About 4 years ago, I made a presentation at a clinical nutritionists meeting in Las Vegas, proposing that toxicity (solvents, heavy metals, toxins produced by bacteria and parasites, etc) were part of the reason for the growing obesity issues facing people today.   I proposed that some toxins have the ability to block the entry point of the citric acid (Kreb’s) cycle and cause our resting metabolism to go down, sometimes dramatically.  Additionally, a number of these toxins are endocrine disruptors affecting the thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, hypothalamus and pancreas. 

Four weeks ago my brother came to my house and proclaimed that toxicologists have just discovered that obesity and toxicity are being linked together.  Needless to say my wife and I had a big laugh and reminded him of what I had proposed a few years before.  The abstracts of the presentations done at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology are available at http://www.toxicology.org. Beware, it is a huge file (552 pages).

I spent the past 4 days going though it and noticed a number of abstracts related to obesity and toxicity (start on page 307, abstracts 1503 – 1508). I will be posting some of the most pertinent issues and abstracts on this website in the coming weeks along with commentary.