Book excerpt - Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them

Book excerpt - Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them

Ashley couldn't stop staring at her hands. Swollen and slightly twisted, her fingers looked more like “deformed sausages,” as she described them, than what you’d expect to see in a relatively healthy twenty-seven-year-old woman. She held her hands out as she greeted me, then pulled them back to unfasten her coat, struggling and wincing as she pushed the buttons through the holes. I helped her with her jacket, then we looked at her hands together…