Detoxification: The link to life

Abstract

As the American population becomes sicker, detoxification is a missing link to improved health. Metabolic dysfunctions and environmental insults present a challenge to detoxification. The prevalent practice in medicine today is to offer medications that address symptoms but not root causes. Symptoms may give ambiguous information as to cause of disease. Without addressing root causes and imbalances, further imbalances may be caused by the measures given to address symptoms. Our present “medication-for-symptoms medical system” is no longer acceptable. As it has been said that genes only create possible predisposing issues, and that if the “right” stimuli is never encountered then the problem is only theoretical, then, too, we must apply this idea of environmental insult to the medical treatments we employ: Any detoxification protocol must be undertaken with due diligence, ensuring that the patient's body will be able to handle the possible consequential effects of a given detoxifying agent's action upon other physiological pathways and systems. © Copyright 2005 Pearblossom Private School, Inc.–Publishing Division. All rights reserved.