Spring Clean Your Life

1. Spring Clean Your Life Katherine Henderson April 19, 2010

2. 3 Causes Vertebral Subluxation • Trauma:including the birth process, slips and falls, bad posture • Tension:including emotional stress, family dynamics • Toxins:including chemicals and drugs, sugar, 2nd hand smoke, pollution

3. Focus Today = Toxins • Toxins within: • Your Home • Your Food • Your Body

4. Signs You are Toxic • ADD/ADHD • Allergies • Autism Spectrum Disorders • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • Fibromyalgia • Hormone Imbalance • Learning Disorders • Immune System Depression (persistent/recurring infections) • Irritable Bowel Syndrome and “Leaky Gut” • Thyroid Problems • Weight Loss Resistance (regardless of diet or exercise)

5. Toxins in Your Home • Cleaning Products - filled with hazardous petrochemicals (known carcinogens and endocrine distruptors) • Laundry Detergent • Plastic Storage Containers • Teflon Cookware - dangerous fumes emitted that cause health problems and birth defects • Biotoxins - Mold is the most common • Insect repellants/sprays - Kills bugs and chemicals are bad for you

6. Clean Home • Cleaning your home: • Many environmentally friendly products at the grocery store (healthy for your family) • Make your own cleaner - 50% Vinegar and 50% Water • Cleaning your clothes: • Laundry detergent - Many environmentally friendly products - watch the added fragrance (essentials oils or non-scented) • Dryer sheets - Don’t have to use any, dryer balls, or environmentally friendly product • Insecticides: • companies in the area specialize in natural solutions to keep the bugs out • Use organic products • Sometimes just need to solve the problem - fixing a hole under the door or finding the ant-pile next to the house

7. Clean Home • Plastic Storage Containers • Cookware - Use glass and cast-iron cookware and stainless steel pots and pans

8. Toxins in Your Food • Processed Foods - BAD!! Just don’t eat it. • Sugar - high fructose corn syrup more potent than sugar • Bad Fats - found in meats where animals are raised on grain and corn and oils that when heated become rancid • Steroids, Growth Hormones, and Antibiotics - found in dairy, chicken, beef, pork • Pesticides found in Produce • Water - tainted with heavy metals, jet fuel, pesticides, hormones, medications and dangerous chemicals (due to lazy filtering and treatment practices)

9. Clean Food • Sweeteners: • Best options: Stevia and Xylitol - these do not raise insulin levels and help to balance hormones • Other Nature Made options: Honey, Raw Cane Sugar, Maple Syrup, Agave Nectar, Fruit sweeteners - use sparingly • Fats: • Coconut oil - can be heated to high temperatures • Extra Virgin Olive Oil - for low to moderate temperatures • Avocados • Raw Nuts and Seeds • Raw butter, cheese and yogurt • Grass fed meats (Yonder Way Farm) - no added growth hormones, steroids or antibiotics • Fish

10. Clean Food • Produce - some should be bought organically due to high pesticide residue • Listed in the Maximized Living Nutrition Plan • www.foodnews.org (environmental working group website) • Water - make sure you are filtering your water • Best filtering is reversed osmosis (gets out the most toxins) • Most economical filtering • Home filter system • Brita or PUR water filters Dr. Dustin will be conducting the Total Food Makeover in May with much more information on this topic

11. Toxins in Your Body • Medicine - full of volatile chemicals • Personal hygiene products • Toothpaste - most tubes of toothpaste have a poison control number on the back of them because the ingredients should not be swallowed • Deodorant and Antiperspirant - many fragrances are toxic due to chemicals and antiperspirant has been linked to breast cancer and aluminum poisoning (your body is supposed to sweat) • Body Lotion and Powder • Sunscreen • Make-up • Hand sanitizers

12. Healthy Body Your body absorbs 60% of what you put on it • Medicine - reduce and eliminate your medications • There are many natural remedies: • Ear aches (couple drops of olive oil serve as a natural antibiotic and soothes the pain) • Sore throat - hot tea with lemon and honey; or gargle salt water • Stuffy nose - Baby Vicks on the bottom of your feet and put on socks; or lavender or eucalyptus oil in a warm bath or in a vaporizer

13. Healthy Body • Personal hygiene products - www.cosmeticsdatabase.com • Toothpaste - Use an all natural flouride-free brand • Deoderant - do not use an antipersperant and ensure the deoderant uses all natural ingredients (Recommend: Alvera- Aloe and Almond) • Body Lotion and Powder - look at the ingredients • Sunscreen - Buy paraben free and always check ingredients • Make-up - Mineral make-up is best - look at ingredients to choose the best one for you • Hand Sanitizer - best to use ones that are made with essential oils (natural sanitizers for you skin) If you can’t drink it or eat it, its not safe to put on your skin

14. Get Rid of Toxins • Toxins are built up in all our bodies down to the cellular level • Let’s get rid of toxins: • Make some changes in your home, food, body and mind • Clear out the cells - Daily Detox (buy at online store through yourlivingwellchiro.com) • Stay adjusted so our bodies can heal

15. Chiropractic Wellness Care • Every family member needs their spine checked regularly by your chiropractor • Removes nerve interference • Restores proper nerve function • Allows the body to function at it’s maximum potential • The body heals itself

16. Thank You! This powerpoint will be posted to yourlivingwellchiro.blogspot.com