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Interview with Detoxification Expert—Doctor Marianne Marchese
Dr. Marianne Marchese
Smart Publications Interview with Dr. Marianne Marchese, author of 8 Weeks to Women's Wellness: The Detoxification Plan for Breast Cancer, Endometriosis, Infertility and Other Women's Health Conditions.
Conducted by Smart Publications Founder, John Morgenthaler, 1/26/2011
John: Thank you Dr. Marchese for agreeing to this interview. Can you start us off by stating the full name of your book?
Dr. Marchese: Certainly, it’s called 8 Weeks to Women's Wellness: The Detoxification Plan for Breast Cancer, Endometriosis, Infertility and Other Women's Health Conditions.
John: So there is an enumeration of health issues. How many different women’s health issues are discussed? Can you name them?
Dr. Marchese: There are 10 conditions I discuss in-depth including: breast cancer, endometriosis, fibroids, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, heart disease, as specifically related to women, infertility, miscarriage and premature birth, as well as osteoporosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and thyroid disorders.
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John: Now are all those illnesses—should I call them illnesses? Or syndromes?
Dr. Marchese: Conditions, health conditions.
John: Conditions. Are all these conditions associated with environmental toxins?
Dr. Marchese: They are. These are common women’s health conditions that I see every day in my practice. The cause of each of these conditions is multi-factorial. But what is often overlooked by many physicians is the link to chemicals in the environment to these conditions.
John: So you are looking at these conditions as having multiple causations.
Dr. Marchese: Correct.
John: But an environmental toxin thrown into the mix could be just the thing that tips a person over into developing a condition rather than not developing the condition, is that correct?
Dr. Marchese: Absolutely... Oftentimes, especially with breast cancer, it’s hard to pinpoint one single causative agent. We know there are many causes to these health conditions. But chemicals in the environment are a cause that is often overlooked and people don’t consider addressing that aspect of the condition.
John: I’ve often thought that when conditions have multiple causation—when there are many things that cause it simultaneously—then that situation has been a very confusing one for medicine. Would you agree?
Dr. Marchese: That’s true, it is confusing. Take heart disease for example. If somebody is a smoker and they eat fast food every day and they are overweight, well those are contributing factors. However, at the same time if you add in the fact that some of the air that they are breathing, and the water they are drinking, and products that they are using in their home, contain chemicals that are linked to heart disease, is that enough to tip the person over the edge to develop a health condition?
John: Right. And the environmental toxins themselves... although they might be tested by the EPA individually, there is not a lot known about how they interact with each other. I read one book about a similar topic by Sherry Rogers, and she was talking about the synergistic effects of these toxins.
Dr. Marchese: Right, and I discuss the synergistic effect in my book toward the beginning. I discuss how oftentimes government regulators look at whether a single environmental chemical at a very high dose is going to be harmful to human health. When in reality, we are exposed at very low doses every day to multiple chemicals. We are starting to see science and research done on these low dose exposures to more than one chemical at a time. We are seeing some interesting links to women’s health conditions.
John: Are we seeing science now that looks at exposing animals to the full array of toxins all simultaneously that humans might be exposed to?
Dr. Marchese: We are... There are studies done on animals but we also have epidemiological studies and correlative studies on humans showing low dose exposure is linked to health problems in women.
John: Okay, so lets back up a little bit. What are some of the toxins you are talking about? And where do people get exposed to them?
Dr. Marchese: I’m referring to chemicals that women are exposed to through food: eating fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy products, the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the water we use for cooking and showering and bathing, chemicals that are in cosmetics and cleaning products, and basically every day living.
Some of the chemicals that I am referring to are heavy metals. For example mercury that is in fish, pesticides that are on fruits and vegetables, chemicals called solvents that are in cleaning products, chemicals such as bisphenol-A and phthalates which are in plastic water bottles and other plastic containers. All these chemicals I describe in detail in the book and outline how these chemicals cause health effects in women.
John: So how solid is the scientific evidence that connects these toxins to the various conditions that you discuss?
Dr. Marchese: Well, the evidence is solid. It’s there and it has been there for years.
Back in 1962, Rachel Carson first outlined how chemicals in the environment were affecting wildlife. She published this information in a book back in 1962 called Silent Spring. She is credited with starting the environmental movement. Now here we are 50 years later, talking about how chemicals affect human health, not just wildlife. We are trying to educate women and the public on how to avoid these chemicals so we can avoid developing these health conditions, or perhaps reverse these health conditions. Throughout the book I cite the recently published scientific articles linking these chemicals to health conditions.
John: So you are not only talking about prevention of these conditions you are also talking about treatment of them if they occur.
Dr. Marchese: Absolutely. Because a lot of times if you remove these chemicals from the body, which is outlined in the chapter on how to do an 8 week detoxification plan for removing chemicals, you are decreasing the amount of chemicals in the body, so then your body can then help heal itself.
John: So if somebody has one of these conditions, breast cancer, endometriosis, or what not, then a thorough detoxification program might be just the thing to put them into a better health state so their body can actually deal with the condition that’s going on.
Dr. Marchese: Correct.
John: Why is the title of your book 8 Weeks to Women’s Wellness instead of... what is the magic about the number 8?
Dr. Marchese: Well there is no real magic to the number 8, but what I have seen clinically is that it takes 8 weeks to really make changes. You see, the treatment that I outline does involve making some dietary and lifestyle changes, that if followed for 8 weeks, will hopefully become changes for life. I have found in clinical practice that anything less than 8 weeks, then women would only make a temporary change. Some women do something for 3 weeks or 4 weeks or 5 weeks, but then they go back to their old patterns of eating, their old patterns of not exercising, and their old patterns of using products that might have harmful chemicals in them. So I think 8 weeks is a very realistic time frame to not only improve a woman’s health, but also to make some permanent changes in her life.
John: To firmly establish the new habits...
Dr. Marchese: Right.
John: In your book, 8 Weeks to Women’s Wellness you mention body burden in regards to built up stores of toxins in the body. Can you explain what you mean by body burden?
Dr. Marchese: Sure. The body burden is the amount of these chemicals that have built up in our body throughout our life. These chemicals are very fat loving, meaning they are stored in our fat – what we call adipose tissue - as well as being stored in organs in cells. If these chemicals are not removed, they can stay in our body for years and eventually lead to illness and disease.
John: So we have discussed the toxins and we’ve discussed the conditions and illnesses and how the toxins are associated with them, but we have only just touched on your detoxification plan. What is actually involved? What is a woman to do?
Dr. Marchese: The 8 week plan is designed to help release these chemicals that are stored in the body. There are different methods to get the body to release these chemicals. One method is sauna therapy, showers and baths. Also by restricting a slight amount of calories that you eat in the day, you can help get these chemicals freed up from the fat tissue, so to speak, and get them back into the bloodstream.
Once the chemicals are released from storage, they need to go to the liver and be broken down. In order for the liver to break them down during the 8 week plan there are some dietary and nutritional components. Certain foods can help the liver metabolize and break down these chemicals, as well as some herbal medicines and nutrients that I discuss in the book.
Once the liver breaks them down they need to be eliminated from the body and the main way we eliminate them is through the kidney and through the bowel. Those organs are also well supported during the 8 week detoxification plan.
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