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When detox does more harm than good
If these drainage pathways are clogged and not cleansing properly, you are simply recycling toxins and putting more and more of a burden on your liver. This happens when you are trying to detox, and your body is releasing more toxins into the bloodstream than it…
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Dis-ease is never random
Dis-ease is not a punishment. It’s not an attack. It’s not an accident. It’s never random. Dis-ease is always a response – to smth we’ve been processing or been exposed to I don’t buy into the scientifically unproven (even if widely established) belief of random…
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The sneaky blue light and why it keeps you up at night
As human species we evolved sitting around the fire after the sunset. Therefore having flickering light bulbs blast us from atop and/or screens (laptops, phones, TVs etc) penetrate our eyes with intense, unbalanced doses of man-made blue light spikes has a major impact on our…
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How to reduce your mold exposure when living in a humid climate
One of the first things we did when we started preparing for our big move from Dubai to Costa Rica was to sell our air purifiers. After all, we were leaving one of the most polluted cities on earth (because of the sand particles in the air)…
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6 wellbeing practices that actually matter
I feel like we often tend to overcomplicate things. Kids are notoriously black and white. It’s either “I love you” or “I hate you”, which also changes every 5mins if not more of often. Yes, their prefrontal cortex is still developing – and yet, there’s…
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Coffee Enema: the whats and the hows
Constant exposure to environmental toxins is the root cause of most common diagnosis. Environmental toxins come in many forms: as herbicides/pesticides sprayed on our food, as chemicals in our water supply, as pharmaceutical drugs including antibiotics and vaccines, as EMFs, as car exhaust fumes laden with carbon dioxide,…
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Aquatru vs Berkey
One of the most common questions I get from friends and customers, is what water filter is the best. More specifically, what I think of the Berkey Water Filter, reverse osmosis (RO), the Kangen machine, clay filters, ionized water, ozonated water, hydrogen water – you…
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How to know if your skin-care products are toxic
Just because something comes in a container, plastic bag, bottle or any other packaging and is sold in a pharmacy or a supermarket, it doesn’t mean it is safe. As a matter of fact, it’s often quite on the contrary. Companies in many industries are exclusively…
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How to enjoy your Costa Rican coffee sin químicos
If you, like me, derive a lot of pleasure enjoying your cup of morning coffee, these are 6 simple ways you can reduce the amount of toxins that can find their way into your cup of liquid gold: 1. Buy coffee that’s been tested for…
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Toxins we are exposed to when dining/taking out in Costa Rica
As a rule, we tend to consider eating or taking out as a treat. I don’t mean to be a party pooper but if you eat out a lot, you’re more likely than not exposing yourself to a bunch of toxins that can eventually have…
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Here is why you need a water filter in Costa Rica
If you do a quick search on google, you’ll get a lot of results suggesting that water quality in Costa Rica is great. As with everything we find on Google, we should, however be vary of these search results. Relatively speaking, if you compare public water in Costa Rica to that, which…
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Why table salt is toxic
The white table salt is toxic. One of the easiest ways you can improve the vitality of your body is by switching to unrefined mineral rich salt. What is unrefined salt? Colorful unrefined mineral-rich salt naturally occurs in nature in the form of rock salt…
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True health is not in the pills
What you see in the picture above is a stack of pancakes. What I see is a struggle 🙃 Why? Since we’ve moved to Costa Rica, I’ve had hard time finding quality products that I was used to purchasing in Dubai – online or offline alike.…
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6 steps to transforming your life
While I’m on a mission to help people reduce the toxic burden their bodies have accumulated by being constantly exposed to poisons in their day-to-day lives, I’m as eagerly keen to explore ways to cultivate non-toxic mind. That involves many things. Stepping beyond our limitations…
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The perfect homebirth
Noah Montego Björkén. I roared the whole 3995g and 53cm of you into this world early morning on May 10 in the most blissful setting I could’ve ever asked for. No rush to the hospital, no directives, just the feeling of a new day welcoming…
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Simple non-toxic pregnancy checklist
According to the widely-publicized study from 2005, researchers tested placental cord blood of a day-old babies for 413 industrial chemicals incl. PCBs, mercury, DDT, dioxins etc. It was found to be positive for 287 of them out of which 180 were carcinogens. Many more studies…
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5 tips that have helped us maintain our healthy eating habits while traveling
It’s challenging to maintain your diet while travelling. But if being constantly on the road has become your lifestyle – like in our case – sticking to your eating habits can make you feel so much better! Also, hard doesn’t mean impossible – only that…
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Plastic is both unsustainable and toxic
When going down the rabbit hole of non-toxic living, I tend to geek-out. I’ve turned many stones trying to protect and improve the health of our family. And I have a sneaky feeling that I’m far from done! I do get a lot of questions about where…
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My 3 lessons heading into the 3rd pregnancy
With each pregnancy, I learned something new: how overmedicated births have become, how important proper nutrition and non-toxic environment both pre- and post-labour is, that the intoxicating newborn smell will get you through the 2-hour intervals of sleep or less, that I have unresolved issues…
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Sustainable vs non-toxic: climate change vs health change?
(Non-)toxicity is part of a broader sustainability framework. As a matter of fact, almost all products that are truly non-toxic, are also more sustainable. E.g. they will not contain plastic or other chemicals derived from the petchem industry, and as a rule, they’ll almost always…
Non-toxic steps
Costa Rica's first non-tox shop
