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Did you know that women use an average of 12 products with 168 chemicals before they even leave their home each morning? Men on average are exposed to 85 chemicals before leaving for the day. Once we leave our homes, this number jumps into the thousands! Scary right? Yes, these toxins can build up in our bodies over time, potentially leading to various health issues. Fortunately, with some deeper knowledge and targeted approaches, we can use toxic build-up testing, benzene exposure testing, glyphosate testing, and more to learn exactly what support our bodies need to help move toxins out.

What is Toxic Chemical Exposure?
When we think of toxic chemical exposure, we’re often thinking of contact or ingestion of really harmful substances that can cause adverse health effects. It sounds scary, but truthfully these toxins are in everyday items like personal care products, cleaning products, plastics, food, and even in the air and water. Over time, they can have a compounded negative impact on our health. 

Thankfully, our bodies are miraculous things. They have several built-in detoxification organs and pathways. We were built to handle numerous toxins daily. But sadly, for most people, the world is just more toxic today than our bodies are equipped for. What that means is that despite our robust detox systems all working 24/7, sometimes they can’t keep up. The daily burden from everyday things like pesticide-sprayed foods, chemicals in personal hygiene products, household cleaners, non-stick kitchenware, electronics, plastics, etc… is more than our detox pathways can filter out. Even toilet paper can be full of chemicals!

The result is a toxin bottleneck. There’s a backlog of toxins waiting to be filtered. When this happens, those toxins get reabsorbed back into circulation and cause problems. On top of that, if our detox organs get overburdened day after day, they start to get clogged up and they can’t work at 100% anymore. At that point, the bottleneck is worse than before.

Think of it like this: Say your body is equipped to handle 100 toxin units per day. But it comes into contact with 150 toxin units daily because our world is rather toxic. That’s an over-abundance of 50 toxin units building up every day! In a month, that’s 1500 toxin units that your body now has to store. If this has been going on for a while, your detox pathways may be clogged or sluggish and can only handle 75% as much as they used to. The result would be the ability to process only some of what you come in contact with daily… meaning that 75 additional toxin units are being stored everyday in your body. Our bodies find ways to deal with toxic burdens up to a point, but those efforts only work for so long. Then we start to develop symptoms.

Symptoms of Toxic Chemical Exposure
Recognizing the symptoms of toxic chemical exposure is crucial for early intervention. Common symptoms of glyphosate exposure may include…

• Headaches or migraines
• Infections
• Hormone imbalance (low libido, menstrual irregularity, cramps, irritability, heavy flow, long or short flow, menstrual clots)
• Infertility 
• Fatigue
• Strong body odor
• Sensitivity to odors
• Slow to sweat (you don’t work up a sweat quickly)
• Brain fog
• Skin problems (acne, eczema, psoriasis, rosacea)
• Nausea
• Struggling to lose weight

What Do We Do About Toxicity? 
We can’t avoid toxins entirely. We still have to live our lives and we can’t live it in constant fear of toxins. The solution? Avoid toxins where you can comfortably: 

• Choose mostly whole foods that are as clean as possible (organic and unprocessed)
• Use products that are as natural and chemical-free as possible
• Nourish your body so it’s detox systems are in tip-top shape (and thus able to tackle the max amount of toxins daily)
• Do some strategic detoxification work with a trusted holistic health practitioner