Why Detoxify?
Acacia Whole Health uses uniquely formulated nutritional products to assist the body with the detoxification process.

Detoxifying is critical to keeping the body in balance.
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External and Internal Sources of Toxins
Now more than ever, we are exposed to a myriad of chemicals in our environment that are foreign and toxic to the body. Approximately 1,000 new chemical compounds are introduced into the environment each year. The current number of known xenobiotics (foreign chemicals) now totals around 100,000 million, including drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals, food additives, and environmental pollutants.

Toxic chemicals find their way into our body through the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. We also ingest chemicals in medicinal drugs or other socially accepted drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, and coffee. Even though the body is designed to eliminate toxins, it cannot handle the overload required of it today.

Internal toxins come from such sources as metabolic by-products produced by intestinal bacteria and other systems of the body. Natural metabolism can produce intermediary metabolites that require detoxification. Lactic acid, pyruvic acid, and ureic acid are just some examples. Nutritional imbalances and insufficiencies compromise the normal detoxification process of the body and impose a significant burden on the body. The detoxification process itself can generate free-radicals which are damaging to the cellular tissue.

Consequences of Toxicity
When the body experiences an overload of toxicity, the consequences manifest in a number of symptoms: headaches; muscle and joint pain; fatigue; irritability; depression; mental confusion; gastrointestinal tract irregularities; flu-like symptoms; and allergic reactions such as runny nose, sneezing, and coughing.

In addition to these symptoms, toxic overload may also contribute to more serious conditions such as auto-immune diseases including inflammatory and rheumatoid arthritis. It has also been suggested that Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other diseases may result from a lifetime of exposure to toxins.

The Body's Ability to Protect Itself
Skin, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, and other processes that eliminate wastes are the body's natural barriers that protect it from toxic substances. When these systems break down, the body is in danger of invasion.

The gastrointestinal tract is critically important in the prevention of toxic overload. This system acts as a barrier against disease and toxicity. Refined diets; medications; stress; chemicals; and exposure to pathogens such as viruses, fungi, bacteria, and parasites altar its permeability.

"Increased intestinal permeability" or "leaky-gut syndrome" are terms used to describe gastrointestinal barrier breakdown. The gut normally allows absorption of a moderate amount of molecules, including some pathogens. Increased intestinal permeability allows passage of larger molecules and more pathogens and antigens to cross the gut mucous and access the systemic circulation. Leaky gut has been clinically associated with the etiology of inflammatory joint disease. It has been surmised that the increased burden of pathogenic or toxic substances may lead to inappropriate immune reaction causing the progression of this disease.

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