Toxins in our blood; the enemy within.
March 15, 2006
We once believed that the placenta protected developing babies from chemicals and pollutants in our environment. That belief came to an end last year when a benchmark umbilical cord study found on average 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals. Here is a list of the chemicals that were detected and the associated risks:
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Mercury (Hg) - tested for 1, found 1 Pollutant from coal-fired power plants, mercury-containing products, and certain industrial processes. Accumulates in seafood. Harms brain development and function. |
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Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) - tested for 18, found 9 Pollutants from burning gasoline and garbage. Linked to cancer. Accumulates in food chain. |
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Polybrominated dibenzodioxins and furans (PBDD/F) - tested for 12, found 7 Contaminants in brominated flame retardants. Pollutants and byproducts from plastic production and incineration. Accumulate in food chain. Toxic to developing endocrine (hormone) system |
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Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) - tested for 12, found 9 Active ingredients or breakdown products of Teflon, Scotchgard, fabric and carpet protectors, food wrap coatings. Global contaminants. Accumulate in the environment and the food chain. Linked to cancer, birth defects, and more. |
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Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans (PBCD/F) - tested for 17, found 11 Pollutants, by-products of PVC production, industrial bleaching, and incineration. Cause cancer in humans. Persist for decades in the environment. Very toxic to developing endocrine (hormone) system. |
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Organochlorine pesticides (OCs) - tested for 28, found 21 DDT, chlordane and other pesticides. Largely banned in the U.S. Persist for decades in the environment. Accumulate up the food chain, to man. Cause cancer and numerous reproductive effects. |
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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) - tested for 46, found 32 Flame retardant in furniture foam, computers, and televisions. Accumulates in the food chain and human tissues. Adversely affects brain development and the thyroid. |
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Polychlorinated Naphthalenes (PCNs) - tested for 70, found 50 Wood preservatives, varnishes, machine lubricating oils, waste incineration. Common PCB contaminant. Contaminate the food chain. Cause liver and kidney damage. |
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - tested for 209, found 147 Industrial insulators and lubricants. Banned in the U.S. in 1976. Persist for decades in the environment. Accumulate up the food chain, to man. Cause cancer and nervous system problems. |
The study goes on to say:
"Chemical exposures in the womb or during infancy can be dramatically more harmful than exposures later in life. Substantial scientific evidence demonstrates that children face amplified risks from their body burden of pollution; the findings are particularly strong for many of the chemicals found in this study, including mercury, PCBs and dioxins. Children's vulnerability derives from both rapid development and incomplete defense systems:
- A developing child's chemical exposures are greater pound-for-pound than those of adults.
- An immature, porous blood-brain barrier allows greater chemical exposures to the developing brain.
- Children have lower levels of some chemical-binding proteins, allowing more of a chemical to reach "target organs."
- A baby's organs and systems are rapidly developing, and thus are often more vulnerable to damage from chemical exposure.
- Systems that detoxify and excrete industrial chemicals are not fully developed.
- The longer future life span of a child compared to an adult allows more time for adverse effects to arise.
The 10 children in this study were chosen randomly, from among 2004's summer season of live births from mothers in Red Cross' volunteer, national cord blood collection program. They were not chosen because their parents work in the chemical industry or because they were known to bear problems from chemical exposures in the womb. Nevertheless, each baby was born polluted with a broad array of contaminants."
The results of this study were not broadly debated in the media, TV or radio. They didn't appear on the front of every newspaper. They were not reported on the nightly news. Most people never heard about this study if the truth be known. While it's true that we live in a free society, it's also true that the mass media by and large plays for the "home team", our government. What our government wants us to believe is that they rigorously test all chemicals and they would never allow the population to be exposed to any harmful substances. If by chance we do fall ill, they have the solution, expensive pharmaceutical drugs.....yippee!!
I want to bring this study to the attention of our newsletter readers for several reasons. First of all, all industrialized countries are creating and using chemicals that have made their way into every aspect of our lives, even our blood and the blood of our unborn, developing babies. Secondly, we should not believe that the EPA and FDA can protect us from these harmful chemicals. Don't you know folks, they work for "big business" and the large pharmaceutical companies, many of which have former and even current Presidents and Vise Presidents of the US on their board or directors. Finally, we should be proactive in our quest for good health and research alternative medicines and therapies, mainly ozone therapy, to detoxify us from the long list of harmful substances circulating in our blood.
Those who understand the "big picture" know exactly why ozone is labeled a "toxic gas" by the EPA. On high pollution days, when nature (not cars) produces more ozone to attempt to oxidize the man-made chemicals in the air, mostly from vehicles and factories, we're issued an "ozone alert". What a crock, eh? Alternative health practitioners who use ozone to cleanse the blood of toxic chemicals, even AIDS and cancer in the same way ozone is used to cleanse our water supply are thrown in jail beleive it or not. The U.S., post the NAFTA treaty, can go into Mexico and Canada and lock-up doctors practicing ozone therapy. Before NAFTA, at least Americans could go north or south for alternative treatments such as ozone therapy. Not so any more. You have to go to Germany and I'm told many U.S doctors and VIP's "in the know" who themselves fall ill do just that. You see ozone is cheap, and most importantly, it can't be regulated, patented, or put in a pill to be controlled by the large drug companies. It also works, works wonders actually. Oxygen (ozone is three oxygen molecules) is a great oxidizer of harmful chemicals and other harmful substances in the blood. If the powers that be really cared about us, they'd allow the development of blood cleansing ozone machines that would allow us to rid our bodies of harmful chemicals. But they don't, and they won't. Do you know why? Because the more sick the population, the more money the big drug companies make, the less people will live to be 100, the less burden on social security......sounds like a win-win-win to Uncle Sam if you ask me.
In May, Ionic Zone will sell an air-water ozone generator wholesale to the general public. A great way of getting ozone into our system is via ozonated water and olive oil, and this machine will allow you to do both. Ozone generators that fill otherwise clean air with high levels of ozone ......that's a bad idea despite what ozone generator sellers tell you. We need to be breathing negative ions, not a lot of ozone, and dust-free, UVC sanitized air. If your air has any cigarette smoke, chemicals, fire damage, or foul smells, (decomposing flesh, etc), then you do need some ozone to oxidize and cleanse the air. We'll recommend "shock treatments" with our ozone machine in unoccupied rooms however vs. running the unit 24/7 as an air purifier.
We hope everyone who reads this article becomes inspired to research ozone therapies, ozone, and environmental pollution in depth and comes to their own conclusions on these matters rather than take the "party line" hook, line and sinker. With so much at stake, we hope so.
More resource material regarding "Body Burden: The pollution in newborns"
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