The Love Movement
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Loving Yourself: Explore practical tips, personal stories, and scientific insights on self-love.
Loving Others: Hear inspiring stories of kindness, empathy, and connection. From random acts of love to deep friendships, we celebrate the beauty of human bonds
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The Love Movement
Ep 13: Chemical Awareness and Conscious Living: Unveiling Everyday Toxins
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Uncover the unsettling truth about the "chemical shit storms" we face every day and how they quietly infiltrate our lives. From microplastics lurking in snow to the insidious presence of "forever chemicals" in our cookware, this episode promises to leave you questioning every item you use daily. We'll guide you in understanding the massive impact these toxins have on both our health and the environment, revealing practical steps to reduce exposure and opt for safer, healthier alternatives.
Picture this: a world where synthetic turf harms biodiversity, and cigarette butts contribute to a growing pollution crisis. That's the reality we're facing. We tackle these pressing environmental concerns and highlight the dangers of PFAS—those persistent chemicals found in everything from raincoats to personal care products. By sharing relatable personal experiences and simple solutions, we inspire you to reconsider conventional household products and embrace a cleaner, more conscious lifestyle.
The relationship between our health and the planet's well-being is undeniable. Through engaging discussions, we emphasize the importance of informed consumption, from choosing non-GMO foods to understanding the ingredients in skincare and household items. Our aim is to raise awareness and empower you to be a voice for change, making thoughtful choices that benefit both you and the Earth. Engage with us and join a community committed to fostering a healthier future for all.
Links:
Diary of a CEO Podcast on Toxins
Dr Yvonne Burkhart Toxicologist
The Devil we Know Documentary on Teflon
Dark Waters Movie Trailer , Watch on Google or Apple
Products:
Arbonne Brittany's link if you don't already have an Arbonne Consultant
Our Place Non-Toxic Cook wear Discount link
Toxin Free Bandages from Amazon
Toxins
Speaker 1you're listening to the love movement with your hosts britney and brian johnston .
Speaker 2We're starting a movement centered around love to help raise the vibration of this beautiful planet .
Speaker 1If that's your vibe , hang out with us as we chat about many topics all centered around three main pillars Loving yourself , Loving each other and loving the planet . So if you're ready , let's jump in . Well , hello everybody . Welcome to our first episode of 2025 , episode 13 . I think we were keeping people on their toes like wondering if we were doing a podcast this year . What do you ?
Speaker 1think we've been talking about doing an episode for the longest time and we're finally here and it's finally happening , recording another one , one I've been wanting to do for a really long time yep , I think our excuse is really um , we have a toddler , so there's like limited amounts of time to do it , and he was off for two weeks during Christmas and then we were on vacation in Hawaii , so you know what it's like busy . All of a sudden , two months pass and here we are , but we hope to deliver some good interviews and episodes as the year goes on . So we thought we would kick off episode 13 , our first one of the year , with a topic , like Brian said , he wants to talk about and has wanted to talk about for a long time , one that I think will be a hot topic for a lot of people , and it's on toxins . We have another word for that in our house . What is it ?
Speaker 2you'll hear us talk about chemical shit storms all the time . It's like , oh , you know , we smell something , some kind of fake fragrance , like oh yeah , chemical shit storm . Or looking at some food , like oh yeah , chemical shit storm . Everything is always chemical shit storm , because that is , unfortunately , the world we live in these days .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's kind of all around us . Why don't you ask the question you wanted to ask the audience ?
Speaker 2Yeah . So what is something that everybody wants to avoid at all cost ? Uh , we eat it every day . We don't always know it's there , but we willingly pay for it , and it's toxins in all forms that's crazy and this is a big one .
Speaker 1Um , we'll link this in the show notes , but one really good episode is by steven bartlett , diary of ceo .
Speaker 2He had a great interview on toxins yeah and yeah , we'll link that for sure . And then the doctor uh , I'm going to talk about her as well . That , uh , he interviewed that , he interviewed her .
Speaker 1Her content's great so we're going to talk just about a whole bunch of things on this topic .
Speaker 2So , yeah , I started making some notes and then my notes started expanding and all of a sudden I have notes within notes , within tiny notes , and it's literally all over the place .
Speaker 2There's so much stuff to talk about here well , and since we were going to record this , because we tried about four times yeah , all these life things kept happening and I was like oh , that can go on the podcast yeah , and this is something that's been on my radar I honestly since for for years , like decades probably and when we talked about doing this podcast , you said , like we have to do this episode yeah , and I'm what ?
Speaker 2so what I want to do is I want to just kind of bring people's attention to places in your life where you're exposed to toxins that you might not know , and just like little little tricks how to avoid them , and then like what kind of harm they can be doing to you , and just helping people make the connection , because I think we're in a world that's we're just sort of unaware and it's so prevalent that it's just gonna you can't unhear this information .
Speaker 1So we're going to of unaware and it's so prevalent that it's just gonna you can't unhear this information .
Speaker 2so we're gonna apologize in advance , but this is for our own health and benefit yeah , and , like me , I'm a very sciencey guy , so I'm always reading articles about stuff , like all the time , and I've come across this stuff and I'm just like oh yeah , this stuff's common sense , like everyone knows this stuff . And then I tell britney she's like no , that's not common sense . No , like Everyone knows this stuff .
Speaker 1And then I tell Brittany she's like no , that's not common sense . No , like literally today , like talking about eating snow . It's snowing on the island . It doesn't ever . It's been the first two days it's snowed here . And you see kids just like eating snow , and I do . You did you eat snow as a kid ?
Speaker 2I ate snow as a kid , but it's very different than it was , than it is today .
Speaker 1Yeah , cause you were just like he's at Dorset . I'm like , don't eat that . And then he brought a snowball in , put it in a in a bowl . We watched it melt and it is actually disturbing what is in that snow .
Speaker 2Yeah , so , speaking of that , the first thing I want to talk about is actually microplastics .
Speaker 1Okay , so there we go .
Speaker 2So microplastics , um , basically , it's plastic that has been broken down into little , tiny pits , smaller than five millimeters , and it's in everything . We ingest it , we inhale it . Um , it's in the water , it's in the soil , it gets in our food , it's , it touches our food . Um , in my plastic , like plastic , plastic is in everything . It's like essential part of our life , right ? Um ? So we eat about a credit card's worth of plastic every week , every week , every week .
Speaker 2Okay , that is disturbing . So what is that doing to us , as you know , humans ? But , on the other hand , it's like , with all this stuff , everything I'm going to talk about , it's also we're forcing all of nature to be impacted from it too . So , every animal that's out there , they drink unfiltered water , you know . They're eating plants that are , you know , in ground . That's toxic , that's been contaminated , and this stuff is every , everywhere , right ? So with plastics , um , so what's in plastics ? There's phthalates , which is like an endocrine disruptor , uh , bpas , bisphenols , there's heavy metals , and pfast or pfas , and like tons and tons and tons . The list goes on and on and on . And well , like most plastics that , the plastics that were first introduced in the 50s , they're still on the planet today . Wow , and I'm guessing that those plastics will be on the planet long after humans have . You know , we've killed ourselves off from our stupidity , from how we treat the planet Because , like some of these plastics , they you know , they're going to take over 400 years to break down .
Speaker 1So when plastics were invented , was this not known information ?
Speaker 2Yes , it was all a big lie . So the thing that really bugs me about plastics everything that's you know , big pharma , big oil , big everything , everything that has a lot of money to be made there's no integrity . They know they have information but they go around that information to make profits and it's always profits over people , over planet , over everything . And there's real world consequences for everything that we do and people just they . They don't connect those links Totally . So hopefully I'm going to , I'm going to connect some of that here today . So with like , with microplastics , where the most of them end up is in the ocean . So the ocean is complete . You can't go anywhere on the planet and get a ocean sample without having plastic in it .
Speaker 1That is really sad .
Speaker 2Like we're talking the farthest reaches of the Arctic , the Antarctic . There's plastics everywhere . So 75% of that plastic is actually from tires , tires From tires . Okay . So here in British Columbia a few years ago there was a study . They had a massive die-off of salmon and the salmon all died in the stream right after a rainfall , after there'd been a huge drought . So tire pit bits and stuff accumulated on the roadsides near the . The river finally rained , washed everything in the river . Massive amounts of plastic and all those chemicals that go with it kill all the fish . So that's when they first started linking oh linking the stuff with tires .
Speaker 2So yeah , tires um clothes .
Speaker 1So I've been hearing a lot about this lately yeah , everything with clothes .
Speaker 2So everything , every piece of clothing .
Speaker 2That's not a natural like a linen yeah , like cotton , wool , you know everything , like whatever our our shirts made of . They're polyester , everything right . There's some kind of plastic , um . Every time you wash that , it breaks down a little tiny pieces and it goes into the sewage treatment plant and ultimately gets pumped into a river or an ocean or wherever right lakes like it's . That's where they end up , and you can get filters for your uh washing machine that catch most of that , which is kind of cool . Yeah , clean them out weekly , so it'll stop those .
Speaker 1Come with them normally no , but they should yeah they definitely should .
Speaker 2Um so , yeah , there's lint . Um , another thing with lint like when you do a load of laundry , you put that stuff in the dryer , all your clothes is tumbling together and that makes lint and you get in your dryer trap , right , yeah Well , everything the dryer chap doesn't catch goes outside and every single house is emitting microplastics .
Speaker 1So , every single house that has a dryer is putting microplastics in the environment at where they live it's like everything that made being a human in this day and age easier has is just really destroying it , because back in the day you just hang it on the line yeah , so trying to hang dry , I guess any of any of your gym clothes or anything that's not a natural fiber would eliminate a lot of that , because it's all rubbing together right , yeah , well , I think about when I dry , like I am so quick when I take out the lint from the trap and I just throw it in the garbage and there's like this kind of like cloud of stuff and I'm sitting there probably breathing it in , not even thinking .
Speaker 2That was actually . My next point is talking about that exact thing . I don't know what's on his . So when I , when I take that out , I I take a big breath , I take it out .
Speaker 2I try to take it out inside the dryer I know , and then I put it I put it in the in the garbage , close it and then , once I get away from the area , I'm breathing again . I'm like that sounds silly , but you're inhaling the tiniest bits of fibers you could possibly have right there at the site and that's an exposure right okay , we're all holding our breath .
Speaker 1I'm doing the lint trap .
Speaker 2It's note to self yeah , and people don't think about this stuff , but it's like I don't know , I'm weird like that . I think about the weirdest little things . That's good .
Speaker 1That's why we're sharing it with people .
Speaker 2Yeah , so I'm just sharing this with people . Fishing nets are another massive contributor . A lot of fishermen , once they're done or a net breaks , they just toss it in the ocean and then obviously it kills animals all over the place . Things get tangled , but as those break down , it , uh , just creates more plastic in the ocean . Um , so the plastic is also getting in the fish that we eat . So you , any wild caught fish now , or pretty much any fish you can go and you know , dissect it and you'll find plastic in in the meat is there anywhere that there isn't plastic ?
Speaker 2in rocks that were formed billions of years ago . That's pretty much it .
Speaker 2Like how do we fix this ? So , speaking of that , so we're in the age called the Anthropocene , so that's like one of the eras , right ? So Anthropocene is here . I got a little thing here . It's a period in Earth's history when humans have had a significant impact on the planet , and some examples are climate change , pollution , biodiversity loss and the chemical composition of , like the oil or the soils , oceans , in the atmosphere . So we've impacted the planet on such a scale now that we're living in a different , complete era oh my gosh , I love that for us yeah , and there's actually a movie called anthropocene uh , from 2018
Microplastics in Daily Life
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Speaker 2I remember watching it . Back then I was like , oh my god , this is it's it's . It's sad and bleak . Is is what it is , but it's a reality that we live in now , unfortunately .
Speaker 1So does that circle back to the snow ? Because that's coming out of the atmosphere . You think it's clean .
Speaker 2So , yeah , kids , today it snowed here today . Kids are eating snow and I'm just like , no , do not eat the snow , you don't know what's in it . So Marty took some snow home today , we put it in a bowl , melted it . And snow home today . We put it in a bowl , melted it and in this one snowball he grabbed beside the street .
Speaker 1The amount of microplastics in there and it appeared to look like a fluffy , clean piece of snow yeah , there's hundreds , hundreds of pieces of plastic in there and it's just there's like a cup of it in a bowl .
Speaker 2So then I went to the back deck and I picked a pristine one that's never been touched by anything , and it was a lot , but there was still plastic in it . So there's plastic in rain , there's plastic in snow , every reach of the planet , like on land even so I talked about like Antarctic and stuff and the oceans but on land , a pristine lake that's untouched by man somewhere has plastic in it because it's in the rain oh my god , we can't escape it you really can't escape it .
Speaker 1All we can do is do our best to avoid it there's one thing in our house that I know drives you the craziest , something that I still use , and I know I got to get rid of them . Do you know what I'm talking about ?
Speaker 2uh , I should know this . I don't know what all the microfiber ? Oh right yes , microfiber rags . Okay , this is , this is a big one . So , britney years ago we're talking like 15 years ago and we bought all these microfiber rags and we're using them and everything face cloths and face cleaning and glass cleaning rags exactly and cloths we're washing , we're washing our dishes with them .
Speaker 2We're , you know , drying off fruit with them . And one day , um , I cleaned my glasses with them and I looked at my glass . I'm like what the heck is all over my glasses ? And it was like a light bulb moment . I looked and it was my glasses were completely full of microfibers off these cloths and I was like , oh my God , I wash my apples with these stupid things , dry them . Every time I have an apple , I wash my apple and I dry it , so I'm putting microplastics on them before you eat it , exactly . So there's another thing avoid just microfiber . Cloths are microplastic making machines .
Speaker 1It's funny because the marketing is like these are micro fiber cloths , they're so great for you , and like if you're a girl and you're using these for makeup removal , it works . Like they're nice . They're not . They don't tug and pull at your skin . But like what should we be using ? Cotton , cotton uh bamboo like , or just good products that kind of melt your makeup off , which I use now , but it's just , it's inferior and you really can't escape it anywhere um what about in the kitchen ?
Speaker 2what are things that we did get rid of a long time ago , but a lot of people use these cutting boards , huge we were at a friend's house earlier and they're probably listening to this , but I seen they were using a plastic cutting board and I said I just blame the century and I'll like you gotta throw that in the garbage right now , like do not cut anything else on that . And you look at it and it's all chewed up and it's you know from like the cut marks and using an iphone , it's not flat anymore . It's got dips in it . I'm like you've eaten all that plastic . Yeah , it's all .
Speaker 1You need two credit cards this week .
Speaker 1Yeah , exactly oh , so get rid of that and something else that if you're a mom and you have like your little toddler plates brian is always on me about I am not allowed to cut anything on a plastic plate . First you cut it on a regular plate or a wooden cutting cutting board or whatever and then put it on the kid plate . And lots of times I'll go to my friends houses or people's places and I'll see like their kids' plastic plates and just cut marks every which way . Again , we're feeding our kids plastic but like I'm telling you , no one's doing this on purpose . We're not like oh , let's just add microplastic to the meal . People don't understand how it's everywhere .
Speaker 2And another example salt shaker . Remember that . Oh my God , I forgot about that one .
Speaker 2Oh my gosh this is over a year ago when , before we stopped drinking , I was making margaritas and I had the salt grinder and I was grinding some salt on a plate and I'm like why is there all this ? What's all this black stuff in there ? And I look really closely and it was black plastic out of the grinder . So as you turn the salt , it was taking plastic and grinding it up inside and spitting it out the bottom we can't help ourselves .
Speaker 2It's so frustrating and you can't use sea salt . So if you're , if you're buying salt , don't buy sea salt , because sea salt automatically has plastic in it , because all the plastic in the ocean you have to buy himalayan , like pink salt or a salt that comes from a rock that's been in like a celtic salt , yeah , some kind of salt that's been in rock form before humans were here , like a himalayan salt is a great , oh , my goodness , okay people are probably gonna need to take notes about this , or they're gonna stop listening because they can't handle how it's just ruining their lives at this point well , you just got to be aware of it and stop doing it , because , like humans are going to pay for this , and like we already are we already are .
Speaker 2I mean , you can't deny that we're sicker than we've ever been yeah , well , and where ?
Speaker 1where else did microplastics show up ? Like weren't you saying at one point , like a fetus ?
Speaker 2it was in like fetuses oh it's in every organ in our body . It's in my balls , it's in your , it's in your skin , it's in , it's in everywhere .
Speaker 1It's in every part of your body and this is , like I would say , for women too , or men too , but like major hormone disrupting huge hormone disrupting um it's been .
Speaker 2They found it in placentas . Now they've pretty much . They've pretty much found in every single placenta that they've tested in the last few years .
Speaker 1Glad I did placenta encapsulation and also ate that yeah , recycled plastics , oh my God .
Speaker 2But , they're also finding it in the fetus and they're finding it in people's brains , so it's going past the blood brain barrier . It's like what ?
Speaker 1Who invented plastic ?
Speaker 2I don't know that's . You need a time machine . I mean , there's been a lot of benefits from plastic , but we're not doing ourselves any favors .
Speaker 1No , and I think a lot of people that are just like you know , kind of turn their nose up to this stuff will likely , a , they're not listening to this , but b you know , they're like we couldn't live without plastic yeah , um , a lot of things that make plastic soft , like the bpas and stuff like that are the hormone disruptor , so like vinyl is a bad one , uh , shower curtains or another bad one like and can we talk for a minute about um black plastic ?
Speaker 2oh , black plastic . Yeah , so a lot of black plastic is made from recycled electronics . You Electronics are naturally full of like flame retardants , right Like PFAs and stuff like that .
Speaker 1So where's black plastics , like , I think , every time you buy like a chicken at the store , like those chickens , like the cooked chickens ?
Speaker 2Yeah , cooked chicken , that's in like a black thing or takeout dishes from like any restaurant .
Speaker 2Yeah , those are all black plastic . And then what do you do with the food ? You put the black plastic in the freaking microwave and make your make it worse . Well , that's another thing I'm going to get to . Um , but like uh , utensils for , you know , making soup , and like you know , the black kitchen utensils , oh , my god , we have some of those . Oh no , I got rid of a lot of them , but we still have a couple , but I don't use them anymore .
Speaker 1I just , but we shouldn have a couple . But I don't use them anymore , I just use , but we shouldn't be using them .
Speaker 2Just use wood ones . Okay , use wood . Um , bamboo is actually probably my favorite thing to use in the kitchen now . Wow , anything else on black plastic , um well , plastic in general . Don't heat it up .
Speaker 1Yeah . Cause you're just the chemicals in it are just leing more into .
Speaker 2I've seen at the start of the day . It was like a bag of broccoli . Oh , just throw it in the microwave , steam ready . I'm like no .
Speaker 1I mean we've known this for years , Like I . I mean we've been together for 25 years and I remember when we were in high school , like you yelling at your mom about like take that , stupid , you know the plastic thing over you put over the food in the microwave , that off .
Speaker 2why is and ?
Speaker 1I remember being a kid growing up putting that over think oh , I'm not getting splatter all over my microwave .
Speaker 2Yeah , we're putting we're killing ourselves with plastic saran wrap on your stuff and heating . Oh my gosh , I do remember that . Never , ever , ever , heat plastic up , ever , ever , okay , when it's touching your food because it's instantly releasing microplastics and all the toxins along with it directly into your food .
Speaker 1Okay , um cups starbucks go to timmy's oh , this is where brian has .
Speaker 2Really , I'm gonna , you're not gonna unhear this , you guys , you're not gonna unhear this ever have you ever gone a day in like your life , in the last you know , 10 , 15 years , without seeing somebody holding a ? Um disposable cup from like tim hortons or starbucks or a coffee shop and they're just sipping it and blah , blah , blah . So it's a paper cup but it's lined with plastic . What happens when you put heat on plastic is it releases all those chemicals . So one cup of coffee or one little thing of coffee or tea or whatever , when you put the hottest liquid in possible , yeah , like we're talking tens of thousands of bits of microplastic right there . So every day you're plastic , microplastic maxing on every single cup that you have micro dosing microplastic yep , so you know I purposely microdose mushrooms .
Speaker 2But every day we unintentionally yeah , micro microdose plastic and a bunch of other chemicals .
Speaker 1I'm not really a Starbucks drinker , but when I'm at an airport I tend to get one and I don't enjoy it anymore because all I think about is that .
Plastic Consumption Awareness and Solutions
Speaker 2So just get yourself like a stainless steel go cup , a Yeti kind of thing , and just give them that . Will they do that ? Yeah , a lot of places will they should . I don't see why not .
Speaker 1Yeah , Well , and then it helps with , like , the litter and all the things . Because I just think of , like me and Marty went for a walk a couple weeks ago and I had a couple of dog bags . Obviously , if the dogs went , number two and he just started picking up garbage on the ground I mean he's three but he sees you do taught , and he always sees you picking up garbage , leaving things better than you found it . So he's like mommy , garbage , garbage . And we had an entire dog bag full of garbage after walking like four blocks in a very nice neighborhood and you know like most of that bag was full of plastic Cups that people just throw on the street . First of all , littering . Why are we littering ?
Speaker 2Come on , yeah , we got to teach our kids better . We have to teach our kids better , like we've taught Marty . Marty knows what's good and bad . Now he's like that's not good for the earth , right , like that hurts the earth . I'm like , yeah , it doesn't just hurt the earth , it hurts everybody , because a lot of places , but what about the dog bag ?
Speaker 1Is that ?
Speaker 2Well , it's plastic , yes , and they say it's biodegradable , but most of them really aren't . But some people take their dog bag , they go in the woods and then they put their poop in a bag and then they just throw the bag in the woods . I'm like , well , what was the point of that ?
Speaker 1Is that why people do it ? Because they think it's just going to be biodegradable .
Speaker 2Yes , but yeah , it just doesn't make any sense , so just don't do that .
Speaker 1I should be taking what a paper bag to pick up my garbage ?
Speaker 2No , You're going to have to use the plastic bag in that case .
Speaker 1I guess , yeah , I'm picking up more plastic than I'm throwing out . But anyways .
Speaker 2So just leave everywhere better than you found it . Pick up plastic . It's Brian's golden rule Leave everything and everyone better than you found it Like when we went to rica , I went for a hike up the beach and I purposely brought bags with me , like big garbage bags , because I knew I was going to find plastic on the beach . I could have brought back like 10 giant garbage bags for plastic easy .
Speaker 1I brought back as much as I possibly could well then , we were just in hawaii and you were out just swimming in the water and you kept bringing all the stuff you're finding . Oh , yeah , we'll post pictures on our instagram and keep it in our highlights so you guys can see it . But yeah , it's like why is this stuff just in beautiful nature , in the most beautiful ? It doesn't belong .
Speaker 2No we just have to be better stewards , and you know this is a challenge I'm going to put out to everyone that's listening . Is you find plastic ? Just pick it up pick it up yeah , just be your role model for everyone around you . Just be that person , right ? That's good , good advice . Uh , remember , we've been making . I was making ghee the other day . Oh my gosh , you guys , we make ghee .
Speaker 1We've been making this for a long time . I don't know what ghee is . It's like clarified butter yeah , so you heat it up takes out most of the micro or most of the dairy , yeah , milk solids and , yeah , you literally heat up this butter on the stove until it becomes clarified and to get the ghee to separate the milk solids from the liquid gold you put it through .
Speaker 2What is it called ? Well , it's a nut milk bag , so it's a really fine bag , like a cheesecloth right , and I'm pouring it through . I'm like holy shit , this bag is plastic it's plastic . I'm like , oh my god . So now I'm maxing out my plastic dose on my ghee every day . So now , how do we make ghee ? Make ghee . We have to get a natural fiber one . Oh my gosh . So another thing for us to do .
Speaker 1It's like where in your day can you see that you're unintentionally eating microplastic ?
Speaker 2All right , while we're talking about bags , let's talk about tea bags . So tea bags are usually made of some of them are made of like a type of paper , but a lot of them are made of actual plastic . So when you take your hot teabag and you put it in your or your teabag and you put it in your hot water , instantly you have microplastic soup . So you need to look for teabags that are paper . Or you can take like loose tea or open up a plastic tea bag and and put it in one of those little I don't like a little stainless thing , thing or something that just goes into your , into your cup , so you can soak it , soak the tea that way , instead of exposing yourself to the plastic in the bag .
Speaker 2Uh , okay , another thing carpets , carpets . Every carpet is made of microplastics . Okay , so they get in the air . So our air inside our house , um , especially if you have like moving air , like a furnace or some kind of fan system , it's blowing it around all the time . I see it on our stove every morning right when I wake up . And well , the kitchen utensils , you know . And well , the kitchen utensils , you know . Some people grab the kitchen utensils that it's beside the stove just sitting out there like your big spoons and all that , and those grab it , and you know .
Speaker 2Next , time you cook something , use it . Well , I looked at them one day . I'm like this is covered in plastics , microplastics . So you rinse off that stuff , anything that's out that can get plastic on it . It's going to touch food . Rinse it off , yeah , please . But carpets yeah , carpets are microplastics . Carpets are full of all kinds of chemicals , fire retardants like stain-resistant chemicals , and yeah , it gets in the air . We breathe it in . So vacuum more as much as you can . I usually vacuum every two days at least . Yeah , you can Like . I usually vacuum every two days at least , yeah you do .
Speaker 1We've always been on the carpets , you know get the corners .
Speaker 2And if you've got kids babies especially crawling on the floor like their nose is right there sucking that stuff up .
Speaker 1Or would you just say don't have carpets ?
Speaker 2Well , I don't know . Carpets are nice , but you can get natural fiber carpets too . Okay , just pay a fortune for them , but they're available . Get a HEPA filter . Is that what we have ? We have one in both our rooms .
Speaker 1So we can link our bedrooms .
Speaker 2Yeah , marty's bedroom , our bedroom . We have HEPA filters and they just run all the time . It catches insane amounts of stuff . So another thing right there um , floss , uh well , I'm going to talk about that one when I talk about pfas a little bit more , um . But let's talk about throughput . No one knows what throughput is . What is that ? Throughput is a term for when you buy something at the store , it's the part of the item that you buy that is destined for the trash . It's all the packaging . So sometimes you'll go and buy something and there's more packaging than product . Actually , quite often , Right .
Speaker 2We ought to make everything look so amazing in this packaging and everything's destined for the landfill . What's an example ? Everything you go and buy razors , you go and buy this mouse that I got for the landfill . What's like an example ? Everything you go and buy razors , you go and buy like this mouse that I got for the computer . Like everything , everything comes in plastic .
Speaker 1But I even think one simple thing that I was thinking is silly is toilet paper . Oh , toilet paper , like individually wrapped . Oh yeah , toilet paper , just ripping up all the plastic .
Speaker 2You go to Costco and they got plastic encased and then plastic encased again on the inside . It's literally why you don't buy it there . We like to pay money for our nice toilet paper yeah , we actually have been using a bamboo toilet paper and it's really nice actually probably the nicest I've ever used and we're not cutting down trees and bamboo grows like crazy . Yeah , it's very sustainable . So , and that's not individually wrapped and that .
Speaker 1In plastic . Okay , that's something to think about . What's it called Throughput ?
Speaker 2Throughput . So that's a thing that we can think about in our chain of consumerism on how we get stuff .
Speaker 1So I know one thing when I was doing little yogurts I thought , well , this would be nice for Marty , just little yogurts . And you're no , it's like a hundred million little pieces of plastic .
Speaker 2buy the jug of yogurt yeah , and you know that yogurt's touching food or like cheese like why cheese drinks or that , uh any , all that food is sorry , is touching the plastic well , yeah , that's another thing .
Speaker 1But yeah , you know , like cheese strings , like just buy a block of cheese yeah , yeah , like think about the plastic the packaging of things . That's really a good I .
Speaker 2I mean , just look and be a little bit mindful in a week's time as you're throwing stuff in a garbage can how much plastic there is and you're be surprised . Yeah , I wish I had that stat of how much plastic people use every year . It's mind-boggling like our world is now plastic . There's plastic fossils now on beaches that have melted from the sun and they've just become one with the earth because they've just kind of melted into the earth .
Speaker 1Something else with plastic , whenever , if you ever do they do this anymore with cans , Like where they have , like you have to take the cans off that little six ring can thing . You know what I'm talking about , oh yeah , the little holder for a six pack and you you'd always say , cut that before you throw it in the garbage , because if not it's going to end up and it's going to like kill a turtle well , I could , and I've seen it but things like that , like I didn't even think of that .
Speaker 1I mean , I think of it all the time now , whenever there's like a round well , it's kind of like a little danny fishing net yeah , think about it . Right , I also got on plastic because it feels like a never ending list .
Speaker 2Oh man , I know we're going to miss stuff on that , but it's , I guess it's just everywhere and we don't want it . We don't want to be around it . Yeah , we want to try to avoid it as much as possible and hopefully what I some of the things I just talked about will , will help you do that .
Speaker 1Well , a couple of things , I guess , that have happened since we were going to record this episode and then haven't , hadn't recorded . It was our son was pretending to be a puppy and he was had a little stuffy like in his mouth , like a little um , what are those called ?
Speaker 2Like the gingerbread man thing . Yeah , it was like a fleece , like a jelly cat type thing .
Speaker 1And I didn't think anything . I just thought , oh fun , he's playing like being a puppy and there's a thing in his mouth and he's going around and barking and you're like , get that out of your mouth . And I was like , brian , it's fine . And you're like he's literally eating plastic , he's sucking on this stuffy and I think like how many kids suck on stuffies ?
Speaker 2Yeah , they're eating plastic right there .
Speaker 1So there's
Toxins and Microplastics Awareness
Speaker 1one weird thing . And then we had neighbors we'll move a house for sale beside us and these people rolled up and Brian's like , oh great turf .
Speaker 2Oh yes , the neighbors putting in fake grass . Fake grass is the biggest BS thing I've ever seen . First off , you're taking away all biodiversity . Nothing's going to come up through the ground . Nothing's going to go from the top side into the ground . You're creating microplastics because now that's , every time the sun hits it , it's breaking it down . Every time it rains , it's breaking it down , it's breaking it into the soil , it's washing off into wherever , just getting in the environment . It should be like , not allowed . It should be completely illegal . It's legal . Littering is what it is . That's a good way to put it .
Speaker 1And cigarette butts . Sorry for everybody , Okay cigarette butts .
Speaker 2One cigarette butt is hundreds of thousands of microplastics , because it's literally made of microplastics .
Speaker 1There's one thing we have a little bit of tolerance for , it's A smoking and B throwing your butts on the ground . Yeah , so if that's you and if you're smoking , just don't put them on the ground , Just don't smoke , just don't put them on the ground , just don't smoke .
Speaker 2Well , also that this is your year . Don't love yourself a little more , love the planet a little more .
Speaker 1That's crazy , though that's a lot of microplastics in that . I keep coming back like this is a lot .
Speaker 2This could be a microplastics , oh my god , okay , well , let's talk about toxins next okay , part two , I'll try to make this quick , so let's or not . Toxins , uh , pfas or pfas , which are forever chemicals , so they're a chemical bond that just never breaks down . Okay , so this is per and polyfluoroalkaline substances . There's over four . There's almost 5 000 different substances of these and they are in every single person on the planet's blood for one .
Speaker 2They , uh . What do they do here ? They cause cancer . They are hormone disrupting . Uh , again , uh , liver , thyroid issues , reproductive issues on a massive scale , so like they really mess with fetal development . When they were making this chemical , they told every female on the line , uh , that they couldn't be there anymore , but they didn't give them a reason why . Oh my , they knew about this , but they allowed it to go forward .
Speaker 1So would this be contributing to like issues that kids have when they're born , or would it contribute to abortion or like not abortion ?
Speaker 2Miscarriages , Miscarriages . I mean all this stuff adds up to a lot of that .
Speaker 1And I think miscarriages too , and not that we make any sort of claims or give a stat , but like I don't know if people just talk about it more , or was it always this common , because I feel like it's very common . I don't know the stat on it , but like it makes you wonder , like all of this has to be connected , I mean when a baby or someone miscarries that baby , just it's not developing because it's not an environment that's perfect for it .
Speaker 2Yeah , so it's . It doesn't progress . Yeah , sadly , and all this stuff is a contributor that's right , and it's little by little , by little , microdosing all these things by a million cuts . That's a hundred percent and it's . It's so sad . Um , so yeah , you'll find this stuff in firefighting foam , non-stick cookware like get rid of anything , t-fal , especially like you scratch . One little tiny scratch is like 90 000 particles or something like that of that's on the podcast with yeah , it's it's crazy , um , so we we've gone to um , always pan by our place .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's the one we're using now . So they have a non-stick , non-toxic ceramic coating , which is really great . Um , any , a lot of packaging . Takeout foods again . So you get that , you know cardboard thing with the the liner inside . Those are full of pfas , right , uh , straws , you get paper straws . Paper straws in the middle , pfas plastic in the middle of paper straws . Yes , so , so anything water resistant , water resistant fabrics you think raincoats um your carpets , couches , uh , anything water resistant uh is pfas umain resistant fabrics like carpets , cleaning products , personal care products like stuff we're meant to put directly on our body .
Speaker 2Yeah , and this stuff is insanely toxic . You guys like insanely toxic Band-Aids , so you got an open cut with a direct path into your bloodstream and there's pfas in the band-aid that goes on your cuff so what do you do instead of a band-aid like what is the answer here ? There are companies that are pfa free that you can get it's mad , this is maddening .
Speaker 1Yeah , let's talking about ?
Speaker 2uh , nail polish . It's a nail polish , it's an eye makeup . This is the dental fussing you're talking about . So we've been using this , uh , glide floss like six or ten pack from costco .
Speaker 2Yeah like works really good . And then one day I'm looking at this , I'm like this looks like teflon tape that you use when you're doing plumbing right , and so then we've seen a thing all about it and it's literally full of pfa . So you're putting these pfas directly in your mouth , on your gums , and it's going directly in your bloodstream , micro dosing it every single day . So we got a new floss recently that's uh made . What is it ? Charcoal bamboo and there's a vegan wax on it .
Speaker 1It's been amazing , and our dental hygienist , she got it , she got it she loves it and she has , she loves it Makes us think too about like I don't know if you have an answer about this , but toothbrush bristles .
Speaker 2Yeah , like those are microplastics too , but they don't really break down enough to do anything .
Speaker 1But we're all throwing out heads .
Speaker 2Oh , the heads yeah .
Speaker 1Like we have electric toothbrushes and we're always replacing the heads , or you're having a toothbrush and you're throwing the toothbrushes out . Like think of everybody in the world brushing their teeth and how many toothbrushes in a life . Do you have A ?
Speaker 2lot . Like it's stuff like that . So I recently found a replacement head for our Oral-B electric toothbrush yeah , a replacement head for our Oral-B electric toothbrush that's made of bamboo and the bristles are plant-based Interesting , and all biodegrades , okay . So that's what we're going to be getting next , okay , another place you'll find PFAs is microwave popcorn bags . So , they're in there . Plus , you're heating them up , which releases them more . Now you have a toxic bowl of popcorn . Awesome , those Ziploc plastic bags that you put food in . There's traces of PFAs in there Bottled water .
Speaker 1Oh , you ruined bottled water for me . You know the health is not to like . I need bottled water . You go on a trip , I need bottled water . It's like terrible , yeah . So the bottled water also has the microplastics in it Ridiculous amount of microplastics in the bottled water also has the microplastics in it .
Speaker 2Ridiculous amount of microplastics in the bottled water .
Speaker 1So put your bottled water in glass or stainless steel so when we travel , we always just bring lots of bottles um plastic . Well , not glass , that's heavy , but like stainless steel , is usually what we have , and you just always refill them at the . Well , sometimes you like find a hose behind the . How do you explain ?
Speaker 2it . The ice machine ? Yeah , yeah , sometimes I find like filtered water .
Speaker 1Yeah , sometimes ice machines at hotels have a filter in the back and you can actually there's a little offshoot on it and you can get water directly to that and I think hotels are getting smarter , because we were just at the hyatt in maui and they had like a station to fill up with water , so so you just go and you'd always take all of your bottles fill them with water . So we really avoided all bottled water . Yeah , but that's like a goal now is to avoid bottled water . Or I go to the airport . I'm like I'm just going to grab some you know , expensive ass bottled water and you're like how do you like ? Sun will also also also leach microplastics .
Speaker 2so there's another one there yeah , so just , I don't know , this is a hard one . They're starting to phase this , this stuff , out in places , but when it's all phased out , it's still going to be in our system and on the planet for for ages . Uh , so , two documentaries or two films that people should watch on this . There's a documentary called the devil , we know , and that one's all about , uh well , I think both these shows are about the same thing . Um , it's all about dupont and kind of what happened at their main plant and when , when they were making pfas . And then there's a movie called dark waters , and if you want to know the truth about this and how shady and corrupt large companies are like there's , think about this . There's people who made these decisions to move forward with this stuff , knowing how bad it was , but they can hide behind a corporation and they're protected like the people are protected . People made these decisions to do this , yeah , knowing like no , integrity no it's , it's horrible , all right .
Speaker 2Anything else that you want to add for toxins ? No , I feel like for pfas .
Speaker 1The only place that we've maybe had it sort of what figured out is our personal hair products .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Do you feel Like when I think that's ? You know , when I started using Arbonne products , like 19 years ago , I remember not having , I mean , and I was like 20 , but I remember thinking I never connected the dots about what I put on my skin goes into my body , like I didn't even make that connection . I know that might sound silly because you're listening . You're like well , duh , but some people might not even realize that , like the lotions you use like perfume .
Speaker 2Yeah , like VOCs . So let me talk about that .
Speaker 1Okay , so that's the next section VOCs .
Speaker 2Yeah , let's talk about VOCs . So VOCs are volatile organic compounds , so it's basically everything that has a smell , whether it's natural , from , like you know , a tree , like that nice pine smell when you go in the forest , or a flower , or everything man-made that has a smell . The difference is the man-made ones are toxic , the other ones are fine . Yeah , for the most part . So you want to have not everything natural ? Um , so vocs will . Um , yeah , there's the . Basically vocs are off-gassing . So it's like oh , I love that new car smell , so you love off-gassing chemicals I used to always say that so everything that has a smell .
Speaker 2Um , like when you , you know , start up a computer and computer gets hot , you know , sometimes that has a smell , right yeah everything has a smell . Right yeah , Everything has a smell . It's in fuels , paints , basically everything that's petrochemical based Cleaning supplies , laundry detergents .
Chemical Detox for Health
Speaker 2Oh , that's great .
Speaker 1Oh my .
Speaker 2God , yes , all this stuff . So , oh man , there's so many things to talk about here too . Let's talk about laundry detergents here .
Speaker 1Quick Chemical shitstorm , that's a big chemical shit storm . Yeah , just walking outside and you can just smell people doing laundry like you shouldn't smell that yeah , so if you smell someone's laundry , it's chemical shit , you're posing yourself to vocs .
Speaker 2Um , like walking down the cleaning aisle at a grocery store . The worst instant headache and just sick . Yeah . But some people , like someone who's not hasn't removed that stuff from their life yet , they will walk down that aisle and they're like , oh , whatever , it smells great Once you've restarted removing the stuff from your life , and then you get exposed to it again .
Speaker 1You're like .
Speaker 2Oh , my God .
Speaker 1I remember back in the day I used to clean with pine salt and the only way I felt like my house was clean is if I smelt the pine salt .
Speaker 2Did you know ?
Speaker 1there's not any actual pine in pine salt I'm not surprised at this point , but you know what I mean like so back years and years ago it took me a while to realize you can still clean without the smell of a chemical shitstorm cleaner . And then that translated into our laundry soap and we switched that years and years ago , never using fabric sheets or fabric sheets are horrible . They're basically coating your clothes oh my gosh , why do those exist ?
Speaker 1um , those unstoppable little beads that to make your laundry smell good just walk to your laundry room right now and take any of this things that we're talking about and throw them out yeah , you're not doing anyone , like a lot of people have .
Speaker 2You're not doing anyone any favors . Yeah , like the smell is no good , especially if you have kids . Like you have skin sensitivities like and this stuff's absorbing it through your skin again , like there's so many things .
Speaker 2It just infuriates me that you know you watch if you see a commercial or anything or an advertisement about these . Oh , the fresh scent of gain , the fresh scent of chemical shit storm . No , remove that out of your life . Everything should be natural . Like we've been forced into this belief that the only way anything is clean is with some kind of chemical and we willingly pay money to these chemical companies to expose ourselves to it and just think , like when you use anything liquid , um , you're putting it in the laundry , you're putting it down the drain , or soap or whatever . It's all going in the environment through the water , yeah , so look , go , look down the aisle of the laundry detergent .
Speaker 1All that stuff is going in the water , yeah one thing that sucks the most is all the stuff that you could swap to that's a better alternative is usually more expensive , but not always that's true . Your laundry or the dishwasher pods we've been using for a long time are not no , they're actually cheaper and they work great . Yeah , so like dishwasher pods they're also like chemical shit storm dishwasher pods , so bad for your guts , like actual gut health , which is what everybody's talking about right now .
Speaker 2It's who would have thought like that is something to change yes , everything that you have in your house for cleaning soap , everything , every kind of soap can be swapped over to something natural . We've been using Mel Luca .
Speaker 1Yeah , and Modera for a long time . For a long time , modera soap .
Speaker 2Yeah , and there's a lot of natural stuff at most stores now too . Yeah , a lot of better options .
Speaker 1But I think it's weird when you because for me it was really weird to associate clean without the smell and so if that's still you , you just got to get used to it . And the more you're , like you said , unexposed to it , the more you'll notice it , because even I used to be able to wear all kinds of different perfumes . We both did . We had our favorites . I had like a perfume collection I know it's great .
Speaker 1Cologne , yeah , and then straight up phthalates , phthalates , straight up phthalates . And so then I was like well , there's only this brand that I can use , or this brand . I literally can use nothing , nothing anymore , because I get such a headache . And it's like interesting when you think about that , like if a perfume lingers , if you smell it , it's full of the yeah , everything , everything that has .
Speaker 2If you you got to turn around , turn it around and read the back of it . If it says fragrance and it doesn't say natural or no phthalates that fragrance can be like . I can't remember how many chemicals , like 4 000 different chemicals or something like that listen to the , if you're , if this is an interesting topic for you .
Speaker 1Do go listen to the Diary of a CEO podcast , because that was the one that really got us our wheels spinning more for this podcast too .
Speaker 2Yeah , so it has to say natural fragrance . Yeah , so you want everything just to be fragranced with essential oil , basically .
Speaker 1And for perfume , like I just love an essential oil roller and just have it and put it on more often speaking of things with smells candles , as we're sitting here with one .
Speaker 2yes , so candles also endocrine disruptors , carcinogens , fragrances , formaldehyde , benzene , toluene , pm 2.5 , which is particulate matter5 , which is a tiny , tiny particles that go down into your lungs when you breathe . Yeah , so your candles , most of them , are made from um petroleum wax . Um , sometimes there's , sometimes there's lead in the wicks .
Speaker 1Wow .
Speaker 2So you want to have cotton wicks , wood wicks um beeswax is the best kind of of wax um soy wax , coconut wax , any kind of any kind of everything natural , and then no fragrance in there . So if you're trying to find a deal on a candle and you look at the bottom and it doesn't say um natural scents or whatever essential oil scents , don't buy it well , remember , there's a giant one from that brand I liked at costco and I was like I'm gonna get this and you turn it around , you're like no , it said soy blend yeah , they try to trick you in the marketing yeah .
Speaker 1So soy blend is it's probably like one percent soy and 99 percent especially , you got kids in your house babies , toddlers , whatever , yeah , I mean just ourselves and you're inhaling it yeah , those plugins that you put in your house to make smell those I don't know . Or like car fresheners , that you hang in your car like is it 1999 yeah , all that's chemical shit store I remember having a peach tree , like the trees that you hung in your on your rear view mirror .
Speaker 1Yeah , like the peach smelling ones , thinking like my car smells good . Yeah , do people still use . Still use those today .
Speaker 2Yeah , I've seen .
Speaker 1I literally I just can't believe that the things that should be illegal , that are not .
Speaker 2Oh , toilet bowl cleaners , that's another one . You can get good toilet bowl cleaners in our .
Speaker 1What's your take on bleach ?
Speaker 2There's people that are like I need bleach for this ?
Speaker 1Like what's bleach about , I wonder .
Speaker 2I don't know , I don't think it's really necessary , because it ends up in the water yeah , well , look at the process , where it's made and what that entails . And yeah , you're also exposing yourself to the chlorine too , which is not awesome so this is a real upper in terms of a podcast .
Speaker 1Yeah , um .
Speaker 2We talk about cooking , so natural gas stoves oh yeah , um , unfortunately who ?
Speaker 1knew this was such a culprit .
Speaker 2You're exposing yourself to benzene , carbon monoxide and a bunch of other chemicals . So if you're , especially if your house isn't your hood , your hood range or whatever isn't exhausted to the outside , it's all collecting in your house well , some people probably cook on a on a gas range without the fan on yeah so if you have a gas range stove , make sure you have the fan on , turn the fan and that it's vented outside right
Speaker 2away um , but if you are shopping for ovens , maybe don't pick gas yeah , we had one and it was honestly a huge pain in the ass to clean .
Speaker 1We don't prefer it yeah .
Speaker 2Induction is our preference .
Speaker 1Yeah , but we didn't realize it was so much for the health benefit 100% , yeah .
Speaker 2So a great way to detox yourself from a lot of this stuff first , exercise sweating really gets a lot of this stuff out of you , so work up a really , really , really good sweat . So that's one way . Another way is glutathione . So this is an essential amino acid that your body actually makes , and they call this the master antioxidant . So this is from so your body makes this from sulfuric vegetables mostly , so things that are high is broccoli especially broccoli sprouts is , I think , has the highest concentration , like cauliflower , garlic , asparagus but by organic probably , yeah , by organic , and you know I'm going to talk about uh food here in a second too .
Speaker 2But um , bedding , that was another one . So are you sleeping on a foam mattress ? Yeah so your foam mattress is probably be made from polyurethane , which is also releasing vocs as you sleep . So your pillow should be made out of natural fibers , because this stuff's breaking down continuously too , right ?
Speaker 2you're breathing it in for half your life yeah , so you get exposed to it every night as you sleep . So we bought a latex bed . Yeah , we have cotton duvet . Um , no , silk duvet , cotton duvet cover . Our my main pillow now actually is latex with like cotton pillowcase and tensile I don't know if it's tensile Bamboo , bamboo sheets . Yeah , that's what we got , so just like another swap there . And then food . We can talk a little bit about food .
Speaker 1So some people think buying organic is overrated . What do you say to that ?
Speaker 2No , for many reasons . No , for many reasons . First , like there is some chemicals on organic , but they're not the same chemicals that you'll find on traditional food . But the chemicals , like people say , there's like a two list , there's the dirty dozen and the clean 15 or whatever . I'm like okay , well , maybe those chemicals aren't soaking into the skin on the clean 15 or whatever . I'm like okay , well , those , maybe those chemicals aren't soaking into the skin , the skin on the clean 15 , but they're still going into the environment around those plants . So if you got a tree from an avocado because avocados are on the clean 15 list so you don't have to buy organic , apparently they still spray chemicals on them . Those chemicals still go in the ground , infect the , the whole environment , run downstream .
Speaker 1So it's what lens you're looking at it from ? Right If you're looking at it from an environmental lens , why would you want anything that is sprayed ?
Speaker 2with that , but at the same time , maybe it doesn't absorb through the skin , but it's going in the ground , into the water . What does a tree drink ? A tree drinks water , which goes up the tree into the fruit . Yeah , so I'm pretty sure you're still going to be exposed either way .
Speaker 1We have for a very long time buying organic wherever we can 100% and like , won't even buy things that we need if it's not organic .
Speaker 2Yeah , and you have to wash your vegetables and there's ways to do it . You can do it baking soda , vinegar , there's special vegetable washes . You just want to get that stuff off of your vegetables and your fruit Even if it's organic .
Speaker 2Even if it's organic , you still get to wash it , but especially if it's not , yeah , like strawberries , I think , are one of the worst , yeah , the worst culprits . Another thing is glyphosate . Glyphosate roundup is pretty much sprayed on every single crop all over the world these days , and what glyphosate does is it kills the plant and the plant is able to produce . It kind of goes into like a panic mode and it sends all its energy up to , like the head of the wheat , say , so you get , you'll get more yield . It tries to survive , right , so it sends all the energy up . You get more plant or more fruit out of it , and it makes sure the crops are all dead and dry at the same time . So when they're harvesting , you don't have , like , some spots that are green still so , so it helps with harvesting , right , right , but what this does is in humans , it it blocks the uh , it's called the shikimate pathway . So this shikimate pathway is what makes amino acids in plants , fungi and bacteria .
Speaker 2So what is the healthiest soil out there is full of like fungi and bacteria . So immediately , you've killed your soil . Yeah , you have no biodiversity in your soil . You have plants that can't um , they're not talking to each other because there's none of that mycelium or the fungi . So these plants are less resistant to bugs , so you need more chemicals to throw on them to help with pests and all this stuff . And now we're eating this stuff . And what is our microbiome ?
Speaker 2our whole microbiome is bacteria right so you're interrupting our microbiome , which is essential to our whole overall health , our mental health , it's everything . So if you look at stats of people that are , like gluten intolerant , yeah .
Speaker 1Why has that become such a thing as ?
Speaker 2soon as people the crop started getting sprayed more and more and more . This people , who were Got problems .
Speaker 2Yeah , got problems . People were gluten intolerant , like it's amazing . You just have to look gluten intolerant like it's amazing . You just have to look at the numbers and it's like , okay , well , obviously this isn't
Clean Living and Conscious Consumption
Speaker 2good . So if you're going to buy any kind of wheat or anything um , basically anything , everything that's that is gmo is usually sprayed with with glyphosate . So you buy something that's non-gmo , it's going to not be sprayed of glyphosate and you just won't get that exposure well , even with you .
Speaker 1You are sensitive to gluten , you notice it and you will eat like pizza or pasta if you know that the type of wheat is if it's organic , I can .
Speaker 2I can tolerate it . You can imagine that imagine that , imagine that so another thing you just gotta look where your food food comes from we're always looking at packaging what's sprayed on it . Yeah , like we just have to turn things around and educate ourselves on what ingredients actually are , because there's a lot of bs out there . Yeah , um , okay , can we just talk about skincare a little bit more ?
Speaker 1um , okay , well , this is getting long , you guys . Thanks for listening . We're at 55 minutes so I'll keep this part short and sweet . But I think I was saying I think that's one place that we've sort of gotten like we've figured out over the last few years , or the one place we've maybe done it more right than others is with our personal care products .
Speaker 1Just because I started using Arbonne like 19 years ago and it's always been like such a strict ingredient policy and that's why I love Europe , because they have the strictest ingredient policy in the world Like they ban over 1400 ingredients when you put into products and Arbonne like I'm just talking specifically with products we use in my company but ban another 600 . And so , like when you know that you're using products whether it's going in your body or on your body that is , two over 2000 ingredients that are banned you know that at least that's one area that I'm doing something good and I don't need to worry about the chemicals in those places , right ? So you think about lotions , my makeup , all my skincare , body , hair , not a lot of nutrition , all of that stuff .
Speaker 2Like you can just trust .
Speaker 1I can just trust the brand because , like right now , our immunity sticks , for example , around back order because of a global ingredient shortage , like I'm grateful that they don't just go find something to fill it in so we can keep selling it .
Speaker 2Yeah , because they look to where things are actually sourced yeah , 100 and like even in the protein . Yeah , a lot of proteins . Protein powders out there are ridiculously high in heavy metals .
Speaker 1Our bonds tested like almost nothing I think it tested 100 points or some 100 something , I don't know what . The measurement is below the safe level when they were just doing heavy metal testing , ppms or something like that .
Speaker 1Yeah and yeah . I mean that part for me is just like okay , that's one easy , like checkbox , and so it matters . You guys like where you can make the swaps , whether it's your cutting boards or your laundry , soap or not wearing perfume , picking up the litter when you're out for a walk , swapping what you're putting on and in your body . It all adds up and compounds and will make such a difference and we have to start taking responsibility for this and when we have the information , we have to do better with it .
Speaker 2And I think our governments ultimately make the decisions of what gets produced and put out into the world . So if you can be a voice to push that and make this place a little bit better , I think it's our duty . Like we , we're not separate from nature . We , we are nature , we're from nature . Um , humans , we try to separate ourselves in so many ways , but ultimately , the health of the planet is the health of of us yeah , 100 .
Speaker 1And this podcast is about , you know , spreading love and raising the vibration of the planet , and I think this is a topic that is , you know , really important . And there is another topic that I will figure out at one point , but it was even something as simple , as I was getting botox for 10 years and I heard a friend say on a podcast why would you be injecting a toxin ?
Speaker 1because it is a toxin botulism , yep into the third eye and I'm all about like energy work and chakras and all this stuff and I'm like I've never thought about putting into my third eye . Like why would I want to put poison in the part of my forehead that I want to be clear and I've never done it since and I won't . I'm committed to you know , aging gracefully . I'm going to age . It would be weird for me to have a grandma who had no wrinkles and I feel like Botox and fillers and all the things they work and they they look good until a certain age . When suddenly you're 35 but you look 50 , it does like a flip almost , and we're just inundated in this world that I'm getting off on a tangent like this is literally a whole other podcast , yeah , but like that was even another area . It's like we're purposely and paying top dollar . I paid 600 for my forehead the last time I got Botox , yeah .
Speaker 2With fillings too , is another one .
Speaker 1Oh my God , cavities . Yeah , this could be never ending . There has to be another episode to this . But there's things that we can do , like being mindful when it comes to what is out of alignment with you or what feels like it's in alignment with you . Yeah , and start making those swaps . We can't do everything overnight , but you're just more aware , and if this podcast resonates with you , pass it on , share it , tag us , send us a message . We'd love to hear from you . If there are things that we maybe missed , bring to our attention . We can do another episode .
Speaker 2Yeah , I'd love to hear when do you guys notice things that should be , I guess , brought to everyone's attention in this ?
Speaker 1Because to us , that's all about how we can raise the vibration of the planet is by bringing this up to our awareness .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's such a low vibe thing , but being unaware of it will make you lower vibe , literally yeah , literally yeah . So let's rid ourselves of it as much as we can . Let's spread this information to other people so we can help everyone and help the planet . Just be a little bit cleaner . Be a little bit cleaner .
Speaker 1Thanks for listening , guys . We're awesome . I mean , you missed us for a couple months , but here we are back with a whole hour of Talks and Talk .
Speaker 2We got another one coming up soon . Yeah , Thanks for listening . You guys Appreciate you guys . Stay awesome .