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He said not putting toxic things into your home or toxic things into your body, you know, makes people wear deodorants, makes people wear perfumes, makes people wash their hair with silicones and things, you know, we wear makeup.

It's all of the, you know, we wash up our clothes sometimes in, in, in strong chemicals.

We put bleach in the home.

I think these like daily things, like most people would struggle to think about alternatives or they'd think about, well, no, I want to smell good, so I don't care.

I'm going to wear that perfume because I love it.

Like how can you navigate this to reduce the?

Because I think people might not even just be aware of how much is in their home.

There's a lot of toxins in our home and most of the toxins we get are from our home, believe it or not.

And so you really need to look at all the products you're using, specifically your cleaning products for your clothes and for your home, and try to find non-toxic versions of those.

Which is wall.

OK.

So for example, like we're, we think that we're supposed to have a different spray bottle of cleaner for our glass and another one for furniture and then another.

And then you just smell really good and they need to have antibacterial in it.

All of those things are very negative.

And you don't need a different cleaner for everything.

So there are companies now that make non-toxic cleaners.

For example, there's a company called Branch Basics and all they have is 1 cleaning product.

And then you just mix it in different concentrations for your windows, for your furniture, for your countertops.

And you just use that and it works great and it still smells good and it's still, it is non-toxic.

And you don't want to kill all the bacteria in your home because when you kill all the bacteria, you're still going to have some bacteria behind.

Those are going to be the strongest bacteria.

And those are going to replicate into now you have strong bacteria that you cannot kill throughout your entire house.

And so you have to have that balance.

So instead of killing all the bacteria, you just want to like wipe it off and get rid of it and get it out of your house, not kill it all.

OK.

And so it's really not about anti antibiotics or antibacterial cleaning products, Stay away from those and try to find non-toxic versions.

And there's different, you know, all over the world now people are making non-toxic cleaning products because we realized finally that our cleaners are really causing a lot of health problems.

And the other big thing I would say is a lot of people have in their home anti pest products, right?

Like sprays for ants and cockroaches and all these things.

And those are flies, very flies, very toxic, right?

And there are non-toxic products for those two.

Believe it or not, peppermint repels a lot of bugs Pretty.

Yeah.

I'm the.

Worst, I'm always like.

Yeah, I don't want that fly.

Yeah.

And you're spraying this chemical into the air, then you're breathing it, and it's not good for you.

Yeah, yeah, that's actually, that's just made me see.

I'm see even I'm not aware of this.

This is the thing I took about all the time.

And then I'm like, Oh yeah, I was spraying that all over myself the other day.

Yeah, that's a problem.

Same problem.

Yeah.

And so I think once you realize you can start doing the research, you can you can figure this out.

And it's not that hard actually.

I would say the other big hidden danger that we have, and this I think is going to become a major, major problem in the next decade.

So you should know now is microplastics.

Ohh yeah we did a big episode on this.

You did great.

Yeah.

People need to listen to that episode.

They do, yeah.

It's scary 'cause I don't.

I didn't want it to be a fear mongering episode.

No, that was the thing.

And there was a lot of things, I mean, a lot of it was from kitchens, you know, like your topping boards and making sure you air your home correctly.

Like all of they're quite actually simple solutions.

Simple solutions, right?

But it's just the awareness.

But I think the worry about it is people can switch off because it sounds so scary or like there's no hope.

And we're surrounded by so much of it that it's like, well, what can we do?

But there's actually a lot that we can do.

There's a lot you can do it as a Pareto principle.

There's 20% of the actions that'll detoxify 80% of your life.

So there isn't an unlimited list.

There's probably like 30 or 40 things that you need to do, and you don't need to do them all today, but if you do them like maybe one a week for the year, then in one year you will completely detoxify your life better than 8590% of people out there.

And your body can do the rest.

You know, your body is made.

It's an incredible machine.

You have this liver, the most complicated organ that is, that exists in US.

Why do I say that?

Because every organ in your body except for your brain and your liver, we have a medical replacement for, but we don't have it for your brain or your liver, OK.

And so your liver is so complex because it can find toxins.

It can get rid of them in your bile, in your stool, and the rest of it you can get rid of in your sweat, in your by hydrating yourself well and going to the bathroom.

You can get rid of toxins, but not when you're overwhelmed with toxins.

You just can't catch up.

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