Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. — 2 Kings 5:14
Stop Doing What Is Making You Sick
When I studied at the School of Natural Healing, the teacher whose work shaped me more than any other was Dr. Richard Schulze. He had a gift for cutting through every tangled health question like a hot knife through butter. People came to him with long lists of symptoms and even longer lists of failed fixes, and he brought them back to one idea:
“All you have to do is to stop doing whatever it is that is killing you or making you sick, and begin doing what will heal you.” — Dr. Richard Schulze, Dr. Schulze’s 20 Powerful Steps to a Healthier Life
That sentence is the backbone of this book. Stop doing what is making you sick, and begin doing what will heal you. Not find the right supplement for each symptom, as if the body were a vending machine. Not patch up each organ separately. Not avoid all doctors. Stop the harm, and begin the healing. Two steps, no subscription required.
Each of the chapters that follow shines a light on one family of everyday toxins: where it comes from, what the teachers say it does, and what to do instead. The “stop doing” half takes up most of the book, from the water in Chapter 2 all the way to the medicine cabinet in Chapter 11. The “begin doing” half comes together in Chapter 12, How the Body Detoxifies, and Chapter 13, Nourish and Cleanse. Bad news first, good news after; I promise the good news is worth the wait.
Dr. Schulze taught that healing is not something we do to the body. It is something the body is always trying to do, if we will only get out of its way. Most of us, it turns out, are standing right in the doorway.
“Your body has a blueprint, a schematic, of what perfect health is and it’s constantly trying to achieve this goal for you.” — Dr. Richard Schulze
I learned that in my own body, as I told you in the Introduction. The body is intelligent. It is not a random machine that breaks down for no reason. When it is given the materials it needs and freed from the inputs that are damaging it, it has a remarkable capacity to heal. Give it half a chance and it gets to work.
If you ever have the chance to hear Dr. Schulze teach, notice how often he brings every answer back to three things: the bowel, food, and the person’s own responsibility. People ask him about their eyes, their joints, even cancer, and again and again, like a compass needle swinging back to north, he returns to those three. You will find all three running through this whole book.
Why Toxins Make Us Sick
Why should a little fluoride, a little seed oil or a little weed killer matter? A little never hurt anyone, right? One teacher gives the clearest short answer I know.
Dr. Thomas Levy, whose book The Only Cause of Disease is taught in its own Arukah course, puts his framework in one sentence: the excessive oxidation of biomolecules is disease. Oxidation, in biochemistry, is the loss of electrons. Every molecule in your body — every protein, every enzyme, every strand of DNA, every membrane of every cell — needs its electrons in place to do its job. Toxins, in Dr. Levy’s framework, are pro-oxidants: tiny pickpockets that steal electrons from the molecules your cells depend on. When the toxin load is greater than the body’s antioxidant capacity, the damage adds up, and accumulated damage in a tissue is the disease that finally shows itself there.
You do not need his course to follow this book. Just hold on to the idea: a toxin is anything that adds to the oxidative load the body must clear. Heavy metals, weed killers, excitotoxins, mold toxins, refined sugar and industrial seed oils all pile onto that load. This book shows you where those toxins come from in ordinary life, so that you can stop taking them in, one sneaky source at a time.
The Toxic Soup
I want to ground this chapter in a few facts that I think will surprise you, because I want you to understand what the actual situation is before we roll up our sleeves for the practical work. Fair warning: they are not bedtime reading.
The first fact. The Environmental Working Group, in a series of studies beginning in 2005, tested cord blood from newborn babies in American hospitals. Cord blood is the blood that has been circulating between the mother and the baby through the umbilical cord up until the moment of birth. It is, by every prior assumption of obstetric medicine, the most protected blood in the human life cycle. When the Environmental Working Group tested it, they found in the average sample evidence of more than two hundred industrial chemicals. Pesticides. Flame retardants. Plasticizers. Stain-resistant compounds. Heavy metals. Compounds that did not exist before the 1940s, present in the blood of babies who had been alive for fewer than five minutes. The babies, who had not yet taken a breath of outside air, were already carrying the chemical signature of the world they had been born into. Nobody handed them a consent form. The placenta, which medicine had assumed for a century was a barrier, turned out to be a thin filter that passed nearly everything through: less a fortress wall, more a screen door.
The second fact. The American Chemical Society maintains the largest database of registered chemical compounds in the world, the Chemical Abstracts Service registry. At the time of this writing it contains over two hundred million distinct chemical substances. Most of these are research chemicals or compounds that exist only in trace amounts. But of the substances in active commercial production in the United States, the number is somewhere between eighty thousand and one hundred thousand, depending on how and when the count is made. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is responsible for evaluating these substances for safety, has the budget and the legal authority to evaluate perhaps a few hundred of them per year. The math is not subtle, and you will not need a calculator for it. We have a chemical environment now, and it is one no other generation of human beings has had to live in.
The third fact. The rate of chronic illness in the modern American population has been climbing on a curve that looks less like the gentle slope of an aging population and more like a hockey stick that turned upward sometime in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Autoimmune disease. Type 2 diabetes. Childhood asthma. Childhood obesity. ADHD. Autism spectrum disorder. Early-onset cancer. Fertility decline. Thyroid dysfunction. The trends are not uniform across every condition, and the explanations are not all the same, but the underlying picture is consistent. We are not a healthier generation than the one before us. We are, in many measurable ways, a sicker one. The conventional explanation — that we are simply better at detecting these conditions than we used to be — does not account for the size of the increase, or for the fact that it is showing up in younger and younger patients. Better glasses do not explain a bigger crowd.
The fourth fact, which holds the other three together. The body was not designed for a chemical environment of the kind we have built. It has detoxification pathways — the liver, the kidneys, the bowel, the skin, the lungs and the lymph, which you will meet properly in Chapter 12 — but those pathways were made for the toxin load of the natural world, not for the toxin load of the industrial world. A garden drain was never built for a flood. When the load exceeds the capacity, the toxins accumulate. They are stored in fat, in bone, in connective tissue, in the brain. They sit, sometimes for decades, generating the slow oxidative damage I described above, like tenants who never pay rent and never leave.
This is the soup we are swimming in, and nobody ordered it. The household has done nothing wrong. It has simply been living in the world that the last seventy-five years of industrial chemistry has produced, and that world has been making the household sick whether anyone in it intended it or not.
“We are bombarded on a daily basis with toxic chemicals in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the liquid we drink.” — Dr. Richard Schulze
The Total Body Burden
Dr. Sherry Rogers, an American environmental physician whose 2002 book Detoxify or Die helped to introduce the idea of environmental toxin accumulation to a wider audience, used a phrase that has stuck to me like a burr ever since: every night you can go to bed knowing you have made your cumulative load better, the same, or worse.
The phrase captures what I want to teach you in this chapter. There is no single moment at which a person becomes toxic, no alarm that goes off at midnight. There is no single exposure that is, by itself, the cause of the chronic illness that develops twenty years later. There is, instead, a total body burden — the accumulated load of all the toxins the body has absorbed over a lifetime, minus whatever the body’s detoxification systems have managed to clear. In the Arukah Method we call it the Total Body Burden: the daily, decades-long total of exposures the body must clear. Think of it as a running tab the body keeps whether we are watching or not.
The modern household is a toxic soup of industrial chemistry. No single exposure in this book is likely to make you sick on its own. It is the daily, decades-long total that wears the body down, the way a dripping tap wears a groove in stone. That is why the answer is a change of habits rather than one product or one cleanse, however shiny the box.
The Total Body Burden goes up when the daily inputs exceed the daily outputs. It goes down when the daily outputs exceed the daily inputs. It is bookkeeping, nothing fancier. Health, in the long run, is the result of which direction the burden has been moving over years and decades.
So the work of detoxification is not a single event. It is not a thirty-day cleanse that you do once a year before marching straight back to your former habits. It is the daily work of two practices at the same time: reducing the inputs as much as you can, and supporting the outputs as much as you can. Chapters 2 through 10 give you the practical reductions. Chapters 12 and 13 give you the practical supports for the body’s own elimination. The two halves work together, like turning off the tap and mopping the floor. Neither half alone is enough.
I want to give you a word of honesty about the time scale, and it is not the word the detox ads use. Dr. Schulze was plain about it:
“It takes most of us 20 or 30 years of rough and tough living before we develop a disease. So you’re not going to heal yourself in 24 hours.” — Dr. Richard Schulze
The burden in a person who has been living in the modern environment for thirty or forty or fifty years did not accumulate in a week and will not be cleared in a week. The reader who is hoping for a fast result may be disappointed by that; I am sorry, but the miracle aisle is closed. The reader who is willing to do the slow work will, after a year of consistent effort, be measurably different from the person she is now.
But here is the hopeful side of the same truth. Because the burden builds slowly, it can come down slowly too. A family that fixes one significant source of exposure a month — the water filter, then the pantry oils, then the diet soda — has addressed twelve sources in a year. After two years, twenty-four. No heroics, just a calendar. The burden curve, which has been climbing for most of a lifetime, begins to bend the other way.
That is why the verse at the head of this chapter is the story of Naaman, the Aramean general, who came to the prophet Elisha to be healed of his leprosy and was told to wash seven times in the Jordan. Naaman was offended. The Jordan was a small muddy river. The rivers of Damascus were grander. Why this one, why seven times, why something so unimpressive? He almost went home as sick as he came. His servant talked sense into him: My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? He waded into the Jordan. Seven times. He came out healed.
The work of this book is the Jordan. It is not impressive. It is not the heroic single intervention that the modern detox industry is selling, with free shipping. It is the patient, repeated, humble work of clearing the toxic load from your life, room by room, over months and years. It is seven dips in a humble river, when you wanted one dip in something grand. The reader who is willing to do this work will, like Naaman, come out the other side of it with the flesh of a little child. The reader who keeps waiting for the heroic fix will keep waiting.
The Pattern: Almost Every Toxin Is Industrial
As you walk through the chapters ahead, I want you to notice a pattern, because once you see it you cannot unsee it. Consider yourself warned.
Fluoride added to water. Plastics and “forever chemicals” in the kitchen and the bathroom cabinet. Metals from old pipes and fillings. Genes forced into crops, which are then sprayed with weed killer for good measure. Oils pressed from seeds with chemical solvents. Flavor enhancers made in factories, not kitchens. Sugars and sweeteners refined beyond recognition. Wireless radiation that did not exist a century ago.
Almost every toxin in this book is industrial. Not animal foods. Not only heavy metals. Not only a danger to children. Industrial. Real food from healthy animals and clean soil was never the problem; your great-grandmother’s kitchen is not the crime scene. The problem is what the last century of industry has done to the water, the air, the house and the plate.
Dr. Schulze, as usual, put it in one sentence:
“It doesn’t make any sense to consume foods that are grown with poisons and sprayed with poisons, when you are trying to get the poisons OUT of your body.” — Dr. Richard Schulze
So when you are unsure whether something belongs on your list, ask one question: Was this made in a factory? The answer will usually tell you where to look. If the ingredient list reads like a chemistry exam, you have your answer.
Where I Part Ways with My Teacher
I want to tell you plainly where I stand with Dr. Schulze, because you deserve to know. Gratitude to a teacher is not the same as signing up for the whole package.
I owe him a great deal. Dr. Schulze taught one of the courses I took at the School of Natural Healing, and I went on to learn his teachings outside the school as well. The curriculum I learned there was the curriculum he learned, refined over decades of clinical use, and no teacher has shaped my herbal work more. Arukah teaches his herbal and cleansing methods with gratitude. I agree with him that the body knows how to heal; that the bowel comes first in any cleanse; that real healing asks the person to take responsibility; and that the first step is to stop doing what is making you sick. You will find his herbs and his cleanses woven all through Chapters 12 and 13.
On one point I teach differently, and it is diet. Dr. Schulze recommended a vegan diet. I follow the research of Dr. Weston A. Price, who found that the healthiest traditional peoples on earth all ate nourishing animal foods: meat, organ meats, fish, eggs, butter and milk from healthy, pasture-raised animals. None of the peoples he studied were vegan. You already know from the Introduction what years of plant-only eating did to my own body: the B12 that slowly ran out, and the migraines that were its late signal. So in my house, and in what I teach, the Schulze herbs and cleanses sit on a Price table. You will put Dr. Price’s findings into practice in Chapter 6 and Chapter 13.
That is how I want you to hold every teacher in this book. Take what is proven in real lives, test the rest, and say plainly where you disagree. A good teacher can survive a student who thinks for herself.
The Order of the Search
In the Introduction I told you about the night before Passover, when my husband walks through our house by candlelight with the children, looking for the last crumb of leaven. That search is the shape of this book, from the first room to the last.
The family with the candle does not wander. It goes room by room, into the corners no one looks at the rest of the year, and it does not call the house clean until every room has been searched. When the leaven is found, it is gathered up and given to the fire. This book follows the same order, one room at a time.
This chapter lights the candle. It gives you the rule, the Total Body Burden, the pattern, and the teachers. Think of it as the map before the walk.
Then we search the house. Chapter 2 begins at the kitchen tap, with fluoride. Chapter 3 opens the cabinets and looks at the rest of the toxic home: the water beyond fluoride, plastics and hormone disruptors, the “forever chemicals,” personal care and cleaning products, and the air. Chapter 4 goes into the walls and the old fillings, to the heavy metals and the mold, the places nobody puts on the house tour.
Then we search the plate. Chapter 5 looks at GMOs and the weed killer glyphosate. Chapter 6 clears the industrial seed oils out of the pantry. Chapter 7 follows MSG and the other excitotoxins. Chapter 8 tells the story of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and the artificial sweeteners, a tale with more twists than a candy wrapper.
Then we search for what cannot be seen. Chapter 9 is about EMFs, the invisible toxin of the wireless age, the one you cannot wipe off a counter.
Then we open the medicine cabinet. Chapter 11, When Medicine Harms, is about the toxic load almost no one thinks to count, because it comes in a bottle with a doctor’s name on the label.
Then we come to the fire: the tools of cleansing. Chapter 12 teaches how the body actually detoxifies, so that you can support it wisely instead of guessing. Chapter 13, Nourish and Cleanse, gives you Dr. Schulze’s cleansing program to open the exits and clear the burden, and Dr. Price’s traditional foods to rebuild.
I am not claiming that the search must proceed in this exact sequence, or that a person may not clean up the pantry before she has filtered her water. There is no hall monitor checking your route. Begin in whatever room your life allows. What matters is that, over time, every room gets searched.
The Teachers Behind This Book
Every room we search leans on people who spent their careers studying one piece of the toxin puzzle. Before you repeat their words to a friend, a spouse or a client, you should know who they are, so that you can answer the question every skeptic eventually asks, usually right around dessert: Says who?
Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. — neurosurgeon and nutrition researcher. Dr. Blaylock is a board-certified neurosurgeon who trained at Louisiana State University School of Medicine and the Medical University of South Carolina. For decades he practiced brain surgery and, alongside it, a nutritional practice, and he served as a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. A brain surgeon has seen on the operating table what happens to nerve tissue; the people who write snack-food commercials have not. His book Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills brought the science of MSG and aspartame to the public, and his monthly Blaylock Wellness Report summarizes the research in plain language with full references. In 2004 he received the Integrity in Science Award from the Weston A. Price Foundation, the same nutritional tradition I follow. You will meet him in the chapters on fluoride, heavy metals, GMOs, seed oils, excitotoxins and sweeteners, and again in Chapter 11, When Medicine Harms.
Dr. Richard Schulze — Master Herbalist. Dr. Schulze’s path to herbalism began with tragedy. His father died in his arms when he was 11, and his mother died of a heart attack when he was 14. At 16 he was told he had a deformed heart and would not live to 20. He turned to natural healing, and by 19 his heart was declared normal. He apprenticed with the legendary Master Herbalist Dr. John R. Christopher, taught at the School of Natural Healing in Utah until Dr. Christopher’s death and for many years afterward as senior professor, ran natural healing clinics for decades with over 20,000 patient visits, and founded the American Botanical Pharmacy. He is honest that he is not a medical doctor. His authority comes from the clinic: thousands of real people getting well. You will meet him all through this book, and most of all in Chapters 12 and 13.
Dr. Joseph Mercola, D.O. — physician and health educator. Dr. Mercola is an osteopathic physician who founded Mercola.com in 1997. It grew into one of the most widely read natural health websites in the world, and he has written several best-selling books, including Sweet Deception on artificial sweeteners and EMF*D on wireless radiation, the book I send you to in Chapter 9 for depth. His special reports gather hundreds of studies into practical guides, and he consistently sends readers back to real food: grass-fed meat, raw dairy from pastured cows, organic produce and cooking at home. Not a meal-replacement shake in sight. You will meet him in the chapters on GMOs, sweeteners and EMFs.
Dr. Weston A. Price, D.D.S. — the dentist who traveled the world. In the 1930s, the Cleveland dentist Dr. Weston A. Price (1870–1948) noticed that his young patients had more tooth decay and more crowded, narrow jaws than earlier generations. So he packed his bags and set out to find people who still had perfect teeth, and he found them: in isolated Swiss mountain villages, the Outer Hebrides, Inuit communities, Indigenous peoples of North and South America, Pacific Islanders, the Maori, Aboriginal Australians and tribes in Africa. His 1939 book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, recorded what they ate. Their diets differed, but none were vegan. All prized certain animal foods: raw milk, butter and cheese from grass-fed cows; organ meats; fish, fish eggs and shellfish; and the fat of healthy animals. When the same peoples switched to what he called the “foods of modern commerce” (white flour, sugar, canned goods and vegetable oils), decay and ill health followed within a generation. One generation: that is how fast a factory menu works. Dr. Price studied healthy people instead of sick ones, which is exactly the question a holistic healer asks. You will meet him again in Chapters 2, 6 and 12.
Dr. Vernon Coleman, M.B., Ch.B. — a doctor who warns about doctors. Dr. Coleman is a British physician who practiced as a general practitioner and has spent decades writing about the risks of modern medical care, in books such as Coleman’s Laws and The End of Medicine. His credibility comes from the inside: he knows the medical system because he worked in it as a physician, the way a former chef knows what really goes on behind the kitchen door. You will meet him in Chapter 11.
Behind these teachers stand researchers who each patiently studied one piece of the puzzle, the unglamorous work behind every good warning. You will hear their names in the chapters that follow:
| Researcher | Why they matter | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. John Olney | Neuroscientist at Washington University whose research in the late 1960s showed that MSG kills brain cells in young animals. He coined the term “excitotoxin” and objected to aspartame’s approval. | 7 |
| Dr. Phyllis Mullenix | Toxicologist whose animal studies showed fluoride accumulating in the brain and changing behavior. | 2 |
| Dr. Stephanie Seneff | Senior research scientist at MIT who has published on glyphosate’s effects on gut bacteria and human health. | 5 |
| Dr. Charles Benbrook | Agricultural economist who used USDA data to show how herbicide use rose with herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. | 5 |
| Dr. Robert Lustig | Pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whose lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” and book Fat Chance underlie the documentary Sugar Coated. | 8 |
| Dr. Chris Knobbe | Ophthalmologist and former associate clinical professor at UT Southwestern who links the rise of seed oils to the diseases of civilization. | 6 |
| Dr. Shanna Swan | Reproductive epidemiologist at Mount Sinai whose research links hormone-disrupting chemicals in plastics and fragrance to falling sperm counts. | 3 |
| Dr. Christopher Shade | Researcher and founder of Quicksilver Scientific who teaches how the body clears mercury and other heavy metals. | 4, 11 |
| Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker | Physician who described biotoxin illness from mold, and why some people cannot clear mycotoxins. | 4 |
| Dr. Martin Pall | Professor emeritus of biochemistry at Washington State University whose research describes how wireless radiation acts on cells. | 9 |
| Dr. Bryan Walsh | Naturopathic physician who has taught detoxification to practitioners for two decades; his three-stage framework underlies how this book thinks about the body’s own detox work. | 11 |
How to Weigh Any Expert
Sooner or later, someone you love will read a page of this book and ask you that question: Says who? It is a good question, and it deserves better than a shrug. I want you to be able to answer it.
None of the teachers in this book is beyond question, and each of them has critics. That is true of every voice in health, including government agencies and medical associations, however official the letterhead. At Arukah we teach discernment with four simple tests:
- Follow the references. Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Mercola cite their studies. Look them up. A footnote is an invitation, not decoration.
- Follow the money. Ask who profits from a product being called safe, and who profits from a warning. Money rarely wanders far from a sales pitch.
- Look for agreement. When a neurosurgeon, an herbalist, a dentist and a physician arrive at the same conclusion from different directions, pay attention. That is not the start of a joke; it is a signal.
- Watch real people. Dr. John Christopher said he learned 5% of what he knew in school and 95% from his patients. Real lives make the best textbook.
Notice what is not on the list. The number of followers a teacher has, how confident he sounds, how many degrees hang on his wall: none of these tells you whether he is right. Confidence costs nothing. “Trust whoever has the most followers” is not a test at all. It is a popularity contest.
Use the same tests on the other side, too. Each chapter of this book notes where mainstream medicine disagrees, and why, so that a friend’s objection never catches you flat-footed. And when someone tells you, “My doctor says this is perfectly safe,” you do not need to tell them their doctor is wrong. Respect the doctor and respect the person. Share where the concern comes from, point out that experts from different fields have reached the same warning, and invite them to read the sources and decide for themselves. You do not tell them what to do. You are offering a candle, not a verdict.
Becoming a Great Patient: Where to Start
There is a quieter step that comes before any of the chapters that follow, and it costs nothing but a pen and a little attention.
Most people never connect their tap water, their salad dressing, their diet soda or their new prescription to how they feel. They have been told these things are safe, usually in a cheerful font. So the first work, for yourself or for anyone you help, is simply to see what is coming in every day. Write down everything you ate, drank, breathed and put on your skin yesterday. Then mark each item that was made in a factory. You may need more ink than you expected. Do it without fear and without shame. None of us chose most of our exposures, and alarm helps no one. Calm, practical steps do.
When a friend tells me she is about to buy a detox kit this week, I do not recommend the strongest kit on the market. I ask her to wait a week and make that list first. She does not need a product first; she needs to see her daily inputs. The kit, I promise, will still be on the shelf. Then we choose one change to start with, not twelve. Stop what is making her sick before adding anything.
Dr. Schulze liked to say that everyone is looking for a good doctor, but he was looking for great patients: people willing to take responsibility. The very first of his twenty steps to a healthier life is to take responsibility for your own life and your own health. This book is where you learn to become a great patient of your own body. And if you help others, as many of my readers do, your work is the same: to teach, to help people see their exposures, and to walk with them as they lower the burden. One warning belongs at the very start: some drugs are dangerous to stop suddenly, so medications come down gradually, with the prescriber, as the body heals. I say more about that in Chapter 11.
When the list is made, do not try to do everything at once. Pick the one item that, in your honest assessment, is the largest single source of toxic exposure in your current life. For many of my students it is the water, because water is consumed in such large daily volumes. For some it is the cookware, because it touches every meal. For some it is the personal care products, particularly for women, who apply more products to more of their skin. For some it is mold in the home, because mold is producing toxin twenty-four hours a day, with no weekends off, and the people in the home are breathing it constantly.
Pick one. Fix that one. Then pick the next one. One source a month is enough; this is a long walk, not a shopping spree. The work, done seven times, is what produces the flesh of a little child.
“Natural Healing is NOT about temporary, quick fixes or pills to mask symptoms.” — Dr. Richard Schulze
The candle is in your hand. The kitchen tap is the first place we will look, so bring your curiosity and leave the panic at the door. Let us go.
Footnotes and sources for this chapter
Sources and Further Reading
On Dr. Schulze and the rule for healing
- Schulze, R. Dr. Schulze’s 20 Powerful Steps to a Healthier Life. Natural Healing Publications.
- Schulze, R. Common Sense Health and Healing. Natural Healing Publications.
- Schulze, R. Creating Powerful Health Naturally (talk, parts 1 and 2), the video for Lesson 1 of the Everyday Toxins course.
- Christopher, J. R. School of Natural Healing. Christopher Publications, 1976.
On the oxidation framework
- Levy, T. E. The Only Cause of Disease: Healing by Reversing Pathology. MedFox Publishing, 2025.
On the scope of environmental toxin exposure and the Total Body Burden
- Environmental Working Group. Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns. July 2005. The original study tested cord blood from ten newborns at U.S. hospitals and identified 287 different industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides.
- American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts Service registry statistics; and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) inventory.
- Rogers, S. A. Detoxify or Die. Sand Key Company, 2002.
- Baker, S. Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health. McGraw-Hill, revised edition 2004.
- Crinnion, W. Clean, Green, and Lean: Get Rid of the Toxins That Make You Fat. Wiley, 2010.
- Pizzorno, J. The Toxin Solution. HarperOne, 2017.
On the teachers
- Blaylock, R. L. Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. Health Press, 1994; and The Blaylock Wellness Report (monthly).
- Mercola, J. Sweet Deception. Thomas Nelson, 2006; and EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself. Hay House, 2020.
- Price, W. A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. 1939; Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, eighth edition 2009.
- Coleman, V. Coleman’s Laws: Twelve Essential Medical Secrets Which Could Save Your Life; and The End of Medicine.
On Naaman and the Jordan
- 2 Kings 5:1–14.