Our Toxic World



A Wake-Up Story


What it all boils down to~~~> exogenous semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins."

Our food, air, water, furniture, cleaning supplies, beauty products, clothes, workplaces, etc etc are absolutely loaded with toxic


Just.. disgusting


4 billion prescription drugs are ingested by Americans.
70,000 chemicals are used commercially.
3,000+ chemicals are added to our food supply.
10,000+ chemicals are used in food processing, preserving and storage.
3 million tons of pesticides are used, with 1,600 chemicals used in their production.

Meet the ‘rented white coats’ who defend toxic chemicals

DRUGS

There are 260 million opiod and other narcotic prescriptions in the US alone... That could cover over 80% of the population!!! 

Almost 15% of primary care visits involved the writing of a painkiller or sedative, which combined accounts for up to the largest % of deaths. The combo of benzodiazepines and opiods have even been used for executions.



FOOD

Additives in our food supply ( More than 9,000)
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-09-18/growing-use-food-additives-and-new-pressure-more-oversight
Environmental Working Groups Dirty Dozen

Disgusting
http://mic.com/articles/99626/13-foods-that-prove-all-natural-is-all-lies?utm_source=takepart&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Sep

Pizzaaaa!  annnd the difference between the US and UK
http://foodbabe.com/2014/03/23/if-youve-ever-eaten-pizza-before-this-will-blow-your-mind/
http://foodbabe.com/2014/09/30/mcdonalds-serves-what-in-london-the-outrageous-double-standard-in-fast-food/


  • Mills PK, Zahm SH. Organophosphate pesticide residues in urine of farmworkers and their children in Fresno County, California. Am J Ind Med. 2001 Nov;40(5):571-7. PMID: 11675626
  • Heudorf U, Angerer J, Drexler H. Current internal exposure to pesticides in children and adolescents in Germany: urinary levels of metabolites of pyrethroid and organophosphorus insecticides. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2004 Jan;77(1):67-72. PMID: 14551781
  • Liska DJ. The detoxification enzyme systems. Altern Med Rev. 1998 Jun;3(3):187-98. PMID: 9630736





Food Additives – At What Cost?




Whats in yer Mcdirty french fries?
http://www.trueactivist.com/mcdonalds-transparency-campaign-backfires-prepare-to-be-shocked/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=ce&utm_campaign=ce
Or McRib??
http://www.realfarmacy.com/mcdonalds-mcrib-actually-looks-like/

Water

The FDA only regulates 91 chemicals of the 60k in our water supply
http://absoluterights.com/regulatory-failure-can-you-believe-even-safe-and-legal-water-is-poisoning-america/?utm_source=ContentMail&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Mail

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/09/22/can-water-go-bad.aspx?x_cid=20140922_lead_canwatergobad_facebookdoc

Toxic beauty products

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14369/why-beauty-products-are-toxic-what-you-can-do-about-it-heather-white.html

Average women walks out of the house with 105 synthetically derived chemicals on their body

Signs you need to detox, and how to go about it!
http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/13438-12-signs-you-need-to-detox.html?c=ngr


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/19/flame-retardant-toxic-hot-seat-documentary.aspx?e_cid=20140719Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140719Z1&et_cid=DM52813&et_rid=590692718

http://www.organicauthority.com/5-diy-natural-deodorant-recipes-for-healthy-pits-that-dont-stink/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/09/pregnant-women-environmental-toxin-exposure.aspx?e_cid=20140709Z1_DNL_art_2&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=20140709Z1&et_cid=DM50666&et_rid=578900489

http://www.realfarmacy.com/cancerous-cosmetic-ingredient/

Fragrances 

https://branchbasics.com/blog/2015/01/fragrance-is-the-new-secondhand-smoke/

Affect on Male Sperm

  • 90% are misshapen.  Those that are left are typically pathetic swimmers. 
    • Its a miracle we can still reproduce!! 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/are-your-sperm-in-trouble.html?mwrsm=Facebook

Helpful Myths vs Facts
http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/myths-on-cosmetics-safety/

Your nails look great...BUT...you may be getting SICK?
Almost all nail polish contains 3 very toxic chemicals:
1. DBP
2. Toluene...
3. Formaldehyde
How dangerous are these chemicals?
1. DBP is known to cause lifelong reproductive impairments in male rats, and has been shown to damage the testes, prostate gland, epididymis and seminal vesicles in animals.
2. Toluene, which is made from petroleum or coal tar. Chronic exposure linked to anemia, lowered blood cell count, liver or kidney damage, and may affect a developing fetus. In nail polish, toluene is used to give the polish a smooth finish.
3. Formaldehyde, a skin, eye, and respiratory irritant, and a known carcinogen (formaldehyde exposure has been associated with leukemia specifically). Formaldehyde is used in nail polish as a hardener and preservative.
What's the answer?
1. Find nail polish that's safer and less toxic.
2. Minimize your exposure to nail polish by picking only a few days a week only.
3. Detox! Detox! Detox...and continually rid the toxins from your body. You cannot and will never be able to completely avoid toxins, so you have to continually detoxing daily and keep all of your detox channels open.

               ~~Dr. Charles Majors


You spend 1/3 of your life sleeping... what about your BED??? 

  • I don't know about you, but I tend to consider my bed a sacred place.  Although I tend to spend less time in it than I should, sleep is a vital time to heal and grow, or break down and discard; either way, it's essential.  
    • But, if you are spending 7 hours inhaling toxins that have known negative physiological effects, such as cancer, reproductive problems, thyroid issues, nervous system disruptors,  etc etc its probably not going to be so productive.  

  • Flame retardants 
    • In recent years, the gov't has mandated mattress manufacturers to produce highly flame resistant products.  As in, mattresses that have to withstand a direct flame from a blowtorch for 90 seconds.  Which is not an easy task, which requires the use of.... 
      • PBDE (polybrominated diphenyl ether) 
        • Linked to a vast array of health issues (cancer, reproductive damage, brain damage)
        • Doesn't have to be disclosed on any product labels
        • Gradually build up in the body over time. Found in breast milk, umbilical-cord blood
        • Found in all sorts of household items. 
      • Boric Acid
        • ... used to kill roaches
      • Antimony
        • has been shown to be more toxic than mercury. 
        • .. pretty sure even my high school science teacher made a 10 minute long discussion on running for the hills if a mercury thermometer broke.. 
      • Formaldehyde
        • much appreciated when used to preserve the cadavers I dissected in school.. but I'd rather not breath it in while I sleep and slowly turn to one myself.. 
  • "However, they also found that the chemicals do, in fact, leach from the mattresses. A person sleeping on a chemically treated mattress will absorb .8 mg of antimony every night, an amount that is 27 times more than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is safe. 

    Five-year-old children, meanwhile, will absorb .5 mg of antimony every night, according to CPSC, which is 63 times more than the EPA’s safety limit!"
  • Most countries in Europe, along with many other countries around the world BAN the use of these chemicals on furniture.. hmmm, couldn't imagine why?? 

Top things to get rid of

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-11706/10-toxic-products-no-one-needs.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/046536_water_filters_heavy_metals_lab_results.html#

http://www.realfarmacy.com/top-12-cancer-causing-products-average-home/

NON-Stick Pans


https://news.vice.com/article/the-chemical-long-used-in-non-stick-pans-might-be-unsafe-at-any-level
http://www.ewg.org/research/healthy-home-tips/tip-6-skip-non-stick-avoid-dangers-teflon
http://www.ewg.org/research/pfc-dictionary

Aluminum



 Pregnancy and Toxins
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/09/pregnant-women-environmental-toxin-exposure.aspx?e_cid=20140709Z1_DNL_art_2&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art2&utm_campaign=20140709Z1&et_cid=DM50666&et_rid=578900489

Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/10/25/dangers-everyday-industrial-chemicals.aspx?e_cid=20141025Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20141025Z1&et_cid=DM58418&et_rid=706639185

Of the 287 chemicals we detected in umbilical cord blood, we know that 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests.

  • Chemical production in the US has grown 25-fold since World War II; in 2011, chemicals accounted for sales of more than $763 billion
  • 84,000 chemicals are legal for commerce in the US, and they are all basically unregulated; every year, new ones are introduced that have not been fully tested
  • Almost 13,000 chemicals are used in cosmetics, and only about 10 percent have been evaluated for safety
  • About 6 billion pounds of BPA is produced annually, earning manufacturers some $8 billion profit
  • More than 1.5 million tons of flame retardants are used worldwide each year; they are added to products in order to meet flammability requirements, but the disgusting irony is that there’s virtually no evidence to suggest that these chemicals actually work when it comes to saving your life in the event of a fire


BPA--- BPS

Exposure to BPA substitute, BPS, multiplies breast cancer cells



"Safe insecticides" 

'Safe' Insecticides Tied to Neurobehavioral Problems in Kids

The Price you Pay




Household cleaning products
--->Could be as bad for you as smoking cigs... YUCK

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cleaning-products-lungs-damage-cigarettes-smoking-20-day-scientists-warning-a8214051.html

FOOD



Hmm and Jell-O?? wtf
This sh** literally has a warning label in Europe... 

Orange Jello
http://foodbabe.com/2014/05/21/this-childhood-favorite-has-a-warning-label-in-europe-why-not-here

More on Why you Should eat Organic
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What to do about it??!!



There are many ways to go about the practice of detoxing. But first, let's understand what detoxing really means, and why it's an essential part to our health.


Your body is incredibly good at detoxing and there are many systems that support this process.  Obviously, every one of these systems is affected by the lifestyle you lead.  Which is good in a sense that you can absolutely fire up these processes into high gear by incorporating easy, mindless daily routines and lifestyle changes to support this!

From Mercola.com

Tips to Help You Avoid Toxic Chemicals

Within such a dysfunctional system, you are the best one to keep your family safe. Although no one can successfully steer clear of ALL chemicals and pollutants, you can certainly minimize your exposure by keeping some key principles in mind.
  • Buy and eat fresh, organic produce and grass-pastured, sustainably raised meats to reduce your exposure to added hormones, pesticides, and fertilizers. Also avoid milk and other dairy products that contain the genetically engineered recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST).
  • Eat mostly fresh, raw whole foods. Processed and packaged foods are a common source of chemicals such as BPA and phthalates.
  • Rather than eating conventional or farm-raised fish, which are often heavily contaminated with PCBs and mercury, supplement with a high-quality krill oil, or eat fish that is wild-caught and lab tested for purity, such as wild caught Alaskan salmon.
  • Buy products that come in glass bottles rather than plastic or cans, as chemicals can leach out of plastics (and plastic can linings), into the contents; be aware that even “BPA-free” plastics  typically  leach other endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are just as bad as BPA.
  • Store your food and beverages in glass, rather than plastic, and avoid using plastic wrap.
  • Use glass baby bottles for your infants.
  • Replace your non-stick pots and pans with ceramic or glass cookware.
  • Filter your tap water for both drinking AND bathing. If you can only afford to do one, filtering your bathing water may be more important, as your skin absorbs contaminants. To remove the endocrine disrupting herbicide Atrazine, make sure your filter is certified to remove it. According to the EWG, perchlorate can be filtered out using a reverse osmosis filter.
  • Look for products that are made by companies that are Earth-friendly, animal-friendly, sustainable, certified organic, and GMO-free. This applies to everything from food and personal care products to building materials, carpeting, paint, baby items, furniture, mattresses, and more.
  • Use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter to remove contaminated house dust.
  • When buying new products such as furniture, mattresses, or carpet padding, ask what type of flame retardant it contains. Avoid items containing PBDEs, antimony, formaldehyde, boric acid, and other brominated chemicals. As you remove toxic items from in and around your home, replace them with those that contain naturally less flammable materials, such as leather, wool, cotton, and silk.
  • Avoid stain- and water-resistant clothing, furniture and carpets to avoid perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs).
  • Make sure your baby's toys are BPA-free, such as pacifiers, teething rings and anything your child may be prone to suck or chew on. Better yet, avoid all plastic, especially flexible ones, as even BPA free products are loaded with other plasticizers that are just as bad if not worse than BPA.
  • Use natural cleaning products, or make your own. Avoid those that contain 2-butoxyethanol (EGBE) and methoxydiglycol (DEGME)—two toxic glycol ethers that can impair your fertility and cause fetal harm.10
  • Switch over to organic toiletries, including shampoo, toothpaste, antiperspirants, and cosmetics. EWG’s Skin Deep database11 can help you find personal care products that are free of phthalates and other potentially dangerous chemicals.
  • Replace your vinyl shower curtain with a fabric one.
  • Replace feminine hygiene products (tampons and sanitary pads) with safer alternatives.
  • Look for fragrance-free products. One artificial fragrance can contain hundreds—even thousands—of potentially toxic chemicals. Avoid fabric softeners and dryer sheets, which contain a mishmash of synthetic chemicals and fragrances

Dryer Sheets

 https://www.thedrswolfson.com/health-hazards-dryer-sheets/

 2010 Dec;60(8):624-30. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqq128. Epub 2010 Sep 5.

Volatile organic compounds exposure and cardiovascular effects in hair salons

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20819803#

 2014 Sep;29(9):1089-97. doi: 10.1002/tox.21844. Epub 2013 Feb 18.

Effects of subchronic exposure to low-dose volatile organic compounds on lung inflammation in mice.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418084#



Common Household Chemicals Tied to Language Delays in Kids

Early prenatal exposure to phthalates — the synthetic chemicals commonly found in household items and personal care products — has been tied to language delays in children, new research shows.
In the first study of its kind, the collaboration between investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, and Karlstad University, Sweden, showed that the risk for language delay was as much as 30% greater in children whose mothers were exposed to twice the levels of dibutyl phthalate and butyl benzyl phthalate, two chemicals commonly found in such everyday items as cosmetics, plastic toys, and food.
"The bottom line here is that the phthalates that a mother is exposed to in early pregnancy can affect the development of the brain in her children, particularly in this area of language development," principal investigator Shanna Swan, PhD, professor of environmental and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told Medscape Medical News. 
"Unfortunately, these results point to different phthalates than we've found to be bad actors in the past. We've previously observed negative associations with di-ethylhexyl phthalate, which is more commonly found in food. Now we have more phthalates to worry about," said Swan.
The study was published online October 29, 2018 in JAMA Pediatrics. (JAMA Pediatr. Published online October 29, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.3115)

Onus on Regulators, Manufacturers

Phthalates — high-volume semivolatile synthetic chemicals that make plastic soft and flexible — are used in a variety of industrial products, including polyvinyl chloride flooring, food packaging, personal-care products, medical supplies, and even toys. Their chemical structure precludes them from leaching, which is why they are often found in indoor air, dust, food, and water.
Global biomonitoring data show that most phthalate metabolites are ubiquitous in the urine of children and adults alike. It is also present in blood, breast milk, and amniotic fluid.
Previous research in both animals and humans has demonstrated that phthalates are endocrine disruptors with antiandrogenic properties. Indeed, prenatal phthalate exposure has been associated with male genital defects. Moreover, studies found inverse associations between phthalate metabolite level in prenatal urine and subsequent child neurodevelopment, behavioral outcomes, mental and psychomotor development, and neurologic status.
Given that language-development delays can affect academic achievement later in life, such delays serve as an important indicator of later neurodevelopmental impairment.
With that in mind, the investigators sought to examine the association between metabolite phthalate level in first-trimester urine samples and subsequent language development in early childhood.
The researchers used data from two independent pregnancy cohort studies for the analysis — the Swedish Environmental Longitudinal, Mother and Child, Asthma and Allergy study (SELMA; 963 pregnant women and their children) and the Infant Development and Environment Study (TIDES; 370 women and their children). The latter study was conducted in the United States.
 
In both trials, phthalate levels were obtained from the women at their first prenatal visit (median, 10th week of pregnancy). After their children were born and had begun acquiring language, the women were asked how many words their children understood (at 30 months in SELMA and 37 months in TIDES) through use of a screening questionnaire. The questionnaire is routinely used in Sweden and was translated into English. Responses were categorized as <25, 25 to 50, and >50 words. Children who understood <50 words were classified as having language delay.
 
Both studies found that 10% of children used 50 words or fewer; 2.7% understood fewer than 25 words. Interestingly, language delay was more common among boys than girls in both studies.
 
Raw analyses of the data demonstrated that metabolites of two chemicals — dibutyl phthalate and butyl benzyl phthalate — were statistically significantly associated with language delay.
After adjusting for potential confounders, a doubling of prenatal exposure to these two metabolites increased the odds ratio of language delay by 25% to 40%. These adjusted findings were significant in the Swedish study but not in the American study. The researchers attribute this difference to the smaller sample size in the US study.
 
The investigators note that the current study is one of the first to examine the association between early language development and first-trimester phthalate exposure. The findings have far-reaching implications, given the ubiquity of phthalates in modern society.
 
"Until there's some testing of chemicals before they're put into products, we're not going to get around this," Swan said. "I don't think consumers can do very much, because these things aren't labeled. You don't know what's in your furniture, and you certainly don't know which foods have phthalates in them.
 
"So the consumer is at a loss," Swan added. "It really is the responsibility of the regulators and the manufacturers."
 

Exposure Difficult to Avoid 

Commenting on the findings for Medscape Medical News, Susan Schantz, PhD, professor of toxicology and neuroscience at the University of Illinois in Urbana, who was not involved in the study, said the findings are very much needed.
 
"We did a review a couple of years back looking at environmental chemicals and language development, and I was shocked to see how little research there was on this really important aspect of neurodevelopment," said Schantz.
 
"Phthalates are present in many different consumer products," Schantz added. "So it's very hard to avoid exposure. I think studies like this are important because we need to start phasing phthalates out of products and find better, less toxic solutions."
 
"I don't know what the answer is," Swan concluded, "but I know we'd be doing pregnant women and their children a service if we could keep some of these chemicals out of their bodies."
 
The studies were supported by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Swedish Research Council Formas, and the County Council of Varmland, Sweden.
Carl Neubauer| Nutri-Dyn
Co-Owner | Functional Medicine Consultant



Toxic Fish

 http://lifespa.com/5-safety-rules-eating-fish/
--Good info, but i dont agree with the amount you should be able to eat of some types of the fish/sea food.


Importance of our lymphatic system

Explanation of the system

Daily detox 
http://drjockers.com/2013/07/daily-detoxification-strategies/
http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/12482-science-confirms-turmeric-as-effective-as-14-drugs.html?c=cure

Harvard releases top 10 toxins that are causing ADHD/Autism
http://massreport.com/researchers-at-harvard-reveal-10-toxins-that-are-causing-adhd-autism/

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/09/09/are-you-pregnant-new-study-makes-it-very-clear-how-to-reduce-the-risk-of-autism/


Chemical exposure is detrimental to overall health
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/13/chemical-exposures-threaten-human-health.aspx?x_cid=20151013_lead_chemical-exposures-threaten-human-health_facebookdoc


Detox

http://www.thegabrielmethod.com/detox
More on DETOXING


Chronic Pain?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/10/02/narcotic-overdose-deaths.aspx?x_cid=20141002_nonlead_narcoticoverdose_facebookdoc

E-Cigs?? Maybe not 
http://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/download/RS-Vol19-E-Cigarettes-EN.pdf


Top 10 Toxic Ingredients used at McDonald's (aka McSquirts)
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/top-10-toxic-ingredients-used-mcdonalds
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/top-10-toxic-ingredients-used-mcdonalds


Anti-Bacterial Soap
Are you washing your hands for 9 hours with anti-bacterial soap?

If not...don't except it to work and it's making you SICKER!

I see so many people who are so obsessed with WASHING their hands with anti-bacterial soap and they also carry around antibacterial liquids and wipes....and they think this will keep themselves and kids healthier...WRONG!...

You are actually making yourself and your kids SICKER and more SUSCEPTIBLE to sickness and disease!

Anti-bacterial formulas do not work better than regular soap.....and they MAKE YOU SICK!

Antibacterial soaps, wipes or liquids, almost ALL contain triclosan, an effective bacteria-, virus- and fungus-fighting agent.

Here is the problem with too much exposure to triclosan (according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration)—it can breed:
1. Resistant Bacterial Strains
2. Disrupt hormones
3. contributes to some cancers

Look at this research published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, they found that the antibacterial formulas did not kill any more bacteria than traditional soap and water for any of the strains even after 20 seconds, which is the length of time that the World Health Organization recommends for hand washing.

Scientists at Korea University decided to compare antibacterial soaps and traditional soaps on 20 strains of bacteria against which the FDA suggested companies test their products. The researchers dropped small amounts of bacteria in vials containing various concentrations of triclosan-containing formulas as well as non-antibacterial versions.

They also coated 16 volunteers’ hands with bacteria and then asked them to wash their hands with the two different types of soaps so the scientists could measure bacteria levels afterward.

The antibacterials performed NO BETTER. The only difference that they made was in an experiment in which the scientists left the solutions for nine hours. Only then did the antibacterial soaps eliminate more bacteria than plain soap. Since nobody is expected wash her hands for nine hours, the lesson seems to be that when it comes to washing your hands, you don’t need fancy antibacterial brands.

Plain old soap and water will do just as well and NOT CAUSE MORE DISEASE and possibly CANCER!

Nice little tutor on the basics
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor/Tox2/index.html
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor/Tox2/index.html

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