Robert Whitfield MD explains how your body's detox systems can get overwhelmed when toxic exposure piles up, especially if you have leaky gut, mold exposure, or arsenic in your water. He starts breaking down what inflammation actually is and which immune cells drive it.
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Over time, like you said, as toxic burden rises, you exceed the level of your enzymatic ability to detox. And then if someone gets, you know, leaky gut or has problems with their digestive tract, that makes it worse. If there's another problem that's going to make it worse. If you get exposed to mold or if you drink, you know, water, that's bad. Like, I grew up in a place that had arsenic in the groundwater, and so that's another thing my body has to deal with. Eventually. You can no longer deal with this, and you're now a hamster in the wheel. Your body's working all the time to get rid of toxins, but it cannot actually do it.
If I look back on my life, I remember when I first got them, I started to feel more inflamed. Can you explain exactly, from a very kindergarten level of why I was experiencing that inflammation? Really get in there. Besides the four pathways, what was actually happening so.
Acutely after surgery? There's acute inflammation, or if you sprained your anchor and your ankle swelled up, that's acute inflammation. And your body has inflammatory cells. Inflammatory cells can be our B lymphocytes, our T lymphocytes, our monocytes, mast cells.