Detox for Optimum Health

by Carlos M. Viana, OMD (China), CCN

Chronic inflammation from toxins produces ill health in the human body. The good news is that within the protocol of biocompatible medicine—a holistic approach to health that supports the body’s natural healing process—identifying and eliminating these toxins is the essential first step in restoring optimum health. Indeed, detoxification of the body lies at the foundation of biocompatible medicine. To help us better understand how this process can benefit the body, let’s look at how to identify toxins and explore the body systems involved in eliminating them and other waste products.

Finding the Problems
Blood tests can be used to detect the chemical and environmental toxins [p.115 1] causing harm to a body. Hair elemental profile testing also can be used to find a person’s level of exposure to lead, mercury and other potentially toxic elements. This test is excellent for early detection of toxins because changes often appear in hair prior to overt body symptoms. The addition of digital infrared thermal photographs (thermograms), dental panoramic X-rays, and dental reports can assist in creating a clear picture of an individual’s overall medical status.
Understanding the Body

To eliminate waste, the body uses five primary organs: The liver, kidneys, colon, lungs and skin.

Following is an overview of each and some advice on improving their ability to help detoxify the body.

Liver:

This organ regulates most chemical levels in the blood and excretes bile, which helps carry away waste products from the liver.

All blood leaving the stomach and intestines passes through the liver, which breaks down nutrients (and pharmaceuticals) into forms that are easier for the rest of the body to use. Maintaining a healthy liver depends on a regularly functioning colon. In fact, constipation causes toxins that have been eliminated in bile to be reabsorbed in the small intestine during protein and fat digestion. Hence, taking measures to remain free of constipation will help improve the effectiveness of the liver.

Kidneys:

The kidneys remove wastes and excess water collected by and carried in the blood as it flows through the body.

About 190 liters (335 pints) of blood enter the kidneys every day via the renal arteries. Millions of tiny filters called glomeruli, inside the kidneys, separate wastes and water from the blood. Most of these unwanted substances come from what we eat and drink, and include, for example, urea from protein catabolism and uric acid from energy production (p. 107 2). The kidneys automatically remove the right amount of salt and other minerals from the blood to leave just the quantities the body needs. The cleansed blood then returns to the heart and recirculates through the body, while the excess wastes and fluid leave the kidneys in the form of urine.

Colon:

The function of the colon is to receive water from the lungs and collect toxic waste from every part of the body.

We believe that most health problems have the common denominator of chronic inflammation stemming from the colon, a natural breeding ground for both healthy and unhealthy bacteria. Colon irrigation, as we know it today, performs a cleansing, antiseptic, solvent action on the intestines whereby putrefied material—including impacted old content, excess mucous, pus and infected tissue, and even parasites—is removed from the colon and toxins are diluted and flushed out, increasing the elimination potential of the kidneys and skin (p. 85 3).

Lungs:

Most people normally use only about 10 percent of their lung capacity.

Unless engaging in heavy exercise, most people rarely breathe deeply enough to optimize the lungs’ ability to use oxygen and to remove toxins. By contrast, while doing abdominal deep breathing as taught in scuba diving, singing, yoga, and other disciplines, an extensive exchange of lung gases takes place. Carbon dioxide is removed from the body, allowing breathing to slow down and increasing the lungs’ capacity to exchange toxic carbon dioxide for oxygen. A good exercise to do first thing in the morning to help the lungs function effectively is to take three deep breaths. Resting both arms at the sides of the body and then lifting them overhead while breathing in, has the added benefit of helping to move stagnant lymph fluid.

Skin:

The skin not only flushes out toxins through sweating but also acts as a first line of immune defense.

Because humanity has lost its natural means of stimulating the skin, such as having it rubbed by clothing made of animal hides, it is beneficial to scrub the skin with rough loofahs to clean it and stimulate the body’s filtering system, known as lymph. Dry skin brushing is another good technique for stimulating lymph (see “Skin,” p. 184 4). Flowing just under the skin and ready to attack foreign bodies, lymph is a transparent fluid that contains white blood cells, mostly lymphocytes, and a few red blood cells. Lymph that has stagnated in the lymph nodes grows thick, and over time, engorged lymph nodes may become cysts that turn cancerous.

Final Notes
When dealing with substances that can harm the body and cause inflammation, prevention is one of the best cures! Avoiding toxins in the environment means steering clear of cleaning detergents, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that are linked to hormonal, reproductive, neurological or immune disorders. 6 The use of nontoxic products, both in personal care and cleaning, at home and at work, is essential.

However, when necessary, removing toxic materials through an organ of elimination involves the use of various substances. In our clinical experience of removing heavy metals from patients’ bodies, lead, silver, tin and nickel either chelated or detoxified in response to EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) injections (see “EDTA Chelation,” p. 103 5), while mercury, arsenic and cadmium are sequestered by EDTA and cholesterol in the liver then excreted through the bile. Any aluminum attached to the EDTA needs silica supplementation to successfully egress the body. All the while, many of these toxins are exiting through the skin as well. Removal of pesticides and insecticides that are locked in fat cells, on the other hand, requires oil-based detoxicants and baths.

In the end, successful outcomes almost always depend on patient participation in the decision-making process. Here’s to your health!

Dr. Carlos M. Viana, known internationally as the barefoot doctor of Aruba, founded and directs the Viana Natural Healing Center, the island’s only medical provider outside the socialized healthcare system. An Oriental Medical Doctor (OMD), Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN), certified addiction professional, and age management specialist, Dr. Viana views chronic inflammation due to long-standing acidity as the foundation of all degenerative illness. His comprehensive treatment modality, biocompatible medicine, combines alternative and conventional care to guide people back to health. This integrative approach to healing is described in his book Prescriptions from Paradise: Introduction to Biocompatible Medicine, An A-to-Z Compendium (Healing Spirit Press, 2012), available through Amazon or through Viana Natural Healing Center at http://www.vianaheal.com/books.php.

Notes
1. Carlos Viana, “Environmental Toxins,” Prescriptions from Paradise: Introduction to Biocompatible Medicine, (2012): 115
2. Carlos Viana, “Energy Refinery,” Prescriptions from Paradise: Introduction to Biocompatible Medicine, (2012): 107
or ibid., “Energy Refinery:” 107
3. Ibid., “Colon Hydrotherapy:” 85
4. Ibid., “Skin:” 184
5. Ibid., “EDTA Chelation:” 103
6. D. Lindsey Berkson, Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones—and How to Protect Yourself and Your Family (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001)

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