Dr. Joel Robbins - "Disease or "dis-ease" is defined as a lack of health. Disease results when any cell is not functioning 100% of its designed duty whether due to trauma, toxicity, lack of communication or a combination thereof. Disease is due to stress. Disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrong we have done to it. It is the body's attempt at keeping us alive in response to the wrongs we have inflicted on our bodies. If the body has the intelligence to produce a disease, it is capable of reversing the process to return to health once the cause is removed."

Overcoming Body Burden:

With every passing day, we hear more reports linking our growing health concerns to the increasing level of chemicals found in our modern environment. Yet despite these reports and the urgent warnings that accompany them from organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Center for Disease Control, and scientists specializing in environmental medicine, little is done to change our approach with regard to eradicating the numerous chronic diseases now prevalent due to toxic overload. Instead of addressing the problem, the pharmaceutical drug companies offer symptom suppressive medications that rarely offer a cure. This approach further compromises the immune system and makes the individual even more susceptible to additional health conditions because all drugs by their very nature are toxic.

Not only have chemicals been clearly linked with a large number of existing diseases, such as autism, ADDHD, cancer, and numerous autoimmune diseases but prominent scientists believe a new disease process might be key to explaining the emergence of a totally new type of chemically related disorder, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, and chemical sensitivies. This process bears a unique pattern of illness involving chemically exposed people who subsequently report multi-system symptoms and new-onset chemical and food intolerances. These chemical intolerances may be the hallmark for a new disease process, just as fever is a hallmark for infection.

The situation only promises to get worse as increased industrial use of toxic metals around the world has resulted in unprecedented levels of poisonous chemicals currently being released into our environment. Production of these synthetic chemicals is estimated to be doubling every 10 years.

Our bodies were never designed to protect themselves against this force of chemical onslaught. Even over the last 50 years, the number of those individuals with degenerative diseases has increased dramatically. People are developing diseases at much younger ages and we have experienced a substantial increase in the number of infants and children contracting a variety of chronic ailments, severely affecting both their physical and mental health.

It is estimated that as many as 25 percent of Americans suffer from some degree of heavy metal poisoning, particularly mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic, as well as a significant amount of radiation and viral attacks. Additionally, our immune systems are further compromised by poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyles.

However, there is hope as we are also making great strides at discovering and developing natural approaches for detoxification, assisting the immune system to work more efficiently.

Profound advancements have been made in the field of alternative health care with over 50% of patients each year seeking a variety of alternative approaches to wellness. Positive results and the support of science is aiding in this transition.

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