Your Home Is Making You Sick: Biohack Your Living Space with Toxin Testing - Ryan Blaser : 1082
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The environment you live in has the most profound impact on your health and wellbeing, but are you aware of the toxins and pollutants we’re surrounded by on a daily basis?
That is why today’s episode is so important. We talk about toxins that are overlooked in your house and what you can do about them. Our guest is Ryan Blaser, the founder and CEO of Test My Home, an environmental company dedicated to improving your health by changing the environment around you.
As a functional medicine doctor for your home, Ryan uses his expertise in building biology and healthy home consulting to identify and address toxic sources that could be impacting your health.
After a unique personal wellness journey, Ryan founded Test My Home to help others achieve optimal health. He personally experienced the detrimental effects of mold exposure and lead inhalation, which caused unusual and serious health symptoms like fatigue, weight loss, and brain fog. After unsuccessful attempts with conventional doctors, Ryan took the initiative to investigate his home environment and found the source of his health issues.
He cured himself and is now sharing his knowledge and experience with the world.
The definition of biohacking is to change the environment around you, and inside of you, so you have full control of your own biology. This is a part of core biohacking, and it's one I think a lot of us just don't think about. We take our supplements, we do our cold plunges, we do all the different biohacks, but just cleaning up the environment around you could make a really big difference. So, in this episode you’ll learn about the most common pollutants and toxins in your home, how to identify them, and ways you can mitigate or eliminate their effects.
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00:00:17 — The Top 5 Pollutants Indoors & What To Do About Them
Ryan’s personal experience getting sick from environmental toxins
Moldy Movie: moldymovie.com
The myth behind green buildings
Solutions for toxic mold exposure in residential buildings
How to identify mold in the home
What you should do if you have a smelly home instead of air fresheners
How important is a gas stove vs. an electric range?
How lighting affects us and types of lights to use in your home
00:21:30 — Understanding the Dangers of Fragrances, Mold & VOCs
The surprising ingredients in candles and air fresheners
Homebiotic spray: homebiotic.com/product/homebiotic-spray
What to do when you live in humid environments to prevent mold
Meridian Upgrade Labs: upgradelabs.com/meridian
Tips for dealing with moisture in your home
Recommendations to mitigate carbon monoxide dangers
Explaining VOCs and how you can absorb or filter them out
The extreme toxicity and effects of formaldehyde
00:42:11 — Sneaky Pollutants: Protecting Your Home from Gas & Noise
Symptoms of a leaky sewer gas
Ozone pollution versus ozone therapy
Sneaky places you can find surface radiation from nuclear plants
Protecting yourself from small particles
Reducing noise stressors in the home
Learning to listen to your body and intuition to identify toxins or stressors
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey, formerly bulletproof radio. |
| 0:17.5 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:20.5 | Today we're going to talk about what's going on inside your house. |
| 0:27.2 | What toxins are there, well, bottom line is most of the world is toxic and it's been that |
| 0:33.6 | way forever. |
| 0:34.6 | And if you don't believe me, try eating some rocks. |
| 0:37.7 | There's minerals in there that are toxic. |
| 0:40.0 | You could try eating anything growing in a forest, unless you know the small percentage |
| 0:45.2 | of things that are edible. |
| 0:47.1 | Most of that stuff is toxic as well, right? |
| 0:49.8 | So it's not like there aren't toxins in the world and it's not like we don't have systems |
| 0:54.4 | to deal with them, including our brain, where we only eat the stuff that's edible. |
| 0:59.3 | And we figure out what makes us weak. |
| 1:02.2 | And even the things that do make us weak, we can usually handle some of it. |
| 1:05.8 | And then our body has systems to say, well, that wasn't good for me. |
| 1:09.5 | Let me get rid of it. |
| 1:11.3 | Problem is you may have a little bit more variety and a little bit more quantity of toxins |
| 1:18.6 | and types of toxins that your body can't recognize or isn't equipped to deal with because |
| 1:23.8 | they aren't things that ever existed on the planet until we figure out how to make them. |
| 1:28.9 | So today we're going to talk about toxins that are overlooked in your house and what |
| 1:35.3 | you can do about it. |
| 1:37.5 | And our guest today is Ryan Blazier, who's founder and CEO of Test My Home, they're an environmental |
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