Detox

SPRING DETOX GUIDE 
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Step 1: 

Explore the toxins in your home and use Environmental Working Group's helpful tips (if you have an iphone be sure to download the free shopper's guide to pesticides from the Ap Store).  Here's another pesticide guide: What's on my food.  

Skin Deep: a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.

Don't forget to look into your sunscreen (new EWG guide will be out by 4/15).  Most of the science we have on sunscreen use shows increases in skin cancer, so don't use sunscreen as an excuse to stay out in the sun too long, use protective clothing, avoid using sunscreen with carcinogenic ingredients, and make sure to get at least 10-30 min a day with at least part of your body uncovered (with NO sunscreen; even low SPF blocks all vitamin D production) between the hours of 11-2 in an open area this summer (the sun is too tilted to get any D in the winter in WA, and buildings and trees reflecting the sun have the same effect).  

Consider getting your water tested for heavy metals and pesticides.  Here’s one reason why: Roundup at low concentrations causes cell death.  (While this usually means a recommendation for pregnant women because growing fetuses don't have many cells to lose, I would like my replicating cells to live too.)   Reverse osmosis filters will be necessary in some areas, while a simple carbon filter will work in others.

Doctor's Data will test your drinking water for $99, which includes 17 heavy metals and pH and for $129 they will include fluoride.

Visit the Cascade Wellness toxin resource page for more information 


The next step will be posted around April 15th.  Spring is the perfect time to detox, but we need our greens to come up before we can properly switch from our winter diets.  Come out of your cave slowly this year, and save your energy for the long haul !