Making sure the foundations are supporting your and your family’s health will ensure your body is able to detox properly. It is encouraged to work with a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (like myself). This way we can work together for your specific concerns and needs. Depending on what we are able to uncover while working together, we may be able to further support your body’s detoxification pathways with supplementation. With this valuable information, we are able to add additional detoxification techniques that your whole family can do to detox the stress load from their bodies.

Moving back to changes you can make in your home, let’s discuss cleaning supplies. There are a lot of great “green” cleaners that do a thorough job of cleaning your home. I use Mrs. Meyer’s products for daily cleaning as a non-toxic and affordable solution. Branch Basics has a great assortment of cleaning the whole home. There are also some great recipes you can make for cleaning products that are even less expensive and very easy to make. You can find a cleaning recipe for whatever purpose on Pinterest. I particularly like this blog post from Small Footprint Family (https://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/green-cleaning-recipes) for the most common household cleaners with ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Next, ditch the scented plug-in devices, Febreze, scented candles, and all of those artificial scents. These products are loaded with fragrances and chemicals that are creating work for your body’s natural detoxification process. Rather uplift the mood of your home and freshen the air with essential oils, fresh flowers, and salt lamps.

Toxicity from electronic devices is becoming more and more common due to our connectedness through things like smartphones, wi-fi, and smart TVs. Remove the electronics from your bedroom. Turn off your home Wi-Fi before bed or at a minimum put your phone on airplane mode. For more about how to protect yourself from cell phone and computer radiation, check out this article from Christiane Northrup, M.D.

https://www.drnorthrup.com/7-habits-to-boost-your-emf-protection-from-cell-phone-radiation/

In order to not overwhelm you, take these recommendations one at a time, at whatever pace feels most comfortable to you and your family.

Environmental factors like those we have discussed here contribute to the stress bucket theory (Nutritional Therapy Association. (2019). Environmental Factors Student Guide.)

We all have our own personal bucket of stress that our bodies can handle. Once it gets to be too much, it spills over and that’s when we notice health issues. If you are really in tune with your body, you may notice before it gets too full.

Factors that fill this bucket include:

If you’ve been following along with me here, you will notice that we fill our stress bucket when we are NOT supporting the foundations. We have come full circle and find that by supporting the whole body with simple changes that fit into your lifestyle, you don’t need to stress so much about the environmental factors that you can’t control. They are concerns, yes, but there is still so much here that you can do to protect your family and yourself.