3 Ways Endocrine Disruptors Destroy Your Health 21st January 2015 By Dr. Edward F. Group Guest Writer for Wake Up World Your endocrine system is your main hormone regulator and endocrine disruptors are chemicals that throw it out of whack. Endocrine Disruptors to Avoid Plastics are the main source for endocrine disruptors but they’re not the only culprits. 1. Endocrine disruptors are commonly found in personal items, medicines, and cleaning products. 2. While BPA is a known endocrine disruptor, a recent study showed that BPA-free plastics might be just as bad. 3. Perchlorate is an endocrine disruptor found in rocket fuel, fertilizers, and fireworks. Is There Any Hope? There is an effort in the European Union (EU) to ban endocrine disruptors, but it’s slow going.[12] Billion-dollar corporations, more concerned with profits are throwing up roadblocks. What do you think? -Dr. Article References: Previous articles by Dr. About the author: Dr. Dr. For more information, please visit Global Healing Center. Are you on tsū yet? Click here to join!
How to work during your period Do you dread your period each month? Learn how to take better care of your body to minimise symptoms, and plan your workload cleverly around your menstrual cycle. There aren’t many reasons to look forward to your period – cramps, PMT, lethargy, bloating and menstrual bleeding aren’t exactly pleasant! And they don’t always make it easy for you to work. But there are several things you can do to make your time of the month more comfortable, and find ways to work effectively during this time – to ease the impact on your daily life. How to look after yourself during your period It’s always important to practise self-care, and stay mentally and physically healthy. Knowing how to look after yourself properly can minimise your physical discomfort and help improve your mood – making working much more easy and pleasant. Here are some suggestions of ways you can take good care of yourself during your period. Eat well (and often) Drink lots of water Do something lovely Exercise Enjoy quiet time
4 Foods For Liver Detox - Activated Charcoal Ever since Gwyneth Paltrow declared via her healthy lifestyle site Goop that she drinks charcoal infused lemonade (yes, you read that right!), activated charcoal in drinks and in the form of a supplement has become the latest wellness trend. Health-focused celebrities have declared it the best way to rid your body of environmental and food-based toxins. Many fancy juice bars claim it has liver detoxifying properties. It all sounds miraculous, but what does it really mean? Activated charcoal – miracle or myth? The way activated charcoal works is to attach to chemicals it comes across in the body and prevent absorption, and that includes any medications you might be taking and truly need. This is why I’m not one to follow this particular health fad. We live in an extreme world and we seem to search for extreme solutions. 4 Foods for Liver Detox That Work Better Than Activated Charcoal Fill your diet with foods that naturally aid the liver in the detoxification process. ½ cup mango Alisa
Spicing Up Your Hormones Without Hormone Replacement One of the insurmountable problems with hormone replacement therapy is that when you replace a hormone you risk feeding the underlying glandular deficiency. The human fascination with spices is as old as cultural time itself. There is an obvious beauty to the various aromas and flavors these plant extracts express (have you smelled cumin lately?), and undoubtedly these qualities first drew us closer to them. But, our primordial relationship with them involves much more than aesthetic infatuation. Spices are the original food-medicines that were worth their weight (or more) in gold because they were capable of both improving the quality, and prolonging the length of human life. Cumin, like most spices, has a wide range of potential health benefits. Cumin seeds are actually indehiscent fruits (i.e. these fruits do not dehisce, or "burst open" at maturity) of the archene class; which means that what we think of as the cumin "seed" is actually a fruit containing a seed. Continue to Page 2
The Loneliness Of Not Knowing Ourselves People are “connected” to others more than ever before because of technology: Texting, emailing, social-networking—we are constantly plugged in and communicating with other people from across town to the other side of the world. But are we really sharing our lives, or are we just passing information back and forth? Are we actually “connecting” with others, or are we like stones skipping across the surface of relationships, never diving into their depths? Sherry Turkle, in her book Alone Together, says, “Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.” People are physical and spiritual. When you talk to someone—in the flesh—you exchange information without even realizing it. When you talk to someone—in the flesh—you exchange information without even realizing it. In the Greek, there are two words for “knowing”: Gnosis and Epignosis.
s Good Food on a Tight Budget Get EWG's healthy shopping tips, news, promotions to support our work and action alerts! You can opt-out at any time. Stretching your dollars to get a month's worth of healthy, filling food is a challenge. See top foods EWG's "Good Food on a Tight Budget" booklet comes with our top tips for healthy eating, quick lists of best foods, tasty recipes and easy tools for tracking food prices and planning your weekly menu (a key step to cutting costs!). How to get the guide EWG nutritionist Dawn Undurraga, Share Our Strength's Laura Seman and D.C. chef Alli Sosna discuss how the guide helps families on a tight budget shop for and cook good food.
Better Nutrition Magazine :: Supplements, Nutrition, Recipes, Personal Care :: Columns :: Ask the Naturopath We've been fighting for years against nasty ingredients in our foods—avoiding trans fats, spurning high-fructose corn syrup, steering clear of pesticides in our produce and antibiotics in our meat. Now we're facing the most serious battle yet, against insidious toxins in our food that haven't been measured or quantified; in many cases, they can't be avoided. These toxins, collectively called endocrine disruptors, are present in nearly every aspect of our environment—not only food, but also personal care products and household goods. Endocrine disruptors are a broad category of chemicals that interfere with the normal functioning of the endocrine system and can create imbalances throughout the body, particularly in the thyroid, reproductive, and adrenal systems. What Are Xenoestrogens? Here's more bad news: many studies suggest that the most sensitive stage of the life cycle is during embryonic development, says Blumberg. That's not to say the die is cast. Eliminate! The pantry.
How not to say the wrong thing When Susan had breast cancer, we heard a lot of lame remarks, but our favorite came from one of Susan's colleagues. She wanted, she needed, to visit Susan after the surgery, but Susan didn't feel like having visitors, and she said so. Her colleague's response? "This isn't just about you." "It's not?" The same theme came up again when our friend Katie had a brain aneurysm. YEAR IN REVIEW: 10 tips for a better life from The Times' Op-Ed pages in 2013 This woman loves Katie, and she said what she did because the sight of Katie in this condition moved her so deeply. Susan has since developed a simple technique to help people avoid this mistake. Draw a circle. Here are the rules. Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings. When you are talking to a person in a ring smaller than yours, someone closer to the center of the crisis, the goal is to help. Comfort IN, dump OUT. Complaining to someone in a smaller ring than yours doesn't do either of you any good.
Types of Houseplants That Clean Indoor Air Why invest in expensive electrical air purifiers when you could purchase a few types of houseplants to clean and filter the air naturally and inexpensively? Much of the research on these beneficial houseplants has been done by NASA scientists researching ways to create suitable space station habitats. All indoors plants (flowering or not) are able to purify indoor air to some degree through their normal photosynthesis processes. But some were found to be more beneficial than others in removing harmful household toxins, even removing 90% of chemicals in the air in only twenty-four hours! The three main household toxins of concern are: benzene formaldahydetrichloroethylene These carcinogenic chemicals are used in the manufacturing of synthetic substances and materials and are off-gased from new materials for some time (up to several years, depending on the material of product in question). Tips for Choosing and Caring for Your Plants Nineteen Houseplants That Clean Indoor Air Reader Questions