Two Types of Toxins that Are Hazardous to Your Health
What the body regards a toxin is one of two forms — exotoxins (toxins that external to the body) or endotoxins (toxins that develop within the body).
An exotoxin is generally any one of thousands of household, industrial or agricultural chemicals that we’re exposed to in our everyday life. To a certain degree, we are able to moderate and limit our vulnerability to these environmental toxins. The types of products we purchase is one arena of our lives where we can be in nearly complete control. Increasingly more retailers are supplying high quality cleaning and other household products that are non-toxic.
Endotoxins are much less simple to control. Endotoxins are the by-products of normal metabolic actions that go on in our body. An endotoxin can be a bacterial waste product, anti-bodies, any of the many hormones in our body and material component parts need to be recycled or excreted.
Many people who live in first-world cultures today tolerate at least some amount of toxic overload. Even though our body is made to perform the detoxification and elimination of endotoxins, the body is not able to deal with the raising quantity of exotoxins that we absorb through our beverages, food, air, household products and personal care products.
Despite our most overzealous attempt to avoid environmental toxins, our power to do so is very elusive. We are simply exposed to an overwhelming number and variety of toxins that are totally foreign, if not actually harmful, to our body. Simplistic ways we can minimize our exposure to toxins is to purchase natural health care and cleaning products, and to always choose organic produce when possible.
In addition to avoiding our exposure to dietary and environmental toxins, there is a great deal we can do to foster the body’s normal detoxification operations. Doing a monthly body cleansing program will purify your body and significantly limit the physiological burden on your body caused by toxicity.
