Enzymes cause a vast amount of bodily activity. Much activity is stopped by the enzyme biodegrading . Many toxic chemicals are linked with a specific illness, such as lead and brain damage or asbestos and mesotholioma. Others are linked with several illnesses. Dioxin is tied to such a very large number of diseases because it is a cancer-enhancer .
Dioxins intensify cancers which other toxics begin.
This is why dioxin has totally different effects on different people. If a group of workers has already been exposed to chemicals which cause Hodgkins disease, dioxin will speed up the process and research will show that they have an increased rate of Hodgkin's disease. If a community has been exposed to chemicals which cause leukemia, dioxin will increase the rate of leukemia. The only way researchers could measure the effects would be to add a long list of diseases and compare their total frequency in a group which was exposed and another group which was not exposed. There used to be virtually no dioxin in human tissue.