Exposure and behavior

Now that you have filled out the Essentials Detoxification Questionnaire you might have more questions about how and why your Total Toxic Body Burden is high and / or your Organs of Detox could be challenged and might be having difficulty keeping up.

Below are some questions that can help you understand if these areas should be further explored. After answering these questions you could go on to get more information by doing the QEESI Screening Survey developed by a research team at the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio.

Behaviors: Do you use these more than once a week?

• Drink alcoholic beverages?

• Exposed to someone smoking in doors or second hand smoke?

• Gas or propane stove used in your home?

• Hobbies that involve chemicals, fumes, or smoke?

• Home or workplace sprayed for insects or fumigants?

• Medications for sleep, depression/ anxiety or steroids?

• Perfume, hairspray, or other scented hygiene products?

• Recreational street drugs?

• Scented products like fabric softeners, air fresheners at home?

• Smoke or use tobacco products?

Exposures and sensitivities: Have you ever been exposed to or consider yourself sensitive to any of these?

Being sensitive means that an exposure could make you feel sick. An exposure could cause, for example, difficulty breathing, brain fog, upset stomach, dizziness, headache, or just feeling sick.

• Certain perfumes, air fresheners, or other fragrances?

• Chemotherapy?

• Cleaning products such as disinfectants, beach, bathroom or floor cleansers?

• Diesel or gas engine exhaust?

• Fresh tar or asphalt?

• Hormone Replacement with Non Bio-identical Hormones?

• Insecticides/Fungicides/Pesticides?

• New carpets, plastic shower curtain, or car?

• Paint and stains, or paint thinner?

• Tobacco or marajuana smoke or vaping?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you could benefit from a more specific survey: the Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance Questionnaire or TILT.