Talking Detox: Taking Out Your Body's Toxic Trash

Since you're here, you are most likely....

1: Dealing with a possible diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
2: Helping someone else deal with a Alzheimer's.
3: Just interested in healthy solutions, ideas and alternatives.

If you're reading this blog, you are probably already aware that my wife was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in 2005 at age 53. That it's onset was determined to have occurred a year earlier at age 52. That we determined her Alzheimer's was NOT hereditary and did not run anywhere in her family.

At a low point in our battle, I posted an entry entitled "When the Battle is Lost". Feeling, at that time, that we had exhausted every possible solution and scenario and were relegated to just "riding it out".

If Alzheimer's is not hereditary (not coded into the DNA), then what is it? I have come to understand the answer to that question lies in one word... Environmental.

Now that I've said the "E" word, let's talk about that for a moment, because there are many charged feelings that come along with that word. You are either ready to read on in anticipation or ready to write me off as another environmental whacko.

But the truth is... we have a lot of control over our personal environment. We are not totally at the mercy of greedy corporations, corrupt doctors and political madmen.

There is Something You Can Do, right now, to change your outcome and the outcome of someone you love.

Here it is:

Most often, we go about life ignoring little aches and pains and shrugging off seemingly minor ailments. Until we are significantly uncomfortable to go to the doctor, we treat ourselves with less care than we do our automobiles.

I'm really no different, we ignored and shrugged off warning signs of my wife's impending, life altering disease until we were forced to seek medical advice.

The trouble with "medical advice" is that it is now so entrenched in the realms of phamaceutical treatments and research for pharmaceutical solutions that you can no longer put all of your confidence into a trusted medical professional... Most just don't know what's going on outside of pills and surgery, and they are (for the most part) entrenched in feeding "that" system. Like my father used to say "If the only tool you've got is a hammer, you will try to fix everything with the hammer".

You need a full tool-kit...

So now what? If you can't trust your doctor for the best solution to a medical problem, who in blue blazes CAN you trust?

Here's the hard part. You've got to trust yourself... you already know the basics for what affects your health:

What you breath, what you drink, what you eat, how you think, and how you respond to that knowledge... pretty much in that order.

You can live about 3 minutes without air, about 4 days without water, about 5 weeks without food, and if your able to think you can conceive a solution to all of that, and then you have to act on it.

Bad air can kill you, bad water can kill you, bad food can kill you, not thinking can kill you and making the wrong choice can kill you.

So lets think about something basic here. If you choose to control what you have the power to control, you might just solve your own health issues.

You have some control over the air you breath... at least for a large chunk of your day. Statistics show that we spend more than 70% of our time indoors... mostly at home or in an office. There are solutions for ensuring you are breathing clean air without viruses, bacteria, mold or mildew.

You have even more control over the water you drink. There's probably no trucks or busses driving past you pouring bad water down your throat... so you have a choice. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of choices and few of them are actually good for you. Here's a shocking statement: Drinking only the "most pure" water... can kill you... or at least rob your body of some things it needs to keep you healthy. We now know that water from distillation systems and reverse-osmosis (RO) systems actually eliminates essential nutrients from our water. But there ARE solutions that produce clean "pure" water without robbing it of those essential nutrients.

And now the psychological biggie... the food you eat (or don't eat). This is a whole discussion of it's own, but you learned in elementary school the "four food groups" and why it's important to have something from all of them. That's called a balanced diet. Too much or too little of even a balanced diet, however, can tip the scales in an unhealthy direction. There are more solutions available to this than the library of congress can hold.

OK... So now you've got all of the basics to healthy living from this point forward...

BUT... what about all that toxic trash that has accumulated in your body up to now? How can we effectively escort those poisons, heavy metals, and other unseemly chemicals out of our system? I don't mean pie-in-the-sky theories... I mean... WHAT DO WE KNOW THAT WORKS?

Obviously, I've got some ideas and solutions of my own, having invested several years of research after learning that my wife's affliction was not hereditary. In this discussion, I'd like to share some of those solutions with you and open your eyes to the fact that they exist. I'm not about presenting my own bias to match the bias of the medical profession.

One thing I want to interject before closing though, in light of the current fury over flu vaccines and most notably the swine-flu vaccine. In 2003, my wife faithfully got her 6th annual flu shot on the college campus where she worked. This time, however, she had an immediate reaction which dropped her into a chair for an hour or so. She was given some juice or a soda to drink and apparently recovered well enough to continue about her day. That puts the flu-shot into a position of being the most likely candidate or at least strong contributing factor for her onset of Alzheimer's less than 6 months later. There is now a proven link between flu vaccines and Alzheimer's.


What do YOU think? What have YOU found? What is YOUR experience?