Toxins in the Human Body: Sources, Effects, and Avoidance Strategies

This essay explores the pervasive issue of toxins within the human body, delineating both external and internal sources. External sources encompass environmental pollutants, heavy metals, pesticides, and passive smoking, while internal toxins originate from harmful bacteria, yeasts, chronic stress, and negative mental states. The essay categorizes toxins into hematoxins, phototoxins, necrotoxins, and neurotoxins, and highlights the daily exposure to toxins through food additives, water contamination, beauty products, and stress. It emphasizes the importance of awareness and proactive measures, such as mindful product choices and stress management, to mitigate the adverse effects of toxins and promote overall well-being. The conclusion underscores the necessity of avoiding negative thinking and being cautious about the products used to survive and live a healthy life.

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The word toxins, widely used to refer to the substances that reach human beings and the
human body systems cannot digest or remove these substances from the system (Lefebvre,
2017). Toxins can be substances from animal origin or plants and cause the harm to the
organism body after coming into contact or interacting with such substances. According to
Lefebvre (2017), toxins differ in the activity, that is a toxin for an individual may not be as toxic
to another person. This paper discusses the toxins that persist in the human body, their possible
sources from the environment, and the substances that our bodies gets exposed to on a daily basis
that possesses a lot of toxins.
According to Body Ecology (2018), categories of sources of toxins are the externals and
internal sources. The externals toxins include substances that pollute the environment around us.
For instances, the pollutants and heavy metals such as mercury and lead, pesticides used in
farming, and exposure to smokes through passive smoking (St. Pierre, n.d.). Internally, toxins
accumulate from harmful bacteria and yeasts. Besides, internal toxins may also emerge from
chronic stress, anxieties, negative minds, and from a low-grade chronic infection from a virus
(Body Ecology (2018). List of toxins can get outlined as follows, the hematoxins for instance
snake venoms, the phototoxins from marigold plants, necrotoxins from the flesh eating bacteria,
and the neurotoxins found in the pufferfish (Lefebvre, 2017).
Lefebvre (2017), argues in the daily human activities, there are various toxins we get
exposed. First, the food consumed daily possess a variety of toxins (Lefebvre, 2017). Due to
modernization in the society, various processed foods are added chemicals like preservatives and
other additives of color and flavors. Chemical added in the processed foods accumulates as
toxins and leads to digestion complications and allergies. Secondly, people use water for various

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purposes. In this case, water used in the daily activity gets contaminated from the sources (Leslie
et al. 2015). Thirdly, the products and other everyday care products used by people are the most
significant source of toxin (Body Ecology, 2018). Beauty products such as kinds of toothpaste,
soaps, shampoos and various makeups are products manufactured from harmful chemicals.
Applying these products on a daily basis increases the risks of accumulating toxins to the bodies.
The other factor that exposes people to toxins is due to negative thinking and stressful lives.
According to statistics by the Centers for Disease Control, about 90% of the illnesses that
humans being suffers from emanates from stress (Body Ecology (2018). Due to stress, bacteria
and yeast that are friendly to the human body may die thus creating a room for the harmful
bacteria. As a result, the illnesses emerge due to the imbalances in the inner body ecological
systems (Leslie et al. 2015).
Conclusion
Toxins are the harmful substance that causes harm to an organism after interacting or
contacting with such substances. There are four major categories of toxins that is phototoxins,
necrotoxins, neurotoxins, and hemotoxins. In daily activities, humans get exposed to these toxins
from various sources such as water, food, beauty products, the environment and due to stress and
negative thinking. Since toxins surround human life, the best way to survive is by avoiding
negative thinking and take caution over the products used.

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