Toxins can be found in the products that we use every day. Avoiding toxins can seem like an insurmountable

challenge, but there are simple things you can do to reduce your toxic load. Welcome back to

essential oil solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting, useful, and

simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field. If you like what you hear today,

rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today, we're excited to talk to Christine

Perkins about reducing your toxic load. Christine, thank you so much for sitting down with us today.

Yeah, thank you. I'm really glad to be here. Now, toxic load might be a phrase that not everyone is familiar

with. Can you tell us what does it mean when we refer to toxic load? Well, our toxic load

comes from a couple of different sources or many different sources. We have both internal processes,

cells that break down and die that need to be eliminated,

and those are toxic to us as well. So it's an internal process. And it's what our bodies are

sort of designed to be able to eliminate and take care of. There are hormones inside of our bodies

that need to act and then be broken down. And if they aren't able to

be eliminated, then they too can become a toxic load. So those are something that are internal

within us that can actually lead to an increased toxic load, but we're designed to handle that.

I think when we talk about toxic load, the more important thing that we're dealing with is

the external sources.

And those are the sources of the thousands of chemicals that have been created in the last hundred years.

And most of them don't have a pathway out of our bodies.

Our liver is very responsible for a lot of the detoxification process.

The liver and the kidneys, the bowels, the lungs and the skin are all our what we would call detoxifying organs.

Unfortunately, though, these chemicals that have been created, they stockpile inside of us and they don't really have a way to get out.

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