How to Support Natural Body Detoxification

Over time, our bodies can start to be brought down by the toxins, chemicals, and waste that build up in our systems. Whether it is from external, environmental factors (like pollution or natural exposure to toxins) or something wrong internally (such as a poor diet ofunhealthy foods), it’s important to maintain your health by ridding these built up toxins.

The topic of "detox" is overwhelming and you will come across nearly 56 million webpages. Let’s skip the sales pitch and find out some simple principles of detoxing, shall we

Natural detox: your body knows how

Your body is detoxifying all the time. The natural processes of metabolism create streams of waste, and we’re also ingesting, inhaling, and absorbing pathogens, chemicals, allergens, and other toxins. Our bodies work continually to deactivate and eliminate these harmful substances.

Natural detox is a collection of responses that occur throughout your body, literally without pause. And the human body is remarkably successful at disassembling and removing the majority of toxic substances and metabolic wastes.

What is the source of body toxicity?

In addition to the old-school toxins we’ve encountered for years, we now have an array of allergens, by-products, wastes, chemicals, and organisms that our bodies simply do not know how to process. It’s true that the human body is amazingly adaptable, but our systems have not yet adjusted to these diverse “foreigners to life,” or xenobiotics. Instead, these outsiders become part of an enormous “toxic load” we carry indefinitely.

Where are all these toxins — old and new — coming from? They’re all around us — in the air, water, food, and environment, and they may be disguised in some clever camouflage:

• Air, water, and environmental pollutants (including jet fuel residue)
• Food contaminants, such as pathogens and by-products of certain industrialization processes
• Chemicals we absorb, inhale, or ingest (from construction materials, furniture and flooring, clothing, cleaning supplies, personal care products, and more)
• Pharmaceutical medications (antibiotics, HRT, NSAID’s, etc.), recreational drugs, second-hand smoke, and alcohol
• Radiation and electromagnetic fields
• Heavy metals, aluminum, and toxic halides
• Hormones and endocrine disruptors
• Mold, mildew, and “superbug” pathogens
• Free radicals

In addition, problems with detoxification can occur right inside us. Because the gastrointestinal tract is your body’s initial interface with a large percentage of the toxins it encounters, any chronic digestive issue can interfere with detox. If you have IBS, for example, you may have trouble detoxifying — but an imbalance in your gut flora can also limit your gut’s natural detox function.

What’s surprising is that we ourselves generate some of the strongest, or most reactive, poisons and toxins. Many lifestyle factors have a grave impact on health, including poor diet, low water intake, lack of exercise, and inadequate rest. But emotions can be poisonous, too. Stress, anxiety, depression, and even “toxic” relationships affect you physically and add heavily to the load your body is trying to detoxify.

Some people have innate limitations in their ability to detoxify. In some cases, these factors can be “pathological” (leading to disease) when left unaddressed. Either they’re born with genetic traits that interfere with healthy liver function (such as a GSTM 1 polymorphism) or normal metabolism of nutrients (for example, an MTHFR polymorphism), or they develop detox issues as a result of lifestyle influences or hormone imbalance during perimenopause.

Even under such challenging conditions, toxicity is not your destiny. There is a tremendous amount you can do — right away — to limit and offset the effects of toxins. And of course, stopping poisonous substances from entering your system in the first place should be a top priority.

Natural detoxification systems — the whole-body concept

Detoxification is accomplished by many internal systems and organs working in unison to identify, deactivate, and eliminate toxic substances. These mundane reactions help clear out toxins and purify your internal environment.

• Respiration: breathing (gas exchange), coughing, sneezing, clearing mucus
• Skin: sweating, sebaceous (oil) gland secretion, tears
• GI system: liver function, intestinal tract function (our “first line” defense), including stool excretion
• Kidneys: acid/alkaline balancing, urination
• Circulation and lymph systems: blood flow, lymph circulation, node function

Because all these systems cooperate for whole body detoxification, problems in any one can allow toxins to accumulate, or interferes with the removal of highly reactive compounds, which can then move in and camp out in your organs and tissues.

Let’s take a closer look at how the job of detoxification is divided up.

Liver

The liver is the powerhouse of detoxification, since one of its primary functions is to isolate and biotransform toxic molecules so they can be eliminated. With its ability to create various enzymes and chemicals, the liver quickly deactivates most poisons you take in or create. Our special page on liver function shows how you can provide support to keep this critically important organ functioning well.

Kidneys

Your kidneys act as an advance filtering system to catch wastes and toxins circulating in your blood and eliminate them through urination. If this process becomes sluggish or begins to fail, poisonous substances build up, and your health can deteriorate rapidly. Supporting kidney function involves eating an alkalizing diet, with mineral-rich fruits and vegetables, and drinking plenty of pure water (distilled, filtered, or spring). Alcohol, particularly in excess, can be very hard on the kidneys.

GI tract

When the gut isn’t healthy...

“Leaky gut syndrome” occurs when the lining of the GI tract becomes porous, allowing food particles to directly enter the bloodstream. Such particles are considered toxins by the immune system, so leaky gut can be the starting point for some food allergies and systemic inflammation.

For natural detoxification, there is nothing more important than good digestive health. Your gut is the gateway for most pathogens, but it is also your initial defense against toxins, germs, and unwanted substances. Taking care of the GI tract starts with choosing non-toxifying foods, and results in better elimination — the prime vehicle for toxin removal.

Your GI tract is lined with a mucous membrane that, when healthy, forms an “intelligent” barrier that helps prevent toxins from entering your bloodstream and allows escaped xenobiotics to pass back into the intestines for elimination (called “antiporter” detox). Good GI health through proper diet can help keep this membrane intact and functioning well. A healthy supply of “friendly bacteria” in the gut helps you handle the food you eat and wards off any pathogens lurking in your food. Gut flora can also stop pathogens from re-entering your system until your body can dispose of the intruders.

Fluidity is Key

First things first: fluidity is key! When it comes to detoxifying the body, you want to provide the body with a simple, seamless route for excavation. By and large, removing the waste and toxicity through fluids is the most promising. (Some argue in favor of “sweating it out”, but this will require keeping hydration levels high as well!). Keep these things in mind:

• Eight 8-oz glasses/day – The normal recommendation is to drink up to eight 8-oz glasses per day. This is quite a bit of water, but it provides the body with just its basic needs for growth, maintenance, and proper health. When detoxing, it’s important to get this and more!
• Be Strategic – When it come to getting enough fluids, be strategic in your approach. Keep water where you send most of your time, mix up your intakes sources (juice, iced tea, coconut water), and consider setting a timer to get you drinking every few hours.
• Hydrate through Foods – Of course, you also want to get plenty of water from your foods. Foods like celery are great for getting nutrition along with hydration – make them a part of your hydrating regimen! Check out the citruses and apples in mind, too!

Sustaining a Healthy Body

When it comes to detoxing, be sure to keep in mind that you are what you eat. It’s actually quite likely you’re feeling groggy, weakened, and frustrated because of the food you’ve been eating. That being said, the next time in detoxing naturally is to supply yourself with the nutrients you need to get full nourishment. Follow these simple tips for better eating:

• Quit the Bad – To start, stop eating the bad foods you’re eating right now! Ward yourself away from processed, refined foods and sugary, non-nutritious ‘meals’ that so often stock the shelves at our local stores. This is also your chance to do some digging with your favorite brands and find out if that snack of yours is contributing to your poor feelings.
• Eat Whole – In replacement of these incomplete foods, start supplying yourself with whole, nutritious foods. Going organic is also the best choice, as the pesticides and chemicals found in artificial fertilizers may be contributing your poor health. Also, avoid GMO foods altogether. With the considerably controversy behind these foods, as well as the adamant stance of companies to not allow testing or labeling, GMO foods cannot be considered safe.
• Increase the Raw – Eating more raw food can also be your ticket to better health. As they say, if you cook it, you kill it. Raw foods are more nutritious, have fewer carcinogens, and can help you push out the toxins currently in your body.
• More Greens – Finally, eat more greens! Getting a few extra servings of fruits and veggies is probably something you need to do anyways, so take your detox as the first opportunity to really implement this change.
• Stretch it out – With simple stretches, you can improve your digestion system, circulation, and energy level. Take time everyday to sit down, relax, and stretch out the bad that has been building up.

I'ts a Lifestyle

Having a healthy, whole body does not need to be hard- make it simple and make it successful.

Reference:  Womentowomen.com

Osteoporosis: Not Just For Your Mother

  Who thinks osteoporosis is a disease that only affects elderly woman because they have fragile little bones due to loss of calcium? Let’s see a show of hands. Whoever has their hands up out there, you’re wrong – possibly dead wrong.

While it’s true that osteoporosis affects more women than men (1 in 4 women versus 1 in 8 men to be exact), when it comes to this disease age is nothing but a number. Bone mass should be at an all time high between ages 27 – 33. While this is well and good, the problem lies with the facts. Cold hard facts and one has proven that most of us don’t start taking bone-building supplements until we’re already past our “prime” and miss out on early preventative measures. Couple that with the sad statistics that 53% of young adults are already so unhappy with their bodies that they take extreme measure to lose weight (particularly the 1% that is anorexic), that a sad 38% of teens and young adults don’t get enough exercise, and that diets are the poorest they’ve ever been (high in sugar and caffeine, low in beneficial nutrients) and you’ve got more people losing bone mass in their early 20’s now than ever before.

And even if you are a pretty young thing, don’t even think osteoporosis cannot lead to death. A very small portion of the public knows that 20% of those with hip fractures die and another 20% will never get out of long term care facilities – no matter what their age.

Osteoporosis Myth Busters

So enough scaring you with the strtling but very honest truth.  The real reason we’re here is to free you from the myths you might’ve heard about osteoporosis and fill you in on more of the facts. Let’s take a look at the top myths surrounding this sometimes lethal disease.

Myth 1: Age Brings on Osteoporosis

This is absolutely false. A strong, healthy woman’s body – regardless of her age – will be able to withstand the day to day stresses her body faces. After menopause, it’s true that bone loss does start to decline but in a very natural way that still allows the bones to renew and mend with ease. As you learned above, age is nothing but a number when it comes to osteoporosis.

What does bring on osteoporosis are some of the aforementioned factors including unhealthy diets, little to no exercise, hormonal imbalances, internal inflammation, unbalanced PH levels, low Vitamin D, Vitamin E and Magnesium levels, chronic stress, and the use of prescription meds.

Myth 2: Low Calcium Intake Causes Osteoporosis

Two of the biggest contributors to low calcium are Vitamin D and Magnesium deficiency. Nearly 68% of us do not get our daily dose of magnesium and with the recent “sun care scare” so many people are coating themselves with so much sunscreen that America is highly deficient in Vitamin D.

Vitamin D, also known as the “sunshine vitamin” is derived from, you guessed it, the sun. While those who are obese, dark skinned, or those who don’t get outdoors enough are obviously at high risk of deficiency, a new crop of people at risk are those who think they’re doing the right thing by listening to their dermatologist. While sun care is certainly preventative of skin cancer and wrinkles, a certain amount of sunshine is a necessity to healthy Vitamin D intake. Even if your body has the right amount of calcium present, if there isn’t enough D around, only 10-15% of the calcium will be absorbed. Those who get the right amount of the vitamin often increase intake by 30-40% and, in these same individuals, osteoporosis prevention rates soar.

While Magnesium can certainly help the body intake calcium, its biggest role is bone formation. It is the co-factor, along with partner calcium, in all bone turnover. Even our buddy Vitamin D needs Magnesium. We now know that Vitamin D is needed for proper absorption but Magnesium is needed in order for the liver to turn the D over into its active form, called calcitriol. If this activation does not occur, the body will have a Vitamin D resistance which will lead to facts we learned about previously; only 10-15% calcium absorption – a leading factor in osteoporosis.

Calcium, magnesium, and Vitamin D come full circle in the fight against osteoporosis. You simply can’t have one without the other or the cycle doesn’t complete itself. Aside from supplements, you can get these vitamins from foods like dairy, fruits, veggies, and of course, some SPF free sun time (just don’t go crazy here – 15-20 minutes three times per week will do.)

Myth 3: Osteoporosis is Due to Faulty Bones

For healthy individuals osteoporosis is actually a miraculous response that proves just how intelligent our bodies are. We are all made up with extra bone mass. Thus if mineral loss occurs the body can pull from those additional masses to make up for the lost resources and keep many internal functions, including all important PH balance, in line. And contrary to popular believe, our body can then reproduce bone matter in a just a few weeks to repair the losses.

Unfortunately many individuals fall prey to “doctors orders” when it comes to osteoporosis. Instead of taking a healthier, natural approach, they load up on prescription meds like Fosamax. As you learned earlier, meds can actually begin to deplete the body of calcium for one. Secondly, many of these “bone building” drugs actually stop the natural bone breakdown/buildup process that helps maintain strong bones. Instead a drug like Fosamax will simply harden the existing bone. Although it may look like it is increasing density, many radiographic techniques can’t pick up on the fact that it isn’t new bone but rather the old bones hardened.

Prevention is Key

Early prevention is key. Don’t wait until the osteoporosis has begun to form. Instead, get to know both the risk and beneficial factors and put them to good use as soon as possible.

Start now by cutting out the enemies – refined sugar, caffeine, and smoking. Not only does this trio zap calcium they can also cause weight gain, acne, collagen loss, addiction, PCOS, and other extreme disadvantages within the structure of the body that will begin to show themselves only over time; when you are just too late for early prevention. While you’re at it, quite drinking alcohol and taking antiacids and prescription drugs (if you can). This is a key step in regaining your natural calcium balance.

Your body needs more than calcium alone to restore the skeletal system. It also needs many other minerals and vitamins that help your body absorb calcium and maintain healthy collagen levels. (Note: Collagen isn’t just in the skin – another misinformed public myth. It is like the “glue” that holds our entire skeletal system together.) Magnesium is one of the most important of them all since it helps the bones absorb calcium. Facts lead docs to believe most women with osteoporosis actually have a magnesium deficiency, not a calcium one. Zinc, copper, beta carotene, and vitamins C and E are also particularly important to collagen reproduction.

Add to that a balanced diet. Avoid items like sugary calcium drinks or antacids with calcium. And although supplements are beneficial in aiding bone renewal, getting the right minerals and vitamins shouldn’t be left to supplements alone. Get the real thing from calcium rich resources like snow peas, broccoli, leafy green vegetables such as spinach, kale, beet and turnip greens; almonds, figs, beans,  yogurt and cottage cheese. Get your dose of calcium helper, magnesium, from whole gains, wheat bran, leafy green veggies, nuts (especially yummy almonds), beans, bananas, and apricots.

Finally, add some exercise into your routine. Whether it’s for fifteen minutes daily or an hour three times per week, fit in a brisk walk followed up by some repetitive weight lifting exercises. Not only will these help increase your bone density, extra weight exercise will help you build lean muscle masses and shed a few extra pounds as a bonus to all of your healthy, hard work.

The bottom line is that our bodies require micronutrients and minerals to carry out their daily functions. Our bones are built on these minerals. They’re also maintained by the vitamin D we make from sunshine and by the stimulation of regular movement. If you stop and listen to the wisdom of your body, you’ll see that many of the factors that promote strong bones come instinctually. Just as a plant knows to take water into its roots or open its leaves for the sun, you too have Nature’s prescription for bone health written in your genes. Forget the myths and listen to your body.

Kassie Kuehl is a respected leader in, and advocate for, natural health and beauty care. The founder of Kasia natural line of skin care and stylist for Kasia Organic Salon, Kassie combines her experience as a nutrition coach with her ongoing Functional Medicine research to apply a whole of body “Beautiful Health’ approach to hair care and styling. She can be found at www.kasiaorganicsalon.com.

Your Digestive System -The TRUE ANSWER for Glowing Beauty

Radiant Skin, Both Inside and OUT!  The TRUE ANSWER for Glowing Beauty and Health

Kasia stands behind lifestyle decisions that feel right and create "beautiful health."  Our beauty and health then evolved to achieving RADIANT beauty!

The truth is that your external beauty is a direct reflection of your internal health and therefore, when you clean up and heal the body on the inside, the outside of your body will glow and shine!   Providing external products and services is one part of the equation.  If you do not have a healthy inside, even the most advanced skin care treatments will be fruitless.   Natural health, Functional Medicine, and other modalities help one's ability to get to the root of their inside - out beauty.  The first recommendation to starting this inside-out result, is to achieve a beautiful internal skin and cell cycle.  Where do you start?  The digestive system!

Cleansing the digestion system is one, if not the most important aspect of regaining your health and setting yourself up for radiant health.

This is because you are what you absorb.

Studies have now concluded that the majority of patients with chronic disorders - even when the disorders cause symptoms with no apparent connection to the digestive tract - have digestive and absorptive imbalances.

This is a huge breakthrough because it reveals the vital role that your digestive system plays in almost every aspect of your health. In fact, most people find that once they cleanse and heal their GI tract, the majority, if not all, or their chronic and acute health symptoms and complaints are taken care of.

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THE 5-R PROGRAM

A properly functioning digestive system is critical to good health. In functional medicine we use a program that goes by the simple acronym of the ‘5Rs’: remove, replace, reinoculate, repair and rebalance. When applied to various chronic problems, the 5R program can cause dramatic improvement in symptoms, and sometimes even complete resolution of the problem.

This cuts to the core of the functions of the gastrointestinal tract.   It is becoming increasingly recognized that disturbances in the function of the GI tract can result in a number of symptoms and conditions. These range from symptoms such as fatigue, joint pain, muscle pain, and headaches, to medical conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, asthma, autism, ADHD, and chronic skin conditions. It is this association between GI function and ill health that the 5-R Program is intended to address.

The goal of the 5-R Program is to accomplish the following:

1.     To address dietary and lifestyle issues, and to begin the process of dietary education and change.

2.     To normalize digestion and absorption.

3.     To normalize the balance of gastrointestinal bacteria.

4.     To promote a balanced system of detoxification.

5.     To promote gastrointestinal healing.

A full 5-R Program takes approximately three to six months to complete. It is very important that you are prepared to implement the somewhat demanding dietary changes of the program, as without the dietary component you can not achieve anywhere near the maximum therapeutic benefit.

The elements of the 5R program are described briefly below.

1.    Remove Remove stressors: get rid of things that negatively affect the environment of the GI tract including allergic foods, parasites or other bad bugs such as bacteria or yeast. This might involve using an allergy “elimination diet” to find out what foods are causing GI symptoms or it may involve taking drugs or herbs to eradicate a particular bug.

2.    Replace Replace digestive secretions: add back things like digestive enzymes, hydrochloric acid and bile acids that are required for proper digestion and that may be compromised by diet, drugs, diseases, aging, or other factors.

3.    Reinoculate Help beneficial bacteria flourish by taking in probiotic foods or supplements that contain the so-called “good” bacteria such as bifidobacteria and lactobacillus species, and by consuming the high soluble fiber foods that good bugs like to eat, called “prebiotics.”

4.    Repair Help the lining of the GI tract repair itself by supplying key nutrients that can often be in short supply in a disease state, such as zinc, antioxidants (e.g. vitamins A, C, and E), fish oil, and the amino acid glutamine.

5.    Rebalance Pay attention to lifestyle choices – sleep, exercise and stress can all affect the GI tract.

THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT You have heard it said "you are what you eat."    In Functional Medicine, we take it a step further in our belief that "you are what you eat, and then absorb, and then what you do or do not detoxify."

·       DIGESTION- This is the process whereby our food is broken down into smaller portions that are more easily absorbed by the intestines.

·       ABSORPTION- This is the process whereby the digested food is taken up by the intestine and delivered to the body for utilization as energy, nutrition, and other cellular functions.

·       EXCLUSION- This refers to the barrier function performed by the GI tract as it appropriately excludes substances from entering the body.

·       DETOXIFICATION- This is the complex process involving the liver and GI tract whereby toxins are metabolized for elimination from the body. Toxins include such things as medication we take that must be metabolized, to pesticides, preservatives, dyes, and flavor-enhancers we ingest knowingly in our food, as well as the over 4 million chemicals present in our environment not intended for use in our bodies.

·       ELIMINATION- After digestion has occurred, and the metabolic phase of detoxification is complete, the GI tract must then eliminate the digestive and metabolic wastes of these processes. Some refer to this as excretion.

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Women's Health Hormone Happy Hour!

Thank you to our clients Anne and Tami for co-hosting Julie Tebben from MN Natural Medicine!    What a great night surrounded by "Informed Beauties"  and discussing Women's Health, nutrition and hormones.

The biochemistry of the female is designed such that the matrix of each cell really seeks small amounts of hundreds of different phytonutrients in order to function at its ideal cellular resonance.

We discussed hormone metabolism to nutrition.... but one product that sticks out that benefits women is Fem Balance.

Fem Balance-FX  is a botanical supplement that provides healthy endocrine support during PMS, menopause and perimenopause.

• Premier female support nutraceutical formulation for healthy endocrine support during menopause, PMS and perimenopause.
• Supports healthy balance of estrogen and progesterone.
• Supports alleviation of cramps, hot flashes and night sweats.
• A unique formula that can be used by women of all ages: Younger women: supports healthy menstrual cycles, Older women: supports healthy menopause.
• Tests on to all 4 biofield polarities, thus delivering optimal nutritional resonance
• Manufactured in an NSF-GMP registered facility for superior quality assurance.
• Pure vegan. Excipient-free.

Fem Balance-FX helps support the balance of hormones naturally.

   Contact Kassandra at 612.824.7611 to ship out your Fem Balance today. 

How Chemicals Affect Us: Scientists are observing with increasing alarm.

Scientists are observing with increasing alarm that some very common hormone-mimicking chemicals can have grotesque effects.

A widely used herbicide acts as a female hormone and feminizes male animals in the wild. Thus male frogs can have female organs, and some male fish actually produce eggs. In a Florida lake contaminated by these chemicals, male alligators have tiny penises.

These days there is also growing evidence linking this class of chemicals to problems in humans. These include breast cancer, infertility, low sperm counts, genital deformities, early menstruation and even diabetes and obesity.

Philip Landrigan, a professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, says that a congenital defect called hypospadias — a misplacement of the urethra — is now twice as common among newborn boys as it used to be. He suspects endocrine disruptors, so called because they can wreak havoc with the endocrine system that governs hormones.

Endocrine disruptors are everywhere. They’re in thermal receipts that come out of gas pumps and A.T.M.’s. They’re in canned foods, cosmetics, plastics and food packaging. Test your blood or urine, and you’ll surely find them there, as well as in human breast milk and in cord blood of newborn babies.

In this campaign year, we are bound to hear endless complaints about excessive government regulation. But here’s an area where scientists are increasingly critical of our government for its failure to tackle Big Chem and regulate endocrine disruptors adequately.

Last month, the Endocrine Society, the leading association of hormone experts, scolded the Food and Drug Administration for its failure to ban bisphenol-A, a common endocrine disruptor known as BPA, from food packaging. Last year, eight medical organizations representing genetics, gynecology, urology and other fields made a joint call in Science magazine for tighter regulation of endocrine disruptors.

Shouldn’t our government be as vigilant about threats in our grocery stores as in the mountains of Afghanistan?

Researchers warn that endocrine disruptors can trigger hormonal changes in the body that may not show up for decades. One called DES, a synthetic form of estrogen, was once routinely given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage or morning sickness, and it did little harm to the women themselves. But it turned out to cause vaginal cancer and breast cancer decades later in their daughters, so it is now banned.

Scientists have long known the tiniest variations in hormone levels influence fetal development. For example, a female twin is very slightly masculinized if the other twin is a male, because she is exposed to some of his hormones. Studies have found that these female twins, on average, end up slightly more aggressive and sensation-seeking as adults but have lower rates of eating disorders.

Now experts worry that endocrine disruptors have similar effects, acting as hormones and swamping the delicate balance for fetuses in particular. The latest initiative by scholars is a landmark 78-page analysis to be published next month in Endocrine Reviews, the leading publication in the field.

“Fundamental changes in chemical testing and safety determination are needed to protect human health,” the analysis declares. Linda S. Birnbaum, the nation’s chief environmental scientist and toxicologist, endorsed the findings.

The article was written by a 12-member panel that spent three years reviewing the evidence. It concluded that the nation’s safety system for endocrine disruptors is broken.

“For several well-studied endocrine disruptors, I think it is fair to say that we have enough data to conclude that these chemicals are not safe for human populations,” said Laura Vandenberg, a Tufts University developmental biologist who was the lead writer for the panel.

Worrying new research on the long-term effects of these chemicals is constantly being published. One study found that pregnant women who have higher levels of a common endocrine disruptor, PFOA, are three times as likely to have daughters who grow up to be overweight. Yet PFOA is unavoidable. It is in everything from microwave popcorn bags to carpet-cleaning solutions.

Big Chem says all this is sensationalist science. So far, it has blocked strict regulation in the United States, even as Europe and Canada have adopted tighter controls on endocrine disruptors.

Yes, there are uncertainties. But the scientists who know endocrine disruptors best overwhelmingly are already taking steps to protect their families. John Peterson Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences and a co-author of the new analysis, said that his family had stopped buying canned food.

“We don’t microwave in plastic,” he added. “We don’t use pesticides in our house. I refuse receipts whenever I can. My default request at the A.T.M., known to my bank, is ‘no receipt.’ I never ask for a receipt from a gas station.”

I’m taking my cue from the experts, and I wish the Obama administration would as well.

Resource: By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF New York Times

Solution to EMF Clearing: PRL Laser

Quantum Laser: EMF purifier!
A New Class of Quantum-State Laser Energetics to Eliminate Embedded, Toxic Electromagnetic Fields in Your Body and in Your Home.   What if you could take a life-draining food or surface area in your home and change it into life-sustaining cell-resonance? Now, there is a new, revolutionary method to accomplish this-the Quantum Laser.
EFF pollution: a growing concern. With all these electronics, transmitting and scanning devices in our society is there any reason for concern?  Yes.  These devices, while good intentioned, the developers are lacking the full picture of the biological impact on the individual.  Electrical systems are still running “dirty” energy and some devices create charges or fields that lodge in or pollute our personal energy systems.  Given that the human body is actually 99% space the Quantum Laser is an excellent tool for EMF cleansing.
What is a laser? Alaser (“Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”) is a device which uses a quantum mechanical effect, stimulated emission, to generate a coherent beam of light from a lasing medium of controlled purity, size, and shape. There are many kinds of lasers being used today for a variety of purposes from laser pointers for use during presentations, to lasers being used during advanced modern surgeries such the corrective eye surgery.
What is The Quantum Laser? This variety is a small hand held laser that is safe and easy for anyone to use for their own healing benefits. It looks much like a laser pointer but has subtle yet powerful healing capabilities. The Quantum Laser is a laser modified for high biofield performance of both the human body and common objects and It delivers powerful laser bio-stimulation for clinical and home use that is safe and effective. Its application is excellent for foods, jewelry, household items, yard and grounds, building materials, metals, hotel rooms (when traveling), targeted skin and body areas and more.
How is the Quantum Laser Modified? The laser is then exposed to a multi-directional high energy photon device in a proprietary sequence which was developed through hundreds of hours of trial and error testing.
Why not use just any laser? The Quantum laser is modified and polarized so that the very penetrating light is extremely beneficial for healing the body. Buying a laser that even seems or looks identical to this one can be ineffective or harmful. It is very important that it has been modified with cell resonance in mind to obtain the benefits intended.
How Does the Quantum Laser Work? On the Body: If you consider that the entire biochemical body is controlled by our energy bio-field that literally uses light as communication, then it might make sense why a light emitter could boast valuable qualities.  This beneficial light reorganizes and cleans up the communications of the area. A key inhibitor of proper functioning is when an area is “encoded” which is when static electrical chaos from EMF pollution lodges itself in the tissue impeding proper nutrient uptake, cellular detoxification and ultimately overall organ function. A very common noticeable symptom of EMF encoding is sleep disorder.  Particularly encoding EMF polluters are x-rays, wireless internet, cell phones, microwaves and scanners at grocery store. Foods: You may use this Q-Soft Laser to bioenergetically treat any food or liquids before you consume them. We recommend that you treat 100% of everything that you eat or drink.  Strictly speaking, using the Quantum Laser on items such as food or drinks is not actually “treating” the items, but instead is breaking an undesirable electromagnetic layering (like a sophisticated “encoding”) that is found on almost all commercially sold items, such as foods (including organic). When this encoding is broken by using the laser’s light, the full electromagnetic frequency spectrum of the food can be readily absorbed by the body – without having to break down layers of compressed “junk” frequencies. We have observed that this encoding does not occur on homegrown foods (such as what you grow in your backyard).   People who have used the Quantum Laser on all their food (eating only 100% “unencoded” food) have remarked what a difference it has made in their digestion and energy levels. Household Items: In addition to foods, this “junk” EMF encoding appears to be present on many common household items as well. Now, it is very easy to “break” this distorted encoding and restore many types of items to their normal, healthy resonance. Once an item has been uncoded, it does not need to be treated again (unless it is subjected to an artificial EMF field again, such as being sent through the mail).
What are the benefits? If you consider that the entire biochemical body is controlled by our energy bio-field that literally uses light as communication, then it might make sense why a light emitter could boast valuable qualities.  This beneficial light reorganizes and cleans up the communications of the area. A key inhibitor of proper functioning is when an area is “encoded” which is when static electrical chaos from EMF pollution lodges itself in the tissue impeding proper nutrient uptake, cellular detoxification and ultimately overall organ function. A very common noticeable symptom of EMF encoding is sleep disorder.  Particularly encoding EMF polluters are x-rays, wireless internet, cell phones, microwaves and scanners at grocery store.
How to Use the Laser? Using a gentle painting motion, pass the light over target areas for a few seconds in each spot. Specific areas to use the laser might be: Acupressure points for healing and balancing of the associated organ or gland systems of the body. Site specific pain areas such as wounds, herpes outbreaks, aching joints. The entire body and bottoms of feet to remove any “encoding”. Over food, water or supplements to remove encoding before consumption Over clothing, car, your entire house and its contents to eliminate the affect encoded or depolarized objects have on your wellbeing. You may use the laser as a very effective pointer for presentations as the light is very clear and bright.

Contact Kassandra at 6128247611 to order your laser today!

Are you allergic to your cell phone or computer?

Have you ever heard someone say that they think they are allergic to their cell phone, that their ear hurts when they talk on a cell phone or get near a cell phone tower, or that they get headaches from their computer?  It may not be “just in their head.”  Scientists estimate that our daily exposure to Electro Magnetic Frequency (EMF) radiation is 100 million times higher than it was in our grandparents' time.  It took from 1984 to 2004 to reach the first billion cell phones, the second billion took just 18 months, the third billion took only nine months, and the fourth billion just six months.

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is a condition in which people are highly sensitive to electromagnetic fields.  In wireless hot spots, they may experience symptoms including nausea, irregular heartbeat, fatigue, loss of memory, headaches, dizziness, pain, and skin problems. Wireless hot spots include electromagnetic fields from sources such as radar dishes, mobile phone signals, and WiFi (wireless internet).

In government reports and research studies worldwide since the1990s, EMFs have been referred to as the largest biological experiment ever.  In a 2002 study, Japanese researcher Dr Hajime Kimata from Unitika Hospital, Kyoto, found that cell phone users experience an increase in allergic reactions to dust mites, pollen, and skin rashes (International Archives of Allergy and Immunology (2002;129:348–50).  The study showed that cell phone radiation can 'excite' antigens, substances which trigger allergies in the bloodstreams of people who already suffer from allergies.

In Sweden, citizens who are allergic to electrical energy have received government support to reduce exposure in their homes and workplaces since 2000. This is a very important development, as it is an official acknowledgement that electro-pollution is a real problem.

EMF Impact on Your Brain, Fertility, Neurotoxins, and Metals:

Brain:  In 2003, Environmental Health Perspectives published a study showing that EMF’s emitted by certain mobile phones damage neurons in the brains of rats. The healthy brain of a control sample rat is seen in the top cross-section.

A two-hour dose of GSM cell phone radiation is depicted in the bottom cross-section - a clear visual of neurological damage in the brain of a test rat.

In this study, researches used rats comparable to the biological developmental age of human teenagers, the heaviest users of mobile phones. Study authors state:

"The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern, since biological and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable."

Fertility:  A scientific study published in Fertility and Sterility, (May 2007), found statistically significant changes in men’s sperm count and health of the sperm, based on cell phone use.  “Use of cell phones decreases the semen quality in men by decreasing the sperm count, motility, viability and normal morphology. The decrease in sperm parameters was dependent on the duration of daily exposure to cell phones, and independent of the initial semen quality.”

Neurotoxins: Dr. Robert Becker, author of Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution (1990), found that when you expose a bacterial culture to abnormal electromagnetic fields, the bacteria respond as if they’re being attacked by your immune system and start producing much more virulent toxins as a protective mechanism.

Metals:  Accumulated toxic metals in your brain act like an antenna, picking up more EMF radiation, which in turn can cause the microbes in your system to overreact and create more potent mycotoxins, leading to EHS (www.mercola.com).

Scientists do not argue whether EMFs are harmful, but how harmful they are.

Common Sense EMF Protection:

• Place Q-Tape on your cell phones, Blue Tooth, portable phones, computers, and electronics.
• Use a desktop computer. Laptops are far more hazardous to your health, according to Dr. Klinghardt. “As they heat up, the circuitry board out-gasses metals such as beryllium, and as the plastic warms it out-gasses flame retardants like PBDE, all of which adds to your toxic load. “ mercola.com
• Limit time you spend on cell and portable phones.
• Limit exposure to WiFi routers. Know where they’re located and stay away from them.
• Get a flat computer screen.
• Use the speakerphone instead of putting the phone to your ear.   Radiation penetrates your body wherever the phone is attached.
• Use a wired headset to limit your exposure to the cell phone, ideally an air-tube headset that conducts sound but prevents radiation from traveling up the wire to your brain.   Note: Testing has indicated that your cell phone headset may actually raise the amount of radiation emitted by more than 300 percent!
• Limit calls inside buildings and use the phone in open spaces as often as possible.
• Limit use by children and preadolescents (very important research on this subject and brain development).

If you experience an increase in headaches, rashes, ear pain, memory loss, or nausea while using electronics, you are not crazy.  You may in fact be “allergic” (EHS) to your cell phone or computer.  Try the above suggestions and see if they help.

SOLUTION:  PRL Q-Tape  works GREAT to  protect your home or office.

Q-Tape from Premier Research Labs can be used to help elegantly balance the EMF energetics in your home or apartment, creating superior Vastu effects.*

• Negative Polarity Tape for Quantum Vastu Applications*

• Supports balancing EMF energetics in your home or apartment*

• Contains: 1 Roll (1/2" x 9)

Q-Tape is a brand new breakthrough in Vastu remediation. Q-Tape is made from a special metal alloy that is easily bendable, easy to cut with scissors, and after peeling off the backing, its sticky surface makes it easy to apply to any surface. It can also be taken off of a surface fairly easily if it needs to be repositioned and then replaced.

Directions for EMF balancing: Open the door of your electrical circuit box and place one 3 inch strip of Q-tape horizontally on the box near the bottom. Next, place another 3 inch strip horizontally on the box, near the top. Lastly, place one more 3 inch strip directly on top of the strip you placed near the top of the box. Close the door, and you are done!

Quantum Laser: EMF Clearing

What are the benefits? If you consider that the entire biochemical body is controlled by our energy bio-field that literally uses light as communication, then it might make sense why a light emitter could boast valuable qualities.  This beneficial light reorganizes and cleans up the communications of the area. A key inhibitor of proper functioning is when an area is “encoded” which is when static electrical chaos from EMF pollution lodges itself in the tissue impeding proper nutrient uptake, cellular detoxification and ultimately overall organ function. A very common noticeable symptom of EMF encoding is sleep disorder.  Particularly encoding EMF polluters are x-rays, wireless internet, cell phones, microwaves and scanners at grocery store.

How to Use the Laser? Using a gentle painting motion, pass the light over target areas for a few seconds in each spot.Specific areas to use the laser might be: Acupressure points for healing and balancing of the associated organ or gland systems of the body. Site specific pain areas such as wounds, herpes outbreaks, aching joints. The entire body and bottoms of feet to remove any “encoding”. Over food, water or supplements to remove encoding before consumption Over clothing, car, your entire house and its contents to eliminate the affect encoded or depolarized objects have on your wellbeing. You may use the laser as a very effective pointer for presentations as the light is very clear and bright.

Learn more about the laser HERE.

For more information,on clearing your home and office of EMF:  Contact Kassandra at 612.824.7611 for purchase/questions.

To purchase EMF protective materials and to learn more about “Beautiful Health,” go to  kasiaorganicsalon.com