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Introduction
You may have heard about some of the health risks associated with plastics in your environment, in your food, in your water, as well as the microplastics that your body bioaccumulates. This means that it has a difficult time detoxifying and eliminating some of these microplastics, which can stay in your body for extended periods of time. This article is all about that exposure, as well as some recommendations on how to limit the hazards and reduce your microplastic exposure.
Sources of Plastics
How do we get this exposure in our homes? Do you drink out of plastic cups? Are you storing your food in plastic containers and placing the worst-case scenario in the microwave? Are you drinking out of plastic water bottles? These are all plastic-related exposures in your house that you should aim to eliminate.
Why are they Toxic to the Body?
The body and its internal organs have a difficult time doing it alone. That's why my advice will help you speed up the detox process for microplastics while also reducing your exposure to them in the first place.
Tip #1: Use Glass Whenever Possible
Your plastic exposure is to use glass whenever you can. So if you can start converting over, especially your plastic storage containers that you're using for food in your fridge and your freezer. Start converting over to the glass ones. They are so much better of course for your health.
Tip #2: Full-Body Detox
Consider doing a full-body detox. I have a lot of different detox videos to educate people on how to do that full-body detox in a healthy, gentle, and safe way. Usually you're using a specific combination of herbal medicines that really help to target that detoxification of your internal organs. Your liver, your kidneys, your lungs, your skin, your lymphatic system and doing that in a safe and gentle way.
Tip #3: Sweating Exercise
Another way to eliminate those plastics is to sweat more. So this means more exercise. Being more active, sweating is a great way to eliminate some of the fat soluble toxins that are stored in your fat cells close to the skin surface. That elimination of these toxins can really be accelerated if you use a sauna. This is one of the reasons why I love the far infrared sauna in particular. You don't have to set it at such a super high temperature yet you're still getting the benefits of that far infrared ray that is penetrating deeply beneath the skin surface to help to target that proper elimination of these toxins.
Tip #4: Probiotics
Fourth on my list and my final tip to help with eliminating these plastics especially from your body is to make sure you're taking care of your gut microbiome. Now this is interesting because some studies have found a link between your gut microbiome and the ability to actually eliminate some microplastics and it was found that specific strains of probiotics, so some of my favourites are lactobacillus acidophilus. Another one is bifido bacterium bifidum. These strains are probiotics because they are more negatively charged on their surface and can actually help to bind those microplastics, and move them out through your digestive tract.
So it really is promising to know that YES you can do some natural things. Eliminate your exposure as much as you can to the microplastics, but also do some things actively to detoxify them out of your body. For more tips on how to do that full-body detox, please check out my video: Seven Tips For Detox.
I'll see you there!
