AUBURN - After having her first child, Dr. Lisa Ann Homic has realized that there is a lot more to worry about when raising children than the average person is aware. Last week with 1 1/2-year-old Eirne Robert Keegan at her side, Homic held an informal class on dangerous toxins that can be found in ordinary household supplies.
Several times each month, in the back room of her chiropractic office, Homic holds various seminars dedicated to teaching both her clients and the average person about different health issues. Her latest was dedicated to her Healthy Home Checklist.
"If you're putting something in your shopping cart in full faith that it's safe, it's not," said Homic, 38.
Everything from window and oven cleaner to shampoo and deodorant actually contain harmful toxins and chemicals such as formaldehyde. Among her other lessons, the phosphates in dish detergents - once they are flushed out into the lakes - can prove harmful to the natural ecosystems, while ordinary bleach burns the skin.
There are three ways that toxins can enter the body: by swallowing, by breathing, or through contact with the skin or eyes. The danger of these chemicals is not that children might drink them; it is that when they are sprayed in the air during use, the dangerous toxins sink to the floor like smoke.
The leftover chemicals in the air surround children playing close to the ground.
"Just the fact that you're using them, they're dangerous," said Homic, who has been practicing chiropractic medicine for five years and has been at her current location for one. "They permeate the air and are just as dangerous."
Most of Homic's information came from "The Melaleuca Wellness Guide," which sells its own line of cleaning supplies to use instead of the ones from the supermarket. These supplies are primarily composed of the natural tea tree oil, a non-toxic chemical cleaner.
Homic holds these seminars for her chiropractic clients in order to educate the mind to help heal the body. According to Homic, when the person knows what she is doing to them and why, it helps the healing process.
"Women who work in the home have double the percent of getting cancer than women who don't," said Homic, citing a 45 percent better chance for women who work in the home.
According to Homic, the dangerous supermarket cleaners have their origins in World War II. The wartime research into chemical weapons resulted in a large variety of new compounds, which remained after the war. Now, after so long, most of the cleaners are so commonplace that nobody bothers to look into them.
When someone gets sick as a result of these dangerous chemicals, many people turn to drugs instead of looking at it chemically. Homic said the answer to the problem might simply be changing the detergent you use to wash your pillowcases or clothes.
"They're silently harming you, instead of solving this with drugs, just clean out," said Homic. "Sometimes cleaning out is the miracle."
Classes offered
- For more information call
Dr. Homic's office at 277-1362
- Healthy Home Checklist,
6 p.m., Tues. Oct. 4
- Wellness Resource Group,
6:30 p.m., Thurs. Oct. 6
- Cancer Prevention Plan,
10:30 a.m., Tues. Oct. 11
- Emotion Medicine for Diabetes,
6 p.m., Wed. Oct. 12
- Natural Management of ADHD,
6 p.m., Thurs. Oct. 20
"If you're putting something in your shopping cart in full faith that it's safe, it's not," said Homic, 38.
Everything from window and oven cleaner to shampoo and deodorant actually contain harmful toxins and chemicals such as formaldehyde. Among her other lessons, the phosphates in dish detergents - once they are flushed out into the lakes - can prove harmful to the natural ecosystems, while ordinary bleach burns the skin.
There are three ways that toxins can enter the body: by swallowing, by breathing, or through contact with the skin or eyes. The danger of these chemicals is not that children might drink them; it is that when they are sprayed in the air during use, the dangerous toxins sink to the floor like smoke.
The leftover chemicals in the air surround children playing close to the ground.
"Just the fact that you're using them, they're dangerous," said Homic, who has been practicing chiropractic medicine for five years and has been at her current location for one. "They permeate the air and are just as dangerous."
Most of Homic's information came from "The Melaleuca Wellness Guide," which sells its own line of cleaning supplies to use instead of the ones from the supermarket. These supplies are primarily composed of the natural tea tree oil, a non-toxic chemical cleaner.
Homic holds these seminars for her chiropractic clients in order to educate the mind to help heal the body. According to Homic, when the person knows what she is doing to them and why, it helps the healing process.
"Women who work in the home have double the percent of getting cancer than women who don't," said Homic, citing a 45 percent better chance for women who work in the home.
According to Homic, the dangerous supermarket cleaners have their origins in World War II. The wartime research into chemical weapons resulted in a large variety of new compounds, which remained after the war. Now, after so long, most of the cleaners are so commonplace that nobody bothers to look into them.
When someone gets sick as a result of these dangerous chemicals, many people turn to drugs instead of looking at it chemically. Homic said the answer to the problem might simply be changing the detergent you use to wash your pillowcases or clothes.
"They're silently harming you, instead of solving this with drugs, just clean out," said Homic. "Sometimes cleaning out is the miracle."
Classes offered
- For more information call
Dr. Homic's office at 277-1362
- Healthy Home Checklist,
6 p.m., Tues. Oct. 4
- Wellness Resource Group,
6:30 p.m., Thurs. Oct. 6
- Cancer Prevention Plan,
10:30 a.m., Tues. Oct. 11
- Emotion Medicine for Diabetes,
6 p.m., Wed. Oct. 12
- Natural Management of ADHD,
6 p.m., Thurs. Oct. 20
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