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and small, start plaguing us. We go to the doctor and are given pills,
then more pills. Soon we are sluggish, toxic, and feeling worse. The
illnesses take many forms, but they all go back to the original cause.
Toxins.
Professionals— scientists, drug manufacturers, doctors, and so
on—told us these toxic chemicals were safe.
This book will unravel the confusion and give the solution to a
whole life detox. You can get back balance, plus great health, if you
know what to do. It’s all here.
that we don’t even think about it. The sum total of this dysfunction all
adds up, however, until one day you find yourself in real trouble.
Don’t despair. The answers are in this book.
How do you know if toxicity is affecting you? The symptoms vary
from person to person. My daughter was puffy, bloated, and lethargic;
my granddaughter had an inability to think and unbelievable fatigue.
My other granddaughter was unable to sleep and had hyper episodes
that took away her quality of life. I had bloating, cramping, and un-
explained weight gain, what I call “chemical belly.” My husband had
fatigue and facial tics. If you experience any of these signs and symp-
toms, pay attention; these are indicators of a body in distress. The
symptoms are the “language,” your body’s wisdom; it’s trying to talk
to you.
All these signs and symptoms could have a disease label attached
to them if you go to visit an unevolved doctor. So many people are
walking around on severe pharmaceutical drugs for conditions they
don’t even have, given to them by clueless doctors who are just guess-
ing. They are doing their best, but today’s orthodox medicine in rela-
tion to toxicity is fifty years old. When faced with patients not “feeling
well,” today’s doctors reach in their allopathic arsenal for the only
tools they have, drugs. How many people are on Parkinson’s medica-
tions (which are debilitating) when in reality they are suffering from
toxic overload? The symptoms of accumulated toxicity mimic Parkin-
son’s; how many know this?
Toxins tend to bioaccumulate, meaning they build up in our tissues
and cells more quickly than they are eliminated. Since they bioaccu-
mulate over time, lingering and gathering in the fat cells, people have
no idea why they can’t lose weight or why they feel so lousy. What
people often think of as their culprit is usually just the one that tipped
the toxic scales, the one more agent that, when added to the total toxic
burden, puts it over the top and throws your health out the window.
Today’s scientists admit that we are fundamentally ignorant of
the ways the thousands of chemicals we are exposed to interact once
inside our tissues or cells. As humans we have multiple toxins con-
stantly combining in our bodies, altering and shifting our inner en-
vironments in ways that new environmental doctors are just starting
to figure out. We don’t realize that chemical reactions are happening
throughout our bodies in thousands of small ways at the same time,
and that is why everyone is so mystified about our ill health. It’s hard
to pinpoint. Everybody reacts differently; there is no “textbook” case.
It’s not simple anymore, but it’s not hopeless. Remember that.
Toxins are the invisible enemy. You can’t see them, but they are there
wreaking havoc on your health and your environment. We are ex-
posed to more than six thousand common everyday chemicals, and
each alone can lead to a laundry list of possible symptoms. Toxins
have many ways of interfering with the normal physiology of life.
Maybe they block the usage of oxygen needed for the full metabolism
of glucose. Or maybe they block an enzyme needed for an important
body function, or stimulate a specific bodily function in such persis-
tent ways that it begins to cause damage.
Tragically, we are all overloaded with toxins, and the chickens
have finally come home to roost. We’ve reached the tipping point. Yet
big business and many in the government do not want to acknowl-
edge that the planet—just like our bodies—has become tox-sick!
One of the most extensive studies of Americans’ toxic burden was
funded by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and conducted
at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Researchers tested nine adults,
none of whom worked in industries that would expose them to high
levels of environmental poisons; well-k nown journalist Bill Moyers
was one of them. All were tested for the presence of 210 contami-
nants that have been globally recognized as persistent pollutants (like
DDT). The results of the participants’ blood and urine showed the
presence of 167 of the 210 contaminants, with an average of 91 in any
given person. Each person tested had an average of
a toxic grid. Cell phones are not safe . . . research now clearly shows
the connection of cell phones’ electromagnetic rads to brain tumors.
Later in this book I will tell you how to protect yourself with Ma-
trix 2, a simple, inexpensive product you put in your cell phone case to
protect you from dangerous radiation.
At the office or work, dioxins and PCBs outgas in our daily lives
from carbonless copy paper, plastics, inks, paints, furnishings, and
construction glues as well as common contaminants in the food
chain. Dichlorobenzene can be breathed in from that noxious odor
of “air freshener” in public bathrooms, and xylene outgases from plas-
tics, carpeting, furnishings, construction materials, industrial and
traffic exhaust, and much more.
My husband was exposed to black mold for four years (unbe-
knownst to him), which created his tipping point.The black mold was
the final trigger that tipped the scale of toxins accumulated over years
in his body. From that moment on he, like so many others with toxic
accumulation, could be thrown into an “episode” from seemingly be-
nign things like car exhaust, industrial solvents, plasticizers, paint, a
new-car smell here, fresh laundry detergent smell there, new carpet-
ing that outgases for years, rush-hour exhaust fumes, a microwaved
leftover wrapped in plastic, pesticide-laden berries. You never know;
any of these chemicals can set off an “episode” in those with allergies.
For chemically sensitive people or people with MCS (multiple chemi-
cal sensitivities), these fumes, outgassing, and toxins make them very
sick. My family has been hard hit by toxicity; but they are not alone.
The list of people with MCS is growing exponentially not just in the
United States but around the globe. But you don’t have to have MCS
to be sensitive or susceptible to these toxins. We are tox-sick from
the bombardment of chemicals never meant to be processed by the
human body. What did we expect?
If you are like me, for so long I figured that all these substances
must be safe; otherwise, the agencies in control would not allow them
to be used or sold. Now I know better. It’s time for us to grow up and
realize that nobody’s going to save us; we’ve got to save ourselves. It’s
up to each of us to control the amount of our individual toxic expo-
sures. To live and thrive, we need to truly think about every product
we use and every bite of food we take.
Let me tell you a little story before we really get going. You will
probably relate:
I had front-row seats for one of my favorite female entertainers!
The room was sold out and you could feel the anticipation. Everybody
loves her. Excitement was in the air. The musicians appeared onstage;
one by one, magically sheltered by smoke, caught in a cloud, all mov-
ing to their designated places. Then the singers walked onstage: cute,
darling girls, in tight, sexy, black sequin dresses. They walked in uni-
son, moving perfectly, dancing to the intense rhythm. You could feel
the build—it was almost time for the star to make her entrance to
what would be thunderous response—but something caught my eye.
l was transfixed by the singers!
Each girl was a different size, each girl unique and darling, and all
of them in great shape, but I couldn’t help but notice they all had huge,
protruding chemical bellies!
Bloated bellies, sticking out visibly. How could this be after all
the exercise they did night after night? Here were these trim, young
darling girls with big bloated stomachs that clearly looked uncom
fortable.
But then I thought, why wouldn’t these darling girls have bloated
bellies? They lived on the road. I know what “road food” is: I spent
thirty-five weeks a year on the road for twenty years doing my musi-
cal act. The food from room service is never organic and after a per-
formance when you’ve just exercised for an hour and a half onstage,
usually preceded by a rigorous rehearsal in the afternoon, you feel
you “deserve” that chocolate bomb cake or the french fries. Or maybe
all the road manager could find was some Frankenfood from a fast-
food joint. So you gobble it down because you are ravenous and now
you are in trouble, except you don’t know it: trans fats, chemicals,
pink slime in the meat. All these substances are designed so that bad
food will taste scrumptious. Once you get a “taste” for them, you start
to crave them.
When you are young, like these singers, your body doesn’t hang
on to the weight. Unlike what we’ve heard, it’s not the calories that
are the problem: it’s the chemicals. The chemicals load up your liver
and then get shunted to the GI tract (gut) where they play havoc with
the balance in your ecosystem. The result of this buildup of chemicals
in the GI tract is a leaky gut and bloating, along with constipation,
That’s what the scientists and researchers are saying. Pretty fright-
ening. I wrote this book because tox-sickness is hurting adults and our
children, compromising our health and quality of life, and I wanted to
find answers for you and for my family.
Why are younger and younger people contracting cancer? The
childhood cancer rate has risen 67.1 percent since 1950 (the United
States has the fourth-highest rate in the world). Now kids are even
born with a toxic burden! Toxins are passed from mother to child in
utero, just as an imbalanced microflora system in the mother is passed
to the newborn. The rise of C‑sections is also depriving children of
their very first microbial protection, gotten only from the natural
journey through their moms’ birth canals.
from birth and the negative effects are coming to their logical con-
clusion.
Don’t despair. My grandchildren and children have fought these
environmentally induced conditions and won. But we have to pay at-
tention because children’s brains are not fully formed until around
age twenty-five. Every choice you make on their behalf has a conse-
quence. We are talking about their brains! Taking this precious un-
formed resource and making it tox-sick with dangerous chemicals is
stealing not only their brains, but disturbing the delicate balance of
the GI tract and the overall health of everybody. The youngest among
us are taking the hardest hit.
That’s the bad news. But there is good news. Really good news. So
don’t get discouraged.
The good news is you do not have to fall victim to the chemical
diseases and the obesity crisis that are taking away our quality of life,
including the loss of our precious brains. Nondrug solutions exist. If
toxins in the diet and the environment are the culprits, then it makes
sense that a change of diet, proper supplementation, and whole-life
detoxification to undo this damage are now essential. The human
body was never meant to process the volume of dangerous toxins,
chemicals, and overabundance of pharmaceuticals permeating our
lives. But learning to detox your body—and your life—effectively will
allow you to fight and reverse the effects of this phenomenon.
You do not have to expect Alzheimer’s as the end point of your life.
You do not have to accept the present negative paradigm of aging and
illness. We deserve good health and quality for our entire lives.
Leading scientists, professionals, and doctors will validate the in-
formation put forth here in these pages. I have sourced for you the
brightest and most cutting-edge minds on environmental sickness.
Fortunately, these new specialty doctors are responding to the needs
of these unique conditions and diseases. These environmental doctors
understand the effects of toxicity in the human body and have found
new ways of detoxing to regain balance and optimal health.
If you want to get better, you must accept that toxic chemicals are
not safe for the human body. You must know that the center of all im-
munity is your gut, and that it has to function optimally for the rest of
you to do so. Diet is crucial to success in clearing the body of toxins.
In this book, you will learn about nutrition and balancing the ecosys-
tem in your GI tract.
Keep reading.
Your health is in your hands. It’s your life. It’s your choice. You can
get your good health back. I did it, my husband did it, my daughter did
it, my granddaughters did it . . . and you can, too!
You can detox your way to health. But the time to make a change
is now. There is no time to lose.
The goal of this book is to identify the toxic threats one by one and
dismantle them. You’ll also learn how to heal the damage toxicity
has done to your body, stop new toxins from coming into your body,
get the accumulated toxins out, and clean up your personal sphere to
protect you from future toxicity. You can live, thrive, and survive in
this toxic soup that man has created. You can come out on the other
side healthier than ever and remain so permanently, if you adopt the
changes you will learn from this reading. In this book, we are not
going to focus on what we can’t have or do, but rather on what we can
achieve together.
What you can have is exciting: enjoyable, sustainable, vibrant
health. Individually, none of us has the power to turn around the dam-
age done to our precious planet; that would be overwhelming and
cause hopelessness, but on a positive note, each of us has the power to
change our own and our family’s health. You’ll lead by example, and
others will want what you have. That’s how things change: through
people at the grassroots level, providing inspirational and aspirational
personal examples. One step at a time, one person at a time, good
health will return, as opposed to the present poor health of so many.
To heal your brain, your digestive tract, your immune system, your
hormonal system, your autoimmune “conditions,” and to take the
steps to help “manage” cancer, will require a major detoxification,
with the end goal being to thrive in optimal health!
I have promised solutions in this book, so here is my list of what
we can do together:
CAN’S
1. You CAN heal and restore your gut and thus your immune sys-
tem through dietary changes and eliminating toxins.
2. You CAN repair memory loss, brain fog, and “senior moments.”
Consider this book your crash course in curing whatever ails you
as you heal your insides by ridding your body of the toxins.