Part 3: Detox Before Weight Loss – Toxins are the Root Cause of Obesity and Disease

What are toxins?

The toxins I'm referring to are not arsenic, sarin (isopropyl methylphosphonate), potassium cyanide, or other toxic substances, but rather waste products and toxic substances produced in the body.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "a hundred diseases arise from turbid blood," meaning that the accumulation of toxins in the body leads to illness. Therefore, I want to emphasize two points: first, try not to accumulate toxins in the body, and second, expel toxins from the body as soon as possible.

Toxins cause obesity, and obesity causes disease.

The accumulation of toxins in the body can slow down metabolism and reduce excretion, causing people to gain weight without realizing it.

Toxins in the body tend to accumulate in areas with low metabolism and fat deposits. Because various waste products and toxins escape into fat cells and accumulate there, obese individuals accumulate large amounts of toxins, leading to various physical discomforts and, in severe cases, even threatening their lives.

Obese people often sweat, partly due to the increased subcutaneous fat causing a decline in skin function; and partly because about 60% of body weight is water, obese people have excessive water in their bodies.

In addition to excessive sweating, obese people are also prone to skin diseases such as eczema and athlete's foot.

In addition, obese women are prone to various complications during pregnancy, increasing the risks during childbirth and causing diseases such as vaginitis and vulvar eczema. Although obese people may appear strong, they lack strength, have slower cognitive function, and move sluggishly, making them more susceptible to traffic accidents.

It is clear that obesity is the root cause of almost all diseases. Here, I have briefly summarized the diseases that obesity can cause, and I hope everyone will lose weight as soon as possible.

Obesity can place an excessive burden on the bones, heart, respiratory system, urinary system, and other organs.

• Osteoarthritis (lower back pain, knee pain).

Heart failure, high blood pressure.

• Reduced vital capacity (disordered gas exchange, sleep apnea syndrome).

• Kidney disease (chronic nephritis).

Overeating can lead to various diseases such as hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia.

• Hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction.

• Hyperuricemia (which can lead to gout in severe cases).

• High blood sugar (which can lead to diabetes in severe cases).

• Fatty liver.

• Gallstones, cholecystitis.

• Pancreatitis.

Slow movement can cause pain and cardiovascular disease.

• Lower back pain.

• Diabetes, hypertension, myocardial infarction.

Increased subcutaneous fat and decreased skin function

• Hyperhidrosis, prickly heat.

• Itching, eczema, athlete's foot, insect bites.

• Skin suppuration.

Diseases caused by insufficient or excessive hormone secretion

· diabetes.

Hypothyroidism.

• Ovarian insufficiency, uterine hypoplasia, infertility, menstrual abnormalities.

• Erectile dysfunction.

Surgical diseases

• Hernia.

• Postoperative infection is common and recovery is difficult.

Gynecological diseases

• Pregnancy complications, higher risks during childbirth, and perinatal abnormalities.

• Vaginitis, vulvar eczema.

• Uterine endometrial cancer.

other

• Changes in temperament (becoming lazy, listless, and emotionally numb).

• Due to their slow movements, they are prone to accidents.

Obesity leads to increased mortality

Japanese sumo wrestlers have short lifespans because they become extremely sedentary after retirement, gradually developing into fatty obesity.

Most sumo wrestlers who reach the pinnacle of the sport, "Yokozuna" (the highest rank in Japanese sumo), have short lifespans. Examples include Futabayama (56 years old, acute hepatitis), who was known as "Kakusei" for his 69 consecutive victories; Haguroyama (54 years old, uremia); Aki Kai (64 years old, heart failure); Terukuni (58 years old, myocardial infarction); Maedayama (57 years old, cirrhosis); Chiyoyama (51 years old, liver cancer); Yoshihayama (57 years old, kidney failure); and Kashiwado (58 years old, liver failure). The 51st Yokozuna, Tamami, died at the age of 27 from acute pulmonary failure.

Although this is an old topic, we can still see the negative impact of obesity on human health. A 1979 article published by the American Life Insurance Association shows that as obesity rates rise, so does mortality rates.

Assuming a 100% mortality rate for people of normal weight, relevant data shows that, excluding tuberculosis and suicide, the mortality rate for obese individuals from other causes is significantly higher than that for people of normal weight. This indicates that obesity reduces lifespan.

Dr. Ishihara explains: Why fat people like to nap during the day.

Charles Dickens, the great British writer, created a famous novel called *The Pickwick Papers*. In it, he created a literary character named Joe, who works for the protagonist Pickwick's friend. Joe is a fat boy with a huge appetite and is constantly dozing off, even while standing or driving a carriage. His days are essentially spent eating and sleeping.

Later, medical scientists named the disease of "severe obesity and drowsiness at all times and in all places" "Pickwick syndrome".

Because obese people accumulate a lot of fat from their neck to their chest, it compresses their trachea and lungs, causing insufficient oxygen intake and difficulty breathing during sleep (sleep apnea syndrome), making it impossible for them to enter a deep sleep. Therefore, obese people often doze off during the day.

In severe cases, patients may experience a serious lack of oxygen intake due to respiratory distress, which can lead to heart failure and sudden death.

In patients with Pickwick syndrome, almost all symptoms are relieved after weight loss.

(Graphs showing the relationship between obesity and mortality rates, and mortality rates for different causes of death among obese individuals are omitted.)