Avoid Environmental Toxins

This can be difficult as there are few warnings to alert you to the substances you encounter nearly everywhere. The food you eat, the water you drink, and the air you breathe are all laden with environmental toxins.

Use Your Senses

If you notice a smell or taste that doesn't belong, that should be a huge red flag. Some contaminants can't be detected, but many can. For example, vinyl chloride has a sweet, almost pleasant odor. And that new car smell? Keep the windows open.

Water Filtering

You can filter drinking and cooking water to remove most of the chemicals if you have a high quality filter, such as one of the gravity-fed filters available on the market. Some will even remove PFAS and Glyphosate compounds.

I thought my well water would have been pristine, being in the mountains at over 8,000 feet above sea level. But after experiencing progressive mental fogginess and an increasingly unbearable 'drugged out' feeling over a number of months after moving there, I tried, out of desperation, an Alexapure gravity-fed filter. It made a huge difference in about a week or two.

I don't know what the filter is removing; nothing unusual appeared in the water toxicology tests I had done. I suspect some kind of hard-to-detect organic compounds that are seeping into the water table, perhaps some of my neighbors' medications.

There are a number of other similar systems, including the Berkey and the Water Drop King. You can expect to pay $200-$400 for a quality unit that actually filters the chemicals you want to remove.

Buyer Beware: Counterfeits and lookalike brands are rampant; some suppliers even comingle authentic filters with fakes in their warehouses.

PFAS and Dioxins

These are everywhere, but you can at least avoid items that have high concentrations that can be absorbed by direct skin contact, or even by coming into contact with dust that had settled on them:

As noted on the Lowering PFAS Levels page, folic acid may help prevent PFAS chemicals from building up in your body. (Maybe.)

Bisphenols (BPA and similar compounds)


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Posted: June 21, 2024
Updated: June 29, 2024