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Considering Bleach | Yoga Highlands
Written By: Chad Garner - Yoga Highlands | Issue: 2020/11 - November
A bit of clearing thinking about our health maintenance routines during this pandemic year can make our lives richer and more robust.
Last March, humanity went into a sterilization frenzy. In the last nine months sanitizing products and bleach have been next to impossible to find.
Where are these cleaners now?
The environmental consequences of the entire globe flushing bleach and cleaning products down the toilet, pouring them down the drain or tossing them into the back yard – all at once – will take time to play out. Eventually, all those cleaning products wind up in our rivulets, streams, rivers and lakes.
Ultimately, the ocean hangs in the balance as it is the final recipient of our chemical use in the perhaps reckless defense of modern “germophobia.”
Besides how to moisturize hands after too much sanitizer, information is sparse on “Body Care for Covid” on the internet.
The body cannot replenish beneficial microbial defenses after excessive exposure to isopropyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol by our hands.
Beneficial viruses live on the skin of healthy people and can be imagined as fire ants that go into defense mode when common viruses and bacteria come into contact with our skin.
So when we attack what is innately in balance, such as the balance of viruses and bacteria that act to keep us healthy, we destabilize the ecosystem of the body called our “microbiome” and make a weak defense against common staph and strep invasions, the flu and coronaviruses.
There is a saying, “As within, so without.”
On the inside as well, in our digestive tract, there’s a likewise concern. Bleached sugar, bleached flour, bleached carbohydrates, and especially chemical synthetic recreational drugs – whether eaten or taken this year or in the past 30 years – leave weakened defense layers of beneficial bacteria in the colon. This weakening can cause inner-colonic fermentation leading to irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Colitis and surprisingly ADD and ADHD.
These common imbalances can be mitigated with specific daily practices that serve to strengthen gut health and core immunity.
The journey to health is rich with discovery.
We empower our clients to restore this balance through mindset, a nutrient dense diet, and traditional medicine that inextricably links a sustainable body to sustainable land.
