Lifestyle Design

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Use Dirty Electricity Filters In All the Main Rooms of the House:

Shielded Healing, Greenwave, and Stetzer filters. Shielded Healing makes a model called the Power Perfect Box. Shielded Healing also has a dirty-electricity filter that can be installed in just one outlet in each room of the house (whereas you need multiple Greenwave or Stetzer filters in each room); they also have a solar power panel dirty-electricity-filtering option that limits the amount of electrical pollution during DC to AC conversion.

Consider Purchasing a Negative Ion Generator:

A negative ion generator releases negative ions. These charged particles are abundant in nature, from the beach to the mountains to the forest. HEPA air filters often come with a built-in negative ion generator. Himalayan rock salt lamps also naturally produce high amounts of negative ions.

Limit Electrical Pollution In Your Workspace:

In addition to installing dirty-electricity filters and plugging a negative ion generator into the wall outlet, some of these simple steps include buying a grounding cable for any laptops that don’t have a three-prong charging cable, hardwiring your computer into the router or wall via an ethernet cable, and placing a Schumann resonance generator or any other 7.8 Hz frequency generator, such as a PEMF device, in or near your working space.

When You’re Not Using Your Wireless Router, Unplug It Or Switch It Off Wireless Mode:

You can purchase a digital wall timer that will automatically turn off your WiFi. In addition, place your router as far away from living spaces as you can. If you are building a home, you can  hardwire the entire home with metal-shielded Cat 6 ethernet cable so no WiFi is necessary.

Limit Artificial Light Radiation, Flickering, and EMF From Lighting:

Instead of Bluetooth, use a wired headset or an air tube headset for your phone, which allows sound to travel through tubes rather than wires, so you are not exposed to any radiation from wires. When you have to talk on your phone, use the speaker setting. 

Maintain Some Distance Between You and Your Electronic Signals:

Keep your cell phone or laptop several inches away from your skin whenever possible, and put your cell phone on airplane mode if you need to put it in your pocket or near your head while sleeping or exercising. If you keep your cell phone in your pocket, consider purchasing a DefenderShield case or an inexpensive Faraday pouch to put it in. If you need to place an electronic device such as a laptop in your lap, use an EMF-blocking pad such as a DefenderShield pad or Harapad to protect your crotch.

Avoid Using Your Cellphone When the Signal is Weak:

A weak signal amplifies EMF. You can also turn off the Enable LTE or 4G option on the Settings/Cellular page on your iPhone. This reduces radiation by 84 percent.

Sleep in a Faraday Cage Or Blanket:

If you’re absolutely surrounded by WiFi signals, you can purchase a Faraday cage or Faraday sleeping blanket so that you are protected. LessEMF.com sells these and many different forms of shielding fabrics and clothing.

Travel with EMF Protection:

For travel or the office, consider purchasing a personal protection device called the Blushield. It’s based on the idea that cells use biophotons (light) to communicate with the internal environment of the human body as well as with the external environment. Mitochondria have evolved to sense and adapt to changes in the external environment (temperature, light, and so on). A crystal photonic scalar signal is built into a Blushield, which produces an efficient and clean way to signal these frequencies around the body for long-term protection, specifically by affecting the subatomic space between atoms. The Blushield microprocessor generates multiple waveforms similar to what you would find in the millions of frequencies you experience in nature, rather than the repetitive frequency you find in EMF-generating devices such as cell phones or WiFi devices. The company that makes Blushield has shown that blood cells become less “sticky” in response to EMF exposure when using the device, likely because it limits damage to calcium channels, which results in less clumping of cells and has a positive effect on cell membrane strength.

11 Ways to Biohack Light to Optimize Your Body and Brain:

1. Choose Your Lighting Carefully:

• When purchasing an LED, look for an R9 (full red spectrum) with a CRI of close to 97, which is the highest you are likely to find and gets you as close as possible to natural light.
• The best option seems to be limited use of biological LED along with either low-temperature incandescent bulbs or blue-hazard free candlelight OLED lighting.
• The company Lighting Science produces a line of biological bulbs that give off light meant to complement the circadian rhythm, not disrupt it. The light that emanates from Lighting Science’s Sleepy Baby bulb, for example, does not interfere with melatonin production and is designed to be as close to candlelight as possible.
• For the ultimate solution, switch to the clear incandescent bulbs or a candlelight-style organic light-emitting diode (OLED), which is a human-friendly type of lighting because it is blue-hazard-free and has a low correlated color temperature illumination.

2. Get Morning Sun:

• The more sun you get in the morning, the more melatonin you make at night. A fasted morning walk in the sunshine is one of the best ways to optimize your overall health, and the full spectrum of UVA. UVB, near-infrared, and far-infrared rays from sunlight can also mitigate some of the damage done by artificial light the rest of the day. You can also purchase a UVB-generator light, such as the SolRx 1000-Series full-body light panel.
• Chris Masterjohn shows that if you are deficient in the fat-soluble vitamins A and D, your photoreceptors become less sensitive and the strategy of getting adequate sunlight becomes less effective—so be sure to implement everything that enables sunlight to charge your internal battery, including a diet rich in healthy fats and minerals, clean, pure water, and frequent skin contact with the earth.

3. Get Blue-Light Blockers:

• If you want to specifically block the most harmful wavelengths of light, make sure the glasses block the spectrum of 400 to 485 nm.

4. Avoid Artificial Light Not Only At Night But In the Morning Too:

• You’ll often hear that you should be careful with isolated and concentrated sources of blue light at night, but this rule applies in the morning too. Especially until you’ve gotten out into the sunlight, you should avoid artificial light as much as possible in the morning, particularly by limiting harsh, concentrated sources of blue light such as artificial home and office lighting or bright screens, and instead open curtains to allow as much natural light into your home and office as possible.

5. Use Red Light In the Evening:

• For the bedroom, consider red incandescent bulbs. Candles are also an excellent option for both the bedroom and the dinner table, although you must choose fragrance-free candles because many scented candles are riddled with paraffin, soy, toxic dyes, and of course artificial fragrances.

6. Install Iris Software On All Monitors:

• Iris controls the brightness of the monitor with the help of your computer’s video card, allows you to have adequate brightness without monitor flicker, reduces the color temperature of your monitor, optimizes screen pulsations to reduce eye strain, adjusts the brightness of your screen according to the light around you, and even automatically adjusts your computer monitor’s settings based on the sun’s position wherever you happen to be in the world.

7. Use An Antiglare Computer Monitor:

• Ben uses an Eizo FlexScan EV series, which regulates brightness and makes flicker unperceivable, without any drawbacks such as compromised color stability. It allows you to lower the typical factory preset color temperature setting of 6,500 K down to the more natural 2,700 K, and it also has a Paper Mode feature, which produces long reddish wavelengths and reduces the amount of blue light from the monitor. The Eizo monitors also have antiglare screens, which reduce eye fatigue by dissipating reflective light that otherwise makes the screen difficult to see.

8. Use Light-Blocking Tape Or Stickers

9. Use a Drifttv For Your TV:

• A driftTV is a small box that you plug into your TV. It removes a percentage of blue light from the content you watch and allows you to view the TV screen at night with far less artificial-light exposure.

10. Don’t Overuse Sunglasses:

• Sunlight stimulates your pituitary glands via the optic nerve to produce a hormone that triggers the melanocytes in your skin to produce more melanin, which allows you to tan and offers some protection from excess UV radiation. When you wear sunglasses, less sunlight reaches the optic nerve, and thus less protective melanin is made and the higher your risk of a carcinogenic and uncomfortable sunburn.

11. Use Photobiomodulation Daily:

• Photobiomodulation therapy involves using light of all wavelengths, including visible light, ultraviolet light, and near-, mid-, and far-infrared wavelengths to combat the effects of artificial light and to also elicit health benefits for the entire body.
• Blue light therapy has been shown to be good at relieving joint pain, although it can be harsh on the eyes and the circadian rhythm if you overdo it.
• Red light has a host of research proving its efficacy for relieving inflammation, balancing blood sugar, reducing body fat, improving macular degeneration, assisting with melatonin production, increasing blood flow to the brain, building stem cells in bone marrow, and enhancing kidney and thyroid function.
• One of the most commonly used wavelengths of light in photobiomodulation is near-infrared, which begins at about 750 nm and goes all the way into 1,200 nm. In the lower range, near-infrared penetrates beneath the skin, and at the high range it penetrates deep into the body, resulting in a significant release of nitric oxide and stimulation of mitochondrial pathways that assist with ATP production. Far-infrared is another spectrum frequently used in photobiomodulation, especially in the form of heat lamps or infrared saunas.
• Most photobiomodulation devices use a power density between 10 and 20 mW/cm2. That is the equivalent light dose of 1 joule per 100 seconds, and since approximately 10 joules is considered to be a therapeutic dose of light, you really don’t need to use photobiomodulation for much more than twenty minutes per day (depending on the power of the device you use and your distance from the device). In addition, all light emits a frequency, and it appears that the ideal frequency is 10 to 40 Hz, with higher frequencies potentially causing a negative biological effect.

Protecting Yourself from Air Pollution and Toxins

1. Breathe through your nose whenever possible:

• The air we breathe is first processed through the nose, which is lined with tiny hairs called cilia that filter, humidify, and warm or cool the air before it enters the lungs. It is estimated that these cilia protect us from over twenty billion particles of foreign matter every day.
• Breathing in and out through the nose helps you to take fuller, deeper breaths, which stimulates the lower lungs to distribute greater amounts of oxygen throughout the body. The lower lungs are rich with the PNS receptors associated with calming the body and mind, whereas the upper lungs, which are used in chest and mouth breathing, are associated with hyperventilation and trigger sympathetic nerve receptors, which are involved in fight-or-flight reactions.
• The lungs extract oxygen from the air during both exhalation and inhalation, and because the nostrils are smaller than the mouth, air exhaled through the nose creates a backflow of oxygenated air into the lungs. Plus, because we tend to exhale more slowly through the nose than we do through the mouth, the lungs have more time to extract oxygen from the air we’ve already taken in.
• Proper nose breathing also reduces hypertension and stress and keeps you from overexerting yourself during a workout. Finally, your sinuses produce nitric oxide, which, when carried into the body through the breath, can open blood vessels and combat harmful bacteria and viruses.

2. Bring the outdoors inside:

• Opening windows and doors to circulate air regularly is key.

3. Get plants:

• Peace lilies, Boston ferns, English ivy, areca palms, and other easy-to-grow indoor plants can absorb toxic chemicals through their leaves, roots, and even the soil that they rest in, removing many of the compounds that may be lurking in our environment, including benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene. Of course, added benefits of plants are that they help us de-stress and emit beneficial aromatic polyphenols, similar to an essential oil diffuser

4. Install a HEPA air filter in your home:

• A good HEPA (high-efficiency particulate arrestance) filter removes not just particles but also volatile organic chemicals and gases.

5. Use essential oil diffusers:

• Saturate the air throughout your house with strategically placed essential oil diffusers, which can release a variety of different scents and help purify the air due to the antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial properties of many essential oils, most notably lemon, thieves, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, and lavender.

6. Use natural household cleaners:

• Tide laundry detergent has high levels of 1,4-Dioxane, a carcinogenic contaminant. (In people who are sensitive to molds and mycotoxins, Tide is a major trigger for chemical sensitivity reactions.)
• Most fabric softeners contain synthetic fragrances that can cause respiratory irritation, headaches, and autoimmune reactions.
• All-purpose cleaners contain the sudsing agents diethanolamine (DEA) and triethanolamine (TEA). When these substances come into contact with nitrites in the environment or your body and mouth, they react to form nitrosamines carcinogens.
• Lemons, baking soda, and white vinegar. These three ingredients form the basis of our household cleaning solutions, from disinfectants to window cleaners. Occasionally throw in essential oils such as tea tree, oregano, thieves (a blend of cloves, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus, and rosemary.

7. Choose the right furnishings:

• Your new carpet or cabinet could be slowly poisoning you with chemicals such as benzene, ethylene glycol, or formaldehyde via a process called off-gassing.
• Look for an indoor-air-quality low-emission certification, such as one from Greenguard or SCS Global Services. In addition, look for non-VOC paint, and as an alternative to vinyl flooring, consider natural linoleum.

8. Be highly cognizant of mold and mycotoxins:

• Among a variety of other health issues, they can cause mitochondrial dysfunction, asthma and other breathing issues, cancer, cardiovascular disease, altered kidney and liver function, disrupted sleep, stunted muscle recovery, miscarriage, and a bad case of fuzzy brain. There are a host of mycotoxins and molds in foods that are commonly perceived to be healthy, and the website SurvivingMold.com is a fantastic tool for discovering whether a food you frequently eat may be tainted with dead organic matter that is deleteriously affecting your health and performance.
• Reconsider the blue cheese at the salad bar and other potentially moldy foods, including sour cream, buttermilk, and sour milk; cured, pickled, and smoked meats and fish; prepackaged meats, like lunch meats, salami, smoked fish, and some sardines; commercial, store-bought pickles, olives, capers, salad dressing, or ketchup; vinegar and soy sauce; and the average hotel room coffee.
• By getting a test such as an ERMI (environmental relative moldiness index) from a licensed contractor, you may find that your house has toxic mold that produces bacteria that can often be more deadly than what you find in food. When an area of moisture forms in your house, within 24-48 hours mold can form and multiply on just about any part of your home that mold considers a food source, including dust, wood, paint, paper, cotton, oil, and modern building materials like drywall.
• To avoid mold formation and exposure:
  • Keep house dust to a minimum. Mop all floors and dust all surfaces at least once a week. HEPA-filter vacuums capture the widest range of particles and potential allergens.
  • Use a dehumidifier in mold-prone rooms.
  • Use an oscillating fan in the bathroom after showering and fix any leaks as soon as possible.
  • Regularly clean surfaces where mold usually grows, around showers and tubs and beneath sinks.
  • Be conscious of toxins in carpeting, especially in products made from synthetic materials. Buy natural-fiber wool and cotton rugs. If you really want to take things to the next level, replace your wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors, all-natural linoleum, or ceramic tiles, and use nontoxic glues, adhesives, stains, or sealers for installation.
  • Seal or replace particle board walls, floors, and cabinets, which often contain formaldehyde, which emits unhealthy fumes. Avoid any synthetic, strong-smelling plywood, fiberglass, fiberboard, and paneling.
  • Consider adding a WaterCop to your house around every drain, sink, and bathtub. This device will shut the water off to the house at the first sign of a leak. Most models are wireless, but there are wired options too.
• If you suddenly begin to experience allergy-like symptoms such as asthma, congestion, frequent sickness, headaches, joint pain, or brain fog, and you’ve recently moved into a new house or apartment or haven’t changed anything in your diet, you should suspect mold.

How to get started getting outdoors:

1. Commute with your body

2. Find a park

3. Use nature as a gym:

• Make a sandbag
• Get a tire
• Hunt down a tree, climb and do pull ups
• Find a rock and pick it up
• Push a vehicle
• Buy a rope and drag items with it
• Plant a garden

4. Hike

5. Find water:

• Kayak
• Canoe
• Swim

1. Know when to exercise:

• Sunlight and heat essentially charge up the air along with all the chemical compounds that are present in the atmosphere. This concoction then combines with the nitrogen oxide in the air to create smog, which is a harmful combination of smoke, soot, and chemical fumes. So it’s a good idea to schedule your workouts for the cooler mornings or early evenings.

2. Avoid working out along roads

3. Educate yourself about your community’s air pollution levels

4. Don a mask

5. Take antioxidants regularly:

• Boost your intake of cherries, pomegranates, and blueberries, as well as dark green vegetables like kale, bok choy, Swiss chard, and purple cabbage; bitter herbs and spices such as rosemary, turmeric, and curry powder; and foods high in sulfur such as garlic, onions, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Cleaning Products:

• Baking soda cleans and deodorizes
• White vinegar cuts grease and removes mildew, odors, some stains, and wax buildup
• Lemon is a natural acid that is effective against household bacteria
• Rubbing alcohol is good for cleaning floors, especially tile
• Washing soda is a sodium carbonate decahydrate, a natural mineral. It cuts grease, removes stains, softens water, and cleans walls, tile, sinks, and tubs
• Cornstarch can be used to clean windows, polish furniture, and clean carpets and rugs
• Borax is sodium borate. It cleans, deodorizes, disinfects, softens water, and cleans wallpaper, painted floors, and walls. It is good for killing mold
• Oregano, thieves, and lemon (essential oils) to kill bacteria
• Unscented natural soap (goat’s milk, castile, and coconut oil)
• All-purpose cleaner: 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/4 cup baking soda, 1/2 gallon of water.
• Toilet bowl cleaner: 1/4 cup baking soda, 1 cup of vinegar. Pour into the toilet bowl and let it sit for a few minutes. Scrub with a brush and rinse. 2 parts borax and one part lemon juice also works.
• Mold remover: 1 part hydrogen peroxide (3%) with 2 parts water in a spray bottle. Spray and wait an hour before rinsing.
• Ove cleaner: 3/4 cup baking soda, 1/4 cup salt, and 1/4 cup water to make a thick paste, and spread throughout the oven. Let sit overnight, remove with a spatula, and wipe clean.
• Dishwashing soap: Any nontoxic liquid soap. Add 2-3 tbsp. of vinegar to warm soapy water if a tough job.
• Stain remover: 1:1 water and hydrogen peroxide (3%).
• Floor cleaner and polish: For vinyl and linoleum, mix 1 cup vinegar and a few drops of olive oil in 1 gallon of warm water. For wood, use a solution of ¼ cup vinegar and ½ gallon of warm water. For polishing wood, apply a thin coat of equal parts vegetable oil and vinegar and rub in well.
• Window cleaner: Mix 2 teaspoons of white vinegar with 1 quart of warm water. Spray it on windows and glass and wipe it off with crumpled black-and-white newspaper or a cotton cloth. Alternatively, you can buy Citra Clean natural window and glass cleaner.
• Disinfectant: Mix 2 teaspoons borax, ¼ cup vinegar, and 3 cups hot water.
• Dishwasher soap: Mix equal parts washing soda, baking soda, and salt.
• Laundry detergent: Grate one 5-ounce bar of castile soap and mix it with 2 cups of washing soda. You can also try Eco Nuts, an effective laundry detergent made from the dried fruit of the soapberry tree.
• Carpet cleaner: Mix equal parts white vinegar and water in a spray bottle. Spray directly on the stain, let it sit for several minutes, and then clean with a brush or sponge using warm soapy water. For fresh grease spots on the carpet, you can sprinkle cornstarch onto the stain and then wait 15 to 30 minutes before vacuuming. For a heavy-duty carpet cleaner, mix ¼ cup each of salt, borax, and vinegar, rub the paste into the carpet, and leave it for a few hours before vacuuming.

Best Practices for Pure Water

1. Filter your water:

• When it comes to filtering your water, the gold-standard method is to install a whole-house reverse osmosis (RO) system. RO removes chlorine, inorganic and organic contaminants, about 80 percent of fluoride, and most water disinfectant by-products.
• Unfortunately, when you use a reverse osmosis system, the good minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium are filtered out along with the bad minerals like fluoride. In addition to depleting your body of precious electrolytes, demineralized water is also more acidic. So to make your water healthy with good minerals once again, and to increase its alkalinity, you can remineralizeit with trace liquid mineral drops, use sea salt liberally, make Hunza water (structured water rich in hydrogen and minerals that also has a naturally high pH), or take a daily shot of a trace liquid minerals supplement.

2. Use filters on all faucets:

• KDF showerhead and faucet or Fixt showerhead filter in your bathroom.

3. Use glass instead of plastic bottles

4. Find a local natural spring:

• Visit FindASpring.com to browse through a user-created database of natural springs around the world.

5. Make sure you get the right minerals and vitamins:

• Sulfate, cholesterols, and minerals are incredibly important for adequate water absorption. Get sufficient amounts of cobalamin (vitamin B12), glutathione, iron (preferably from grass-fed animal sources), sulfur (from cauliflower, broccoli, garlic, onions, and liver), zinc (shellfish and black ant extract are quite good sources), fresh air, grounding or earthing, and sunlight. Avoid exposure to glyphosate and heavy metals.

6. Manage chlorine exposure:

• To mitigate the damages of chlorine, especially on days that you’re in a chlorinated pool or hot tub, fight the oxidation by getting the following into your body:
  • 2 to 5 g of vitamin C
  • 2,000 to 4,000 IU of vitamin D
  • 10 to 20 IU of a natural source of vitamin E that includes tocotrienols and mixed tocopherols, mixed with omega-3 fatty acids
  • Lots of wild plants, herbs, and spices

Speed your body’s ability to repair damaged tissues and organs, and equip yourself with high amounts of the proper nutrients to counteract the effects of ionizing, oxidizing radiation, including these:

• Oral magnesium in supplemental form (around 400 to 600 mg per day, or until you get loose stool). Magnesium offers strong protective effects against small daily doses of radiation.
• Algae, which can naturally protect against radiation. In addition to organic chlorella and spirulina tablets, which you can eat, swallow, or sprinkle into smoothies, you can liberally include sea vegetables in your diet.
• A full spectrum of antioxidants from a diet rich in wild plants, herbs, and spices
• Additional antioxidants from a supplement that contains high-quality omega-3, vitamin D/K, and vitamin A.

If acute radiation exposure occurs or you’re frequently traveling to irradiated areas, also include:

• 6 mg of nascent iodine per day in a glass of water
• One or two servings of edible clay each day. Clay can draw out stored radioactive compounds from your body, and, yes, it literally tastes like eating dirt.
• Dr. Mark Sircus’s book Nuclear Toxicity Syndrome.

Boosting Your Child’s Immune System:

1. Let your child touch and taste things
2. Don’t be a bottle boiler
3. Avoid antibacterial soaps
4. Avoid antibiotics
5. Visit farms and have pets
6. Increase your kids’ time with other kids
7. Eat a variety of cultured foods
8. Encourage your kids to play outside
9. Don’t make your kids bathe or shower every day
10. Don’t do excessive loads of laundry