Lower Your Toxic Load

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Lower Your Toxic Load

• You Are What You
• Eat
• Drink
• Inhale and
• ABSORB
• By
• Julie Parker, Esq.

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How I Got Here

• My Story
• How I got Here

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Indoor Pollutants

• The EPA recently stated that
• Indoor air pollution in residences,
• offices, schools, and other buildings
• is widely recognized as one of the
• most serious potential environmental
• risks to human health

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How our indoors became so toxic

• Over 80,000 synthetic organic compounds
• and chemicals presently being used in the US,
  and thousands more are produced each year by the
  chemical industry.
• Fewer than 1200 of these
• chemicals have even been
• partially tested for toxic effects
• on the nervous system

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Building Construction Practices

• Construction practices dramatically changed after
  1973
• After 1973 homes are tightly sealed to reduce
  energy costs, trapping chemicals inside
• Trapped chemical gasses are absorbed into
• the skin and make their way directly to
  our
• organs and bodily tissues
• We simply do not have the internal
• mechanisms to detoxify !

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Build Healthy Homes

• YOUR SAFE HAVEN
• In your lumber Formaldehyde
• More hazardous than most chemicals,
• Ranked as one of the most hazardous compounds to
  the ecosystems and human health.

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Volatile Organic CompoundsVOCs

• 3 Categories of VOCs
• Primary organic compounds from gas,
• oil and coal.
• Propane, Butane, Benzene, Xylene
• Paraffin, Toluene, and Styrene

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VOCs

• 2. Intermediate Substances derived from organic
  compounds
• Formaldehyde, Phenol, Acetone, Isopropanol,
  Acetaldehyde

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VOCs

• 3. End products produced from crude oil and
• natural gas
• Solvents, Waxes, Lacquers, Synthetic
  Detergents, Synthetic Fibers, Paints

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Common sources in the home

• Particle board
• Carpets and carpet pads
• Insulation
• Paints and finishes
• Body care
• Insecticides
• Aerosal

• Buy solid unfinished wood furniture stain with
  safe products
• Get rid of the carpeting
• Interior air barrier
• Use water based
• 100 Shea butter
• Safe pest mgmt.
• Throw them out

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Combustion

• Sources of indoor combustion
• Fireplaces, woodstoves, ranges, clothes
  dryers, water heaters, furnaces, space heaters,
  and lamps fueled by oils
• Regular maintenance for appliances, water heaters
  and furnaces, direct-vent fireplaces,
• Get rid of oil lamps, kerosene heaters

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Pesticides - poisons

• Kill insects, weeds, molds or fungus
• In the home
• Building products
• Carpets
• Household furnishing
• Paints
• Wood products

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Air Filtration

• Whole house systems Hepa Filters

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Electromagnetic

• RX for the home
• Kill Switch in bedroom
• Safe distances from appliances, TVs and computers
  purchase a gaussmeter to measure magnetic fields
• Consult with an expert

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Naturally Occurring Pollutants

• Radioactive Contaminants
• Radon
• Heavy Metals
• Mercury
• Biological
• Pollen
• Dust
• Mold

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What to do?

• Buy a radon kit
• Be sure your child is not immunized with
  thimerisol
• Avoid bottom dwelling fish clams,crabs,oysters,m
  ussels,lobster,flounder
• Avoid large fish swordfish, tuna
• At a minimum use a hepa filter vacuum
• In a new home, install a central vacuum system
  that exhausts outside the home
• Keep plants outdoors

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Water Filtration Systems

• Whole House Systems localized filters

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Drinking Water

• Absorption of contaminants through the skin
• Fluoride
• EPA (2/25/05) finalized Water Contaminant
  Candidate List. List includes
• 51 contaminants 9 microbial, and 41 chemical
• Chlorine

• Install carbon filters for shower heads and
  faucets
• Reverse osmosis
• Raising the alkalinity in the drinking water will
  soak up the dangerous free radicals

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Air Fresheners Perfumes

• Do not use air fresheners or perfume. Open the
  windows for fresh air, or simmer some cinnamon
  sticks over the stove, or hang some organic herbs
  to dry in the kitchen.
• Under current labeling laws, the word
  fragrance on a label may indicate the presence
  of up to 4,000 separate ingredients, and as many
  as 600 separate chemicals per formulation, the
  specifics of which do not need to be disclosed
  under the Trade Secrecy Act.

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Cleaning Products and Safe Alternatives

• The Consumer Product Safety Commission found more
  than 150 chemicals in ordinary cleaning products
  are directly responsible for producing cancer,
  allergies, birth defects, and numerous
  psychological disorders.
• Nearly 168 tons of household cleaners are dumped
  down the drain making the typical American
  household the number one violator of chemical
  waste per capita according to the EPA

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Safe Cleaners (see outline)

• Laundry
• Dishwasher Detergent
• Scouring Powder
• Window Washer
• All Purpose Cleaners
• Drain Cleaners
• Wood Furniture
• Oven

• Natural soap flakes
• Baking soda Borax
• Bon Ami
• Water/ White Vinegar
• Water/ White Vinegar
• World Wise Easy Sink Trap
• Mineral Oil
• Dr Bonners pure castile soap/Borax/Lemon

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Safe Alternatives

• Bedding The single most important furniture
  choice with regard to health !!
• We spend a third of our lives in bed
• Standard bedding contains 2 of the most hazardous
  compounds to human health and the planet known to
  man.
• Its in the flame retardants !

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Bedding

• This is the single most important furniture
• choice with regard to health !
• We spend 1/3 of our lives in bed.

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• Get a prescription from your childs doctor
• stating that for health reasons your child
  can
• not have a flame retardant mattress ..
• Non Toxic Organic Beds For You And Your Family

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Pest Control

• Today we are exposed to 500 to 1000 chemicals
• daily in the avg. American home that were not
  in existence in 1920.
• Pesticide poisons are volatile
• they do not stay where they are sprayed
• DDT use unabated over millions of
  acres of land in Africa

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Outdoor Pollutants

• Manufacturer emissions from
• from plastics , pesticides, and
• other chemicals

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Plastics

• Dont buy them
• Dont use them
• Dont store food or beverages in them
• Baby Bottles

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Styrofoam

• Dont buy it
• Dont use it
• Dont eat food or drink beverages from
  it

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Our contaminated food supply

• Processed foods contaminated with
• Artificial colors
• Preservatives
• Plastics
• Growth hormones
• Antibiotics
• Nitrates
• Aluminum
• Cleaning products

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Food Intolerances

• How do you know if something thats non-toxic to
  most of the rest of the world is toxic to you?
• Allergy testing
• By far the most reliable test for food
  sensitivities and intolerances and enviornmental
  pharmachological sensitivities/intolerances is
  the ALCAT Test.
• see www.alcat.com
• Reflux is not a disease its a symptom

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Go Organic

• We are what we
• Eat
• Drink
• Inhale
• and ABSORB

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Educate Yourself

• Save your grandchildren
• Use consumerism
• Use your political voice
• THE TIME TO STOP THIS SELF-
  DESTRUCTION IS NOW

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Hormone Imposter Plastizers

• Our children are the 1st generation to be exposed
  to the 21st centurys toxic accumulations.
• DONT LET THEM BE THE LAST