Two Types of Toxins that Directly Affect Your Health
What the body considers a toxic substance can be one of two kinds — exotoxins (toxins that originate outside the body) or endotoxins (toxins that oringinate from within the body).
An exotoxin will be any one of tens of thousands of household, agricultural or industrial chemical substances that we’re exposed to on a fairly normal basis in our day-to-day life. To a certain point, we are able to restrict and limit our vulnerability to these types of toxic chemicals. The types of household products and produce we buy is one area of our lives where we can be in almost complete control. Increasingly more stores are offering high quality cleaning and personal care products that are free of toxins.
Endotoxins are less easy to control. Endotoxins are the by-products of our body’s natural metabolic processes. An endotoxin can be a bacterial waste product, anti-bodies our body makes to stave off a contagion, any of the many hormones in our body and cellular material whose constituents need to be eliminated.
Most of us who live in modern-day societies today meet an increasing amount of toxic overload. While our body is equipped to perform the detoxification and elimination of endotoxins, the body is more and more unable to deal with the rising quantity of exotoxins that we consume through our air, food, beverages, household products and personal care products.
Despite our most avid attempt to avoid environmental toxins, our power to do so is very challenging. The truth is, we are simply exposed to an overwhelming number and diversity of toxic chemicals that are totally foreign, if not actually damaging, to the body. Unsophisticated ways we can trim our exposure to toxins is to purchase natural health care and cleaning products, and to always purchase organic produce when available.
As well as minimizing our exposure to dietary and environmental toxins, we can do a lot toward assisting the body’s normal detoxification processes. Doing a monthly body detox program will cleanse your body and significantly curtail the physiological burden on your body that toxicity causes.
