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Start Taking Your Toxic Exposures Seriously (or Face Dire Consequences)
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Health consulting: https://christianyordanov.com/health-consulting/
Toxic heavy metals and chemicals have neurological, immune, and hormone system disrupting effects. If we don't start taking our exposures seriously (and especially if we have kids), many of us will suffer horrendous consequences.
Exposure vectors are air, water, food, and all the household and cosmetic products. Not to mention that many of these chemicals exposures start in the womb.
Asthma, allergy, autism spectrum disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as childhood brain tumors, obesity, and diabetes, are all skyrocketing in concert with the level of environmental pollution.
Immunotoxicity: Signs and symptoms of immunotoxicity are very often the first to occur in a person.
Neurotoxicity:
Some of the most common symptoms of neurotoxicity:
- Brain fog
- Fatigue
- Depression
- Poor cognition
- Poor attention
- Headache
- Irritability
Endocrine (hormonal system) Toxicity:
The most common endocrine diagnoses associated with xenobiotic burden include the following:
- Infertility (both male and female)
- Low testosterone in males less than 55 years of age
- Hypothyroidism (especially autoimmune)
- Adult-onset diabetes
- Obesity
We are all affected. Let's start educating ourselves and others and taking massive action.
Links to my book Autism Wellbeing Plan: How to Get Your Child Healthy:
US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Wellbeing-Plan-Child-Healthy/dp/1916393004
UK Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Wellbeing-Plan-Child-Healthy-ebook/dp/B084GBBDL9
My podcast, Autism and Children's Health: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autism-and-childrens-health-lab-testing-diet/id1512380225
Website: https://christianyordanov.com/
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Transcript
Introduction and Call to Awareness
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Hi, Christian Jardinov here. Thanks for tuning in. Today, we're going to tackle a pretty serious topic, but to be honest with you, we have to really stop. For those of us that are burying our heads in the sand and ignoring this very serious issue, we really need to stop.
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And please understand I'm not trying to scare you with this information, okay? I'm trying to inform you because only through education can we actually learn what the dangers and risks are and how to protect ourselves and our children because they're much more vulnerable, especially small kids.
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So that's the topic of discussion today.
Promoting Podcasts and Resources
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Before I start, I just wanted to let you know I was recently interviewed on the Tin Foil Hat podcast with Sam Tripoli.
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I think it's episode 563 of the Tin Foil Hat Podcast. Really had a blast with the guys. Please do check that out. We talk all kinds of things from vaccines to nutrition, protecting ourselves from toxic things and food and so on. And it's not all serious talk, so we have a little bit of fun as well. So check that out, please. Shout out to
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Shout out to Sam and the boys there, XG and Johnny. Awesome guys. And if you're listening to this, coming from...
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The Tinfo Hat listeners, shout out to you. Welcome. Please stick around. There'll be a lot more content in the future related, not just to health, but all kinds of stuff. So yeah, thanks for tuning in. Oh, the other thing I wanted to say, in case I haven't rammed it home enough, I do have a book that's out there on autism.
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Autism well-being plan how to get your child healthy it's aimed at parents with small children with other that are autistic or that are suspected of being on the spectrum a lot of value to be had there for those folks so if you could please share this book or buy it for a friend or a family member who is affected
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I would be most grateful for your help in spreading this vital information. And you can, of course, direct them to my other podcast, Autism Children's Health, where there's a ton of free resources and also anyone that buys the book.
00:02:41
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I'm going to have a members area on my website where they get three video courses on gluten-free, case-in-free diet, children supplementation, and the health challenges that autistic children suffer from. So there'll be a lot of free resources there for all parents, but particularly useful for parents with autistic children.
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And I also wanted to say I offer health consulting service.
Consulting Services and Health Topics
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Check out my website, link is in the description. If you or a loved one or your child have some health complaint that's been long standing and you've not been able to
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find relief. Please get in touch with me. I'm still offering free 15 minute discovery calls for now. I just published some really extremely competitively priced package deals for three, six and 12 months on the website. So I think you will, if you understand the value of this health consulting, especially coupled with lab testing and stuff like that,
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If you understand the value of the health consulting service, you will definitely appreciate the deep discount that is there for now. So please do check that out, avail of it while it's there.
Impact of Environmental Toxins
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And yeah, without further ado, let's talk about environmental toxins and
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What are the risks? I just want to give you, it's another one of these subjects that I could really ramble on and just chew your ear off for hours and hours. So I'm going to try to keep this fairly short and give you some, this is some information from the textbook of natural medicine, which I referenced many times before, and I use it a lot in my work. It's really a lot. There's a lot of really good information there.
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So a little preamble. The 20th century with its promise of better living through chemistry resulted in a host of chemical toxicant related illnesses referred to here as environmental illnesses. We are experiencing the relatively new medical diagnosis of sick or closed building syndrome and multiple chemical sensitivity.
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both of which are known to be related to overexposure to environmental contaminants. Now listen to this carefully. The rate of asthma, allergy, autism spectrum disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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as well as childhood brain tumors, obesity and diabetes are all skyrocketing in concert with the level of environmental pollution. Indeed, most of the primary chronic, non-infective health problems plaguing our modern world have been linked to the growing environmental burden
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found in all people. Included in this list are the most common cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, immunological, and endocrine problems.
Explaining Total Load and Combined Toxins
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I'm just gonna let that sink in. This includes cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, immunological, and endocrine problems. Pretty much anything you can think of, almost.
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Right. This is the prevalence of these conditions and diseases is in is pretty much increasing in tandem with the exposure.
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or the levels of these pollutants, toxic chemicals and heavy metals being released into the environment. A principle you need to understand here is the environmental medicine, which is this stuff related to toxic exposure and stuff like that. They talk about total load.
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When we say total law, you have to understand most people, even if they have most conditions, they didn't have an acute exposure and they suddenly got mercury poisoning or some chemical got into their food and they got acutely poisoned. The issue seen in most people
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most of the time are a product of total load. So chronic low or medium or high levels of exposure that could take months, weeks, months, years. So a quote from the book.
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In most cases, the symptom initiating exposure was merely the one that tipped the individual's total load over the edge, quote unquote, leading to a health crisis.
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Environmental medicine takes into account the possible synergism of total load of all toxicants and toxins as a causative factor in illness. So in simpler terms, that means is you might know that. So you have, let's say an environmental toxin, let's say aluminum or a chemical like PVC or whatever.
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And by themselves, they're toxic enough. They have various mechanisms of toxicity in the body, but some of them have synergistic effects. So they together, one plus one does not equal two, it can equal three or four or five. So together they cause even more damage in some cases.
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And the thing is, we're exposed to these chemicals in the womb, right? Mercury, you're exposed to mercury in the womb. And many of these compounds, they can easily cross the placental barrier, okay?
Children's Vulnerability to Toxins
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So now you've got a baby, you're a baby, you're born, you've been through no fault of your mother, right? It's just a fact of life, especially like kids being born now, as opposed to 20 years, 30, 40 years ago, 50, 100 years ago. Every 10 years, if you were able to analyze it all, you will see a higher
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exposure and body burden rate for people. That's a product of industrialization and all this stuff.
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So now you're born already with a body burden, okay? And some people will be a little bit more. And now you have daily exposures to these chemicals, heavy metals and pollutants in the air, in the food.
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Water, it's in the personal care products, cleaning products. Again, that's kind of air type of exposure. Okay.
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So it's a constant thing. This is a constant thing. If you're, if you're a parent, you have to understand this. And I actually talked about this on the 10, four hat podcast when I was being interviewed. And I talk about this in my book and some on my autism and children's health podcast is children are smaller. So the same amount of a toxic exposure will be much more detrimental to a small child.
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than to an adult, a fully grown adult. Children, like small kids, they have these mouthing and crawling behaviors that can put them at higher risk of ingesting toxic stuff.
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And in infants, the blood-brain barrier is not fully formed until six months of age. So that further increases risks.
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So this is why I'm gonna title this episode, we need to take this stuff seriously or face dire consequences. Now, what are some factors that will affect how much these toxic exposures will affect you or your children?
Genetic and Nutritional Factors
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So there's a number of factors that if they're in your favor or not, whether they're in your favor or not,
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either cause you to have more vulnerabilities or less, right? So genetics is one thing. So certain people have genetic variation in certain enzymes in the liver related to detoxification.
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And having these what are known as polymorphisms in the genes, specific genes, can reduce the ability of the body to metabolize and excrete these toxicants, right? That's one thing. So that certain folks have a genetic predisposition. And then if you have the genetic predisposition, the toxins, they kind of pull the trigger so that your genetics load the gun
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and your environment pulls the trigger that's like an adage related to genetics and epigenetics now another thing is nutrient deficiencies a lot of folks even listening to this i'm sure are deficient in a number of nutrients or are not getting enough of certain things for example enough protein lots of people
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Don't eat enough protein every day and in protein is amino acids the building blocks of protein and these Some of them like cysteine glycine they used to Create
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antioxidant compounds that are used in the detoxification system, right? Glutathione, the master antioxidant of the cell as it's known is one example, right? And this leads me to the next point is dietary choices, right? So the amounts and ratios of proteins, fats and carbohydrates can either enhance or inhibit the clearance of toxicants from the bloodstream.
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Other factors include emotional, mental and spiritual stressors. So stresses from family, jobs, society, relationships, etc. can directly affect health, toxin clearance and clinical reaction to environmental toxicants.
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Lifestyle choices, of course. So the sleep, right? The type of exercise you get, where you get your exercise. Think about this. If you're living in a fairly big city or even a small city, but you go out and you do a jog in the traffic on the sidewalk and there's cars all around you, that is not a good idea. If you're doing that now,
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Listen, please, please reconsider. There's other options. Get a nice HEPA air filter, put it in your living room or your room and do jumping squats and squats and burpees and get your exercise at home, get your fix at home, or if possible,
Lifestyle and Environmental Sensitivity
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go somewhere where the air is much cleaner. So that's a lifestyle choice, right? Other lifestyle choices, obviously, recreation on drugs, stuff like that, they can have sources of exposure there. So your overall health and wellness really affects your ability to deal with it. The less health you are, the less
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of a shock you can take to the system. If you are very healthy and metabolically and everything and well nourished, you could be exposed to a lot of heavy metals, chemicals, whatever. You could be exposed to a lot of them and you might not even feel anything. It could take a lot for you to even start feeling symptoms, right? Or you just shake it off. Your body deals with it in a few days somehow.
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And you deal with it. But if you're in a poor state of health, very small things can trigger issues. In fact, like with autistic kids, generally they have a lot of underlying health imbalances, metabolic, physiological and otherwise, and they're actually very sensitive to their environment.
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And yeah, that's why you can see big variability in symptoms over the course of a day.
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Other things like infections, disease, organ function, the health of your organs, your tissues, your cells, all of these have a profound influence on the ability to clear toxicants efficiently. So that goes back to overall health. If you are healthy, you'll be able to clear out toxicants more efficiently and you just be more resistant to the damage.
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And if you have gut dysbiosis, as I've talked about in previous episodes, if you have gut dysbiosis, these pathogenic organisms,
Electromagnetic Fields and Toxic Load
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they excrete or secrete metabolites and exudates and whatnot that can be inflammatory, can be toxic. And obviously that adds to your total load, right? Because your body has to,
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try to do something about neutralize all of this. And one final sort of thing I'll add is EMF's electromagnetic field exposure that can also add to your total load.
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So you probably know, maybe you don't, but like, it was quite a famous, um, study where they, they basically, um, they, they tested, uh, I believe it was, um, the feet, uh, uh, the umbilical cord blood. Then they found like a ton of toxins that were present already. Right. So we know we are.
Chemical Effects and Immune Impacts
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We are exposed from a very early age to this stuff, right? But I'm just going to share with you some other details, right? More about the adverse health effects that some studies have found.
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So basically, we can categorize the three major types of toxicities associated with things like pesticides, heavy metals, and so on, chemicals. So we're talking immunotoxic, so toxic to the immune system.
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neurotoxic, toxic to the brain, the nervous system, and endocrinotoxic, so toxic to the body's hormone systems, right? In terms of immunotoxicity,
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the signs and symptoms of immunotoxicity are very often the first to occur. So if you get a bunch of exposures or over time they start to pile up, pile up, pile on and your body can't deal with them because you don't have energy.
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Your state of health and vitality is low. You're not getting all the nutrients you need, your deficiencies, imbalances and so on. The first thing is so it will be some type of immunotoxic presentation, right?
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This can mean things like chronic infections, for example. So a lot of people, if you get sick very often, there could be some type of long-term toxic body burden that your body is just starting to get overwhelmed by. And what will happen is,
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You just get sick more often. Your immune system is suppressed. Some of these toxic compounds are immunosuppressive, right? And other things like, again, immune dysregulation type issues, so allergies, asthma, chemical sensitivities, and as far as even as autoimmune type stuff, so autoimmunity.
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Very often the first manifestation of immunotoxicity can be seen as the development of some type of asthma or allergic type issues.
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skin issues as well. So things like organophosphate, pesticides, chlorinated pesticides, solvents, combustion byproducts as well. They can cause atopic reactions as well. So many of these toxins
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They're basically very potent suppressors, immune system suppressors. So examples, DDE, so that's the main metabolite of dichloro, diphenyltrichloroethane, which is DDT, chemicals produced by combustion,
00:22:09
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polyaromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs, they've been shown to have a depressing effect on the immune system. I'm wondering how much detail I need to go into. I'm just going to skim a lot of these things. Here's more snippets. There's research cited for all of these statements.
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In terms of allergen asthma, traffic-related air pollutants increase the risk of one-year-old children becoming allergic to both foods and airborne allergens. As children continue to be exposed to vehicular exhaust, their risk of developing food allergies by age 4 increases by 230%.
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far higher than their risk of having pollen allergies by that age, 83% increase.
Traffic Pollution and Respiratory Issues
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Multiple studies have demonstrated a clear association between vehicular exhaust, vehicle exhaust, and asthma in both children and adults. Children living in areas with denser traffic were 250% more likely to present
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to a local emergency department with asthma. The spikes of asthmatic symptoms in children rise with daily spikes of vehicle pollution and can persist for up to two days after a spike. When exposure to high traffic was combined with mycotoxin or mold contamination, exposure in home
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In the home, the risk for asthma went from 75% increase to 5.8 fold increase. That's hundreds of percent. Okay.
00:24:03
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We got to protect the kids. Listen, we have to like understand if you live in an area with a lot of traffic, you need to shut your windows, keep them shut and you have to have good air filters. And they're not expensive. A HEPA air filter that filters particles down to three microns in size. You can get you can get them for 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 bucks. You can get better ones for bigger spaces that you have.
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Get one for the living room, for your child room, for your own room, for your indoor office if you work at home. It's a good investment. Listen to this now about diesel vehicles.
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So diesel vehicles, which are most closely associated with these immunological effects, comprised 70% of all new vehicle sales in France and 50% in the rest of Europe in 2010. Okay, that's kind of old stats.
00:25:04
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Okay, so diesel exhaust particles, DEPs, so diesel exhaust particles interfere with immune system regulation by suppressing nuclear factor Kappa B, basically a ton of technical bits and pieces. But point is,
00:25:26
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These diesel exhaust particles interfere with immune system regulation by suppressing or reducing various immune system messengers, cytokines and so on. Now in the textbook of natural medicine, they also talk about chemically induced autoimmune states.
Autoimmune Disorders and Neurotoxicity
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Okay, so that's another risk factor.
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So we have published research that already has shown that particulate matter, again, like air pollution and stuff, diesel exhaust, BPA, BisphenoA, trichloroethylene, cigarette smoke, PCBs, have been linked to conditions of increased TH17, which has been clearly linked to increased rates of autoimmune disorders.
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More not so fun facts. Elevated levels of particulate matter containing traffic-related air pollution have been associated with circulating levels of anti-DS, DNA, a classic marker for systemic lupus, erematosis. Erythmatosis, Jesus Christ. Erythmatosis.
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It's even harder to say than ankylosing spondylitis. Okay, so persons exposed to higher levels of a particular amount of 2.5 in Quebec were more likely to have systemic lupus erythematosus or one of the other autoimmune connective tissue disorders, Sjorgen syndrome scleroderma polymyosititis or dermatomyosititis.
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If we don't stop this in 50 years, we're going to run out of weird sounding terms to call all of these new conditions that are going to start appearing and continue appearing.
00:27:46
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Okay, so that was immunotoxicity. And again, I'm already half an hour into it. Let's talk neurotoxicity. This is super important because I think a lot of people, especially men, they don't care about this stuff. And this is what we're trying to educate people because you have to care. You might not feel these toxic effects, but your children will, your wife, your partner will. You're strong and big and blah, blah, blah. You can handle it.
00:28:14
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People around you might be more vulnerable, so we need to protect them at the very least. So we need to step into our responsibility as adults, as fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, whatever, and protect those around us that may not have this knowledge and the know-how and the wherewithal to protect themselves. Kids especially, big one.
00:28:42
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look at all the childhood conditions how they've skyrocketed the last 30 years what do you think it's genetic like genes change in 30 years 20 years no no in one generation two generations no
00:28:56
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No, this is one of the biggest culprits to the state of every second person having a chronic health problem. Neurotoxicity, the neurological system, again, so neurological, let's just think brain, central nervous system, this kind of stuff, nervous system in general.
00:29:20
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The neurological system is also a frequent target for xenobiotic compounds. Some patients will present primarily with neurotoxicity symptoms, whereas others may exhibit immunotoxicity signs and symptoms first. The most common neurotoxicity symptoms include reduced cognitive functioning, often referred to by the patient as brain fog or crooked brain. Right?
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I know a lot of adults that are complaining about brain fog. Headache. Lots of adults with headache. Memory problems. Oh, you're just getting old, they say. I'm just getting older and mood disorders. OK. Tremors, balance problems, and anxiety can also be present. Those are slightly more, how do we say, I guess, disconcerting symptoms.
00:30:19
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So the nervous system is a unique target for toxic agents in several ways. So the, basically the neurons, the brain cells, the nervous system cells, they don't divide, right? They don't get replaced. So when it's killed, a nerve cell is killed, a neuron is killed by toxins. It cannot regenerate like other cells. Okay.
00:30:46
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So the blood brain barrier, which is tissue in the brain that protects regions of the brain, it does not block certain, um, substances. Okay. Because the normal function of the nervous system requires the action of a complex integrated network damage to even a small portion of the sur of the nervous system.
00:31:13
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sometimes can result in marked effects on function. Neurons are dependent on glucose and oxygen. Some cell bodies exist at borderline levels of oxygen. If high energy demands are placed on a system and the delivery of oxygen is reduced, then cell death may occur.
00:31:35
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because of the high lipid content myelin so there's an accumulate okay so because of the high lipid content or myelin in myelin there is an accumulation and storage of lipophilic xenobiotics so just to kind of translate that a little bit basically a lot of these toxic substances they're lipophilic which means fat loving so they have an affinity to to bind
Detoxification Challenges and Neuroinflammation
00:32:05
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to bind and get stored in tissue that is made of fatty acids and lipids. So they can accumulate, the toxins accumulate in our fat cells and that's not a good thing.
00:32:23
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That's why I always advise people, if you've got a lot of weight to lose, don't please for the love of God, don't do what most people do and try to lose it super fast. Because those cells, you're mobilizing all those toxins in your cells, and where are they going to end up? They're going to end up in your brain, in your nervous system, some will get excreted, a lot of them will
00:32:49
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If there's a lot of them, they will overwhelm your antioxidant systems and they're going to just cause havoc in your body. Please, if you want to lose weight, you've got to do it smart. If you need help with this kind of stuff,
00:33:11
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schedule a 15-minute consultation with me. They're still free, like I said, for now. I've been through this. I've had clients where I've seen firsthand what someone, a man losing a lot of weight fast, what it did to his testosterone was shot, his estrogen was up and almost through the roof, and his endogenous antioxidants were completely depleted.
00:33:40
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after a huge weight loss and when I say huge I'm talking maybe 10 kilograms 20 pounds 9 kilograms 20 pounds that kind of thing a couple more points on neurons have a high surface area
00:33:57
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therefore increased exposure to toxic compounds. Neuroinflammation is fairly easy to start and very difficult to alleviate. So once that's the vicious cycle, as it were, if you, if you get something that's inflammatory, even in the gut or in the nervous system, whatever it, you start that, it's like a spark starting a fire. It's easy to start the fire, but extinguishing the fire now becomes a challenge for you.
00:34:29
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Unfortunately, a great many of the common toxic substances out there in our bodies and in our bodies are potent neurotoxins. Okay. So Jesus, this is not even, it's not even funny. All of the major classes of pesticides killed by virtue of their neurotoxic effects. Let me repeat that for you.
Pesticides and Organic Diets
00:34:54
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all of the major classes of pesticides kill pests by virtue of their neurotoxic actions. Okay, so if you go back, I had a solutions talk episode where I talk about why you need to switch over to organic food as soon as possible.
00:35:18
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Here's a very, very good reason. If you have a child with a condition like autism and anything neurological or you have some of these kind of brain fog and fatigue and stuff like that, you are a very good candidate for an all organic diet. In this instance, it should be the first and the most
00:35:50
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The first thing you do and the most energy resources and investment should be poured into that before you consider supplements or even lab tests and stuff like that. Okay, some technicalities here we won't go into. I think it's just enough to read all of the major classes of pesticides kill pests by virtue of their neurotoxic actions, right? That doesn't terrify you.
00:36:17
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And it doesn't make you think about the food you put in your body and you let your children put in their bodies. I don't know what will. Other common pollutants are indirect neurotoxins and affect the neurological system adversely by causing neuroinflammation.
00:36:44
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resulting in cognitive decline, mood imbalances, pain disorders, and chronic neurological diseases. There's been some studies where, I'll give you an example. These are more extreme cases. When they looked at greenhouse workers who were exposed to organophosphate pesticides, these folks exhibited higher incidences of depression
00:37:15
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headache, tremors, and paresthesias. Polish female greenhouse workers exposed to organophosphates exhibited longer reaction time, reduced motor steadiness than unexposed workers.
00:37:29
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They also reported increased tension, depression and fatigue more often than controls. Dutch farmers and gardeners who used organophosphates frequently had a much higher risk of developing mild cognitive dysfunction than others.
00:37:46
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Farmers repeatedly exposed to organophosphates from sheep dip showed much greater vulnerability to psychiatric disorders than the controls which were quarry workers. They also performed worse than controls on cognitive testing that assessed attention span.
00:38:04
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and how fast they processed information. None of the persons in any of these studies fit the definition of acute organophosphate poisoning as said by the field of toxicology.
00:38:19
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Okay. So a study of persons previously poisoned by organophosphates revealed that organophosphate induced neurotoxicity can persist after the incident, manifesting as problems with memory, abstraction, intellectual functioning, mood and motor reflexes. They also had greater distress and complaints of disability.
00:38:46
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We're just talking about pesticides here, folks. We're not even talking about things like plasticizers, heavy metals, you know, a bunch of other endocrine disrupting compounds. We're just pesticides here. We haven't even started heavy metals. In fact, I'm gonna, let me see what else.
00:39:11
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Yeah, we'll leave that section there. So that was neurological toxicity. We covered immunotoxicity of the immune system, covered neurological of the nervous system, the brain, and briefly touch on endocrine toxicity.
Endocrine Disruption and Urgent Reductions
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So the most endocrine means relating to the hormone systems of the body. So the most common endocrine diagnoses associated with xenobiotic burden include the following, and in case
00:39:41
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I probably didn't define xenobiotic. I'm sure you, you, you understand what it means, but the xenobiotic is the external sort of, uh, compound that, that is toxic to the body. That's how we're, that's what we are referring to when we say xenobiotic. So the most common endocrine diagnosis associated with xenobiotic burden include the following infertility, both male and female infertility.
00:40:12
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low testosterone in males less than 55 years of age, hypothyroidism, especially autoimmune, adult onset diabetes and obesity. So this might come as a little bit of a surprise to many folks. I think a lot of people
00:40:36
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They basically think that obesity and diabetes is basically just you eating too much or you eating too much carbs or too much sugar. But there's many other factors at play. In fact, there was some research I was looking at related to a doubt on said type 2 diabetes and I think POPS, Persistent Organic Pollutants,
00:41:05
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were a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes that was, in fact, the risk was quantified as, I believe, higher than obesity. I will actually do probably a short segment in the future on that, diabetes. But yeah, you think toxins, they're just like things that you have to detoxify that kind of poison you. If you get a lot of them, then you might have symptoms. No, these are
00:41:34
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dozens and probably hundreds of different chemicals that we have some type of exposure
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every day. It could be very little, but like we said, they're lipophilic, they like to accumulate in fat tissues, they like to accumulate in places that are not beneficial for us, like myelin or neurological tissue and whatnot. So this is why I'm telling you, you have to start taking this stuff seriously. There's people, there's folks still that don't even have a good water filter out there and
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Most of those folks can afford it, right? Many folks can afford a hundred bucks for an air filter for at least for their bedroom, but they spend the resources on other things because they
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It's not a high enough priority for them to divert some resources to this, to better food, to organic food and better water and making some efforts to reduce toxic exposures around the home, reducing use of plastics, stopping the use of aluminum pots and pans. There's a lot of stuff that, you know,
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I covered in my autism book and I will of course have much more resources in the future. Just stay tuned. That's not all doom and gloom. I'm all about setting the stage, educating you why it's important. And then we can talk about solutions because like I say sometimes, if I just tell you what we ought to do for better health and all that stuff,
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A lot of people will be like, well, that's either too expensive or too much effort or there's no justification. So I need to justify some of these things that I recommend to people, like investing in a reverse osmosis system.
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investing in an air filter, investing in organic food, investing in supplements that support the antioxidant system, detoxification, doing detoxes periodically, and so on and so forth. There's a lot of stuff we can talk about in terms of fertility, low testosterone, diabetes, obesity. I think I will do that in future episodes. I'm going to wrap it up here.
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I think the wrap-up is this. We have to start taking toxic exposure seriously, especially if we have small children. If we don't take steps to protect them, who's going to take steps to protect them? We cannot keep
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playing Russian roulette with our health and our children's health. If you for a second think that the incidence of autism and all these conditions, asthma, autoimmunity, infertility rates rising, you think these are genetic, they are not genetic. There's environmental stuff going on and we have to start educating ourselves and others
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Spread the word. Please share this with other folks. Please share if you think that they will find it useful and that they have the
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the eyes to see and the ears to hear. Not everyone is ready. But if you're ready, like I said, there will be in my autism book, there's a whole chapter on reducing toxic exposures. I will definitely have something in the future soon. And you can always go on do an article search how to reduce toxic exposures. A lot of it is common sense, just it's not common practice. So we have to practice
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The knowledge that we acquire put it into action. Okay, so yeah again if you need health consulting check out the late the packages I've published.
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on the website today. I'm sure you will find the value for money ratio is really, really good. If I do say so myself, we've had some really amazing results with people over the past few years. So yeah, I'd be glad to help you if I can. And yeah, that's it. Christian Jourdanoff signing off. See you on the next episode.