The primary cause of toxicity is eating, drinking, and breathing toxins and chemicals on a regular basis — whether you know it or not. We live in a toxic world; chemicals and toxins are everywhere. Once they are in your system, you need a program for getting your body “detoxed” regularly so these chemicals and toxins never reach critical levels.
A condition called “leaky gut syndrome” is a prime example of how you can be toxic without knowing it. In this condition, which does not necessarily cause pain, the intestinal lining becomes inflamed from poor digestion and assimilation, parasites, pathogenic bacteria, virus, fungi-like candida, food allergies, sensitivities and drugs.
Normally, the intestinal lining is like a fine mesh, allowing only basic digested food particles (like amino acids and simple sugars) to pass through, ready to be assimilated into the bloodstream. At the same time, a normally functioning intestine “screens out” larger food particles and toxins, preventing them from entering the bloodstream.
But when “leaky gut” occurs, the bowel lining is like a large-holed screen. The “fine mesh” (selective permeability) breaks down, allowing the passage of larger food particles, which can produce allergy and inflammation throughout the body. Also, toxins and chemicals can now leak into the bloodstream and be deposited in any organ, gland, or tissue, causing damage and dysfunction.
The second cause of toxicity is not getting the bad out. Since chemicals are everywhere, we are always taking harmful toxins into our bodies. Since we cannot take these chemicals completely out of our air, water, and food, we must detoxify our bowels, livers, gall bladders, kidneys, bladders and blood. Remember the air filter analogy? We have got to clean our filters and put them on high speed to filter all the smoke from the room. But we have also got to open the flue so the smoke — toxic material — stops pouring in.
The third cause of toxic buildup is poor digestion (breaking down the food for assimilation into the cells). If we don’t chew our food sufficiently (25 times minimum), if we don’t secrete enough hydrochloric acid in our stomachs to break down the protein, if we don’t secrete enough digestive enzymes in the small intestine to totally break down the food into all its component parts for assimilation, if we do not combine our foods properly (some foods digest better if eaten with other foods) — these all lead to maldigestion. Maldigestion causes low levels of inflammation of the bowel, which leads to an increase of intestinal lining permeability (“leaky gut”), which leaks large undigested food particles into the intestinal tract. This can trigger a host of autoimmune diseases — like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus — where the body attacks itself. Leaky gut also allows all the toxins to enter your bloodstream, which then can be deposited in any gland, organ, tissue, or joint.
The fourth cause of toxicity is poor assimilation (getting the nutrients into the cells), which has two major causes: “leaky gut” (increased intestinal permeability), and food sensitivity/allergy. With a food sensitivity/allergy, the intestinal lining is inflamed from the food eaten, causing a breakdown or “leaky gut.” The most common offenders are dairy products, milk, cheese, cream and butter. As much as 60% of our diseases might be traced to food sensitivities/allergies.

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