Toxin Sources

Everyday Toxins
Common Sources of Indoor Pollutants
Your Workplace

Below is a list of very basic toxins we could come into contact with each day.
Everything on the list is common, and accepted by our society.
Each one contains substances poisonous to us.
How these affect our bodies varies from person to person, showing up with different symptoms

EVERYDAY TOXINS - A VERY SHORT, BROAD LIST :

By Mouth

Packaged foods - additives, MSG
Fast foods - additives
Diet sodas - aspartame
Refined sugar and refined salt
Coffee - caffeine
Black tea - caffeine
Chocolate - caffeine
Alcohol
Prescription Drugs, antibiotics etc
Over the Counter drugs and medications
Fruit and vegetables - insecticide residue
Water - fluoride
Meat - hormones, insecticide residue
Fish - insecticides
Amalgam dental fillings - mercury
Plastic containers used to heat food
Aluminium saucepans
Teflon cookingware
Mother's milk

Through the Skin

Insect repellant
Cleaning products
Cosmetics and beauty products
Ointments
Chlorine - swimming pools
X-rays, mammograms
Vaccinations
Flame retardants on fabrics
Shampoos
Microwave radiation
Clothing

Through the Nose

Flyspray
Cleaning products
Bleach
Carbon monoxide from cars
Air pollution
Fumes, including exhaled smoke from cigarettes
New Book and Magazines - inks, glues etc

Internally

Stress - produces toxins

Even if you manage to avoid all the above, sorry, toxins abound in our houses also.

COMMON SOURCES OF INDOOR POLLUTANTS

MOLDS

Bathrooms
In and under carpet and rugs
In and on furniture against outside walls
Inside wall cavities where there is dampness or condensation
Closets and Cupboards
Around plumbing leaks
Near wall and roof leaks

FORMALDEHYDE

Furniture, cupboards, cabinets made from composite wood products
Upholstery
Carpeting
Composite wood products - particle board, fibreboard and plywood
Insulation
Paints and finishes
Glues, cleaners, waxes and other household cleaning products

PESTICIDES

Weed killer
Insecticides - mosquito, flea, cockroach, pet products, mites, termite control
Fungicides - paints, plastics, wood preservatives, grout treatment, carpet treatment

VINYL CHLORIDE

Municipal drinking water
PVC pipes
Vinyl flooring
Adhesives
Swimming pools
Upholstery
Wall coverings
Bench and counter tops

COMBUSTION GASES

Wood burning fireplaces
Kitchen ranges
Clothes dryers
Space heaters
Wall heaters
Kerosene heaters
Central heating systems

DUST

Carpets
Upholstery
Fireplaces
Heating ducts

ASBESTOS

In older homes :

Ceilings
Textured paints
Pipe insulation
Wall and ceiling insulation
Patching compounds
Vinyl flooring

LEAD

In older homes : Paint, Plumbing
In modern homes : solder used to join water pipes
Miscellaneous household objects - lead crystal, ceramic pottery, some hobby materials

YOUR WORKPLACE

Many of the above toxins already listed may also exist in your workplace. Depends on where you work. Plus it may have others peculiar to your industry.

CONCLUSION
We are surrounded by toxins - chemicals and poisonous substances, quite apart from what we choose to eat, drink and put on our skin. So no matter how healthy a lifestyle you have, there is no getting away from all the toxins in our environment. All of them are entering our system, and affecting us in some way. See Symptoms of Toxicity, Living With Toxins, and the Solution to Toxicity.