Let's talk about toxic load

It impacts everything from your food and shampoo to your sofa, and understanding it could help prevent the start of many diseases.

If we become unwell, one of two things has probably happened. Your inherited genes may have predisposed you to heightened risk of a specific disease, or, more usually, external factors (whether microorganisms, foodstuffs or chemicals) have tipped your internal bodily scales the wrong way, triggering a cascade of responses that leads to disease, whether …