This magazine tackles the horrors of buying a home with meth contamination or renting a home to someone who cooks and smokes meth on your property. This drug is incideous and seeps into the very bones of your home, and seeps into ever y creavice of your body causing all kinds of health issues. Knowledge is power, so become informed.

It was a pleasure to do research and write these two articles for Kathi’s magazine. She knows first hand the financial impact of being unaware of this issue.

Cheryl Meyer of Cherylmhealthmuse joins us as a contributor in Home Zone Magazine, and we couldn’t be more excited!

In her two articles, Cheryl tackles the severe health risks associated with methamphetamine exposure.

 

Article 1: The Dangers of Methamphetamine to Health

Cheryl explores how meth contamination in homes, whether from production or smoking, can seep into a home’s structure, causing long-term health issues for its inhabitants. She provides practical steps to ensure our homes are safe and healthy environments, from understanding the types of meth contamination to detoxifying the body. Cheryl emphasizes the importance of using environmentally friendly cleaning products and maintaining a healthy diet to support liver health.

 

Article 2: The Dangers of Meth Exposure for Children

 

Cheryl delves deeper into the far more significant health risks that meth exposure poses to children compared to adults. She discusses how children’s developing bodies are particularly vulnerable to toxins, which can cause severe health issues such as developmental problems, chronic illnesses, and long-term damage to vital organs. Cheryl provides essential tips for detoxifying children’s bodies, including a diet rich in organic, fresh produce and quality protein and reducing sugar intake. She also recommends watching her podcasts on liver health for more in-depth guidance.

You can see Cheryl’s articles here! – https://mailchi.mp/methto…/home-zone-magazine-downloadable

If you would like to be a contributor in the future edition, message us or email us.

 

 

THE DANGERS OF METHAMPHETAMINE TO HEALTH

There are two types of contamination from meth in a home- a location where meth was manufactured, increasing the density of the chemicals, or a place where someone smoked meth on the premises.

Both situations create health challenges for people who move into the residence if the home hasn’t been properly “cleaned” to remove all traces of the chemicals.

The chemicals seep deep into the “bones” of the home, and even if the home tests clean, a future test might ascertain that the chemicals have seeped out again, causing health issues. Methamphetamine is re-released into the air days or years after deposition.

Methamphetamine vaporizes when heated. The vapor seeps into surfaces inside the home and recrystallizes as it cools. Extended usage leaves increasingly hazardous chemicals throughout the house. Use over time permeates deeper into the building and all surfaces in the abode. The walls, the floors, carpeting, drapes and curtains, air ducts, and countertops absorb the toxins from the meth smoke. Anything fabric- upholstery, clothes, and soft toys, has also absorbed chemicals. These chemicals harm anyone or anything living inside.[i]

If someone cooked meth on the premises, they released vapors that, like meth smoke, can be absorbed by various items. These vapors may include toxic meth ingredients such as ether, lithium, ammonia, acetone, and pseudoephedrine. In addition, during the cooking process, someone may spill the ingredients, further contaminating floors and other items.

There is also environmental residue around and in the home. These toxic chemicals could have been dumped into the ground, sewers, or septic systems, contaminating the surface water, groundwater, and wells.

Meth residue can linger for years, and the off-gassing continues even after only one usage.[ii]

If the residence is contaminated because someone inside smoked meth, they inhale about 67% of it, but 33% lingers in the environment.

 

Someone who inhales or ingests meth smoke residue may experience side effects of meth. These physical and mental health effects can include:

• hyperactivity
• loss of appetite
• mood swings
• paranoia
• delusions (beliefs that are not based on reality)
• hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or feeling things that aren’t there) [iii]
• confusion
• aggression
• twitching or shaking
• faster breathing
• irregular or fast heart rate
• increased body temperature, which may cause fainting
• headache
• nausea
• dizziness
• chemical burns
• Sleeplessness
• Worsened diabetes

More symptoms and long-term health consequences:

 

• Watery, red, and burning eyes, often accompanied by discharge and pain
• Irritation of the mucus membranes, especially in the eyes, nose, and throat
• Skin irritations, redness, and rashes
• Chest pain and difficulty breathing
• Abdominal pain and diarrhea
• Chronic sneezing, coughing, and congestion
• Adverse effects on the central nervous system
• Dark-colored urine
• Yellow jaundice
• Fever
• Impairment in mental capabilities

Note: Many of the meth chemicals are also carcinogens.

These health problems can be short-term or long-term.

Infants, children, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems are at a higher risk for complications. In addition, these harmful chemicals can severely impact healthy adults.

If you find yourself living in a home, apartment, or condo that ends up being a place where there are meth chemicals, GET OUT. You MUST remediate before you can live in the home.

 

Now you have the toxins in your body. What can you do to detox them out of your system?

All chemicals that enter the body through the skin, the mouth, or the lungs, get processed by the liver. The liver does the best job it can until it can’t keep up. Then it begins to stuff these toxins away in bones and fat tissue so that the body gets less damage from them. Unfortunately, these chemicals leach back into the body later, causing health issues yet again.

These chemicals contaminate the liver and cause liver disease. As goes the liver goes every other organ in the body. A damaged liver is the #1 cause of heart disease, the #1 cause of death in the United States.

The effects of meth can impact all crucial organ systems causing long-term harm to the body.

Toxins create “leaky gut,” which leads to chronic illness. Toxins cause inflammation. Inflammation causes chronic disease. Chronic diseases are cancer, autoimmune disease, diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, etc. Toxins create hormone imbalances. Toxins cause an imbalance in the body in all areas of function.

Where to start to regain your health?

• Eat detoxifying, liver-repairing superfoods. Support your liver/body with whole foods. Focus on cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and leafy veggies like kale, cabbage, arugula, and watercress. Garlic and onions are amazing sulfur-rich foods that help detox the body. At least a cup or two every day can help repair and heal the liver.
• Eat all colors of the rainbow from a farm as close to you as possible, and the vegetables must be organic. You can’t handle additional toxins in your food.
• The phytonutrients in the rainbow of fruits and vegetables are the building blocks that your body will rebuild damaged cells.
• Power up with quality protein. Protein at every meal becomes key to balancing blood sugar and insulin, cutting cravings, and providing your liver with the raw materials to detoxify. A serving size is four to six ounces, or about the size of your palm.
• Eliminate sugar
• Improve your metabolism through exercise. Movement is a fabulous way to improve liver health. Exercise also helps your lymph system pick up the garbage around your cells and remove the toxins released from your cells.

•  Supplement intelligently. Talk to your MD about taking supplements that increase liver health. These would include glutathione, NAC, Milk Thistle, and Alpha Lipoic Acid.

I have done three podcasts on the liver, and I suggest that you make it a priority to watch them, take notes and then implement what you learn.  They are all available on You  Tube.

 

I am a health coach and an award-winning author of a book about toxins and their damage to our health. It Feels Good to Feel Good is available on Amazon. https://bit.ly/cherauthorpg

I am a health coach, and I work with clients to help them return to balance. If I can help coach you back to health, contact me at cherylmhealthmuse@gmail.com.

[i] 3 Grave Dangers of Living in a Former Meth Lab

[ii] https://aeidecon.com/is_meth_in_your_home_dangerous/