processes that take place in our body. An endotoxin can be a bodily waste product, anti-bodies our body makes to fend off infection or a contagion, any of the many hormones in our body and cellular material whose component parts must be eliminated.
Many of us who live in first-world societies today deal with an increasing amount of toxic overburden. Even though our body is created with the ability to process the detoxification and excretion of endotoxins, the body is increasingly unable to deal with the increasing sum of exotoxins that we take in through our air, food, beverages, home products and personal care products.
Despite our most fervent attempt to avoid environmental toxins, the ability to do so is very elusive. The truth is, our bodies are exposed to an unmatched number and diversity of toxic substances that are totally foreign, if not downright detrimental, to the body. Unsophisticated ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to buy natural, organic ingredient health care and cleaning products, and to always choose organic produce when possible.
As well as avoiding our exposure to dietary and environmental toxins, there is a great deal we can do toward assisting the body’s normal detoxification operations. Doing an occasional body detox program will cleanse your body and greatly restrict the chemical burden on your body that toxicity causes.
