March 11, 2025 • 24 mins
The modern world has dramatically transformed from the pure environment of centuries past. Today, we're surrounded by synthetic chemicals affecting everything from our hormones to our sleep patterns—and most of us don't realize the full impact of these invisible threats.
Dr. Enrico Dolcecore breaks down the toxins we encounter daily and provides genuinely practical solutions that don't require becoming paranoid or upending your entire lifestyle. From the surprising truth about indoor air quality (it's typically five times worse than outdoor air) to the chemicals lurking in your favorite scented laundry pods, this episode reveals how everyday choices affect your long-term health.
You'll discover why positioning your Wi-Fi router matters, which three food dyes are banned in Europe but still legal in America, and why even "organic" produce requires special handling. Dr. Dolcecore shares personal strategies he uses to protect his family, including the exact water filtration system in his home and the Mediterranean-inspired alternatives to chemical-laden personal care products.
Beyond just identifying problems, this episode delivers a masterclass in realistic solutions—like which room deserves an air purifier most, how to properly wash produce to remove pesticide residue, and why completely pure water might actually dehydrate you. The guidance strikes a perfect balance between awareness and action without overwhelming you with impossible standards.
Whether you're concerned about your children's exposure to hormone disruptors, looking to address unexplained fatigue, or simply want to make more informed choices about the products entering your home, these evidence-based strategies will help you navigate our unavoidably toxic world with greater confidence and control.
Ready to detoxify your environment without wrapping yourself in tinfoil? This episode provides the roadmap for meaningful changes that protect your health without sacrificing your sanity.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm Dr Enrico Del Ciccori, and welcome to another
episode of Living a Full Life.
This week's topic springcleaning.
More importantly, toxins.
We're going to dive right into.
All.
The toxins around us make youparanoid, so when the episode is
over, you're freaking out andyou start making some changes in
your life.
No, that's never the best wayto teach or influence anyone.
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We're going to make you moreaware of all the toxins that are
out there and I know you'velooked out of all these probably
99% of everything I've told youon this episode you've thought
of.
But we're going to give youtaskful ways to avoid these,
eliminate them from your lifeand be comfortable with the
toxins that are around us thatyou just can't control.
So maybe bring some peace, butalso some awareness into what
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toxins can do to our hormones,our homeostasis, our chemical
balance, our sleep rhythms, ourfatigue.
These things can live inside ofour tissue and it's really
important to be aware of them tohelp both you and your family
live a long, healthy life.
And that's what it's all about.
We'll break this down intoenvironmental toxins, household
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toxins, food-related toxins,water, clothing, and wrap it up
nicely in a bow for you here onthis episode.
The truth is, the world is notlike it used to be 300 years ago
.
Honestly, 300 years ago farmingwas the way of life.
Everyone cultivated, everyoneprovided food for their families
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, everyone worked on agricultureand farms to help sustain their
lives.
Everyone fed themselves and theextra was given to markets, and
that was pretty much the startof free trade and all that other
stuff.
Then you could get into huntingand pellet trades and things
with animals, and then there wassome service trades at that
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time to doctors, dentists,professionals as well.
But the world, the environment,was pure.
The environment wasn't cascadedwith a bunch of chemicals
synthetically made by manthrough labs, as we've developed
over time.
So what we did is we used theearth as it was.
It sounds like a beautifulthing, doesn't it?
But things have changed andwe've created the industrial
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revolution, which created awhole new source of pollution
aerosols, combustion engines.
The air became polluted.
The effects of creatingchemicals is the synthetic waste
that come from them and ofcourse, those are dumped into
the water chains and lands.
It sounds horrible, doesn't it?
Remember being in elementaryschool I don't know how old you
are, but in the nineties andeighties and nineties, and just
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listening to Louie the lightningbug or the green thumb or
Smokey the bear, about teaching,about the environment, and you
sat there and you're like holysmokes.
We consume a lot of water.
We waste a lot of stuff into,we put a lot of waste into the
oceans.
We pollute a lot into the air.
We're creating those blackholes, all those things that
were taught a long time agowhich are not exactly how they
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work today.
But remember that as a kid andjust you, have this natural
green thumb that grows on you.
I think everyone does.
Everyone has a green thumb.
How much you use it isdependent on your life and what
you believe in.
But we all think the earthshould be clean.
We all want the earth to beclean because it's just a
natural thought of healthyliving.
Unfortunately sorry to burstthis bubble it's not the way it
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used to be.
We've cultivated lands, we'vedepleted a lot of the soil,
there's a lot of stuff in theair, there's a lot of stuff in
the water.
It just is the way it is and wehave to take it as it is Now.
How do we protect ourselvesfrom this type of a harsh
environment, hard to controlevery breath you take, to be
clean when you step outside orinside, and all the synthetics
that are in your home carpets,hardwood floors, laminate,
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off-gassing cabinetseverything's compromised and
made in factories with chemicals, compression wood, all these
things, they're not natural.
Your home isn't made from oakand cedar and redwood straight
from the forests anymore, likethey used to be, and that's just
the truth.
So let's start with theenvironment.
Like the redwood trees, right,you're not even allowed to use
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redwood anymore.
But there's little things.
Electromagnetic fields, emfsthese are all around us.
You can't control this.
If you have devices, tablets,cell phones, computers, wifi
signals they're everywhere.
Wifi signals are in all thestores you go in now.
They're in your home, they'rein your workplace, they're in
the schools.
Everyone's got in a school with, you know, 600 kids.
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There's 600, probably 600phones or at least tablets or
computers or stuff that's beingcarried around, creating this
emf.
That's around there.
You can't control it.
So what do you do to protectyourself?
Well, I highly recommendwrapping yourself in tinfoil and
just walking around the worldwrapped in tinfoil.
I'm joking, please don't dothat.
Nobody do that.
Um, you'll look silly.
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One and two, it doesn't reallywork.
Uh, you just have to understandthat the emfs are out there.
Now where's the research on emf.
Is it truly going to causecancer?
So far so good?
No, it doesn't.
On a cellular and frequencylevel, we know that the changes
in frequency in airwaves doaffect cells.
Cells in one way or another,they change their frequency.
And what does that do?
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Does it change their function?
Does it make them fatigued?
Does it decrease their lifecycle?
That's the research we're stillgoing on to.
There is some good research onhigh EMF devices like the old
iPhones.
They were horrible, the iPhone5, 6, holding them up against
your head.
There was a huge correlationwith brain tumors at that and
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the amount of heat that wascreated from these and cancerous
cells.
So there was that.
And there are ties out ofGermany, a lot of studies back
in like 2010.
There was a lot.
So is it conclusive?
Is it correlative?
Is it fact?
It's not fact.
So that's that's where we're atthere with EMF.
So don't freak out about EMF.
What can you do?
Pick a spot in your home forwhere you have your server, your
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router, your modem.
Keep it away from normalsitting areas.
You want to be at least 15 feetaway from that.
We have ours in the back cornerof our home, the only time
we're ever exposed to it is ifwe go use that bathroom in the
back.
We're probably within that 15feet range.
Otherwise it's there.
That's where the signals arecoming from, and our bedrooms
are on the opposite corner,upper corner of the home.
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That's me, with what I know,and, to protect my family,
that's where I put it.
Yeah, there's a part of thehouse in the upper corner that
doesn't get a good Wi-Fi signal.
The bar goes down to a threeout of four instead of four out
of four, but it still works.
Who cares?
We're all good and that's oneway we do it.
Microwaves we use a very limitedmicrowave and if we do, it's
rare.
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It's rare.
It's once.
We I grew up with no microwavein our home.
We had those nice kitchen hoodfans growing up and my, my
parents, um, just never had amicrowave until later in life.
I think we were close to 200,almost in college before we got
our first microwave and we neverused it.
So microwaves create a crazyfrequency there as well.
Now most of you don't sit thereand put your face up against
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the window and watch the foodcook.
So again, how much exposure isthere from that?
Limiting that as well.
We want to limit radiationexposure as much as possible.
Microwaves, x-rays, emf devicesthese things are things we want
to avoid.
Now, enrico, how do you avoidthese things in your life?
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Well, minimize my use of amicrowave.
Put the modem in the corner.
Even at our office the treatmentareas of where we take care of
patients we've had an EMF devicego around.
The whole office is the leastalmost zero when people don't
have their cell phones in there.
So when they're getting treated, they're in a zero EMF
environment.
We have a closed server on theother side of the building where
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everything runs to, and whenyou get within 10 feet of that,
that's where it is, but no oneworks or is within 10 feet of
that area, which is very cool.
We designed it that way.
It's got an exit hallway out tothe back.
No one actually.
No one actually spends any timethere things we thought about
when we developed our office aswell.
When I go travel and I'm bymyself, I don't go through those
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little TSA x-ray machines.
I don't do them.
I say, hey, give me the patdown if they offer.
When we travel with kids, it'snice, they put you through the
metal detector, which is awesome, but that's my way of standing
up for myself and being like hey, I don't want that extra
exposure, I can control that.
I can't control the guy sittingnext to me with his cell phone.
I can't.
I can't smack it out of hishands, even though I want to.
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So those are little ways of metaking choices in my life to
avoid the extra toxins.
Air quality is another thing,about environmental.
It's said that inside the homeour air quality is almost five
times as worse as going outside.
Crazy For those of you withallergies.
You're like no way man.
Inside is way better, butoutside, because of the
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off-gassing from carpets, woods,laminates and just stagnant air
, there's just not enoughairflow in our homes.
The air inside is actually morecontaminated each breath you
take than stuff outside.
So two things.
One, air purifiers in the homeplay a huge role on this.
Cleaning filters every threemonths the way you're supposed
to with with the better qualityones is really good Taking out
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as much microbes from the air asyou possibly can, having good
airflow, opening up your windowsevery now and then in the
summer, cleaning with cleanchemicals.
So don't off-gas.
You don't want what's it calledFabuloso and stuff on the floor
that off-gases forever.
You can have that scent in yourhouse for a week after using it
, using clean, vinegar-basedthings that don't off-gas, and
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that's it.
It had plants in the home.
My father, being from Italy,had all these plants in our home
all the time spider plants,lemon trees inside the home in
Calgary, alberta.
Pull out a map right now, findCalgary on the map and you'll
see the Arctic very close to it.
So I don't know how.
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My dad had a green thumb.
He built a glass greenhouse inthe back of our home and we had
like a suburban home in thebackyard glass and he would grow
tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes,lettuce, spinach, kale, onions,
carrots and tomatoes as big aslike softballs.
I swear one was a soccer ball.
I remember being like eightyears old holding this thing
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Maybe it's because I was eight.
Bowling ball it was a tomatoand he used horse manure from
the farms.
So you think this stuff isbranded into you one way or
another.
It really is, but sometimes wehave to think that way to keep
things clear.
So, an air purifier if youcan't get a whole home, one or
multiple ones they're annoyingput them in your bedroom.
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That's where you spend a lot oftime at night.
You spend anywhere between sixto 10 hours in your bedroom a
day.
Keep that air purified.
That's another way to help themost of your time.
You're spending a third of yourlife in your bedroom sleeping
right.
Keep that air clean and thenmake sure you spend a lot of
time outside.
That's always great too.
That's environment Getting intopesticides and Roundup and all
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these things we spray on ourlawns.
I do nothing.
I do nothing.
Moving to Florida, the grassthat we have here is considered
crabgrass up north.
It's stuff we used to pull andkill and it was considered a
weed.
It's people's lawns here, so Idon't care for it much.
So no, I do not put chemicalsdown.
I do not fertilize it.
I don't care whether it livesor dies.
If it doesn't survive, then itprobably wasn't supposed to be
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there in the first place, right?
The environment usually takescare of it.
So I don't have the greenestlawn and I don't care for that,
but I'm not going to put stuffdown where my kids and my dogs
run around, right?
So that's another thing there.
Back in the day, ddt, pesticides, herbicides these things were
sprayed, no problem.
People used to drink and use.
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They used to use a petroleumfor a hair product.
The guys back in the 60s theyslicked their hair with Vaseline
.
No, it was a petroleum basedthing.
They were getting like weirdcancers DDT malformities,
cancers and tumors, lymphomafrom Roundup and mesothelioma.
These are lawsuits that happenup to today 2025, from exposure
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from these types of things thatcause serious disease like
cancer.
We know chemicals can be bad.
We know this Really.
What chemicals are good?
None, all of them can store upand cause problems in the body.
It may not cause a tumor andkill you, but chemicals can
build up and cause fatigue,malaise, fibromyalgia, pain
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syndrome, joint pain, audioimmunity issues it can't which
ones, I don't know.
Let's not get into that, butthat's why we're doing this
podcast as a PSA.
So in the house, what you wantto do is the cleaning products.
Number one we talked about thatAmmonia, chlorine, formaldehyde
.
These things got to stay out ofyour home.
You want to use vinegar, bakingsoda, non-toxic cleaning brands
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.
That's the best way to go aboutthis Minimize the chemicals
there.
Then we have things like in theshower, shampoos and hair
products.
We want to stay away fromsulfates, parabens and silicones
.
We want to use moresulfate-free shampoos and
organic hair care brands so thatthe stuff that you shampoo your
hair every day with, everyother day or whatever it is for
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the rest of your life, isminimizing the toxin exposure on
your body.
Then, of course, the topicalswe put on our skin the lotions,
the creams, the perfumes, thecolognes, the topicals, the
cosmetics.
We need to make sure thatparabens, phthalates and
synthetic fragrances are avoidedat all costs.
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They're just tainted with abunch of chemicals to give them
that texture, that absorptionand that smell that you may or
may not like.
So we want to use organic oils,fragrance-free products and
essential oil blends.
I remember my grandmother fromGreece used to make her own
cream.
It was a lemon and oliveoil-based cream.
It was thick and she used toput it on.
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She wasn't too oily.
After it was great.
It was a crazy mix.
It was a great, it was a greatmix.
I got to find that recipe fromone of my aunts or something but
that.
And then this lemon basedcologne or perfume or what a
baby, baby oil or whatever itwas that I used up until I was
like 12 years old.
This, this lemon based thingthat was.
That was great.
And.
But that's Mediterranean, rightMediterranean, thinking of
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using the land and using theresources that they have around
them.
There you go.
So food we got to talk aboutfood a little bit.
Food-related stuff.
Pesticides and herbicides aresprayed on everything.
When you buy organic as well.
Here's one thing to get awayfrom it In order to get USDA
organic or Canada organicbranding, you have to have an
organic farm for at least threeyears to qualify meaning that
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you haven't used pesticides orherbicides into.
They actually test the soil.
The soil is considered clean,has minimal levels of this stuff
, and you get your USDA brand.
There you go.
Now this farm can say they groworganic strawberries, organic
spinach, whatever it is.
Once it's picked and put into abox or a container, they then
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put it into the back of thetruck.
Guess what they do in the backof the truck before they drive
off?
They spray it for pests.
Kind of defeats the purpose ofgrowing all that stuff for six
months on an organic farm.
It's very notorious in theUnited States.
So once they get because thistruck's got to drive a hundred
miles to a distribution centerwhere that stuff's going to be
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saved for a little bit, storedand then put into the
distribution line to deliver itout Certain produce goes out
quickly, other produce can bechilled and other produce can be
frozen, and that depends howfast it gets to your table.
Strawberries, berries, all thosetypes of things get to your
table actually quite quicklyfrom the time they're picked.
By the time you pick them up atCostco, they may have been
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picked 10 days ago, seven daysago, pretty quick.
That's awesome turnaround there.
But other things like orangesand avocados, may have been
picked a little bit longer ago.
Okay, but again, we want to buyorganic first, and then two.
When you get your produce athome, soak it in uh, in some
water for at least five minutes.
That should get a little bit ofthe surface off and you can rub
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it and dry it, and that gets alittle bit more off as well.
If you're peeling stuff likeoranges, bananas, you're good,
the peel comes off, you'reeating the center of it.
You just want to make sure thatyour fruits and stuff is
probably not gmo or anythinglike that.
As best, best as you can.
People, good luck finding allthis stuff.
I'm just giving you the factshere.
The big problem with thepesticides and herbicides is the
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glyphosate that's in it.
Too much exposure to this hasbeen linked to different types
of cancers, from breast cancerto lymphoma, to prostate cancer,
even pancreatic cancer.
So be careful with glyphosate.
Buy organic when possible andjust wash your stuff.
Artificial dyes andpreservatives this is actually
the question that's been comingup with a lot of parents
recently.
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That actually spurred me to dothis podcast was dyes.
Rfk just removed a certain reddye that's no longer to be used
in the United States.
It's been banned across Europefor years.
If you look at Froot Loops inthe United States versus Canada
or Europe the vibrant colors ofFroot Loops those dyes are all
illegal everywhere else.
You can't get something to be abright blue or a bright red in
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Europe or Canada because that'sjust not a legal dye.
That's been removed as well.
There's lots to do with thatand remove more.
But the risks with dyes is thatthey're linked to behavioral
issues and allergies.
So giving these to kids, youmay notice behavior issues.
You may notice inflammation.
The thing here is just to avoidfoods with the big three that I
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call them Red 40, do not buyanything with red 40.
It's the most inflammatory andreactive to the brain for
whatever reasons.
We can get into biochemistrylater.
Yellow five and blue one thoseare the three that actually give
that strong colors.
They look cool in candy, a redSour Patch Kid or a red Skittle,
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but that's why they have thosevibrant colors is because the
dye is so concentrated.
That's why they have thosevibrant colors is because the
dye is so concentrated.
So instead, choose whole foodsand natural foods.
That's the only way around.
The dyes, processed foods andadditives are there as well.
Common chemicals like MSG,aspartame, hydrogenated oils
these things can causeinflammation, behavior issues.
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They can agitate you as well asan adult.
So be careful with these things.
Cook from scratch, if you can,and read ingredient labels
carefully and just avoid thesethings.
Aspartame has been renamed afew times but directly linked to
stage three diabetes, which isAlzheimer's dementia.
It leaves this film on thebrain.
It's insane what aspartame didand the studies on it in the
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early 2000s Kind of crazy there.
Msg is a neurotoxin.
It can cause lucid dreams,agitation and some people that
are sensitive to it.
That's monosodium glutamateused in like barbecue rubs,
salted foods, chinese foodsThey've been notorious with that
with all their sauces that theyuse.
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But a lot of places are MSGfree as well, which is great.
Water We've done an entirepodcast on water.
We need to filter the water.
Just because we use municipalwater or well water does not
mean it's clean.
It's filled with fluoride,chlorine and heavy metals.
These things have to be pulledout of it.
A whole house water filtrationsystem is a must.
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It doesn't mean you have tosoften it.
You can soften it if you wantto help your pipes and all that
and your units in the officelonger, but that's not important
.
It's the filtration systemthat's important.
Then what we do in our house.
We have that plus a reverseosmosis underneath the sink that
pulls everything out, 100% ofeverything out of the water.
You have pure water and thenthat pure water goes through a
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three-stage filtration system toput back calcium, phosphate,
magnesium a couple of metalsthat you need in order to not
become dehydrated.
If you drink pure H2O withnothing in it, it'll actually
dehydrate you because it's theminerals and salts inside of the
water that actually hydratesyou.
They're called electrolytes andthose things are really
important as well.
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So strategies use high waterquality filtration system.
I like Aquasana very affordable.
I've got no affiliation withthem, but Aquasana is great.
They're across the entirecountry, you can get them
anywhere and their filters arerelatively priced and $40 for a
filter.
Change twice a year Prettysimple stuff, I love them,
they're absolutely great.
Change twice a year Prettysimple stuff, I love them,
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they're absolutely great.
Plastic bottles man.
What has happened with water?
Right, plastic bottles.
So we take water, we filter andthen we put it in plastic.
This is going to contaminatewith BPA and other endocrine
disruptors which give usestradiol byproducts inside the
body which are like falseestrogens.
This is why we're seeingespecially boys at a younger age
, developing a weird overweightpattern gynecomastia,
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gynecomastia, fat deposits,weird distributions on that and
that's because of a spike inestrogen at a young age.
So use glass or stainless steelor these containers that can be
reusable as well.
It's also environmentallyfriendly to not use these
plastic bottles.
There you go.
Clothing and fabric Things tothink about.
Polyester, nylon and spandexoften contain chemicals that
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leach into the skin just becauseof the way to make those
fabrics stretchy like that.
So the strategies on this isjust more organic cotton, wool,
bamboo fabrics.
Stay away from the nylons.
Good luck, ladies, with allyour workout pants and
Lululemons and all that.
But remember we're putting thisstuff on our body, especially
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the tight ones.
They're tight to your skin.
You're giving yourself nochance.
Skin's like I got to breatheman.
So I'm just going to pull inall this nylon and off-gassing
chemicals right into the skinhere.
I guess I got into my crotchand hopefully we have good
reproductive organs later inlife.
That's great.
So this is the truth.
Same with the guys you want towear, you know, a Lululemon
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fitting underwear.
Well, okay, We'll see how thenext generation turns out.
Common chemicals, opticalbrighteners, synthetic
fragrances this is laundrydetergent we're talking about
here.
So how we wash our clothes, thesofteners, anything with a high
fragrance in it, is filled withchemicals.
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You have a high VOCconcentration in Tide.
All the pods that have theextra smell to them gain
commercials.
Oh, it smells so great.
Yeah, you breathe that VOCsinto the lungs.
It causes a lot of toxicbuildup as well.
So fragrance-free that'sprobably step number one.
Just switch to a fragrance-free, even if it is a major brand,
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go with that.
And then, when you want to stepit up a notch, go to
plant-based detergents thatreally have little to no
ingredients in them except thesoap binders that are in there.
There you go.
That's a lot, isn't it?
So we got you thinking aboutcleaning your shower, your
topicals, your environment, theair, and these are all toxins
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that build up and cause awhirlwind of emotional
endocrinology.
You know, hormone disruptors,emotional behavior disruptors in
kids, agitation, fatigue andeven can flare autoimmune
conditions.
In many, many people it comesfrom the toxins.
Like I said, you cannot shieldyourself or wrap yourself up
with tinfoil and go into theworld like that, but you just
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need to be cautious and mindfulof the things that you have
options on.
And the things you have optionson is, with your dollar, what
you buy First.
If you buy clean, you'resetting yourself up for success
as far as toxins and when you'rein the environment, there's not
much more you can do.
Can't walk around with a gasmask around all the time, it's
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just the way it is.
But the good news is airpurification, water filtration
and spending your dollars wiselycan keep you healthy and your
family healthy for a long time.
Just be mindful, make a couplechanges, stay healthy, stay well
and we'll catch you next week.
I'm Dr Enrico Del Ciccori, and welcome to another
episode of Living a Full Life.
This week's topic springcleaning.
More importantly, toxins.
We're going to dive right into.
All.
The toxins around us make youparanoid, so when the episode is
over, you're freaking out andyou start making some changes in
your life.
No, that's never the best wayto teach or influence anyone.
(00:24):
We're going to make you moreaware of all the toxins that are
out there and I know you'velooked out of all these probably
99% of everything I've told youon this episode you've thought
of.
But we're going to give youtaskful ways to avoid these,
eliminate them from your lifeand be comfortable with the
toxins that are around us thatyou just can't control.
So maybe bring some peace, butalso some awareness into what
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toxins can do to our hormones,our homeostasis, our chemical
balance, our sleep rhythms, ourfatigue.
These things can live inside ofour tissue and it's really
important to be aware of them tohelp both you and your family
live a long, healthy life.
And that's what it's all about.
We'll break this down intoenvironmental toxins, household
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toxins, food-related toxins,water, clothing, and wrap it up
nicely in a bow for you here onthis episode.
The truth is, the world is notlike it used to be 300 years ago
.
Honestly, 300 years ago farmingwas the way of life.
Everyone cultivated, everyoneprovided food for their families
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, everyone worked on agricultureand farms to help sustain their
lives.
Everyone fed themselves and theextra was given to markets, and
that was pretty much the startof free trade and all that other
stuff.
Then you could get into huntingand pellet trades and things
with animals, and then there wassome service trades at that
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time to doctors, dentists,professionals as well.
But the world, the environment,was pure.
The environment wasn't cascadedwith a bunch of chemicals
synthetically made by manthrough labs, as we've developed
over time.
So what we did is we used theearth as it was.
It sounds like a beautifulthing, doesn't it?
But things have changed andwe've created the industrial
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revolution, which created awhole new source of pollution
aerosols, combustion engines.
The air became polluted.
The effects of creatingchemicals is the synthetic waste
that come from them and ofcourse, those are dumped into
the water chains and lands.
It sounds horrible, doesn't it?
Remember being in elementaryschool I don't know how old you
are, but in the nineties andeighties and nineties, and just
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listening to Louie the lightningbug or the green thumb or
Smokey the bear, about teaching,about the environment, and you
sat there and you're like holysmokes.
We consume a lot of water.
We waste a lot of stuff into,we put a lot of waste into the
oceans.
We pollute a lot into the air.
We're creating those blackholes, all those things that
were taught a long time agowhich are not exactly how they
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work today.
But remember that as a kid andjust you, have this natural
green thumb that grows on you.
I think everyone does.
Everyone has a green thumb.
How much you use it isdependent on your life and what
you believe in.
But we all think the earthshould be clean.
We all want the earth to beclean because it's just a
natural thought of healthyliving.
Unfortunately sorry to burstthis bubble it's not the way it
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used to be.
We've cultivated lands, we'vedepleted a lot of the soil,
there's a lot of stuff in theair, there's a lot of stuff in
the water.
It just is the way it is and wehave to take it as it is Now.
How do we protect ourselvesfrom this type of a harsh
environment, hard to controlevery breath you take, to be
clean when you step outside orinside, and all the synthetics
that are in your home carpets,hardwood floors, laminate,
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off-gassing cabinetseverything's compromised and
made in factories with chemicals, compression wood, all these
things, they're not natural.
Your home isn't made from oakand cedar and redwood straight
from the forests anymore, likethey used to be, and that's just
the truth.
So let's start with theenvironment.
Like the redwood trees, right,you're not even allowed to use
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redwood anymore.
But there's little things.
Electromagnetic fields, emfsthese are all around us.
You can't control this.
If you have devices, tablets,cell phones, computers, wifi
signals they're everywhere.
Wifi signals are in all thestores you go in now.
They're in your home, they'rein your workplace, they're in
the schools.
Everyone's got in a school with, you know, 600 kids.
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There's 600, probably 600phones or at least tablets or
computers or stuff that's beingcarried around, creating this
emf.
That's around there.
You can't control it.
So what do you do to protectyourself?
Well, I highly recommendwrapping yourself in tinfoil and
just walking around the worldwrapped in tinfoil.
I'm joking, please don't dothat.
Nobody do that.
Um, you'll look silly.
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One and two, it doesn't reallywork.
Uh, you just have to understandthat the emfs are out there.
Now where's the research on emf.
Is it truly going to causecancer?
So far so good?
No, it doesn't.
On a cellular and frequencylevel, we know that the changes
in frequency in airwaves doaffect cells.
Cells in one way or another,they change their frequency.
And what does that do?
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Does it change their function?
Does it make them fatigued?
Does it decrease their lifecycle?
That's the research we're stillgoing on to.
There is some good research onhigh EMF devices like the old
iPhones.
They were horrible, the iPhone5, 6, holding them up against
your head.
There was a huge correlationwith brain tumors at that and
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the amount of heat that wascreated from these and cancerous
cells.
So there was that.
And there are ties out ofGermany, a lot of studies back
in like 2010.
There was a lot.
So is it conclusive?
Is it correlative?
Is it fact?
It's not fact.
So that's that's where we're atthere with EMF.
So don't freak out about EMF.
What can you do?
Pick a spot in your home forwhere you have your server, your
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router, your modem.
Keep it away from normalsitting areas.
You want to be at least 15 feetaway from that.
We have ours in the back cornerof our home, the only time
we're ever exposed to it is ifwe go use that bathroom in the
back.
We're probably within that 15feet range.
Otherwise it's there.
That's where the signals arecoming from, and our bedrooms
are on the opposite corner,upper corner of the home.
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That's me, with what I know,and, to protect my family,
that's where I put it.
Yeah, there's a part of thehouse in the upper corner that
doesn't get a good Wi-Fi signal.
The bar goes down to a threeout of four instead of four out
of four, but it still works.
Who cares?
We're all good and that's oneway we do it.
Microwaves we use a very limitedmicrowave and if we do, it's
rare.
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It's rare.
It's once.
We I grew up with no microwavein our home.
We had those nice kitchen hoodfans growing up and my, my
parents, um, just never had amicrowave until later in life.
I think we were close to 200,almost in college before we got
our first microwave and we neverused it.
So microwaves create a crazyfrequency there as well.
Now most of you don't sit thereand put your face up against
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the window and watch the foodcook.
So again, how much exposure isthere from that?
Limiting that as well.
We want to limit radiationexposure as much as possible.
Microwaves, x-rays, emf devicesthese things are things we want
to avoid.
Now, enrico, how do you avoidthese things in your life?
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Well, minimize my use of amicrowave.
Put the modem in the corner.
Even at our office the treatmentareas of where we take care of
patients we've had an EMF devicego around.
The whole office is the leastalmost zero when people don't
have their cell phones in there.
So when they're getting treated, they're in a zero EMF
environment.
We have a closed server on theother side of the building where
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everything runs to, and whenyou get within 10 feet of that,
that's where it is, but no oneworks or is within 10 feet of
that area, which is very cool.
We designed it that way.
It's got an exit hallway out tothe back.
No one actually.
No one actually spends any timethere things we thought about
when we developed our office aswell.
When I go travel and I'm bymyself, I don't go through those
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little TSA x-ray machines.
I don't do them.
I say, hey, give me the patdown if they offer.
When we travel with kids, it'snice, they put you through the
metal detector, which is awesome, but that's my way of standing
up for myself and being like hey, I don't want that extra
exposure, I can control that.
I can't control the guy sittingnext to me with his cell phone.
I can't.
I can't smack it out of hishands, even though I want to.
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So those are little ways of metaking choices in my life to
avoid the extra toxins.
Air quality is another thing,about environmental.
It's said that inside the homeour air quality is almost five
times as worse as going outside.
Crazy For those of you withallergies.
You're like no way man.
Inside is way better, butoutside, because of the
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off-gassing from carpets, woods,laminates and just stagnant air
, there's just not enoughairflow in our homes.
The air inside is actually morecontaminated each breath you
take than stuff outside.
So two things.
One, air purifiers in the homeplay a huge role on this.
Cleaning filters every threemonths the way you're supposed
to with with the better qualityones is really good Taking out
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as much microbes from the air asyou possibly can, having good
airflow, opening up your windowsevery now and then in the
summer, cleaning with cleanchemicals.
So don't off-gas.
You don't want what's it calledFabuloso and stuff on the floor
that off-gases forever.
You can have that scent in yourhouse for a week after using it
, using clean, vinegar-basedthings that don't off-gas, and
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that's it.
It had plants in the home.
My father, being from Italy,had all these plants in our home
all the time spider plants,lemon trees inside the home in
Calgary, alberta.
Pull out a map right now, findCalgary on the map and you'll
see the Arctic very close to it.
So I don't know how.
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My dad had a green thumb.
He built a glass greenhouse inthe back of our home and we had
like a suburban home in thebackyard glass and he would grow
tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes,lettuce, spinach, kale, onions,
carrots and tomatoes as big aslike softballs.
I swear one was a soccer ball.
I remember being like eightyears old holding this thing
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Maybe it's because I was eight.
Bowling ball it was a tomatoand he used horse manure from
the farms.
So you think this stuff isbranded into you one way or
another.
It really is, but sometimes wehave to think that way to keep
things clear.
So, an air purifier if youcan't get a whole home, one or
multiple ones they're annoyingput them in your bedroom.
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That's where you spend a lot oftime at night.
You spend anywhere between sixto 10 hours in your bedroom a
day.
Keep that air purified.
That's another way to help themost of your time.
You're spending a third of yourlife in your bedroom sleeping
right.
Keep that air clean and thenmake sure you spend a lot of
time outside.
That's always great too.
That's environment Getting intopesticides and Roundup and all
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these things we spray on ourlawns.
I do nothing.
I do nothing.
Moving to Florida, the grassthat we have here is considered
crabgrass up north.
It's stuff we used to pull andkill and it was considered a
weed.
It's people's lawns here, so Idon't care for it much.
So no, I do not put chemicalsdown.
I do not fertilize it.
I don't care whether it livesor dies.
If it doesn't survive, then itprobably wasn't supposed to be
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there in the first place, right?
The environment usually takescare of it.
So I don't have the greenestlawn and I don't care for that,
but I'm not going to put stuffdown where my kids and my dogs
run around, right?
So that's another thing there.
Back in the day, ddt, pesticides, herbicides these things were
sprayed, no problem.
People used to drink and use.
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They used to use a petroleumfor a hair product.
The guys back in the 60s theyslicked their hair with Vaseline
.
No, it was a petroleum basedthing.
They were getting like weirdcancers DDT malformities,
cancers and tumors, lymphomafrom Roundup and mesothelioma.
These are lawsuits that happenup to today 2025, from exposure
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from these types of things thatcause serious disease like
cancer.
We know chemicals can be bad.
We know this Really.
What chemicals are good?
None, all of them can store upand cause problems in the body.
It may not cause a tumor andkill you, but chemicals can
build up and cause fatigue,malaise, fibromyalgia, pain
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syndrome, joint pain, audioimmunity issues it can't which
ones, I don't know.
Let's not get into that, butthat's why we're doing this
podcast as a PSA.
So in the house, what you wantto do is the cleaning products.
Number one we talked about thatAmmonia, chlorine, formaldehyde
.
These things got to stay out ofyour home.
You want to use vinegar, bakingsoda, non-toxic cleaning brands
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.
That's the best way to go aboutthis Minimize the chemicals
there.
Then we have things like in theshower, shampoos and hair
products.
We want to stay away fromsulfates, parabens and silicones
.
We want to use moresulfate-free shampoos and
organic hair care brands so thatthe stuff that you shampoo your
hair every day with, everyother day or whatever it is for
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the rest of your life, isminimizing the toxin exposure on
your body.
Then, of course, the topicalswe put on our skin the lotions,
the creams, the perfumes, thecolognes, the topicals, the
cosmetics.
We need to make sure thatparabens, phthalates and
synthetic fragrances are avoidedat all costs.
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They're just tainted with abunch of chemicals to give them
that texture, that absorptionand that smell that you may or
may not like.
So we want to use organic oils,fragrance-free products and
essential oil blends.
I remember my grandmother fromGreece used to make her own
cream.
It was a lemon and oliveoil-based cream.
It was thick and she used toput it on.
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She wasn't too oily.
After it was great.
It was a crazy mix.
It was a great, it was a greatmix.
I got to find that recipe fromone of my aunts or something but
that.
And then this lemon basedcologne or perfume or what a
baby, baby oil or whatever itwas that I used up until I was
like 12 years old.
This, this lemon based thingthat was.
That was great.
And.
But that's Mediterranean, rightMediterranean, thinking of
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using the land and using theresources that they have around
them.
There you go.
So food we got to talk aboutfood a little bit.
Food-related stuff.
Pesticides and herbicides aresprayed on everything.
When you buy organic as well.
Here's one thing to get awayfrom it In order to get USDA
organic or Canada organicbranding, you have to have an
organic farm for at least threeyears to qualify meaning that
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you haven't used pesticides orherbicides into.
They actually test the soil.
The soil is considered clean,has minimal levels of this stuff
, and you get your USDA brand.
There you go.
Now this farm can say they groworganic strawberries, organic
spinach, whatever it is.
Once it's picked and put into abox or a container, they then
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put it into the back of thetruck.
Guess what they do in the backof the truck before they drive
off?
They spray it for pests.
Kind of defeats the purpose ofgrowing all that stuff for six
months on an organic farm.
It's very notorious in theUnited States.
So once they get because thistruck's got to drive a hundred
miles to a distribution centerwhere that stuff's going to be
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saved for a little bit, storedand then put into the
distribution line to deliver itout Certain produce goes out
quickly, other produce can bechilled and other produce can be
frozen, and that depends howfast it gets to your table.
Strawberries, berries, all thosetypes of things get to your
table actually quite quicklyfrom the time they're picked.
By the time you pick them up atCostco, they may have been
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picked 10 days ago, seven daysago, pretty quick.
That's awesome turnaround there.
But other things like orangesand avocados, may have been
picked a little bit longer ago.
Okay, but again, we want to buyorganic first, and then two.
When you get your produce athome, soak it in uh, in some
water for at least five minutes.
That should get a little bit ofthe surface off and you can rub
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it and dry it, and that gets alittle bit more off as well.
If you're peeling stuff likeoranges, bananas, you're good,
the peel comes off, you'reeating the center of it.
You just want to make sure thatyour fruits and stuff is
probably not gmo or anythinglike that.
As best, best as you can.
People, good luck finding allthis stuff.
I'm just giving you the factshere.
The big problem with thepesticides and herbicides is the
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glyphosate that's in it.
Too much exposure to this hasbeen linked to different types
of cancers, from breast cancerto lymphoma, to prostate cancer,
even pancreatic cancer.
So be careful with glyphosate.
Buy organic when possible andjust wash your stuff.
Artificial dyes andpreservatives this is actually
the question that's been comingup with a lot of parents
recently.
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That actually spurred me to dothis podcast was dyes.
Rfk just removed a certain reddye that's no longer to be used
in the United States.
It's been banned across Europefor years.
If you look at Froot Loops inthe United States versus Canada
or Europe the vibrant colors ofFroot Loops those dyes are all
illegal everywhere else.
You can't get something to be abright blue or a bright red in
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Europe or Canada because that'sjust not a legal dye.
That's been removed as well.
There's lots to do with thatand remove more.
But the risks with dyes is thatthey're linked to behavioral
issues and allergies.
So giving these to kids, youmay notice behavior issues.
You may notice inflammation.
The thing here is just to avoidfoods with the big three that I
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call them Red 40, do not buyanything with red 40.
It's the most inflammatory andreactive to the brain for
whatever reasons.
We can get into biochemistrylater.
Yellow five and blue one thoseare the three that actually give
that strong colors.
They look cool in candy, a redSour Patch Kid or a red Skittle,
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but that's why they have thosevibrant colors is because the
dye is so concentrated.
That's why they have thosevibrant colors is because the
dye is so concentrated.
So instead, choose whole foodsand natural foods.
That's the only way around.
The dyes, processed foods andadditives are there as well.
Common chemicals like MSG,aspartame, hydrogenated oils
these things can causeinflammation, behavior issues.
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They can agitate you as well asan adult.
So be careful with these things.
Cook from scratch, if you can,and read ingredient labels
carefully and just avoid thesethings.
Aspartame has been renamed afew times but directly linked to
stage three diabetes, which isAlzheimer's dementia.
It leaves this film on thebrain.
It's insane what aspartame didand the studies on it in the
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early 2000s Kind of crazy there.
Msg is a neurotoxin.
It can cause lucid dreams,agitation and some people that
are sensitive to it.
That's monosodium glutamateused in like barbecue rubs,
salted foods, chinese foodsThey've been notorious with that
with all their sauces that theyuse.
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But a lot of places are MSGfree as well, which is great.
Water We've done an entirepodcast on water.
We need to filter the water.
Just because we use municipalwater or well water does not
mean it's clean.
It's filled with fluoride,chlorine and heavy metals.
These things have to be pulledout of it.
A whole house water filtrationsystem is a must.
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It doesn't mean you have tosoften it.
You can soften it if you wantto help your pipes and all that
and your units in the officelonger, but that's not important
.
It's the filtration systemthat's important.
Then what we do in our house.
We have that plus a reverseosmosis underneath the sink that
pulls everything out, 100% ofeverything out of the water.
You have pure water and thenthat pure water goes through a
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three-stage filtration system toput back calcium, phosphate,
magnesium a couple of metalsthat you need in order to not
become dehydrated.
If you drink pure H2O withnothing in it, it'll actually
dehydrate you because it's theminerals and salts inside of the
water that actually hydratesyou.
They're called electrolytes andthose things are really
important as well.
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So strategies use high waterquality filtration system.
I like Aquasana very affordable.
I've got no affiliation withthem, but Aquasana is great.
They're across the entirecountry, you can get them
anywhere and their filters arerelatively priced and $40 for a
filter.
Change twice a year Prettysimple stuff, I love them,
they're absolutely great.
Change twice a year Prettysimple stuff, I love them,
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they're absolutely great.
Plastic bottles man.
What has happened with water?
Right, plastic bottles.
So we take water, we filter andthen we put it in plastic.
This is going to contaminatewith BPA and other endocrine
disruptors which give usestradiol byproducts inside the
body which are like falseestrogens.
This is why we're seeingespecially boys at a younger age
, developing a weird overweightpattern gynecomastia,
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gynecomastia, fat deposits,weird distributions on that and
that's because of a spike inestrogen at a young age.
So use glass or stainless steelor these containers that can be
reusable as well.
It's also environmentallyfriendly to not use these
plastic bottles.
There you go.
Clothing and fabric Things tothink about.
Polyester, nylon and spandexoften contain chemicals that
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leach into the skin just becauseof the way to make those
fabrics stretchy like that.
So the strategies on this isjust more organic cotton, wool,
bamboo fabrics.
Stay away from the nylons.
Good luck, ladies, with allyour workout pants and
Lululemons and all that.
But remember we're putting thisstuff on our body, especially
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the tight ones.
They're tight to your skin.
You're giving yourself nochance.
Skin's like I got to breatheman.
So I'm just going to pull inall this nylon and off-gassing
chemicals right into the skinhere.
I guess I got into my crotchand hopefully we have good
reproductive organs later inlife.
That's great.
So this is the truth.
Same with the guys you want towear, you know, a Lululemon
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fitting underwear.
Well, okay, We'll see how thenext generation turns out.
Common chemicals, opticalbrighteners, synthetic
fragrances this is laundrydetergent we're talking about
here.
So how we wash our clothes, thesofteners, anything with a high
fragrance in it, is filled withchemicals.
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You have a high VOCconcentration in Tide.
All the pods that have theextra smell to them gain
commercials.
Oh, it smells so great.
Yeah, you breathe that VOCsinto the lungs.
It causes a lot of toxicbuildup as well.
So fragrance-free that'sprobably step number one.
Just switch to a fragrance-free, even if it is a major brand,
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go with that.
And then, when you want to stepit up a notch, go to
plant-based detergents thatreally have little to no
ingredients in them except thesoap binders that are in there.
There you go.
That's a lot, isn't it?
So we got you thinking aboutcleaning your shower, your
topicals, your environment, theair, and these are all toxins
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that build up and cause awhirlwind of emotional
endocrinology.
You know, hormone disruptors,emotional behavior disruptors in
kids, agitation, fatigue andeven can flare autoimmune
conditions.
In many, many people it comesfrom the toxins.
Like I said, you cannot shieldyourself or wrap yourself up
with tinfoil and go into theworld like that, but you just
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need to be cautious and mindfulof the things that you have
options on.
And the things you have optionson is, with your dollar, what
you buy First.
If you buy clean, you'resetting yourself up for success
as far as toxins and when you'rein the environment, there's not
much more you can do.
Can't walk around with a gasmask around all the time, it's
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just the way it is.
But the good news is airpurification, water filtration
and spending your dollars wiselycan keep you healthy and your
family healthy for a long time.
Just be mindful, make a couplechanges, stay healthy, stay well
and we'll catch you next week.
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