587: Toxicologist Shares the Everyday Products in the Home That Slowly Poison You | Dr. Yvonne Burkart
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/4Nbm8jEenmw
Dr. Yvonne Burkart (IG: @dryvonneburkart) is a PhD Toxicologist, Coach and Consultant.
She is a 23-year veteran of Toxicology with expertise in reproductive toxicity, particularly endocrine disruption, infertility, cancer, and glutathione homeostasis.
After witnessing firsthand the power of a low tox lifestyle, Dr. Yvonne began a mission to help consumers slash their toxic exposure with confidence and ease.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The top 3 toxin exposures in your home
- Tips to improve your indoor air quality
- Stop using scented candles, incense & plug-ins
- Are essential oils safe long-term?
- Dr. Yvonne’s thoughts on indoor wood burning fires
- Is indoor air quality worse than outdoor air quality?
- The best air-purifying plant
- Air purifier recommendations
- Signs of mold toxicity
- Why filtered water is important
- Organic food has a lower toxic load
- The plastic chemicals hiding in your food
- Supplements are not tested for purity
- Shocking facts about disposable cups!
- The worst types of cookware + what to use
- Cooking methods that make your food toxic
- Toxins hiding in your oral care products
- Your skin absorbs toxic chemicals
- Why antiperspirant makes you stink!
- The truth about greenwashing in skincare
- Avoid microplastics in your clothes/textiles + what to buy
- Non-toxic mattress & pillow options
- The #1 furniture material to avoid
- How to minimize off-gassing in the home
- Non-toxic diaper recommendations
- Choosing safer household cleaners
- How to reduce your toxic burden
- Ways to increase glutathione naturally
- Test your body for chemicals
- Detox your body safely
- The problem with natural flavours
- 3 ways to start reducing toxins
- What to look for in a water filter
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | We don't always need to add more and I think that's the trap that a lot of people fall into. |
| 0:07.8 | Let me just grab that Glutathion supplement and I'm good to go. |
| 0:10.9 | Well you're not addressing the root cause, the root cause is your lifestyle. It's really about |
| 0:15.2 | taking a holistic look at your lifestyle, your habits, your preferences, what you can and can't get rid of. |
| 0:21.2 | We got to weigh out the options for every person. It's very |
| 0:23.7 | individual. It's the opposite of what we want, which is assuming that chemicals |
| 0:28.1 | are innocent until they're proven guilty. We should flip that around and assume |
| 0:32.3 | that they're guilty until they're proven innocent. We should flip that around and assume that they're guilty until they're proven |
| 0:33.8 | innocent. We have built-in detoxification, otherwise we would be dead. However, with that said, |
| 0:39.2 | those detox pathways are definitely getting burdened in a lot of people to the point where there's |
| 0:44.3 | excess that the body cannot deal with. The supplement industry itself is not |
| 0:48.1 | tightly regulated. People might think that the FDA is really cracking down on |
| 0:52.2 | supplement quality, supplement purity, but this is not the case. |
| 0:55.9 | And most supplements out there are not tested for purity. A lot of supplements are contaminated. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 587. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Jesse Trappus and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 1:16.0 | Each week I'll bring you long-form conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 1:21.0 | This week I'm speaking with Dr. Yvonne Burkart. Dr. Yvonne is a PhD toxicologist, |
| 1:27.0 | coaching consultant. She is a 23-year veteran of toxicology with expertise in reproductive toxicity, particularly endocrine |
| 1:36.2 | disruption, infertility, cancer, and glutathion homeostasis. |
| 1:41.5 | After witnessing firsthand the power of a low-tox lifestyle, Dr. Yvonne began a |
| 1:45.9 | mission to help consumers slash their toxic exposure with confidence and ease. |
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