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Michelle Diener - Creating Healthy Homes for Healthy Women - Low Tox Home, Body & Beyond in Midlife

02/12/2025

Detox doesn’t need to be fancy — adding more of these veggies to your plate is a great place to start

Last week my daughter was home from school not feeling well and saw me chopping up some kale to roast for my lunch — nothing glamorous, just a quick thrown- together plate of whatever was in the fridge, with some leftover chicken from dinner the night before. Being a good mum, I offered to share my lunch with her…

She didn’t need to give me an answer - the grimace & look on her face said volumes.

I laughed - but honestly? A lot of people feel the same.

Detox has been marketed to look complicated… powders, protocols, potions.

But the quiet truth is right there on the chopping board. These humble cruciferous veggies — daikon, turnips, kohlrabi, bok choy, kale, Brussel sprouts — are doing big things behind the scenes.

When you slice, chew or lightly cook them, they release special compounds that help your liver process everyday toxins more efficiently, support safer hormone metabolism, and even offer protective benefits for hormone-sensitive tissues.

It’s simple food-as-medicine… just the way nature designed it.

And for anyone thinking about long-term wellbeing or reducing breast-cancer risk factors, these veggies are absolute keepers. Research links higher intake of cruciferous vegetables with healthier oestrogen breakdown pathways and lower breast-cancer risk over time.

Small habits, big ripple effects.

So if you ever feel overwhelmed by detox trends — come back to your plate.

Roast a tray of Brussels sprouts with some olive oil. Add a handful of chopped & steamed kale to dinner. Grate kohlrabi or turnip into a crunchy coleslaw. It’s gentle, powerful, and totally doable.

Try adding one cruciferous veggie to your meals this week — your hormones and your future self will thank you.

Who’s going to give it a try? Tell me which veggie you’ll add first in the comments M x

References:
PMID: 29644960, PMID: 32308174, PMID: 20302323

31/10/2025

3 uncomplicated but important Low Tox swaps if you want less plastic in your food every day:

1. Cover food with beeswax wrap not cling wrap - anything - avocados, apples, leftovers in tubs in the fridge
2. Don’t heat food in plastic containers in the microwave (ideally don’t use a microwave!)
3. Use a stainless steel or glass kettle instead of a plastic one - heat makes chemicals leach from plastic into your water faster

It’s not complicated. But it matters for our health M x

28/10/2025

Have you had enough of Breast Cancer Awareness Month too?

Every October, pink ribbons pop up everywhere — on labels, packaging, even cleaning products — all in the name of Breast Cancer awareness.

But here’s the truth no one talks about…just because it’s pink, it doesn’t mean it’s breast cancer–friendly or even safe for your health.

The pink ribbon isn’t regulated — any company can use it, even if their products contain ingredients linked to breast cancer. It’s called “pinkwashing”.

If brands really cared about preventing breast cancer, they’d remove the chemical ingredients research tells us are linked to breast cancer.

Chemicals like:�
> Phthalates�> Synthetic fragrance�> Parabens�> Artificial dyes�> Toluene�> Triclosan�> BHT + BHA

Let’s stop buying into pinkwashing and start supporting brands that don’t use carcinogens or hormone disruptors in the first place.

Comment PINK if you’d like my list of genuinely Low Tox, no-pinkwash brands.
�Let’s make breast cancer awareness campaigns about prevention - not marketing M x💗

28/10/2025

Have you had enough of Breast Cancer Awareness Month too?

Every October, pink ribbons pop up everywhere — on labels, packaging, even cleaning products — all in the name of Breast Cancer awareness.

But here’s the truth no one talks about…just because it’s pink, it doesn’t mean it’s breast cancer–friendly or even safe for your health.

The pink ribbon isn’t regulated — any company can use it, even if their products contain ingredients linked to breast cancer. It’s called “pinkwashing”.

If brands really cared about preventing breast cancer, they’d remove the chemical ingredients research tells us are linked to breast cancer.

Chemicals like: 
> Phthalates > Synthetic fragrance > Parabens > Artificial dyes > Toluene > Triclosan > BHT + BHA

Let’s stop buying into pinkwashing and start supporting brands that don’t use carcinogens or hormone disruptors in the first place. Let’s make Low Tox choices for a healthy home and body.

Comment PINK if you’d like my list of genuinely Low Tox, no-pinkwash brands.
 Let’s make breast cancer awareness campaigns about prevention - not marketing M x💗

03/10/2025

People in the Bath & Bristol area, we’d love you to share this event with us - message me for the link if you’d like to come M x

01/10/2025

There’s a lot of buzz around about harmful toxins in plastics, the air we breathe, the water we drink, & the things we buy & use every day - & if you’re reading this, I guess you’re tuned into these issues.

When we think about the exposures that face us every day, a natural reflex might be to think, “A little bit isn’t going to hurt, right?”

And for the most part, this is true!

But have you considered this…

1. We’re not exposed to a single chemical here & there…

> we’re exposed to dozens of chemicals that have either been shown to cause - or are suspected of causing - harm every single day throughout our entire lives

> the accumulation of these exposures over our lives can contribute to the serious chronic health issues we struggle with

2. Some of these exposures build up in the body

> take PFAS chemicals for example - they accumulate in our tissues because they’re hard to break down and excrete

> and lead, which builds up in our bones, only to be released into our body during pregnancy or as bone breaks down in our older years

3. Some of the chemicals we’re exposed to - specifically endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) - have been shown to cause harm at *extremely* low levels!

> we have a few decades of research into EDCs now, both on animal models & from human epidemiological studies to show that they can harm our health

So what can we do about all of this if we want to support our health?

To start with, we can make choices every day that lower the amount of chemicals we’re exposed to -
and if you’re in the Bath or Bristol area come along to our 1/2 day retreat on Sunday October 19, 1 - 6 pm and learn practical tips, routines and rituals, mindset & motivation ideas to make choosing Low Tox in your home so much easier - DM me for the link to sign up - hope to see you there! M x

References: PMID: 22419778

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