🎥 MATT’S BLUE ZONE VLOG

Join Matt as we chat with another 90-something Blue Zone resident who inspires us to embrace simplicity for a purer, healthier life.

👁 TODAY’S INTENTION

Today, let’s purify our immediate environment from harmful toxins for a healthier life.

Our environment can be a hidden source of toxins affecting our health. From the air we breathe to the products we use daily, these invisible threats can accumulate over time. By making conscious choices and small changes, we can cleanse our surroundings and bodies, allowing our natural vitality to shine through. Let’s start by identifying and removing the harmful elements around us, embracing a purer, healthier way of living.

Ready to cleanse your life?

🌎 BLUE ZONE INSPIRATION

One key commonality of longest living people in the Blue Zones, is their clean environments. They prioritize natural living, avoiding harmful chemicals and pollutants. This practice of environmental purity plays a significant role in their overall well-being and longevity, showing us the importance of a toxin-free environment.

💬 QUOTE

“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”

– Geeta Iyengar, a renowned yoga teacher known for her profound contributions to the practice of Iyengar Yoga, emphasizing the importance of purity in body and mind.

🧬 SCIENCE

A well-established body of scientific research indicates that endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are part of our daily lives are making us more susceptible to reproductive disorders, cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and other serious health conditions,

Research indicates that even low levels of exposure can have compounded effects on our health.

🧘 HEALTHY HABIT

Today, eliminate a harmful toxin from your environment.

And since this is day 19 of our 30-day health journey, here are 19 ways to purify your space and life:

1. 💧 Purify your water. Clean, mineral-rich water is one of the primary reasons residents of the Blue Zones are living longer than everyone else.
2. 🍎 Eat organic. The easiest and perhaps most harmful way to ingest toxic chemicals are the unregulated sprays and additives that are put directly in and on non-organic foods.
3. 🚫 Avoid ‘The Scary Seven’. (1) High-Fructose Corn Syrup (2) Monosodium Glutamate, MSG (3) Partially Hydrogenated Oils (4) Artificial Colors like Blue 2, Yellow 6, Red 40 (5) Artificial Sweeteners like sucralose, and aspartame (6) Artificial Flavors (7) Preservatives like sodium benzoate, sulphites, polysorbate, nitrites, and nitrates.
4. 🦟 Keep insects away naturally. If a squirt of it will make a mosquito drop, chances are putting DEET and other ‘toxic soup’ on your skin isn’t healthy for you as it gets absorbed into your bloodstream.
5. 🍯 Swap out fake sugar. Artificial sweeteners contain loads of chemicals that are harmful to your health. Try using stevia, which is a deliciously sweet plant that doesn’t damage your health.
6. 🌸 Opt-out of fake fragrances. Perfumed candles and fragrance sprays contain harsh chemicals that are harmful to breathe in.
7. 👞 Leave your shoes at the door. Who knows what you’ve been walking in out there. By treading those unknowns into your house, they will be picked up by anything else that touches those trodden areas.
8. 🌬️ Create some airflow. Let some fresh air in to waft away any stale air.
9. 🕯️ Create clean indoor air. If opening your window doesn’t bring in the freshest of air due to a busy street, try bringing in a beeswax candle, salt lamp, or bamboo charcoal indoors to help rid the air of harmful toxins.
10. 🌿 Let nature cleanse. As we learned over the last couple of days, nature is the most effective healer. Try to have a purifying plant like a garden mum or ficus in each room of your house.
11. 🔍 Read the labels. If you can’t pronounce the ingredient because the name looks like some sort of lab experiment, then it probably was. Better safe than sorry is a good rule when it comes to ingredients we invite into our home and smear on our body.
12. 🔎 Track it to the source. Done deal if it has an ingredient list, but some products might require a little digging to understand what exactly it’s made of and how it affects your environment.
13. 🧼 Clean with clean products. Cleaning products are often loaded with toxic chemicals because they kill 99.99% of germs. Which means they’re likely killing 99.99% of other healthy bacteria and microbes our body needs.
14. 🍶 Swap plastic for glass. Plastics are one of the biggest mediums for bringing toxic chemicals into our daily lives. Glass is a safer, more environmentally friendly food storage option that doesn’t contain the toxic chemicals that plastics do.
15. ❌ Stay away from air fresheners. Is Febreze worth that synthetic lavender scent if it ends up costing you thousands of dollars and multiple years of your life in health damages? That may have sounded dramatic, but it adds up quickly.
16. 📚 Get hip on the latest. If you start reading and learning about living a toxin-free life, you will be more likely to take action.
17. 💄 Ditch your toxic cosmetics. Next time you look at your beautifully raw self in the bathroom mirror, remember this: when we apply something on our skin, it is quickly absorbed into our bloodstream and circulated through vital organs like our heart and brain.
18. 🧱 Check your walls for toxins. Finding silent killers like mold with a simple inspection might just save you and everyone you invite into your house from severe adverse reactions.
19. 🥇 Prioritize your health above all. Since you’re reading this, chances are you realize without our health, we have nothing. Holding fast to this fact will help us bring more awareness to the harmful chemicals present in our environment and take preventive action to steer clear from toxins.

⚕️ MEDICINAL MOTTO

Reflect on how simplicity and purity go hand in hand. When we strip down to our essence, free from impurities, we align more closely with our natural state of health and well-being. Reflect on this adage throughout the day, and let it guide you towards a cleaner, purer life.

✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPTS

What is one thing you will eliminate from your home to create a healthier environment for you and your loved ones to live in?

📣 AFFIRMATION

I cleanse my environment to nurture my purest self.

🙌 KUDOS

Great job on purifying your environment today! Every small step you take towards reducing toxins brings you closer to a healthier, purer life. Keep this momentum going and continue to make choices that honor your well-being.

💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

What is your favorite natural way to eliminate toxins from your environment?

Share your tips and experiences in the comments below!