A DETOX DOCTOR OF 20+ YEARS: “THIS IS WHY YOU’RE SICK

Detox Goes Mainstream

Dr Pompa 0:00

On this episode of the Dr. Pompa podcast, everything detox. Right now, detox is becoming very popular. I was watching Fox News this week and I took several pictures to show my team about all of the detoxes that are being marketed right now. There was a parasite detox, there was a liver detox, a lymph detox. So detox is in vogue. Why? Why? Because I think people are getting it. Finally, I've been at this for 20 plus years, teaching doctors how to detox correctly. So I think I know a little bit about the subject, I would say. Uh, and I will always say this everything that I teach came out of what God, I believe in my heart of hearts that God gave me for such a time as this. And to get my life back? No, yes, it got my life back. But for so many people today, looking for an answer for the fatigue, the brain fog, the anxiety, the chronic pain, can't sleep, you name it, weird conditions, of course, chronic gut uh conditions, all that comes down to certain toxins. Look,

Chronic Disease And The Toxin Shift

Dr Pompa 1:05

if we look at what was the latest number um on uh the from the CDC of chronic illness in this country, I think it was 74.6% of the population has some chronic disease. What? What what you know when we talk about backing that up 60 years ago, you know, you were under at least 10%. Maybe some uh feel it's under 6%. Like what happened when we look at the amount of chronic disease in kids? What's happened? Since 1970, a 69% increase in childhood cancers. What's happened? Autism rates, one in 30,000 to today, one in 31, one in 12 in some states. I mean, come on. We're where were the asthma cases when we were kids? I'm 60. So y'all that are my age would say there weren't any. We didn't have autism in our classrooms. We didn't have asthma, kids on inhalers. Where were all the autoimmune conditions in kids? Where were the obese kids? One in five kids obese today? Okay, what's changed? Toxins has changed. And you've heard me say this if you've watched my Instagram or even some of the videos I've

Ultra-Processed Food Explained Clearly

Dr Pompa 2:18

done. Ultra processed food change. But what is an ultra-processed food? It's not whiter bread. It's not white pasta. That's not what an ultra-processed food is. No, it's the same three ingredients that we grew up on as kids. I ate plenty of white bread. I had plenty of white pasta and white rice and processed foods, but ultra-processed isn't whiter bread. No, it's a list of ingredients this long. And those ingredients are chemicals. So it's more chemicals. That's what ultra-processed food is. Yes, that's driving chronic disease like no time ever in the history of humanity. Oh, and by the way, it's not just the ingredients that you can't read that are on the list. And my saying is if you can't read it, don't eat it. It's even the chemicals that aren't on the list, the glyphosate that is sprayed on most of our food today, that's estimated to be in 60% even of rainfall. That's how prevalent it is. And yes, that is leading to major, major

Glyphosate Plastics And Hidden Exposures

Dr Pompa 3:20

illness, billions of dollars being awarded to non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer affecting kids because of this chemical, and it's causing even more than that. That's just one chemical. What about the other pesticides? What about the forever chemicals, the plastics, the microplastics that are feminizing our boys, our children, period, hormone disruptors? What about all of that that is accumulated, not just in our food supply, but personal care products? What are we washing our clothes in? All of this is new to humanity. The largest human experiment ever is being done right now on our children. My children's, my children is the first generation to not outlive their parents. That's what we are up against. I feel like the only ones really getting it are moms out there. So no offense, dads, but you know, you're hard at work for your families. I'll give you that. But moms are hard at work and they're seeing the problems with the kids, their health challenges. One out of five kids with learning disabilities, right? So this is absolutely being the solutions, I should say, are being driven by moms looking for answers for the kids. 70% of my following on Instagram is women, probably a lot of moms looking for answers, what to do, because they're privy now to the fact that chemicals in food, water, personal care products, what are you washing your clothes in, everything that we're bringing into our homes is the cause of why people don't feel well. So therefore,

Why Most Detox Products Disappoint

Dr Pompa 4:55

full circle here, detox is become in vogue. The problem is, is most of the most of the detoxes that you're being confronted with or that are being very popular right now are crap. They don't work. I am not going to, I'm not here to sell you on what I teach or do. I'm not. Go to pompaprogram.com, watch some videos I've done. I've been teaching it 20 years. What I am here to say is I just want you to understand what's real, what helps. Let's start there.

Saunas Help But Can Backfire

Dr Pompa 5:31

Do saunas help? I think saunas are great. I have one, I use one, but I do want to be clear that when you already have fatigue, when you already have brain fog, anxiety, uh, all the conditions that we've been talking about, hormone disruptors, uh disruption from thyroid conditions to just estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, a sauna is beneficial, but in and itself, it is not a deep enough detox. Major benefits to sauna. It opens up a detox pathway uh via the skin, heat shock proteins, all beneficial. But I can tell you that I did plenty of saunas when I was sick. Oftentimes, it actually would make me worse because it was only part of what detox really is. So I couldn't handle the stress of the heat oftentimes. So I would do less heat. And, but still I would end up not feeling good, especially days later after a sauna. Now, that is an indicator that is not the full picture of what actually real detox is. The average person who's not sick can benefit from saunas. I'm not saying that that's not the case. I recommend them. But understand that if you have some type of challenge or your child does, saunas could make things worse, not better. Down the road, as we do detox, I typically teach how to add saunas in. Okay, what about um these different like 10-day cleanses, the cleanses that you see at your chiropractor, um, your natural practitioner?

Cleanses And Juices That Redistribute Toxins

Dr Pompa 7:06

Most of those cleanses that are on the market, and yes, they're in Whole Foods and other um places, they utilize weak binders. These are herbals typically, or certain vitamins, Nacetylcysteine, milk thistle, cilantra, corella. I could go down a long list, dandelion root. Okay, and again, some of those things can be beneficial, but in most people that are very toxic, most children, they actually cause a stirring of toxins, meaning they can upregulate phase two liver detox, as one example. They can be chelators, but weak, like Corella and cilantra, where they grab toxins, but they're not strong enough to pull it all the way out of the body. So it redistributes. It's like a street cleaner. You've seen them. They go down the street and you see this plume. And this is our tax dollars at work, by the way. You see this dust plume around them, and then the dust is settling on the cars and the sidewalk and the road, right? It's settling back down. It might pick up a few cups along the way, but what are these things doing? They move the dirt off the street typically and put it in the air somewhere else. Okay, that's what these types of cleanses do. They typically redistribute the toxins just like the street cleaners do. But unfortunately, as innocent as it is that it falls somewhere else, you know, on the sidewalk, not so innocent in the human body, because it redistributes to deeper tissues like the brain. And so you're just moving the furniture on the Titanic and, you know, worse yet, to a more dangerous place. Not a fan of those detoxes, not a fan at all. Most of them are what I call poopers. They put things in it that make you go to the bathroom. Because if we can get the consumer, this is the conversation in the room. If we can get the consumer to have an action, so to speak, go to the bathroom. Ah, something happened. So I felt good about my purpose or my purchase, I should say. And, you know, but yet at the end of the day, do they feel better lasting? No. Uh, if you're constipated, it makes you go. You do feel better. But is that really the problem? No. Why'd you get constipated in the first place? So most of these products are just poopers. They're weak binders. They typically are just moving the furniture around on the Titanic, not solving the real problem. So, not a fan of those. All right. What about um uh the juice cleanses, right? This fasting cleanse or juice cleanse, very popular. Uh, you know, you hear a lot about these types of things, but the problem with these is very similar. At best, they do nothing, but at worst, they too can mobilize toxins. And I I think, you know, you get a lot of the juice cleanses. And I listen, I when you don't eat a lot of foods that are inflaming you, there's a benefit. So I think many of you watching this say, yeah, but I benefit from it. I really do feel better, of course. So I'm not saying you don't feel better, but what I'm saying is, is it's not true detox, right? So it's not really getting to the toxins that have bioaccumulated through the last 60 years, if you're 60 years old or 30 years, if you're 30 years, because see, isn't that the problem? We're accumulating these toxins from the womb to the tomb. They accumulate, they bioaccumulate, they stockpile in our bodies that we don't get rid of them. And I'm gonna tell you why that's the biggest problem, right? So it's really not getting to those. I'm all about fasting, but people that are very toxic can't fast with success because they redistribute toxins. So, not a fan of that for detox either. A lot of the things that you read about um Nacetylcysteine, glutathione, uh, those things I put in some detox products as part of detox, but when taken by themselves, typically they do very little, if any, lasting good.

The Cellular Model Of Real Detox

Dr Pompa 11:05

The key to detox, typically I draw this out. What is real detox? It's getting the cells to do what exactly God designed them to do. Get rid of toxins all day long. See, as you make energy in your cells in the form of ATP in a place in the cell called the mitochondria, you make waste. No different than if I burn wood in a fireplace, it makes smoke. And if you have the damper open and the smoke goes out, all is well. But what if the damper gets closed? See, when cells become inflamed more toxic, it's the dampers get shut down. Toxins build up in the cell. Cellular fatigue, toxic cellular fatigue or cellular toxic fatigue syndrome is becoming more and more why people aren't feeling well and nothing works. And what that simply means is the toxins are literally building up in the cell. Why? Because the cell's detox pathways are fatigued. Yep. As tired as you feel, that's what your cells are. They're tired. So the cells are not getting rid of the toxins because the detox pathways are compromised. Why? Because didn't God design them to detox? You said that. So what's happened? It's an overwhelm of the amount of toxins in the last 60 years that we're now overwhelming our pathways that God gave us in the cell. And therefore, the pathways start to slow down. Oh, and now the toxins build up in the cell. And now the pathways get slower and slower and slower. And that's when now you don't make cellular energy. Oh, and something else bad can happen. Your cells can go into what we call a cellular danger response, where now it goes into instead of your mitochondria making energy, like we learned, it's the powerhouse of the cell, it goes from factory mode to surveillance survival or battleship mode, where it's going to just save your life. And you know what it does there? Is it takes the energy, the ATP it makes, and it puts it out as a signaling molecule to get your immune system to be activated because it thinks it's in danger. So now you're left in fatigue because your body's trying to survive. It's holding on to the very energy. But you know what eventually happens? Hormones start to compensate for that. Hormones start to upregulate, adrenaline to make up for the energy, your thyroid, and it leaves you hormonally depleted almost in a phase two. Sound familiar? So, step one of real detox is getting those pathways to actually start working again. The detox pathways that God put there, upregulating them, getting them to move again. So, again, that's a lot of what I teach. And then making sure once we get those toxins moving out, that we use real chelators that grab on and don't let go and bring them all the way out of the body and using binders in the gut so you don't reabsorb from there. It's a three-step process of what real detox is. But what I want you to hear now is, you know, really what real detox

Lower Your Daily Toxic Load

Dr Pompa 14:12

is. What step one you can do is you can minimize your intake of toxins for you and your family. That's meaning watch my Instagram page, you know, look at the toxic top 10 that I talk about of you know how to minimize what's coming into your directly into your bodies, directly into your home. What are you washing your clothes in, what makeups and personal care products you're using, get rid of all fragrance in your house, right? So minimize the plastic products that you're using. All of that is coming into your cells, making them more stressed, weakening the detox pathways, enabling them to do their thing, get rid of getting rid of the toxins. Okay, so real detox is a cellular issue. Um, all of these tox uh detoxes that you're seeing out there, not worth your money. I think, I believe, and this is why my Instagram page is based on this, we need to focus on what we're bringing into our bodies, putting into our bodies. Do I believe that everyone should eat organic these days, all organic? I do. If you can't afford organic, although I think you need to make yourself afford organic today, um, because of all the pesticides or besides everything that's being sprayed on our food today, absolutely is decimating the health of our gut and our immune system. So if you can't afford it, go at least avoid the dirty dozen, eat from the clean 15. But step one, eat organic. Step two, make sure that you have a whole house water filtration or at least a point of service, meaning a reverse osmosis system that takes out all the chemicals that are coming in the water. Avoid the plastics, as I said, avoid fragrance in everything, shampoos, personal care products, what you're washing, your laundry detergents or your clothes in, you know, avoid all of that. Okay, but look, the the point is is because we have to take that stress off of ourselves, that that incoming stress of all the toxins and avoid these things as best we can. So I believe that is the big step one. I think we need to change the food rating. Ultra-processed food has to be avoided in our children. We need to, hey, at least get back to real processed food, right? What organic wheat flour, right? Real three to uh three-ingredient bread the way it was back in the old days. Organic sprouted wheat flour, uh, you know, even though it's white is better than the processed food with all the ingredients, ultra-processed food with all the ingredients. But so the thing that you can control today is what you're putting in, is my point. Real detox, I already told you, go to pompaprogram.com, watch a whole teach, same teaching that I've done for doctors over 20 years and educate yourself further there. Um, but at least from this, you're not going to be fooled by what we think is the

Parasite Cleanses And Closing Steps

Dr Pompa 17:06

next detox. And by the way, parasite cleanse, although they can be helpful, that's not a detox. That's killing parasites. And by the way, the better question is why do you have parasites in the first place? Because something crushed your good microbiome. And it's typically toxins upstream from parasites. So that's another message for another uh podcast. But at least share this podcast what's real in the world of detox. What can you do about it? Start by what you are putting in, your family. What are you putting into your homes, your personal care products, and what you're bringing into your home? What are you washing your clothes with? Start right there. And yes, check out pompaprogram.com and watch some of the educational videos I have on what real detox is. I'll see you on the next episode of the Dr. Pompa podcast.