Category: Toxicity
How I Healed Myself From Lyme Disease and Mold-Related Illness
In 2017, I was a Division I athlete playing tennis at the University of Connecticut. I was at the top of my game, playing in the top doubles spot and [...]
Creating a Healthy Haven in Your Bedroom
We spend a lot of time in our bedrooms - almost one-third of our lives, in fact - so it’s important to make sure our bedrooms are conducive to a good [...]
Are You Ready to Detox Your Home?
We support our health in many ways—such as eating healthy, exercising, and self-care—but often, we forget our environment’s role in the well-being of [...]
Detoxification – It All Starts at the Mouth
Too much of anything can be toxic. Even drinking water has a toxic dose. When one reaches the toxic dose of something, negative things happen to our b [...]
Detox Your Skin for Optimal Breast Health
Toxins aren’t easy to see, smell, or feel – but we’re surrounded by them daily. They can be found in our air, foods, cleaning products, and personal-c [...]
Put a Spring in Your Step with Internal Cleansing
Do the cold weather and excess comfort foods get you down...literally? Do you feel overweight, sluggish, less interested in life? While it is ideal to [...]
How Herbs Can Help Detox Your Home for a Healthier Environment
Cleansing your home of toxins can be beneficial for your health and well-being. Removing hazardous materials and chemicals from your residence can red [...]
Should Toxin Exposure Be a Part of Preventative Screening?
Did you know that there are thousands of manufactured chemicals in the United States? These chemicals are found in numerous places; in food, water, co [...]
Are You Detoxing Your Breasts?
Research has shown that up to 90% of cancers including breast cancer are from lifestyle and environmental factors, which leaves 10% relating to geneti [...]
Kidney Care for Critical Detoxing and Longevity
Are you seeking ways to improve your body’s ability to combat both viral and other infections and age-related degenerative diseases? One of the most i [...]
Could Your Fatigue Be Related to Mold Sensitivity?
Being exposed to mold could cause an array of devastating symptoms including headaches, fatigue, brain fog and joint pain. This phenomenon of mold se [...]
What is Causing the Increase in Preterm Birth?
Every year, an estimated 15 million babies worldwide are born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of gestation), and this number is rising, according t [...]
Do You Need a Detox?
It’s that time of year again! We have overindulged, perhaps put on a few pounds, and made resolutions to be healthy. A time of year where gyms are ent [...]
The Critical Importance of Full Body Detoxification
"Have you ever noticed that many people treat their cars better than their bodies? They wouldn’t dream of ignoring a warning light on the dash lettin [...]
The Link Between Environmental Toxins and Diabetes
In America, over 30 million people are diabetic while 84 million are prediabetic according to the latest National Diabetes Statistics Report. Diabetes [...]
Are Your Children Safe from Toxins?
In recent years, a number of studies describing an association between environmental toxins and adult heart disease, asthma, cancer, and other health [...]
20 Ways to Refresh Your Body This Spring
Spring is here and a perfect time to do some spring cleaning. This year focus on cleaning the toxins out of your body in addition to your closet. Begi [...]
5 Steps to Heal Your Gut
Have you heard of this thing called “leaky gut”? What does it mean to have a leaky gut and what symptoms would you experience? More importantly, what [...]
Your Seasonal Detox How-To
Seasonal detox programs have become a new fad as part of our health and wellness culture. Weight loss is often a motivator to try a detox and often co [...]
Spring Cleaning for Your Diet
Life brings us the message that we need to detoxify in many ways. Physically our body gives us wake up calls with low energy, achiness, bad skin and [...]
Detox Every Day with Real Food
We don’t have to wait for a special day or season to do this, with the right lifestyle and food, it just happens. It can be simple, affordable and del [...]
The Body’s Brilliant Recycling Project
We hear a lot about “detox” but many of us don’t really stop to think about what that means in our body. Most often we hear about detox cleanses wher [...]
BPA-Free Plastic: Is It Really Safer? Think Again. Plastics Manufacturers Are Substituting BPA with BPS.
Jon Ritz, N.D.
We have all grown used to seeing the term “BPA-Free,” right? We seem to think that if a water bottle or baby food con [...]
POST HOLIDAY DETOX-
DON’T LOSE WIEGHT WITHOUT IT!
After a season of celebrations, we often wake up on January 1st feeling bloated, sick and determined to start anew. [...]