Avoiding Toxins/Heavy Metals/Hidden Poisons

[shelley]

This list is a work in progress. If you know of something that you think should be on the list, please reply to this post.

- Don't buy new furniture, and don't refinish old furniture. New furniture can be treated with any number of chemicals to protect the wood from fungus or infestation. One such chemical is the same one they use to preserve frogs for science project day. Yeah. If it's made locally chances are it's okay, but if it was made in China forget it. Furniture stains, polishes and paint are all highly toxic, especially when fresh, so go with the shabby chic look. Sanding pollutes the lungs.

- Don't redecorate often. Go on vacation when your place is being painted.

- Don't ever buy a new car. You lose 5 grand as soon as you drive it away, and the toxic off-gases from all of the interior plastics, foam uphostery, end up on your skin and in your lungs, polutting your brain and nervous system. Bad stuff. Bad. That "new car smell" doesn't smell good, it's BAD.

- Don't ever use bug killer beyond roach motels - no sprays. Windex - any degreaser - works just as well. Don't work in a restaurant - they spray for pesticides frequently. If you do, CLEANSE, including detox baths and liver herbs. Stay out of your apartment as long as you can post-spray, and toss/wash everything that was there.

- Don't spend a lot of time in beauty parlors. Maintaining nails and hair costs you years of looking good.

- Avoid the dry cleaners (dry clean very infrequently). Buy used clothes and window shop mainly at the consignment stores. New clothes have a permanent press spray that isn't great. Shop fast, wash new clothes before wearing.

- avoid foam rubber beds, futons, couches, etc. Gives off an off-gas that isn't great. The memory foam is okay.

- Almost all dried or canned soups have MSG, a perfect way to get a sickly headache. Funny, that. Soup used to be good food. Read the label.

- Avoid dense metropolitan areas or areas full of smokers. Get plenty of Vit C if you do live in a city. Smog is a real problem.

- Avoid drinking from aluminum cans, particularly caustic drinks like coca-cola.

- avoid eating foods from cans.

- avoid eating fish more than once or twice a week, less if the larger fish. Cod liver oil should be okay IF it is Norweigen, or labled "pharmaceutically pure."

- Avoid hormone-fed meats. Eat organic beef and chicken or game meats, alternative meats like venison, elk, moose, buffalo.

- Avoid Nutra-Sweet. It breaks down into formeldehyde.

- Avoid biting your nails. Lots of toxins, parasites and heavy metals end up underneath your fingernails.

- Avoid vinyl products. They have lead.

- Avoid using Lysol disinfectent spray. It's actually smog in a bottle.

[chardy]

Just a quick add to avoiding NutraSweet, avoid anything containing aspartame because thats the chemical that breaks down into formaldehyde (and its horrible for many other reasons as well )

[spo1977]

Due to all of the above I think I am going to take LiverCare for the rest of my life and rotate Buplerum. Is that a good way to at least help the body break all that stuff down.

[shelley]

Do you mean every day for the rest of your life? no.

[spo1977]

Actually I did.

Too much stress on the Liver?

Dr. Cabot seems to think you can use Livatone products long term without any problems. I browsed the faq but did not see anything specifically wrong with this.

[chardy]

I would imagine that over time your body would develop an intolerance or allergy to the herbs nothing should be taken indefinitely, not even 'ordinary' foods!

You'd probably also get overstimulation and tiring out of the organs?

Or they may contribute to some other form of depletion.

[Kim]

Hi Shelly,

I used to work in a hair salon and was wondering what you meant by not spending too much time in there because you'll lose years of looking good?


Did you mean that the toxins age your skin? or that you'll just lose years of your life in general? Was thinking of going back but don't want to age my skin (or any other part of my body!) thanks, Kim

[shelley]

There isn't any herb that is safe to take every single day of your life.

Yep, if you work in a hair salon you should be detoxing 4x a year and taking detox baths weekly because of all the toxic fumes from nail polish, perms, dyes, etc. Protect your skin with a good skin oil or pure almond oil or pure coconut oil...

[Eeks]

I'd like to do this detox bath, but is it a problem that I live in the city and the tap water is probably chlorinated that I'd be soaking in?

[shelley]

It doesn't matter. The salts you add to teh water protect you.