Toxins, Immune Health & Cancer. What's the Connection?

Have you ever wondered why all of the best healing protocols seem to have a strong emphasis on cleansing and detoxification?

Let me break it down for you.

We are made up of trillions of cells, without cells, there would be no tissue, with no tissue, there would be no organs, limbs or body.

These cells divide and replicate in an orderly, programmed way. They also have a life span, and commit suicide through a process called apoptosis, or programmed cell death, and this is happening every day in healthy bodies.

Any cells that don’t die as programmed, are taken care of by the immune cells, which are often likened to ‘an army of soldiers’. 

This is the normal order of things, and it's happening everyday in healthy bodies.

Cancer cells evade this process of programmed cell death and outsmart the 'army of immune cell soldiers’. Instead of dying as they should, they go on to replicate out of control, typically forming a tumour.

From this perspective, a tumor is a SYMPTOM of poor immune health.

For me, this is when my healing journey really started to shift. Instead of asking “why did I get cancer?’, I started asking, ‘what has been causing my immune health to weaken?’

Let's break it down further and explore the role of toxins.

TOXINS

A toxin is a substance that is poisonous or harmful, and it negatively interferes with a cell. They come in many forms. For now, let's focus on environmental toxins such as air pollution, substances found in products around the home such as cleaning products and cosmetics, and toxins in the food and water supply

Modern life has added millions of synthetic substances, many of which have never been tested for human safety, and many of which are known carcinogens, to our environment. This has had a devastating impact on our bodies and health. From industry to the products we use on a daily basis, toxins have permeated and saturated our lives.

As our lifestyles have modernised, and our exposure to various environmental toxins has increased, so too have rates of cancer.

'You're not sick, you're toxic!'

Repeated exposure to toxins causes oxidative stress, damages tissues, and can mutate cells.

Oxidative stress triggers chronic inflammation which keeps the immune system chronically activated. This ultimately causes it to weaken and become less efficient, hindering its ability to deal with other threats overtime such as rogue cancer cells. 

Problems arise when the rate of incoming toxins exceeds the rate of those being released. When toxins accumulate over months and years without any kind of measures to help release them, the organs that are responsible for processing and eliminating them become overburdened, sluggish, and can’t keep up.

With nowhere else to go, toxins then recirculate around the body and accumulate in tissues causing huge amounts of inflammation, and making it even more difficult for the body to overcome the toxic burden.

This further depletes immune function and leads to al sorts of common health complaints such as estrogen dominance, infertility, chronic fatigue, depression and anxiety, and worse case scenario, cancer.

Remember, the primary role of the 'immune army of soldiers' is to surveil, recognise and deal not just with malignant cells, but also other threats such as toxins and pathogens.

Toxicity and immune health, and therefore cancer, are inextricably linked.

For true, lasting health, vitality and robust immunity, healing absolutely needs to happen at the cellular level. 

The problem with conventional cancer treatments is that they can result in more cell mutations, whilst significantly adding to an already toxic body, in addition to destroying the gut microbiome (where as much as 80% of the immune cells reside), and creating an inferno of an already inflamed body, 

This is why in my coaching program, the Cancer Recovery Roadmap, I walk you through a step-by-step system to cleanse and detoxify the body safely after treatments so that vitality is restored, immunity is strengthened, and new, health-promoting habits are cultivated. 

It is the ultimate survivor’s guide to detox, destress and demystify health. If you'd like to join the program, you can apply here