Many people are eating seemingly healthy foods, exercising, and still facing health issues that they can’t figure out.
Like why their skin is a mess, or why their joints hurt, why they’re tired all the time, or why they have digestive distress.
One of the missing pieces to the puzzle that many overlook – often because they don’t even know it could be connected — is chemicals.
Chemicals we are exposed to in our everyday lives.
There are roughly 80,000 known toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis, just within our homes.
However, it is extremely important that we address these seemingly insignificant daily exposures to toxins in our daily lives.
But what to do about it?
Should you do a detox? How often? How do you do a detox anyways?
Detoxing can be a confusing subject.
I know it confused me for a long time with so many different detox protocols out there.
It wasn’t until I heard environmental toxins expert, Lara Adler, speak about the 5 steps to detoxing that something really important clicked.
She shared the 5 steps to detoxing, as follows:
Step 1. Reduce toxic exposure
Step 2. Reduce toxic exposure
Step 3. Reduce toxic exposure
Steps 4 and 5. Follow a detox protocol for cleansing the body, and take specific supplements to support your body’s ability to flush out toxins.
The point is that if you do steps 4 and 5, without reducing your toxic burden, you’ll need to be undertaking a detox protocol much more often!
It’s true that we cannot completely eliminate our exposure to toxins, but there are many small and simple changes that we can make to significantly reduce our toxic burden.
It’s also true that our body has detoxification processes to flush out those toxins naturally. However, over time our liver and other detox support organs start to become less efficient because we’ve been overworking them.
The goal is to focus on the small, proactive things you can do to gradually decrease your toxic load.
Bottom Line:
Shifting to toxin-free foods, personal care products and household cleaners is one of the most important things you can do for your health.
And luckily, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) makes it very easy to do this.
Your Action Step:
If you don’t already use this amazing free resource, definitely check out the EWG’s Skin Deep database here (or download the app). Then look up a few of the personal care or cleaning products that you use every day to check their toxicity score. If you find some with a high score, choose at least one product that you’ll swap out for a safer brand. For example, body soap is a great place to start because there are so many wonderful handmade soaps being sold these days with natural fragrance from essential oils (which not only means a lesser toxic burden, but also you’ll be getting added benefits from those essential oils).
