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REDUCE YOUR TOXIC LOAD
Identify, Remove, & Replace
“Over the past one hundred years, our species has
been engaged in a vast and complicated chemistry
experiment. Each and every one of us, along with
our children, our parents, and our grandparents,
has been a guinea pig in this experiment, which
uses our bodies, our health, our wealth, and our
goodwill to test the proposition that modern science
can improve upon the foods and medicines of
nature.”
-Randall Fitzgerald in The Hundred-Year Lie
Droppin’ Truth Bombs
•  Eating organic food for just five days
can reduce bodily pesticides to
undetectable levels
•  Removing toxic products from your
immediate environment and replacing
them with more natural alternatives
will assist with fat loss and the
restoration of overall health
Live(r) and Let Live
•  Liver is our detoxification organ
–  Removes chemicals and toxins from
body function (metabolism, digestions,
etc.)
–  NOW – add, medication, herbicides,
pesticides, alcohol, and up to 40,000
other chemicals introduced since 1940!
•  Like a vacuum cleaner filter….once it get too
full, t does not work right!
Droppin’ Truth Bombs
•  Common environmental chemicals
disrupt the hormonal system and have
been shown to obesity, diabetes, and
other metabolic diseases
•  The incidence of obesity has risen in
parallel with our toxic chemical
exposure
•  A dysfunctional liver can increase
estrogen, slow the metabolism, and
hinder fat loss
Chemical are Making You Fat
•  Endocrine disruptors – interfere with
normal hormonal system function
–  Aka Obesogens
•  Common effects of Obesogens
–  Over-response to hormones
–  Hormone responses at inappropriate
times
–  Blocking effects of hormones
–  Stimulating or inhibiting endocrine
system = steroid hormone release or
inhibition
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The Liver-Thyroid Connection
•  Two phases of liver detoxification
–  1st phase – converts fat-soluble substances
(hormones and many environmental toxins)
into water-soluble
–  2nd phase – eliminates water-soluble
substances through sweat, urine, or feces
•  If 2nd phase is impaired, hormones will
not be excreted from body and can
cause imbalances
–  May affect thyroid, fat loss, metabolism, and
overall health
The Culprits
•  BPA
–  Bisphenol A found in plastics (banned in
Canada)
•  Has estrogenic effect and can contribute to
leptin resistance, and insulin resistance
–  Where is it?
•  Plastic product with number ‘7’, grocery store
receipts, canned food liners
The Culprits
•  Soy
–  A phytoestrogen (has estrogen-like
properties
–  Linked to lower testosterone production
•  Where is it?
–  Read labels! It is everywhere!
–  Choose only fermented soy products like
Miso, Natto, tamari, and Tempeh
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The Liver-Thyroid Connection
•  Elevated estrogen will result from a
dysfunctional 2nd phase of liver
detoxification
–  Inactive T4 is not converted to active T3
•  This slows thyroid function (low metabolism)
–  Hormone sensitive lipase (HSL)
receptors become less senstivie
The Culprits
•  Pesticides
–  Organichlorines (obesogens found in
pesticides) found in pesticies are fat
soluble, and are stored in your fat cells
•  Where are they?
–  Conventional produce!
–  GO OGANIC!
The Culprits
•  Chlorine
–  Both carcinogen and estrogen mimicker
•  Where is it?
–  In our water! Bathing in it counts as
exposure as well!
–  Drink only filtered water
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The Culprits The Culprits

•  Fluoride
–  A pesticide and rodenticide and added to
our water
–  Been shown to slow thyroid activity
•  Where is it?
–  In our water and in tooth-care products
–  Filter your water and use flouride free
toothpaste
•  Personal Care Products
–  From ‘The Hundred Year Lie’ by Randall
Fitzgerald…
•  “…we use nine personal care products
containing 126 chemical ingredients. One
third…have been shown to cause cancer or
other serious health problems”
•  Where are they?
–  Everywhere!
–  Check out www.cosmeticdatabase.com
•  See what your products have in them!

The Culprits The Culprits

•  Non-Stick Cookware
–  Teflon – PFOA – is toxic and leaks into
food and from hot pans into the air
•  Kills birds….
•  Where is it?
–  Non-stick cookware, popcorn bags,
waterproof food wraps
–  Buy stainless steel or iron cookware!
•  Mercury
–  Highest exposure is in dental fillings
•  Well known endocrine disruptor
•  Where is it?
–  Silver fillings and in fish
–  Have fillings removed by biological
dentist to avoid issues with the removal
–  Avoid fish high in mercury as well

What to Do?
•  There are LOTS more out there!
•  Be real! We can’t remove all of the
toxins

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