A journal article I came across recently.
Who here supplements for manganese? Even if you don’t have one of these diseases, know that commercial agriculture is producing nutritionally poor foods.
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Detoxing
My mother has been struggling with muscle aches and recently figured out that they were actually side-effects of a prescription drug she had been taking for over a year. 😳😵💫😵
I remember my grandmother taking a similar statin drug, maybe 10 years ago, and having similar pain. She had been a pharmacist assistant for most of her life and knew a lot about drugs, so she got out a magnifying glass and her Merck manual and took a look at the little “indications” paper that comes with every prescription.
Well, she found a lot of undesirable side effects, such as muscle pain and weakness, liver damage, increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cognitive decline, and memory issues.
The worst one, if we are ranking them, might be rhabomyolysis, the severe breakdown of muscle. This basically means that muscle tissue is broken down rapidly, which is painful, then the broken-down proteins (myoglobin) wreak havoc on the liver, which must clean it out of the blood.
Anyway, the task at hand for my mom, and for so many of us who are trying to reverse the damage from products, foods, medicines, etc., is to DETOX.
My first advice to her was to take Epsom salt baths, maybe use a charcoal supplement for a while, drink more, sweat more…. but what else is there, when a person wants to detox?
I came across this book recently… just starting to read it.
Have any of you read it?
Do any of you have detoxing wisdom to share?
Salt & Pepper
Was using my salt and pepper grinders today and realized that they BOTH have plastic grinding gears … yet another way for microplastics (or not-so-micro-plastics) to break off, get into our food, and then be consumed.
I’m throwing them out!!
Granite Pans
A few years ago, my son wanted to get me a Mother’s Day gift I would use… so he asked what I wanted, and I said an egg pan that was not Teflon coated but didn’t take all day to clean.
Tall order, I thought.
He got me two non-stick granite pans made by Michaelangelo. They looked good and worked great and I was really pleased.
Time has passed, and the surfaces have gotten fuzzy from repeated cleaning… and they’ve been pushed to the back of the cabinet as we have used the cast irons more and more.
But I wonder… what are granite pans made of anyway?
I Googled around and found that they are “not actually made of granite stone, but named for its resemblance to the texture.”
Okay, but what are the pans made of?
Seems there are 2 kinds: Teflon (PTFE) and vitreous enamel.
- Teflon (PTFE) cookware can release toxic fumes when used at high temperatures. PTFE stands for polytetraflouroethylene.
- Vitreous enamel cookware is considered safer than Teflon, but chips or cracks in the enamel can allow metal (aluminum) in the pan to leach into food.
For both types, it is recommended that you use soft utensils when cooking and wash them carefully to avoid scratches or pitting.
The Michaelangelo website sells these pans labelled as “100% Toxic-Free — Free of PFAS, PFOA, lead and cadmium.” I sure hope that is true!
Anyway, these are too scratched up. Throwing them away!
Tee Vee
I watched TV with my husband last night, and every commercial break was for things we would never buy, knowing what we know now. Mainstream things that carry hidden harms and toxins, which most people don’t realize…
Time to put the roast on.
- Tide laundry detergent: There are a lot of harmful chemicals and endocrine-disrupting scents in typical laundry soaps, such as Tide. Years ago, I reacted to clothes washed in Tide, got a full-body rash, and haven’t touched it since. We used Purex after that but recently changed to Meliora soaps for our laundry. Check them out at https://meliorameansbetter.com/
- Febreeze plug scent boosters: This is a little machine that takes artificially-scented oil and shoots it into the air of your home, so that you and your loved ones can breathe endocrine-disrupting scents/chemicals at the touch of a button! You can also sign up to have more toxic chemicals sent to you regularly in the form of scent cartridges! Because your house smells so bad, folks…. don’t clean it or open windows, give your money away in exchange for this little button.
- Downy fabric softener: First, the advertisement convinces you that you simply must get those smells out of your clothes! But we know that if you only used natural fibers, you could get the smells out with hot water. With polyesters, nylons, etc., you’ll need this chemical-laden potion to get smells out. There are so many alarms going off about this… People breathing microplastics shed from the polyester, chemical smell-removers, and endocrine-disrupting scents to follow you around when you wear the clothes. It’s too much. But the song is so catchy (Total eclipse of the heart, Bonnie Tyler)…
- Starbucks Keurig pods: Brew your coffee thru plastic! Yay! Don’t think about how these things are artificially flavored or preserved. Don’t think about the waste you’re producing. Think of all the time you’ll save by not having to scoop the coffee into the little basket yourself. You deserve that little convenience, right?
- Too many prescription drugs to mention, with strange names that I can’t begin to spell… and horrible side effects that may be worse than the original condition.
- Charmin Ultra Soft: All I’m going to say is, if you eat better and take care of your microbiome, you won’t have situations that call for special, deluxe, quilted, top-dollar toilet paper. Enough said… Except did you know that every mainstream toilet paper brand except Scottissue uses formaldehyde in the paper?? Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen, folks!
- Universal Orlando: Ok, this one looks good and reminds me of my son’s 12th birthday. 🫠 yes, go have some fun!
Sorry for the snark, but it’s as a “buyer beware” sort of world. Don’t let yourself be persuaded, fooled, or robbed of your money and health. XO.
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