Robert Whitfield MD spent a decade swapping conventional cleaning and personal-care products for natural alternatives. After the switch, his body became more sensitive to synthetic fragrances and artificial sweeteners, making it easier to detect and avoid harmful exposures.
Just like mine to have done. Yeah, yeah. And that's. That's so huge, I think, the benefit of having four kids all within four years. I got really serious about toxicity in my house and started looking at cleaning products and laundry detergent and air fresheners and shampoos. I mean, I looked at everything and educated myself and really got how toxic my environment was at the time. And over the course of the last 10 years, I have slowly replaced all of my toxic products with natural ones. And it's crazy now because I'll go into a place that has, like, let's say an air freshener, and I instantly get a headache. Now it's like my body's like, no, we can't handle that. That's too toxic. I'll eat something that has an artificial sweetener in it, and I can taste it, you know? So there's. There's this interesting thing. Like, at first, it's really hard to change your diet. At first it's really hard to change the products you use and to shift your household and your lifestyle. But then it becomes hard not to live that way because your body is so sensitive. And I believe the more we live in tune with nature in that way and the way we're supposed to live, we actually can hear the messages from our body a lot louder of like, hey, this doesn't feel good for us, or, hey, let's try something else, or, let's get out of this environment, or something's off in the air. We're meant to be able to feel that. And yet, as most of us live in this modern world, we're so disconnected from our sensory body that we're just stuffing and.
