Doctor: You’re Inhaling Toxic Jet Fuel Every Time You Step Onto a Plane

4. Feed your microbiome.

The bacteria in the bowels are responsible for metabolizing and excreting approximately 25% of the toxins you are exposed to each day. So pay attention to your bowels! Eat 6 to 9 cups of vegetables every day to provide enough fiber to hit the goal of passing two soft stools each day.

If the vegetables are not enough, add more fiber–chia or flax seed puddings are a tasty way to increase fiber intake. Keep increasing the fiber until you are having soft, snake-like bowel movements twice a day.

5. Follow the Wahls™ Diet.

The diet includes 6 to 9 cups of green leafy vegetables, deeply pigmented vegetables, and sulfur-rich (cabbage family, onion family, or mushroom family) vegetables each day. This balance of vegetables will maximize your cellular function and your ability to stay healthy.

In summary, providing more support to your liver as it eliminates toxins will markedly improve your ability to process and eliminate jet fuel and other pollutants in your life.

It will improve the tolerance you have for air travel, and will likely also help you slowly decrease the level of solvents as well as the various plastics, heavy metals, and fragrances stored in your fat that can disrupt hormones and interfere with thyroid and sex hormone balance. In other words, tuning up your detoxification pathways will make travel easier and probably improve your health overall.

My book, The Wahls Protocol, details the food plan and protocol that I used for my recovery, in my clinical trials, and in my clinic. The protocol will markedly boost the efficiency of the enzymes that process and eliminate the chemicals stored in your body.

Here is a recipe I use to boost the efficiency of my liver to process and eliminate jet fuel while I am traveling.  You will find more recipes to boost your detoxification pathways in my new cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life, coming out April 4th. Order the book now and have access to some additional free gifts that will help you restore your health and vitality.

Bile Boosting Ginger Calendula Tea

Ingredients:

¼ inch grated fresh ginger

2 teaspoon calendula tea

1 teaspoon coconut milk (or to taste)

2 cups boiling water

Instructions:

Brew the calendula tea and fresh ginger with boiling water for 10 minutes.

Strain and add coconut milk to taste.

The ginger and calendula will increase the production of bile, which boosts detoxification in the liver. The addition of 500 mg or more of chlorella taken at the same time will further support detoxification, increasing the liver’s production of bile and the body’s ability to eliminate the various pollutants that are stored in your fat, such as plastics, solvents, and pesticides and heavy metals like lead, mercury, and arsenic.

The beauty of this tea is its very pleasant taste and its effectiveness at improving the efficiency of your liver.

If you want to learn even more about the protocols I used to restore my health, the protocols we study in our clinical trials, and what I used in the Therapeutic Lifestyle Clinic, come to the Wahls Protocol® Seminar that I conduct each August.