Environmental Toxins and Health Many scientific advances have come in the way of industry manufactured chemicals providing many of the conveniences of modern living.  Many of these chemicals come with an extreme health impact to not only humanity but to the entire living world.  This is evidenced by global warming and the endangerment and extinction of species worldwide. The environmental protection agency (EPA) reported that U.S industries dump 7.1 billion pounds of 650 different chemicals into our air, water and food annually.  Approximately 900 million pounds of pesticides and herbicides are applied to U.S. crops annually.  Currently, an average of 1,000 new chemicals are created and introduced yearly with little cautionary oversight performed by the EPA. Major chemical contamination classes called xenobiotics include pesticides, airborne solvents, and heavy metals.  These chemicals end up in various human tissues and organs such as red blood cells, nerve cells, liver, adipose tissue, bone, and brain causing dysfunction and disease.  The EPA has conducted fat tissue surveys for over twenty years to determine the amount of chemical contamination present in humans.  Chemicals consistently found in over 85% of people include benzene, chlorobenzene, toluene, dioxin, furan, DDE, DDT, PCBs, dieldrin, oxychlorone, and heptachlor epoxide to name a few.  A total of five chemicals were found in 100% of tissue samples.  What’s worse is that many of these chemicals found in human tissue are in concentrations higher than believed safe by the EPA.  These same chemicals are also repeatedly found in the womb of pregnant women, new born infants, and human breast milk.    It is becoming clear that conventional toxicology and epidemiology underestimates the negative effect chronic low dose chemical exposure has on human health.  Environmental medicine uses the most current science and research to explore the link between chemical contamination and human health.  Investigations show chemical contamination to be associated with multiple chemical sensitivity and often causative in immune system dysfunction, allergy, autoimmune conditions, allergies, cancers, neurological, endocrine and reproductive abnormalities.  Environmental medicine further uses this information to create and incorporate therapies aimed at safely cleansing patients with histories, symptoms and diseases consistent with chemical contamination.

Much is known about the health risks associated with large, acute doses of individual chemicals.  Unfortunately conventional toxicology often assumes that only high levels of chemicals have an impact.  Recent research has revealed that several chemicals including  arsenic found in chicken and Bisphenol A found in plastic food containers can alter gene expression even at extremely low doses.   In May of 2007 the International Conference of Fetal Programming & Developmental Toxicity concluded that “even subtle effects caused by chemical exposures during early development may lead to important functional deficits and increased risks of disease later in life.”  The potential negative effect of multiple low dose chemical exposure becomes quite clear.   Delicate systems most affected by chemical exposure are the immune, endocrine and neurological systems.  Symptoms related to chronic chemical exposure include, headaches, poor memory, nerve pain, joint and muscle aches, allergies, immune system dysfunction, neurological dysfunction, and reproductive problems.   Diseases associated with chemical exposure include autoimmune diseases, depression, asthma, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and cancers.  These increasingly common disorders are often related to toxic chemical burden not addressed by prescription drugs or conventional medicine.

Based upon your current and previous chemical exposures revealed in an environmental health history Dr. Bankole will assess the role and impact this exposure has on your health including future risk.  Blood and/or urine testing may then be performed.  Next a treatment protocol specific to your exposure, illnesses and risks will be created.  Treatment starts with identification and avoidance of ongoing exposures.  Nutritional supplementation including the intravenous use of vitamin C and glutathione to promote and support liver and bowel detoxification pathways and to improve antioxidant status follow.  In addition, a proper cleansing diet will assist your body in unloading harmful toxins through urine and stool. Other measures helpful in assisting tissue cleansing include exercise, sauna therapy and colonic irrigation.  These measures may be incorporated into your treatment plan.  Clinical experience reveals that properly performed tissue cleansing is often the missing link in alleviating chronic pain, insomnia, lowering blood sugar, resolving autoimmunity, lowering blood pressure, resolving chronic fatigue, and promoting weight loss. Learn the relationship between environmental toxins and illness to take control of your health. Make an appointment with Dr. Bankole and experience health as never before.    951.801.2302  ~ 1485 Spruce Street, Ste. Q ~ Riverside, CA 92507