Posted7/28/2010 |
Updated7/28/2010 |
KeywordsCalifornia, Camping, Yosemite National Park |
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Just over 29 years ago, I made my first trip to Yosemite National Park. This was combined with my first trip to San Francisco. It's almost hard for me to imagine how untraveled I was before this trip, and how many places I've gone since. And yet, Yosemite is still one of my two favorite places in the world.
Posted7/26/2010 |
Updated7/26/2010 |
KeywordsEnvironmental Toxins, Natural Health, Toxins |
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"What goes on you, goes in you." This truism is based on the fact that your skin is not only your largest organ, but your largest organ of ingestion. You breathe through your skin--if you are 100% covered with grease or grease-based makeup, you will suffocate even while gasping for breath. You take in minerals from a bath, which is why people soak in hot springs or Epsom Salts. And if you soak in poison, or rub it on your body, your skin absorbs that, too. Plus which, toxins absorbed by the skin are not filtered by the kidneys and liver as they are if you eat them. So it's really important to avoid putting toxins on your skin if at all possible.
And that includes your scalp.
Posted7/19/2010 |
Updated7/19/2010 |
KeywordsEnvironmental Toxins, Natural Health, Toxins |
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Almost a month ago, I was tested for several types of environmental toxins: Pesticides and heavy metals. This morning I got the results.
Posted7/18/2010 |
Updated7/18/2010 |
KeywordsSalt River |
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Today I went on a Salt River float with my daughter Jenny, and our friends Luca and Theresa. Luca is Michael's classmate at medical school, but Michael was a bit under the weather so did not join us. And too bad: We encountered a whole herd of wild horses, foraging along the river bank, just begging me to take their pictures...so I did.
Posted7/5/2010 |
Updated7/5/2010 |
KeywordsColorado, Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Zachary |
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Today was the last day of Zach's and my trip to Colorado. We had spent our second night at an elevation of almost 8,000 feet, in which the thin air had not lessened the wind that buffeted our tent all night. But we awoke around 8am, and broke camp before descending to the bath house at the bottom of the hill for hot showers and a change into traveling clothes.
Posted7/4/2010 |
Updated7/4/2010 |
KeywordsArkansas River, Browns Canyon, Buena Vista, Colorado, Wilderness Aware, Zachary |
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Posted7/3/2010 |
Updated7/3/2010 |
KeywordsBuena Vista, Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Zachary |
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My grandson, Zach, told me that what he really wanted for his birthday was to go on a rafting trip, as we had done last year on the Upper Salt River. However, he told me this after it was too late to add him to my reservation for the last trip of the season. And I so hated to disappoint him. So I told him we would go rafting, but it would have to be on some other river. He was okay with that as long as the river had "lots of Class IVs!" and let me know that Class Vs would be even better.
Posted6/28/2010 |
Updated6/28/2010 |
KeywordsEnvironmental Toxins, Natural Health, Toxins |
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Where do you breathe the most toxic air all day long? On the highway? In your office? Getting your nails done? Actually it might indeed be the nail salon, but few people have daily manicures. So the most dangerous place for you to breathe is actually your own home. And, as with all environmental toxins, no individual breath will kill you; it's the cumulative effects of millions of such breaths (plus other toxins) that result in what we call "aging" but is actually just reaction to a toxic body burden in the form of obesity, high blood pressure, cancer, wrinkled skin, and a host of other illnesses.
So...where do you start?
Posted6/23/2010 |
Updated6/23/2010 |
KeywordsEnvironmental Toxins, Natural Health, Toxins |
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So, this morning I had my "Provoked Urinary Toxic Metals Assay". The purpose of this test is to learn which, if any, heavy metals my body has collected and been unable to get rid of all these years. It involved peeing into a bucket, getting an IV, and peeing more into another bucket. A good time was had by all.
Posted6/21/2010 |
Updated6/21/2010 |
KeywordsEnvironmental Toxins, Natural Health, Toxins |
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I just got back from my first appointment with my new environmental medicine doctor. The goal: To begin tallying my toxic load, and determine how to lessen it for weight loss and improved health and energy.