Why You're Full of Toxins and Don't Know It
Samuel Kipchoge, 54, has never worked in a factory. He has never lived near an industrial site. He has never handled chemicals or sprayed pesticides or done any of the things we associate with toxic exposure.
He is a farmer in Uasin Gishu. He grows maize. Keeps a few cows. Drinks water from a borehole on his land. By any reasonable measure, he should be healthy.
But Samuel has been sick for years. Not with anything dramatic. No cancer. No organ failure. No diagnosis that explains itself. Just a slow, grinding decline. Fatigue that sleep does not fix. Joint pain that moves from place to place. Headaches that arrive without warning. A sense that his body is heavier than it should be.