Coppell Chiropractor - Dr. Ron Carpenter

Coppell Chiropractor, Dr. Ron Carpenter with Coppell Family Chiropractic, has been advocating changes in nutrition to eliminate toxins and improve health and wellness.

Are folks just starting to realize that there are toxins in nearly everything that we eat and touch? This isn’t something new. Let’s start with TOXINS 101:

Generally speaking, a toxin is something the body does not recognize. The body seldom even takes the risk to distinguish good from bad toxins. If the body doesn’t recognize it, it will try to destroy it. If that doesn’t work it will engulf it in a ball of fat and bury it in as deep a hole as it can, hoping you never need to burn it.

Our skin is great in helping protect us from some toxins. If the body recognizes a bad toxin it sometimes tries to push the toxins through the skin. These generally show up on your chest or back as bright red freckles. Heavy metals (i.e. aluminum in antiperspirant, mercury, arsenic in water, etc.) can be toxic, too. More importantly, because of their size (they’re larger molecules) these particles don’t easily pass through our system. They end up accumulating in our body to toxic levels over time. Did you ever see the movie Arsenic and Old Lace? That’s what accumulations of toxins in our body can do: kill cells. My suggestion? Stop exposing ourselves to chemicals that your body wasn’t born with and eliminate as many as can, in as many ways as we can.  More about that later.

So someone emailed me and asked: where do these toxins come from?

Honestly, the list of where toxins are not would be a shorter list. They are in the air, our water, prescription medications, vaccinations, and food. The most toxic place we spend time everyday is our own homes. Even if a home is new enough that you don’t have to worry about radon, asbestos, and black mold, it’s likely that dust mites and pollen and other airborne agents are milling around. Also, there are arsenides in most shampoos. And, if you use an antiperspirant instead of a deodorant, you are actually blocking up your sweat glands with aluminum.

The food we eat is often packaged to extend the shelf life, which requires the use of toxins. We love sweet foods, but hate sugar and calories; so now we have artificial sweeteners (Equal, Sweet and Low, aspartame, etc.) that are many times sweeter that natural sugars and we consume many more products which contain them. And what do we call synthetic stuff the body doesn’t recognize? Toxins!

Fruits and vegetables are often picked green these days (so they don’t rot before they get to market), typically before the nutrition is in the food. Often they are artificially ripened by placing them in contact with toxins, like carbon monoxide (That turns green tomatoes cherry red, just as it would our skin if we left our car running with the garage door closed.) Prescription medications are often attempts to duplicate products found in nature that have been found to help with a medical condition. Unfortunately the medication must be unique, because a company cannot patent a natural process. So by definition all prescription meds with a proprietary name must be different from the natural process they are trying to replicate–by at least 17 percent. Bottom line is you need to get into the habit of turning a product around and reading the label. You shouldn’t have to be a scientist to read it, and products are listed in the order of their amount, i.e., the first ingredient listed is the one that has the highest concentration, the second is the second most plentiful,…..so on, so on.

Bottom line, you need to pay attention, not everyone has your back!

Coppell Chiropractor Dr. Ron Carpenter knows that finding a chiropractor who understands changing health care needs and the most current techniques and approaches to addressing health problems can be a daunting task. We hope that you will find this site helpful in learning more about our gentle chiropractic care as well as the ways that it can improve the quality of your life. For more information call 972-462-8282, or email doc@coppellchiro.com.