Results! Journal
Advanced Detoxification Protocols
By Lyn Hanshew, M.D.
The pollution of our planet is intrinsically linked with the escalation of disease incidence and deterioration of our health. The silent killers of the 21st century are the toxic heavy metals and chemicals that accumulate in our bodies over our lifetime.
Each year the U.S. alone releases a staggering 4 billion pounds of these toxins into our environment contaminating the air, water, soil, plants, animals, and, of course, humans. Mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, insecticides, dioxins, furans, phthalates, VOCs, and PCBs are just some of the foreign substances that have created an excessive toxic body burden of harmful chemicals. Most of us have between 400 - 800 potentially toxic, carcinogenic, endocrine-disrupting, and genedamaging chemicals stored within our cells.
Patients ask, "How Can I Be Toxic?" Common Sources of Mercury Revealed
By Garry F. Gordon M.D., D.O., M.D.(H)
“Doctor, where could I be getting Mercury or other toxic heavy metals from?” When you report the results of heavy metal testing on hair, blood or urine patients may have difficulty imagining where they might be exposed to toxic heavy metals such as Mercury. We now find that up to 10% of daily calories for some people come from High Fructose Corn Syrup, which has recently been proven to contribute mercury to our intake. Eating fish is another major contributor of dietary mercury from the following FDA report.
The FDA analyzes some foods for mercury through the ongoing surveillance program known as the Total Diet Study (TDS). The TDS, however, does not test all foods for mercury. Mercury is routinely detected by the TDS in fish, liver, and poultry because farmers routinely use fishmeal and/or fish oil as feed for certain livestock to include chickens, swine, dairy cows, and farmed fish. Animals that are fed fishmeal can bioconcentrate monomethyl mercury in protein matrices.
Environmental Toxins and Women’s Health
By Lyn Hanshew, M.D.
The exponential increase of diseases and symptoms is directly related to the increase in environmental toxins. Over 100,000 toxic chemicals have been released into our environment since World War II 1. A new study by the Environmental Working Group completed in May of 2009 2 found up to 48 toxic chemicals commonly used in everyday consumer products in blood and urine samples of five prominent women environmental activists who live across the U.S. “In everyone we found fire retardants, Teflon chemicals, fragrances, bisphenol A or BPA, and perchlorate” stated Sonya Lunder, MPH.
These chemicals have been linked to birth defects, hormonal dysregulation and increased cancer rates. Anila Jacob, MD, MPH notes that health trends in the U.S. suggest that the chemical load plays a role, citing growing rates of autism spectrum disorder, diabetes, and certain cancers.
Correcting Hormone Imbalance with Detoxification
By Lyn Hanshew, M.D.
Environmental toxins such as heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides and volatile organic compounds are more pervasive than ever. From contaminated air and food, to pharmaceutical byproducts in water supplies, as our toxic exposure increases, so does our bio-accumulation of these same toxins. The body has limited ability to metabolize, mobilize and excrete these poisons. Stored toxins negatively impact the neurological, immune and endocrine systems and as significant damage is done, we develop symptoms and disease related to these impaired systems.
