Toxins

Someone's preying on your gullibility. There's no such thing as mystery toxins in your fat cells to make you feel bad.


"The point is there is no way to ‘detox’ with your diet or a supplement.

Most of the cleansing and detox promoters can never even name one ‘toxin’ that they are talking about or how it works, where it supposedly accumulates in your body and how you got it in the first place.

They stick to ambiguous claims like ‘toxin’ and ‘cleanse’ and allow you to fill in the gaps with your own fears and anxieties."

- via Johnbarban.com

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/detox_overview.html

It is normal. I agree with everyone. Drink a lot of water. Your fat cells store toxins and release them with fat loss.

Someone's preying on your gullibility. There's no such thing as mystery toxins in your fat cells to make you feel bad.


"The point is there is no way to ‘detox’ with your diet or a supplement.

Most of the cleansing and detox promoters can never even name one ‘toxin’ that they are talking about or how it works, where it supposedly accumulates in your body and how you got it in the first place.

They stick to ambiguous claims like ‘toxin’ and ‘cleanse’ and allow you to fill in the gaps with your own fears and anxieties."

- via Johnbarban.com

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/detox_overview.html

But the idea that fat cells store toxins is just NONSENSE.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service disagrees with you. Check out: http://www.fws.gov/pacific/ecoservices/envicon/pim/reports/contaminantinfo/contaminants.html

There are MANY, MANY chemicals (pesticides, plasticisers, industrial chemicals) that are soluble in lipids (fat). That means that in living organisms, they accumulate in fat tissue. This process is known as Bioaccumulation. You may be exposed to these chemicals from drinking out of a water bottle (think: BPA), Eating an apple (pesticides), having PVC plumbing (dioxin), or for you older folks, maybe riding your bike down the street behind the truck spraying DDT.

These chemicals all will bioaccumulate, and as one creature eats another (Man eats the cow that eats the grass), the levels of the chemicals become concentrated in a process called Biomagnification. Because humans are generally at the top of the food chain (highest trophic level), they experience the highest levels of bioaccumulation and biomagnification.

Because these numerous chemicals accumulate in fat cells, breastfeeding infants are at the greatest risk. First the chemicals accumulate in the fat deposits in the woman's breasts, and then it transfers to the breastmilk (which has a lot of fat).

What you should take away from this is: toxins are real, and they are in your fat cells. Drink lots of water and eat organic food whenever possible to reduce your exposure.

OK, ok, just to make it clear, I do obviously not dispute the existence of fat-soluble substances, some beneficial (some vitamins), some toxic. And yes, in cases of substantial contamination they can indeed be liberated from the fat (even without weigh loss!) and harm bodies. For example, even if this wasn't about *toxins* per se: when my grandmother, at the end of her live, very rapidly lost the 100-something pounds she'd be carrying around for decades, her skin was sore in spots on her arms. According to the nurse, this came from the general crud stored in the fat cells. Nothing *toxic* about it, but certainly an effect. I've also lived in areas where we fished in rivers and canals some of which had organochlorine pollution levels too high for us to eat the fish -- or rather, they were below the limits, but you could taste a chemical taste on the meat. L

However, the idea that the average inhabitants of a highly developed Western country, from our food and drink and the air we breathe, ingest anywhere near as much of such contaminants that fish swimming in polluted waters is downright ridiculous.