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The research that brings clinical detoxification out of the closet
Glucose. Simple sugar.
We all know it is at the heart of diabetic dysfunction. But what if there is more to the story?
It was recently revealed in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that a decades-old payoff to Harvard researchers by sugar industry representatives resulted in manipulation of scientific analysis (which obscured findings that sugar consumption drives heart disease), and data that show sugar consumption in America rising more than 150 percent during the last century (to more than 100 pounds per person each year). This circumstantial evidence points to dietary choices as a significant reason type 2 diabetes is becoming epidemic.
In the October 2016 edition of Integrative Medicine: A Clinicians Journal, however, Editor-in-Chief Joseph Pizzorno, ND, shares some surprising early results from research he and his team are conducting into the effects of environmental factors on type 2 diabetes risk.
After leaving private practice, Dr. Pizzorno was hired by a Canadian mining company to help improve the health of its workforce. It hardly needs to be stated that miners work in environments that are often dangerous, where contact with toxic fumes and substances occurs with regularity. His work with this population in reducing toxic load resulted in improved health markers across the board.
Once he witnessed the effects that these largely natural toxins (and removing them) had on the population, and researching the mechanisms of the body's innate detoxification processes, he became interested in what effects other chemicals may have on the body.
Back in 1961,...