TOXICITY…Within Our Bodies
In every issue, I write about adopting a cleaner and healthier lifestyle by detoxing from man-made/synthetic foods and animal products to keep you from getting sick and fat, but what about the toxic products used in personal care regimes, supplements, water, and cleaning products in your environment?
We use… furniture polish, suntan lotion, window cleaners and wipes. We have wall-to-wall carpets. We wear dry cleaned clothing. We use teflon coated pots and pans, plastic containers and plastic wrap. We spray ourselves and our homes with synthetic fragrances.
We cannot live healthfully in this kind of toxic environment. So is this why we are sick?
A toxin is anything that the body identifies as a poison.
Toxins are External, Internal or Self-Created: pollution, car exhaust, pesticides, antibiotics, household paints and carpets, food additives, chemicals in skin care and personal hygiene products, processed foods, GMO, gluten, refined sugar and oils, heavy metals, pharmaceutical drugs….
But what happens to all the toxins that we are subjected to on a daily basis and accumulate in the body over the years?
New chemicals are constantly being introduced into foods and the environment. Where do these toxins go within the body?
Are toxins absorbed or eliminated?
The truth is that we have toxicity overload!
Our bodies are unable to process and eliminate this overload of poisons, even through our body’s normal detoxification channels.
So what happens? We store toxins within our bodies.
Think of it this way. I tell my clients to imagine a little man wearing a hard hat and fluorescent vest standing at his post in your body. He is the supervisor of all that is incoming and exposed to your body. When food or toxic exposure enters your body or skin, he directs it to go directly to the body part that will help digest it. That is, if, he recognizes it as real food or a natural substance. If he doesn’t recognize it, he sends it to the fat room, to the joints and bones, the muscles, the bowels, the lymphatic system and the liver. This way these toxins don’t go directly into the bloodstream and poison the body.
He saves and stores these toxins within the body. He may store these toxins for years! We don’t know if or when, but eventually these stored toxins cause inflammation and disease. If he stores a lot of these toxins and overloads all the storage areas, then the toxicity clogs and builds up and gets circulated through the body causing unexplained ill feelings and eventual disease.
Also this storage of toxins can wreak havoc with your DNA. We all have tendencies that we were born with to ward off disease, but the interaction with this toxic overload can absolutely change your DNA’s efficiency to fight off disease.
Don’t panic, instead, become fully aware of these daily changes you can make to detoxify your own body:
- consume filtered water,
- organic herbal tea and clean plant nutrition with adequate vitamins and minerals
- get adequate sleep, (recharge and renew)
- eliminate synthetic/manmade/GMO foods
- perform an elimination diet to measure the body’s reaction to certain foods
- reduce exposure to synthetic grooming and personal hygiene products
- perform dry skin brushing to remove dead skin cells and stimulate circulation
- reduce exposure to toxic cleaning supplies
- reduce exposure to environmental pollutants within the home and workplace.
- reduce exposure to high levels of stress, (engage in aroma reiki, meditation, yoga, prayer, music, art, read, laugh, love, unplug from social media)
- reduce radiation exposure
- include 30 minutes of physical exercise, stretching, yin yoga, pilates
- indulge in epsom salts detoxifying baths
- apply therapeutic grade essential oils, (contact me for a daily essential oils protocol)
- introduce pre and probiotics
Please don’t wait until you get sick and in pain to make these healthy changes.
Adopt this new lifestyle and mind-set now.
Do it for you and those you love.
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Eating clean and eliminating toxins means you can still celebrate and enjoy this chocolate and peanut butter treat over the holidays.
Enjoy!
Next issue you will learn how to make homemade, natural cleaning products for you and your environment. Don’t miss the next issue. namaste…
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Chocolate Nut Butter Truffles
1 cup organic peanut, almond, cashew or hemp butter (creamy or crunchy, unsalted and unsweetened)
6 T coconut sugar
2 T brown rice syrup
pinch sea salt
1 tsp pure vanilla extract (non-alcoholic)
1/3 cup raw cacao nibs (optional)
1 cup grain sweetened chocolate chips
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Place nut butter, coconut sugar, rice syrup and vanilla in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring until the mixture forms a stiff ball, about 3 minutes. Fold in nibs, if using. Form into walnut size balls and arrange on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler, stirring until smooth. Spoon chocolate over each nut butter mound and chill until the chocolate sets.
Makes 15-17 delicious truffles
(Peanut butter and chocolate taste better than store bought peanut butter cups, but be careful and always ask who has a peanut intolerance.)
