Toxicity and Your Health: A Simple Balanced Approach.

Toxicity is a familiar word to most everyone. Everyone has toxicity and anyone who desires optimal health should take this subject very seriously. Toxicity - bursting into our consciousness -has led to the rapid development of a vast amount of cleansing programs in the marketplace. You have seen the infomercials and read the articles. You have heard the stories of incredible cleansing products making obnoxious claims. You may have believed the yarns about four-foot bowel movements and the cleansing programs that will do it all -including curing your cancer and growing hair on your head. The fact is this, there is no such thing as a cure-all and much of what you hear and read is more hype than health. Kylea invites you to learn a simple, balanced approach to dealing with toxicity.

First things first. Where does toxicity come from? Many places; more than you might guess in fact. Let's deal with the most obvious ones. Number one, the air we breathe. Pollution is all around us. I'm all for industry; it's what makes this country great but take a look at the black clouds of smoke that billow from the smoke stacks of factories. Next time you're stuck in traffic look at all the fumes from all the cars and compound this by the world's population 365 days a year, year after year after year! Has your car been washed recently? Drive around on a busy highway just after your car is washed and then run your finger along it and see what you find? Those same black pollutants that stick to your car absorb into your lungs and pass into your blood stream. A good barometer of pollution levels in the environment is the health of the world's bird population and there's bad news for our feathered friends. The myriad diseases are growing at an exponential rate.

Water supply. A good way to commit suicide is to go to your neighborhood pond and have a drink. Tap water? A slower form of suicide. With the amount of chlorine and metals in out tap water and considering we consume pools of it over a lifetime, it is no wonder cancer, heart disease and chronic diseases are epidemic in recent decades. You drink bottled water you say? Great idea. Keep it up, but what do you shower in? Do you eat fish? How about the water that is used for the crops you eat and the fruit trees? Do you get the picture?

The next one is not food. Not yet anyway. This one may surprise you. What if I told you that the number one pass-time in America is toxic? No, baseball is not toxic but non-activity is. That's right. Americans are the world leaders in the disease known as couch-potato-itis. How is this toxic? The largest organ of elimination in our bodies is not the colon, but rather our skin. The skin and the millions of pores are designed to release the poison that your body has filtered out. It does this by releasing toxic moisture from your pores and toxic hydrogen and oxygen through your breath. Your breath is not foul because of the absence of Tic Tacs. It is foul because it is toxic poison. Ah... now we begin to see why exercise is so key. Exercise opens the pores and dumps buckets of foul poison out of your body. That is why sweat does not smell like perfume. Exercise also speeds up your breathing to release high levels of toxicity from your breath.

Okay -food. You asked for it. The average American spends $3.65 per day on chips, candy, pop, and tobacco. Ask most Americans to spend that on supplements or to pay the difference for organic produce, and they cry "SNAKEOIL"! or "FANATICS"! The food lobby industry has done their job very well indeed.

"War and Peace" is no match for the amount of material I could write on the dangers of food and its pathogens. But like "War and Peace" no one would read it anyway and it inevitably winds up on the mantle for posterity sake, book-marked on page 87. Anyway, since you are in fact what you eat, food is vastly important! But having said this, it's not really food at all. Instead, the problem is the absence of food. No, I'm not talking about food deprivation or starvation. I am simply saying that we are using the word food inaccurately as it relates to what we eat. It looks like food, tastes like food, smells like food but it possesses more characteristics of a science project than food.

Our lunchmeats are riddled with industrial chemicals to make them prettier and last forever. Much of our bread is baked bleach-flour, water and sugar. Our snacks are inundated with re-cooked oils that kill everything remotely healthy about them. Our animals are drugged with antibiotics and shot-up with hormones to make them grow quicker. They are forced to eat food (and I use that term loosely) that is genetically modified. God never designed them to eat the stuff we give them! Perhaps you may not know this, but livestock were never supposed to eat grain. They were designed to eat grass! Have you ever seen a cow picking the kernels from corn? Than why do we stuff them with it? Because it makes them grow bigger and fatter and does so far more quickly.

Did you know a gallon of milk you buy at the grocery store has more than 140 chemicals in it? Does milk really do the body good? How about that famous yellow sponge cake with the cream filling? You know, the one that rhymes with "pinkie". If you want to create a treasure for the archeologists of the year 3000, bury one of these sponge cakes in your back yard. I can assure you that it will remain remarkably preserved.

I think you get the point. The food we gorge ourselves on today is mostly chemicals and naked calories. But the chemicals have to go somewhere. If we aren't eliminating them properly then where do they go? Actually, they leak out of our colons and into your blood stream and other organs. This is eloquently referred to as "Leaky Gut Syndrome". Who cares? If you care about yourself and your loved ones then you should care very deeply. The yellow sponge cake, the double cheeseburger and the biggie fries, all washed down with the caffeine-laden, corn syrup, phosphate soda actually does more than just make your jeans tighter. Eventually all the delicious-tasting chemicals and poisons wind up in your blood. Your white blood cells (the soldiers in the body) recognize these as foreign invaders and set out to destroy them. Problem solved -right? For the moment. But we only have so many white blood cells. It's true that they are designed to destroy viruses, bacteria, parasites and cancer cells. But if the food we eat -the glazed donuts for breakfast, biggie fries for lunch and mystery tacos for dinner -the very thing that is supposed to PROVIDE nutrition, is keeping our white blood cells working overtime, what happens when we are exposed to bacteria, viruses and cancer cells? Exactly. Little is being done to take care of these because there are simply not enough soldiers! The foreign invaders that cause disease are being fought with water pistols while the machine guns (white blood cells) are shooting the French fries. Food is indeed a primary reason for toxicity and can wreak devastation in the body!

Does this mean I can never eat fries again? No. It means you must treat your body like a bank account. A healthy bank account is dependent on balancing withdrawals and deposits. No different with your body. For every withdrawal (fries) there must be a deposit (elimination and nutrition). If you keep a positive balance then you stay healthy and happy. If the account is overdrawn you start to feel the effects. At first it may simply be fatigue, depression, obesity, poor digestion and other non-diagnosable (sub-clinical) symptoms. But over time, the symptoms evolve into a diagnosed, clinical disease. Left unchecked the body's bank account becomes hopelessly overdrawn until bankruptcy occurs. At this point it becomes a crisis and crisis-medicine is the only option.

All right, enough bad news for one article. There is very good news indeed. You can counter-balance the challenges of the toxic world we live in with some simple cleansing solutions that will get the body's bank account back to where you can write checks again. And, it does not mean that you have to wear sackcloth and ashes and eat tree bark.

Let's talk about cleansing and detoxifying but let's agree to leave the hype and hyperbole out of the equation. There's enough of that already. Friend, Kylea Health and Energy advocates a life-changing concept known as "Simple Balanced Health". That applies to cleansing as well. We consider a good cleansing program to be an absolute must in the world we live in. We invite you to consider the choices and learn about cleansing programs so that you can find one that is ideal for you!

Cleansing and Detoxifying 101
Let's start with basic guidelines. When purchasing a good program one has many questions. How much will it cost? How long will it take? How much time per day should I spend doing it? What will the effects be on my bowel movements? What herbs are good for cleansing? They are all good questions.

How much will it cost me?
Many programs claim to be "everything but the kitchen sink in just two capsules". They have a whole bunch of nutrients that make the label very attractive, but each nutrient has very little potencies. This is usually a "price-driven" product and can be a as little as $35-$40. Our advice is to save your money. You will get very little benefit from these.

The other extreme is the fanatical approach. These are the programs that have five or six items including powders, pills, suppositories hoses and so on. They will cost hundreds of dollars and are unrealistic for the average person. There is a better way. There are comprehensive programs that are realistic to do and can run between the $70- $100 price range.

How long will it take?
In the essence of "Simple Balanced Health", you do not want anything that is going to blow your doors off and be done in a week. This is much too quick and can throw the body into shock. On the other hand, there are programs that can drag for months and are totally impractical for the average person. We believe that 30 to 60 days is a great time frame to complete a balanced cleanse that will be gentle enough to avoid you from being chained to the bathroom.

How much time per day will I have to invest?
You need to invest very little time per day. We are not saying that rigorous cleanses with suppositories and hoses won't get the job done, but why go through that nonsense when you can do the same job through carefully chosen herbs? If you love to suffer then go for it, but for the rest of you, get a good, balanced herbal cleansing program that won't throw your life into disarray.

What effects will this have on my bowel movements and elimination?
True cleansing is so much more than just bowel movements. A cleansing program that is worth its' weight will cleanse the colon and intestinal system, the blood and the internal organs. The most effective method we have ever seen is a complete program that encompasses the above, while also REBUILDING the colon and intestinal system and restoring a healthy bowel ecosystem with fresh intestinal flora.

In regards to bowel movements, it is different for every person. You are truly unique and it would be preposterous for anyone to know exactly what to expect in regards to elimination. The exception is the programs that force your colon to have diarrhea-like symptoms. Anyone can make you have diarrhea. This is not cleansing. This is simply manipulating the colon. Companies do this because they know that if you experience those things then you are likely to believe that the program is working. The bottom-line is that you should not measure your cleansing experience solely on the changes to your bowel movements. While it is likely that you may experience some changes, you may still cleanse effectively without them.

If you are taking a multi-product program that deals with the colon, internal organs, blood and rebuilding, then sequence is very important. For instance, if you are in the process of cleansing the colon you should definitely not be taking a blood-cleansing product at the same time. Why? Because the dislodged matter from the colon may leak into the blood and you want to finish that process so that you can deal specifically with cleansing the blood. If you do choose to cleanse the blood simultaneously, just make sure you continue with the blood cleansing at least two weeks after finishing with the colon and liver. This will insure that the "mopping up" process can be done without spilling any more toxins into the arteries.

You are now finished cleansing the colon, internal organs and blood. It's kind of like having a nice clean garage. Would you then drive a filthy car with sludge on the tires right back into the garage? No, you would clean off the car and the tires, and maybe even put a sealer on the floor to protect the surface. This is why it is so important that you have healing and rebuilding agents in a cleansing program. Probiotics will heal and restore your bowel ecosystem by establishing new intestinal flora. Look for a program that includes Probiotics.

What are some good herbs and nutrients to use for cleansing and rebuilding?
Ancient Chinese medicine has stood the test of time for understanding natural cleansing herbs. Some great colon cleansers are Fenugreek, Flax, Ginger, Psyllium, Aloe and Licorice Root to name a few. As mentioned above, a good cleanse is one that does so gently and one that does not shock the body.
For blood cleansing, we have found Red Clover, Dandelion, Pau D Arco, Butchers Broom and Garlic to work very well. Of course there are others but these have been known to do a phenomenal job.

When we speak of Probiotics, we are referring to Acidophilus, Lactobacillus and the others. They should be plant based and deliver billions of live cells per serving.

How often should I cleanse?
Let's bring back the garage analogy. Everyone has cleaned out the garage only to find a year later it is total devastation once again. Another full day of backbreaking work with vast amounts of junk is in store. The same goes with cleansing. If you do it once a year you are ahead of the curve, but better to do it 2-3 times per year if possible.

Conclusion
Toxicity is the great robber of good health and no one is without it. Kylea Health and Energy believes in a simple, balanced approach to toxicity by cleansing and detoxifying with a well-thought out program at least once a year.

When choosing a cleansing system, focus on one that is comprehensive (one that cleanses the colon, blood and internal organs as well as rebuilds the system) and one that is realistic for your busy life.