Living Clean to Thrive

What is Clean?

Clean is the way nature intended, unadulterated and full of love. Clean is without the use of potentially harmful additives, ingredients, byproducts or pollutants.

Clean is not going to cause you any discomfort.

Clean is going to nourish and support a whole being.

To me, adopting this lifestyle is being aware of the choices I have and choosing to avoid the things in my life that do not serve my greatest good from my day to day consumptions. Cuz for real, the average person ingests over 550 ingredients on average a day! I hope most of those are pure, safe and beneficial to you.

Its avoiding foods containing:

  • pesticides, herbicides & synthetic fertilizers

  • GMO ingredients

  • artificial colors, sweeteners, flavors, fragrances, any artificial ingredient (if it was created in a lab, that’s not good).

  • refined sugars and grains

  • foods that promote a potential inflammatory response.

  • Foods have have been overly processed and refined,

  • hydrogenated vegetable oils (PUFA’s), Trans Fats, HFCS

  • dairy products from cows that have been commodity fed vs. (what nature intended Grass)

  • soy products (except organic & fermented varieties tho even then some people can be reactive).

  • night-shades vegetables containing Lectins

So, simply put, it’s choosing whole, real, love filled food ingredients from;

  • organic produce

  • pasture raised poultry

  • grass fed livestock

  • wild fish & shellfish

  • organic, nonGMO unrefined & Gluten free grains

  • Botanicals

 

So much more than just what we eat, you also have to look at personal care & cleaning products because anything your skin comes in contact with is absorbed within 26 seconds. You could search the ew.org site to see amore complete list but these are the biggest offenders;

Avoiding personal care products that contain:

  • Parabens

  • Phthalates

  • Preservatives

  • Fragrance

  • Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) or Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)

  • BHA AND BHT

  • Lead

  • Triclosan

  • Asbesto

  • Formaldehyde.

From cleaning products (to name a few); https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/

  • Perchloroethylene (PERC)

  • Formaldehyde

  • 2-Butoxyethanol

  • Ammonia

  • Sodium Hydroxide

  • Chlorine