Robert Whitfield MD explains why some people detoxify better than others. Genetics affects how your body processes vitamin D and breaks down estrogen. Your liver's glutathione system matters, as do cumulative exposures to mold and heavy metals.
What makes someone detoxify better than someone else. So, yeah, we look at genetics. So we're looking at how your vitamin D metabolism, methylation pathways, how you manage glutathione in the liver and your antioxidant pathways in conjunction with, you know, my patients predominantly going to be female, and they may suffer from problems with estrogen toxicity, so they may produce more metabolites that are not good for them with estrogen breakdown. So something called estrone is a bad actor, like comp is a problem, then they're really gonna have a difficult time with detoxification, if that makes sense. So if you have those limitations and you have limitations in your hormone metabolism, and you have a lot of exposures like mold and heavy metals and environmental toxins, the dirty dozen, you can look at the foods and say, if you're not really focusing on the quality, everybody is trying to probably do better. And the term clean diet is thrown around. You know, it's a very common term, but how clean really are you? Yeah, what does that really mean?
