It is easy for us to fall into an unconscious over-use of man made chemicals in daily life. We scrub our teeth every day with fluoride filled tooth paste (DON’T SWALLOW the label reads), wash our hands with anti-bacterial soap or hand sanitizer, shove aluminum filled deodorant into our arm pits, and spray Lysol on our door knobs. To most people this seems natural and routine to everyday life, but the truth is that these chemicals begin to tally up within our bodies and create imbalances in all of nature.
In this post, I will not go into great depth about why it isn’t the best idea to continue to over use some of these household products. Instead, I’d like to give you some quick ideas for reducing their use or even green alternatives.
1.) Tooth paste is often used twice per day, combining that with tap water and mouth wash, our mouths are sterilized more than enough to destroy the natural flora within that environment. To help balance the flora in the mouth a few things you can do is to reduce tooth paste use to one time per day and make the amount of tooth paste the size of half a lentil or less. You can also water down your mouth wash or find a non-alcohol version. Rinsing your mouth with plain water after meals helps to greatly reduce the need for extreme dental measures.
2.) Hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial soap have gone a long way to create poorly developed immune systems and super-bugs. I suggest these products only be used in the most extreme situations such as before surgery or after surgery. Most people would do better switching to plain soap and water and even just a good scrubbing under plain tap water. Most college microbiology courses do experiments demonstrating that scrubbing with plain water can be just as effective as hand sanitizer.
What are some alternatives you use in your home?
This is not intended to be medical advice, merely an informative opinion.
DrHartChiropractic 