The Hidden Poisons in Anti-Aging Products

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3:05Darin Olien:Come on, who wouldn't want to do that? Hey, everybody, welcome to a Fatal Convenience episode. I'm stoked. I'm excited to empower you today. This is not about taking away from you. This is about empowering you to take your power back. And the more I look at all of these fatal conveniences of toxic exposures of products that are made with not awareness of the end consumer, the more I'm aligning with businesses and entities that are creating solutions. So I want you to know that behind the scenes of all of these fatal conveniences, I'm actually finding more and more companies wanting and actually doing the right thing.

3:51So that's a great thing. And we need to be aware of that. And we also, what I say all the time is vote with your dollars. Spend your precious money on the companies that care about you that are making, in this case, we're talking about skincare and anti-aging creams. We need to spend the money on companies that are actually doing it correctly and looking out for you because we have to look at those companies that are understanding that what you put on your skin is essentially exactly the same as opening up your mouth and going inside your body. because transdermally, you're pulling what's going on your skin in through your skin and being absorbed in your blood, and now your body has to deal with it.

4:43So don't be duped by marketing, buying into the fact that you're not beautiful and wonderful just as you are. But I get it. Aging and feeling better about yourself, you look at yourself in the mirror, we all want to look and feel better. But we have to understand that the toxic exposure is a major, major problem. So I'm going to highlight two very important aspects and chemicals that are showing up specifically in that anti-aging skincare kind of world. And again, the convenience is we get hit with the marketing things, the lines will go away, your skin will be softer and smoother and all of this other stuff.

5:33That's the convenience. The flip of it is, is it's what's going on your skin is going in your skin. So the toxic exposure that unfortunately these companies are formulating with is where it's getting us. So the first one I want to bring to your attention is mercury. Mercury in all forms is very detrimental to the body. It kills biology without a doubt. And that form, when it's isolated and put in cosmetics and anything, and it shows up environmentally in our food and all of that stuff, very, very detrimental to the body. It's like a pinball of free radicals flying around the body, destroying the body.

6:25So the things you want to just be aware of is anytime someone's saying anti-aging, just have your radar up or skin lightening. Those are the triggers to have you look deeper. Check the company out. Don't Don't impulsively buy it online or at a grocery store. Make sure you do. Just hang back a second. Do your due diligence. So some of the key words that you want to make sure that are triggering you and showing you that there's mercury, we're going to have this in the show notes as well and links to all of this research. So the one is mercuous chloride and coal mill and mercuric. and mercuro, and then just plain up mercury.

7:15So these are the things obviously you want to stay away from. They're a little weirdly spelled and different chemical structures of the same thing, of the detrimental mercury. And those products, again, are those skin lighteners and anti-aging quote-unquote treatments that remove or quote-unquote try to say that they're removing age spots and freckles and blemishes and wrinkles. These are the things that are also showing up in adolescent creams and stuff. So make sure you're also looking for that because it's about the blemishes and trying to use that stuff. So mercury, big no-no, and we'll get more into that as well.

7:58But the other thing that I want to bring up is the PFOAs. So this thing and the PTFEs, perflo octanol acid and PFAs. And PFOAs I've also brought up is a Teflon. So would you put Teflon on your face? You know that nonstick stuff that I brought up in dental floss, that glide dental floss? Guess what? PFOA is all over in it. Hormone disruption linked to and kidney disorders linked to and the research there. And we have that in the show notes on that side of it on dental floss. So PFOAs now are showing up and saying, would you want to put that nonstick chemical on your face? So this is another one, probably in the same products, they can have both mercury and PFOAs.

9:02Again, they're going after anti-aging cream and face powders. So that chemical, that nonstick chemical is what they're trying to use and sell you as makeups and lotions and try to go after your marketing. These chemical industries, it's amazing to me that the ways that they're trying to come into this and sell their products. These PFOAs have been absolutely toxic and the chemicals have linked directly to cancer, endocrine disruption, reproductive harm. So just think of the PTFE, right, is literally the trade name for Teflon. And so people, this is, this is, I read this stuff out loud and I still, I can't even believe it.

9:59And I think you know this by now, but the dangers shifting back now to mercury, it's just a huge, you have a little bit of freestanding mercury and you'll literally die. So the micron use of this mercury is slowly destroying and contaminating. So the danger isn't just people who use mercury-contained products, but it's also their families. And this is from Arthur Simone, MD, a senior medical advisor at the FDA. So the off-gassing of any of this stuff. So think about it, women. If you're in doing your makeup in the bathroom or whatever, the skincare stuff, and you have this PFOAs or mercury in your cosmetics, specifically the mercury off-gassing can be easily linked and connected to your children, and they're infinitely more susceptible.

11:02So your family might breathe mercury vapors released from these products. Your children might touch washcloths or towels that are contaminated with this mercury. And it could be as simple as touching someone's cheek or face is what Simone said, this medical doctor at the FDA. Straight from the FDA, people. The organization, let's just point out, let's take a pause. The organization that's supposed to protect you is telling you how toxic these ingredients are. What? How is that possible? So do you think the organization is effective? FDA should be fired. They're not effective. They're understaffed, probably underpaid, and they're not effective.

11:52So they're coming out with articles probably to protect themselves. It's just crazy. So this is from the FDA, and they're supposed to regulate this stuff. Well, a lot of it does come in illegally, and then the labeling is not even done correctly. But here's the thing. It can show up on shelves. There's no regulatory to stop those from showing up on shelves. It's only when someone is hurt or that the product is outed, and then the attention of the FDA. But there's no way that they're regulating any of this stuff.

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14:06Darin Olien:That's M-A-N-N-A vitality.com. Use the code DAREN20 and you get 20 % off your order. This isn't about health. It's about living in harmony with your greatest and highest potential. So particularly, obviously, pregnant women, nursing with babies, young children are extremely vulnerable. Mercury toxicity goes right to and through. So if you're a woman putting any anti-aging stuff on your face and you're breastfeeding, you're directly inoculating your children with mercury. And that's very detrimental to the developing brains and the nervous system and goes right in also to the newborns and also through breast milk and whatnot.

14:57And we already know this is a crazy thing, that children born this day have a minimum of 200 carcinogenic compounds that are in umbilical cords upon children being born. And so I don't want to, you know, be a Debbie Downer. What I want you to do is be aware of the things that you're buying so that you don't get toxic exposure. So some of the signs of mercury poisoning, it's kind of like everyone right now, and that's irritability. This is kind of silly, but this is on the FDA website. Irritability, shyness, tremors, changes in vision and hearing, memory problems, depression, numbness, and tingling in your hands around your mouth.

15:40Let's probably go down that list. Everyone's going through that right now. And the PFOAs are definitely and directly linked to cancer hormone disruption and kidney problems. And again, all of these, I've got a lot of this research connected to this episode. And so my biggest question is, how do these things even end up in the products? I don't know. I have no idea. This is crazy. I can just imagine that the conflicts of interest, not funded enough, not caring enough, that a lot of the cosmetic and food and pharmaceutical interests actually live and work and are employed by the FDA. So conflicts of interest are probably the number one, that they're just overlooking this stuff, put out little articles to cover themselves.

16:33So I just don't get it. So basically, no one is really minding the store. All the products hitting the shelves, there's actually no one really looking at each product. So these organizations, operations, EPA, FDA, USDA, go down the list, they're failing. We need to recreate all of these agencies. From my point of view, just fire everybody. Let's just start over. So what are the things that you can actually do? Well, we need to minimize our exposure. I mean, that's number one. So by not getting the exposure is going to be your biggest, biggest thing for all of these. So when you're looking at these products or skincare and they're saying anti-aging and lightening and all of that stuff, probably first and foremost, all of them have nasty chemicals beyond the PFOAs and the PTFEs and the Mercurys and the Teflons and all of that stuff.

17:44They They probably have other chemicals in there. So you need to be aware of all of the other names that they're providing. And again, we'll put this all in the show notes. So we need to be smarter consumers. And we also need to push back on the protective laws of all of these agencies. And again, listen, Congress, FDA authorities, we need to push. And we also, number one, do not even buy these things from, you know, Cover Girl has been outed as having many of these chemicals and more chemicals in there. And, you know, it's just cutting corners. So the demand has to shift. And the demand is about me informing you, you informing yourself and making other choices.

18:32And then you proliferate that to all of your other friends and people you care about who are not going to affect themselves and not going to affect their families. So follow the show notes, making sure that you're avoiding the Mercurys and all of the iterations to Mercury, the PFOAs and the Teflons. Avoid at all costs. Don't buy these products. Again, health comes from within, making sure you're eating your plants, you're drinking your water. That's going to affect your skin, I promise you, infinitely more than all of this stuff, as well as when you're buying these products, they're botanically based, and they're organic, and they're chemical free, and that, of course, they're PFOA, Teflon free, and mercury free, and all of these things.

19:26Okay. So that was a big one. But women, please listen, all of these miracle things, if they're not botanically based, and if you can't eat these products, then do not put it on your skin and don't fall into the victimization and the leverage that they're using on you on your insecurities. We're all insecure. That's what marketing is getting all of us. So don't buy into it. I love you. Keep your eyes and your wits about you. And to the next time, thank you for tuning in. Love you.