Clean living
We are drowning in toxins that we’ve created ourselves. We consume heavy metals present in the soil – whether organic or not – with vegetables and fruits we eat, we breath VOC fumes released by our mattresses, we pass on lead to our unborn babies when taking prenatal vitamins highly recommended by our obstetrician, we inject ourselves with mercury that comes with the flu vaccine, our children suck on toys filled with phthalates and glued together with formaldehyde. Have you ever asked yourself why cancer rates have been soaring unprecedentedly? Why babies are born with leukemia? Why autism has skyrocketed? Why gluten-intolerance? Why all the allergies? It's hard to imagine that out lifestyle has nothing to do with it. Overwhelmed? That’s been my reaction too. The good news is that there a small non-toxicsteps we all can take towards clean-living and substantially improve our wellbeing!
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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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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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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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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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Why toxins make us sick?
Toxins cause disease. That’s why it’s so important to both avoid and remove/reduce your toxic load. Looping back to my previous post, our state of health is reflection of the environment we live in. Air, water, food, products we use, radiation and stress are some our…
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Less is more
Non-toxic living in not only about buying clean products. Reducing ways in which we come into contact with harmful chemicals is equally important. Buying fewer products is therefore part of a clean living journey. Instead of trying to memorize trillion-letter-long hazardous chemicals that are part…
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The visible impacts of invisible EMF radiation
If you are using a cell-phone and especially a smart-phone, it means you are exposed to electromagnetic (EMF) radiation. EMF has been found to be associated with a row of serious adverse health impacts, and existing regulations may not be adequate to protect you. While…
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Choose shoes that don’t leave toxic footprints
Shoes that we wear every day can be highly toxic and therefore have a big impact on our health. Shoe production also greatly affects factory workers and the environment as they are heavily treated with various toxic chemicals. So before you walk in another man’s…
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The toxic blues
There’s good and bad news when it comes to the beloved denim: BAD: A regular pair of jeans is a brew of toxic chemicals that poisons the consumers, the environment and the garment workers GOOD: You can get a pair of killer jeans without killing the…
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Are we fighting a virus or our extinction?
We are not fighting a virus. We are fighting our extinction. Here of the panic. You say put on a mask? It contains polypropylene polyester fibers. So what you breath in is plastic particles. You say use hand-sanitizer religiously? Antibacterial agent triclosan you rub in has…
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Camelbak water bottles may not be safe for use
Back in the pre-corona days when nurseries were still open, I could not help but notice that 90% of the kids in my son’s class used plastic Camelbak water bottles. That’s when I knew I had to do some research about them. My conclusion is…
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This is your recipe for longevity
What can you do to improve your longevity? A lot! Research has shown that only 20% of how long an average person lives is influenced by genes. The rest depends on our lifestyle and environment. In other words, our choices define how long we live. …
