As many of you have seen recently the CDC made recommendations against Lumber Liquidators laminate flooring made in the last few years because of Formaldehyde leading to increased cancer risk.(1) If you have had flooring from them it is worth a call to find out if you need to get a free test kit. This is the link for a request (https://www.lumberliquidators.com/ll/testkit)
Indoor air quality is a big deal as this CDC warning states but did you know how many different products off gas chemical that we shouldn’t be breathing? This article from Medical News today has a nice review of different exposures we can have in our house. (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306609.php)
Look at your health in the analogy of a bucket, once that bucket is full symptoms and illness show up in our lives. When we look at most products they do fall within tested safe limits and single exposures are unlikely to cause problems. So, lets look at the bucket analogy when you start filling a bucket up with a single trickle it takes a long time to fill, but for example when you have 35 trickles that bucket fills much quicker. When we are born we have over 200 measurable industrial pollutants in our blood.(3) The trickles start before we are born. Then we start using skin products and cleaning products that have know carcinogens in them or toxic metals. We have cosmetic products with unsafe levels of lead in them and they are put on daily. Then we start looking at cleaning supplies many products emit Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) these chemicals are absorbed by the body and will cause damage over time. They require detoxification and processing to eliminate.(5)
What is the point to this? We can either make conscious choices and vote with our wallets to reduce the chemical exposures in our homes or we can keep slowly adding to the trickle exposures that potentially lead to cancer, chronic degenerative disease and ultimately feeling crappy when we shouldn’t have to.

We recommend reducing exposures whenever possible, try http://www.ewg.org as a resource for finding products that are much less toxic. When possible by products with low or no VOC’s to avoid exposures and make sure that you are eating a healthy diet with a variety of color in your fruits and vegetables along with yearly detoxification in order to reduce the burden on your body. We can fight back against the chemical soup we have made and start helping your body feel better.

For detoxification questions give us a call, there are several routes that you can take and it can really be a life changing experience.

1)http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/laminateflooring/docs/nceh-atsdr_laminate-flooring.pdf
2)http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306609.php
3)http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/newborn-babies-chemicals-exposure-bpa/
4)http://www.everydayhealth.com/skin-and-beauty/0215/could-your-lipstick-give-you-lead-poisoning.aspx
5)http://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/indoor/indoor-air-pollutants/cleaning-supplies-household-chem.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/