Transform Your Health: Small Changes, Big Impact!
It’s not easy to start your path to being whole and powerful, but even small, conscious changes can make a big difference. If you’re wondering where to get started, we’ve got a foundational checklist of ideas to help you incorporate health habits into your daily life.
Eat Organic Foods
Over 5.6 billion pounds of conventionally grown foods worldwide are used for pesticides.
Glyphosate and other chemicals like it have been shown to cause chronic illnesses, and the chemicals can build up in your body over time.
You can drastically reduce these harmful substances by switching to organic foods. If organic foods seem out of reach financially, consider starting with the “dirty dozen”—the top 12 foods most likely to contain pesticide residue:
- Strawberries
- Spinach
- Kale, Mustard Greens, and Collard Greens
- Nectarines
- Apples
- Grapes
- Bell and Hot Peppers
- Cherries
- Peaches
- Pears
- Celery
- Tomatoes
You can cut your toxic load by choosing organic food whenever possible without spending a fortune.
Drink Clean Water
You may be surprised to learn that 170 million Americans drink water contaminated with radon, uranium, heavy metals (lead, arsenic), pharmaceutical residues, and other contaminants.
These contaminants can cause chronic fatigue, recurring infections, mitochondrial dysfunction, and other health problems.
First, use EWG’s Water Database to check your local water supply and ensure your water is safe.
We suggest drinking distilled water with added electrolytes and trace minerals, like Celtic Sea Salt or Concentrace Trace Mineral Drops.
If you don’t have the money, invest in a Berkey filter or a water distiller for home use to filter out harmful substances from your water.
Breathe Clean Air
Mold is a sneaky contributor to many chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases. Exposure to mold suppresses the immune system, causes inflammation, and lets other toxins into your body.
Fifty percent of buildings are estimated to have mold or moisture problems, which is a far greater commonality than you thought.
Mold and these mycotoxins can also become a potential source of some of your family’s symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and neurological issues.
An ERMI test measures mold levels from dust samples, and if you want to know if you have mold in your home, you can take a test.
We recommend an Air Doctor air filter to eliminate harmful mold spores, chemicals, and pathogens in your environment for the best air quality possible.
Focus on Emotional Health
Indeed, emotional trauma will have a tremendous impact on physical health and conditions such as depression, anxiety, and autoimmune diseases.
Research shows that childhood trauma can increase the risk of being hospitalized for autoimmune diseases by up to 70 to 80 percent in adulthood.
If your trauma is not worked through, it is not resolved, and your body remains in a chronic stress state that halts immunity and creates long-term health issues.
To begin addressing emotional trauma, consider therapies like:
- Neurofeedback -- Neuro Emotional Technique (NET).
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Vagus Nerve Exercises & Meditation
- Programs like Primal Trust
These therapies can heal trauma, release stress, and rebalance your nervous system.
Make Small Changes
It’s not an overnight thing; changing your lifestyle can be difficult.
But begin with small and manageable changes, maybe letting go of organic foods, switching the water, or bringing relaxation to your daily routine.
That’s why these small steps will eventually lead to significant results.
There are things you can do to help; talk to your doctor about what will work best for you on your health journey, and progress is more important than perfection.
Overall
If you follow these foundational ideas, you will take control of your health and begin your path toward vitality.
Even just a few small changes in the things you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe, and the way you feel can have a huge impact on your health. Then, build on what you can.
