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title: Your Toxic Threshold
date: 2013-04-12T21:05:53Z
modified: 2013-04-12T21:05:53Z
permalink: "https://elizabethyarnell.com/your-toxic-threshold/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 3162
categories:
  - Living Naturally
tags:
  - chemicals. toxic chemicals in cosmetics
  - toxic load
  - toxic threshold
author: Elizabeth
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There are some 80,000 chemical compounds in our world that didn’t exist 200 years ago. ![](http://www.cidpusa.org/toxic_chemicals.jpg "toxic chemicals")

We are exposed to chemicals at every turn: in the air we breathe; the water we drink; the soaps, cosmetics, and personal products we use; the foods we eat; and even the clothes we wear.

Everyone has an individual tolerance threshold for toxicity that– once you cross that unknown boundary with too many toxic exposures and too much toxicity built up– can cascade into a variety of symptoms and system malfunctions.

Although we can’t control much of what we’re exposed to, we can work to decrease our personal toxic load by choosing pure foods and clean, non-toxic products whenever possible.

Knowledge is power.