Leviton - The healthy living space: 70 practical ways to detoxify the body and home

Books by Richard Leviton

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Brain Builders

Weddings by Design

Looking for Arthur: A Once and Future Travelogue

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected

Battle for Human Freedom

Copyright 2001

by Richard Leviton

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The author wishes to thank the generous contribution of time, insights, and protocols from the following experts in detoxification: Peter Holyk, M.D., Jacob Falin, N.D., Patricia Kaminski, Rev. Leon S. LeGant, Michael Riversong, Stanley Aaga Bartlett, and Patrick MacManaway, M.D. Thanks to Stephanie Marohn for her excellent editing.

Fill Out Your Toxicity Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Maintain a Household Toxic Exposure Inventory

Get a Clear Idea of Your Nutritional Status

Assess Your System's Ability to Detoxify

Determine Your Body's Total Toxic Load

Find Out if You're Suffering from Hidden Food Allergies

Rehydrate Your Body with Nature's Best Detoxifying Substance

Get the Chlorine Out of Your Drinking and Shower Water

Don't Fluoridate Your TeethYour Body Doesn't Need Fluorides

Cleanse Your Produce of Toxic Chemicals

Whenever Possible, Eat Organic Foods

Minimize Your Consumption of Foods Containing Trans-fatty Acids

Do a 3-Day Water or Juice Fast to Rest and Regenerate Your Cells

Do a Media/Image Fast to Cleanse Your Mind and Energy Field

Make a Lifestyle Out of Nonstop Stress Reduction with Healing Hot Water Soask

Enhance Your Relaxation by Floating in 800 Pounds of Epsom Salt

Use Music Therapy to Deepen Your Sense of Melting Relaxation

Do a One-Week Elimination Diet and Liver Cleansing Program

Use Natural Foods and Herbs to Aid Your Liver in Cleansing Itself

Do a Natural Liver Flush to Improve Your Internal Plumbing

Use Six Natural Substances to Help Cleanse Your Intestines

Remove the 50+ Feet of False Mucoid Lining from Your Intestines

Purge the Parasites from Your Intestines

Get Proactive with ProbioticsPlant Food for the Intestines

Fertilize Your Bifidobacteria with Prebiotics

Bounce on a Trampoline to Improve Your Lymphatic Drainage

Dry Skin BrushingTone Up Your Body's Largest Elimination Organ

Exercise Regularly to Enhance Blood Circulation and Toxin Removal

Sauna Detox: How Heat Therapy Can Help Your Body Release Toxins

A Purifying Bath: Whole-Body Detoxifying Soaks in Herbs, Salts, Oils, and Other Natural Substances

Make Your Mouth a Mercury-Free Zone by Having Your Mercury Fillings Correctly Replaced

Have Your Cavitations Cleaned Out and Reduce Possible Jawbone Infections

Think Twice before Digging Another Root Canal in Your Mouth

Determine Your Biocompatibility with Dental Materials before Putting Any More in Your Mouth

Remedying the Four Basic States of Emotional Toxicity with Flower Essences

Salting Your Energy Centers

Request a Cleansing from Above

Do a 30-Minute Spirit-Detoxifying Bath

Shake Yourself Free of Toxic Energies

Scrub Your Aura Clean with a Golden Sponge

Turn Your Body into Transparent Glass

Cutting the Cords and Ties That BindPsychic Plumbing

Ground Yourself to the Center of the Earth

Protect Your Space by Connecting to a Higher Source

Cleanse and Protect Your Aura with Pomanders and Air Conditioners

Get the Electropollution Out of Your Home

Benefits of Nontoxic CarpetsDon't Let Your Carpets Kill You Softly

Filter Your Home's Indoor Air to Remove Toxins and Allergens

Install an Indoor Waterfall to Add Negative Ions to Your Air

Use Houseplants to Filter Out Toxins from Your Indoor Air

Get the Radon Out of Your Basement

Take the SADness Out of Your Indoor Space with Full Spectrum Lighting

Go Green with Your Household Products

Evaluate the Energy Flow in Your Home with the Ba-Gua

Tidy Up All the Cluttered Areas in Your Home

Repaint All the Interior Walls with Your Color of Happiness

Clear Your Space of All Predecessor Energy

The Health Benefits of Ghost-Busting

Eliminate Poison Arrows and Cutting Qi

Pacify Your Neighborhood with Feng Shui Mirrors

Optimizing the Mouth of Qi at Your Front Door

Setting up a Feng Shui-Friendly Bedroom

Setting up a Feng Shui-Friendly Bathroom

When Nothing Else Heals, Try Moving Your Bed

Scan Your Home and Environment for Signs of Geopathic Stress

Take Your Energy Body Out of the Curry-Hartmann Grid

Five Simple Techniques for Detoxifying a Room or Environment

Put in an Energy Drainage Pipe from Your House to the Center of the Earth

How to Take the Stress Out of a Geopathic Zone

Selecting Energy Wells in a Geography of Enlightenment

There are many products, services, and organizations listed in this book. Their inclusion in the text does not constitute an endorsement by the author. In some cases, the author has personally tested or used the products or services, but in other cases, not. Further, the author has no financial or business connections with any of the products, services, or organizations listed.

The inclusion of this information is meant solely to help the reader find a point of orientation in what is perhaps a new and overly large field. References to specific products, such as water or air filters, for example, are only meant to serve as a starting point from which readers can launch their own more extended research and vetting. They are not meant to be the result of exhaustive research into these specific categories; rather, they are the results of a preliminary and provisional research of the field, principally through the Internet.

All health information in this book is based on sound medical and scientific research and/or the clinical protocols of credentialed health care practitioners. However, this is no substitute for qualified medical guidance and advice if there is any question about the appropriateness or applicability of any recommendation in this book to individual readers and their unique health conditions. Readers concerned about the suitability of specific techniques or substances to their specific health condition should consult a qualifed health care practitioner before undertaking any of the detoxification steps.

Why Toxicity Should Concern Us

Ever since Rachel Carson's shocking indictment of industrial pollution in