Jash Botanicals Natural Health Corner

EPA and additional reports prove that average Americans harbor carcinogens, industrial compounds, pollutants and chemicals in addition to other destructive forces of health in their fat tissues.  Cadmium, aluminum, mercury, antimony, lead and arsenic are only a few of the toxic metals released into the food chain via pesticide runoff, incinerator emissions and manufacturing smokestacks.  In addition to the above, there is also data that arbitrary blood screening of physicians’ patients shows the presence of numerous toxic heavy metals in their bodies.

These problems begin with negatively impacting your cells, destroying their energy and outer membrane, in addition to destroying their capability to perform vital functions.  This damage is called “oxidative stress” and it extends from your cells to your tissues to your organs and ultimately to all parts of your body.  These toxins devastate your body’s ability to detoxify them while gradually accumulating.  We don’t get seriously ill with degenerative diseases overnight—we spend our lifetime stockpiling for them.

So, what are you going to do about it?  Well, the first thing you should do is remove the harmful toxins from your environment if possible.  Secondly, you have to make a concerted effort to remove the heavy metal and toxins from your body.  Next, you have to repair the devastation to your cells, tissues or organs.  Finally, you have to construct a strong foundation, beginning with the basic level, by fortifying and sustaining the integrity and vigor of your cells with nutritional support.

Approximately 33% of attention deficit occurrences among U.S. children could be associated with tobacco smoke prior to birth or to lead contact afterward, according to stimulating new research.

Even levels of lead the government deems acceptable seems to increase a child’s threat of having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the study discovered.

The discovery developed on previous research associating attention problems, including ADHD, with childhood lead exposure and smoking during pregnancy and presents one of the first estimates for how much those environmental issues might contribute.

“It is a landmark paper that quantifies the number of cases of ADHD that can be attributed to very important environmental exposures,” said Dr. Leo Trasande, assistant director of the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

To a greater extent, the study reinforces suspicions that low-level lead exposure earlier connected to behavior problems “is in fact associated with ADHD,” said Trasande, who was not included in the research.

The study’s assessment is in line with a National Academy of Sciences report in 2000 that alleged roughly 3% of all developmental and neurological disorders in U.S. children are generated by toxic chemicals and other environmental issues and 25% are instigated by a combination of environmental factors and genetics.

“The findings of this study underscore the profound behavioral health impact of these prevalent exposures and highlight the need to strengthen public health efforts to reduce prenatal tobacco smoke exposure,” said the authors, led by researcher Joe Braun of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The study was to be circulated online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.