Your cells do, and they're paying the consequences.
My passion for nutrition, biochemistry, and health led me to delve into the world of analytical interpretation, where I've been able to discover the best tests and parameters to help us determine our internal health status.
Within these tests, I have established a specific protocol to determine the level of toxicity a person is experiencing, a crucial step in understanding how it may be affecting their health.
This way, we can quantify exactly which toxins are present in your body and in what quantities. Next, I'll show you an exclusive toxin profile:
Heavy metals (hair, urine, feces)
Mineralogram
Analytical test that evaluates the amount of toxic metals our body is accumulating: mercury, aluminum, arsenic, lead, cadmium, antimony, barium, beryllium, bismuth, platinum, thallium, thorium, uranium, nickel, silver, gold, tin, titanium, tungsten...
Hair: An ideal sample for assessing the level of mineral elements and metals in our body, and the amount of them incorporated into our hair is proportional to their concentration in the rest of the body's tissues.
In this way, the analysis of toxins in hair provides us with indirect information about the physiological status of these minerals in our body.
It's important to understand this as a starting point, without neglecting other complementary tests such as urine and stool analysis, since this will allow us to assess how the detoxification pathways are functioning.
Urine: A test that accompanies the hair test and shows us our kidney capacity to eliminate these toxins.
When our kidneys are not functioning properly, toxins cannot be eliminated and they recirculate again and again and are deposited in the tissues.
We may have high levels of metals in our hair and low levels in our urine. This is a reflection of poor kidney function in eliminating them, which will increase the toxic load.
Alternatively, we can also find high levels of metals in hair and high levels in urine. This is a better prognosis, since at least, even with a high level of a metal, we can see that the patient's renal elimination capacity is good.
Stool: Test that accompanies the hair test and the urine test, the latter with the same explanation.
If we have low stool levels when tissue levels are high, this indicates a low detoxifying capacity of the liver/gallbladder, which can indicate poor function of these organs.
We must pay attention to them and take the necessary measures to restore normal functioning, thereby allowing for the best possible elimination of any internal toxins.
Otherwise, we can also find high levels of metals in hair and high levels in feces, this is a better prognosis, given that at least (even presenting high levels of a metal) we can observe that its hepatic/biliary elimination capacity is being efficient, and the phases described above in its entire complex detox process are not being entirely bad.
Non-metallic toxic chemicals
Analysis obtained by extracting blood or urine, in which the most harmful (non-metallic) toxic substances for the human body are evaluated:
Organochlorines-organophosphates, MTBE/ETBE, phthalates, benzene, xylene, vinyl chloride, acrylamide, perchlorate, diphenyl phosphate, ethylene oxide, acryloyltrimonium chloride, as well as more than two hundred other chemicals from other sources.
It helps us understand a person's internal toxicity status, resulting from daily exposure through all of their life factors (food and water ingested, medications, household products, environmental pollution, etc.).
It's important to know not only the degree of internal toxicity a person is experiencing, but also what toxic substances we're dealing with, in order to understand how they may be affecting the body and thus establish the best therapeutic strategy, given that each of them has specific repercussions on the body.
We live in a new toxic era that I have called Homo Toxicus, given that we are living with thousands of toxic substances every day, which are entering our bodies, leading them to an ever-increasing level of internal contamination.
I've been able to observe through hundreds of analyses how our ability to process and eliminate the toxins that enter our body is being overwhelmed by our organs and systems, and that, to a certain extent, is what is leading to the deterioration of our health.
For this reason, being able to scientifically quantify each and every toxin that can affect our cells is essential for any therapeutic approach. This is the only way to reverse pathologies and functional disorders, or allow athletes to achieve better results.
And these tests are not only useful for people experiencing health problems, but also for anyone who wants to assess their toxic load and thus prevent the development of any type of pathological or dysfunctional process in the future.
These tests are very affordable for all the information they offer, so I highly recommend them.
It's important not only to perform these tests, but also to find someone with sufficient knowledge of biochemistry, nutrition, supplementation, and analytical interpretation to analyze and interpret them, allowing them to establish the best therapeutic approach, understanding what type of diet and supplementation is most appropriate and necessary for each specific case.
At the Scientific Nutrition Barcelona team, we have the best professionals specialized in this type of testing and analysis, so if you ever need our services, we'll be happy to help you with anything you need.
And remember, regardless of the circumstances in which you are immersed in terms of pollution (something we can hardly change in the new era in which we live), it is possible to achieve full health, you just need to know what toxic state your body is in, and in this way establish the best possible protocol (diet and supplementation).
This is the art of Scientific (orthomolecular) Nutrition, how through the utmost scientific rigor we establish the best "natural" protocol based on optimal nutrition and supplementation, thus allowing everything at the molecular level to be in the best possible state of balance (homeostasis).