Question from PT – Pittsburgh
I was wondering if you could share any thoughts on how to travel/vacation with the least amount of toxins. I struggle every time we go on vacation with things like water. At home we have a whole house water filter but what do you do when on vacation? Is it better to buy bottled water rather than drink the local water (in the U.S.) from the tap? How about using the water pitcher filters even though they don’t filter out a whole lot of contaminants? Is it worth it to take a shower filter? I try to keep thing in perspective that this is only a week away from our normal toxic free living but always worry since my 6 y/o son had leukemia.
Debra’s Answer
I think the answer to this question really depends on how much exposure the body in question can tolerate.
For myself personally, my body is healthy enough that I can travel without taking precautions for several weeks and still be fine. It takes a lot of exposure now for me to have symptoms, since I have reduced my body burden so much, so for a short trip, I just eat and drink and sleep and shower with whatever.
That said, I DO do things like choose less toxic lodging when it’s available, seek out organic food, often drink bottled water, and bring my own soap and shampoo. Once we went on a 3-day trip and packed many glass bottles of home-filtered water. We we VERY happy to have it, along with our homemade organic food we also packed, but what we missed was the enjoyment of being in a new place, eating local foods and having a different experience. Bodies are resilient. I’ve found I can take a few days or a week away from my toxic-free life and my body is fine as long as I go back to toxic-free basics when I come home. But you need to determine for yourself if you body is able to do that.
When I was really sick with MCS however, I took a lot more precautions while traveling, as you might want to with your son.
And I also take PureBody Liquid Zeolite and all my Touchstone Essentials supplements. The PureBody zeolite removes up to 99% of all of the various types of toxic chemicals for 4-6 hours, as soon as they enter your body, so it’s a great thing to take on a trip. Just keep taking it every 4-6 hours and it will remove chemicals almost as fast as they come in.
