When I was a kid all there was to be afraid of was the nasty old man down the road and the neighbor’s angry pitbull. It was easy to remember those two dangers. Now, things have changed, for good and for worse. My mom always told me “never be run by fear” and I keep on reminding myself about that when I start to focus on small things instead of the big picture.

There is constant information overflow about dangers in food, dangers in supplements, dangers in vegetables, in the air we breathe, where we live, houses are toxic, the detergent is toxic, the cream we use to protect ourselves from the sun is toxic when it breaks down on the skin…. How do you know, HOW DO YOU KNOW what is the hidden agenda? Research is interpreted data, not truth.

I practice picking and choosing my battles. I stay away from the dangers I consider being real ones. But when I don’t I make sure I am aware of the potential harm a habit or a product might cause, just so I don’t end up with a “WOW nobody informed me!”.

There is knowledge to be found about most matters if you want to look it up. Teflon pans seem to be dangerous, however I still use them. I use SPF cream with some “toxic” or potentially harmful ingredients because I won’t use a cream that makes me fully white because it is the natural solution to put on zinc paste….

Instead of guarding myself against every little danger I choose to prevent and detox as much as possible by eating tons of vegetables that HELP the body cleanse itself from toxins. I think that cleansing has a way greater impact than avoiding small poisons.

Alcohol is a poison, however some people go through life drinking like there was no end to their “thirst” and still live to they’re 90 and no liver disease what so ever…. Some people get cancer when they are 1 year old, did they do anything to get that? No.

I live in LA. This city is in the top of cities where an earth quake will hit most likely. A damaging one. Do I move somewhere else due to that reason? NO. I hope that it does not happen and if it does that I and my dear ones will survive and keep going strong.

I refuse to be too scared about what can go wrong. I can be hit by a car tomorrow, so what did all my worrying do then?

Worrying in itself is a negative habit that creates stress. Stress is making people sick from the inside out!

When it comes to food options, I eat organic as much as I can, but I am not obsessed about it except for I would never eat meat or chicken that is not organically grown. Never again.

I drink from plastic water bottles, I do drink coffee from a plastic shaker, I some times do use the hand sanitizer which has antibacterial toxic ingredients etc. I do color my hair. I breathe the air and that would be tough to stop doing!

If I were to have kids, and I am not, I would be way more cautious about things like stevia too. I use a lot of it and sometimes I worry about how safe it is, but then again I compare it to what else I can be a victim to and it all becomes small stuff. I just cannot live being scared about information and knowledge I cannot say I know is TRUE. And there is no real way to know as far as I know.

I don’t believe in scientists, doctors, lawyers, investigators, gurus being right and correct and not just wanting to scare the nation or profit from people being worried.

I am a skeptic, I follow my intuition. And right now it says “don’t worry, it won’t matter”.