Detoxify: The Storied Wellness Approach, Part 3

Returning to homeostasis as the body was intended to function requires intentional nourishment and optimal digestion, but in modern day America, if your wellness routine doesn’t also include purposeful detoxification, you will be spinning your wheels.

It is believed that most people are dealing with a toxic burden at some level—it’s just a matter of how much that toxic burden is contributing to somebody’s current symptoms or disease state.

It’s 2024. Toxins are everywhere. We were exposed to them even in utero, and we’ve been accumulating them ever since. 

Certain chemicals and toxins we can avoid — we can limit pesticides by going organic, or use natural bug sprays and herbicides, or eat fresh foods to weed out hardcore chemicals like glyphosate and BPAs. 

Yet chemicals are also hiding in our beauty products, our household goods, and our water. They’re in foods where we least suspect them. They’re in plastics that make up so much of what we use every day.

In fact, it’s estimated that nearly everyone (like, 98% of the population) in the U.S. has measurable levels of plastic accumulated in their body. 

And when drinking water across the country was tested at random locations, 118 of the 120 sites tested showed levels of polyfluoroalkyl chemicals higher than the recommended maximum, along with lead.

According to some statistics, 10 million new chemicals are produced every year, which translates to 1,000 every hour.

Although not all of these will make it into household use and cause exposure risks, the prevalence of chemicals and related toxicity is a major concern for our health. 

So I will say it again, if your wellness strategy does not include regular, routine, and purposeful detoxification, you’re building up one heck of a toxic terrain.

This makes you super attractive to parasites, who act as sponges for those toxins and who love to harbor dormant pathogens, storing them up for a rainy day. 

This can cause you a ton of grief through unwanted and seemingly unrelated symptoms, and ultimately make it impossible to get over chronic illnesses like Lyme, Epstien-Barr, or mold.

Toxins weaken your immune defenses and make you much more susceptible to disease, whether acute or chronic.

Maybe you’re not new to parasite cleansing. As weird as it may seem, parasites have become a bit of a buzz word in the holistic space over the past couple of years. 

But what if I told you that targeting the TOXINS parasites are attracted to AND killing them at every stage of their life cycle were the keys to your success? 

One course of anti-parasitics or a short-term cleanse won’t be enough to kick these guys. 

Unless you consider all the phases of their life cycle, you’ll never truly be rid of them or the symptoms that they cause.

This is why detoxification is my final pillar here at Storied Wellness Co. 

The cleanest, most wholesome foods alone are not enough to cure you.

Optimizing your digestion, supporting your microbiome, making sure your body is primed to accept all those glorious nutrients from that perfect diet? Great.

We have to consider the role that toxins play in destroying our body environment, or terrain, and work to not only avoid those toxins where we can, but also to support our body’s detoxification and elimination functions as they were designed.

This is exactly what I teach in The Gut Connection Blueprint program, as I believe each of these pillars are crucial for your body to be able to heal itself as it was intelligently designed to do.

I get it, it feels overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be complicated.

My goal is to weave nourishing, digesting, and detoxing your body into the fabric of your life with so much ease that it becomes second nature to you.

If you have no idea where to start, I’d love to invite you into the next launch of my Gut Connection Blueprint program. If the launch feels too far away and you’re wondering how you can get started right away, be sure to check out my FREE Detox Essentials Guide, that walks you through how to begin my 5 favorite wellness practices to support drainage and detoxification. 

Start there, start building that routine, and then be sure to stay tuned for course updates in the coming weeks!