Michaela McGivern
30 July 2007 

As many of you are well aware, there are a multitude of sources of toxins that enter our bodies. Dr Gabriel Cousens, Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine states that 70,000 chemicals are being dumped into our environment. In 2004 the Environmental Working Group identified 278 industrial chemicals in babies’ umbilical-cord blood: 180 of these are known to cause cancer and 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system.

Below are simple ways in which you can reduce toxins in your environment and in your body:

Actions For Your Household:
Purchase environmentally friendly cleaning products such as Oxo-Brite for brightening laundry and removing stains, Citra Solv for housecleaning, BonAmi for scrubbing pans and ceramic surfaces. Ask your store to stock these if they currently don’t have them available.

Food Access And Preparation:
Buy Organic and locally grown food.
Use parchment paper instead of aluminum foil to line pans when cooking, to eliminate exposure to aluminum.

Use only glass, ceramic, or Pyrex dishes to heat food in the microwave. Do not cover your food with plastic wrap for heating in the microwave, as it releases dioxins directly into the food. Dioxins are directly linked to cancer.

Heat your food on a stove instead of a microwave to maintain the nutritional value. Microwaves alter the molecular configuration in food and reduce the nutritional value.

Detoxifying:

Exercise vigorously and sweat 3 times a week to release the toxins through your skin.
Sauna and use a loofa scrub to assist the skin in releasing toxins.
Take baths with sea salts to pulls toxins from the skin after exercise and stress. Drink at least half the number of fluid ounces in spring water as your body weight daily. If you weigh 150 pounds, consume 75 ounces of water daily.
Start the day with a liver/gall bladder flush: Drink the juice of one half of a lemon in 8 ounces of hot water, 30 minutes before breakfast.
Incorporate a Green Drink into your diet to pull toxins out and alkalize yourself.
Make a cilantro pesto and eat a tablespoon of it, twice a day, for three weeks to pull metals from your system. This is a tasty way to do chelation therapy. Combine this with 2 green drinks a day for effective cleansing.
Incorporate onions, Jerusalem artichokes, asparagus and burdock root into your diet to naturally release toxins and keep the blood from clotting too much. Onions contain oligo- saccharides, a sulphur compound, which causes the blood to release toxins. Burdock root can be eaten as a whole food or used as a tincture.

Supplements:
Replace essential minerals that may be lost through chelation. Alfalfa, Flouridix-Iron, kelp and zinc are important supplements to balance out the system. 
For supplements with alfalfa liquid or tablets, double the recommended dose to detoxify the liver and alkalize the system.
Use apple pectin and rutin to bind unwanted toxic metals and remove them from the intestinal tract. These can be bought at most health food stores.
Increase manganese intake to clear the metals on a regular basis.

Supplement Sources:
I recommend a reputable and reliable resource for purchasing supplements at 20% above cost:  Natural Resources, 800-747-0390.Owner, Deb Adams is extremely knowledgeable and helpful in selecting quality products.
You may also wish to try Natural Cellular Defense: a zeolite product that is safe and clinically proven to remove heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, pcbs, teflon, and depleted uranium. It has been clinically tested and shown to alkalize the system, boost the immune capacity, increase overall energy, and have a positive effect on most inflammatory diseases, migraines, asthma and acid reflux.

For more information on the ideas in this article, please contact Ms. McGivern.

Michaela McGivern is a Medical Intuitive and Shamanic Practitioner.  For more information or to schedule an appointment you can contact Michaela McGivern, OTL, QE, Energy Medicine and Shamanic Practitioner at 707-217-7732 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or www.michaelamcgivern.com.