10 Early Signs Your Body Is Full of Toxins

You might think of toxicity as poisoning or exposure to deadly chemicals. But what's most likely to harm you is not an acute, dramatic event. It's the kind of toxicity that is subtle, slow, and cumulative. And today, our modern lifestyle and environment expose us to more sources of toxicity than ever before. That is why toxicity now sits at the core of almost every chronic condition that we see. Hello health champions. Today we're going to talk about the early signs of toxicity that your body gives you as well as where this toxicity is coming from so that you can take action early before it becomes something more serious. So we'll jump right in no particular order. And number one is brain fog. And this is when you experience dull thinking or slower processing or lack of clarity in your thinking. And the reason is that many toxins and metabolic byproducts actually cross the bloodb brain barrier. So the bloodb brain barrier is a very tight security seal if you will for the brain. And it's a little bit tighter than most other barriers in the body. But even so, a lot of these toxins can cross that bloodb brain barrier and once inside the brain now they can interfere with signal transmission and with the processing speed of what the brain is trying to do. And sign number two is when you have fatigue, when you're tired despite having slept the normal number of hours. And the reason would be that when you have an increased toxic load in the body, when there's more toxins and waste products circulating, now you're going to increase the oxidative stress and a lot of oxidation in the body happen in the mitochondria because when we make energy, when we burn fuel, then we oxidize it. We use oxygen and to burn the fuel we it becomes oxidized. We increase that oxidative stress. So it's the same thing as a machine when you're burning gasoline. It's going to give off some waste product. It's going to use oxygen and that normally happens inside the mitochondria. So they are already at a higher level of oxidative stress. But now if we increase it further then it becomes difficult for the mitochondria to do their job. And as a result, they're going to reduce the efficiency and the ATP output. So ATP is the energy currency. So in other words, with increased oxidative stress, your mitochondria are not going to be able to be as efficient and make the energy that they normally make. And therefore, you're going to have fatigue even if you have the rest. because even if you're sleeping, the conditions are not there to produce the normal amount of ATP. But what is a toxin actually? So, we kind of have an idea, but it's a lot wider than most people think. A toxin is anything that disrupts cellular function. So, that can be a whole lot of stuff. There is a certain equilibrium. There's a certain harmony where the cells perform their optimal function and anything that interferes with that is a toxin and these toxins could be coming from the outside external or they could be generated internally and the problem starts when the buildup is greater than the removal. So, we have a system in place to remove toxins. And as long as we can keep up, then we're doing okay. But if we're falling behind, if we build up more toxins, now is where it starts accumulating and we can get an excess toxic load. So, some examples and sources of these toxins are pollution. Of course, that's what a lot of people think about. So in the air, food and water, they have developed tens of millions of chemicals and a lot of them are in the air, food and water at any given time. But then we also have our metabolic waste. Like we talked about the mitochondria that produce the energy that creates metabolic waste. But everything that a cell does is going to have some byproduct, some waste products. And when we have inflammation, whether it's normal short-term inflammation or whether it's long-term chronic unnatural inflammation, that produces some byproducts. And if we have a gut imbalance, the gut bacteria are always going to produce some toxins. We always have some pathogenic bacteria

and as long as they're kept in check by the beneficial bacteria, we don't have an overgrowth. But there's always some. And if we get an imbalance on top of that, now we can have an increase. We can get an excess of these gut derived toxins. So when we talk about toxins, we need to understand that there is no perfect scenario. We're never going to get to 100% pure clean body and environment. But health is when there is a flow where we keep up with the toxins generated. So, we don't want to get freaked out or paranoid and try to get everything at 100%. But if we can do some smart things, if we can make some smart choices and reduce our environmental toxins by half or by 80%, if we can live with less stress, if we can eat better, then we're going to generate less internal toxins and we also support the body to where it can keep up. So, how do we keep up? How do we clear toxins out of the body? Well, a lot of people think about a detox or a cleanse. And sure, that's okay. We can do those. I'm not opposed to that. I think it's a great idea to do once in a while. But we want to understand that those detox and cleanses, it's an intense shortterm intervention. It's something that you do for three days or a couple of weeks or something. And it's more of a habit reset than anything else. Sure, you're going to get rid of some toxins. You're going to clean up, but more than anything, you're resetting your habits. You're getting back on track with good habits. But it's more important that we understand and support the long-term cleanup system that we have in the body. And it starts with the lymph. So the lymph is the fluid that circulates between your cells in the interstitial fluid, the intracellular space. So whenever your cells do something, when they make energy, when they build something, the waste products are basically just dumped straight out through the cell membrane and it ends up in the intracellular space where the lymph can pick it up. And then the lymph flows around and it gets into the bloodstream. So it dumps it into the lymphatic ducts. And now once it's in the blood now it needs to be filtered by liver and kidney. And the liver is the main organ that detoxifies that changes the toxins and neutralizes them into something less harmful and into something that is water soluble. And then once the liver is done with that, it dumps it into the gut for elimination. And the kidneys, of course, they don't really neutralize or change or transform the toxins, but they take other kinds of waste products and they just filter them out and it becomes urine. So those are the main organs, the liver, the kidney, and the gut, the large intestine. But we also have two more organs which we'll come back to which is the lungs and the skin. And they do some detox. They do some elimination already. But if the main organs get backed up, if they get maxed out, now we're going to have an excess, it's going to start leaking out through the lungs and the skin. And we'll get back to that. So detox is something that is ongoing. It never stops. And we can support it through our lifestyle, through healthy lifestyle by eating less junk, eating less chemicals and eating nutritious food that provides the building blocks and the fuel and the vitamins and the minerals for these organs to do their job. Then we can give them a much better chance of keeping up. Number three is digestive irregularity and that can manifest as bloating as constipation and if you feel like you have incomplete elimination. So we need to understand that the gut the large intestine is a major exit route. That's where a lot of the waste is eliminated. But it depends on bile on motility and on the microbiome. So if any of these are disrupted or out of balance, that's where we can start getting some of these irregularities and we could get increased inflammation. We can get an increase in toxin production. Again, if we have a biome that's out of balance, if we have an overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria, they can produce a lot of toxins. If we have an imbalance where we get food

sensitivities, that can contribute further to inflammation. And if we have constipation, think about that. If the food sits there longer, if the waste sits there longer, then we're also going to start reabsorbing a lot of the stuff that's supposed to be eliminated in a timely manner. If it just sits around, then a lot of it's going to be reabsorbed and we get toxic buildup that way instead of getting rid of it. Sign number four is skin changes. And some of those changes you could notice would be breakouts, acne, rashes, a dull tone in the skin, a lack of color, or itching. And this could happen because toxins are causing inflammation and immune reactions that can manifest in the skin. But here's where we come back to what we mentioned before that skin is also an important exit route. It's a way to get toxins out of the body. So if the liver and the gut and or the kidney are maxed out, now the excess is going to start spreading. It's going to start leaking out through the skin and the lungs next. And now we can start getting changes, alterations in the pH on the skin, in the sebum production. That's the waxy stuff that comes out of the pores. And normally it's supposed to come out when you get a clogged up. That's where you get a blackhead or a pimple. But it's normal to produce this waxy substance. And it's supposed to kind of grease up the skin a little bit. And we also get a change in immune signaling. And with all this, that's where we can get the changes in skin that we talked about. Sign number five is chemical sensitivity. So you could start having sensitivities or reactions to things that didn't used to bother you. And anytime the liver does a detox, when it transforms something, it uses enzymes. It depends on a steady supply and production of these enzymes. But if we max out the capacity, if we saturate these enzymes and we fall behind, now there is a decrease, there's a reduction in the capacity to neutralize toxins in the liver. And as a result, these toxins or these things that trigger reactions, they stay in circulation longer. And why does that matter then? Well, it's because if something stays in circulation longer, then the duration of the exposure is longer and this is interpreted by the immune system as a threat. If it was just there very briefly in passing, then the immune system goes, "Oh, that's all right. " But if it sits around now, it sensitizes the immune system. It becomes a threat. And as a result, you could have substances that previously didn't cause a reaction, but now all of a sudden they trigger exaggerated responses. So you react to perfumes or they bother you or cleaners, household cleaners or certain food smells all of a sudden start bothering you much more. Sign number six is morning heaviness. You wake up in the morning and instead of feeling bushy tailed and brighteyed, you're waking up and you're already tired or stiff or foggy. And the reason for that would be that the liver does most of its detox during the sleep when there's not a whole lot of other stuff going on. That's where the liver tries to get the job done. But if it's already backed up, if these pathways in the liver are congested and maxed out, now the job doesn't get done and the toxins stay in circulation or some of circulation. And now when you wake up, it's like you're you never got that cleanup. rest because you're already toxic when you wake up. But now I want to talk about something very important when it comes to signs and symptoms. And that's something called pathogenommonic. And none of the signs in this video are pathogammonic. So what does that mean? Pathogammonic is a very specific sign. So something that's pathogenmonic indicates that it there is a disease. If you have that sign, then you have a disease beyond doubt. It's like a onetoone match with virtually no variation. And one example of that would be what's called a pill rolling tremor. And that's where you kind of rotate

where you're it's like you're rolling a pill between your thumb and your index finger. And if you have that sign, then you have Parkinson's disease. So that's pathogenommonic. You're almost certain that sign indicates that disease. However, a lot of people watching videos on signs, they think everything is pathogenic. They go, "Oh my god, I have that. " But we need to realize that 99% of signs and symptoms are not like that. There are multiple things that can cause a sign or a symptom. And this is why we don't want to focus specifically on the sign or a symptom but rather we want to understand the mechanisms. And that's why I always include the mechanism so we have a story around it. And now we can build an understanding and start seeing the bigger picture. And this is really important that we get this because a lot of people watching my videos and other videos and you'll see them in the comments when they just list out everything, they say, "Just give me the list. " No, you don't want to do that because you didn't learn anything. Like I said, the signs and symptoms are pretty much irrelevant if you don't understand the mechanism because then you can't relate it to yourself. There are hundreds of things that can cause a certain sign or a symptom. And if we start understanding the mechanisms, then we gain an understanding. We learn about ourselves, we start understanding our body. And then because there are so many things that can cause a sign or symptom, other people say, well, videos about signs are useless. Well, they are. I agree. if you don't explain the mechanism, if you don't go in a little bit where you start understanding what's going on. And then there are those people who watch a video and they freak out. And I get a lot of these comments where people say, "Oh my god, I have every one of these signs and symptoms. " And it is very common that out of 10 symptoms that we have some degree of a handful of them. That's going to be a lot of people to have that. But again, we don't want to just look at the sign or symptom. We want to understand it. And now we can start developing a lifestyle. If we understand the mechanism, now we see where does that come from? Let me change something and see if that gets better. And the seventh thing that toxicity can cause would be head pressure or dull headaches. And this is especially if we can't identify a clear trigger. And this happens because if we have a buildup, if we have an increase in waste and toxins and like we said that gets into the brain because it crosses the bloodb brain barrier. Now we're also going to get neuroinflammation and that in turn is going to cause alterations in the cerebral blood flow, the blood flow in the brain. And when we have changes in blood flow, we're also going to have pressure changes in the brain. And this is where we would experience that pressure or that dull headache where we have lowgrade pressure and a dull headache rather than that sharp pain. And sign number eight is poor stress tolerance. And this could be that small things start feeling overwhelming and it could also manifest as sudden outbursts or flares of anger where we can't control ourselves. And one of the things that can happen here is that the detoxification process just like everything else in the body, it uses up energy. It uses up ATP, but at the same time, less is produced because the toxins require ATP, but they interfere with the production of it. So now, as a result, we're going to have less ATP available for the frontal lobe. So the frontal lobe is the part of the brain that sits up front. Obviously like the name says and its job is about 85 to 90% of what it does is to inhibit to turn things off. That's what it does. And think of it as a light bulb. If you have a 100watt light bulb, now that power allows it to turn off, to inhibit a lot of things, a lot of stress, a lot of outbursts, a lot of flares of anger. Those are things that pop up, but the frontal lobe turns them off. It controls them. And of course, the frontal lobe also inhibits stress. So stress is something that we need to keep us alive. If a bus comes running at us, we need to be able to jump out of the way. That's a fightlight response. But the frontal

lobe needs to look at that and dampen it and control the amount of stress. So if we have less ATP available for the frontal lobe, now all these things popping up are going to be out of control. Basically, another word for this is sympathetic escape. So the sympathetic, that's our fightlight response. And we're supposed to have fight-flight responses when there's something urgent, but it's supposed to be control. And if we don't have that control, now that sympathetic system, it escapes. It starts running crazy. But here's where it gets really tricky. Because when we have that sympathetic escape, increased stress, now we're also shifting the blood flow in the brain. So when we're calm and we're thinking and we're evaluating things, now the frontal lobe has a lot of blood flow. But if we have stress now, we're getting into automatic into instinct responses, becoming like a lower animal on the intelligence chain, if you will. We have less capacity for executive function and the blood flow goes to more primitive functions like reactions and running and fighting. So now with increased stress now we have even less blood flow to the frontal lobe. So this becomes a vicious circle. And number nine is bad breath and or body odor. So we've mentioned this before that if we have a lot of toxins and the gut and the liver and the kidney are doing their best but they can't keep up when they're maxed out the excess the overflow has to go somewhere else. And this is where it starts leaking into the skin and out through the lungs. And it's normal for some things to go out through the skin and the lungs. So byproducts of metabolism, for example, are released through the breath. That's the carbon dioxide. When we burn something, we make carbon dioxide. And the normal way for that to get out is through the breath. And this is why some people swear that their plants grow better when they get talked to. When you talk to your plants a lot, they would grow better. And that would make sense if you do that a lot because you're breathing carbon dioxide on them. And just like you need oxygen, the plants need carbon dioxide. It's a beautiful system. And that's the normal part. However, if we are overflowing with toxins, if there's too much, now we're going to have other things as well come out through the breath and that's where it may not smell so good. And then other waste products will go to the skin. And it's not the waste products that smell bad per se, but it's when the skin microbiome, when the bacteria on your skin, so you have a normal flora in your gut, on your skin. And it differs for different people. That's why people smell differently, why some people have really bad foot odor or body odor. uh but when you add more toxins and you expose the skin bacteria to that this is where you they start converting them to smelly gases. And number 10 is stubborn inflammation and this is similar to the sensitivity that we talked about the chemical sensitivity. So when waste is not cleared out quickly and it starts lingering, it keeps circulating. Now there is a longer time of exposure of these waste products to the immune cells. And with this longer exposure to the immune cells, now we can have an increase in immune activation. And anytime we have that, we're going to see more inflammation. And as a result, we can start seeing things like puffy joints or osteoarthritis symptoms. We can see swollen face or general stiffness. So we have to understand that toxicity is real, but we also don't want to freak out about it. We have in our external environment, we have air, water, food that are full of chemicals. We have cleaning products that are chemicals. We have personal care products and creams and makeup. We have plastics for our water bottles, for food containers, for packaging. And then there are medications, electromagnetic fields, and unnatural light. So, if you think about it, 10,000 years ago, our ancestors, they had air, water, and food, but it was clean. There were no chemicals. There were no man-made industrial chemicals in there. But we

have added so much that in the modern world that we experience and we need to understand what they do to the body. Our ancestors didn't have any medications. Why do you have to take medications over and over? Because your liver breaks them down. It's a poison. It's a foreign substance. It has a half-life. And every time it goes through the liver, the liver does its best to eliminate it. and electromagnetic fields. Most people don't feel it, but there are people who have a sensitivity. Their nervous system is so sensitive, they just can't function with these electromagnetic fields. So even if you don't feel it, it is still something that disrupts cellular function to some degree. Your body may be able to over to compensate for it and where you don't feel it, but it still uses up resources. And same thing with unnatural light. All these different frequencies of lights and from computers and cell phones and fluorescent lights and so forth. Fortunately, the LED lights are much better than the fluorescents, but they're not as good as incandescent or natural sunlight. And then we have our internal environment, our internal toxins, which is basically metabolic waste. And here our ancestors made the same. They had the same metabolism. metabolic waste. However, it is made much worse by insulin resistance. We don't burn as clean. That metabolism has much more waste products. It's also made worse by unstable blood sugar, from processed foods and sugar, from bad gut environment dispiosis, from poor sleep, irregular sleep, poor sleep quality, from an overworked liver. And also relative to our ancestors, we have lymph stagnation because that lymph system is driven, that circulation is the pump is driven by movement. And our ancestors took probably somewhere between 20,000 to 30,000 steps a day where most people are lucky to get three or 4,000. So we need to understand that modern life provides an abundance of both external toxins and internal toxins that we never had before. And therefore toxic overload to some degree is now the norm. So how bad is it? Does it mean that our doomsday is near? Should we just give up? No, absolutely not. I think in many ways the world is better than it has ever been. I think that there is more nice convenience. I think there is more opportunity. There is more knowledge for us to take the right actions. There are more great free videos on YouTube for example where we can learn things. But that's the key. We have to learn. The world has changed and we must learn and take some action. And too many people, they're just following the mainstream. They're just jumping on the bandwagon. But you have to realize that the bandwagon is not taking you where you want to go. If you enjoyed this video, you're going to love that one. And if you truly want to master health by understanding how the body really works, make sure you subscribe, hit that bell, and turn on all the notifications so you never miss a lifesaving video.