The Main 3 Ways Toxins Damage The Body

5 Mar 2023 · 2 min

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In this segment Matt Kelly explains how circulating toxins damage the body through three primary mechanisms. First, toxins bind to enzymes and enzyme systems, impairing biochemical pathways that produce neurotransmitters, metabolize hormones, and support detoxification, which can lead to neuropsychiatric, pain, and hormonal disturbances. Second, toxins attach to cell membranes or receptors; receptor binding blocks cellular signaling, while membrane binding can create a pro‑oxidant environment that disrupts normal cell communication. Third, toxin‑induced pro‑oxidant states deplete the body’s natural antioxidants, upsetting the oxidative‑reductive balance and further compromising health. The discussion links these molecular actions to the broad systemic symptoms observed in individuals with high toxicant loads.

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is gonna circulate around the body. It's going to bind to your enzymes and enzyme systems. We have a lot of enzymes that we use in our biochemical processes, such as the enzymes that help us make the neurotransmitters in our brain and the enzymes that help us metabolize our hormones and, and many, many other things. Also, the enzyme systems and other systems directly involved in our detoxification pathways, many of those are affected by things like metals and chemicals. So enzymatic binding is not a good thing. And this is one reason why you can see neuropsychiatric side effects, pain side effects, hormonal side effects, and just about any other part of your body can be affected by this enzymatic inhibition or even enzymatic damage that can go on. Next thing is that it can bind to the outside of the cell, which is your cell membrane and/or the cell receptors. Binds to a receptor, it can either slow it down or stop it, and that means that the receptor can no longer communicate for the cell. And so this can create all manner of problems Downstream. If it binds to the cell membrane, then it can create a pro-oxidant, in many cases, state. And a pro-oxidant state is an unhealthy state for the outside of the cell. It also depletes your antioxidants that your body naturally uses to deal with this. So what we tend to see in the literature is that people who have more toxicants and toxins in their body have often lower amounts of appropriately balanced antioxidants and their oxidative reductive balance is off. And that's because you've got a constant challenge going there on it.