⇒ 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.