Toxins and weight gain

Toxins can be classified into internal and external types. External toxins include chemical and heavy metal toxins. External toxins such as mercury, lead and arsenic, alcohol, drugs, pesticides, herbicides and food additive can cause serious health issues. Internal toxins comes from the by products of our metabolism.

Toxins lower thyroid hormone level and interfere with the body function thus slowing down metabolic function and cause weight gain. Toxins inhibit the normal operation of the cell mitochondria function and reduce the body ability to burn calories thus retarding and impacting the body ability to loss weight. Mitochondria are known as the energy factory of the cells and are responsible for burning calories and fats. Long exposure to toxins can cause the liver to become fatty and thus impairs its ability to remove toxins from the body. A fatty liver could result in more toxins discharge from it and in terms cause more damage to the cell mitochondria. Our metabolism slows down and we start to gain weight when toxins affect the mitochondria.

Toxins accumulated in the body can disrupt hormone balance such as leptin. Leptin is the hormone that communicates with our brain to control our appetite and make us feel full and toxins blocks these signals from the brain. Thus exposure to toxins can increase our appetite and cause us to over eat resulting in weight gain. Recent scientific research and findings indicates toxins affect and interferes with our body stress response and affect our eating behavior. Some people are known to over-eat when under duress.

Toxins, both internal and external accumulated in our body cause metabolism problem and thus contribute to obesity. A recent study involving mice bred with exposure to toxins show symptoms of accelerated weight gain. It should be noted though the effects of toxins varies between individuals and partly determine by that person’s genetic detoxification systems. Some people has greater tolerance for toxins and able to eliminate toxins more effectively than others. Nevertheless, getting rid of toxins is very important to our health.

Steps improve the body detoxification system and help weight loss
1) Minimize exposure to toxins
2) Sweat it out and sweat it off
3) Eat foods that help you to detoxify and avoid that that makes us toxics
4) Try herbal remedies that will help you to detoxify
5) Add supplements to support liver and help to detoxify.
Consider testing for detoxification and looking for toxins.