39. Let's Talk Dirty: Interview with Jasmina Aganovic
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
"Nature is a critical participant in our health and our wellbeing, and having a connection to it is crucial."
Kris sits down with Jasmina Aganovic from Boston-based wellness company Mother Dirt to talk about the skin biome and why it is important for our health to cultivate good bacteria, even on our skin. Whether we know it or not we all hold certain beliefs about cleanliness, and a lot of them involve using soap to become clean.
But what if you learned that you didn't need to use soap to wash after all? And that some products contain ingredients that strip your good skin bacteria away? Jasmina breaks down our normal cleaning habits and routines and shows us how being more mindful of what we put on our skin may help improve our health.
Time Stamps
- Where our ideas of cleanliness come from [2:30]
- Should we be encouraging ourselves and our children to go outside and play in the dirt? [4:00]
- Components of soil bacteria that we need that we can't get from food [6:30]
- How everyday facial products effect our topical microbiome [9:00]
- The notion of antibacterial products [10:00]
- What you can expect from using the Mother Dirt AO+ Mist [14:30]
- How to discern if your skin care products are healing or harming you [19:00]
- What makes the Mother Dirt AO+ Mist unique [23:00]
- Correlation between the gut microbiome and the skin microbiome [30:00]
Featured Guest: Jasmina Aganovic
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- Mother Dirt AO+ Mist
- Think Dirty App
- EWG Database
- "My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment" New York Times
Connect with Kris
Instagram: @krisgethin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Thank you very much for joining me for another episode of the Knowledge and Mileage |
| 0:05.6 | podcast. Again, a very special episode because we've got a very special guest. And our special |
| 0:13.6 | guest, let me see if I can get the pronunciation right, is Jasmina Agonovic. Did I do that right? |
| 0:19.7 | You got it. You got it. Good job. |
| 0:22.2 | Straight out of the park. So you are a scientist, a cosmetics expert, and the president of Mother Dirt. |
| 0:30.9 | Have I missed anything there? I'm sure there's quite a few to add there. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. You got it. |
| 0:37.3 | Okay, I got it. So let's start about that. So let's talk |
| 0:41.6 | about mother dirt. Let's get straight into it. So I'm sure some people would have noticed like on my |
| 0:47.6 | socials like going back over a year ago when I first tried your products. And because like I'm somebody that really looks, takes |
| 0:57.8 | a deep dive into the microbiome and I try to learn as much as I could about the microbiome, |
| 1:04.1 | you know, of course within the gut, we're still just scratching the surface of how it can |
| 1:08.9 | control our immunity, our sleep, our mental pathways, |
| 1:14.2 | our physical outputs, everything. You know, I call it my primary brain as opposed to the |
| 1:18.8 | secondary brain, but then I started taking a bit of a dive on another ecosystem on our skin, |
| 1:25.3 | the microbiome there as well. And that's when I came across your products. |
| 1:29.3 | And so for me to actually now be here, sat in front of you and, you know, |
| 1:35.3 | interrogate you for a little while for the listeners, it's going to be absolutely awesome. |
| 1:39.3 | So, of course, we always hear that, you know, you should be hygienic, |
| 1:43.3 | you should be clean |
| 1:44.5 | to make sure that you don't get any bacteria or any diseases. |
| 1:48.7 | So bacteria has really got itself a bad rap. |
| 1:53.1 | Why do you think that is so and why do you think we should be making the change and the |
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