Find Out What Toxins You Rub Into Your Skin Everyday and What To Do!

by Dr. John Thomas, DC in Health Tips on July 5th, 2010

Toxins are the quiet killer, found in seemingly innocuous deodorant, toothpaste, fast food, diet soda and other things you might find in your neighborhood grocery store. You are exposed to many harmful toxins in what you eat and drink, the polluted air you breathe and the worse seemingly innocuous silent toxins are in products that are advertised as being good for you. You probably rubbed one of these into your skin today. If you are alarmed, you should be. But there are alternatives.

First, we will get through the bad news. These toxins accumulate in your body over the years and are documented to cause all kinds of health problems and conditions including cancer.

We all have cancer cells floating around in our bodies. Bad cancer cells in your body can out number good fighter cells at any given moment if the recipe for death is right. All you need is a dangerous mix of bad habits, bad health, bad genetics, bad diet, bad environment and a bad lifestyle.

What doesn’t help is the misinformation that is propagated by companies and government agencies that are swayed through lobbyists. Remember when the Tobacco Company executives told boldfaced lies on national television about how little they knew in regards to the inherent dangers of cigarette smoking?

As I mentioned, we’re exposed on a daily basis to many toxic things in the stuff that we eat, drink, breathe in and rub into our skin. These toxins build up in your body over the years and cause all kinds of havoc within your body.

Unless you are unusually sweet smelling naturally or use personal stink as a weapon, you rubbed harmful toxins into your armpits today. The toxin you most unintentionally rubbed Antiperspirants contain the very common active ingredients of either ALUMINUM ZIRCONIUM or ALUMINUM CHLOROHYDRATE.

Aluminum has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease and has been speculated, particularly in women, to be one of the causes of breast cyst development and breast cancer.

Have you ever wondered what causes the yellow rings under the arms of white shirts? The toxins cause the yellowing and can actually eat the fabric. Imagine what it does inside of the body. The skin is porous allowing the chemicals to absorb into your body every time you apply the product.

So, you can either get Alzheimer’s disease or cancer or be healthy and stinky. No, there is an alternative.

This is the good news. I use mineral salts. It looks like a crystal rock. All you do is wet it and rub it where ever you need odor protection. I have found that it works best if you put it on right after you get out of the shower while you are still wet. Pat yourself dry. You don’t want to dry the mineral salts off of your body. This stuff even works on your feet. It stops bacterial division dead in its tracks. This prevents odor causing bacteria for up to 48 hours. No more discolored and destroyed shirts near the armpits and no more monkey funk. It really works, and it’s a much better alternative to aluminum based deodorant.

The same mineral salt deodorant is also available in a spray and solid form if the “rock” does not suit you. Just check the label and make sure it is free from ALUMINUM ZIRCONIUM or ALUMINUM CHLOROHYDRATE.

Aluminum compounds are also commonly found in cheese and baking powder. Baking powder is found in cakes, cookies, muffins, pancakes, breads and so on. Then you have aluminum cans that have acidic sodas in them. The same acid in cola, that can take the paint off of walls, eats away at the inside of the can causing aluminum to be released into the soda or beer that you drink.

Then there’s aluminum foil, aluminum pots and pans, aluminum utensils. Because aluminum is such a soft metal, it easily breaks down in hot or acidic conditions. For you vegetarian junkies out there, like me, pretty sizable traces of aluminum is found in tofu, textured vegetable protein, soymilk and other soy based products. Studies done on cadavers have shown that aluminum metal actually ends up in the brain. Food for thought!

Toxins like aluminum are filtered through the lymphatic system. You have probably felt the lymph nodes in your neck or armpits get tender and enlarged when your body fights a cold. You have these nodes and lymphatic vessels all over your body. Your lymphatic system and your immune system work with your liver, the major organ of detoxification, to keep you safe from toxins.

Today’s diet and hygiene practices put too much toll on the system. Toxins overflow from the lymph system to your fat, where they are stored as fat-soluble toxins. When you go to the gym with your new year’s resolution to lose weight, part of the reason exercise will leave you feeling sick, is the release of years of toxic buildup. Lactic acid buildup in your muscles can be very painful. This is why so many people quit a workout regimen.

Toxins in muscles cause them to tighten up. This chronic tightness causes joint pain, headaches, burning between your shoulder blades, cramping, tightness in your neck and back, a lack of energy, insomnia, crankiness, muscle spasms and more.

A build up of toxins in the body also causes oxidative breakdown. In nature, oxidation causes wood to rot and metal to rust. In our bodies, toxins act as free radicals. Free radicals rob the body of electrons causing instability at the microscopic level to huge numbers of atoms and molecules. Remember the antiperspirant we rub under our arms day after day? It absorbs right into our body and eventually into the lymph nodes under the arms.

These lymph nodes become overwhelmed and eventually toxins reach breast tissue. The toxins cause oxidative damage to the DNA in that tissue. As the DNA replicates, it replicates with damaged copies. These bad cells continue to duplicate, until there is a large mass of them. By the time you find it in a self-exam or mammogram, it’s called a tumor.

Before we all decide cancer is inevitable, you need to know that there is hope. While aluminum is just one toxin found in our food and beauty products, I have developed an effective, affordable way to detoxify. Dr. Thomas’ Full Body Detoxification Program combines a personalized program with holistic nutritional testing. One on one consultations, diet modification, included weekly visits and a thirty day supply of Dr. Thomas’ herbal detoxification products are all part of the program.

Perhaps you’ve considered or tried a detox kit or tea from the store. Are the manufacturers of those products going to ask you whether you have been diagnosed with kidney failure or cancer? Will they know about your high blood pressure or diabetes? Will they do a full lifestyle and health evaluation? You deserve a holistic approach that is tailored to what your body needs.

The following four products are good alternatives for you to start using today.

Just click on the image or product name to find out more. Choosing a safer deodorant is a small change in your daily routine that can make a big difference!