Chemical intervention is the predominant tool of conventional medicine today.
Our bodies demonstrate the amazing power and range of chemical activity, utilizing neuropeptides, neurotransmitters and hormones, for example, to carry information and energy in our systems, and to direct and implement many of our physiological processes. Even our thoughts and emotions are mediated through the activity of chemicals, causing us to experience abstract ideas as actual feelings.

Because so much of our physiology is mediated through chemistry it is very important to be aware of what chemical environments our bodies may be reacting with, whether in the form of drugs and nutrition taken internally, or synthetic, man-made chemicals we are exposed to externally. During the previous two centuries we learned how to make hundreds of thousands of synthetic chemicals to help us control both our internal and external environments. To manage weeds in our gardens we use herbicides, to manage depression in our brains we use Prozac.

However, these hundreds of thousands of man-made chemicals that have since been manufactured and released into our environment means that today we hear more stories about the devastating effects of toxicity and pollution on our environments rather than celebrating the better life we were promised.

Just a few years ago, a British journalist conducted a study on toxicity levels in the environment. She underwent testing at a biotechnology lab in London, and found that over 500 man-made chemicals were present in each and every cell in her fit and healthy 30 year old body. Recently a mother delivering her baby on a remote tropical island was amazed to find evidence of chemical pesticides, such as DDT, already present in her baby at birth.

4 Element Integration

Our physical, mental and emotional health is readily affected by chemistry and we must therefore monitor our environments carefully. To maintain and regenerate our structural components our bodies need to intake chemicals such as glucosamine and sulphur, for example. For mental health we need sufficient intake of amino acids to prevent depletion of serotonin and norepinephrine. Energetically molecular vibrations facilitate activity between the chemical and energetic systems of the body at the cellular level.

To take full advantage of the benefits of chemistry while avoiding its potential harms, we must become aware of our toxicity levels and learn now to detoxify safely (using modalities such as homotoxicology) to positively affect the chemical consistency in our bodies.