A new online offering, Heavy: Inescapable Toxins Causing Our Health Epidemics, is a free, 7 part series that begins online February 15, 2024. If you are concerned about the chemicals and heavy metals that surround us in everyday life and work, this series of interviews will be of interest.
We posted previously about toxins as a tragic blind spot in American culture, including in much of mainstream medicine. But things are changing and toxins are becoming recognized for the role they play in illness and chronic disease.
Living Well Locally recognizes that while ‘inescapable’ is currently true of many toxins, we suggest that it does not have to remain humanity’s fate to live in a toxic soup and endure inescapable damage to our health.
A primary goal of LWL’s place-based wellness vision is to create clean environments in the communities where we live. Lifestyle medicine’s ability to identify root causes of illness means that patients (aka consumers and community members) become aware of how toxins are involved in their illness. Through personal consumer choice and community attention to local toxin sources, today’s ‘inescapable’ can become tomorrow’s ‘avoidable’. Perhaps, in the future, even ‘non-existent’??