I recently completed a continuing education toxin training that really changed how I see a LOT of what's happening with my clients.

We went deep into lab interpretation, detox protocol sequencing, and how to navigate complex cases… and I came out of it feeling SO much more prepared to actually help people who have tried it all.

For some clients, "eat more protein and drink more water" can work wonders - but for most people who come to me, we need to dig SO much deeper.

How do you know if toxins are an issue?

Here's the thing about toxins that most people don't realize…

Your body is dealing with them CONSTANTLY. This includes pesticides on your food, heavy metals in your water and cookware, mold in buildings you've lived or worked in, VOCs off-gassing from your furniture and cleaning products… It's A LOT.

And when your detox pathways can't keep up, the burden accumulates and starts to cause issues.

Here are some ways toxins can show up as symptoms:

• Hormonal imbalances - many toxins are endocrine disruptors that mimic or block estrogen, disrupt progesterone, and mess up your cycle.
• Stubborn acne - your skin is an elimination organ. When your liver and gut are overwhelmed, toxins push out through the skin.
• Bloating, constipation, sluggish digestion - your gut lining is affected by heavy metals, pesticides, and mold. Toxins cause motility to slow and increases inflammation.
• Infertility and hormone-related struggles - mold toxins in particular are notorious for disrupting the HPA axis and reproductive hormones.

If you've been doing "all the right things" and still not getting results... toxin burden is worth looking at!

Sam’s Total Tox Results

So. Let's talk about my hubby Sam.

I was DYING to run the Total Tox on myself - it tests mycotoxins (mold), heavy metals, and a full panel of environmental chemicals all via urine. But being pregnant and planning to breastfeed, it didn't make sense to start digging up toxins when I can't do anything about them anytime soon.

Instead, I ran it on my husband.

I figured if Sam had mold in his results, that would be a big clue that we have a mold issue in our home. And I wanted to see how we were actually doing with our everyday environmental exposures - pesticides, heavy metals, chemicals, etc.

We got his results back. I even hopped on a call with the lab to make sure I was interpreting everything correctly…

And they called him a unicorn. Ha! They rarely see so few toxins pop up.

His detox pathways are likely functioning really well, we’re doing a really good job avoiding daily toxins, so his overall toxin burden came back super low.

Here's what his results looked like:

What do typical results look like?

Next week, I'm going to talk about the main things we do in our home and daily life to keep results looking like his.

For comparison - check out the contrast below. These are the types of results I've been seeing with clients lately, who are not doing all the the things we focus on in our home (and of course, that’s what I work on implementing with my clients!).

Think a mold-infested, toxin-overloaded Christmas tree:

CLIENT EXAMPLE 1

CLIENT EXAMPLE 2

More on how to avoid toxins in your life next week :)

In health,

-Daina

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