Toxins could be sabotaging your sleep.

Toxins cause a lot of inflammation in your body. When you're inflamed, your body releases cortisol to deal with that inflammation. When your body releases cortisol at night, it wakes you up and makes it hard to go back to sleep. High cortisol at night is one of the main reasons why people can’t fall asleep or stay asleep.

Toxins are all around us, in the air, our water, our food, our cleaning products, even our lotions and shampoos. Pathogens in our gut also release many toxins. Heavy metals are toxic, too.

The average person is exposed to more than 700,000 toxic chemicals a day. Before the Industrial Revolution, there weren’t as many toxins in the environment. 

Your body, especially your liver, is supposed to be able to handle some toxins. But often there are more toxins than it can handle and so it causes inflammation which leads to sleep disruption. 

Imagine your liver can handle a bucket full of toxins. Any additional toxins spilling out of the bucket is too much for your liver. Those toxins circulate around your body, causing lots of inflammation.

Since your liver is most active between 1 and 3am according to Chinese medicine, too many toxins are a common reason why many people wake up in the middle of the night.

We help our clients minimize toxins in their bodies, which reduces inflammation, which will help them sleep better at night.

I recommend organic food, filtered water, and natural personal care and cleaning products to reduce their toxic load. EWG.org is a great resource for minimizing toxins.

You can read more about how to minimize toxins in this blog post. 

I also find what’s causing toxicity in your body that’s hidden, that you don’t even know is there. The functional lab tests I do look for toxicity.

The GI map shows what’s living in your gut and looks for pathogens such as parasites, bad bacteria and candida. We help you eliminate pathogens that are adding to your toxic load and overburdening your liver. 

The hair mineral test shows what heavy metals are adding to your toxicity. 

The DUTCH shows how your body is breaking down hormones which shows different parts of liver detox. 

I also assess for mold toxicity, for inflammation in the brain, and to see if your genes for detoxification are acting up and need support. 

You need to be peeing, pooping and sweating to get rid of toxins. That means drinking enough water, having at least one bowel movement a day and using a sauna or exercise to sweat a few times a week.

The Complete Sleep Solution program finds everything going on in your body that’s causing stress and inflammation and gives you a plan to deal with it so you get healthier and can sleep normally.