• You have to heal the wound before it [starts to] ignore the medicine

    African Proverb

  • For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease

    Job 14:7

  • Let water cleanse your soul

    “Creed of We”. The Seven Paths: Changing One’s Way of Walking in the World. The Anasazi Foundation

  • We think so often that we are helpless, but we are not. We always have the power of our minds. Claim and consciously use your Power

    Louise Hay

  • ...Look at its fruit when it yields and its ripening. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe

    Surat Al-An’am

  • Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship

    Buddha

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It has now become an ubiquitous chemical in our day to day lives, found in the majority of people worldwide, and is classed as a public health concern by many governmental environmental health bodies. These same bodies report that PFAS causes increased cholesterol levels, increased risk of high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, low infant birth weight, changes in liver enzyme production (needed for detoxification) and increased risk of kidney and testicular cancer.

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