Poisoning or toxemia caused by toxic substances produced within the body itself, rather than from external sources.
From Greek 'auto-' (self) + 'toxemia' (from 'toxikon' meaning poison + 'haima' meaning blood). American medical spelling variant of autotoxaemia.
Autotoxemia explains why fasting can actually help some conditions—when you're not adding external toxins, your body can focus on clearing internal ones. Some traditional medicine practices unknowingly exploited this principle centuries before medicine understood it.
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