Detoxing your body and environment is a necessity to ensure a healthy and wholesome life. That has become a huge topic of discussion and suggestions for growing your own food and wearing hemp are being made. Instead of going to the extremes, leading a natural life with slight modifications can ensure that you live a detoxed life. Here are 9 easy ways in which you could detox:
1. Changing the sheets and linen used in the bedroom
People often do not choose 100 percent cotton bed sheets or linen because they get wrinkled real quick. They use permanent press linens or polyester-cotton blend clothes which release formaldehyde. This chemical is a respiratory irritant and can cause uneasiness for the eyes too. It would be best to use cotton sheets that are untreated cotton sheets. Remove them early from the dryer to prevent the formation of heavy wrinkles and creasing.
2. Using natural herbicides and weedicides in the garden
When you are growing fruits, vegetables or flowers in your garden patch, the easiest way to protect them from weeds and other plants is to use chemical herbicides. That is also the easiest way to introduce toxins and poisons. Water the plants well. Then use the weed-inhibiting mulch against the weeds. Don’t mow your lawn very deep because long grass will cover and stifle weeds. Also make use of corn gluten meal weedicides or vinegar herbicides.
3. Ventilating your homes and rooms
Formaldehyde, the eye and throat irritant is back! This time it is hidden in pressed wood products. It has been found that this formaldehyde also is the cause of myeloid leukemia, a form of cancer, in factory workers. Improving the ventilation of the home is the best solution for this. Have large windows and open ventilators. Before getting the new furniture into the living room, it would be best to ‘air out’ the wood in a room with open windows and closed doors.You could also think about getting some green plants into your home for they are a source of good and clean air.
4. Going organic in fruits and vegetable consumption
Most of the pesticides, insecticides and other chemicals that enter our body, do so via the vegetables and fruits that we purchase from the market. Bell peppers, potatoes, strawberries, peaches, celery, apples, spinach, lettuce, kale and domestic blueberries are the worst offenders. You can avoid almost 80 percent of the chemicals entering your body by going organic.
5. Taking care of the foods that are eaten
Research has discovered that the pizza boxes, food foils, wrappers and bags are sources of oil-repelling and water-repelling chemicals that lodge themselves into the body when we consume the contents of these items. They are potential carcinogens and can cause long-lasting damage. Though there has been directed research to eliminate these chemical reservoirs, it is better to avoid or reduce them till then at least!
6. Checking the pollution in your closet
PERC or perchloroethylene is the fluid used for dry cleaning. It was known to cause headaches but recent findings say that it even causes liver and kidney damage. The newer fluids contain D-5. D-5 has been proven to cause uterine cancer in lab animals. It would be best to use carbon-dioxide cleaning or wet cleaning as much as possible. Even when you dry clean the clothes, keep the clothes well covered and insulated in a bag as you drive home. Air dry the bag for a while before taking it into the cupboards and closets.
7. Ensuring clean and healthy jewelry
It has been found that almost 19 percent of the costume jewelry with metal, especially the ones coming from China, contain the heavy metal cadmium, which is a poison and carcinogen, as per research findings in the Ashland University. Cadmium can also cause bone and kidney damage. It is, therefore, best to buy locally made jewelry. Also try to ascertain the source and materials for the jewelry you buy.
8. Cleanliness if next to healthiness too
Dust is the greatest carrier of toxins and poisons around the home. For instance, Deca which is a fire retardant, found in the vacuum dust of a home was also found in the breast milk of the mother there! Using foot mats at the entrances and cleaning the home regularly are musts. Use a wet mop twice a week at least apart from regular, daily vacuuming to keep your home dust free and yourself tox-free!
9. Practicing yoga techniques
There are many yoga techniques that help to clean the respiratory system and digestive system. These yoga methods will ensure that these two systems, which are most susceptible to toxins, are kept free of toxins and poisons. However, they must be learned from an experienced practitioner alone.