Dr. Mark Hyman

Our body has a system to detoxify.

Our livers do a lot of the work.

Our kidneys do a lot of the work.

Our guts do a lot of the work.

And we have a system of detoxification.

It's one of the fundamental physiological systems of functional medicine.

And it requires a whole series of things to help it work.

the right nutrients, fiber, all sorts of things, amino acids.

It's basically a biochemical set of pathways that need support.

And these chemicals basically clog up all those systems and our bodies just get overwhelmed and they can't be properly detoxified.

So really important to understand how to upregulate those pathways and to minimize the work they have to do by lowering your toxic load.

The next thing toxins do is they drive inflammation.

There's a whole book on this and a whole body of research on this that talks about how environmental toxins cause autoimmunity.

They're called autogens, like antigens, like from infections, but they're autogens.

They drive autoimmunity.

They drive inflammation, they drive fatigue, they drive weight gain.

They are called obesogens.

They cause cognitive dysfunction, brain fog.

I mean, I had that with mercury poisoning.

And over time, you know, this just leads to chronic inflammation, fatigue, weight gain, brain fog.