Detox

Detox : Eat organic, and always wash your food: neurotoxic pesticide levels are way lower in children who get organic foods. Always read and make sure to understand food labels-ignore natural: aflatoxins, arsenic, cyanide are all natural. Avoid using aluminum and Teflon cookware. Do trial eliminations (2 weeks, one at a time).

Clean Up Your Diet: Limit or eliminate non-organic produce (herbicides and pesticides) dairy (hormones and antibiotics), feedlot meats (hormones and antibiotics), and farmed fish (junk-fed and PCBs). Increase your fiber consumption (minimum 21 grams women, 30 grams men).

Eliminate Processed Foods: Remove as much oas possible of processed foods and sugar from your diet. Cutting out sweet beverages can eliminate hundreds of unhealthy calories and help your pancreas.

Eat More Brassicas: Brassicas, like collard greens, kale, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, provide unique nutrients (phytonutrients) that rev up your detoxification system. This system encompasses the liver, kidneys, intestines, skin and to a lesser extent all the other tissues.

Drink More clean Water: Your brain is 80% water, so avoid anything that dehydrates it—such as caffeine or alcohol. Being dehydrated by just 2% impairs performance in tasks that require attention, immediate memory skills, and physical performance. Since water helps flush toxins from your body, it’s recommended that you drink three to four quarts of reverse osmosis or filtered (with charcoal) water every day.

Toxic Cleaners: Do a bathroom cleanse and throw out all toxic products and replace harmful products with healthy ones.

  Take Vitamin C, Curcumins, Other Antioxidants Daily: Vitamin C is a versatile antioxidant and the most dollar-effective antitoxin you can get. The curcumins, which give turmeric and curries their gold color, are also powerful antioxidants.

Fortify Your Natural Defenses: One of the best ways to protect yourself from harmful agents is to support your natural defenses with supplements. The body’s detoxification systems overlap with the immune system to help process toxic chemicals, avoid allergic and intolerance reactions, and destroy potentially harmful infectious agents. Everyone should be on a core supplement regimen.

  Toxins : Common toxins can be absorbed through the skin (when you rub in a cream, for example), ingested (when you eat or drink), or inhaled (when you breathe). Types of Effects: Different chemicals cause different effects. For example, Chemical A may cause vomiting, but not cancer. Chemical B may have no noticeable effects during exposure, but may cause cancer years later.  
  • Exposure: A chemical can cause health effects only when it contacts or enters the body.
  • Routes of Exposure: Exposure to a substance can occur by inhalation, ingestion or direct contact. Inhalation (breathing) of gases, vapors, dusts or mists is a common route of exposure. Chemicals can enter and irritate the nose, air passages and lungs. They can become deposited in the airways or be absorbed by the lungs into the bloodstream. The blood can then carry these substances to the rest of the body. Ingestion (swallowing) of food, drink or other substances is another route of exposure. Chemicals that get in or on food, cigarettes, utensils or hands can be swallowed. Children are at greater risk of ingesting substances found in dust or soil because they often put their fingers or other objects in their mouths. Lead in paint chips is a good example. Substances can be absorbed into the blood and then transported to the rest of the body. Direct contact (touching) with the skin or eyes is also a route of exposure. Some substances are absorbed through the skin and enter the bloodstream. Broken, cut or cracked skin will allow substances to enter the body more easily. The route of exposure can determine whether or not the toxic substance has an effect. Breathing or swallowing lead can result in health effects, but touching lead is not harmful because lead isn’t absorbed through the skin.
    • Mercury: in “silver” dental fillings (which are 50 percent mercury), contaminated fish, and distributed ubiquitously in the environment
    • Lead: in contaminated drinking water, soils previously exposed to environmental contaminants, old and peeling paint, paint, lead pipes, aviation fuel
    • Cadmium: in soils treated with synthetic fertilizers and industrial waste sites
  • Excessive alcohol, marijuana, “lifestyle” and various illegal drugs, some prescription drugs
  • Many pain medications, notably prescription opioids and other narcotics, or benzodiazepines commonly prescribed for anxiety or insomnia
  • Chemotherapy can cause a long-term “brain fog” or “chemobrain”
  • General anesthesia can result in long-term memory loss in some patients
  • Artificial food dyes and preservatives, including bromates, nitrates or nitrites (processed meats), tartrazine dye (linked to asthma), MSG, red dye #40 and other “#” dyes. The artificial sweeteners aspartame (blue packets) saccharin (pink), and sucralose (yellow) all are linked to toxic effects on the body. The body’s detoxification systems often cannot process artificial chemicals that don’t occur in nature
  • Herbicides such as glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup weed killer, with residue present in genetically modified crops)
  • Pesticides including organochlorines and organophosphates, many of them powerful neurotoxins
  • Apples sprayed with diphenylamine (used to prevent the browning of fruit skin)
  • Foods manufactured with plastic equipment, leaking plasticizer.
 

What Not to Eat

You should limit the following foods.

  • Sugar: Added sugar is addictive, fattening and a leading cause of diseases like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
  • Grains: Avoid grains if you need to lose weight, including bread and pasta. Gluten grains (wheat, spelt, barley and rye) are the worst Healthier grains like rice and oats are fine if you don’t need to lose weight.
  • Seed and vegetable oils: Soybean oil, corn oil and some others. These are processed fats with a high amount of Omega-6 fatty acids, which are harmful in excess .
  • Trans fats: Chemically modified fats that are extremely bad for health. Found in some processed foods.
  • Artificial sweeteners: Despite being calorie free, observational studies show a correlation with obesity and related diseases . If you must use sweeteners, choose Stevia.
  • “Diet” and “low-fat” products: Most of these “health foods” aren’t healthy at all. They tend to be highly processed and loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Agave syrup is just as bad as sugar.
  • Highly processed foods: Foods that are highly processed are usually low in nutrients and high in unhealthy and unnatural chemicals.