November 7, 2025 • 56 mins
In this SOLO episode, Katie shares practical, free ways to reduce your toxin load and support your body's natural detoxification pathways. Building on last week's Toxin Bucket Theory discussion, she dives into actionable steps you can take today—without spending a dime—to live a healthier, less toxic lifestyle.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- What iatrogenesis is and how it relates to our health journeys
- Free ways to reduce toxin inflow in your home (VOCs, cleaning products, EMFs, and more)
- How to support your body's natural detox pathways through sleep, stress management, and movement
- When it's worth investing money in your non-toxic journey
Resources mentioned:
- Book: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier - https://amzn.to/4qLyMxL
- Book: The Anxious Generation - https://amzn.to/4qI4hsB
- Book: The Body Keeps the Score - https://amzn.to/47DlFHz
- Katie's YouTube Channel: Faith & Finances - https://www.youtube.com/@KatieFiolaJones
- EMF Protection: Defender Shield - https://amzn.to/47JrnGC
- EMF Protection: Safe Sleeve - https://amzn.to/4ooWgXL
- Previous Episode: Introduction to the Toxin Bucket Theory - https://open.spotify.com/episode/01kKmputcsWUDf43y8die6?si=kKOvxig-TU2TvVDCqaikYg
- Previous Episode: Minerals in Water - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3mHAIW8Nzkg1rio6P13WZn?si=6SrmyZH2SdKqpAqk5yAy-g
- Katie's Free Budgeting Resources - https://kingdomimpactworkshops.com/budget-planner-optin
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Crunchy Stewardship
00:44 Podcast Updates and Chrissy's Mission Trip
02:47 Listener Engagement and Feedback
05:01 Random Revelation: Iatrogenesis
15:50 Understanding the Toxin Bucket Theory
29:26 Hidden Dangers on Your Shoes
31:07 Importance of Dust Removal
32:35 Reducing EMF Exposure
42:38 The Impact of Blue Light
44:06 Supporting Detoxification Pathways
44:32 The Role of Sleep in Detoxification
45:38 Managing Stress for Better Health
48:17 The Power of Hydration and Movement
51:03 Investing in a Non-Toxic Lifestyle
53:28 Budgeting for Healthier Choices
Remember, stewarding our health is an act of worship. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and taking care of them honors God!
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Hey, and welcome to CrunchyStewardship.
My name is Katie Fiola Jones.
Chrissy and I have this podcastwhere we are very passionate
about learning and sharingknowledge to equip others to
steward their spiritual, mental,emotional, financial, and
physical health in order tohonor God in every aspect of
their lives.
Here in our podcast, we takedeep dives into what it means to
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steward our lives as Godoriginally intended for us with
the resources that he has givenus.
We look at a myriad of topicslike food, medicine, finances,
mental health, and tons morethrough a natural lens and with
a biblical foundation.
Today I am actually here bymyself.
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This is Katie.
As I said, Chrissy is actually,um, getting ready to go on a
mission trip so you could bepraying for her.
She actually leaves.
Tomorrow as I'm recording this,I realize.
And so, yeah, she's heading overto the Middle East, so be
praying for her.
She's gonna be gone for about aweek.
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Um, and we realized that it justwasn't possible for the two of
us to sit down to record anotherpodcast before she leaves.
We also realized that for ournext week's episode, uh, I'm
either going to be doing anothersolo one or I'll figure
something out while she's gonebecause, um, usually we have a
bunch of these like prerecordedand then put them out.
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But, um, with Chrissy's new joband with me moving and my
schedule kind of being all crazyand.
Me having Malachi around, it'sjust been hard for us to sit
down and do these episodes asregularly as we would like to.
So hang in there with us.
We do plan to continue to putthese out.
If you've been listening to ourshow regularly, you may have
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realized that like a coupleweeks ago there was a Friday
where we just didn't have anepisode.
Um, that was actually partiallymy fault.
I forgot to schedule the episodein time and then I realized
like.
At like in the evening onFriday, and I was like, oh my
gosh, I didn't schedule it and Iwasn't going to be able to do it
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until like Saturday night.
And then we decided to just waituntil the next week because we
didn't have another one recordedyet, and we were like, well, we,
as we already missed thisFriday, so we might as well just
wait until the next Friday.
So anyway, bear with us as we'retrying to figure this all out.
We will also likely be taking akind of Christmas break starting
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in December, um, and then comeback in the new year with some
episodes.
It'll give us a chance to.
Rest from needing to get theseout as soon, but we also plan to
like prerecord a handful of themto then be able to put them out
regularly for you guys.
We really love doing thispodcast.
We, you know, aren't making anymoney from this.
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It's honestly just a hobby.
And we've heard from so many ofyou that you have been enjoying
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We did have an issue with ouremail, like.
For a couple months that we didnot realize.
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Chrissy.
So if Chrissy, if you'relistening to this, uh, we had an
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However, if you ever hit reply.
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Um, yeah, we've just beenenjoying getting to hang out
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with you guys like this.
So today I am solo and um, Iguess I'll first start off with
my random revelation of theweek.
It comes.
At us from a book that I amcurrently listening to, called
Bad Therapy.
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The book is, written by AbigailSchreyer, and it's all about why
kids aren't growing up.
It's actually, it's veryfascinating.
I can't remember exactly how Istumbled upon this book.
Probably my guess is it wasmaybe mentioned in another book
I listened to called an TheAnxious Generation.
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There's a chance that it was,um, otherwise I may have just
heard this woman.
On a podcast or something.
But all I remember is that itwas on my want to read list and
I kept coming across it and Iwas like, this one actually
sounds really fascinatingbecause I have noticed, um, my
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husband is a youth pastor, um,or a next generation pastor.
He works with youth a lot.
And I have noticed this trend inour younger generations of kids
who, um, don't seem maybe asresilient.
As maybe generations in thepast.
And I'll give you a quickexample'cause I actually use
this example in the book andI've actually heard of it, um,
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from different students that myhusband worked with.
But there's kind of this trendright now that a lot of teens.
Aren't really wanting to gettheir driver's licenses, uh,
because of the fear of driving.
They don't think that it's,they're like up for the task.
Um, whatever it might be.
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It fascinates me because I canremember when I was at age, I
wanted to get my driver'slicense.
As quickly as I could, and Iremember signing up for driver's
education right when I could,um, and getting my driver's
license like immediately when Iturned 16.
Actually, it was technically theday after, but.
My point is that it's, itbaffles me that there are kiddos
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these days that um, don't wannado things like that, or they
don't wanna do things that like,where they have to take a risk,
um, and put themselves outthere.
Granted, this is not everystudent I know plenty of really
awesome teenagers who are, get'em kind of kids and, um, yeah,
just are thriving.
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However, there is this kind ofgrowing.
Population of students who arekind of fearful and feel like
they don't have the ability todo things and to kind of grow
and to put themselves at riskand to expand and, and to put
them in a place where they wouldfail, I think is, is really what
it comes down to.
So anyway, this book is reallyfascinating.
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And it has honestly beenchallenging a lot.
Of the things that I haveoriginally been taught, about,
raising kids about trauma andhow it impacts, uh, students or
kids in general, um, as well assomething like therapy.
And obviously the title of thisbook is called Bad Therapy.
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And so, okay.
I'll just jump to.
Where my random revelation is,or what my random revelation is,
it's about this word that Ilearned from this book.
It's iatrogenesis.
It took me a long time to beable to pronounce it.
It's the name of like, I thinkthe first chapter in the book,
iatrogenesis and um, aniatrogenic injury is.
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Basically harm that results froma medical treatment or some kind
of medical procedure, such aslike a surgical error or um,
like an infection that came froma surgery that you had, or you
acquired it in the hospital oryou had some sort of side effect
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from a medication.
So basically it's any kind ofharm or side effect from a
medical procedure.
Um, some other examples are evenlike, uh, side effects from
chemotherapy, like hair loss or,um, allergic reactions to
medication or becoming dependenton painkillers from a prescribed
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medication.
So it's, it's some sort ofinjury that is done to a
patient, um, just as a result ofa medical intervention.
And so.
This woman then kind of goes onto describe in her book how many
times there is this iatrogenicinjury from therapy where kiddos
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are getting therapy and not evennecessarily kids, but adults,
anyone can get therapy and it'salmost like they have this, um,
injury, quote unquote injuryfrom their therapy that
actually.
Doesn't necessarily help themwith whatever they've gone to
therapy for, but actually maybemakes the situation worse.
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Um, a, a really great examplethat she had, and it's, it's
just fascinating to me being afoster parent and having
experienced kids with trauma,but she, she talks a lot about
trauma and how there's a lot of.
Trauma based education thesedays in the schools.
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And, um, anyone who works withkids is getting trauma based
education now so that they canlike, recognize, uh, kiddos who
have experienced trauma and howthey can help them, what the
author is saying, what Schreyeris saying in her book is that it
actually tends to harm kidsmaybe more than it's helping
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them by labeling them withtrauma, like with a trauma.
And, and it can be as small as,um.
Gosh, I'm, I'm like blanking onsome of the examples, but it can
basically be like really bigtraumas, like physical or even
like sexual abuse.
Um, but even down to, you know,my, my mom was just really tough
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on me and like more of a, anauthoritative parent and stuff.
But anyway, there's like thisscale of quote unquote trauma
and she's saying that now we'rejust labeling kids.
With even the most minutetraumas as just a trauma
student.
And so therefore they get intothis mindset of, oh, I've had
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trauma and now I can't likethrive past where I'm at because
this trauma has impacted me andI am going to be impacted for
the rest of my life.
And so it's almost like giving,um, what did I say to Wes the
other day?
It was like a, it's.
The self-fulfilling prophecykind of concept of if you tell
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someone they're a failure or ifyou tell yourself that you're a
failure, then you'reautomatically going to fail
because you're not gonna try oryou're not gonna like do
anything about whatever you'retrying to accomplish.
So, you know when, when we labelkids with, or that they have had
this trauma or, um, yeah.
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Anyway, maybe I'm kind oftalking in circles now, but it's
this, the iatrogenic injury oftherapy is that maybe we're
doing more harm for our kidswhen we get them in therapy
early on, um, versus actuallyhelping them past the trauma and
like we're focusing too much ontrauma and talking about it,
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that they kind of don't grow upand grow up past that trauma.
And so anyway, I, I've actually.
Kind of seen it in a, a verysmall sense, um, and have been
hearing at it, hearing about iton a grander scale as well, just
across the country.
So yeah, give that book alisten, um, or a read.
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It's called Bad Therapy byAbigail Schreyer.
I'll add a link to it in ourshow notes so you can check it
out.
Um, and yeah, there's a lot ofthings in there that I've just
been, uh.
Really challenged by, they'veactually named a handful of
books by name that I have readin the past and have really
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enjoyed, but she's challenging alot of the things that they
teach in them.
Um, one of the books is.
Um, the body keeps the score.
It's all about trauma and howyour body remembers trauma and
how it does impact you for alifetime.
And so she's saying how thisbook is kind of one, a part of
the problem.
And so that was just reallyfascinating to me.
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Um, I don't know how much Iagree with all of the things
that she's saying, but it reallydoes give me, um, just a moment
of pause as to the things that Ihave been taught and how much I
should.
Believe with other peoplebecause now I am kind of seeing
the things that she is talkingabout is, are those like
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iatrogenic um, harms that havebeen done through the over
therapized generation that wehave?
So anyway, sorry that was longerthan I meant to talk about that
word, but.
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I am here by myself, and so I amjust talking.
It does seem a little weird forme to do a podcast totally by
myself.
But, um, if, I mean, you may ormay not know I actually have a
YouTube channel and it is justmyself on my YouTube channel.
So I'm actually pretty, uh, I'mpretty used to just talking.
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To myself or by myself at ascreen or into a microphone.
Um, because I've made a lot ofYouTube videos where I'm just
kind of talking, usually with myYouTube videos, they are
slightly more scripted andplanned and thought through this
podcast I have, I definitelyhave thoughts.
I have some notes written down,so don't worry.
I'm not just going to berambling.
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I do have a plan for today, butit's not as probably scripted
and, uh.
Formal as my YouTube channel.
If you are curious, my YouTubechannel is all about, um, faith
and finances.
You can find me over on YouTube.
Uh, just looking at my name,Katie Fiola Jones.
I'll link to it if you'recurious on checking it out.
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I talk a lot about budgeting,um, personal finance, um, from a
biblical perspective and yeah,um, if you're looking for ideas
on saving money and things.
You can go check it out.
Which actually kind of brings meto today's topic because I do
wanna talk a little bit aboutmoney and finances, um, and how
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we can start saving money whentrying to live this non-toxic
life.
So that's kind of a, a cue intogetting into today's topic.
So in today's episode, Iactually want to kind of expand
on last week's episode, whichwas actually an introduction to
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the Toxin bucket theory.
Um, it's basically kind of thisanalogy.
Used within functional andholistic medicine to try to
explain how a person's body cangradually accumulate toxins and
other stressors until it reachesa saturation point, which then
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leads to the onset of chronicsymptoms or even disease.
So imagine you have a bucket andthat represents your body's
total capacity to handle yourtoxic load.
Everybody has, you know, adifferent.
Bucket size, and this is kind ofdue to your genetic variation,
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your genetic makeup, um, yourdetoxification pathways.
Um, in some situations you mayor may not have more or less
efficiency at removing toxins.
Um, and so you may have asmaller bucket or a larger
bucket.
Um, and so some people who have.
Large toxin buckets can take inlots and lots of different
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toxins from different areas oftheir life, and it may seem like
they're never detoxing a lot ofit, but then they never actually
end up getting sick.
However, somebody else might beexposed to small levels of
toxins and then become verychronically ill pretty quickly
from some, from stuff thatdoesn't make other people.
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As sick.
And so, you know, we kind ofhave different bucket sizes.
We all have like ourdetoxification system, which
would be considered the drain ofthe bucket.
Um, and sometimes, you're ableto drain out and detoxify the
toxins quicker than otherpeople.
Our primary makeup.
Of organs that create thedetoxification system or like
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your liver, your kidney.
Christine, I talked about likeyour skin and how it actually
helps to, uh, expel out a lot oftoxins through like your sweat.
Your bowels are also a part ofthat system as well.
Um, and your drain is basicallytrying to flush out as much of
the toxins as possible.
Our body is supposed to, it'sdesigned to withstand a certain
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level of toxins, but it needs tobe draining properly so that it
doesn't overload.
Your toxin load is made up ofenvironmental toxins, which are
kind of the easiest things topoint out.
So environmental toxins are madeup of pollutants in the air and
our water, as well as exposureto pesticides, heavy metals.
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Chemicals in our household andpersonal care products.
Um, we also are exposed tothings like mold or even, uh,
bad bacterias and yeasts, um,that create kind of in and
imbalance inside of our gutprimarily.
But our toxins don't just comefrom.
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The exterior from ourenvironment.
They're also, uh, internal andthey're also just the choices
that we make every day on, ourlifestyle.
So you think about, you know,your, uh.
Lack of sleep, even likeexposure to certain stresses,
um, whether it's emotional orsomething else.
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Um, so if we have lots ofstressors, lack of movement, So
our toxin bucket is kind of madeup of things that we can and we
cannot control.
Um, however, we want to try toreduce our toxin exposure so
that way it doesn't lead to, uh,a very of, you know, various
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amount of things.
Think about like chronic fatigueor even brain fog, um, aches and
pains that are unexplainedthroughout our body, skin
issues, um, like.
Rashes, um, or breakouts.
You could have hormonalimbalances even from the toxin
inflow, which then can lead toinfertility, which is a, a
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major, uh, issue that we'reseeing across the world.
Um, it's something that I haveeven been challenged with when
we were trying to get pregnantwith Malachi.
It took us a, a very, very longtime.
And who knows what kind oftoxins I had or Wes had been
exposed to, that kind of led to.
Um, that kind of chroniccondition.
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Um, it, the toxin bucket whenyou are overflowed with all
these things can also lead tosensitivities to different foods
and chemicals.
So if you have allergies or eventhings like asthma, um, however,
the biggest things that.
Your toxin bucket can eventuallylead to our, um, major chronic
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diseases, autoimmune diseases,cancers, um, heart problems,
all, all the major stuff.
It typically comes from anoverload of toxins in your life.
Now, the best way to.
Overcome and to fight off all ofthe toxins.
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You know, there's two ways thatyou can kind of empty this
bucket, and that's really byreducing the inflow, so limiting
your actual exposure to thetoxins that you have control
over.
And then your option number twois just draining the bucket.
So it's making sure that yourdetoxification pathways are
actually working.
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So I wanna go over some freeeasy ways you could do both of
these things to reduce theinflow and to kind of support
your body's naturaldetoxification pathways, like
the actual detoxificationprocess.
Um.
So you have to consider what arethe things that you have the
most control over?
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And, and do those things, andespecially if they're free,
right?
I mean, if there's somethingthat's free that can help you
reduce your chances of gettingsome sort of chronic, uh, health
issue, chronic illness, whywould you not be doing it?
Right?
So, some of the easiest thingsthat we can do.
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Um, have to do with, um, ourfood as well as our natural, uh,
like our, our personal careproducts, um, and the way that
we are kind of reducing stress,um, and even just helping our
detoxification in general.
Okay, so let's talk about somefree ways to reduce the toxin
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inflow.
So you think about like slowingdown the flow of water into our
bucket so that it doesn'toverflow as it is draining out.
Um, these strategies really arefocusing on creating a healthier
environment inside and outsideof our bodies, without.
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Needing to buy lots of expensivenew things.
Yes, there might be a time and aplace to go and buy extra
things, but start with thethings that are the easiest and
that are super duper free.
So.
Think about your home, like Imentioned this last week, but
your home is full of pollutantsin the air, so you want to, um,
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reduce the number of VOCs, whichstands for volatile.
Organic compounds.
So these come, it's likeoffgassing, basically it comes
from new items, especially whenyou bring new things into your
home.
So if you've ever like purchasedsomething from Amazon, like a
shirt, and you open it up and ithas like this really weird smell
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to it, that is the, the piece ofclothing literally like
Offgassing.
And that typically happens with.
Items that have some sort oflike plastic byproduct, um, in
it.
So any kind of syntheticmaterial, um, that can come from
our clothing, our furniture.
Things like our mattressesoften, um, have very high VOCs,
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but it also can be within, um,our walls.
Um.
I mean, things like children'scribs and stuff, they, they have
a lot of VOCs because, um,they're often sprayed with, uh,
things that make them waterresistant as well as like flame
resistant, which sound like goodthings, but it's because there's
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a lot of chemicals in them thatthey are resistant to all these
other stuff.
So.
In order to kind of get allthese VOCs out of our air, we
need to sort of cleanse the air.
So a very easy free way to dothat is to, allow your home to
like, filter out the air bysimply just opening all the
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windows for 10 to 15 minutes aday.
Um, also if you do, or when youdo bring new products into the
home, like new clothes orfurniture, um.
Keep them outside or in yourgarage or on your porch for a
few days before bringing theminside.
You can actually nowadays likeGoogle or use like an AI engine
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to figure out how long certainproducts will off gas their
VOCs, and so you can find outhow long you should keep
something outside in order forit to kind of lose.
The majority of the, thechemicals into off gas as much
as possible.
So that's a great easy way, um,to help reduce the inflow of
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these VOCs into your air, whichthen get into your lungs and
into your cells, um, thatcreate.
Havoc.
So another really easy, simpleway, we've, Christy and I have
talked about, um, reducing ourchemical exposure from our
cleaning products and personalcare products, um, and even the
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scents that we use in our home.
So honestly, one of the firstthings you can do is.
Stop buying anything that ismade with fragrances, um,
synthetic or quote unquotenatural fragrances.
You really want to look forstuff that is made with the
actual real item.
So like actual lemons instead oflemon fragrance, when you see
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the word fragrance, it often, orit always means made with
chemicals and so.
You want to stop buying thosekinds of things, stop buying
like the scented wall plugins.
Um, candles can be really badbecause now they're releasing
like a gas into the air whenthey're made with a lot of
synthetic stuff.
So if you're gonna choose to docandles, try and do the bees wax
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natural stuff, they actually, itcleanses your air when you use,
uh, beeswax candles, they can bepretty expensive.
So.
You just need to be aware ofthat, but you could just like
stop buying the things that aremade with fragrance.
Um, stop buying Fre, that'llactually save you money.
Okay, so another really easy,practically free way to clean
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everything in your home.
From counters to windows tofloors.
To your bathrooms is simply withjust plain vinegar and water.
Um, making a, a really simplesolution, putting it in a spray
bottle, spraying it around andusing like a microfiber cloth to
clean everything.
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Literally.
That is all you need to cleanyour house.
Um, obviously if you.
Lots and lots of nerdiness.
Um, there's some other addedthings you can be doing, but
this is the easiest and mostcost effective way to clean your
home.
You don't need to go and buy theexpensive cleaners from the
store that have lots and lots ofchemicals to.
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Destroy every piece of bacteriain your home.
In fact, Christy and I actuallytalked about this on a podcast
episode where this is actuallyharming your health more than it
is helping.
Um, because you wanna keep thatbacteria around because your
body starts to develop, um, andbuild your immune system around
it.
And so if you're killingeverything, you are not allowing
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your.
Immune system to kind of do itsproper job and build up slowly
with, um, small, you know, microexposures to different
bacterias, um, because you'rejust killing every, every little
last living thing that is inyour home.
Um, so yeah, so easy, simpleway.
You don't need to use any of theharsh stuff.
Another really.
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Simple way to make your home,um, more clean and less toxic is
simply by just taking your shoesoff before you walk around your
shoes.
Have more fecal bacteria on themthan your toilet seat does.
Guys, like this is no joke.
I mean, you go Google it rightnow and you will find out the
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truth about your shoes.
But not only are there, youknow.
Fecal bacterias on your shoes.
You also, um, likely havepesticide residue.
You could have chemicals fromlike the roads, like think about
all the chemicals that theyspray on your road onto your
shoes.
I've also learned that lead isoften on the.
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Bottom of shoes.
Um, even, I mean, just the, thedirt and dust from outside and
whatever that holds, all comesinside.
And so even if it's not, like,even if your shoes are kind of
dry, dirty, you know what Imean, it's not like wet.
So you're not like leaving wetmarks everywhere, but just
simply like leaving theparticles of different things
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around your house.
May be fine if you don't havekids in your home, like you may,
or you may be thinking it isfine because you don't have
little kiddos running around andyou're like, oh, well there's
nobody licking the floors oreating things off of our floors,
so it's fine.
But really.
If you think about all thechemicals and different things
that you are tracking into yourhome, and then later in the day
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you end up taking your shoes offand walking around bare feet,
um, with bare feet.
Your feet are now taking in andabsorbing anything that you
tracked into your home.
Not only that, but then if youdo bring in something like the
pesticides into your home, itdoes get into your air quality,
when you just start movingaround and things get shifted
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and stuff.
And so it's.
It just, it's a very easy way tolive.
A little less toxic is justsimply by taking your shoes off
before you walk around thehouse, and even if you have the
opportunity, leave your shoeslike in the garage or on your
front porch or something likethat, so that you're just not
bringing them into the home atall.
So another thing with yourfloors, um, and your house
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removing the dust is super,super important.
So as I mentioned, like yourshoes are bringing lots of stuff
into the home.
Well, then you start lookingaround the edges of the rooms
and in places where you're notgoing as often, but you'll
notice that.
There's just that fine layer ofdust and it's oftentimes like
all of that junk that you arebringing into your home.
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Um, also things like those flameretardants, that are in a lot of
our clothing and, um, ourblankets and towels and and so
you wanna be dusting andcleaning that regularly if you
have air ducts like a, a ductsystem.
So if you have a forced air gasfurnace you want to be cleaning
those out, uh, once a yearbecause all that stuff then also
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gets into the air ducts.
And then every time you turn iton, whether it's for your AC or
for your heat, it just blowsthroughout your home.
So you wanna clean that out.
And the best way to even justkeep your air ducts clean is
just by, um, vacuuming yourhouse regularly, cleaning up the
dust.
And so that way it doesn't.
Just continue to track into, uh,the duct system of your home.
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So that is super important.
I do think that it's recommendedthat you use like a wet, uh,
like, or just slightly dampcloth when you're dusting'cause
it really does like track orlike capture as much of the, um,
nasty stuff as possible.
Now I wanna talk about EMFexposure.
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I have been going on a journeylearning more and more about.
The radiation that we areexposed to and how it, um,
honestly could potentially belike the stem of a lot of the
long-term chronic illnesses thatmany of us face these days, um,
including things like cancer.
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I'm not gonna even go into.
The details of all the impactsthat EMFs can have on our
bodies.
Um, we'll save that for anotherepisode.
But if you are already kind ofaware of that or you are just
simply wanting to look for easyways to reduce your EMF
exposure, there are a lot ofreally.
Super easy, free things that youcan start doing today.
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Like you don't need to go buyanything, go, don't need to go
do anything crazy, but simplyjust some options or some things
that you can be doing, newhabits that you can build for
yourself.
One is instead of using yourcell phone up against your head,
um, where the EMF exposure isthen going directly into, you
know, into your skull, into yourbrain.
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Talk on your phone withspeakerphone as much as you can.
I mean, obviously there'scertain cer, certain situations
where you're not just gonna likepop on your speakerphone and let
everybody hear your personalconversations, but if it is
possible, use speakerphone asmuch as you can.
Um, try as best as you can, notto put phones into your pockets,
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especially your front pocket.
There have been a lot of studiesnow that have been showing that
the EMF exposure from your cellphone, especially in your front
pocket, can impact yourfertility.
And so for men, it kills.
Sperm.
Um, and for women it, itdiminishes egg quality.
And so if you can, um, justchoose not to put it in your
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pocket, ladies, put your phonein your purse and, and try and
keep your purse away from you ifyou do need to put it in your
pocket.
The thing that I have actuallybeen doing is turning my phone
into airplane mode when I knowthat it's going to be in my
pocket.
And, and if I don't need to begetting, if I, if I know I'm not
gonna be getting any calls for alittle bit and I don't need my.
Um, cell phone on at thatmoment.
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I just simply put it intoairplane mode.
And then I put it in my pocket.
I do this often when I'm goingin and out of my house to the
car because I'm like, okay, it'sjust gonna be a few minutes.
It makes it easier'cause I'mcarrying Malachi.
Um.
And so I often do that.
And then even with that, asoften as you can or as often as
you think about it, put yourphone in airplane mode.
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If you're just not using it,like if you're just hanging out,
um, and it's around, just turnit off no matter where it's
located, whether it's close toyou or not, It's extremely
important overnight.
So if you keep your phone, um,in your room, or I would even
highly recommend not keeping itin your room overnight or don't
keep any electronics in yourroom overnight, especially your
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laptop.
Um, and especially plugged in,uh, devices because when your
devices are charging and they'realso.
Connected to the wifi orconnected to Bluetooth Um, it
magnifies the EMF radiationcoming off of it.
And so it's best when you'reusing it not to have it plugged
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in.
So, uh.
If you can charge it and thenuse it without it being plugged
in the whole time.
Same thing with your phone.
If you're going to use yourphone, don't be using it while
it's on the charger.
The radiation that's coming offof it is much higher when it is
plugged in.
There are EMF blocking phonecases.
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There's, there's a couple brandscalled Defender Shield and Safe
Sleeve, if you're curious inchecking those out.
Christmas is around the corner.
It could be a good thing to addto your Christmas list this
year.
But again, if you're lookingjust for easy freeways, do those
things.
Um, same thing with like, ifyou're going to use your laptop,
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don't use it directly on yourlap.
Again, it's the same thing asputting your phone into your
front pocket.
You, it does impact thefertility of both men and women,
and so.
Just be aware of that.
When it comes to, so I mentionedBluetooth very briefly.
When it comes to Bluetooth, youreally want to stop using as
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many of the Bluetooth devices asyou can.
We've actually, I, uh, it's,it's such a pain.
I actually really love smarthome devices.
They.
Make life easier.
They're wonderful.
You can control everything fromyour phone, which is so cool.
'cause then you can see likewho's at your front door.
You can change the, thetemperature of your house before
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you get there.
You can make sure that lightsare off in rooms if you left.
Anyway, I was on this likejourney of changing everything
to smart home devices because Ijust, I loved the convenience of
them.
Um, but then I started learningabout all this.
All the impact of the radiationon your body and how the toxic
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load can really just beoverwhelmed.
Like your buck, your toxinbucket can be super overwhelmed
with all the radiation thatwe're exposed to because.
You think about it, you're at,you're in your home, you have
wifi going all day.
Usually if you're going to workor you're going to school or
you're going to the library,you're going to the grocery
store.
Everything now has, um, 5G andhas wifi and there's Bluetooth
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going and, and all the things.
So we are exposed to so manychances to get like that EMF
radiation and so.
You can limit it as much aspossible, that is the, the best
route to go.
So if you can stop using as manyof these Bluetooth devices in
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your home, that is going to bethe less toxic route.
And so yes, I have decided thatwe are going to, um, you know,
when we move into our new home,we're not going to be using
these smart home devicesanymore.
And I'm like.
Still really bummed about it,but you know, our health is so
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much more important to me thanbeing able to see who is at my
front door when they ring thedoorbell, or that I can change
the thermostat from my phonewhen we're not home or whatever.
And, uh, my gosh, this, thesedays, it's so crazy to me.
Everything that has Bluetoothnow, I mean, we're shopping for,
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um.
Appliances for our home, andliterally every appliance that
you can buy for your kitchenthese days now can connect to
wifi and you can control themfrom your phone.
And I'm like, in what situationdo I need to connect to my oven
from my phone?
I mean, there are maybe so fewinstances where I'm like, oh,
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that sounds like it could beconvenient, but I'm not gonna be
turning my oven on.
Away from my home.
'cause that just sounds like sodangerous to have this thing
going that could, I don't know.
Anyway, to me that sounds crazy.
And so that's an easy, like,okay, we don't need these
devices.
But now it's crazy becausealmost all of the new.
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Appliances out there come withwifi connectivity.
In fact, I learned the other daythat the um, oven that we have
here at our temporary house haswifi connectivity.
Um, and we learned that, that itis connected to something
because it, when the timechanged, uh, just here in early
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November, um, you know, withdaylight savings, it
automatically changed.
On its own.
Like we didn't go and program itto do that.
And so, um, then we realizedthat it is connected to
something and then sure enough,like really teeny tiny, there's
the little wifi symbol on it.
And I was like, holy cow.
That is so crazy.
So yeah, it's unfortunate.
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There's a lot of things that I'mlike, man, this is, there are so
many little conveniences withhaving things connected.
But again, my theory or my, myown personal belief is that.
Our health, our long-term healthis, um, so much more important
than the convenience of havingeverything connected to our
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phone.
So.
We are going to be getting ridof all of our devices that I
love so much.
Um, but again, it is muchhealthier.
I've even heard of the fact thatlike a lot of these, the wifi,
radiation and um, Bluetoothconnectivity and, and all this
stuff, like if you have themclose to your bedroom, it really
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impacts your sleep quality.
And so, um, you know, if, if youdo have.
Wifi router, right?
Which most of us have.
You can turn it off at night,which is the, the safest.
Way to go, um, is just totally,completely having it off.
Um, but at a bare minimum, makesure it is not close to your
bedroom or it doesn't hang outin a room that you spend like a
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lot of, lot of time in.
So for example, if you work fromhome and you spend eight hours a
day in your office, you reallydon't want to have the wifi
router sitting directly next toyou while you are working.
So those are some really simplefirst steps that you can get
started with to reduce your.
Um, toxin inflow from EMFs.
There are a lot of other waysnowadays that you can go
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overboard.
Almost.
I mean, I wouldn't say overboardis the right word, but you can
dive much deeper into, um, likelimiting your EMF exposure.
If you are curious, just go and,um, Google things, but.
Those are some easy ways to getstarted.
We'll probably do an episodeabout EMFs, um, in the future.
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Blue Light is another one ofthose, um, ones that is similar
to EMF, but Blue Light reallydoes impact your hormones.
Um, it impacts your melatoninproduction.
It, it impacts your sleepquality in general.
So with Blue Light, you reallywant to get in the habit of.
You know, stop using devices oneto two hours before you go to
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bed.
Um, it helps your hormonesregulate before going to sleep.
Um, if you have the opportunity,you know, just stop using your
laptop as often as you canduring the day.
I know many of us work usingscreens, so that's quite
difficult.
Um, you could go out and buysome blue light glasses if that
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is a concern of yours, but.
Limiting it as much as possible,but then in order to kind of
like reverse the effects of bluelight, it's really important to
just simply go outside and getnatural light on your eyes,
frequently throughout the day.
So if you can go and take likea, a break, maybe once an hour
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or every other hour and justsoak in some, um, natural light
from outside from the sun, thatis going to help.
Um, kind of like detox yoursystem.
So that's kind of like on theopposite side.
It's not necessarily likelimiting your toxin exposure,
but it's gonna help on theopposite side to kind of
regulate your body.
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So that is, um, a super easy,free way to, to do that.
So on the other end, so I kindof went through and talked a
little bit about reducing theinflow of toxins, but now if we
want to examine what it lookslike to support your
detoxification pathways, um,there's a lot of great ways.
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To do that, that are easy andfree.
Um, the first one is simply justgetting good quality sleep.
We all know that while we sleep,that is your body's chance to
sort of reset itself.
There are different systems inyour brain that are highly
active during sleep that helpwith.
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Kind of flushing out anymetabolic waste that has been
accumulated during the day.
So it's important to be gettingseven to nine hours of good
sleep every single night.
Try to block out as much of thelights.
In your room is possible.
Again, the the blue lightexposure, even in the smallest
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amount.
So you think like your alarmclock or even even the teeny
tiny light that comes from yoursmoke detector in your bedroom,
those are all impacting thequality of your sleep.
So the more light that you'reexposed to overnight, the worst
quality of sleep that you willhave.
So, um, as much as possible youwanna try and get rid of those
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lights.
So that way you sleep reallywell.
Um, and, Another really good wayto kind of help your.
Detoxification pathway is toreduce stress.
Now, what's interesting aboutstress is that it is also a
source of toxins, basically.
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Um, but it also can help your,um, detoxification process work
properly when, uh, stress isreduced.
So it's important to practicestress management So when we are
stressed out, when we feelanxiety, our body produces
cortisol and having highcortisol levels really burdens
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your body and slows downdifferent bodily functions and
processes, including your liver.
Function, which the liver iskind of like the powerhouse of
your t detoxification, uh,system.
And so if your liver isn'tworking properly, then you
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aren't going to be able todetoxify the toxins in your body
as thoroughly and properly asneeded.
And so there are so many great,easy ways to practice.
Stress management, um, simplyjust doing deep breathing,
that's free and that's a toolthat you have at your disposable
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disposal at any moment.
And so deep breathing is a greatway to kind of help lower your
heart rate, um, and reduce thecortisol levels in your blood.
Getting good sunlight also helpsrelieve stress.
It, it helps yourdetoxification, um, system kind
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of kick in by getting reallygood sunlight, um, putting your
feet in the grass.
Christy and I have mentionedthis before.
It always sounds very woo woo,but if you go outside.
With bare feet.
I know as I'm talking aboutthis, it's, we're getting into
the chilly season, so it's notgoing to be as possible, um, for
some of us who live in snowyareas, but as, as often as you
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can, or if you can once a dayfor like 10 minutes, go put your
feet in the grass because yourbody actually absorbs some of
the energy that is coming fromthe Earth and it helps your body
to relax and kind of get backinto sink.
And so.
That is a really simple, easyway that you can kind of help
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your detoxification pathwaysopen up, um, as well as it can
help relieve some of the stressthat you might be feeling
throughout the day.
Water is probably one of themost important.
Uh, things for detoxing.
If you're not drinking water,your body has no way of actually
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flushing out the toxins.
So your toxins exposed throughobviously going to the bathroom,
um, but also through sweatingand so.
If you don't have enough waterto do either of those things,
then the toxins are going topool up in your system.
Um, and then they end upcreating inflammation and then
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potentially even long-termchronic illnesses.
So water's very, very important.
Chrisy and I actually had anepisode where we talked about,
uh, good water.
Meaning mineral based water thatactually helps to hydrate your
body instead of just kind ofgoing through your body and not
actually hydrating it.
So check out that episode wherewe talk about minerals in our
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water, but simply justincreasing your water intake is
probably going to be a good betfor anybody.
It is also really important tobe.
Moving daily.
So I've kind of heard that it isimportant to be sweating at
least once a day.
So that means actually likebreaking a sweat so that your
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body actually can expel thosetoxins.
Again, hydration is first, butthen once you are hydrated, you
wanna start getting those fluidsmoving.
Your lymphatic system reallyrelies on muscle contraction in
order to move.
The fluids, um, in like withinthe lymphatic system, the, the
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lymph fluid, which is where yourtoxins are being carried.
So it doesn't have any otherpump system, like this is the
pump system.
You are the pump system Bymoving your muscles, breaking a
sweat, um, just simply going ona 30 minute more brisk walk is
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one of the easiest.
And freest ways to get your.
Lymphatic system moving.
Um, so you just need to bepromoting sweat.
If you have kiddos, that cansometimes be easy, just like
have a little dance party athome, you know, 30 minutes just
jumping around and, and doingthings.
Even just like vacuuming oftencan break sweat if you're, you
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know, if you have a big enoughhome.
So just think about those littlethings in your day to kind of
start getting the limp lymphaticsystem going so that you can
actually detoxify your system.
Okay, so I wanted to give you afew of those easy, quick ways to
start to live a less toxiclifestyle for free.
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Um, but again, I mentioned thatthere is definitely a time and a
place.
For us to be spending extramoney on living a less toxic
lifestyle.
And so you really have to askyourself at, at a certain point,
you know, once you've kind ofreached a limit of, of doing all
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the free things, what is thatnext best step that I can take
in order to continue to livethis non-toxic lifestyle?
And really what it comes down tois how important is your health
to you and.
What does it mean for you tostay healthy long term?
And I heard it said really well.
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Um, I, it was on some podcastthat, you know, as believers we,
we know that our body is atemple.
Our body is.
A place where the Holy Spiritdwells.
Um, and we need our bodies to beworking properly in order to
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continue the good work, um, ofsharing the gospel with others.
And so not only is taking careof your body about your own
health and your own comforts,like long term, like staying
healthy, um, it's not about justlooking good and feeling your
best, but it really is a waythat we can be honoring.
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Our father who gave us thesebodies in the first place, they
are not our own.
They are on loan from God.
And we want to take as bestpossible care as we can of these
bodies.
And so I really do see all ofthis as an act of worship and
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there are definitely points in,there have been points in our
journey where we have decidedthat yes, this thing is worth.
Spending a little extra money onbecause we want to glorify God
in this way.
And so it's important for you tokind of have that conversation,
um, with a spouse if you'remarried, but also just with the
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Lord deciding, you know, betweenyou and God.
Like what is that next step thatI can take in order to continue
to live a less toxic lifestyle?
And um, sometimes that mightmean spending a little extra
money here or there, and.
That's okay.
So we, the, the next step that Ijust want to encourage you with,
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um, when, when you get to thatpoint is simply to create a
solid budget that will help youprioritize making these
decisions.
And so setting aside money to.
Put towards, um, a, a largergrocery budget.
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If that means increasing yourgrocery budget to buy higher
quality foods, um, it might meansaving money for an air
filtration system or a waterfiltration system.
It could mean saving money tobuy organic.
Cotton clothing or organiccotton sheets.
Um, a new mattress that isn'triddled with, uh, fire retardant
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materials and waterproofmaterials sprayed into it.
There are a lot of things thatyou can be spending your money
on in this journey, and I'm nothere to tell you which thing
that you need to go and spendmoney on, but the important
thing is to consider.
What area you think will makethe biggest impact for your
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health, um, that God might becalling you to make a change
with and start setting asidemoney for that if you've never
budgeted before and need help.
Figuring out what that lookslike.
Um, I'll send, I'll, I'll linkto a few of the resources that
I've created.
Um, I've mentioned a few timesbefore and, and today that I am
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a certified Christian financialcounselor and I actually like,
do this, like, help people withbudgets for, um, a job.
Like that's, that's my job.
And so I have tons of freeresources that you can kind of
get started with and, and checkthat out.
Um.
Because it really is important,the way that we spend our money
is also an act of worship.
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Um, many of us have had thatconversation at church where,
um, we know like the way wespend money can glorify God or
it can be glorifying ourselves.
So it's really important toconsider the way that we are
spending our money and, um, howwe can glorify the Lord with it
and how we can give thanks tohim through the way that we
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spend it, um, and how we treatour bodies.
So with that, I will leave us.
There, I honestly could justcontinue talking because I love
talking about all this.
And, um, but now I feel weirdbecause it has been a long
conversation and, um, I've gottaget back to doing mom things and
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uh, house things.
And we'll see.
Stay tuned for next week'sepisode if there is one.
If there's not, I'm sorry.
Um.
But if there is, it might justbe myself again.
Okay.
Well, with that, thanks so muchfor tuning in to this week's
episode.
Christy and I really do prayover you guys and pray that
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these.
Uh, conversations that we haveor these solo episodes that we
have, um, resonate with you andthat they're helpful on your
journey to living a less toxiclifestyle and glorifying God
with your body and your health.
Um, and yeah.
Until next time, this is Katieand thanks for listening to
Crunchy Stewardship.
See you.
Hey, and welcome to CrunchyStewardship.
My name is Katie Fiola Jones.
Chrissy and I have this podcastwhere we are very passionate
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steward their spiritual, mental,emotional, financial, and
physical health in order tohonor God in every aspect of
their lives.
Here in our podcast, we takedeep dives into what it means to
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We look at a myriad of topicslike food, medicine, finances,
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Today I am actually here bymyself.
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This is Katie.
As I said, Chrissy is actually,um, getting ready to go on a
mission trip so you could bepraying for her.
She actually leaves.
Tomorrow as I'm recording this,I realize.
And so, yeah, she's heading overto the Middle East, so be
praying for her.
She's gonna be gone for about aweek.
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Um, and we realized that it justwasn't possible for the two of
us to sit down to record anotherpodcast before she leaves.
We also realized that for ournext week's episode, uh, I'm
either going to be doing anothersolo one or I'll figure
something out while she's gonebecause, um, usually we have a
bunch of these like prerecordedand then put them out.
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schedule kind of being all crazyand.
Me having Malachi around, it'sjust been hard for us to sit
down and do these episodes asregularly as we would like to.
So hang in there with us.
We do plan to continue to putthese out.
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Um, that was actually partiallymy fault.
I forgot to schedule the episodein time and then I realized
like.
At like in the evening onFriday, and I was like, oh my
gosh, I didn't schedule it and Iwasn't going to be able to do it
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And then we decided to just waituntil the next week because we
didn't have another one recordedyet, and we were like, well, we,
as we already missed thisFriday, so we might as well just
wait until the next Friday.
So anyway, bear with us as we'retrying to figure this all out.
We will also likely be taking akind of Christmas break starting
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Um, yeah, we've just beenenjoying getting to hang out
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with you guys like this.
So today I am solo and um, Iguess I'll first start off with
my random revelation of theweek.
It comes.
At us from a book that I amcurrently listening to, called
Bad Therapy.
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The book is, written by AbigailSchreyer, and it's all about why
kids aren't growing up.
It's actually, it's veryfascinating.
I can't remember exactly how Istumbled upon this book.
Probably my guess is it wasmaybe mentioned in another book
I listened to called an TheAnxious Generation.
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There's a chance that it was,um, otherwise I may have just
heard this woman.
On a podcast or something.
But all I remember is that itwas on my want to read list and
I kept coming across it and Iwas like, this one actually
sounds really fascinatingbecause I have noticed, um, my
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husband is a youth pastor, um,or a next generation pastor.
He works with youth a lot.
And I have noticed this trend inour younger generations of kids
who, um, don't seem maybe asresilient.
As maybe generations in thepast.
And I'll give you a quickexample'cause I actually use
this example in the book andI've actually heard of it, um,
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from different students that myhusband worked with.
But there's kind of this trendright now that a lot of teens.
Aren't really wanting to gettheir driver's licenses, uh,
because of the fear of driving.
They don't think that it's,they're like up for the task.
Um, whatever it might be.
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It fascinates me because I canremember when I was at age, I
wanted to get my driver'slicense.
As quickly as I could, and Iremember signing up for driver's
education right when I could,um, and getting my driver's
license like immediately when Iturned 16.
Actually, it was technically theday after, but.
My point is that it's, itbaffles me that there are kiddos
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these days that um, don't wannado things like that, or they
don't wanna do things that like,where they have to take a risk,
um, and put themselves outthere.
Granted, this is not everystudent I know plenty of really
awesome teenagers who are, get'em kind of kids and, um, yeah,
just are thriving.
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However, there is this kind ofgrowing.
Population of students who arekind of fearful and feel like
they don't have the ability todo things and to kind of grow
and to put themselves at riskand to expand and, and to put
them in a place where they wouldfail, I think is, is really what
it comes down to.
So anyway, this book is reallyfascinating.
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And it has honestly beenchallenging a lot.
Of the things that I haveoriginally been taught, about,
raising kids about trauma andhow it impacts, uh, students or
kids in general, um, as well assomething like therapy.
And obviously the title of thisbook is called Bad Therapy.
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And so, okay.
I'll just jump to.
Where my random revelation is,or what my random revelation is,
it's about this word that Ilearned from this book.
It's iatrogenesis.
It took me a long time to beable to pronounce it.
It's the name of like, I thinkthe first chapter in the book,
iatrogenesis and um, aniatrogenic injury is.
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Basically harm that results froma medical treatment or some kind
of medical procedure, such aslike a surgical error or um,
like an infection that came froma surgery that you had, or you
acquired it in the hospital oryou had some sort of side effect
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from a medication.
So basically it's any kind ofharm or side effect from a
medical procedure.
Um, some other examples are evenlike, uh, side effects from
chemotherapy, like hair loss or,um, allergic reactions to
medication or becoming dependenton painkillers from a prescribed
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medication.
So it's, it's some sort ofinjury that is done to a
patient, um, just as a result ofa medical intervention.
And so.
This woman then kind of goes onto describe in her book how many
times there is this iatrogenicinjury from therapy where kiddos
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are getting therapy and not evennecessarily kids, but adults,
anyone can get therapy and it'salmost like they have this, um,
injury, quote unquote injuryfrom their therapy that
actually.
Doesn't necessarily help themwith whatever they've gone to
therapy for, but actually maybemakes the situation worse.
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Um, a, a really great examplethat she had, and it's, it's
just fascinating to me being afoster parent and having
experienced kids with trauma,but she, she talks a lot about
trauma and how there's a lot of.
Trauma based education thesedays in the schools.
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And, um, anyone who works withkids is getting trauma based
education now so that they canlike, recognize, uh, kiddos who
have experienced trauma and howthey can help them, what the
author is saying, what Schreyeris saying in her book is that it
actually tends to harm kidsmaybe more than it's helping
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them by labeling them withtrauma, like with a trauma.
And, and it can be as small as,um.
Gosh, I'm, I'm like blanking onsome of the examples, but it can
basically be like really bigtraumas, like physical or even
like sexual abuse.
Um, but even down to, you know,my, my mom was just really tough
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on me and like more of a, anauthoritative parent and stuff.
But anyway, there's like thisscale of quote unquote trauma
and she's saying that now we'rejust labeling kids.
With even the most minutetraumas as just a trauma
student.
And so therefore they get intothis mindset of, oh, I've had
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trauma and now I can't likethrive past where I'm at because
this trauma has impacted me andI am going to be impacted for
the rest of my life.
And so it's almost like giving,um, what did I say to Wes the
other day?
It was like a, it's.
The self-fulfilling prophecykind of concept of if you tell
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someone they're a failure or ifyou tell yourself that you're a
failure, then you'reautomatically going to fail
because you're not gonna try oryou're not gonna like do
anything about whatever you'retrying to accomplish.
So, you know when, when we labelkids with, or that they have had
this trauma or, um, yeah.
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Anyway, maybe I'm kind oftalking in circles now, but it's
this, the iatrogenic injury oftherapy is that maybe we're
doing more harm for our kidswhen we get them in therapy
early on, um, versus actuallyhelping them past the trauma and
like we're focusing too much ontrauma and talking about it,
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that they kind of don't grow upand grow up past that trauma.
And so anyway, I, I've actually.
Kind of seen it in a, a verysmall sense, um, and have been
hearing at it, hearing about iton a grander scale as well, just
across the country.
So yeah, give that book alisten, um, or a read.
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It's called Bad Therapy byAbigail Schreyer.
I'll add a link to it in ourshow notes so you can check it
out.
Um, and yeah, there's a lot ofthings in there that I've just
been, uh.
Really challenged by, they'veactually named a handful of
books by name that I have readin the past and have really
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enjoyed, but she's challenging alot of the things that they
teach in them.
Um, one of the books is.
Um, the body keeps the score.
It's all about trauma and howyour body remembers trauma and
how it does impact you for alifetime.
And so she's saying how thisbook is kind of one, a part of
the problem.
And so that was just reallyfascinating to me.
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Um, I don't know how much Iagree with all of the things
that she's saying, but it reallydoes give me, um, just a moment
of pause as to the things that Ihave been taught and how much I
should.
Believe with other peoplebecause now I am kind of seeing
the things that she is talkingabout is, are those like
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iatrogenic um, harms that havebeen done through the over
therapized generation that wehave?
So anyway, sorry that was longerthan I meant to talk about that
word, but.
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I am here by myself, and so I amjust talking.
It does seem a little weird forme to do a podcast totally by
myself.
But, um, if, I mean, you may ormay not know I actually have a
YouTube channel and it is justmyself on my YouTube channel.
So I'm actually pretty, uh, I'mpretty used to just talking.
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To myself or by myself at ascreen or into a microphone.
Um, because I've made a lot ofYouTube videos where I'm just
kind of talking, usually with myYouTube videos, they are
slightly more scripted andplanned and thought through this
podcast I have, I definitelyhave thoughts.
I have some notes written down,so don't worry.
I'm not just going to berambling.
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I do have a plan for today, butit's not as probably scripted
and, uh.
Formal as my YouTube channel.
If you are curious, my YouTubechannel is all about, um, faith
and finances.
You can find me over on YouTube.
Uh, just looking at my name,Katie Fiola Jones.
I'll link to it if you'recurious on checking it out.
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I talk a lot about budgeting,um, personal finance, um, from a
biblical perspective and yeah,um, if you're looking for ideas
on saving money and things.
You can go check it out.
Which actually kind of brings meto today's topic because I do
wanna talk a little bit aboutmoney and finances, um, and how
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we can start saving money whentrying to live this non-toxic
life.
So that's kind of a, a cue intogetting into today's topic.
So in today's episode, Iactually want to kind of expand
on last week's episode, whichwas actually an introduction to
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the Toxin bucket theory.
Um, it's basically kind of thisanalogy.
Used within functional andholistic medicine to try to
explain how a person's body cangradually accumulate toxins and
other stressors until it reachesa saturation point, which then
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leads to the onset of chronicsymptoms or even disease.
So imagine you have a bucket andthat represents your body's
total capacity to handle yourtoxic load.
Everybody has, you know, adifferent.
Bucket size, and this is kind ofdue to your genetic variation,
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your genetic makeup, um, yourdetoxification pathways.
Um, in some situations you mayor may not have more or less
efficiency at removing toxins.
Um, and so you may have asmaller bucket or a larger
bucket.
Um, and so some people who have.
Large toxin buckets can take inlots and lots of different
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toxins from different areas oftheir life, and it may seem like
they're never detoxing a lot ofit, but then they never actually
end up getting sick.
However, somebody else might beexposed to small levels of
toxins and then become verychronically ill pretty quickly
from some, from stuff thatdoesn't make other people.
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As sick.
And so, you know, we kind ofhave different bucket sizes.
We all have like ourdetoxification system, which
would be considered the drain ofthe bucket.
Um, and sometimes, you're ableto drain out and detoxify the
toxins quicker than otherpeople.
Our primary makeup.
Of organs that create thedetoxification system or like
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your liver, your kidney.
Christine, I talked about likeyour skin and how it actually
helps to, uh, expel out a lot oftoxins through like your sweat.
Your bowels are also a part ofthat system as well.
Um, and your drain is basicallytrying to flush out as much of
the toxins as possible.
Our body is supposed to, it'sdesigned to withstand a certain
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level of toxins, but it needs tobe draining properly so that it
doesn't overload.
Your toxin load is made up ofenvironmental toxins, which are
kind of the easiest things topoint out.
So environmental toxins are madeup of pollutants in the air and
our water, as well as exposureto pesticides, heavy metals.
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Chemicals in our household andpersonal care products.
Um, we also are exposed tothings like mold or even, uh,
bad bacterias and yeasts, um,that create kind of in and
imbalance inside of our gutprimarily.
But our toxins don't just comefrom.
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The exterior from ourenvironment.
They're also, uh, internal andthey're also just the choices
that we make every day on, ourlifestyle.
So you think about, you know,your, uh.
Lack of sleep, even likeexposure to certain stresses,
um, whether it's emotional orsomething else.
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Um, so if we have lots ofstressors, lack of movement, So
our toxin bucket is kind of madeup of things that we can and we
cannot control.
Um, however, we want to try toreduce our toxin exposure so
that way it doesn't lead to, uh,a very of, you know, various
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amount of things.
Think about like chronic fatigueor even brain fog, um, aches and
pains that are unexplainedthroughout our body, skin
issues, um, like.
Rashes, um, or breakouts.
You could have hormonalimbalances even from the toxin
inflow, which then can lead toinfertility, which is a, a
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major, uh, issue that we'reseeing across the world.
Um, it's something that I haveeven been challenged with when
we were trying to get pregnantwith Malachi.
It took us a, a very, very longtime.
And who knows what kind oftoxins I had or Wes had been
exposed to, that kind of led to.
Um, that kind of chroniccondition.
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Um, it, the toxin bucket whenyou are overflowed with all
these things can also lead tosensitivities to different foods
and chemicals.
So if you have allergies or eventhings like asthma, um, however,
the biggest things that.
Your toxin bucket can eventuallylead to our, um, major chronic
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diseases, autoimmune diseases,cancers, um, heart problems,
all, all the major stuff.
It typically comes from anoverload of toxins in your life.
Now, the best way to.
Overcome and to fight off all ofthe toxins.
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You know, there's two ways thatyou can kind of empty this
bucket, and that's really byreducing the inflow, so limiting
your actual exposure to thetoxins that you have control
over.
And then your option number twois just draining the bucket.
So it's making sure that yourdetoxification pathways are
actually working.
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So I wanna go over some freeeasy ways you could do both of
these things to reduce theinflow and to kind of support
your body's naturaldetoxification pathways, like
the actual detoxificationprocess.
Um.
So you have to consider what arethe things that you have the
most control over?
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And, and do those things, andespecially if they're free,
right?
I mean, if there's somethingthat's free that can help you
reduce your chances of gettingsome sort of chronic, uh, health
issue, chronic illness, whywould you not be doing it?
Right?
So, some of the easiest thingsthat we can do.
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Um, have to do with, um, ourfood as well as our natural, uh,
like our, our personal careproducts, um, and the way that
we are kind of reducing stress,um, and even just helping our
detoxification in general.
Okay, so let's talk about somefree ways to reduce the toxin
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inflow.
So you think about like slowingdown the flow of water into our
bucket so that it doesn'toverflow as it is draining out.
Um, these strategies really arefocusing on creating a healthier
environment inside and outsideof our bodies, without.
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Needing to buy lots of expensivenew things.
Yes, there might be a time and aplace to go and buy extra
things, but start with thethings that are the easiest and
that are super duper free.
So.
Think about your home, like Imentioned this last week, but
your home is full of pollutantsin the air, so you want to, um,
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reduce the number of VOCs, whichstands for volatile.
Organic compounds.
So these come, it's likeoffgassing, basically it comes
from new items, especially whenyou bring new things into your
home.
So if you've ever like purchasedsomething from Amazon, like a
shirt, and you open it up and ithas like this really weird smell
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to it, that is the, the piece ofclothing literally like
Offgassing.
And that typically happens with.
Items that have some sort oflike plastic byproduct, um, in
it.
So any kind of syntheticmaterial, um, that can come from
our clothing, our furniture.
Things like our mattressesoften, um, have very high VOCs,
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but it also can be within, um,our walls.
Um.
I mean, things like children'scribs and stuff, they, they have
a lot of VOCs because, um,they're often sprayed with, uh,
things that make them waterresistant as well as like flame
resistant, which sound like goodthings, but it's because there's
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a lot of chemicals in them thatthey are resistant to all these
other stuff.
So.
In order to kind of get allthese VOCs out of our air, we
need to sort of cleanse the air.
So a very easy free way to dothat is to, allow your home to
like, filter out the air bysimply just opening all the
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windows for 10 to 15 minutes aday.
Um, also if you do, or when youdo bring new products into the
home, like new clothes orfurniture, um.
Keep them outside or in yourgarage or on your porch for a
few days before bringing theminside.
You can actually nowadays likeGoogle or use like an AI engine
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to figure out how long certainproducts will off gas their
VOCs, and so you can find outhow long you should keep
something outside in order forit to kind of lose.
The majority of the, thechemicals into off gas as much
as possible.
So that's a great easy way, um,to help reduce the inflow of
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these VOCs into your air, whichthen get into your lungs and
into your cells, um, thatcreate.
Havoc.
So another really easy, simpleway, we've, Christy and I have
talked about, um, reducing ourchemical exposure from our
cleaning products and personalcare products, um, and even the
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scents that we use in our home.
So honestly, one of the firstthings you can do is.
Stop buying anything that ismade with fragrances, um,
synthetic or quote unquotenatural fragrances.
You really want to look forstuff that is made with the
actual real item.
So like actual lemons instead oflemon fragrance, when you see
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the word fragrance, it often, orit always means made with
chemicals and so.
You want to stop buying thosekinds of things, stop buying
like the scented wall plugins.
Um, candles can be really badbecause now they're releasing
like a gas into the air whenthey're made with a lot of
synthetic stuff.
So if you're gonna choose to docandles, try and do the bees wax
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natural stuff, they actually, itcleanses your air when you use,
uh, beeswax candles, they can bepretty expensive.
So.
You just need to be aware ofthat, but you could just like
stop buying the things that aremade with fragrance.
Um, stop buying Fre, that'llactually save you money.
Okay, so another really easy,practically free way to clean
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everything in your home.
From counters to windows tofloors.
To your bathrooms is simply withjust plain vinegar and water.
Um, making a, a really simplesolution, putting it in a spray
bottle, spraying it around andusing like a microfiber cloth to
clean everything.
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Literally.
That is all you need to cleanyour house.
Um, obviously if you.
Lots and lots of nerdiness.
Um, there's some other addedthings you can be doing, but
this is the easiest and mostcost effective way to clean your
home.
You don't need to go and buy theexpensive cleaners from the
store that have lots and lots ofchemicals to.
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Destroy every piece of bacteriain your home.
In fact, Christy and I actuallytalked about this on a podcast
episode where this is actuallyharming your health more than it
is helping.
Um, because you wanna keep thatbacteria around because your
body starts to develop, um, andbuild your immune system around
it.
And so if you're killingeverything, you are not allowing
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your.
Immune system to kind of do itsproper job and build up slowly
with, um, small, you know, microexposures to different
bacterias, um, because you'rejust killing every, every little
last living thing that is inyour home.
Um, so yeah, so easy, simpleway.
You don't need to use any of theharsh stuff.
Another really.
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Simple way to make your home,um, more clean and less toxic is
simply by just taking your shoesoff before you walk around your
shoes.
Have more fecal bacteria on themthan your toilet seat does.
Guys, like this is no joke.
I mean, you go Google it rightnow and you will find out the
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truth about your shoes.
But not only are there, youknow.
Fecal bacterias on your shoes.
You also, um, likely havepesticide residue.
You could have chemicals fromlike the roads, like think about
all the chemicals that theyspray on your road onto your
shoes.
I've also learned that lead isoften on the.
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Bottom of shoes.
Um, even, I mean, just the, thedirt and dust from outside and
whatever that holds, all comesinside.
And so even if it's not, like,even if your shoes are kind of
dry, dirty, you know what Imean, it's not like wet.
So you're not like leaving wetmarks everywhere, but just
simply like leaving theparticles of different things
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around your house.
May be fine if you don't havekids in your home, like you may,
or you may be thinking it isfine because you don't have
little kiddos running around andyou're like, oh, well there's
nobody licking the floors oreating things off of our floors,
so it's fine.
But really.
If you think about all thechemicals and different things
that you are tracking into yourhome, and then later in the day
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you end up taking your shoes offand walking around bare feet,
um, with bare feet.
Your feet are now taking in andabsorbing anything that you
tracked into your home.
Not only that, but then if youdo bring in something like the
pesticides into your home, itdoes get into your air quality,
when you just start movingaround and things get shifted
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and stuff.
And so it's.
It just, it's a very easy way tolive.
A little less toxic is justsimply by taking your shoes off
before you walk around thehouse, and even if you have the
opportunity, leave your shoeslike in the garage or on your
front porch or something likethat, so that you're just not
bringing them into the home atall.
So another thing with yourfloors, um, and your house
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removing the dust is super,super important.
So as I mentioned, like yourshoes are bringing lots of stuff
into the home.
Well, then you start lookingaround the edges of the rooms
and in places where you're notgoing as often, but you'll
notice that.
There's just that fine layer ofdust and it's oftentimes like
all of that junk that you arebringing into your home.
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Um, also things like those flameretardants, that are in a lot of
our clothing and, um, ourblankets and towels and and so
you wanna be dusting andcleaning that regularly if you
have air ducts like a, a ductsystem.
So if you have a forced air gasfurnace you want to be cleaning
those out, uh, once a yearbecause all that stuff then also
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gets into the air ducts.
And then every time you turn iton, whether it's for your AC or
for your heat, it just blowsthroughout your home.
So you wanna clean that out.
And the best way to even justkeep your air ducts clean is
just by, um, vacuuming yourhouse regularly, cleaning up the
dust.
And so that way it doesn't.
Just continue to track into, uh,the duct system of your home.
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So that is super important.
I do think that it's recommendedthat you use like a wet, uh,
like, or just slightly dampcloth when you're dusting'cause
it really does like track orlike capture as much of the, um,
nasty stuff as possible.
Now I wanna talk about EMFexposure.
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I have been going on a journeylearning more and more about.
The radiation that we areexposed to and how it, um,
honestly could potentially belike the stem of a lot of the
long-term chronic illnesses thatmany of us face these days, um,
including things like cancer.
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I'm not gonna even go into.
The details of all the impactsthat EMFs can have on our
bodies.
Um, we'll save that for anotherepisode.
But if you are already kind ofaware of that or you are just
simply wanting to look for easyways to reduce your EMF
exposure, there are a lot ofreally.
Super easy, free things that youcan start doing today.
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Like you don't need to go buyanything, go, don't need to go
do anything crazy, but simplyjust some options or some things
that you can be doing, newhabits that you can build for
yourself.
One is instead of using yourcell phone up against your head,
um, where the EMF exposure isthen going directly into, you
know, into your skull, into yourbrain.
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Talk on your phone withspeakerphone as much as you can.
I mean, obviously there'scertain cer, certain situations
where you're not just gonna likepop on your speakerphone and let
everybody hear your personalconversations, but if it is
possible, use speakerphone asmuch as you can.
Um, try as best as you can, notto put phones into your pockets,
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especially your front pocket.
There have been a lot of studiesnow that have been showing that
the EMF exposure from your cellphone, especially in your front
pocket, can impact yourfertility.
And so for men, it kills.
Sperm.
Um, and for women it, itdiminishes egg quality.
And so if you can, um, justchoose not to put it in your
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pocket, ladies, put your phonein your purse and, and try and
keep your purse away from you ifyou do need to put it in your
pocket.
The thing that I have actuallybeen doing is turning my phone
into airplane mode when I knowthat it's going to be in my
pocket.
And, and if I don't need to begetting, if I, if I know I'm not
gonna be getting any calls for alittle bit and I don't need my.
Um, cell phone on at thatmoment.
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I just simply put it intoairplane mode.
And then I put it in my pocket.
I do this often when I'm goingin and out of my house to the
car because I'm like, okay, it'sjust gonna be a few minutes.
It makes it easier'cause I'mcarrying Malachi.
Um.
And so I often do that.
And then even with that, asoften as you can or as often as
you think about it, put yourphone in airplane mode.
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If you're just not using it,like if you're just hanging out,
um, and it's around, just turnit off no matter where it's
located, whether it's close toyou or not, It's extremely
important overnight.
So if you keep your phone, um,in your room, or I would even
highly recommend not keeping itin your room overnight or don't
keep any electronics in yourroom overnight, especially your
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laptop.
Um, and especially plugged in,uh, devices because when your
devices are charging and they'realso.
Connected to the wifi orconnected to Bluetooth Um, it
magnifies the EMF radiationcoming off of it.
And so it's best when you'reusing it not to have it plugged
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in.
So, uh.
If you can charge it and thenuse it without it being plugged
in the whole time.
Same thing with your phone.
If you're going to use yourphone, don't be using it while
it's on the charger.
The radiation that's coming offof it is much higher when it is
plugged in.
There are EMF blocking phonecases.
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There's, there's a couple brandscalled Defender Shield and Safe
Sleeve, if you're curious inchecking those out.
Christmas is around the corner.
It could be a good thing to addto your Christmas list this
year.
But again, if you're lookingjust for easy freeways, do those
things.
Um, same thing with like, ifyou're going to use your laptop,
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don't use it directly on yourlap.
Again, it's the same thing asputting your phone into your
front pocket.
You, it does impact thefertility of both men and women,
and so.
Just be aware of that.
When it comes to, so I mentionedBluetooth very briefly.
When it comes to Bluetooth, youreally want to stop using as
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many of the Bluetooth devices asyou can.
We've actually, I, uh, it's,it's such a pain.
I actually really love smarthome devices.
They.
Make life easier.
They're wonderful.
You can control everything fromyour phone, which is so cool.
'cause then you can see likewho's at your front door.
You can change the, thetemperature of your house before
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you get there.
You can make sure that lightsare off in rooms if you left.
Anyway, I was on this likejourney of changing everything
to smart home devices because Ijust, I loved the convenience of
them.
Um, but then I started learningabout all this.
All the impact of the radiationon your body and how the toxic
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load can really just beoverwhelmed.
Like your buck, your toxinbucket can be super overwhelmed
with all the radiation thatwe're exposed to because.
You think about it, you're at,you're in your home, you have
wifi going all day.
Usually if you're going to workor you're going to school or
you're going to the library,you're going to the grocery
store.
Everything now has, um, 5G andhas wifi and there's Bluetooth
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going and, and all the things.
So we are exposed to so manychances to get like that EMF
radiation and so.
You can limit it as much aspossible, that is the, the best
route to go.
So if you can stop using as manyof these Bluetooth devices in
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your home, that is going to bethe less toxic route.
And so yes, I have decided thatwe are going to, um, you know,
when we move into our new home,we're not going to be using
these smart home devicesanymore.
And I'm like.
Still really bummed about it,but you know, our health is so
(38:51):
much more important to me thanbeing able to see who is at my
front door when they ring thedoorbell, or that I can change
the thermostat from my phonewhen we're not home or whatever.
And, uh, my gosh, this, thesedays, it's so crazy to me.
Everything that has Bluetoothnow, I mean, we're shopping for,
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um.
Appliances for our home, andliterally every appliance that
you can buy for your kitchenthese days now can connect to
wifi and you can control themfrom your phone.
And I'm like, in what situationdo I need to connect to my oven
from my phone?
I mean, there are maybe so fewinstances where I'm like, oh,
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that sounds like it could beconvenient, but I'm not gonna be
turning my oven on.
Away from my home.
'cause that just sounds like sodangerous to have this thing
going that could, I don't know.
Anyway, to me that sounds crazy.
And so that's an easy, like,okay, we don't need these
devices.
But now it's crazy becausealmost all of the new.
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Appliances out there come withwifi connectivity.
In fact, I learned the other daythat the um, oven that we have
here at our temporary house haswifi connectivity.
Um, and we learned that, that itis connected to something
because it, when the timechanged, uh, just here in early
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November, um, you know, withdaylight savings, it
automatically changed.
On its own.
Like we didn't go and program itto do that.
And so, um, then we realizedthat it is connected to
something and then sure enough,like really teeny tiny, there's
the little wifi symbol on it.
And I was like, holy cow.
That is so crazy.
So yeah, it's unfortunate.
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There's a lot of things that I'mlike, man, this is, there are so
many little conveniences withhaving things connected.
But again, my theory or my, myown personal belief is that.
Our health, our long-term healthis, um, so much more important
than the convenience of havingeverything connected to our
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phone.
So.
We are going to be getting ridof all of our devices that I
love so much.
Um, but again, it is muchhealthier.
I've even heard of the fact thatlike a lot of these, the wifi,
radiation and um, Bluetoothconnectivity and, and all this
stuff, like if you have themclose to your bedroom, it really
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impacts your sleep quality.
And so, um, you know, if, if youdo have.
Wifi router, right?
Which most of us have.
You can turn it off at night,which is the, the safest.
Way to go, um, is just totally,completely having it off.
Um, but at a bare minimum, makesure it is not close to your
bedroom or it doesn't hang outin a room that you spend like a
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lot of, lot of time in.
So for example, if you work fromhome and you spend eight hours a
day in your office, you reallydon't want to have the wifi
router sitting directly next toyou while you are working.
So those are some really simplefirst steps that you can get
started with to reduce your.
Um, toxin inflow from EMFs.
There are a lot of other waysnowadays that you can go
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overboard.
Almost.
I mean, I wouldn't say overboardis the right word, but you can
dive much deeper into, um, likelimiting your EMF exposure.
If you are curious, just go and,um, Google things, but.
Those are some easy ways to getstarted.
We'll probably do an episodeabout EMFs, um, in the future.
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Blue Light is another one ofthose, um, ones that is similar
to EMF, but Blue Light reallydoes impact your hormones.
Um, it impacts your melatoninproduction.
It, it impacts your sleepquality in general.
So with Blue Light, you reallywant to get in the habit of.
You know, stop using devices oneto two hours before you go to
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bed.
Um, it helps your hormonesregulate before going to sleep.
Um, if you have the opportunity,you know, just stop using your
laptop as often as you canduring the day.
I know many of us work usingscreens, so that's quite
difficult.
Um, you could go out and buysome blue light glasses if that
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is a concern of yours, but.
Limiting it as much as possible,but then in order to kind of
like reverse the effects of bluelight, it's really important to
just simply go outside and getnatural light on your eyes,
frequently throughout the day.
So if you can go and take likea, a break, maybe once an hour
(43:41):
or every other hour and justsoak in some, um, natural light
from outside from the sun, thatis going to help.
Um, kind of like detox yoursystem.
So that's kind of like on theopposite side.
It's not necessarily likelimiting your toxin exposure,
but it's gonna help on theopposite side to kind of
regulate your body.
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So that is, um, a super easy,free way to, to do that.
So on the other end, so I kindof went through and talked a
little bit about reducing theinflow of toxins, but now if we
want to examine what it lookslike to support your
detoxification pathways, um,there's a lot of great ways.
(44:24):
To do that, that are easy andfree.
Um, the first one is simply justgetting good quality sleep.
We all know that while we sleep,that is your body's chance to
sort of reset itself.
There are different systems inyour brain that are highly
active during sleep that helpwith.
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Kind of flushing out anymetabolic waste that has been
accumulated during the day.
So it's important to be gettingseven to nine hours of good
sleep every single night.
Try to block out as much of thelights.
In your room is possible.
Again, the the blue lightexposure, even in the smallest
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amount.
So you think like your alarmclock or even even the teeny
tiny light that comes from yoursmoke detector in your bedroom,
those are all impacting thequality of your sleep.
So the more light that you'reexposed to overnight, the worst
quality of sleep that you willhave.
So, um, as much as possible youwanna try and get rid of those
(45:30):
lights.
So that way you sleep reallywell.
Um, and, Another really good wayto kind of help your.
Detoxification pathway is toreduce stress.
Now, what's interesting aboutstress is that it is also a
source of toxins, basically.
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Um, but it also can help your,um, detoxification process work
properly when, uh, stress isreduced.
So it's important to practicestress management So when we are
stressed out, when we feelanxiety, our body produces
cortisol and having highcortisol levels really burdens
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your body and slows downdifferent bodily functions and
processes, including your liver.
Function, which the liver iskind of like the powerhouse of
your t detoxification, uh,system.
And so if your liver isn'tworking properly, then you
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aren't going to be able todetoxify the toxins in your body
as thoroughly and properly asneeded.
And so there are so many great,easy ways to practice.
Stress management, um, simplyjust doing deep breathing,
that's free and that's a toolthat you have at your disposable
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disposal at any moment.
And so deep breathing is a greatway to kind of help lower your
heart rate, um, and reduce thecortisol levels in your blood.
Getting good sunlight also helpsrelieve stress.
It, it helps yourdetoxification, um, system kind
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of kick in by getting reallygood sunlight, um, putting your
feet in the grass.
Christy and I have mentionedthis before.
It always sounds very woo woo,but if you go outside.
With bare feet.
I know as I'm talking aboutthis, it's, we're getting into
the chilly season, so it's notgoing to be as possible, um, for
some of us who live in snowyareas, but as, as often as you
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can, or if you can once a dayfor like 10 minutes, go put your
feet in the grass because yourbody actually absorbs some of
the energy that is coming fromthe Earth and it helps your body
to relax and kind of get backinto sink.
And so.
That is a really simple, easyway that you can kind of help
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your detoxification pathwaysopen up, um, as well as it can
help relieve some of the stressthat you might be feeling
throughout the day.
Water is probably one of themost important.
Uh, things for detoxing.
If you're not drinking water,your body has no way of actually
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flushing out the toxins.
So your toxins exposed throughobviously going to the bathroom,
um, but also through sweatingand so.
If you don't have enough waterto do either of those things,
then the toxins are going topool up in your system.
Um, and then they end upcreating inflammation and then
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potentially even long-termchronic illnesses.
So water's very, very important.
Chrisy and I actually had anepisode where we talked about,
uh, good water.
Meaning mineral based water thatactually helps to hydrate your
body instead of just kind ofgoing through your body and not
actually hydrating it.
So check out that episode wherewe talk about minerals in our
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water, but simply justincreasing your water intake is
probably going to be a good betfor anybody.
It is also really important tobe.
Moving daily.
So I've kind of heard that it isimportant to be sweating at
least once a day.
So that means actually likebreaking a sweat so that your
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body actually can expel thosetoxins.
Again, hydration is first, butthen once you are hydrated, you
wanna start getting those fluidsmoving.
Your lymphatic system reallyrelies on muscle contraction in
order to move.
The fluids, um, in like withinthe lymphatic system, the, the
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lymph fluid, which is where yourtoxins are being carried.
So it doesn't have any otherpump system, like this is the
pump system.
You are the pump system Bymoving your muscles, breaking a
sweat, um, just simply going ona 30 minute more brisk walk is
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one of the easiest.
And freest ways to get your.
Lymphatic system moving.
Um, so you just need to bepromoting sweat.
If you have kiddos, that cansometimes be easy, just like
have a little dance party athome, you know, 30 minutes just
jumping around and, and doingthings.
Even just like vacuuming oftencan break sweat if you're, you
(50:39):
know, if you have a big enoughhome.
So just think about those littlethings in your day to kind of
start getting the limp lymphaticsystem going so that you can
actually detoxify your system.
Okay, so I wanted to give you afew of those easy, quick ways to
start to live a less toxiclifestyle for free.
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Um, but again, I mentioned thatthere is definitely a time and a
place.
For us to be spending extramoney on living a less toxic
lifestyle.
And so you really have to askyourself at, at a certain point,
you know, once you've kind ofreached a limit of, of doing all
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the free things, what is thatnext best step that I can take
in order to continue to livethis non-toxic lifestyle?
And really what it comes down tois how important is your health
to you and.
What does it mean for you tostay healthy long term?
And I heard it said really well.
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Um, I, it was on some podcastthat, you know, as believers we,
we know that our body is atemple.
Our body is.
A place where the Holy Spiritdwells.
Um, and we need our bodies to beworking properly in order to
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continue the good work, um, ofsharing the gospel with others.
And so not only is taking careof your body about your own
health and your own comforts,like long term, like staying
healthy, um, it's not about justlooking good and feeling your
best, but it really is a waythat we can be honoring.
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Our father who gave us thesebodies in the first place, they
are not our own.
They are on loan from God.
And we want to take as bestpossible care as we can of these
bodies.
And so I really do see all ofthis as an act of worship and
(52:49):
there are definitely points in,there have been points in our
journey where we have decidedthat yes, this thing is worth.
Spending a little extra money onbecause we want to glorify God
in this way.
And so it's important for you tokind of have that conversation,
um, with a spouse if you'remarried, but also just with the
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Lord deciding, you know, betweenyou and God.
Like what is that next step thatI can take in order to continue
to live a less toxic lifestyle?
And um, sometimes that mightmean spending a little extra
money here or there, and.
That's okay.
So we, the, the next step that Ijust want to encourage you with,
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um, when, when you get to thatpoint is simply to create a
solid budget that will help youprioritize making these
decisions.
And so setting aside money to.
Put towards, um, a, a largergrocery budget.
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If that means increasing yourgrocery budget to buy higher
quality foods, um, it might meansaving money for an air
filtration system or a waterfiltration system.
It could mean saving money tobuy organic.
Cotton clothing or organiccotton sheets.
Um, a new mattress that isn'triddled with, uh, fire retardant
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materials and waterproofmaterials sprayed into it.
There are a lot of things thatyou can be spending your money
on in this journey, and I'm nothere to tell you which thing
that you need to go and spendmoney on, but the important
thing is to consider.
What area you think will makethe biggest impact for your
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health, um, that God might becalling you to make a change
with and start setting asidemoney for that if you've never
budgeted before and need help.
Figuring out what that lookslike.
Um, I'll send, I'll, I'll linkto a few of the resources that
I've created.
Um, I've mentioned a few timesbefore and, and today that I am
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a certified Christian financialcounselor and I actually like,
do this, like, help people withbudgets for, um, a job.
Like that's, that's my job.
And so I have tons of freeresources that you can kind of
get started with and, and checkthat out.
Um.
Because it really is important,the way that we spend our money
is also an act of worship.
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Um, many of us have had thatconversation at church where,
um, we know like the way wespend money can glorify God or
it can be glorifying ourselves.
So it's really important toconsider the way that we are
spending our money and, um, howwe can glorify the Lord with it
and how we can give thanks tohim through the way that we
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spend it, um, and how we treatour bodies.
So with that, I will leave us.
There, I honestly could justcontinue talking because I love
talking about all this.
And, um, but now I feel weirdbecause it has been a long
conversation and, um, I've gottaget back to doing mom things and
(56:05):
uh, house things.
And we'll see.
Stay tuned for next week'sepisode if there is one.
If there's not, I'm sorry.
Um.
But if there is, it might justbe myself again.
Okay.
Well, with that, thanks so muchfor tuning in to this week's
episode.
Christy and I really do prayover you guys and pray that
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these.
Uh, conversations that we haveor these solo episodes that we
have, um, resonate with you andthat they're helpful on your
journey to living a less toxiclifestyle and glorifying God
with your body and your health.
Um, and yeah.
Until next time, this is Katieand thanks for listening to
Crunchy Stewardship.
See you.
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