What Can You Do?
Reduce Your Exposure To Toxins:
Environment
• Use chemical free products in your home (soap, detergents, cleaning products, dryer sheets, natural insect and weed killers, etc).
• Take off your shoes before entering the house to avoid tracking in chemicals from outside.
• Reduce chlorine exposure by attaching filters to your shower heads (Chloroform is released when chlorinated water is heated.)
• Avoid personal products with pthalates, paraben, 4-MBC
Reduce Your Exposure To Toxins:
Food & Drink
• 90% of our toxin exposure to certain chemicals such as PCB’s and dioxins actually come from the food we eat.
• 35% of all the foods we purchase in the U.S. supermarkets have measurable pesticide residues which make their way into our body.
• One or more pesticides on 70.3 percent of fruit and vegetable samples tested.
• Between 5 and 13 different pesticide residues tainted one of every 10 fruit or vegetable samples.
• Conventionally raised meat and dairy products have consistently been tested and found to have the highest levels of “hormone disrupting” chemicals in them.
• 25 million pounds of antibiotics a year are fed to livestock and the animal feed which is highly sprayed with chemicals as well.
• Animal feed contains high quantities of fat which allow for the storage of these fat-soluble chemicals
• They are then passed on into the human digestive system and body when you eat these products.
• Choose free-range, hormone, anti-biotic free RGH free, dairy, meats, eggs whenever possible
• Choose fresh, cold-water fish in place of farm raised
• Always wash all produce very well before eating, peeling or cooking.
Reduce Your Exposure To Toxins:
Other Exposure Routes
• Phalates, another toxin, is found in a large majority of plastic packaging and can leach into the foods that you eat.
• Use stainless steel or glass drinking containers, reduce or eliminate all plastic utensils, drinking containers, plates and storage containers.
• Store food in non-plastic containers and bags when possible.
• Never microwave food in plastic containers
No matter how careful we are, it is almost impossible to avoid toxin exposure! What Else Can you Do?
Support your body’s natural detoxification system! Detoxification is simply normalizing the body’s ability to process & excrete toxins while you temporarily reduce the amount of incoming toxins.
Unfortunately, certain factors (genetics, environmental exposure, and unhealthy diet and lifestyle) can negatively affect how well you excrete the toxins to which you are exposed. This creates a buildup of toxins in the body leading to an increase in toxic burden. Eventually this sets the stage for toxicity symptoms and disease.
Our Detoxification Programs nutritionally supports your liver and improves your body’s natural detoxification processes. It will also support your body’s ability to excrete toxins once they have been neutralized thus reducing the chance that they will recirculate and be stored in the body.
Ask about a detox program that is right for you!