Body Burden: The Toxins We Carry - A New Documentary
Body Burden follows citizen journalist Nick Pineault as he investigates the claims of environmental medicine doctors who say they can help people heal from decades of toxic accumulation. He came to investigate how to help others and discovered he needed help too.
The documentary reveals how environmental medicine doctors investigate each person's unique "body burden", from golf course workers exposed to pesticides, to welders dealing with heavy metals, to military veterans contaminated by jet fuel and weapons chemicals.
About the film
When Nicolas received an email about breakthrough detoxification strategies, he was skeptical. But what he discovered changed everything, and exposed a medical revolution that's been hiding in plain sight.
This is the documentary that environmental medicine has been waiting decades for.
Environmental medicine physicians have been quietly developing protocols to help people reduce their accumulated burden of lead, mercury, PFAS, mold toxins, and industrial chemicals since the 1970s. Real doctors. Real patients. Real recoveries. Almost no one outside their world knew this existed.
These doctors have been quietly helping patients reduce their accumulated toxic burden since the 1970s, without the public recognition they deserve. Body Burden is one of the first films to document this important work.
This isn't just another documentary about environmental toxins. It's a citizen journalist investigation into a fifty-year-old branch of medicine most people have never heard of.
The MAHA movement. Clean food. Clean water. Fewer chemicals. Lower EMFs.
Body Burden is the logical next chapter.
Hundreds of industrial chemicals are now found in newborn blood at birth.
One thousand new chemicals are synthesized every single hour.
You may already suspect something is wrong. This film gives an evidence-based path forward.
In it you will hear:
✅ Fifty years of clinical refinement: Dr. William Rea and Dr. Walter Crinnion founded the field in the 1970s. Today's environmental medicine physicians, including Dr. Michael Bauerschmidt and Dr. Stephanie McCarter (both featured in the film), continue their work.
✅ Real patient recoveries: People healing from environmental or "mystery" illnesses using proven protocols
✅ Evidence-based detox science: The techniques revolutionizing how we approach toxic burdens
✅ How the investigator becomes the subject: Nick's lead came back at 34 times the reference range, mercury 29 times. The kind of numbers seen in welders. He'd never welded anything in his life.
✅ How the detox protocols work, and why you don't need a clinic to use them: Four of Nick's 365 detox days were at the clinic, the rest at home. By the end, his motivation, mental clarity, daily mood, and overall health had all measurably changed.
The documentary shows how this movement has developed detoxification techniques which work on a wide array of toxins and don't require expensive treatments once you understand the principles.
Register here to watch the free screening for one week only - 25 May - 01 June 2026
