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How to detoxify your liver,
kidneys and other organs

By Dr. Terezia Fauszt, MD faculty member and medical advisor for the Global Institute For Alternative Medicine

Toxicity related illnesses are caused by the presence of toxic wastes in the system. These chemicals poison the blood and are carried throughout the circulatory system, affecting every organ. Consequently, cells and tissues are literally “swimming” in contamination. Detoxification is a process that purifies the blood and removes toxins from the entire body.

What are toxic wastes?

Toxic chemicals enter our bodies in the form of unhealthy and refined foods, chemical additives and environmental pollutants. These harmful molecules can be found in great abundance in our air, drinking water, food supply, as well as in pharmaceutical drugs. Toxic chemicals also wreak havoc on our environment, poisoning our lakes, oceans, soil, and as a consequence, our bodies. Since our bodies are not able to process or eliminate these “modern” toxins, they become stored in our glands, tissues and cells.

2.2 billion pounds of pesticides

 “About 2.2 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the U.S. each year. This is about eight pounds per capita.”⁽¹⁾ According to experts, only 2% of this actually serves to protect the crops while the air, water and the food itself absorbs the other 98%. (Over 110 different kinds of chemicals are used on apples alone.)

Municipal water may contain up to 700 chemicals, including heavy metals. U.S. dentists are the single largest discharger of mercury into the nation's waters.
They use about 44 tons of highly toxic mercury to fill some 100 million cavities each year. ⁽²⁾

Every day you’re exposed to 50,000 chemicals

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, thousands of new chemical agents were introduced into our environment. Many different chemicals are used in food processing and preservation. And here’s the scariest fact of all from a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) scientist, Dr. James Pirkle: "If you gave a sample of blood or urine to us, we could find all sorts of things you didn't think you had. We are regularly, every day, exposed to 50,000 chemicals."⁽³⁾ Only a fraction of these chemicals have been studied for their effects on humans. There have been no studies at all showing the consequences of using these agents in varying combinations with each other. Living in such a toxic environment places our bodies under constant bombardment from every conceivable angle.

Medical costs to double

Looking at these astonishing figures, the fact that every second person in the U.S. is chronically ill should come as no surprise. Examples of chronic conditions are cancer, heart disease, diabetes, glaucoma, etc. By 2020, the number of people living with chronic conditions is expected to rise to 157 million and direct medical costs are expected to double to more than $1 trillion (80 percent of the nation's health care spending).⁽⁴⁾

How to reverse this threat

The daily bombardment of toxins demands, more than ever, our assistance in aiding our body’s detoxification processes. These cell damaging deadly toxins are invisible and insidious. Like a remorseless killer, they break down all body systems at the cellular level. This takes place slowly, day by day, undetectably, until finally the onset of disease signals their presence. The first sign may appear as just a harmless rash but could also manifest as a deadly type of cancer.

Detoxification is a natural health-preserving strategy, which helps remove harmful toxins from the cells and tissues, restoring their normal functions. In today’s world our body’s detoxification system is overloaded and unable to function like it did in the past. Certain people seem to have better coping abilities and rarely become sick despite the unimaginable stress on their system. Then there are others whose body had surrendered to the attacks and are not able to fight sufficiently.

Whole-body detoxification

Detoxification medicine is not a new concept. In Europe, for example, detoxification is considered a valid medical therapy and is offered at numerous clinics, health spas and other wellness centers, under the supervision of mainstream medical doctors.

In order to be effective, a whole-body detoxification program needs to address the body systems and organs most affected by toxins.

Liver, gallbladder and pancreas
The liver serves as a filtering and processing factory of unmatched importance. It plays a key role in eliminating toxins and metabolic waste products from the blood that would otherwise poison the body. It performs approximately 500 distinct functions, more than any other organ in the body. The liver excretes its toxins into a fluid called bile. After bile is produced in the liver, it runs into the gallbladder and eventually into the intestinal tract.

Stomach, intestinal tissues and spleen

The stomach is very important for absorption of nutrients, especially of the building materials: amino acids and minerals. The spleen serves to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes.

Kidneys, bladder and urological tract

During detoxification it is extremely important to drink an adequate amount of water to help the flow of toxins through the kidneys, bladder and urological tract. Dehydration results in an accumulation of harmful substances in the blood, which can have an adverse effect on the kidneys.

A whole-body detoxification program also needs to address toxins produced by alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, and heavy metals such as lead and mercury found in amalgam fillings and certain types of food.

Healing life energy

Thanks to major developments in natural medicine, we have at our disposal certain detoxification programs that are able to restore the body’s inner balance. We’d like to introduce you to a system by Pekana that we believe to be the most effective homeopathic detoxification therapy. The Pekana brand name is assurance in itself of superb European quality. These incredibly effective holistic homeopathic products are produced through the spagyric process. This means that the remedies contain not only the active ingredients of the selected herbs but also the actual healing life energy these plants possess. This powerful combination creates "super-charged" remedies that invigorate the body's vital energy, act as immune system catalysts and promote more efficient cellular activity to help infected or weakened organ tissues resume normal function.

Pekana remedies have a much higher life energy content than any other homeopathic medicine produced the traditional way.  (See the Kirlian photo!)

PEKANA medications do not merely suppress symptoms,
but heal the underlying causes of illnesses

PEKANA’s comprehensive line of high-energy remedies have been developed to help successfully treat both acute and chronic illnesses, while avoiding the detrimental side effects that often accompany the use of allopathic drugs. Importantly, PEKANA medications do not merely suppress or mask symptoms, but heal the underlying causes of a wide variety of illnesses.

Pekana’s 21-day Basic Detoxification Therapy uses five special remedies to target the liver, kidneys and the entire system on a cellular level.

Armed with the right information and tools, existing chronic conditions can be prevented or reversed. By applying holistic principles and natural therapies, we can live a healthy and rewarding life and avoid deadly diseases that threaten our chance of living life to the fullest.

(Before engaging in a sophisticated detoxification program, like the PEKANA 21-Day Detox Therapy, it is a good idea to first complete a thorough colon cleanse. If we don’t eliminate toxins from the colon, then this debris will quickly seep back into other areas of the body causing re-infestation. Read our article about colon cleansing.)

Dr. Fauszt is a practicing cardiologist as well as a certified teacher of the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui.

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REFERENCES: 

(1) Key Findings Newsletter, Winter 2002/2003
(2) Health Care Without Harm: Dentist the Menace. 2002
(3) Centers for Disease Control to report on chemical exposure in U.S., October 18, 2000
(4) Partnership for Solutions - Chronic Conditions: Trends and Projections, 2001