We all like to have clean homes but it’s shocking to think that the very things that you probably use to keep your house clean may double your risk of breast cancer. You might think that you are safe from environmental toxins and pollution when you are in your home but some of the most toxic chemicals in the home today may be the ones you buy and bring into it.

Indoor air pollutants are not so easily dispersed as outdoor ones. Concentrations of toxic chemicals in your home linked with cancer can be 200 – 500 times higher than outside. Studies have shown that women working at home have a 55% increased risk of of breast cancer over those who go out to work.

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There is mounting evidence that thyroid problems are caused by environmental factors and diet so you can often get over these problems if you detox your thyroid.

Your thyroid plays an important part in your body’s function. It produces hormones which play a vital role in your metabolism which in simple terms is the breakdown of food and its transformation into energy. Two common thyroid problems are when it produces too little (hypothyroid) or too much (hyperthyroid) of these hormones.

Symptoms of Thyroid Problems

Thyroid hormones govern the whole range of biochemical processes that occur in your body every minute that help to keep you alive. Hypothyroid is a common, yet often overlooked, cause of chronic health problems.

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Someone living with Parkinson’s disease understands that you can have hard and easy days.  For the times when there are difficulties, there is a brand new treatment method for Parkinsons symptoms. This particular treatment process, glutathione therapy, is one that’s comparatively reasonably priced, helpful, plus safe.

Not only is this a reliable option for dealing with Parkinson’s disease, the therapy is additionally extremely successful.  This means that people with this particular condition will have a fighting prospect for normalcy.  While this really does not get rid of the disease, IV Glutathione therapy does slow the progression.

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Toxic chemicals found in food, water and the air you breathe are now found in every person. The accumulation of these chemical compounds can lead to a variety of metabolic dysfunctions and even disease states. They affect your immune system, your nervous system and your glandular system. They can cause problems with your immune system, autoimmune disease, asthma, allergies, cancer, mood changes, memory and other cognitive problems, neurological diseases, reproductive problems and glucose dysregulation. So you can see that you must detox your body regularly of these chemicals if you want to be healthy.

Your Environment is flooded with Toxic Chemicals

These days of  modern living have brought a huge rise in chemical toxin related illness. Studies of human body tissues reveal that 100 % of samples contain alarming levels of xenobiotics -  chemicals that are not produced in the body nor are expected to be present in the body. These can be lowered if you make an effort to detox your body with a good detox diet plan.

76 % of samples contain a least 20 of the 54 chemicals researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency looked for. Your body may contain damaging dioxins, solvents, benzene, toluene, chlorobenzine, DDE (a breakdown product of DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the US in 1972) and PCB’s ( polychlorinated biphenyls).

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You might not be thinking too much about your health right now but it’s not too early to start making your plans for your detox next year. In fact detox has already been suggested as the thing to do during the weeks leading up to Christmas so you can eat, drink and make merry as you please! It’s being referred to as “Pre-Tox”. In effect, you detox with the idea of re-toxifying with all sorts of unhealthy food and alcohol! How crazy is that?

Pre-Tox is plain crazy

I am all for detox but the idea of going on a detox diet to lose some weight so you can pig out over the party season is just plain stupid. Anyone with any notion of health at all will realize that the the whole idea of a detox diet is to get rid of toxins to improve your health not to make it alright to eat a load of junk and avoid the weight gain.

Boost your immune system

If it’s Winter where you live then it’s not the time to be skipping meals and restricting calories. This is the time of the year to be trying to boost your immune system so you avoid catching those pesky cold and flu viruses. The extra stresses and strains increases dramatically at this time of the year.

Regular meals, a good breakfast, warming vegetable soups and lean meat stews, whole grains, plenty of fruit and vegetables and a few fresh nuts will give you the nutrients needed for good immunity. Don’t forget to add a little raw food too.

It’s vital to get plenty of sleep. The longer days of darkness mean that it’s natural to have more sleep .Late nights and stress will take their toll on your body. Too much alcohol, sugar or heavy meals before bedtime ruin a good night’s sleep.

Detox the alcohol

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Let’s face it daily life is stressful enough but when it comes to this time of the year it just gets plain crazy. Planning festive meals, endless trips to the supermarket, shopping for presents, parties, finishing off work projects, the list is endless. Stress levels just soar as December creeps up on us.

I hear it all the time  “I’m SO stressed out!” It should be a fun time of the year but if you’re not careful you can end up with no time to recharge and no energy to get everything done. It becomes a vicious cycle. All the pressures cause stress and anxiety that make you sick.

Stress overloads liver detox pathways

Did you know that chronic stress accounts for 80% of all illnesses? Stress interferes with how the body functions. You probably know that it can cause high blood pressure and increases the chances of stroke. It interferes with the normal function of your digestive and immune systems. Studies have proven that stressed individuals have an increased vulnerability to catching an illness and are more susceptible to allergic and autoimmune diseases.

Stress chemicals such as adrenaline can be highly toxic. They increase loss of valuable nutrients and restrict blood flow reducing your ability to detox. Like every other substance  produced in your body they have to be broken down and detoxified. They put an additional burden on the natural detox activities of your liver.

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Are confused about good fats and bad fats? Did you know that some fats make you fat and others can make you slim?  Some fats give you energy and others zap it. Some fats improve the way every cell in your body functions while others interfere with their vital functions. Two fats, Omega 3 and Omega 6,  are essential for your health but trans fats or hydrogenated fats interfere with your detox system and cause many health problems..

What are trans fats & hydrogenated fats?

Trans fats were mainly an invention of the food manufacturers. In order to harden and increase the shelf life of good oils so they can be used in margarines, spreads, baked good, and other dishes, they subject them to a process known as hydrogenation.

This results in twisted molecules known as trans fatty acids. Although you can get a very small amount of natural trans fats from beef and dairy foods it is the artificial trans fats that are bad for you. They are worse than the saturated fats that they replaced.

According to food scientist Prof Tony Blake newer technology has allowed margarine  manufacturers to produce products that do not contain trans fats. but I am not convinced that the quality of the oil they use in the process is healthy to start with.

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Giving up alcohol is essential of you want to detox. Your liver is your main organ for detox and it is the only organ that metabolizes alcohol and it takes precedence over other functions. So. if you want to detox you need to avoid anything that gives your liver extra work.

What’s wrong with alcohol?

Alcohol is a drug and a poison, a toxin in fact, that has been used for thousands of years to relieve pain and inhibitions. Although many people believe it to be a stimulant it is in fact a depressant decreasing your digestion, thinking, judgment, reaction time, and muscle contraction.

It increases blood fats and can increase blood pressure. Regular drinking can result in a fatty liver as the carbohydrate content is converted to fat in the liver cells which builds up and damages the cells.

Evidence of weekend binge drinking among hard working and stressed women and men is causing a huge increase in liver disease. Continued heavy use of alcohol, of course, results in cirrhosis of the liver. In fact alcohol can cause a rise in the stress hormone, cortisol, which in turn reduces the body’s ability to burn calories.

Alcohol feeds Candida and other yeast infections.

Alcohol affects fertility in both men and women

New research shows that wine can reduce the chances of the embryo implanting and increased risk of miscarriage when women have IVF treatment. Beer is known to affect the quality of a man’s sperm. Experts extend the warning to all couple trying for a baby. Eggs & sperm take three months to develop so both partners should stop smoking and drinking for 3
months before trying to conceive.

Alcohol & nutrients

Alcohol has adverse effects on almost every nutrient especially the B vitamins and Vitamin C. The minerals calcium, magnesium and zinc can be depleted in people who drink large  quantities of alcohol.  Fatty acids become deficient too. There is increasing evidence that many cases of alcoholism are due to a deficiency of nutrients and hypoglygemia.

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I could hardly believe my eyes when I read a recent newspaper article where a British journalist claimed that toxins were invented relatively recently by the alternative health industry purely to sell detox products!

She said that the whole business of detox diets was based on the spurious concept that toxins build up in our bodies and damage our health and the debatable theory that if we purge them from our bodies then we will be purer. She adds that when you read the rubbish written about toxins you’d think that, unless you are willing to remove them from your body, you’re more or less asking for a shorter life.

Well this is just another case of the journalist not doing her homework or simply making up a story for the effect. If she had bothered to do some research about toxins she would have found good evidence that they really do build up in our bodies and can shorten our lives.

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Environmental estrogen (oestrogen) or xenoestrogens as they are sometimes called are chemicals that when absorbed into your body can function in a similar way to your own estrogen. They disrupt the way your natural hormones function and create a condition known as estrogen dominance. In this article we will look at what they are, where they come from , how to avoid them and ways to detox environmental estrogen.

Estrogen Dominance

Estrogen dominance as the term suggests is when there is too much estrogen in your system either from the way that your body metabolizes your own hormones or from environmental sources.  It can affect men as well as women. Although men and women have the same hormones, estrogen, testosterone and progesterone, they have them in a very different ratio and they must be in correct balance for good health.

Good Estrogen and Bad Estrogen

Estrogen, actually a general term for three different forms of estrogen that are produced in your body, must eventually be broken down by the liver and excreted. They can go through one of two pathways.

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