Environmental Toxins Have Become the Primary Drivers of Chronic Disease

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Joe Pizzorno, who is, in short, a founding father of the movement of natural medicine. We’ll be discussing environmental toxins.

There are a few, very interesting hypotheses Dr. Pizzorno puts forth. Environmental toxins have not really abated the way that there has been an improvement in sugar and calorie consumption, and this could be what's ultimately driving increases in a litany of diseases. In this one example, obesity and diabetes, which, according to his comments, are still going up, and what might be happening is these toxins are actually deranging the function of insulin receptors. So, a pretty interesting couple hypotheses, and some data to support it, that he puts forth.

He also gives a few simple ways of screening for toxins and opens the door into a simple method for detox therapy and also references two books that he’s written to give more advice here on the topic, one for a lay audience, and one for clinicians. So, really, a very interesting conversation today with Dr. Pizzorno. https://drruscio.com/?p=56270

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now let's head to the show.
0:39.5	Hi, everyone.
0:40.5	In today's episode, we speak with Dr. Joe Pizarno, who is, in short, a founding father of the movement of natural medicine.
0:49.9	And we'll be discussing environmental toxins.
0:52.8	Now, if you remember back to the podcast interview
0:55.8	with Dr. Brian Walsh, he really did not feel that testing for toxins was necessary, but he did
1:05.2	feel that some simple techniques for detoxification can be quite helpful. Dr. Pizorno takes this to another level.
1:14.0	He does recommend some testing, but it seems fairly prudent and practical, but he builds upon
1:19.5	the simple yet effective foundation of detox therapy that Dr. Walsh outlined. However, there's a few very interesting hypotheses Dr. Pizorno puts forth.
1:33.3	I'll do a brief summary of them now. Essentially the finding that sugar intake and calorie
1:40.3	intake do not seem to any longer be tracking with obesity.
1:45.7	As according to Pizorno's comments, they have improved, sugar intake is down and
1:53.3	caloric consumption is down, yet obesity rates are still going up.
1:57.8	His hypothesis, and he does cite some references to support this,
2:02.2	is that environmental toxins have not really abated the way that there has been an improvement
2:08.8	in sugar consumption and calorie consumption. And this could be what's ultimately driving
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