A Toxin-Free Summer: Your Guide to

Avoiding Chemicals

Dr. Anne Zauderer

How to Have Your BEST Summer!

• Spend time in the sun

• Avoid chemicals

• Sweat and detox

Spend Time in the Sun

• Rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have been rising for at least the last three decades

• Distribution of the lesions reported did not correspond to the sites of sun exposure

• Several studies have confirmed that appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer

…But What about Skin Cancer??

Ultraviolet Light: UVA vs. UVB

• UVA• Penetrates deeper

• Causes more free radical damage

• Present during most hours of the day

• UVB• Stimulates the production of Vitamin D

• Mostly present during mid-day, very low in mornings and evenings

Vitamin D

• Anti-carcinogenic (anti-cancer) and anti-melanoma properties

• Provides protection from damaging effects of UV rays

• …plus many more health benefits!

Recommendations:• Spend time in the sun during midday (10:00am –

2:00pm)• Lighter skinned individuals will need 10 – 20 minutes

• Darker skinned individuals will need 30 – 40 minutes

• Produces roughly 10,000 IU of vitamin D

• Apart from this time period, apply sunscreen

• Supplement during the wintertime• Get you levels measured!! Ideal levels are between 60 –

80 ng/ml

• Most adults need to supplement with 5000 – 10,000 I.U.

• Make your own sunscreen!

What’s in Your Sunscreen??

• The Food and Drug Administration has not reviewed evidence of potential hazards of sunscreen filters – instead it grandfathered in ingredients used in the late 1970s when it began to consider sunscreen safety

• Oxybenzone – high rates of skin allergy, endocrine disruptor

• Octinoxate – hormone activity (disrupts thyroid), behavioral alterations

Homemade Sunscreen:

Ingredients:

• 10 drops lavender (optional) **Do not use citrus oils

• 1 tbsp pomegranate oil

• 3/4 C coconut oil

• 2 tbsp zinc oxide

• 2 tbsp shea butter

• Glass jar

Directions:

• Combine all ingredients except zinc oxide in a jar.

• Place a saucepan with 2 inches of water on stove over medium/low heat.

• Place jar in saucepan and stir contents until ingredients start to melt.

• Once all ingredients are combined, add in zinc oxide and stir well. Store in a cool place.

More recommendations:

• Keep an aloe plant in your house, if you burn cut it open and rub on the burn

• Make a hair mask out of coconut oil and apple cider vinegar to protect from drying effects of the sun

• Make a lip salt scrub with coconut oil, sea salt and limes (or lime essential oil)

• Naturally lighten your hair with lemon juice

Spend Time in the Sun

One of the “biggest bangs for your buck”

• Reduction of pain/disability for arthritis by 47%

• Reduced progression of dementia and Alzheimer's by 50%

• Reduced progression of diabetes by 58%

• Post-menopausal women had 41% decrease risk for hip fracture

• Reduced anxiety by 48%

• 30% decrease in depression, 47% decrease with more exercise

• 23% lower risk of death

• #1 treatment for fatigue

• Quality of life improvement!

…Exercise!!

• Good news: All of the research that was presented on the previous slide was done with moderate amounts of low-impact exercise

• Example: 30 minutes of walking per day …. and it doesn’t have to be all at once!

• A little bit goes a LONG way

Avoid Chemicals

• Glyphosate (Roundup) is the most heavily used agricultural chemical of all time

• Levels have increased from 11 million pounds used per year in the U.S. in 1987 to current levels of over 300 million pounds used per year

• World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen

….in Food

Organic Vs. Conventional

Organic Vs. Conventional

Organic Vs. Conventional

Organic Vs. Conventional

Organic Vs. Conventional

Organic Vs. Conventional

Organic Vs. Conventional

Recommendations:

• Grow a garden!

• Find a CSA

• Buy organic as much as possible (especially the Dirty Dozen)

• Wash all of your fruits and vegetables with a cleanser to remove residue

• Strategically grow plants that repel bugs (rather than using insecticides)

Fruit and Vegetable Wash Recipe

• 1 teaspoon white vinegar

• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

• 8 oz filtered water

Mix all ingredients and keep in a spray bottle under your sink.

Sweat and Detox

• Sweat is one of the body’s main modes of detoxification

• Ways to induce sweating:• Exercise

• Detox baths (Epsom salts, baking soda, EOs)

• Infrared saunas

• Being in outside

• Consume foods that support the liver with detox

Foods that Support Detox

• Garlic

• Apples

• Beets

• Carrots

• Leafy greens

• Avocados

• Lemons

• Cruciferous vegetables(broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts)

• Fresh herbs used in cooking or steeped as teas

• Turmeric

• Dandelion root

• Peppermint

• Milk thistle

• Ginger

Recommendations:

• Make healthy, fresh, organic fruits and vegetables the centerpiece to your diet this summer!

• Find opportunities to sweat!

• Avoid antiperspirants that contain aluminum • Block sweating

• Aluminum can mimic estrogen

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