This Daily Habit DESTROYS Sleep, Wrecks Your Gut, & Causes Snoring

The Dr. Josh Axe Show

Dr. Josh Axe

Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	I think that there's a good case to be made that synthetic fragrances are the new second-hand smoke.
0:05.5	Wow. Yeah. In your home, you can control your deodorants and your candles and your materials.
0:11.0	But nowadays, basically everywhere you go, every restaurant, hotel, mall, casino.
0:15.9	So those are like the sense. Now let's think about what scents are.
0:20.2	A lot of times there's those little machines
0:21.8	pumping chemicals and like yeah when you smell that little bit of lemon in the bathroom, newsflash,
0:25.9	there's no lemons in it. But it also is people's personal care products. It's people's
0:29.4	deodorant, colognes, perfumes, all that stuff. So get this from my research, a huge part
0:35.9	of the digestive enzymes and acids that get created in your gut,
0:41.3	which are preparing for the foods that are about to enter, are due to your olfactory system
0:45.6	and your ability to smell. The way fragrances and sense work is they do not remove and neutralize
0:51.0	odors. They hijack your olfactory system so you can't smell things anymore.
0:56.0	So now your body cannot create the right digestive enzymes and acids that you need.
1:00.6	The highest number I've seen is potentially 50% of the gut process in preparation for the food
1:05.4	is from your sense of smell. So now those fragrances are there, your ability to smell is hijacked.
1:10.5	Your gut has no idea what's coming in.
1:12.4	And now your body can't absorb any of the nutrients.
1:14.6	It's causing people to be fat and to not get the nutrients.
1:18.7	And they're already often eating poor quality food anyway.
1:21.3	Wow.
1:21.8	So let's teach people some things.
1:23.6	Yeah. Yeah, let's do it.
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