Toxic Outer Environment = Toxic Inner Environment
by Dr Jimi Wollumbin – Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (facebook-drjimi wollumbin)
You don’t eat too much junk food, you drink moderately and have cut down on your Cuban cigars – so you probably don’t need to detox right? Wrong! The latest studies show that even the penguins in Antarctica need to detox dangerous levels of DDT and other Persistant Organic Pollutants (POPs) that are showing up in their systems. Well that’s probably just all the seafood they eat right? Wrong! Papua New Guinean tribal women who eat an exclusively organic & theoretically pesticide free diet have also been shown to have dangerously high levels of POPs in their breast milk. The terrifying truth is that even the unborn are not safe with a staggering 287 POPs & Endocrine Disruptors having been identified in cord blood – 180 of which are confirmed carcinogens. I could go on.
The basic realisation to be grasped is this: what we see happening in the external environment is mirrored within us; what we do to the earth we do to ourselves. Not only have we deforested the Amazon, but we have wrought similar destruction in the flora of our guts. The icecaps are melting and so are our gene buffering telomeres. Panda populations are dwindling & so are sperm counts. Plankton is choking beneath the pesticides dumped into the ocean and so are our mitochondria, (the free living bacteria in each cell that make out energy for us). We are indeed a biological microcosm of the world at large, and we need to clean up our act.
Considering this, an annual spring cleanse takes on a whole different perspective.
