act of removing toxins from the body but another very important part of a good detox program is increasing organ reserve. It helps improve the health and function of organ, thus improving health and vitality. In a groundbreaking article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980, Dr. James Fries wrote about organ reserve and what he called “the rectangularization” of the survival curve. When an organ runs out of its back-up stores, it shuts down and dies. Increasing organ reserve during youth and middle age through detoxing and nutrition would decrease time spent on health care at the end of life. Rectangularization to Fries meant that, instead of a steady decline in health—starting at middle age from depleted organ reserves—eventually leading to mortality, people’s health could decline just two to three years before mortality if they could keep their organ reserves fully replenished. Health then drops steeply at the end of life. For most, this is preferred when compared to the bell curve we currently see, health declining slowly beginning in middle age and continuing until the end of life. A personalized comprehensive detoxification plan will increase organ reserve while also helping the body rid itself of toxins and other harmful substance accumulated through daily living. Detoxification strengthens the body by reestablishing balance. It accomplishes this by providing the body with nutrients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes to carry out detoxification and ultimately increase organ reserve. It gives the body what it needs to build up the reserve, all while facilitating the proper and healthy elimination of toxic substances. Elizabeth Blackburn was a 2009 Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that helps preserve telomeres. Telomeres are the tips of chromosomes; with each cell division, they get shorter until reaching a critical size when the cell can no longer function properly. At this time in a cell’s life, it enters senescence, a programmed cell death. Hundreds of studies have shown that health strategies like supplements, vitamins, stress reduction, healthy living, exercise and meditation can increase the length of telomeres. We can extrapolate from this that increased telomere length is a way of increasing cellular reserve, thus organ reserve. A whole new area in healthcare called lifestyle medicine has been created with one of the major tenets being to promote healthy detoxification. One of the best ways to achieve maximum health is through detoxification and increasing organ reserve. Kurt Waples, owner of Bluestone Health Group in Stamford, is a chiropractor who uses applied kinesiology and clinical or functional nutrition. Connect with him at BluestoneHealthGroup.com, 203-220-6488 or Info@BluestoneHealthGroup.com.
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