FLAME RETARDANTS MAY RETARD HEALTH
While we thought we were protecting ourselves we may have actually been creating
more harm than good. According to new research, toxic chemicals used as flame
retardants (PBDEs or polybrominated diphenyl ethers) are rapidly building up in
the bodies of people and wildlife around the world approaching levels in American
women and their babies that could harm developing brains.
Toxins in the environment are a growing concern for many. The steady increase
of pollutants in the environment everywhere from auto fumes to flame retardants
is making life more difficult for everyone. One would be hard pressed to find
anyone not affected by this.
Tom McDonald, a toxicologist with the California Environmental Protection Agency's
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment stated, "We're adding them
[PBDEs] to consumer products, so they're in every home, every office, every car,
every bus and every plane."
Researchers say the effects on children are likely to be subtle not mental
retardation or disability but measurable changes in a child's intelligence, memory,
hyperactivity and hearing.
According to Per Eriksson, a neurotoxicologist at Uppsala University in Sweden,
PBDEs mimic thyroid hormones, which regulate the growth of a baby's neurological
system. Because of that, if exposure comes during a critical phase of brain growth,
it can alter how the brain develops.
Concentrations of PBDEs have been rising exponentially in human beings. Tests
of breast milk showed Swedish women were carrying 60 times more of the contaminants
in 1997 than in 1972. That means they double in the human population every few
years, and by far the highest human exposures are in the United States. Exposure
is probably highest in North America because it is the only place still using
the form of PBDE most likely to accumulate in humans and the environment.
According to the book, Clear Body Clear Mind by L. Ron Hubbard, toxins
are stored in the fatty tissues in the body and can remain there for years after
the exposure. The book offers a program that can reduce the amount of toxins in
the body. It is a carefully balanced program of exercise to increase circulation,
vitamin and mineral supplements and time sweating in the sauna. Many of those
who have completed the program have experienced results such as thinking more
clearly, having more energy and living a fuller and happier life.
According to the independent journal Freedom, in 1984 the first study
on Hubbard's detoxification program was undertaken on seven subjects in Michigan
who had eaten meat laced with the highly carcinogenic flame retardant PBB (polybrominated
biphenyls) after it had been inadvertently fed to cows there in 1973.
The men who participated in that first trial of the detoxification program
were tested using fat biopsies before, during and after the program, and again
four months later. Sixteen separate chemicals were measured at the outset, and
all but one reduced by significant amounts: an average of 35 percent during treatment
and 59 percent in the four months after. This later reading indicated that the
detox program stimulated the body's elimination mechanisms, resulting in continued
reductions in toxicity and improvements in health long after the program was completeda
phenomenon confirmed by later studies.
We live in a toxic world and need to minimize our exposure to pollutants and
toxins while at the same time addressing the accumulated toxins in the body.
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Testimonials from the detoxification program contained in
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"I feel as new as the day
I was born. I'm much happier, I am far more alert and my communication has improved
dramatically. My IQ has gone up 6 points. The detoxification program changed me,
physically and mentally!
"With the toxins gone, you think more clearly,
and you are totally cleaninside and out!"
EB
"You definitely think more clearly"
"Because I've been surfing my whole life
I've had a lot of sunburns and as a result my skin was a mess and I was introverted.
On the detoxification program all kinds of things turned onradiation and
old sunburns came out on my skin while I was in the sauna, and ran their course.
As a result my skin cleaned right up and I felt much cleaner, and brighter and
much healthier. And as I moved through the program I started seeing things more
clearly and I started thinking in terms of the future, and reaching out to help
change society. You definitely, definitely think more clearly after the program!"
BP
"I am in control of my life!"
"The detoxification program took the many
drugs I had taken right out of my system. And the results were phenomenal. For
instance, my thinking, which had been slow and sometimes confused, cleared up.
My relationship with my daughter improved because I was more aware and in far
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"My vision and all of my perceptions have
improved dramatically! I'm an artist and the colors and even physical feelings
have been enhanced.
"Overall what I can say is that my awareness
came way, way up and for the first time ever I am in control of my life!"
TM
"I
was a troubled woman and I didn't realize how troubled because of
all the things that were in my body, the drugs and toxins built up in my system.
"On the detoxification
program, I sweated the drugs out. Because all those drugs and the alcohol suppress
emotion, on the detox I started to feel emotions for the first time.
"Since the detox, I have
less trouble and less drama in my life. I don't freak out when things happen.
I have much more control over my life and I'm healthier. I'm no longer foggy.
I'm more awake now. I'm much happier and that's priceless. I feel ten times better.
"The detoxification program
is a short, intensive program, but it's life changing; it has given me more chances
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HM, Dancer
"Since completing the
detoxification program, my mental sharpness across the board has improved. My
memory is better."
"I've
been an aircraft mechanic for over twenty years and a diesel mechanic before that,
so I knew that I had been exposed to a lot of stuff: chemicals, solvents, adhesives,
exhaust.
"I have been battling, for at least fifteen
years, chronic shoulder pain that was not getting any better. I was slowly becoming
crippled. I'd been to the doctor many times, and nothing really worked. While
I didn't do the detox with my shoulder in mind, after about four weeks on the
detoxification program, I realized that with certain arm motions, I was only wincing
out of reflexbecause it wasn't hurting. And since I finished the detox,
I realized that my shoulder is fixed. It's amazing. I've got my shoulder back,
I've got my health back.
"Also since completing the detoxification
program, my mental sharpness across the board is improved. My memory is better.
I've always had a pretty good memory, but now I'm able to access those memories
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a lot of time reading very dry technical manuals. Now I can grasp the text quicker.
What is different is my ability to absorb the knowledge, and then my ability to
recall it is better. I find now that I'm possessed of a much more even emotional
state.
"I don't know how else I could put it than
to say that this has proven itself to me to be the way to make myself a better
person, and to make the world a better place by me being in it." MM,
48, Aircraft Mechanic
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