Die geheimen Gifte im Körper: So vermeiden Sie Umweltgifte (kritisch!)

It was a big game-changer for me when I had the great honor after my medical school education as one of the first Western physicians to learn Ayurveda in India from the leading Indian Vaidyas. That's what the Ayurvedic doctors are called. The big difference to our Western medicine is that thousands of years of healing art focuses not only on the treatment of diseases, but also on the prevention and holistic promotion of health. And in doing so, everyday health care plays an elementary role. We know today from modern aging and longevity research that only a small part of the aging process depends on our genetic disposition, between 10 and a maximum of 30 percent, and the far superior factor determines our way of life. So we have it largely in our own hands how we get older. Healthy and vital or sick and fragile. We can intervene in the aging process every day. And that's exactly one special area of Ayurveda. We can do something every day to cleanse our mental and physical system. We can introduce detoxification measures into our health routine at regular intervals, whether it's daily, weekly, monthly or in larger intervals. We can pay special attention to specific rules, especially for the change of seasons. That's what Ayurveda is extraordinarily valuable for, because the organism is particularly susceptible to disturbance in this phase. In any case, it is recommended to detoxify your system more intensively at least once a year. However, the question that arises first of all is, what are we supposed to cleanse ourselves of? What toxins should we get rid of? Let me briefly name three sources and then give you some very practical tips that you can use in your everyday life. Source number one, the environment. That is, what we absorb through our respiration, our skin, our food. We can assume that today we are exposed to well over 100,000 environmental toxins. And there are certainly still a lot of them that we don't even know. For example, researchers found traces of newborn substances that could not be classified. The pollutants from the environment include heavy metals, oil residues, pesticides, herbicides, plastic, industrial chemicals, emulsifiers, tensiles, flavor enhancers, preservatives, preservatives, dyes or color and fragrances. Many more. They can be found in car exhaust fumes, in sour rain, in fine dust, polluted air, in building materials, food, cosmetics or products of everyday life such as plastic bottles. Industrial chemicals such as bisphenol A, a plastic hardener, or vice versa, the phthalates, which are softeners, are processed into hundreds of products that we take in our hands every day. These massive toxins penetrate the skin, the respiratory tract or the food in our body and can accumulate in the tissues, organs and cells. Another example. Dioxins are chlorinated, aromatic environmental toxins. They are enriched in the fat tissues of animals, which is why animal foods such as meat, milk, eggs, fish have a higher dioxide content than plant foods. Dioxins can damage the skin, weaken the immune and nervous system and negatively affect the hormonal balance. Especially in recent times, PFCs and PFAS have become the focus. These are per- and polyfluorinated chemicals. They are also called eternal chemicals because they have a very long shelf life. These industrial chemicals are also considered carcinogenic. Aluminum also dramatically weakens our body. This is why you should pay special attention to, for example, aluminum-free toothpaste or deos, not to use canned food or coffee capsules without aluminum. Chemicals are contained in many clothing pieces, especially in cheap cotton, which is protected by pesticides and herbicides from insects and pests. Your skin is your largest organ. Try to use biofibers or wash new clothing pieces before you put them on. All these factors endanger our health every day and the tricky thing is that you often don't notice the consequences immediately. Most environmental toxins are fat-soluble, i.e. they enrich themselves in the fatty tissues and structures of the body and are much more difficult to eliminate than water-soluble toxins. Let's move on to source number two, our food. Over the course of our lives, we take about 30 tons of food and 50,000 liters of liquid into us and flow it through our digestive system. Of course, we can't digest and change all of it completely. What happens then? The metabolic residues degrade and block the communication and transport routes in our body, i.e. all the fine and finest structures, which are called scrotas in ayahuasca. Let's not forget our drinking water, which is generally made up of a mixture of groundwater, spring water, surface water, reef filtrate and clear water. It flows through all pipes and pipes and is, for example, not free of drug residues, pesticides or a mix of various environmental pollutants. Source number three, the cell waste. Our body consists of about 70 to 100 billion cells. Every second it forms 7 million new cells. That makes 600 billion a day. Of course, it also dismantles a lot of them. But what happens to all the residual waste that has accumulated in cells? It has to be dismantled, reused or excreted. Of course, our body has complex disposal systems for this. But we can help it by detoxifying measures. I would like to name at least a few of them. Let's start with the daily one. First, how can we increase the cleaning and recycling processes in our cells, i.e. what is called autophagy? There are different strategies. One is interval fasting. By the way, an ancient Ayurvedic measure. The 16-8 rule is very popular at the moment. That is, you skip 16 hours from the last meal of the day before until you eat something again. So if you ate at 7 p.m., you wait with the next meal until 11 p.m. the next day. This stimulates autophagy. You can also support it with hot drinks like ginger or lemon water or an apple cider vinegar-water mixture. Second, a very simple but effective detoxification method is to clean the morning tongue with oil afterwards, as the body excretes toxins via the tongue. The mouth, stomach and intestine naturally hang together and so you maintain your digestive system daily with this little micro-step. Third, there are a number of other very simple detoxification hacks, such as regular oil massages, for example in the morning when you have time, raw side peelings or ice baths. Weekly or monthly, you could, for example, plan sauna walks or include a regular, moderate sports program in your everyday life. All these measures detoxify. A thorough intestinal cleansing is enough with an abduction day, but please not too often, as the microbiome otherwise gets confused. Tea and water fasts push your autophagy the most. It is at its peak after 72 hours. From an Ayurvedic point of view, however, this is not suitable for everyone. Therefore, you should please do it under the guidance of an expert and take free days for it. Regular, specific detox units, such as 7 to 10 days, are ideal to flush out fat-soluble toxins. In addition, you can thus begin to incorporate gentle routines and rituals into your everyday life, which serve your health in the long run. For this, I have designed an intensive online program that you can do at home. It consists of three phases, a rather light entry phase, an intensive detoxification and excretion phase, and a follow-up, which facilitates the transition to a healthy re-orientation. You can find the link here. In many microsteps, I am a big fan of small steps, you learn many health strategies that you can easily and effortlessly incorporate into your everyday life. Of course, you should not forget about mental cleansing. Due to the ever-increasing flow of stimuli and the associated abundance of often very negative experiences, our mind and nervous system are enormously burdened. There is actually only one antidote for this, and that is rest. Take plenty of rest, especially through enough sleep. By the way, sleep before and after lunch really counts twice. And through meditation. I am a big fan of Transcendental Meditation, a natural, spiritual technique from the yoga tradition. It is easy to learn and practice and is very well substantiated scientifically. Finally, I would like to give you a beautiful quote from Epicurus. He said, The sum of our happiness is the health of body, mind and soul. I wish you all the best. Take good care of yourself. Your Ulrich Bauhofer.