Environment

Pollutants, toxins, and heavy metals as well as inadequate amounts of natural sunlight can be detrimental to your health and your skin. Environmental factors that adversely affect your health include, but are certainly not limited to, smoke – including second hand cigarette smoke – gas fumes, paint, mold, hair dye, pressed wood, dry cleaning agents, pesticides, fertilizers, food additives, preservatives, and chemicals that leach into our water supply. Heavy metal toxicity can lead to devastating disease processes like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s, and may be the causative factor of hormonal imbalance, chronic fatigue, and many common complaints that often times get misdiagnosed. Environmental factors play havoc on every system of the body – endocrine (hormones), immune, nervous, respiratory, digestive – and adversely affect the skin and its appearance both directly and indirectly.