Hormone Disrupting Chemicals are found in our Everyday Life.
In the last 50 years alone, an estimated 5 million new chemicals have been created, 75,000 of which are in daily use and under 10% have been toxicity tested.
Amongst them, we’ll find many that act as endocrine disruptors (EDCs), creating a hormonal havoc and threatening our health, adaptation, and survival.
Through their disruptive action on our hormone receptors, cellular activities and immunity, they have been linked to hormonal dysregulation in men and women, infertility, cancer, as well as autoimmunity, neurodegeneration, and obesity.
What can we do? Eat Organic, buy natural house cleaning products & natural body products, support your body to detoxify, read labels, avoid E Numbers in food, cook from scratch, reduce plastics in the home.
Houseplants in the Home can Reduce Toxicity Levels
Get houseplants, especially Ivy, Peace lily, Rubber plant, Spider plant, Bamboo palm, Variegated snake plant.
They absorb some noxious gases (benzene, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde) (Cregan-Reid, 2018; Gubb, 2022; Sharma, 2022), they also humidify the air, break down mould spores and reduce dust levels by 40%.
Strengthening the bodies detoxification pathways is something you can work on with your Naturopath.
