Everyday in our lives we breathe air and and eat food. Within those items there are contaminates that are naturally occurring but also there are plenty of man made materials that find their way into our bodies. These contaminates react with the body and cause it to react by expressing itself as a headache, join pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. But the cannot always rid itself of the chemicals it comes in contact with.

  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a well know condition for many people due to the buildup of exposure to contaminates. Living a life that is kept aware of the dangers of pollutants, one can better their odds of being ailment free.  

 

Common sources for chemicals/pollutants:

- Plastics used for bottles, bags, and everyday household items like computers. The plastics actually outgas into the air and food that they are containing.

 

- Preservatives used by food companies to extend the shelf life of their products.

 

- Industrial chemicals like gasoline, diesel, insecticide, pesticide.

 

- Household cleaners that use strong chemicals.

 

Plastics make it possible?

  Plasticizers also know as phthalates are particularly difficult for the body to get rid of since nothing like them has been seen in human/planet history until recently. The body is lost as how to get rid of them and so, must then decide to store it into bodily fat as an emergency procedure.

   Plasticizers also act as hormone mimickers in the body’s endocrine system and fool it to think that it is an estrogen hormone.

 

This is only a brief view of how the body reacts to plastics.