Our environment today is full of toxins that deteriorate and harm our organism everyday. These toxins are present everyday in almost every place imaginable. 

• The Associated Press reports that over 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals are released into our waterways each year.
• There are at least 75,000 chemicals in commerce today.
• Approximately 1,00 new chemicals are brought to market each year.
• Less than 30% of them have been adequatley tested for their impact on environment and human health.
• It is estimated that 90% of all chronic and serious illness could be prevented if we were able to eliminate the 600 most dangerous environmental toxins.

Every day millions of molecules from different compounds enter our bodies through voluntary and involuntary ingestion. These chemicals come from foods, beverages, medicines, food additives, personal care, and numerous other sources. Whenever a system, whether living or mechanical becomes polluted normal functioning is affected. Excessive polution in a system may result in malfunctioning or serious degeneration of that system. You might have experienced this occurence with the mechanics of your car. Every so often you need to change the oil, air filter, etc., in order to keep the system clean so the car will run more efficiently and last longer. That is why when your car's engine needs repair, the mechanic first cleans the engine before any attempt to fix it. It is always easier to repair a clean system than a polluted one. If you are not successful in fixing a polluted system, you are never sure if it is the system that has not been fixed or if it is the pollution that is causing the problem.

Every working system, as the result of normal functioning, produces pollution. Some of the pollutants that are produced within the living systems are elminated through processes naturally built in those system.

As a result, the system can slowly produce and accumulate pollutants to a point of self-destruction. The human body is no different than any other system. It has excellent built-in mechanisms to cleanse itself from all kinds of pollutants, but the system is not perfect.