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⇒ Not drinking enough water

⇒ Drinking iced beverages, especially when the body is hot

⇒ Overeating

⇒ Insufficient nourishment

⇒ Highly processed and refined foods

⇒ Ill-combined foods (such as meat and potatoes; fruit and cereal)

⇒ Coffee, tea, alcohol and other stimulants

⇒ Carbonated beverages

⇒ Tobacco, narcotics

⇒ Pharmaceutical drugs, such as statins, steroids, antibiotics or painkillers

⇒ Irregular daily routine

⇒ Insufficient sleep

⇒ Watching too much television

⇒ Exhaustion, strain, stress

⇒ Environmental hazards

⇒ Pollution, both indoor and outdoor

⇒ Anger, rage, envy, greed, fear, jealousy, egotism, anxiety and other such negative feelings

⇒ Lack of harmony and happiness

⇒ Extreme and excessive habits

⇒ Sedentary lifestyle

⇒ Overstimulation of the senses

⇒ Injuries

Any of these or similar causes of depleting energy in the body and mind can lead to a serious buildup
of toxicity in the body’s fluids, and thus, trigger a toxicity crisis (acute illness). The crisis is necessary to
mobilize the immune system, find an outlet for the toxins and return the body to a state of equilibrium or
balance. If the causes remain intact, however, and continue to weaken the body further, it is left with no
other choice than to develop a continual toxicity crisis, which is known as chronic disease. The following
chapter deals with the part of our body where toxins are most likely to be produced first.