Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how thousands of synthetic chemicals introduced over the past 70-100 years accumulate in your body from personal care products and cleaning agents. This toxic burden impairs liver function, damages DNA, and stores toxins in fat, making weight loss harder and contributing to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
How do I decrease my toxic burden? Here's the thing. Like, we are living in a world that we have never seen as a civilization. Like, all of these thousands of chemicals are new in the past 70 to 100 years. And unfortunately, the United States is very lenient on what they allow companies to use in their products. And if you look at the literature, most of the European nations don't allow over 2,000 chemicals that we allow in the United States. We know these are toxic. They get away with it by saying that your average daily dose that you're getting is technically safe. So what they're saying is if you use this lotion this one time at this dose, it's safe. They don't have to think about the fact that you use that lotion every day for 5, 10, 20 years, plus the air fresheners, plus the cleaning products, plus the makeup, plus the lipstick, plus the shampoos. Like all of that combined, that is too much of a toxic burden. And that is what we need to be focused on, decreasing that exposure. Because our bodies were not designed to handle all of these exposures that we're now seeing at monumental levels. And because of that, we are seeing chronic fatigue. We are seeing all of these lifestyle diseases developing. Lifestyle diseases are obesity, diabetes, heart disease. All of this stuff was unheard of 100 years ago. We have created this, unfortunately, as a society, and the United States in particular, it's really bad. And it's largely because of our environmental burden. So I just wanted to talk about how can we decrease our daily exposures to all these toxicants that get into our system, that bog down our liver, that prevent our mitochondrial from being healthy and producing energy, that damage our DNA so that it gets read incorrectly and can cause cells to go rogue and create cancer. So many reasons that we need to get these toxicants out of our body. And not to mention that a lot of them are stored in our fat cells. So your body is actually protecting you when it doesn't burn your fat for fuel, when it is holding onto that stored fat, it's doing it in an effort to keep those toxicants out of your bloodstream and away from your major organs. So your fat is actually protecting you. But I'm sure you don't want to hear that because you don't want to be carrying that extra fat. So if you don't want to be carrying extra fat, you have to decrease your toxic burden. That's just how it is.
