320: Focus Friday - Minimize Your Chemical Exposure
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We live in a world that is full of toxic chemicals... inside and outside the home.
We're here to help you make better choices, decreasing your chemical exposure and the toxins in your body. We address chemical sensitivities, natural beauty products, greenwashing, non-toxic bedding & furniture, purifying the air in your home, and so much more!
All this being said, we don't want you to stress. Continue to learn, evolve, and do the best you can.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Reducing your chemical exposure
- More people are becoming chemically sensitive
- The importance of breathing clean air
- Are you exposed to chemicals in your work environment or office?
- Bring your own soap when you travel
- Filter your water for drinking & showering
- Your skin is your largest organ, stop sucking in all those toxins
- Switching to natural deodorant (that actually works)
- Can you recommend a 100% natural hair gel?
- Remove the toxins in your laundry room
- Be weary of greenwashing
- Your “natural” products could be affecting your microbiome
- Look for clean ingredients
- Choose sustainable, natural fabrics
- Is your furniture off-gassing?
- Start small, start simply, source better
- Filtering the air in your home
- Salt lamps detox the air
- Burning beeswax candles
- Smudge your home with sage
- The benefits of essential oils
- Detox with an infrared sauna
- Choose battery-operated outdoor equipment vs. gas-powered
- House plants help detox the air
- Testing your body for environmental & heavy metal toxicity
- Eat organic, choose local
- Foods that are good at detoxing & cleansing
- Don't stress... do the best you can
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Listen to Nadine Artemis previously on TUHP (episodes #041, #088, & #188)
Listen to Trina Felber previously on TUHP (episode #304)
Listen to Focus Friday - Ultimate Beauty Care previously on TUHP (episode #189)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Arnie Wausman with Jesse Chappas from the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome back to another Focus Friday, where we give you short bursts of information and inspiration to set |
| 0:14.9 | your weekend off on the right foot. And today we're going to talk about the chemicals you're |
| 0:20.6 | exposed to day to day and how you can manage them or at least try your best to minimize your exposure to them. |
| 0:28.0 | And even people like us and like you who are trying to live a healthier lifestyle, There are so many different chemicals out there in today's modern world, |
| 0:35.6 | so it's not about being perfect, but it's about assessing your situation and seeing how you can better it. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah, it's unfortunate that sometimes we just can't avoid certain chemicals no matter how cleanly we're living. |
| 0:49.2 | They're just around us, they're in our environment, we're breathing them in, we are maybe wearing them, |
| 0:55.3 | we're eating them. |
| 0:56.6 | So what we're going to do in a second is talk about some of the things that are in your control |
| 1:00.3 | that you can actually manage at home and things that maybe aren't in your control. |
| 1:04.0 | But before I get into that I also want to address just chemical sensitivities in general |
| 1:08.8 | and how so many people these days are more and more sensitive to chemicals because we're more |
| 1:14.1 | and more exposed I think and I also think because our systems just aren't equipped |
| 1:19.1 | to handle it so I think it's a little bit of a negative relationship there where you know there's just so many chemicals in our environment and our body |
| 1:27.4 | Just has known what to do with them and I am certainly one of those people I can smell perfume from a mile away. I can be in a restaurant. I can be in a |
| 1:36.3 | movie theater wherever it is. And I can just smell even detergent on someone. And my stomach |
| 1:42.2 | turns, my head turns turns I get such a bad |
| 1:44.9 | headache Jesse knows this I have to like literally put my hand or my coat or whatever |
| 1:48.8 | I'm wearing over my nose or I just remove myself from the situation. |
| 1:52.5 | And there's probably a lot of you listening that can relate to that |
| 1:55.3 | because as I said it's very common. |
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