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Chapter 6. Step Two, Part One
Optimizing the Methylation Cycle
Once you get the test results, you will most likely wish to move ahead with
this program. However, before you begin to implement the suggestions
in this chapter, I want to alert you to two things. First, it’s important
to implement suggestions in the correct sequence. Second, since detoxification
can be very stressful on the body, I always advise people to take sufficient time
doing the Step One recommendations before they progress to Step Two. In addition,
Step One supports can and should be continued as you move ahead with
the program for as long as needed. For some, that will be for quite some time,
even lifelong. For others, once the major detoxification has successfully restored
function, a gradual step-down in supports, with your practitioner’s guidance,
may be possible. However, although the goal of the detox portion of the program
is to reduce the current toxic burden, please keep in mind that there is no way
to permanently eliminate all future toxic environmental exposures. To maintain
health, those with vulnerable genetics may need to support their methylation
cycle and some of their organs lifelong.
Understanding Detoxification
In Step Two, you will restore methylation function and thus promote detoxification.
Since improved methylation prompts the body to excrete accumulated
virus, metals, and bacteria, it’s important to understand that the body’s natural
process of detoxification differs from the kind of excretion that results from chelation
therapy.
To understand the distinction, picture a revolving door (the kind you might see
in an office building or hotel.) In our bodies, toxins come in and go out, just as
people come and go through the revolving doors. This is an ongoing process
throughout our lives, which helps us survive in a toxin-filled world. However,
for those with methylation cycle mutations, the revolving door does not work
so well. Toxins come in, but they don’t go out easily. Instead, they accumulate.
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