| Despite our best efforts to live sustainably, we live | | | | lead-containing paint. Moving to a different home |
| on a planet that becomes more and more toxic | | | | might seem like a very drastic measure, but the |
| every day. Since 1900, over 80,000 chemical | | | | detoxification can only work if your child is no longer |
| products have been released on the market and sold | | | | exposed any toxins. |
| to average consumers. Out of these products, only | | | | Boost the body's natural detoxification pathways |
| 550 have been properly tested for their safety to | | | | The immune system has its own detoxification |
| humans and the environment. In the United States, | | | | pathways that run through the liver (the primary |
| there are 4.7 billion pounds of chemical waste | | | | organ where toxins are filtered), gastrointestinal |
| festering in the lands and seas; 6 million pounds of | | | | tract, lungs, and kidneys. However, these organs |
| these wastes are composed of mercury, one of the | | | | cannot detoxify the body if they are overwhelmed |
| most toxic metals to humans. If you think these | | | | by a large amount of toxins. In this step, your child |
| toxic wastelands are located in faraway places and | | | | will have to go on a diet that will clean the |
| cannot possibly affect us, think again. We are | | | | gastrointestinal tract of accumulated toxins. At the |
| exposed to toxic chemicals every day through smog, | | | | same time, this diet will provide the minerals and |
| household cleaners, paint fumes, even the food we | | | | nutrients that will give these organs the boost they |
| eat. In fact, our bodies can be contaminated by | | | | need to function efficiently. |
| toxins as early as birth. Researchers from the | | | | Natural detoxification |
| Environmental Working Group recently examined the | | | | Aside from a diet, there are several ways to help |
| umbilical cord blood of babies and discovered that | | | | the body's excretory pathways. One of the most |
| they have been exposed to over 287 chemicals in | | | | widely used methods is an ionized foot bath that |
| the womb. | | | | removes toxins through the skin with the help of |
| We have discussed in detail how toxic chemicals can | | | | negatively and positively charged ions. By inducing |
| damage a developing nervous system and cause a | | | | osmosis, the charged particles will attach themselves |
| number of developmental conditions like attention | | | | to the toxins in the body and leave through the skin's |
| deficit hyperactivity disorder. Because no child is ever | | | | porous membrane. The entire process is non-invasive |
| completely safe from toxins, your health care | | | | and painless; in fact, it resembles the relaxing foot |
| practitioner should perform a toxic element test | | | | treatments offered by day spas. |
| before deciding on a detoxification program. Just to | | | | Chelation |
| give you an idea of what it will be like, detoxification | | | | Chelation is one of the newest and most effective |
| program for ADHD is made up of four steps: | | | | detoxification methods. Your child will be asked to |
| Remove the source of toxic exposure | | | | drink a solution containing chelation agents that work |
| It would be ineffective to detoxify a child if he or | | | | much like the foot bath. The agents are filled with |
| she is constantly exposed to the toxin. Before the | | | | charged ions that bind themselves to the toxins and |
| detoxification program begins, you will need to work | | | | eliminate them from the body through urine. Make |
| together with the doctor to determine the source of | | | | sure your chelation therapist is licensed to perform |
| exposure. For instance, if you live in an old house or | | | | this procedure; if done incorrectly, chelation will |
| apartment building, the walls may still be painted with | | | | merely transfer the toxins from tissue to tissue. |