Is Toxin-Free Life Style Important?

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Your body’s capacity to detoxify is not unlimited. Your cells produce toxic garbage just by going through the metabolic processes they are designed to do, and your cleansing organs need to get rid of all the toxins created by digestion, breathing, physical exertion, and so on.

If you are adding to the toxic load by using products that contain unnatural, artificial, petroleum-based chemicals, there will come a day when you exceed your body’s natural ability to detoxify.

There is now a famous study done by National Geographic that documents just how prevalent the toxins have become.

The tests are too expensive for most individuals—National Geographic paid for mine, which would normally cost around $15,000—and only a few labs have the technical expertise to detect the trace amounts involved. I ran the tests to learn what substances build up in a typical American over a lifetime, and where they might come from. I was also searching for a way to think about risks, benefits, and uncertainty—the complex trade-offs embodied in the chemical “body burden” that swirls around inside all of us.

Now I’m learning more than I really want to know.

The more you add to your load with toxic soaps, drier sheets, perfumed laundry detergents, scented candles, air fresheners, fragrances, cosmetics, as well as car and truck exhaust, paint, carpets and furniture gassing off, plastic products and packaging in stores and warehouses – the sooner you will reach your breaking point.

Depending on your heritage – the toxins are passed on to you from your mother through the placenta – and your ongoing exposure, you may reach your limit  in your childhood, or it may come later in life – but the point comes for almost everyone living in the modern society.

You will know it by becoming sensitive to smells. Some perfumes will give you headaches, cigarette smoke will irritate you, or you will be getting terrible headaches, chronic fatigue, or other inflammatory problems.

You can also learn about the state of your health by doing some tests. There are the expensive ones that document every single thing from an analytic perspective, but it may serve you better to have a functional perspective – finding out how your body is coping with the toxins, how well it is eliminating them, and how it is functioning. One such test is offered by US BioTek Laboratories – although you may want to have the assistance of a health professional to interpret the results and especially how you would want to address any specific problems.

To get ahead of the toxin threat, you need to avoid inhaling, ingesting or applying to your skin the problem-causing chemicals. All the time. It is not a question of if you will get trouble, it is when. Styrene, Benzene, Phthalates, Parabens, Glycols – they all contribute. In larger concentrations they cause cancer, infertility, infections, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, migraine, allergies and mental decline.

You need to start somewhere, and stop using things that make it worse. Best start with things that you can control – personal care items. Check out the simplified list of toxic additives and their effects.

You can find toxin free skin care and toxin free bath and body care products – but not easily. Start replacing all the toxic things in your life with unscented, natural items, and live a better life. There are some awesome skin care products, effective and toxin free, but they are not that easy to find. Even the “good guys” will use parabens, because they are so much cheaper than all-natural alternatives.

You may also want to stop using plastic bottles and get hold of some non-toxic cleaning products – just to improve your odds.

Martin Pytela
My story starts 30 years ago when as a naive young man I stepped into a dentist's office with a freshly earned medical insurance. Twelve mercury fillings later my life took on a new course. During the next 20 years while I was working as an Information Technology consultant (my university education is in business administration and computer science), I also became my own research project in learning about the dysfunctional medical system, its failure to seek holistic or strategic solutions, and the collusion of industrial interests to perpetuate treatment instead of healing. My health decline was profound, and eventually I hit the proverbial wall. I gave up on the problem oriented allopathic approach, and applied my training to analyze the situation. I now understand the cause of degenerative disease, I reversed it in myself, and am helping thousands to do the same for themselves. I believe in personal empowerment. I help people take charge of their own body and restore their health
. For the last 12 years I have been running Life Enthusiast, and work there as a health coach. I am certified as a Metabolic Typing Advisor, and write about Biological Individuality, the main reason people cannot use the one-size-fits-all approach pushed in the mainstream. You can find me on http://www.life-enthusiast.com I will write about chronic health problems, and how they can be reversed using natural products. I will advocate for organic food, and things one could find in health food stores.