Hello Health Smart listeners/readers,

I’ve been doing these radio shows for over 10 years now, and I have to say, of all the information and education I get when interviewing these very knowledgeable guests, there are only a couple of handfuls of shows that impact me enough on the very first show to “change something in my life”…this show was one of them.  Not that the program was not informative or boring, but the topic just did not relate to my personal health concerns i.e. talking about how to address diabetes or high blood pressure, or migraine headaches, or sticky blood—because I don’t have any of those issues.  But in today ’s program something DR. Gaetano from Enzymatic Therapy taught me is still literally “haunting and disturbing” me!

Dr. Gaetano was speaking about cleansing the whole body by focusing on the liver.  He taught us that the liver needs to get rid of chemicals they they get stuck in the fat soluble cells.  Phase I liver detoxification loosens up chemical toxins by changing electrons and turns it into a less harmful substance.  Free radicals are generated during this process so there is a need for antioxidants, especially Vitamin C, to prevent cellular damage.   Phase II is called the  conjugation pathway whereby the liver cells add certain amino acids or a sulplhate molecule or glycine to change the chemical toxin and make it water soluble.  It can then be excreted from the body via fluids such as urine or bile.  Many drugs, xenobiotics and hormones need to go through this process in order to be excretable.  The toxins are then carried to the GI tract via bile to the duedenom for elimination from the body……now here is the part that is “haunting and disturbing” me.  98% of all bile is re-absorbed back into the bloodstream unless soluble fiber is present in gut to “suck it up” and eliminate through stool.  So that means, our system may have gone through all this effort to change these harmful toxins into water soluble toxins to be mixed with bile, to be taken into the GI tract to be excreted into the toilet, but if we don’t have solube fiber, it just goes right back into the blood stream…ai yai yai……thus I have now added soluble fiber into my morning and night time routine–just for peace of mind

Products recommended by Dr. Gaetano are: Enzymatic Therapy’s Whole Body Cleanse, Fiber Fusion, Acidophilus Pearls, and the Complete Liver Cleanse.

Dr.Gaetano also goes into why it is so important to do a Whole Body Cleanse i.e. Bis-phenol A in plastics, thalates, aluminum as well as how to lower  our  Body Burden of chemicals, but I’m tired of typing, so you’ll have to listen to get these wonderful tips.

until tomorrow,

Sherrie