In today’s society we must simply accept that we are inevitably exposed to numerous toxins all the time. The most we can hope to do, short of moving to Alaska and living in a log cabin far from civilization, is to minimize our exposure and maximize our defenses.

To minimize your exposure, start by considering the water you drink. Your household water is probably chlorinated and fluoridated by your municipality and may also be picking up copper and lead as it passes through metal pipes on its way to you. (I’ll talk about just how dangerous lead is to you a little later in this chapter.) The chlorine and fluoride are added to kill bacteria-which means they kill all bacteria, including the beneficial bacteria in your intestines. Even worse, tap water may have been contaminated along the way with dangerous pathogens, such as E. coli or cryptosporidium, that chlorine doesn’t kill. These pathogens can cause severe stomach upsets. Indeed, children, the elderly, and anyone with a compromised immune system can die from them. I strongly recommend that you install household water filters on all the taps in your home. I recommend using the ceramic filter type, which is reasonably priced, easy to install, and lasts a long time. When pure filtered water isn’t available, stick to bottled water whenever possible. (Although, I must say, bottling does not always provide assurance that the water is not contaminated.)

The very air you breathe can be a major source of toxins. You might think that the problem of air pollution isn’t so bad if you don’t live in a city that regularly has smog alerts, but that’s not necessarily the case. At the Atkins Center we frequently see patients who complain that they often get headaches, dizziness, anxiety, and “brain fog” at the office. They put it down to the stress of their jobs. My first question is, “Do you work in a sealed office building, the kind where you can’t open the windows?” If the answer is yes, as it often is, we’ve often found the root of the problem. It isn’t stress-these people are perfectly capable of doing their jobs well. It’s their environment. The sealed building typical of a suburban office park is a sinkhole for all the chemicals that are found in today’s offices. Toxic fumes from carpeting, paint, plastic furniture, copying machines, solvents, cleaning fluids, and many more substances are trapped inside the building, especially if the ventilation system is poor, as it often is. You end up breathing them in, along with all the germs exhaled by your fellow workers. It’s not surprising that “sick building syndrome” sometimes leads to epidemics of chronic fatigue, headaches, dizziness, rashes, and other symptoms among the workers in an office.

You can reduce the toxic level of the air around you by insisting that your work environment be properly ventilated, as federal law requires. At home, and if possible at the office, use HEPA air filters, which are very good for removing toxins, particulates, and allergens such as mold spores from the air.

Your body uses essential fatty acids for a number of important functions. First and foremost, they’re used to make eicosanoids and prostaglandins, short-lived, hormonelike substances that regulate many activities in your body. Among other things, eicosanoids and prostaglandins control your blood pressure, control your body temperature, regulate inflammation, swelling, and pain, and are involved in blood clotting, allergic reactions, and making other hormones.

As your body makes the different eicosanoids and prostaglandins, it uses mostly omega-3s for some and mostly omega 6s for others. You can think of the two fatty acids as the brake and accelerator pedals in a car-you need both to drive. If you keep your foot mostly on the accelerator or the brake, however, instead of using both judiciously, you’re driving unsafely.

The introduction of vegetable oils made from corn, peanuts, and other sources in the twentieth century has led to a serious imbalance in the amounts of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in the American diet. In general, humans need to take in at least 2 to 3 percent of their fat as omega-6 fatty acids and at least 1 to 1.5 percent as omega-3s. Another way to look at this is that overall you need no more than twice as much omega-6 as omega-3 fatty acids. Unfortunately, the modern American diet has this balance seriously distorted, to the point where we eat many times more omega-6 fatty acids. Historically, in the days before refined vegetable oils, people got their essential fatty acids from whole grains, nuts, vegetables, and egg yolks. Today, the average American consumes large amounts of refined corn, soy, safflower, and canola oils, which are extra-high in omega-6 fatty acids, and relatively little omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish, egg yolks, nuts and nut oils, unrefined vegetable oils, and whole grains. The resulting imbalance, along with the widespread use of trans fats, is strongly implicated, in my opinion and in the opinion of many others, in today’s epidemic levels of heart disease, cancer, inflammatory ailments, autoimmune illnesses, and other chronic, degenerative diseases. Rebalancing your intake of these essential fatty acids is crucial to the age-defying diet.

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