MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, WE ARE EXPOSED TO AND AWARE OF toxins in our food and environment that take a massive toll on our health. Shopping for organic foods has become commonplace, with farmer’s markets and organic health food chains such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Sprouts springing up in most cities and suburbs around the country. Documentaries such as Super Size Me, An Inconvenient Truth, and No Impact Man draw our attention to the way ingested foods affect our bodies and mankind’s actions affect our planet. We’ve learned that much of our air is toxic, much of our water is polluted, much of our food is depleted of nutrients and usually packed with toxic chemicals and hormones, and viruses and bacteria are rampant.
Add to that the concerning impact of natural disasters and man-made disasters such as the Gulf oil spill of 2010 or the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011 that led to a nuclear reactor explosion, and there’s no question the toxicity of our planet is reaching critical mass.
Is there any way to escape it?
Yes, there is. And this book is designed to teach you how.
The original version of this book was published in 2001. At that time, I wrote that we lived in a dangerously toxic state, and sadly, most of us weren’t even aware of it. Even at that time, deaths related to our toxic diet and lifestyle accounted for most deaths in America. Heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes, obesity, and other diseases caused more than 85 percent of all deaths,1 and many diseases at that time were also caused by a buildup of toxins that create excessive free radicals and oxidative stress, damaging tissues and organs and setting the stage for disease and distressing symptoms including fatigue, memory loss, premature aging, skin disorders, arthritis, hormone imbalances, chronic fatigue, anxiety, emotional disorders, cancers, heart disease, and much, much more.
Sadly, that pattern hasn’t changed. It has, if anything, gotten worse. Our planet continues to get sicker and sicker with each passing year, and with it the people and animals living upon it. Natural and man-made disasters only fuel the eruption of greater and greater toxicity around us.
But the encouraging news is twofold. First, our awareness is much greater than it was ten years ago, when I published the first version of Toxic Relief. You are likely holding this book in your hands because you’re well aware of the toxins at work in our food, our environment, and our bodies and want a game plan and hope of a better future, and for that I applaud you. In this book you will find exactly what you’re looking for.
And that’s where the second piece of encouraging news comes in. After many years as a medical practitioner and family physician devoted to improving health and educating patients, I’m convinced there’s a better way to care for our bodies and find hope for our future. Yes, we are toxic, and many of us suffer from long lists of chronic illnesses as a result. But we are not hopeless. There is toxic relief!
That’s why I’ve written this updated and revised version of Toxic Relief. Much of the pain, suffering, and consequential early death caused by our toxic lifestyle and environment can be avoided and even reversed, and this book offers you a practical guide full of encouragement and genuine hope. Not only can you prevent chronic illness and poor health due to toxicity, but also if you are currently suffering from chronic disease and illness, you may even be able to turn your situation completely around. In this book I have provided you with a medically sound and easy-to-follow program to give you toxic relief.
As you will learn in this book, cleansing your body right down to the cellular level will renew your vitality, restore your energy, reclaim your health, shed toxic fat, lengthen your life, and give you a healthy glow you haven’t had in years.
Not only that, but this program of fasting and detoxification is also for the total person. Fasting as a spiritual discipline is as old as Moses. This program is designed to cleanse and restore you to health—body, mind, and spirit!
So, if you’ve been suffering from toxic overload of the body, mind, and spirit, it’s time to get ready to experience blessed toxic relief.
—DON COLBERT, MD