Which Of These Toxins Are Playing Havoc With Your Body & Health? | Ep 80

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So when we're in that state, we are not in our state of rest and digest, which means our body is not in repair mode. So if your body is struggling with a high level of toxins, it now is not in a position to try and do anything about it as it can't repair itself unless we get out of the stress state. So being stuck in the stress state is another form of toxicity that adds to our inflammation levels in and of itself. What do you do every day to help your body calm and get into your rest and digest state. If you aren't sure what you should do, please reach out as I can definitely help you with this. It is something I had to learn after being let go from my corporate job. When I went into health coaching, as I realized I was that person stuck in fight or flight. And I needed to make some changes in my life to ensure that I was getting myself out of that chronic stress state. Another common toxin is homesickness. And I don't mean that being a child away from home having homesickness for the first time missing their parents, I literally mean living in a sick home or sick home syndrome. Too much of a good thing can actually be a bad thing, right. And that is now true with our home building technology. We've improved it so much. And we're at a point now where our homes are built so well they're sealed so tightly to stop cold air getting in that we're also not getting any fresh air in. And we are trapping in toxic chemicals that are used on our flooring, our couches, our beds, et cetera, et cetera. And it's trapped inside our home and we breathe it in all day every day. This can be can cause a myriad of skin issues allergies, brain fog, watery eyes and respiratory issues that very often aren't connected back to the home environment. And drugs are simply given to mask the symptoms. Because doctors don't know why it's happening. But here's a drug so that it mitigates it and makes you feel better. A study in the UK actually show that 15 point 3 million homes had over 900 chemicals in their air within their home. What about your home? Is it tightly sealed? Or do you open your windows to allow fresh air to circulate. Of course, if it's fire season, the air outside might be worse than the air inside, in which case you don't want to be opening your windows, but the rest of the year even when it's wintertime, opening your windows at some point during the day to be letting fresh air in and to circulate in your home is so important. Now, this was something that I experienced personally, many years ago, 20 years ago now actually, I was working in a hotel building and the building was being renovated. And I started getting migraines every day that I went to work. And I didn't understand why I always struggled with migraines. If you know my story, you know that they were hormonal, and now all of a sudden I'm getting them every day. And I was in the office one day when one of the construction workers came in and said, Oh my goodness, there is so much mold in this building that we've opened up and exposed this week. It's unbelievable. And I had a little bit of an AHA going, huh.

I've had my migraines all of this week. I wonder if I'm sensitive to it and the mold and the mold spores have now been exposed because the walls have been open up. And because it's all in the building, through the air conditioning system, etc. It's been being blown all over the building, including into my office. And interestingly, I learned the hard way that that was actually very true and the renovation project was going to be going on for a year. And I just thought, you know what, I can't keep doing this. And I resigned and I gave a month's notice. The crazy thing is, is that very soon after resigning, they actually got all the mold out of the building, as they were, you know, clearing everything out. And, you know, continuing with the renovation project, they got all the mold out. And so guess what my migraines stopped. But I'd already given my notice. So I did leave that place of employment. But that was something really interesting to learn about myself, and how I'm impacted by mold. And how toxins in our working environment in our homes in our office buildings are can absolutely be impacting our health. But when we're feeling like crap, and we're going to the doctor, they're not necessarily connecting the dots between our working environment, our home environment, and our health, you're not looking at the toxins cetera. And so you don't always get to the bottom of it. But now that you know this, you can start asking some of these questions of yourself and start learning about it. Because perhaps, you feel the way you feel because of the environment you work in, or you live in. And maybe there's toxins there that are negatively impacting. And I can definitely help you release those toxins because now I've learned how, but also starting to understand the root cause is helpful too, because maybe you need to change jobs like I did, because for me, my health wasn't worth staying in that environment. And another source of toxins are your personal care products. This industry is an absolute nightmare. There are just so many chemical toxins in personal care products sold at your local pharmacies and grocery stores. You think because they're there for sale, they must be safe, someone's approved them, right? But they are not. What's worse is we put these onto our skin, and it only takes 26 seconds for them to be absorbed into your bloodstream. 26 seconds the average woman puts over 200 Toxins onto her skin before she goes to work in the morning, between using shampoos, conditioners, makeup, deodorant, face, wash, moisturizers, etc, etc. But the good news is that it's actually really easy now to find clean products or makeup on your own or even make your own. I make my own deodorant. For instance, my eye makeup remover is simply coconut oil. I buy all my personal care products from companies I trust that focus on bringing clean products to the market. Companies like doTERRA Young Living the beauty Arbonne and more, you can find my recommendations on my website at your guided health journey.com underneath the Resources tab. So check that out. And you don't have to throw everything out at once I've said this time and time again. But start researching products that you would like to try so that when you finish the products you have, you already have ordered the clean products to replace it. And you can just do that slowly over time. And within the next six months, you'll have changed a lot in your life and in your home products and done it in a really affordable way. Another toxin are pharmaceutical drugs. So these two are chemicals that are man made, right, they may have some plant based medicine in them but there's also chemicals added to it. And I've touched on this already is they do end up in our tap water.