Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:56 amWith a great deal of effort, there are things that an individual who is lucky enough to have adequate resources can probably do to protect themselves and their offspring. Though that's not the main reason for the existence of the Dark Age Hovel and I have no qualifications to give any advice, I will talk about it from the perspective of what I personally know and have done.
Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:53 pmBut I don't think they are right when they say above that "this unnatural forcing to a permanent on or off position can have far-reaching consequences." I don't think such things are as permanent as they lead people to believe.
I try to keep the information in this Dark Age Hovel somewhat limited to what is not generally appreciated or known.Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:59 pmThis is another example of how the emphasis is on how it's everywhere (industrial chemicals) with no investigation of why it is that the range of measurements varies 100 fold (between different people) in this case.
Avoiding Toxic Exposures. The general idea would be to inventory everything in the environment that someone comes in contact with and make a decision as to how to handle it. Obviously, nearly everyone can easily know by now that drinking bottled water isn't a good idea and lots of other similar things. So I'll just mention a couple that seem underappreciated. When moving to a metro area, I've generally tried to locate upwind and at least 1 mile from a major arterial freeway that has a lot of truck traffic. Some are now saying to be at least 10 miles away. Asthma and cancer rates for children living close to freeways are astronomically higher, anywhere from 2 to 6 fold. Also, many workplaces are located right on freeways. I was in such a workplace. The building had 6 floors and was located less than 100 yards from the most heavily traveled freeway in the city. People would be outside the building walking and playing volleyball on their lunch hour every day they could. Management encouraged it as healthy activity and that was repeated as if it was fact, which I found kind of strange considering there were probably over 300 engineers and scientists working there out of about 600 people total. I found the building maintenance man the first week and asked him about the ventilation. He discussed the positive pressure in the building and that the air was being pulled from the top of the building. He said that in the years he had worked there I was the first person who had ever asked him about the ventilation. I then checked around for any evidence of diesel soot inside the building, didn't find any and opened the door at ground level to ensure inside air was leaving the building rather than entering.
Staying in Detox Mode. American culture demands differently, but I don't use anti-perspirant or, more generally, knowingly do anything that blocks natural detoxification pathways. Minimizing the use of air conditioning is another one. I think one of the best pieces of advice any teacher gave was from my homeroom teacher who was a physical education teacher and would tell the kids in homeroom that, "You should break a sweat every day." I know, I know, by American cultural standards it's really "weird" not to use your anti-perspirant and air conditioning. I think making it a cultural requirement to block your natural detoxification pathways is even weirder, especially given the load of toxic chemicals people are exposed to.
Eating a Truly Good Diet. Many say they do but I found out I only really have for less than 6 months of my life. That was in the time before my daughter was conceived. I was eating 12 fruits and vegetables per day and exercising enough to handle the increased food intake. After a few months on this diet, some of my gray hairs were dark at the roots and my bald spot was noticeably filling in. That's how I kind of knew I really was eating a good diet. I was doing other things along with that but mainly attribute it to the fruits and vegetables. I guess now my diet is just sort of OK.
Seeking Out Competent Alternative Practitioners. About 15 years ago, I made the mistake of buying a sofa that had particle board in it and was off gassing. The smell really bothered me (to the point that I covered the sofa with plastic) so I knew I had a problem. It was then that I thought more about the fact that scents like those found in laundry soap had been bothering me too. I found an alternative practitioner who gave a class for $100 per month one day per week. The students were supposed to go home and practice every day. The purpose of it was general health but during the course of it a lot of people's health problems went away. A few days into doing his recommended exercises, I was urinating more each morning than I thought was humanly possible. Then about 50 red things that looked like mosquito bites came out on my back and oozed orange liquid out of them. He had seen this before. After a couple weeks it was all over and the sofa smell and other smells no longer bothered me. One of the most interesting things I heard in the class was from an advanced student who was doing the lung training. She said she had last smoked menthol cigarettes 20 years before and the exercises were releasing menthol out of her lungs. Last year, I saw him again for the first time in 14 years when my daughter had a reaction to a flu shot. I discussed that recently. An ENT's Physician Assistant had looked at her and told us to get her ready for a tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy, maybe not now, but it would be inevitable within 3 or 4 months tops, so we might as well get ready. I asked the PA how many kids she sees that are in a similar situation and she said, "Ten a week." 14 months later, my daughter's tonsils and adenoids are normal.
By paying attention to these kinds of things, I think that people can get their body burdens of toxic chemicals down into the low end of the range and possibly reverse transgenerational effects from these chemicals.