Shitake, Oyster, Reishi, Maitake especially have immune boosting properties. Eat lots of clean pasture-raised animal protein . Animal protein has been a crucial factor in my recovery. It was the discovery of the importance of animal proteins that led to us having a small flock of chickens for eggs, meat, and stock. As explained in the patent, the body uses animal protein to help detoxify.
Many toxins are fat-soluble and are stored in body fat.
Human milk has PCB s and dioxin in it in tests taken from women all over the world. The fat of the small whales in the St Lawrence Seaway has such high levels of toxins that the dead animals have to be treated as hazardous waste. Researchers have found that female mice put on diets repeatedly had higher levels of toxins in their systems during the low calorie periods, probably released from the fat. They also felt that it was repeated dieting that increased cancer risk from toxin release rather than excess body fat. Dioxins have a half-life of 7 years in the body and are stored in the fatty tissues.