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• In its Thieves Cleaner, for example, EVERY ingredient receives the “Green” rating from the Environmental Working Group
• The synergistic blend of THIEVES is immune boosting even though it is powerfully effective against pathogens
• Its use, saves you half of your cleaning budget.
There is an urgency to create change concerning human health and environmental issues regarding antibacterial products, air fresheners, and cleaning products.
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Century after century, bubonic plague outbreaks decimated the population of Asia and Europe for the better part of a thousand years. Out of this period emerged a legend of four thieves who were captured and charged with robbing the dead and dying victims. When the thieves were tried, the magistrate offered leniency if they would reveal how they resisted contracting the infection as they performed their gruesome acts. They told of a special concoction of aromatic herbs, including garlic, cloves and rosemary, that they rubbed on themselves before committing their crimes.
The proprietary Thieves oil blend was created with this legend in mind. Studies conducted at Weber State University in 1997 showed it to have a 99.96% success rate against airborne bacteria. The bacteria cultures were sprayed in an enclosed area, and Thieves oil blend was diffused for a given amount of time.
The average American harbors as many as 100 different chemicals in their body – ingested, inhaled, or topically applied.
These chemicals bio-accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, organs….. And yes they even exist and are passed in human breast milk.
That is a concern for adults but what is at stake for the unborn child? There exists no placental barrier for some of these ubiquitous and pervasive
substances. The CDC refers to it as a “Chemical Body Burden” or as “Womb to Tomb” exposure.
(Baker, Nena. The Body Toxic.)
We are over-burdened with chemicals because we live in a chemical-based society. This chemical explosion occurred after World War II and many of these chemicals came out of research and innovation driven by a war effort. Pesticides, herbicides, biocides, plasticizers, our whole vernacular or language has changed to accommodate this chemical influence. And yes, we are exposed whether we want to be or not. It is an outcome; collateral damage, so to speak, of being surrounded by a sea of chemicals of our own making…synthetics. Unfortunately what may not be toxic to you or I can be very toxic for our children.
Toxins bio-accumulate in three ways. They are absorbed through the skin, ingested, and through inhalation. Because this toxins bio-accumulate through storage in our adipose or fatty tissues, they become particularly problematic for nursing mothers since they can leach from fat cells into Mother’s breast milk.
On a daily basis we’re exposed to hundreds of compounds used in everyday products. From phthalates used in the production of plastic that leach into our foods, to chlorine bleach used in many strong household cleaning products as an antibacterial agent, to other antibacterial agents that also happen to be “endocrine disruptors”, the so-called “environmental estrogens” that mimic our body’s natural hormones and lead to abnormal development or even cancer.
Every two out of ten school-aged children presently have asthma symptoms.
In the United States, the occurrence of asthma is prevalent and widespread, defining an epidemic. Often asthmatic symptoms or narrowing of the bronchial passageways of the lungs is induced by environmental “triggers,” such as inhalants which stimulate cells of our immune system. These cells, now “on alert” naturally respond by releasing histamines which promote the inflammatory response. The resulting inflammation induces mucus formation and along with the bronchial constriction reduces airflow and lung function.
• Chronic childhood diseases linked to exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment are surging.
• Philip Landrigan, professor and chairman of preventative medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC, outlined the challenges to those working to combat the rise of not only asthma and respiratory issues, but also neuro-developmental disorders in children.
In vitro, the nervous system begins its development very early in the embryonic process. Environmental exposures even within the first month of pregnancy unfortunately can have negative lifelong effects on a developing life. Teachers are seeing more and more children having learning difficulties that make it very difficult and frustrating for them to reach their potential.
Endocrine- Disruptors which include xenoestrogens or environmental estrogens (mimics to human estrogens) are prevalent almost everywhere.
Research is demonstrating that EEs or environmental estrogens disrupt specialized brain cells and their ability to regulate and coordinate brain chemistry, especially as related to the release and absorption of the neurotransmitter, dopamine.
“Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to low levels of some EEs – especially during development – can cause a number of effects that can lead to disease and reproductive problems later in life.” (www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/low-level-EEs-alter-dopamine-from-brain-cells)
Before we can determine what an environmentally friendly cleaning product is, we have to educate ourselves a bit. So let’s first identify, what are endocrine disrupting agents?
Our endocrine system consists of numerous glands that signal other tissues using chemical messengers. These include hormones such as the estrogens, which are actually produced in both males and females. Compounds that disrupt this system are variously known as endocrine disruptors, environmental estrogens and xeno- or foreign estrogens.
In the case of estrogen, for example, our bodies actually produce 17 different estrogenic compounds. Each of these has receptors, usually on cell surfaces, which these messengers will fit into, like a lock and key. Once this happens, the estrogen-receptor complex will migrate into the cell and activate or suppress a gene, which enhances or impedes some step in growth or cellular development or physiology.
Our problem is that many of these receptors are what are termed “promiscuous”, meaning, they can respond to other substances which have the same size, shape and charge.
Theo Colburn is perhaps the most famous scientist alerting the public to these compounds. Perhaps the “Rachel Carson” of the modern environmental movement, she has made us aware of over 900 different foreign compounds that elicit an estrogenic response.
Just as an example, it has recently been shown that environmental estrogens disrupt specialized brain cells that regulate brain chemistry by affecting the actions of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Exposure to low levels of Environmental Estrogens, particularly during developmental phases, can lead to reproductive problems later in life.
Many studies have shown that Environmental estrogens can cause reproductive problems later in life, both in humans and increasingly in animals exposed to these substances in the environment.
So why does this problem concern you and me?
Environmental estrogens are literally everywhere around us. They are in cleaning agents, personal care products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and the plastic bottles containing them. Endocrine disruptors are even possible in our foods in the form of pesticides.
“…synthetic chemicals can block testosterone or disrupt thyroid hormones necessary for brain development….
…..There are many routes to hormone havoc, and they are clearly not limited to estrogen ….
The emerging science, in fact, demonstrates that much of the body’s chemical messaging system – not just the endocrine system – is vulnerable to disruption by the novel compounds that humans have synthesized and released into the environment.”
(Colborn, Theo. et al. Our Stolen Future. Plume Books. New York. 1997.)
We have many chemical messaging systems in our bodies. All rely on receptors interacting with a chemical messenger and all can be disrupted by chemicals of similar size, shape and charge. These include not only estrogen mimics and testosterone mimics but even analogs to our thyroid hormones necessary for brain development. All of these systems are vulnerable to the disruption caused by the novel compounds that humans have synthesized, used, and released into the environment.
With over 17,000 foreign chemicals in use, it’s no wonder this is wreaking “hormone havoc” on our society and on the environment.
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