It is rather commonly know that in our modern society with strong chemicals everywhere that we are exposed to plenty toxins and our bodies have to deal with them. Take a typical day for an average American: drive to work, breath some diesel fumes; fill up the car with gas, breath some gas fumes, enter the professionally cleaned bathroom at work, and smell the chlorine; the new carpet in the reception area is now out-gassing formaldehyde which remains trapped in the temperature controlled building for weeks.
In our attempts to kill germs, kill crop eating bugs, and produce everything faster and cheaper, we may be gradually creating an unhealthy environment for ourselves and introducing toxins faster than human evolution can respond.
Add into that the “miracle” prescription drugs designed to dampen symptoms while ignoring causes and street drugs for personal highs or to “fit in” socially and the body can get overwhelmed and the immune system depressed. When that happens the normal fight against other life forms that want to use you body as a host like bacteria, parasites and viruses have a better chance of really multiplying.
What does the body do naturally when this occurs? It detoxifies! This detoxification may take an unpleasant form but the body must get rid of the problem (the toxins and/or inhospitable life forms) somehow. It may detoxify through the skin, the bowels, the mouth, nose or chest but something’s got to give.
One of the bodies temporary solutions is to store some of the toxins in the fat of the body. That takes them out of circulation somewhat. What if a person had taken LSD at some point in his life. I am told that a millionth of an ounce of the active ingredient (wheat rust) is enough to trigger a full blown trip. That could be stored in body fat for 30 years and one day it is dislodged for some reason and the person could find himself in trouble. I hope he isn’t driving on the freeway next to me or landing a passenger plane in a storm when that happens.
The first point I’m trying to make is the importance of detoxification. There is a great deal of information on the subject available and many methods a person could try.
The second point is that any drug rehabilitation program that fails to address detoxification would be doing a disservice.
And my final point is that any detoxification program that fails to deal also with the fat in the body would be incomplete.