Robert Whitfield MD explains how inherited genetics determine enzymatic capabilities that govern detoxification and immune maintenance. He highlights primary elimination routes (sweating, defecation, urination) and biochemical systems—methylation, vitamin D/calcium metabolism, glutathione conjugation, and antioxidant vitamins (C, A, E)—as central to cellular toxin handling, and notes his clinical pattern-recognition from reviewing many clients' genetic reports.
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If you've listened to my shows and or heard me speak on another show, I talk a great deal about genetics. So your genetics allow you to break down and or get rid of your toxins at the cellular level and the macro level. And we eliminate toxins through sweating, pooping, and peeing. But our enzymatic capability, which is passed down from our parents to us genetically, is what allows us to metabolically manage what we get faced with each and every day. So our ability to metabolize vitamin D ultimately helps us with our calcium metabolism. Our ability to methylate helps us with our B vitamin metabolism. Our ability to utilize glutathione to bind up toxins in our liver helps protect us. And then our ability to use antioxidant pathways and antioxidants are like vitamin C, A and E. Those are important in terms of taking care of our cellular functions. These are predominantly how we maintain our immune system. So if you take that into consideration, I face with my clients, their challenges with detoxification genetically. Having heard hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of clients over the years and looked at their genetic reports, I have a very clear understanding from pattern recognition about how they detoxify.
