AHS13 Tim Gerstmar - It Ain't Your Great-Grandparents World: Environmental Toxicity—Understanding It, and What to Do About it
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Humanity has released approximately 100,000 new chemical compounds into the environment, mostly in the past 100 years. Compounds our bodies have never seen before and weren't designed to deal with. In this talk we will discuss some of the common environmental toxins and how they have been shown to be harmful to human health. We will also discuss: testing methods for quantifying toxicity, how the body detoxifies (the seven organs involved) and provide simple methods audience members can take to reduce their toxic burden, as well as briefly discuss more intensive, physician practices for detoxification for people who need it.
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AHS13 Tim Gerstmar - It Ain't Your Great-Grandparents World: Environmental Toxicity—Understanding It, and What to Do About it
- 1. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” John Muir
- 2. BACON “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” NOT John Muir
- 3. It Ain't Your Great- Great Grandparents World: Environmental Toxicity and Health
- 6. “I think that people who use cleanses may have had rough anal periods (see Freud, Sigmund)...Cleanses and...colonics have about as much medical merit...as the acts of penance done by monks who’d walk across Europe and hit themselves on the back to purge themselves of the plague.” --Michael Gershon, MD
- 7. OVERVIEW 1. Toxicity - what is it? Is it real? 2. Evolutionary context 3. Health effects – example: thyroid 4. Vulnerability 5. Detox – what is it? How to do it 6. Q&A – Fingers crossed
- 8. What is Toxicity? Toxin – substance that interferes with normal metabolic function
- 10. Endotoxemia
- 11. Xenotoxicity
- 20. Current exposure
- 21. China
- 22. China Huai river - 1973-2006 Cancer-related deaths >2x Liver cancer >5x “The data confirms a geographical overlap in the increased cancer death rate and water pollution… and a temporal lag - a high occurrence of cancer following a surge in pollution - for about a decade...” Ruled out other known risk factors – smoking, diet, hepatitis B
- 23. Current exposure
- 24. Body Burden Studies •9 adults •Tested for 214 chemicals; Found 171 •Average 91 per person with 58 carcinogens First Round - 2003
- 25. Body Burden Studies •55 adults •Tested for 528 chemicals; Found 432 •Average 156 per person with 23 carcinogens Second Round - 2005
- 26. Body Burden Studies •10 newborns •Found 287 chemicals •180 cause cancer in humans or animals •217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system •208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animals Newborns- 2004
- 27. Scorecard.org – Zip 30303 In 2002, Fulton county ranked among the dirtiest/worst 10% of all counties in the U.S. in terms of air releases of recognized carcinogens. 1 FORD ATLANTA ASSEMBLY PLANT HAPEVILLE 788,037 lbs 2 OWENS CORNING FAIRBURN 455,505 3 PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES EAST POINT 139,424 4 KRAFT FOODS ATLANTA PLANT ATLANTA 43,579 5 POREX TECHS FAIRBURN 41,228
- 28. Scorecard.org – Zip 30303 1 AMMONIA 428,389 lbs 2 XYLENE (MIXED ISOMERS) 248,797 3 GLYCOL ETHERS 168,253 4 N-BUTYL ALCOHOL 152,056 5 METHYL ISOBUTYL KETONE 129,791 6 TOLUENE 103,007 7 FORMALDEHYDE 100,389 8 1,2,4-TRIMETHYLBENZENE 68,175 9 METHYL ETHYL KETONE 64,175 10 ETHYLBENZENE 53,326
- 29. Types of Toxic Exposures 1. Acute 2. Chronic – single agent, mixed agents 3. Contributing
- 30. Acute Exposure
- 31. Chronic exposure
- 32. Chronic exposure 65yo male Peripheral neuropathy (of trunk & arms) Chloracne Insulin-dependent diabetes BMI 33 Fasting glucose 306
- 33. Chronic exposure 65yo male 67yo male Peripheral neuropathy (of trunk & arms) Chloracne Insulin-dependent diabetes BMI 33 27 (-40lbs) Fasting glucose 306 95
- 34. Chronic exposure
- 36. What do toxins do? -Endocrine disruption -Carcinogens or growth disruptors -Immune disruptors -Neurotoxins -Mitochondrial poisons
- 37. Health risks
- 38. Hormone disruption Thyroid Trouble 1. Nutrient deficiencies 2. Autoimmunity (~50% have other AI) 3. Neurological & other hormonal dysfunctions 4. Toxicity
- 39. Thyroid – the parts
- 40. Thyroid – how it's supposed to work
- 41. Thyroid – how it's supposed to work
- 42. Thyroid – how it's supposed to work
- 43. Thyroid – how it's supposed to work
- 44. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 45. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 46. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 47. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 48. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 49. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 50. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 51. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 52. Thyroid & Environmental toxicity
- 55. Spectrum of Sensitivity Multiple “Cast Iron” Chemical Sensitivity
- 62. What is detoxification? Inactivation of a toxic substance 1. Mobilization 2. Inactivation 3. Excretion
- 63. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 64. Mobilization
- 66. Excretion
- 67. Excretion
- 69. DESIGN FLAW
- 71. Do we need to augment detox?
- 72. Acutely – “Detox or die” Chronic - Detox to resolve health problems Contributing – evolutionary mismatch Augment detox?
- 74. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 75. What goes in
- 76. Reduce Exposure
- 79. Reduce Exposure Cosmetics Household chemicals Lawn Chemicals Building s
- 81. Biotransformation / Detox 1. Energy 2. Nutrients / Cofactors
- 85. Juicing?
- 86. What comes out
- 89. Making poop
- 94. Using the skin
- 96. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 97. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 98. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 99. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 100. Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Detoxification What goes in What comes out The body Body burden = what stays inside Biotransformation (Detox)
- 101. Putting it together 1. Limit exposure (reduce toxicity in)
- 102. Putting it together 1. Limit exposure (reduce toxicity in) 2. Nutrient dense diet w/ protein (detox) 3. Drink water (detox) 4. Supplemental nutrients & herbs (detox)
- 103. Putting it together 1. Limit exposure (reduce toxicity in) 2. Nutrient dense diet w/ protein (detox) 3. Drink water (detox) 4. Supplemental nutrients & herbs (detox) 5. Pee & Poop regularly (excretion) 6. Defeat enterohepatic recirculation (excretion)
- 104. “Aggressive” detox
- 106. 1. Genetic testing
- 107. 1. Genetic testing 2. Functional testing
- 108. 1. Genetic testing 2. Functional testing 3. Direct measurement of various toxins
- 109. Toxicity hurts Sensible detox can help
- 110. You can't hide!
- 113. Rational Detox
- 114. “I think that people who dismiss cleanses & environmental toxicity without actually researching or understanding the topic may have had rough anal periods (see Freud, Sigmund)...Rationally used cleanses have medical merit, and those who deny it are still living in the medical dark ages...” --Tim Gerstmar, ND