Overall, I found that the body works better with fewer chemicals. If you study any books on Toxicology (Study of Poisons), you will learn some interesting facts about illness. Many categories of illness are created from chemicals or drugs. And by the way, the word "drug" comes from the word "poison". It is these toxins that are responsible for many of the problems you might be having right now. The main way they affect the body is by blocking the communication or connections within the network of nerves, hormones and circulation. A person goes from a whole interconnected, coordinated entire system to a body that has organs working independent of each other. The organs loose the support and help from each other. The immune system loses the ability to even know what it's fighting - ends up destroying itself - how low can the body get?
The resulting energy blocks are what we focus on in BRT. We are less concerned with ridding symptoms than we are interested in locating and eliminating energy blocks. The resulting affects are a body that is communicating with each part in balance.
Many of these chemicals are called Endocrine Disruptors. An Endocrine Disruptor is any chemical that acts like estrogen. Estrogen has growth affects like cysts, tumors, fibroids, enlargement and even cancer.
What types of toxins are Endocrine Disruptors?
- Pesticides
- Insecticides
- Herbicides
- Fungicides
- Toxic fertilizers
- Chemical pollution
- Dioxins (certain plastics compounds)
- Animal growth hormones
- Estradiol - a synthetic hormone in birth control pills and Hormone Replacement Therapy, which has major side-effects including ovarian cancer. DES (Diethylstilbesterol) - a banned estrogen used in animal feeds from 1938-1979 and given to pregnant female during 1938-1970 to prevent miscarriages. It was found to cause reproductive abnormalities in the offspring of women who took it in males and females.
- DDT was also banned. It is considered an ED and is still in soil around America, as well as in other countries. It works very well on mosquitoes and bugs, but is banned due to the serious side effects it was creating.
- Choradane is another banned pesticide that has created damage to endocrine glands. They used it for killing termites. Chemical compounds containing certain heavy metals like cadmium and arsenic as well as other metals.
Endocrine Disruptors alter hormonal function by:
- Mimicking hormones
- Blocking or damaging receptor sites (receptor sites are those parts of gland, which receives the hormone communication)
- Blocking the signals from glands that produce hormones
- EDs block receptors that activate genes
- Altering the levels of hormones
- Modifying the hormone function
- Increasing the size of the gland (hypertrophy)
- Creating cysts on the gland (Cysts are an increase in cell division)
- Creating tumors on or in the gland (Tumors are enlarged growths on organs and in glands or organs
- Fibroids (tumors)
- Increasing hormone levels
- Decrease the number or availability of receptor sites and hormones
- Creating cancer - cell division that is out of control
- Synthetic estrogen has a side effect of ovarian, vaginal, liver and breast cancer
- How much Endocrine Disruptor does it take to create this damage?
How much Endocrine Disruptor does it take to create this damage?
It has been shown that very low levels of arsenic - equivalent to about 10 parts per billion - selectively inhibit the ability of hormones and its receptor to turn on genes in the cells. The levels capable of endocrine disruption are far below those necessary to cause cell toxicity. "The doses that we're using in cell culture that cause these endocrine-like effects are well below any levels that caused any signs of toxicity in the cells. In fact, we were down in what's called the nanomole range, or parts per trillion, and still seeing these effects. Now, if you look at what people are exposed to, it suggests to us that we could see these endocrine effects quite reasonably, probably, at the levels that people are exposed to here in the U.S."
What effect do Endocrine Disruptors really have on our glands?
Because our body naturally produces hormones and has receptor sites (receiving sites) for hormones, being exposed to substances that mimic hormones like endocrine disruptors can make hormones RESISTIVE and STUBBORN. As a defense mechanism, your body, when exposed to hormone mimickers, tends to shut down its hormone production or hormone receptor sites. If a person is born with 20,000 receptor sites on one gland, over the years of exposure to environmental hormones, a person can end up with 5000 or less. This would explain two things: as a person ages, their hormones become less and less available in function. The other situation is the person with normal hormones levels on blood tests but has all the symptoms of hormonal deficiencies. Having less receptor sites might not show up in a lack of production of hormones, it might show up in a "lack of receiving" of hormones. Someone's talking but no one is listening.