For most of you controlling your diet, exercising, de-stressing and eventually losing weight is enough to heal your inflammation. But those who are environmentally sensitive may need to take another step: cleaning up your personal environments. If the fumes from synthetic carpeting, pressed-wood furniture, house hold and industrial cleansers, office products and other environment dangers continually stimulate an inflammatory response, all the healthy eating and exercise in the world may not solve the problem. Controlling environmental toxicity is perhaps the most challenging aspects of reversing chronic inflammation since so many of the sources of toxicity are outside our individual control.
This world seems to be tailored made to produce inflammation the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe and even some of the furniture in our homes can cause cellular damage that leads directly to chronic, low-grade inflammation. Dust, mold, and volatile chemicals like formaldehyde (found in many indoor environments) in sufficient quantity can provoke asthma even in healthy people.
The chronic inflammation that results from toxic exposure sends in the anti-inflammatory counter response which is lead by a group of chemicals inside your cell called SOCS (Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling) which is a key cause of leptin resistance. The inflammatory response can not only create leptin resistance but also excess cortisol, both of which practically guarantee that you will become and remain obese.
House Cleaning From the Inside Out – Cleansing Your Body and Your Environment
When you lose weight toxins stored in your fat are released into your blood steam and threaten to stall your weight loss efforts. Our livers are given the task of filtering the blood and removing any toxins that have found their way there. Fortunately you can support your liver by including these foods that will aid your liver in this substantial task. Dark greens, such as kale, collards, dandelion greens, mustard green, spinach and Swiss chard are loaded with carotenoids and phytontrients that aid in liver detoxification.
Here Are Some Healthy Tips To Support Detoxification
- Eat organic as much as possible to avoid commercial fertilizer, commercial animal feed, pesticides, genetically modified and irradiated food. Avoid packages foods with artificial flavors, hydrogenated oils and preservatives.
- Dust and chemical cleansers are two of the most common home based sources of toxic invaders. Mold is another toxin encouraged by dampness. Using an air purifier or dehumidifier may help to eliminate the excess moister.
- Remove your shoes when entering your home. The dust tracked into your home on the soles of your shoes is usually loaded with lead and pesticides and settles into your carpets, where it can stay for years, rising up into the air you breathe.
- Don’t smoke and don’t allow others to smoke in your home.
- Clean your refrigerator every week. Refrigerators are damp dark, and packed with food, which makes them a haven for mold. Store cooked food for no more than two days before throwing it out.
- Use environmentally friendly household products and cleaning solutions. Don’t store solvents in your kitchen or living area, even in closets. The garage is the best place to avoid exposure.
- Filter your tap water. Chlorination of municipal water supplies produces potentially harmful substance called trihalomethanes(THMs). A charcoal filter helps to reduce the risks substantially.
- Purchase organic, no-toxic products for your skin care. Your skin is your largest organ and absorbs much of what touches its surface. Most fat-soluble molecules pass into your skin cells and into your blood stream.
- Unfortunately, most of the chemicals used in person care products contain fat soluble molecules that are toxic to the human body Nitrosmaines and dioxanes, known carcinogens, are allowed in cosmetics. Your palms, frequently used to apply cosmetics are the most absorbent of your skin, which result is greater absorption of toxins.
- Carbamates are a group of insecticides and herbicides sprayed on produce and used in cosmetic and medical products. This group of chemicals is actually fed to cattle to fatten them up before slaughter and used in medicine to produce weight gain. There are many products lines that can provide non-toxic cosmetics for your skin and hair, Miessence, Thorne, Jane Iredell mineral makeup to name a few.
- Detoxification, like all other bodily process, is primarily driven by enzymes, especially those in the liver, intestines, kidney, lungs, and skin. These enzymes depend upon proteins, vitamins minerals, and perhaps some anti-oxidants that are in flavoinds and caroteinoids. So in order to keep your natural detox process functioning smoothly, what you really need is a non- toxic healthy live foods diet.
- In summary buy clean organic foods, exercise, avoid exposing yourself to the toxins that are in your household products, plastic water bottles, purchase body products that are safe free of parabens, bisphenol, phthalates theses metabolism altering chemicals act as obesogens by distrupting your endocrine organs and hormones which in turn can cause an increase in fat cells.
- Research is showing that the rise in the obesity epidemic may be related to these hormone-mimicking substances, especially when exposure occurs in the womb. Obesogens have been found to act on genes in the developing fetus to turn more cells into fat cells. These cells stay with you for life, and may alter the metabolic rate so that the body hoards calories rather than burns them. This results in an increase in body fat as one ages as well as difficulty in losing excess weight.