The Love Movement
We are starting a movement, centered around love to help raise the vibration of this beautiful planet.
You can expect to hear casual conversations and interviews with some amazing people as we chat about many topics all centered around three main pillars:
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
Loving the Planet: Dive into discussions about environmental consciousness, sustainable living, and our responsibility to care for our beautiful home. Discover how self love extends to nurturing the Earth and creating a more compassionate world.
Tune in to “The Love Movement” and be part of a global shift toward more love, understanding, and positive change.
The Love Movement
Ep 13: Chemical Awareness and Conscious Living: Unveiling Everyday Toxins
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
you're listening to the love movement with your hosts britney and brian johnston.
Speaker 2:We're starting a movement centered around love to help raise the vibration of this beautiful planet.
Speaker 1:If 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 1:think 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 2:you'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 1:Yeah, it's kind of all around us. Why don't you ask the question you wanted to ask the audience?
Speaker 2:Yeah. 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 1:Um, we'll link this in the show notes, but one really good episode is by steven bartlett, diary of ceo.
Speaker 2:He 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 1:Her content's great so we're going to talk just about a whole bunch of things on this topic.
Speaker 2:So, 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 2:There'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 2:so 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 1:So we're going to of unaware and it's so prevalent that it's just gonna you can't unhear this information.
Speaker 2:so 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 1:And 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 2:I ate snow as a kid, but it's very different than it was, than it is today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, so, speaking of that, the first thing I want to talk about is actually microplastics.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there we go.
Speaker 2:So 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 2:Okay, 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 1:So when plastics were invented, was this not known information?
Speaker 2:Yes, 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 1:That is really sad.
Speaker 2:Like 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 2:So yeah, tires um clothes.
Speaker 1:So I've been hearing a lot about this lately yeah, everything with clothes.
Speaker 2:So everything, every piece of clothing.
Speaker 2:That'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 1:Come with them normally no, but they should yeah they definitely should.
Speaker 2:Um 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 1:So, 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 2:That 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 2:I 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 1:I'm doing the lint trap.
Speaker 2:It'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 1:That's why we're sharing it with people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 2:in rocks that were formed billions of years ago. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 2:Like 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.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:So does that circle back to the snow? Because that's coming out of the atmosphere. You think it's clean.
Speaker 2:So, 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 1:The 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 2:So 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 1:All 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 2:uh, 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 2:We'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 1:It'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 2:what 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 1:You need two credit cards this week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:And another example salt shaker. Remember that. Oh my God, I forgot about that one.
Speaker 2:Oh 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 2:It'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 2:I mean, you can't deny that we're sicker than we've ever been yeah, well, and where?
Speaker 1:where else did microplastics show up? Like weren't you saying at one point, like a fetus?
Speaker 2:it 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 1:It'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 2:They 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 1:Glad I did placenta encapsulation and also ate that yeah, recycled plastics, oh my God.
Speaker 2:But, 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 1:Who invented plastic?
Speaker 2:I 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 1:No, 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 2:oh, 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 1:So 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 2:Yeah, cooked chicken, that's in like a black thing or takeout dishes from like any restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:I 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 2:Just 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 1:Yeah. Cause you're just the chemicals in it are just leing more into.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:I 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 2:why is and?
Speaker 1:I remember being a kid growing up putting that over think oh, I'm not getting splatter all over my microwave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Okay, um cups starbucks go to timmy's oh, this is where brian has.
Speaker 2:Really, 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 2:But every day we unintentionally yeah, micro microdose plastic and a bunch of other chemicals.
Speaker 1:I'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.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:Come 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 1:Is that?
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:Is that why people do it? Because they think it's just going to be biodegradable.
Speaker 2:Yes, but yeah, it just doesn't make any sense, so just don't do that.
Speaker 1:I should be taking what a paper bag to pick up my garbage?
Speaker 2:No, You're going to have to use the plastic bag in that case.
Speaker 1:I guess, yeah, I'm picking up more plastic than I'm throwing out. But anyways.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:I 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 2:No 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 1:We'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 2:What 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 1:It's like where in your day can you see that you're unintentionally eating microplastic?
Speaker 2:All 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 2:Uh, 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 2:Next, 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 1:We've always been on the carpets, you know get the corners.
Speaker 2:And if you've got kids babies especially crawling on the floor like their nose is right there sucking that stuff up.
Speaker 1:Or would you just say don't have carpets?
Speaker 2:Well, 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 1:So we can link our bedrooms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 2:We 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 1:But 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 2:You 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 1:In plastic. Okay, that's something to think about. What's it called Throughput?
Speaker 2:Throughput. So that's a thing that we can think about in our chain of consumerism on how we get stuff.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:buy 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 1:But 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 2:I 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 1:Something 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 1:I 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 2:Oh 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 1:Well, 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 2:Like the gingerbread man thing. Yeah, it was like a fleece, like a jelly cat type thing.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Yeah, they're eating plastic right there.
Speaker 1:So there's one 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 2:Oh 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 1:And cigarette butts. Sorry for everybody, Okay cigarette butts.
Speaker 2:One cigarette butt is hundreds of thousands of microplastics, because it's literally made of microplastics.
Speaker 1:There'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 2:Well, also that this is your year. Don't love yourself a little more, love the planet a little more.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, though that's a lot of microplastics in that. I keep coming back like this is a lot.
Speaker 2:This 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 2:They, 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 1:So 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 2:Miscarriages, Miscarriages. I mean all this stuff adds up to a lot of that.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah, let's talking about?
Speaker 2:uh, 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 2:Yeah 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 1:It'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 2:Yeah, like those are microplastics too, but they don't really break down enough to do anything.
Speaker 1:But we're all throwing out heads.
Speaker 2:Oh, the heads yeah.
Speaker 1:Like 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 2:lot. 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 1:Oh, 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 2:Ridiculous amount of microplastics in the bottled water.
Speaker 1:So 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 2:it. The ice machine? Yeah, yeah, sometimes I find like filtered water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:so 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 2:Anything else that you want to add for toxins? No, I feel like for pfas.
Speaker 1:The only place that we've maybe had it sort of what figured out is our personal hair products.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do 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 2:Yeah, like VOCs. So let me talk about that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's the next section VOCs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 2:Um, 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. Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God, 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 1:Quick 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 2:Um, 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 1:You're like.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Did you know?
Speaker 1:there'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 1:um, 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 2:You'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 2:It 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 1:All 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 2:It'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 1:Yeah, and Modera for a long time. For a long time, modera soap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there's a lot of natural stuff at most stores now too. Yeah, a lot of better options.
Speaker 1:But 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 1:Cologne, 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 2:If 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 1:Do 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 2:Yeah, so it has to say natural fragrance. Yeah, so you want everything just to be fragranced with essential oil, basically.
Speaker 1:And 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 2:yes, 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 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:So 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 1:Yeah, like the peach smelling ones, thinking like my car smells good. Yeah, do people still use. Still use those today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 1:I literally I just can't believe that the things that should be illegal, that are not.
Speaker 2:Oh, toilet bowl cleaners, that's another one. You can get good toilet bowl cleaners in our.
Speaker 1:What's your take on bleach?
Speaker 2:There's people that are like I need bleach for this?
Speaker 1:Like what's bleach about, I wonder.
Speaker 2:I 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 1:Yeah, um.
Speaker 2:We talk about cooking, so natural gas stoves oh yeah, um, unfortunately who?
Speaker 1:knew this was such a culprit.
Speaker 2:You'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 2:away 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 1:We don't prefer it yeah.
Speaker 2:Induction is our preference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we didn't realize it was so much for the health benefit 100%, yeah.
Speaker 2:So 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 2:But 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 2:you'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 1:So some people think buying organic is overrated. What do you say to that?
Speaker 2:No, 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 1:So 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 2:with 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 1:We 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 2:Yeah, 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 2:Even 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 2:So 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 2:our 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 1:Why has that become such a thing as?
Speaker 2:soon as people the crop started getting sprayed more and more and more. This people, who were Got problems.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 good. 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 1:You 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 2:I 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 1:um, 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 1:Just 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 2:Like you can just trust.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Yeah, 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 1:Our 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 1:Yeah 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 2:And 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 1:And 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 1:because 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 2:With fillings too, is another one.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 2:Yeah, I'd love to hear when do you guys notice things that should be, I guess, brought to everyone's attention in this?
Speaker 1:Because to us, that's all about how we can raise the vibration of the planet is by bringing this up to our awareness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Thanks 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 2:We got another one coming up soon. Yeah, Thanks for listening. You guys Appreciate you guys. Stay awesome.