West Nile Virus is in the news again as disease-carrying mosquitoes are are biting and people are dying. As a result, communities are spraying toxic pesticides and individuals are rushing to buy toxic mosquito repellents.
Here are two tips for protecting yourself and your loved ones.
1. Keep disease-carrying mosquitoes away with a nontoxic mosquito repellant.
2. Protect your body from toxic pesticide exposure with a detox program.
Sweating helps remove toxic pesticides from your body, so go outdoors and sweat instead of sitting in an air conditioned room, or go sweat in a sauna.
Also, chlorophyll will help remove pesticides, so eat lots of fresh greens and take a greens supplement, such as Touchstone Essentials Supergreens + D, a rich blend of barley grass, spinach and broccoli sprouts, with enzymes and probiotics to help your body digest all the goodness plus vegetarian Vitamin D concentrated from mushrooms.
And remember to drink lots of good, purified water.
Links
Centers for Disease Control: West Nile Virus
Debra,
As I am sensitive to essential oils, as are many of my clients with MCS who come to our Hawaii Health Getaway, what do you recommend as a mosquito repellant? I’ve used Vit. B patches, vinegar sprays, grown catnip to squeeze the juice of the leaf on the skin, and even had a friend develop a homeopathic Magik Mosquito Repellant. All work to some extent, but not for everyone. Any fragrance-free suggestions?Thanks,
Becca Chopra, author of Chakra Secrets and The Chakra Diaries
http://www.thechakras.org
COMMENT FROM DEBRA:
The only thing I know of that isn’t essential oil to repel mosquitoes is vinegar, which I use. I’ve ordered some of this new Greenway Formula 7 because I travel and don’t want to bring home bedbugs. Vinegar has been working well for me even here in Florida. Perhaps there are some essential oils that you and your clients can tolerate and not others, and you could use them as single oils rather than a blend, which is usual for repellants.
A really radical approach is to stop eating sugar. My husband eats a lot of pasta, which turns to glucose in the blood. Strangely, bugs prefer his blood and body to mine in every instance. It’s as if I have a magic shield around me; I am protected in some way.
My husband also eats blue corn chips because we believe the blue organic corn is free of GMOs. Because of MCS, I eat no packaged or processed foods at all and everything I eat is organic. Also, I am a vegetarian. I order my vitamins in bulk and fill my own capsules to avoid the fillers commercial brands contain. I take about 6,000 mg. of vitamin C daily — I don’t think the bugs like that either. And I drink pure distilled water that I make myself.
There are many hidden ingredients in processed and non-organic produce. It may sound like I go to extremes, however, I have been very successful at avoiding acid reflux, and terrible debilitating headaches.
Hope this helps someone.