Today, I’m going to mention 3 major toxins to avoid ingesting in order to help your body boost its immunity fast.

Last time, you heard how complex your immune system.  It’s clear from what I talked about, mainly that your whole body is involved in immune defense, whether it comes through your nose/sinuses, your stomach, when you scratch your skin, or even when something soaks into our skin, your body goes into high alert, your adrenal glands fire, and your immune system goes to work helping your body defend itself.

The problem in today’s world, it’s often weakened and compromised.  How is it compromised?

To make it short and sweet, it’s compromised because it’s overloaded.  Unloading the stresses on your immune system is the fastest way to strengthen it.  

One way is to help your body detox from the toxic load on it.  The first step is to take in more water to help flush out the toxins.  It has the added benefit of helping your skin look smoother, fresher and younger, help your brain function with clarity and cognitive abilities, help your muscles work better and promote your bone marrow to produce the immune fighting white blood cells.

Introduction to Step 2 on Detoxing

Today I’m going to mention 3 major toxins to avoid ingesting and next time we’ll talk about your environmental toxins and their effect on your system.  Then you’ll hear about your microbiomes and how they help your body defend itself.  There’s a lot more coming in the upcoming broadcasts. 

Smoking is a major toxin, not just cigarettes

First thing to cut down or cut out is smoking.  Anything that is producing ash and is laden with toxins, and breathing it into your lungs compromises your ability to get oxygen from the air.  It can be cigars, cigarettes, smog, second hand smoke, pot smoking, or breathing in campfire ash.

Compromising your lungs deprives you of oxygen

One of the major problems with the current pandemic is the virus affects the lung tissue in such a way that your body is starved of oxygen, and it doesn’t even know it’s happening until it’s too late.  Some people brought into the hospital were measured with only a 70% oxygenation in their blood, and they didn’t even realize it.  A lot of the people were complaining that it felt like an elephant was sitting on their chest.

The problem with smoking anything is that it is associated with emphysema and heart disease, both on the compromised list of people in the current pandemic.  

You can also see how it affects your systems by looking at long time smokers and how their lack of getting enough oxygen affects them for yourself.  You often see crepe-y skin, grayed, and looking older than their age.  

What you see on the outside is also happening on the inside.  Imagine opening up someone, like a surgeon does, and seeing all your organs sagging, wrinkled and greyed.  

So it isn’t just the lungs anymore, it’s the heart, liver, adrenal glands, pancreas, kidneys, brain, and skin and more.  I know how difficult it is to quit smoking, one of the most difficult.  I’ve seen people try it and few succeed.  Those are the ones who get to live past 60 or survive a pandemic like this one.

Excess alcohol consumption affects two of your most important organs

The second thing to cut down on is alcohol consumption.  Although you may have heard of resveratrol, a red wine constituent that helps promote heart health.  The studies conducted in Europe were with very low alcohol content red wine, and you can now buy this compound without the alcohol.  

There are a LOT of wine drinkers out there, they are clubs, wine tours, in both Europe and California, where people are totally into it.  They taste and drink one glass at a time, not a whole bottle.  If you are one of these, the one glass isn’t going to be an issue.

It’s the ongoing large scale consumption that’s a problem.

There are two major effects that over consumption of alcohol creates issues for.  The first is the effect on the brain.  As I mentioned yesterday, the brain must function for the body to heal properly.  It’s the first thing I heal when someone comes to me for help, whether they need it or not.  The brain must work properly for chronic pain to heal, for your glands, organs and systems to function properly and for your memory to stay intact.  

People going downhill with dementia or Alzheimer’s are perfect examples.  You see before your own eyes how things are failing, whether it’s quick, like a year or two or slowly, like lasting up to 8 years.  Drinking alcohol hastens this process.  

The second major effect is compromising your liver, your major blood detoxifying organ.  Your liver works very hard to get all that alcohol out of your body as quickly as possible.  Drinking alcohol is the major cause of cirrhosis, a hardening of parts of the liver.  It’s essentially cooking it from the inside out.  The liver can regenerate itself (the only organ that does so quickly) and can come back with only one third of it functioning.  This is another way to compromise yourself.  

Sugar consumption affects immunity directly

The last thing I’m going to talk about today is sugar consumption.  The average daily sugar consumption per capita in the USA is over a quarter pound.  That’s 3 to 4 cans of sugary soda per day.  Drinking 2 cans alone is known to suppress your immune system for up to 6 hours.  This is 2 12 oz or small cans.  

What about all those lattes, chai, kombucha, sweet iced teas?  People love their sugary drinks.  But those drinks are hurting them by suppressing their immune systems.  

Sugar affects the way your white blood cells attack bacteria.  Certain non-nutritive sweeteners could be just as bad, and we’ll be talking about that next in another episode.

High sugar consumption also prevents you from eating nutritionally dense food like fruits, vegetables and nuts.

People on sugar or dextrose IV’s to help feed them while they can’t eat suffer blood vessel inflammation, which then causes the liver to send out bad cholesterol to help protect you from it.  Continual high sugar consumption also makes you prone to diabetes.

The more inflammation, the more your immune system is being taxed.  

Over all, a little sugar is not a problem.  Keeping it to a few grams a day.  One 12 oz soda has close to 40 grams and can send you over budget fast.  Instead, eat your sugar in whole fruits or with fatty foods to help slow down their ingestion and incorporation into your blood stream to prevent those high blood sugar spikes that are so dangerous and lead to massive immune system suppression.

In Summary:

1. Cut down on smoking, even pot
2. Cut down alcohol consumption
3. Cut down on sugar consumption.

Join me next time as I talk about environmental toxins you might not be aware of and what to do about it.  

And then I’ll talk further about detoxing the easy way.

Standout Quotes:

•  "In high alert, it means that your adrenal glands start pumping out adrenaline. Whenever when your adrenal glands are pumping out adrenaline, then your body isn't tear down mode, it's being stressed out. That is not possible for it to heal at this point.”
•  “Your brain is your central operating system. If your brain is working properly, then your ability to heal is improved your ability to you know reduce pain levels, for example is improved.”
•  “in today's world, your immune system and your toxic system is really compromised. And it's compromised in a lot of ways. Your environment, what you put on your skin, what you put in your body, what you breathe in, all of that stuff is affecting you.”
•  “Anytime you're breathing in particulates, you are coating your lungs and compromising the ability for your lungs to take in oxygen. The number one thing that the current pandemic is causing a difficulty of breathing. And the insidious thing about that is a lot of people don't even realize it's happening until it's almost too late.”
•  “Chocolates are hard to give up. Once you start enjoying it like I can, I can eat cocoa nibs straight out of the bag and just munch on them. I just like that, that bitter flavor a lot. Fortunately, cocoa is healthy, it's got a lot of antioxidants. It's one of the highest on the ORAC scale, which is the antioxidant scale.”
•  “Sugar consumption is rampant in the US. The average per capita sugar consumption is over a quarter of pound a day per person, over a quarter pound a day. My sugar consumption is very tiny, you don't have to bring it to zero, you just have to bring it down enough so it stops compromising your immune system.”

Key Takeaways:

•  A robust immune system safeguards you. For example, white blood cells rush in to protect you from germs if your skin breaks open. When you inhale damp air or eat or drink something that includes bacteria, it touches and then touches your face surrounding your orifices. That's why a mask is required: to avoid hand infection.
•  To flush out the toxins, consume at least two quarts of water. If you are larger or more active, the amount maybe three or four quarts. Eight cups equal two quarts of water. And ensuring that you receive it daily, It also has the added effect of smoothing and inflating your skin, giving you a younger appearance. Consider that what you do on the outside also occurs on the inside.
•  One of the most effective strategies to assist your body in detoxing is to reduce its toxic burden. And the three things Anastasia highlighted, smoking, alcohol, and sugar, significantly enhanced the hazardous burden because many individuals smoke two to three packs a day.
•  When you look at a smoker, they usually appear much older than their age; their skin is creepy; it's usually a little gray due to the lack of nourishment. As a result, the skin gets harmed. And you can picture what their liver, kidneys, stomach, and everything else would look like if a surgeon opened them up. Assume that everything that occurs outside occurs within. Thus, the body's cells are essentially losing their integrity.
•  The second item to eliminate is alcohol. Thus, alcohol intake is highly addictive, and people enjoy and require it. However, many of us are casual drinkers. The body benefits significantly from resveratrol, and those studies in Europe used relatively low alcohol wines. And they noticed that red wine aided people's hearts. However, that was a single glass each day, not several.
•  Large amounts of alcohol can damage the immune system by preventing the liver from executing its nutritional job. The liver treats the alcohol like a carbohydrate and then strives to remove it from the body. As a result, the liver is working extremely hard. That's why heavy drinkers develop cirrhosis of the liver, a hardening of the liver from the inside out.
•  The liver is the body's principal detoxification organ, helping cleanse the body in 17 ways. It gives cells energy to cells via the carnitine system. It has carnitine. Your liver then feeds energy into your cells and stores glycogen, a substance that helps your cells burn fat. Thus, it is a vital organ. It is because the liver regenerates. It's the body's fastest-regenerating organ.
•  The maximum amount of sugar consumed is around 12 ounces, or 12 tiny cans, 12-ounce cans of soda, containing approximately 80 grams of sugar. Thus, these two little containers, but there are also lattes, Chai, and sugared kombucha, as well as other beverages, including fruit juice, which lacks the fiber necessary to slow its absorption into your system. According to several studies, when you consume approximately 80 grams, your immune system is wholly repressed for six hours.
•  Excess sugar in the bloodstream causes inflammation. When patients receive dextrose solutions in the hospital to feed them, such as when they must be on an IV for an extended period, the dextrose solutions begin to burn up the inside of their veins and liver. Your liver then initiates an inflammatory response, and it releases the harmful cholesterol to protect you from the inflammatory response.

Episode Timeline:

[00:47] Important role of the Immune System

[01:29] Immune System Response

[01:56] The Power of Detox

[04:02] Three Things to Avoid

[05:09] Regulate Detoxification

[06:43] Harmful Effects of Smoking

[08:08] Physical Attributes of a Smoker

[09:43] Anastasia’s Client

[10:22] Effects of Alcohol Consumption

[11:30] Anastasia having a sweet tooth

[12:44] The liver and its functions

[14:24] Effects of drinking on the brain

[15:19] Dementia

[16:34] Dangers of High Sugar Consumptions

[20:14] Healthy recommended alternative for Sugar 

[21:56] Tips Summary

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