Paul Savage MD delivers a monologue arguing that humanity lives on an increasingly toxic planet with tens of thousands of man-made chemicals accumulating since the 1960s. He claims toxins impair enzymes, hormones, and DNA, are difficult to remove from the body, and links environmental contamination to major diseases (ALS, Alzheimer’s, cancer). He cites large-scale figures (e.g., ~140,000 man-made chemicals, +5,000/year) and emphasizes limits of current monitoring and detox approaches.
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So we're talking today about toxins.
You all understand that we now live in a toxic universe that's getting worse every year. You all understand that these toxins are in all of us. It's in our loved ones. It's in our family, our friends and our colleagues and our clients. And you all understand that these toxins are becoming an increasingly dangerous risk for all of us. Yet there's very little we can do because we can't seem to get the government to stop putting them in the environment. We're increasing these toxins by about 5,000 new toxins every year.
I don't know if you know who said stupidity or pollution. And stupidity remain the greatest existential threat to mankind. And this was said by Stephen Hawking a month before he died of Lou Gehrig's disease, which every neurologist will tell you is caused by toxins, probably bmaa, which is a blue algae toxin that they related to. The people who eat more of this have a very high incidence of Alzheimer's or of als. But I'm telling you, it's not only that toxin. There's a lot of toxins that do this. And we're not dealing with just one toxin. We're dealing with more than that. Because what are toxins? Well, it's easy to say they're toxic. And I try to tell that to my clients because I want them to understand there's nothing good about a toxin. There is no way a toxin is going to be beneficial for you in any way. They cripple our enzyme system. I always tell my clients, if you want to think about toxins, think about them as the antivitamin. Because we all know to have an enzyme to work, you need CO factors. Those are nutrients and vitamins, and you have to have all of them for that enzyme to work. Well, toxins are the opposite. They occupy those spots on the enzyme without activating the enzyme, or they literally burn and destroy the enzyme. So they cripple every biopathway we have in the body. They interfere with the hormones, not only on the receptor, where they interfere with taking the space of the hormones, hormone and keeping the receptor from working and engaging and blocking the hormone. But they also affect the organs that give off the hormones and the signals to the organs that you need more hormones. In every different way. Toxins interfere with every hormonal. So when you talk about hormone dysfunction from toxins, we're talking on every single level of the axis these toxins occur, they damage organs. They literally burn the cells, they.
Modify your gene expression. So your DNA is not giving the message it's supposed to give. And it triggers messages from your DNA that you don't want to give. And then they also break the DNA. There's nothing good about toxins. And the worst thing that toxins do is they impair your ability to get rid of toxins. The cdc, in every release of paper that they've given in the last year and all of us are seeing if you pay attention because I don't even think you have to be aw of all the increasing amount of articles that are coming about toxins. And the CDC is now saying every doctor should test their patients for forever chemicals because 99% of them have this and it's a very dangerous chemical to have. In the same statement, they'll say the United States force, which is the ones that are responsible for detoxicology and the government, there is no way to get these things out is what they say. But we should monitor it so we can get patients who wear on how they can avoid entering more of these things in because that's the only thing that we currently have to reduce these toxins.
This is something that started by us, the human race, around 1960 when we started putting pesticides and herbicides into the fields. And then we started digging into the dirt to get the heavy metals that we needed to run our electronics. And then more cars and more energy requirements means burning more fossil fuel. And then all of this stuff started into an industrial boom of manufacturing which had all these different chemicals that were now entered into our environments. We started it. It started in 1960. The interesting thing is I remember this crying Indian commercial. Some of you May, if you're 60 as I am. And this was really impactful because this came out in 71 and this is only 10 years after we started. And even then we knew we had a problem brewing, but it really hasn't got enough attention. We now live in what scientists call a toxic planet. We now have so many toxins in the environment that is affecting every level of the environmental system that it's become a danger to us. We now know that currently there's over 140,000 toxins man made in our environment. And this is increasing by 5,000 every year. And the amount of toxins that are being pushed into the environment are becoming even higher and higher in the amount that we're putting in currently. This past year, 250 billion tons of toxins were introduced into the United States Ecostruxure.
How much is that? Well, if you're wondering about 144,000 toxins and the fact that we can measure about 120, 150 disks in the clinical setting, that's like a six foot man looking at a 7,000 tall mountain. We just don't have the ability to track all these toxins. We have some toxins we can track, but not all of them. And we're talking about having over 35 different heavy metals. We're talking about having over 12,000 different forever chemicals. We're having over 17,000 pesticides, 35,000 herbicides, and over 54,000 phthalates in every gram of food that everybody eats every day.
That should be.
Very worrisome to all of us. And it is. Paul Anderson, as I said, who is my colleague, who's a detoxicologist, will say, and he's come up with all these protocols, these toxins are notoriously difficult and very slow, very to get out of the system. Now there's a lot of people out there saying they have detox diets. And this is one of the things that traditional medicine and western medicine has criticized the integrated space for. Because you're really not getting the toxins out with detox diets. What you're doing is neutralizing the inflammation and the oxidation downstream. So you're seeing improvement in those markers, but you're not actually getting out the toxins. There is very few programs that work that get out these toxins. And when you do, they're very labor intensive and they're very.
Long for patients to do.
The leading cause of death in the United States. We all know this, right? Or do we know this? I'm Neo doctor. This is our bread and butter every day. Because we used to think that number four. Well, number four now is Covid. And everybody's like, wait, that's not right. Covid's number three. No, it's now number four.
Number three is cancer. That used to be number two.
Number two is heart disease. As of September 2023, the World Health Organization has now listed toxins as the leading cause of death. Responsible for 1 in 4 deaths in the world is from toxins that we've invented or put into the system itself. So what are the symptoms of toxins? Well, the answer is there usually isn't any. Not anything specific. People complain of fatigue, they complain of all sorts of different problems. But you really understand when somebody has a toxin, when they get a disease, when you see the Alzheimer's, when you see the heart disease, when you see the Parkinson's, when you see the immune system dysfunctions when you see these things coming in. And these are what toxins do, because they are the epitome of the silent killers. No longer is it diabetes and hypertension, it's now toxins, because toxins are linked to everything that we call the silent killer before. So it's the ultimate ninja.
