One of the most important contributors to chronic symptoms, chronic disease, and premature death is toxicity. Conventional medicine largely ignores this major determinant of health. By contrast, toxicity assessment and detoxification treatments are pillars of the approach used in Functional Medicine. Fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, depression, headaches, joint pain, digestive symptoms, autoimmune disease, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, infertility, and autism are just a few of the conditions that can result from toxicity. Whatever the chronic symptom or disease, toxicity is likely to be a factor. No one in our industrialized world escapes exposure to toxins. In fact, 232 toxic chemicals have been found in umbilical cord blood of newborns.
