It seems like you can't do anything these days without hearing about toxins.

They can even be in the food you eat.

So it might seem like an impossible task to stay away from toxins in your everyday life.

But today we'll discuss how you can take steps to make an impact on the toxic load in your life.

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subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today, we are excited to talk

to Megan Hunter, a registered nurse about how she and her family work to avoid toxins in food.

Megan, thank you so much for sitting down with us today to talk about this incredible topic.

Well, thanks so much. I'm excited to be here.

So I think a lot of people find that once they start paying attention to toxins in their life, they start seeing them everywhere.

One of those places they might start showing up is foods. Can foods contribute to my body's toxic load?

Well, of course it does. I think we know so many different ways that toxins can enter our body,

right? We know that we have some ways that we cannot control, like pollution and,

you know, even water we drink and things like that. But we can be really intentional about the food

we put in our body. And there are definitely our foods that contribute to that toxic load, and then there's foods that

help us to balance and help us eliminate and decrease that toxic load. I think that's so right,

and I think you touched on a big thing right there. There are some things that we can't avoid,

but we should definitely try and take control of the things that we can.

When I'm going about my day, grocery shopping or picking out the foods for my family,

how do I know what foods to stay away from?

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