TRILOGY HEALTH Bodywork & Healing Arts

Here are a dozen ways to detoxify your personal environment, or terrain. A personal environment includes anything that touches you, inside or out, and affects your mind, body, and spirit or emotions. These are ways that you can take control of your personal space, cut down on toxins, and lower your risk for breast cancer.

1.Eat a balanced diet that emphasizes plant-based foods and minimizes animal products as well as refined sugars.

2.Boost your immune system by walking or exercising about 30 minutes a day.

3.Avoid air pollution, such as tobacco smoke and industrial fumes, whenever you can.

4.Walk or sit in the sun for at least 20 minutes a day, for a dose of vitamin D.

5.Clean your indoor environment of toxins, using natural cleaners. It's easy to make natural cleaners yourself.

6.Air out any dry-cleaned clothing or fabrics before using them to minimize contact with PCE (Perchloroethylene) and TCE (Trichloroethylene).

7.Use natural insecticides and organic fertilizers, rather than chemicals in your garden.

8.Drink water -- at least 6 to 8 glasses (48 to 64 ounces) each day. Try making your own Homemade Flavored Water.

9.Cook foods in glass, ceramic, iron, or steel containers instead of plastic made with PVC (polyvinyl chloride).

10.Choose skin care products that contain no estrogens, placental components, phthalates, or parabens.

11.Resolve emotional issues, lower your stress levels, and surround yourself with positive, supportive people to make your body a stronger, less hospitable field in which cancer may grow.

12.Set aside regular time to relax, write in a journal, meditate, or pray –- away from all of your electronic devices. Reconnect with your true self and clear your mind and spirit.