What toxins do to the body

Conventional medicine continues to deny the existence of toxins. The reason is not necessarily the actual non-existence of toxins, but rather a lack of definition for the term toxins. In the following article, we will therefore explain what toxins are, what they do to the body and how they can be eliminated.

Toxic slime? Conventional medicine is clueless

Conventional medicine tends to turn a blind eye to detoxification and purification measures. They shrug their shoulders and say that they don’t know what exactly is meant by toxic slime, and what is supposed to be purified. They also don’t fail to point out that the term slime is more known in connection with the combustion residues of the metal industry. Elsewhere it is stated flatly that slime doesn’t exist at all.

What is toxic slime?

Apart from the fact that a term can have several, even completely different meanings, these people probably have no idea how close they actually are to solving the puzzle.

Anyone who has already undergone a detoxification process, for example with the help of a thorough colon cleansing, knows how similar – purely visually – the slime in the body (at least that in the digestive tract) and that from the blast furnaces of the metal industry are.

In really effective colon cleansings, rubbery to solid, sometimes deep black “materials” are often excreted, experience shows that after these disappear into the sewage system, the well-being of the affected people improves dramatically. When one sees such excretions, no one is surprised how the term “slime” came to be used in connection with physical detoxification or purification.

Slime as decades-old deposits

These slimes or mucous like deposits are sometimes decades old and have been created due to poor nutrition and an unhealthy lifestyle.

Many modern and industrially processed foods (e.g. ready meals, heated meat products, heated fats, heated starch products) cannot be completely processed by the human digestive system and so tiny amounts of undigested residues are deposited in the villi of the intestinal mucosa every day.

Toxins as mucous layers in the intestine

Many industrially processed foods or their ingredients (e.g. certain proteins, but also substances such as the ubiquitous synthetic food additives) are also classified as poisons by the body, so that it produces mucus – as it always does when poisons arrive.

This mucus is intended to envelop toxins or suspicious foreign substances and ensure that they can be excreted without harming the body. Since ready meals, soft drinks, alcohol, ultra-high-temperature dairy products, sausage, etc. are consumed not just once a week, but all too often every day, a huge amount of mucus is also produced every day. Mucus can be excreted in small amounts.

Slime is everywhere

However, if large amounts of mucus are produced every day, it exceeds the body’s ability to excrete it. The mucus remains in the intestines. However, only part of the mucus produced can be kept liquid there, the rest hardens and settles.

This hardened mucus sticks together the villi in the small intestine and the intestinal walls in the large intestine. It hinders the natural movement of the intestine. And so these mucus layers are found under and on top of each other in our digestive tract, but also in the respiratory tract and the lymphatic system.

Ultimately, they weaken the body more and more. Peristalsis (intestinal movement) slows down in the intestines. As a result, even the current intestinal contents are no longer excreted quickly, not to mention the old mucous layers. Digestive problems are the first signs of this situation.

Slime from acids

In addition, the body’s own metabolic end products (acids) can become harmful waste products if they are produced in excess. Acids are produced during the metabolism of a predominantly acid-forming diet and lifestyle and must be neutralized in the body – otherwise they would burn tissue and organs.

Basically, it is a routine measure of the body, since acids and toxins have always entered the human body in certain quantities and had to be neutralized.

Slime in excess

The problem is that the amount of acids and toxins entering the body every day has multiplied over the decades. The organism and its excretory organs (intestine, skin, lungs, kidneys) are overwhelmed. As a result, some of the neutralized acids remain in the body.

Only now, when the resulting acid salts are not excreted but are deposited in the body, do we speak of toxins. Slime can be “stored” in various places in the body – for example in the connective tissue. One of the consequences is that the fascia tissue sticks together.

Toxins in connective and fatty tissue

Our connective tissue was always considered to be largely useless filling and covering tissue. Its only job seemed to be to elastically fill the gaps between bones, organs and muscles. But connective tissue not only holds all of the body’s organs in place, it also ensures that all organ cells are supplied with sufficient blood and thus with nutrients, minerals, water and oxygen.

At the same time, the organ cells release their waste products into the connective tissue so that they can be excreted. The connective tissue therefore has an extremely important transit function to fulfil, because only if the supply and disposal in the organism works well can we remain young, attractive and healthy. However, as soon as there are bottlenecks in this process, the aging process begins with all its aches and pains.

Slimes reduce the elasticity of the connective tissue

The water stored in the connective tissue guarantees the elasticity and flexibility of the connective tissue. If the connective tissue is abused as a waste dump, it can no longer fully transport the waste products of the cells and can no longer supply the cells with sufficient nutrients. As a result, the entire body suffers from the restricted function of the connective tissue.

Connective tissue includes ligaments, tendons, joint cartilage and joint capsules, intervertebral discs, nerve tissue, intestinal and stomach walls, skin, hair, fingernails and toenails, and the tissue that surrounds and connects organs and blood vessels. Depending on where waste products are deposited, the corresponding symptoms occur.

Toxins in the body lead to …

As the accumulation of toxins progresses, the function of the connective tissue is increasingly limited by the toxins deposited in the fatty tissue (1). We notice this in the condition of the skin (it becomes flabby and wrinkled), the hair (it becomes brittle), the joints (they lose mobility), the tendons and ligaments (they are no longer as resilient as they were in younger years), the intervertebral discs (they cause painful problems), etc.

For most women, the weakness of the connective tissue sooner or later shows itself in the form of varicose veins or sagging skin and dents on the buttocks and legs (cellulite).

Types of Toxins

Every day, many different toxins from our environment flow into our organism. It tries to neutralize these with the help of its detoxification mechanisms, which is certainly partly successful. However, here too, many more toxins enter the body than can be eliminated. And so they are also temporarily stored in the body – in the hope that the owner of the body will one day come up with the idea of ​​​​carrying out a detoxification program. So that these toxins could be eliminated again (at least to a significant extent). For example,

  1. Environmental toxins from exhaust gases or from food that has been treated with agricultural poisons (pesticides, arsenic, herbicides, fungicides).
  2. Chemicals from conventional personal care products, cosmetics, detergents and cleaning products, solvents, adhesives and harmless-sounding things like felt-tip pens, toys, packaging materials and soaps, such as bisphenol A and triclosan
  3. Household toxins from wood preservatives (in furniture, wood paneling, parquet floors, window frames, etc.), from building materials, clothing and (home) textiles
  4. Poisons that are added to drinking water, such as chlorine (as well as chemical compounds that can result from the reaction of chlorine with other water components) and poisons that can be naturally present in drinking water, such as uranium or arsenic.
  5. Synthetic or other laboratory-produced additives in food such as preservatives, colorants, flavor enhancers, anti-foaming agents, flavors, acidifiers and much more.
  6. Recreational drugs (nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, table salt, sugar)
  7. Medications
  8. Heavy metals (2)
  9. Microplastics (3)

Detoxification treatments help

Anyone who insists that toxins do not exist in this situation is living somewhere but not in our reality. Detoxification treatments are not just an invention that some health apostles prefer to carry out in the spring, but a wonderful measure that can be carried out all year round to get rid of annoying toxins that can have a huge impact on our well-being.

Detoxification of intestinal toxins

Intestinal waste can be dissolved and eliminated very well with the help of a colon cleanse. At the same time, the intestinal flora is strengthened. You can find more information in the colon cleanse section.

Detoxification through deacidification

Toxic substances from all other nooks and crannies of the body are removed with the help of a thorough deacidification program, the intensity of which you can determine yourself.

Detoxification with the detoxification program

An alkaline diet should be practiced alongside both treatment options. To introduce you to this new way of eating and enjoying food, we recommend our detox programs. These are particularly effective, 4-week to 6-week treatments that were developed according to nutritional guidelines and provide you with both a special diet plan and alkaline recipes.

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Updated on: 23 Feb, 2025
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