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A study based in Michigan found DDT in more than 70 percent of four-year-olds. All the children were citizens of the U.S., and as mentioned above, DDT has been OUTLAWED since 1972.
So, how were these children exposed to these toxic chemicals? Probably through their mothers' breast milk. But how did the moms acquire it?

With our global economy, we are often eating food that is picked a day or more before in Guatemala, Indonesia, or Asia, where there are not the same restrictions on the use of pesticides as there are in the United States.

Many of these chemicals are stored in fat tissue, making animal products concentrated sources.
One hundred percent of beef is contaminated with DDT, as is 93 percent of processed cheese, hot dogs, bologna, turkey, and ice cream, because the soil still contains residue of the pesticide long ago banned.

We are all stewing in this toxic soup, and there is little doubt that it is playing a major role in the current obesity epidemic.

Toxins May Be Disrupting Your Weight?and Turning Off Your Metabolic Engine
A toxin can be defined, in the broadest sense, as anything that doesn't agree with us. They come from two places: the environment (external toxins) and our own gut (internal toxins).

We generally cope well with these toxins, except when our liver or kidneys fail. However, in the last 100 years we have been burdened with an unprecedented number of toxins, and the total load of all toxins - pesticides, industrial chemicals, mercury, and more - has exceeded our bodies' ability to get rid of them, leading to illness.

All these toxins affect our ability to lose weight because we store most of the toxins in our body (in our fat).

When you burn off the fat, the toxins come out, and IF they aren't processed properly, they can cause additional problems.

In addition, our total toxic load can frustrate attempts at weight loss by impairing two key metabolic organs - the liver and the thyroid - and by damaging our energy-burning factories - the mitochondria.

Scared now?

I'm not giving you this information to frighten you but rather to make you aware of what is going on inside you and around you so that you can see how important it is to minimize your exposure to toxins and maximize your excretion of them.

Before I get into teaching you how to do that, let's look a little more carefully at exactly what toxins do to your body.

How Exactly Do Chemical Toxins Interfere with Metabolism?

There was an amazing study performed in 2003 titled "Energy Balance and Pollution by Organochlorines and Polychlorinated Biphenyls," which was published by Obesity Reviews in 2003.

The researchers reviewed 63 scientific studies on the link between chemical toxins and obesity, and what they concluded was that pesticides (organochlorines) and PCBs (from industrial pollution) are released from the fat tissue, where they are typically stored, and poison our metabolism, preventing us from losing weight.

That means that people with a higher BMI (body mass index) store more toxins because they generally have more fat. Those toxins interfere with many aspects of metabolism, including reducing thyroid hormone levels and increasing excretion of thyroid hormones by the liver.

Two other studies, including one from Laval University in Quebec, found that those who released the most pesticides from their fat during weight loss had the slowest metabolism after weight loss. Another study showed that an increase in toxins during weight loss in men inhibited normal mitochondrial function and reduced subjects' ability to burn calories.

Ever Wonder Why You Are Always Hungry?

Besides directly lowering thyroid hormone levels, breaking down your mitochondria, disturbing your metabolic rate, and inhibiting fat burning, toxins can damage the mechanisms by which hormonal signals control your appetite and eating behavior.

Leptin is the hormone that tells your brain you are full. Toxins (heavy metals such as mercury and chemicals) block these signals.

Over time, your brain becomes resistant to the effects of leptin, making you hungry all the time. So exposure to toxins can increase your appetite.

All this is proof that toxins have a serious effect on whether or not you gain weight and your ability to lose it.

If all this is making you depressed, I apologize.

However, there is good news. For anyone overweight or concerned about toxins, I strongly recommend going through a science-based detoxification program.

I truly believe that environmental toxins cause unnecessary weight gain, and learning how to eliminate those toxins in a healthy way is very important.

That is why, as a medical doctor specializing in functional medicine I recommend a full body cleanse no matter how healthy and lean you look.