Joseph Pizzorno - The Toxin Solution: How Hidden Poisons in the Air, Water, Food, and Products We Use Are Destroying Our Health

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This book contains advice and information relating to health care. It should be used to supplement rather than replace the advice of your doctor or another trained health professional. If you know or suspect you have a health problem, it is recommended that you seek your physicians advice before embarking on any medical program or treatment. All efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of the information contained in this book as of the date of publication. This publisher and the author disclaim liability for any medical outcomes that may occur as a result of applying the methods suggested in this book.

THE TOXIN SOLUTION. Copyright 2017 by Joseph Pizzorno. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.

Names: Pizzorno, Joseph E., author.

Title: The toxin solution: how hidden poisons in the air, water, food, and products we use are destroying our healthand what we can do to fix it /

Joseph Pizzorno, ND.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY: HarperOne, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016039338 (print) | LCCN 2016045708 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780062427458 (hardback) | ISBN 9780062427472 (e-book)

EPub Edition February 2017 ISBN 9780062427472

Subjects: LCSH: ToxinsPhysiological effect. | Naturopathy. | Detoxification. |

BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Naturopathy. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition.

Classification: LCC RA1250 .P59 2017 (print) | LCC RA1250 (ebook) | DDC 615.9/52dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016039338

I dedicate The Toxin Solution to the courageous pioneers who kept this medicine alive despite over a century of oppression by the vested interests of conventional medicine. The foundational naturopathic medicine concepts of nutrition and detoxification are now even more important in our modern world of nutrient-depleted foods and overwhelming environmental pollution. I continue to find quite remarkable how research has finally proven the validity and efficacy of these concepts, which were once mocked, and whose practitioners were imprisoned. They are now understood to be the only solution to the health-care crisis.

And finally, I dedicate this book to you, the readers, who are no longer willing to accept that the heavy burden of ill health and disease so many suffer is normal and are taking their health into their own hands.

The Toxin Solution will help you learn why toxins are now the primary cause of chronic disease and what you can do to get them out of your body. The book offers a four-pronged approach to accomplishing that which includes:

1. Understanding where toxins are found and how they cause disease.

2. Preparing your detoxification systems to eliminate toxins quickly and safely.

3. Undergoing intense detoxification.

4. Following simple guidelines for a toxin-free life.

Chapters 1 and 2 present in-depth scientific explanations for the necessity to avoid and eliminate toxins to support your health. However, you do not need to understand this science to follow the books program. You can jump ahead to the programmatic chapters and follow the steps below. (Another option is to use the summary guidance in the Appendix Protocol Summary.) Its inadvisable to skip ahead to the intense detox in week 9, as you must fully prepare your body to excrete the toxins before you start releasing them from your tissues and fat stores.

Step 1. Preparation for the Nine-Week Program (Chapter 2)The Causes of Toxic Overload

Before launching into the nine-week program, you will learn how to protect yourself and improve health by stopping new toxins from entering your body. There is little value to getting toxins out if you keep putting more in.

Step 2. Weeks 1 and 2 (Chapter 3)The Two-Week Jumpstart Diet

During these two weeks, you focus especially on decreasing food sources of toxins, while providing the baseline nutrients you need to support a successful detox.

Step 3. Weeks 3 and 4 (Chapter 4)Clean Up Your Gut

Due to several factors in modern lifeespecially the medicinal and agricultural use of antibioticsmost people have a very toxic gut that is constantly overloading the liver. During these two weeks, you will kill off the unhealthy gut bacteria, absorb the toxins they release as they die, reseed your gut with healthy bacteria, and promote gut regeneration.

Step 4. Weeks 5 and 6 (Chapter 5)Restore Your Liver

When healthy and well-functioning, the liver eliminates the many chemicals modern life exposes us to. During these two weeks, you will take nutrients and herbs to clean out your liver and improve its detoxification function.

Step 5. Weeks 7 and 8 (Chapter 6)Revive Your Kidneys

As the second-most-important detoxification organ, the kidneys are vulnerable to the most long-term damage from toxin exposure. Improving their function is critical for toxin elimination and long-term health. During these two weeks you will follow a very sophisticated protocol to improve blood supply to the kidneys and promote their function.

Step 6. Week 9 (Chapter 7)Intense Full-Body Detox

Once your body is ready, you will use saunas, nutrients, and diet to release toxins from your cells and fat stores. If you become too uncomfortable, or feel sick, slow down the process. (This step can be repeated several times if needed and in the future, as long as you maintain healthy gut, liver, and kidney function.)

Despite advances in modern medicine and technology, today more than ever people are suffering from chronic illnesses through all stages of the human life cycle. In our search for health, have we missed something? Or have the challenges evolved?

For much of the twentieth century, integrative, functional, and natural medicine doctors named nutritional deficiencies and excesses as the primary causes of chronic disease. We all know about the problems of nutrient-deficient food, excessive sugar, and unhealthy fat consumption. But, starting about sixty years ago, something fundamental changed: toxins started entering our world in massive amounts. But only relatively recently has it been possible to really grasp their effects on us. This book will change that. The latest findings Ill detail in