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30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation 30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation Day 1: Before we can fly, it’s important to get grounded Day 2: A “fake smells” stocktake, perfumes and a close look at candles Day 3: Endocrine disrupting chemicals – the rest of them! Day 4: A Low Tox Mind with a meditation led by Katie Kendall Day 5: Low Tox Home Cleaning – Kitchen, bathroom and multipurpose Day 6: Low Tox Laundry Day 7: Low Tox Face – Cosmetics, skincare & men’s face & shaving Day 8: BODY: Scrubs, lotions, sun care and self-tanning Day 9: The Antibacterial Myth – Are we ‘too clean’? Day 10: Personal Hygiene – Pits, time of the month, sexy time Day 11: A Low Tox Mind and meditation with Grant Lyndon Day 12: Detoxing from chemicals Day 13: Low Tox Make UP Day 14: Low Tox Kids Day 15: Low Tox Hair & Nails Day 16: Plastic Free Living – Going LOW plastic in a high plastic world Day 17: Teeth, fluoride and water filtration 30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation Day 18: Low Tox Mind Series – with Tom Cronin Day 19: Cookware & Bakeware Day 20: Food Storage Day 21: Wastage – food AND packaging Day 22: Low Tox Conversations – The challenge of toxic interactions on your way to the low tox life Day 23: Low Tox Bedroom Day 24: Low Tox Clothes Day 25: A very delicious kind of meditation Day 26: A low tox home – Heavy Metals Day 27: A low tox home – Dust and Mould Day 28: A low tox home – pest repellants – personal, home & garden Day 29: Electromagnetics & WiFi Day 30: Low Tox Wrap – Resources, course book & further reading recommendations 30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation Day 1: Before we can fly, it’s important to get grounded Welcome! Alexx chats to Martin Zucker – Video Transcript So what is a low tox life? Low tox living means, living more in-line with nature in our daily choices, making time for ourselves to relax, and keeping a low tox mind in terms of more positive thoughts, with less negative ones. When it comes to chemical exposure, we can’t be ‘no tox’ in the modern world. Take one example alone: with 350,000 microbeads of BPA- containing plastic in every tube of cheap face scrub, which floats out into the oceans and rivers then back into us, it just ain’t possible any more. BUT: We can drastically lower our toxic load and over time drastically change human, animal and planet health in doing so. It never fails to spin me out just how much our tiny daily choices impact the bigger picture. Little old you and me can move mountains. On we go as quiet warriors, steadily growing in numbers, effecting big change by simply ‘not buying bad’ once we know what that looks like. Companies who haven’t got our health, nor the planet’s, at the core of their business, should no longer be supported. It simply doesn’t make sense to, as the number of low tox options grows every day. If we continue to grow in numbers by ‘not buying bad’ then they will have to change their formulations or go out of business. There are so many wonderful brands to support these days – small businesses like the wonderful partners you’ll get to know through some of the interviews and product recommendations, or you could hop over to the blog on the side bar and have a browse through their ranges. Change is going to happen by supporting the companies who are ‘making good’ as well as learning to make a few things ourselves that truly aren’t complicated and save us so much money on personal care and on gifts, as well as saving on packaging. No more products with fake promises. 30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation We have allowed ourselves to be dumbed down so much, that we can be convinced into buying a ‘fresh air system’ that sprays hormone disrupting fake smells throughout our home periodically. Call me old-fashioned, but my fresh air system is to open a window! I wonder how I can have gone through 13 years of school and 4 years of university and not have become a curious thinker about what went into my body and onto my skin. The times tables or that 15,000-word thesis don’t seem to be quite as important when you think of it that way, do they? Do not feel bad if you’re a ‘total newbie’ and you don’t know this stuff. As I write this I have cringe worthy memories of my apartment in my 20s full of scattered fake smelling candles, a pantry with a microwave popcorn sachet, fabric softener, honey ‘scented’ shower gel, a freezer with a bunch of lean cuisine ‘emergency’ meals in there, tinned tomatoes with BPA lined cans… The important thing to know is that if you’ve just started today: you are here. The past is the past. Learn, adapt, move on and be excited. There’s no time for guilt and bitterness. Each time we’re on a ‘product’ oriented topic, there will be DIY suggestions, economy suggestions and luxe / investment suggestions, so no one is left out of making the positive changes. 2 things to get us started… First to introduce you to my favourite app and site for ditching harmful additives from food and chemicals in your home and in beauty products. The app is Chemical Maze. It’s an app available for iPhone and Android, or in physical form. This is an invaluable compilation of almost all the nasties in one place. For a site with loads of details on the nasties, you can head also to Skin Deep, by the EWG. 30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation ! Bill Stratham, the creator of Chemical Maze has been researching the science on chemicals used in products that go in and on us, and makes it very easy and empowering to choose better. I highly encourage you to grab the full paid version of the app (under $10) if you’re new to all this. Get curious and start punching things into the app in the search bar, and you will be given the verdict on whether it’s harmful or not. A scary thought: Every year another 1,000 or so new compounds enter the chemical economy, either as ingredients in finished products, or as intermediate chemicals used to make other chemicals. The total number of synthetics in commerce is probably now somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000, created since the 1940s. The total number of synthetics in the environment is probably far greater than that, because of the byproducts (like dioxins) unintentionally generated during production, and because of the breakdown products that result from the decay of commercial substances. Why aren’t these chemicals tested you might ask? Isn’t stuff supposed to be safe if it’s for sale? Well, the short answer is no, a lot of it isn’t safe, or certainly hasn’t been proven 100% safe with lengthy independent studies. It’s created to provide a ‘use’ or function like making plastic bendy or making fragrances stick, preying on the fact that us humans desire the functionality MORE than caring about what’s in it. There’s the problem. 30 days to your Low Tox Life - Class of March 2015 End of Course PDF compilation Our job is to start caring MORE about what’s in it, rather than the convenience / appeal of it. Our job is to change our mindset and redefine appeal together over 30 days. It’s a big job and before we get stuck into it, let’s start by getting grounded – also known as earthing! EARTHING My mum suffers chronic back pain, but not all the time. When she goes home to Mauritius, she’s barefoot for most of the time. Guess what? No back pain. It’s not that it’s really quiet and there’s nothing to do. The days are full every day with catch-ups, relatives and looking after the house and older family members, not to mention lunches and dinners for 20 every day - it’s about as hectic as Island life gets, to be honest. Back home here in Sydney though: her pain comes back. It’s a very simple example of the positive effects of earthing. It might sound a bit ‘woo woo’ to the uninitiated, but ‘earthing’ basically just means getting in touch with nature and that can manifest many ways for each of us. Have a think for a second about what it feels like to swim in the ocean. Think about being barefoot in the soft grass. Think about running your hands through the sand. They all feel amazing, right? You might be someone who asks themselves: Why don’t I do this more often, it feels so good? As well as the fact that it usually coincides with a weekend or holiday, the essential reason is that the earth and the ocean carry a charge that literally ‘grounds’ us and brings us feelings of well-being, relaxation and peace. With our shoes on and our synthetic paths and varnished floors, carpets and big high rise cities, cars, trains and airplanes, we are removed from that energy that grounds us so well.