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Toxins > Toxin Sources
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 M outh
- 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.
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