ECOBOD was formed with a mission to help make fitness and wellness facilities healthier........... for you, your members, your staff, the local communities that you serve, and our largest community…..the planet. We believe that, ultimately, the health of our BODS is intimately linked to the health of our planet, and as such, we are dedicated to providing products to the fitness and wellness industries that embrace and enhance the health of both our BODS and the planet.

 

The fitness and wellness industries are uniquely positioned as foremost wellness authorities and have been THE preventative arm of our health care “system for decades.” The battle to create a mindset of prevention has been a long and arduous one, and health club memberships have flatlined at about 18% of the population. Add to that a societal mindset of instant gratification and pill-popping miracle “cures,” and that battle gets even tougher.

 

In efforts to appeal to a broader mass, the industry is embracing overall wellness as a mantra. Exercise continues to be a foundation of that mantra, with new emphasis expanding into nutrition and stress reduction/well-being. Another area garnering more and more attention in the quest for health is the challenge of toxic burden.

 

Our modern lifestyle has disrupted nature’s perfect balance, introducing numerous toxic chemicals into our environment. With over 80,000 chemicals developed in recent decades, only a fraction of them have been tested for toxicity. This imbalance is taxing our bodies' natural capacity to cope, hindering our path to wellness. The urgency of this issue cannot be overstated.

 

We’re exposed to them by the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and what comes in contact with our largest organ, our skin. These toxins build up in various organs and systems throughout our BODs. Some of the effects of toxic burden reveal themselves immediately as with allergic reactions or poisoning, and some more so over a long period of time as with endocrine disruptors, wreaking havoc on our hormone  and immune systems causing chronic illnesses or carcinogens causing the development of cancers, etc.

 

Many of these toxins are fat soluble, meaning they will be stored in fat, which can create difficulties with the ability to lose fat.

 

As the saying goes, “you get out of it what you put into it”. If we put toxins in our BOD (eat, drink with our mouth or our skin, or breathe) ill health comes out. If we feed toxins to the planet, toxic soup comes out. We can’t have health of the one without the health of the other.

 

So that’s where the journey takes us, a mission to help create the healthiest of environments in your fitness/wellness facility, one that enhances the path to wellness rather than hinders it for you, your members, your staff, your community and our planet. As Benjamin Franklin once suggested, "we can do well by doing good." Will you join us in making the fitness and wellness industries the standard in cleaner and healthier for our BODs and the Planet?!​