Hidden Toxins In Your Home Exposed: Mold, Air Quality, EMF's & The Simple Fixes For A Healthier Home Ft. Ryan Blaser

22:15Those are the things you really want to be looking for. Natural materials. I think I got bamboo. Bamboo is great too. Yeah, bamboo is a good one. It's bamboo. This brand is so cute. It's simply organic bamboo and it's just 100%. And it feels like a plush, lovely blanket. Do you like cashmere? If it's natural. If it's real cashmere. Yeah. It's good. But if it's fake cashmere. Right. Okay. So people who are wearing like a t-shirt that's not 100 % cotton or linen or silk, you're saying the chemicals are getting in to their skin. Absolutely. Yes. Anything we put on our body, our skin is very absorbent.

22:52I mean, it's exhausting though, isn't it? One of our partners on this show is literally cotton. It's just cotton. The fabric of our lives. The fabric of our lives. Yeah. It's a pure cotton shirt. That's a free line for your cotton. And the reason you say it's exhausting is because we're just not taught this stuff. if we were taught this stuff and it was the norm it wouldn't be exhausting like how we lived years back ancestrally a lot of this stuff this is how we that's how we lived we should just all run around naked so we don't have to worry about it Michael you start I think that sounds like a good idea until you realize that that includes everyone running around naked and so everyone has the fantasy of like oh like you get to see but then it includes everyone that might cause more stress than we want it's an environmental toxin to the eyes What are some stories that have happened since you came on our show that have been really impactful for you?

23:42You know, it's a lot of the same stories. We had the one with the couple that almost got a divorce because of the mold. And we talked about on the last one, and they found out it was the mold. When they moved out of the home and fixed it, then they started getting along a lot better because mold can create irritability. And I've just seen that story replay over and over and over again. And it's amazing how many people have, we call it mold sickness or moldy brain, is there's just irritable and they're just not seeing things clearly. And they're fighting with each other, fighting with the kids.

24:10And I go into the home and when I find mold and I can feel, I can see that toxicity in their brain. A lot of times we'll fix that mold. We'll get it out of their homes. They detox and it's like night and day difference. It clears the brain. But I just see that same story replay over and over. Let's talk about the detoxing a little bit. If somebody has had a mold issue or they have a mold sickness, Michaela Peterson came on the show and told her story. and they want and they've cleared the issue with someone like yourself or you and they want to detox how can you start to detox from a mold toxicity yeah there's there's a lot of good programs out there pompa program i think you guys had him on yeah i like him dr pompa his episode crushed it people love that yeah because our bodies are toxic i don't know anybody that doesn't have stuff in their bodies that they need to get out the heavy metals the mold and so there's just different supplements and different diets fasting sauna working out making sure you're sweating every day, working your lymphatic system, movement, all of these things are going to help the body to the detox.

25:03And a sauna is a good place to test for mold, correct? Correct. Because we're sweating in there and a lot of moisture. And so we can have mold growth in there. So you're saying that some people are saunaying, thinking that they're bettering their health, but in actuality, there's mold sometimes in the sauna. Yeah. And it just comes down to being clean in there and putting the towels down and then you sweat on the towels and then throw the towels out. Don't let them sit there overnight. What was the tool you gave me a while back? It was like a mold bomb that you put in the sauna to make sure that it was cleared of any mold issue.

25:35It was almost like green. Yeah, so we use chlorine dioxide gas. Yeah, that's what it was. Chlorine dioxide is a really good sterilizer, so it'll kill off any kind of microbiology, mold or bacteria. It's kind of like antibiotics for the home. And is it bad for you to breathe in? Yeah, you don't want to breathe that in. But once it is done and airs out, it doesn't leave any residue. And so that's why we like that. And did we do that in sauna? Yeah, he did it. When he came and tested, we did. I don't think, I think we were like, we didn't know if there was an issue, but you were overcautured. Like, let's make sure to do this to make sure that there is nothing.

26:05Right. But is that a good idea to do for people that have saunas, dry saunas outdoors, like every once in a while? It is, especially if you're not being careful with the water. You have the dry saunas where you're pouring the water on it and the water splashing around. You got to be really careful with that. So how often does someone like, think about doing that? If they were like, hey, we just want to make sure there's nothing in there. If you see any kind of water staining or definitely any kind of funny looking growth, that's when you want to be doing that. Okay. Yeah. What do you do when you go to a hotel?

26:32Because that's been, it's tricky. I just try to tell them, hey, can you just clean with water, please? And you don't need to change our bedding. Is there a strategy that you have when you book a hotel? Yeah. One thing I'll do is I'll go and I'll look right when I go and I'll lift the toilet tank up and look in it and see if there's mold growing in the toilet tank. If there is, that's a good sign that there's probably mold in the environment itself. And so I'll ask for a different hotel. Are you lifting the toilet tank? Yes, Lauren. I can start. Okay. Another thing is if I can smell a lot of, they're using a lot of chemicals with the cleaning, sometimes even air fresheners in there.

27:08So, you know, I'll ask ahead of time if I can, like what kind of chemicals are you using? Is there fragrances in the room? You know, a lot of times they don't know those. That's kind of the problem with that. But if I go in and it's really bad, I will ask for another room. What would you say if you could wave a wand about Glade plugins? Well, it's not necessary. People think that the home needs to have a smell to be clean and healthy, and it doesn't. Actually, clean and healthy doesn't have a smell. It's neutral. So when you go into a house, you shouldn't perceivably notice any kind of smell. Because if you do, if it's a chemical smell, usually they're trying to cover up a biological or a chemical smell that's an issue.

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35:12Their Yankee gingerbread. Their Christmas-scented, you know, and this is going to burst a lot of people's bubbles, but I'd love for you to go off on the candles. Some pine needle fur. yeah all that is little particles that are in the air they're chemicals and we're breathing that in and so when you light that candle it's letting off billions of these little small particles into the air we're breathing that in and that's the smell we're getting so if we can go to like beeswax or something natural with some essential oil i'm fine with that once in a while but even then we really are designed to breathe pure fresh air that's what really what we need i have a skinny confidential candle for you you're going to be so happy it's three ingredients okay it's coconut oil wax.

35:53It's organic eucalyptus essential oil. And then it's the wick, which only has one ingredient in it because the wick I found has so many chemicals. So there's three ingredients and I want you to see if it's Ryan approved. I'm going to give you one. Well, it sounds great. That's exactly what we want. Okay. Okay. That makes me happy that it's approved by you. I should have texted you and asked you, but I feel like that was the vibe. Yeah. Cause that's the thing. There's so many alternatives out there. You just got to know. Yeah. And what are some of the health impacts where people may be burning these other candles that have some of these ingredients that are not so great for us?

36:25So some of these chemicals that the phthalates in them and they're endocrine disruptors. So hormones is a big thing for both male and female. We're having hormone issues we're seeing through the roof and people are having to take the different shots and the patches to fix that. That's not normal. We shouldn't. And especially we never had to do that. It's because we're mixing all these other chemicals in our body and now we're adding to our chemical soup and throwing everything off. So if somebody has hormonal issues and they were explaining their environment to you and saying, hey, Ryan, my hormones are off and I burn Yankee candles every night.

36:53That would be one of the first things in the environment you'd say, stop doing that. Right. Right off the bat. Yeah. I mean, that's an easy low hanging fruit. Just get rid of that stuff. So get rid of the candles, get rid of the cleaning supplies. You like branch basics, right? I like branch basics. I like just vinegar and water and a little lemon essential oil. It goes a long ways. And that's all you use in your house. Well, there's other things we use, but for like 90 % of just like, we just got done with eating dinner and we have the kitchen, which it's just half lemon essential oil or half distilled water, half distilled white vinegar, lemon essential oil, and just spray it.

37:23And that cleans 90 % of the surfaces. It's funny you say that. I'm reading a book right now about ancient Rome. This sounds like a strange tangent, but in one of these chapters I read last night, they were basically saying, oh, and the streets smelled like vinegar and lemon. Because back then when they wanted to clean, they wanted to clean the city. Like that's what the emperor had them clean with. Oh, that's interesting. So it goes way back. What do you use to wash your clothes with? There's a couple different products that we use. I think Zum is one of them. Truly Free is another good one that we've been using lately that I like.

37:51But even then, if the clothes aren't too bad, you can put a little bit of vinegar in there with it, a little bit of baking soda. It'll clean it right up, freshen it right up. I have a question. The more that I've cleaned up my environment, the more sensitive I am, which is a little annoying, kind of, because you become almost crazy because everything starts to smell. Why is that? So there's two reasons for that. One is that you're going to a different level of your health and awareness and you realize that, hey, I can feel better. And now when you get exposed to some of these other things that bring you back down, you notice it more.

38:27If you're always in the soup and you're always in the mix and you don't have this higher level of understanding of how you can feel better, then you don't realize that it's a problem. But once you get there, wow, I feel amazing. This is great. And then something brings you down. And that can be emotionally, physically, anything. When we have that contrast, now we can notice a difference. So what you're doing is you're providing contrast in your life. You're saying, wow, now I'm in a really clean, good environment. I step into one that's not. Your body notices that. So it's like a shitty boyfriend.

38:52It's like you have a shitty boyfriend and then you get a great boyfriend who treats you really well. And then maybe you go back to the shitty boyfriend and you're like, wow, this is really shitty. Absolutely. Because you have contrast in your life and now you can see that. Lauren's like Heath Ledger when he played the Joker and his head's out the window in the cop car. That's So she's like, with an Uber. Because like a lot, I mean, listen, I understand why, but it's like a lot of the Christmas trees, a lot of heavy colognes and perfumes because they're masking scents and they want this. A lot of, and I feel bad because people think that that's a polite thing to do for people to make the car smell that way.

39:22But if you're somebody who's cleaned up your environment and you don't have scent, it feels like you get slapped in the face. Oh yeah. Even me now, like if I get in one of those cars. You're so sensitive now, admit it. No, because what you realize when you clean up your environment and you start using, you get rid of all the chemical cleaning supplies and the fragrances and the artificial smells and the deodorants and the colognes and the perfumes, and you just start living in a natural environment, you really don't smell anything to your point. It's neutral. And so then when you do smell really strong synthetic scents, you're so aware of it that it bothers your nose.

39:55It feels like you got to close your eyes almost. It gives you a headache. For sure. And there's another side to that too. The second part of that is there's something called hermetic stress. And hermetic stress is applied to our body to help us grow and adapt. So if we were always in optimal state, whether it's our mind or our body or in the environment, then we would never adapt. We would never grow. In fact, we would become stale and we would go backwards. So for example, our body, if we want to grow the muscle, we go into the gym and we stress the muscle and then we let it recover and it builds back stronger.

40:25So when we're in some of these environments, it's good to apply a little bit of hermetic stress to all of these areas so that we can grow and we can adapt. So we do want to have a little bit of chemical once in a while, just really small amounts to tell our body, hey, it's okay to have the detox pathways working and everything going well. But we always want to go back to optimal state. And that's why at least in our homes, if we can create optimal state in our homes, that's ideal. But then when we go out into the general public, we are going to get exposed to them and stuff. And some of that stuff can be beneficial for us because it helps us adapt in the long run.

40:54Okay. So you don't have to hang your head out of the car when we're driving. You can adapt yourself a bit. Okay. Okay, so it's good for me to be exposed a little bit. A little bit. We want that, yeah, because that's how we grow. That's how we adapt. What do women not know about nail polish? This has been a hot topic all over Instagram. We're all going and getting our nails done and putting our nails in the gel, whatever it's called. What's the thing called? What are you looking at me? I don't know. What's the thing when it cures the gel? The dryer. The nail dryer. What do we need to know about that?

41:25So this is where it comes back to the hermetic stress again. So we can apply that principle with that and say it's okay to have a little bit of exposure. But now let's go home to a clean environment where we have fresh air, where we have air filtration, where 90 % of the time, 95 % of the time, we're breathing clean, pure air. But then when we go do something like that and we get a little bit of exposure, we want to look good. We want to do the fun things. And that's fine because we don't want to be completely Nazi about this 100%. We're never going to get there because that's going to provide stress.

41:53So we do those things knowing that we have a clean environment to go back to. So the most important thing at the end of the day is making sure your home is where you detox. That should be your temple. That should be the one place where you really focus, where you say, hey, I have one safe place on this planet that I can go to. And that's my home. And that's my safe place. Knowing what you know about environments in general. The last time we talked to you was like kind of a little around the COVID period. Not to be political here. We're not being political. but knowing what you know about environments and looking back on that period of time what are the lessons that we should have learned or should have done compared to what we did do during that period i think realizing that we have control over the environment and that we don't have to let fear creep in that we know that at least in our home or and you know what there was a gym that i worked with at that time where they implemented all the air filtration stuff these hypochlorous acid to kill between each of the sprays.

42:52And we had a lot of really good environmental control systems going on at the time. And they were able to stay open throughout the whole time fighting local governments and everything. And they had no sicknesses and no outbreaks there with their crew because they were doing all the right things. So at least I think people hopefully walked away knowing that, yeah, there's dangers out there, but we can control that. We don't have to let those dangers control our lives. So there was a way to keep the environment clean enough where like something like that, a virus like that could not thrive as much as it did in, I guess, environments that weren't as clean.

43:22Right. Because the world can be a scary place. There's always stuff out there that's going to affect us. It's just, what tools do we have to implement that we can fight back against that? We have to have an intervention. Are you ready? You talk about my hairspray. I'm going to cut it out. I have to. I want to ask the expert. This is the last time I will bring it up. It sure is. I'm going to edit it out of the show. It's not even going to make it. Carson, keep it in. We have done everything That we need to do to our house With Test My Home I think we've checked all your buckets We've tried We're trying It's a constant edit, right?

43:53Right But Michael still insists on spraying his hairspray Which if you smell Only when I see Ryan, I want to look handsome You would die You would die You're doing a good job So what is something where If someone's listening And their significant other does something That is bringing toxicity in the home What's the compromise? So for that situation, let's install a really big exhaust fan right over your vanity where you're getting ready. Is that seriously the solve? Absolutely. Yeah. A fan. Okay. But listen, it's a joke, but also I understand it. Like nobody wants the aerosol. I don't really want it either.

44:26It's a little bit here and there, but now let's switch gears and talk about when you get a spray tan, a spray tan with your entire body. I don't get spray tans anymore. Look at this hair. That is not a little bit. No, no. This is mostly gel. It's a little, it's a little squirt. But my big thing with her. And then he tries to get in the bed. You know what? Actually, I'm going to keep this segment in. Okay. Lauren will be like What about that hairspray I will see you Have a paint booth Of technicians Doing makeup And spray tans That's not right No I don't spray it though It's just on my skin He's not wrong It covers your whole body No not The spray tan I don't do anymore He's not wrong about the makeup I have yet to switch My makeup to clean I will get rid of my hairspray When all you ladies Get rid of the makeup Compromise No Okay Ryan Isn't the hairspray More toxic Because it's in the air No this is good Because a lot of times When I show up People's houses The males are usually like oh my gosh this guy i don't want anything to do with this and he's not like he's open show him teach him tell him all this stuff's bad and there's there's a compromise we set up we set up systems to fix this stuff and so when you're actually spraying it that's when it's toxic when you can breathe it in when it's getting in the air once it's set up and hardened it's not really off-gassing at that point okay i'm not so what is the solve that he just goes out to the deck i i'm open to that yeah you apply it outside can you do that or you have a really big exhaust i honestly think I think that would cover 50 % of our problems.

45:41You swear to God. Yeah. Wait, do you swear? Yeah, I'll do that. Because I'm going to say what I did today. What did you do today? I took his hairspray and took it in my car.

45:55So I'll give it back to you if you make the deal that you'll go out to the deck. I got secret stashers. Don't worry. No, you don't. I went to all the secret stashers. I got some tape behind the toilet. I got some like taped under the thing. I got some in the safe. I got it all over the place. I got them all. Six cans gone. And you know what I did? Because I'm so sweet. I put the non-toxic. Joking aside here. Okay. This is like what I try to tell Lauren is like all the time. This is a conversation in our marriage. You can play a little bit of a counselor now to help us. We're going to save our marriage.

46:22I think many people that have been on this show and Lauren, I would put in this group, we can fixate on the quick hairspray. We can fixate on the, for me, like the big, like in my life, the big impacts is like, there's no more shoes in the house. The air filters have been cleaned. We got good filtration. We opened the windows. We've got rid of the toxic cleaning supplies. We've switched the materials to, you know, organic materials. Like I think that drives the greatest impact. What I don't want people to do is listen to this and be like, oh, there's the one hairspray. And if I change that, it's like, no, the big things have much, a much greater impact.

46:57At least that's, that's how, that's what I would like the takeaway to be. No, that's great. I mean, you nailed it. Yeah. I really can't add to that. That's perfect. And maybe we can perhaps think about going out to the deck. But at this point, we're like now like nitpick. I mean, it's like someone like, you know, like if they start eating 80 % of the time whole foods and great ingredients, and then someone's like nagging them because they picked up that cookie on Thanksgiving, it's like, come on, like, who cares? It's the big change and the big consistent impacts that are going to have the greatest effect.

47:22What's the craziest shit that's off gassing in our house that we wouldn't know about? I mean, besides the cleaning supplies, the fragrances, the chemicals, if you're in a new home, that's really the biggest one. So when you move into a brand new home, it's the cabinets, it's the wood flooring, it's the paint that you're using. Those things are really creating a toxic soup for a couple of years. So it's actually the newer homes you have to worry about. Brand new homes is what we need to worry about for chemical off-gassing, yeah. And older homes for mold are not necessarily the case? In older homes, then the mold load starts to build up.

47:54the bacterial load starts to build up, the dirt, the microplastics, all the things in the dust that are nasty, that starts building up. What about duct work? Like in the cleaning of the, we had a guy that came as a super nice guy and it was very cost effective, was not overly expensive that came and was like, Hey, let me get in your, in your vents and get all that stuff. I think he told us to do that. Yeah. And I thought that was really interesting. And it was, it was very, like I said, it was affordable. Right. Because we clean all the surfaces that we can see regularly, but the ducting we can't see.

48:24And that's a big surface in there that we don't really have access to. And that's the lungs of our home. So that's really critical to make sure it's kept clean. Think about mice can crawl up in there and die. Spiders, all kinds of stuff can get up in there. And then we don't clean that out very often. So if a cockroach gets up in there and then it's blowing air, the cockroach's guts are spraying through the house. Correct. Yes. Nasty. We don't want that. When's the last time you got those ducts cleaned? We just got them done you did and you set us up at a time we get them consistently and also you had us do the blue was a blue light yes in the air filters is that correct so uv light you do that coil right because that's a place where mold spores and bacteria can grow so we shoot ultraviolet light on there and it sterilizes it so i didn't know we did that yeah right look at you i do want to call my husband out i know i'm shitting on him for the airspray but why i'm really proud of my husband and it's really exciting for me to be in a relationship is he is constantly evolving and when I first got together with him myself included we didn't know about any of this and he's been able to evolve with me and I actually think sometimes he knows more than I do which is pretty cool so he is it is person pull this clip no he is easy to manipulate

49:42but like seriously he's really open and it's funny because even like now you're like preaching to your mom no but here's the when i speak to someone like you who's so knowledgeable in your space and you know what you're doing and you explain the these things i'm like okay that the vents make sense the uv makes sense opening the windows getting like all this is very and you know if it if it doesn't i gotta go with god i don't know some people are gonna be resistant i can't help you. Like, you know, making a simple switch to something like branch basics and getting rid of harmful chemical cleaning supplies, like to me, it's like no brainer where I give some pushback is, is the certain things that I think people enjoy.

50:19If you want to get your nails done, get them done. If you want to like spray a hairspray, you want to have a cookie, you want to have that. Like if you're doing the other things, right. You want to go out and have a few drinks at night. Fine. Like a lot of these people come on, like never have alcohol again. I'm like, you know the point is is like i think we we get caught up in the clickbait you know short form and part some of these show our show included gets put in this happens with our show sometimes but i the message i think is like it's the big things that drive the biggest not the little things like you know it you gotta what that's what resonates with me i want to tell the story because it's so powerful about the little girl whose symptoms were resolved and i know you told it on the other episode, but I think it's an important story to tell.

51:00Can you tell our audience that? Yeah, this is a very healthy family. In fact, she's a health and wellness influencer and moved into a new home and started getting these symptoms. They were starting to get sick, the whole family, and they had some issues. But the daughter in particular, 12 years old, she was waking up with night tears. She was starting to wet the bed, waking up, not rested, and it was affecting her daytime activities. And they were actually getting her in to do some neurological testing, trying to figure out what was going on. But when we did our analysis of the home, we found out that her bed was placed right on the opposite side of where the fridge was.

51:30So the kitchen was right here and the bed was right on the other side. And so when the motor kicked on that powers the fridge, it sent this electromagnetic wave, a magnetic field, like six to eight feet into the room, right where her head was sleeping. And so when that clicked on, that sent a jolt through her body and woke her up and was causing all kinds of neurological issues. So we moved the bed to the other side of the room. Symptoms went away that night. I got an email from And we're like, two years later, like, oh my gosh, you saved my kid's life. I can't, these symptoms have never came back.

51:58And she was just blown away that EMF affected that much. You know, people don't realize like, oh, it's a conspiracy. It's tinfoil hat. No, this is very real. We're, our brain works off these electrical impulses. And when we send these high level frequencies through the brain that are abnormal, it causes problems. I really think that it's so important to be purposeful and thoughtful around your phone. What are some practices that you do to keep the EMF from your phone? Like when you go to bed at night, what do you do? Simple ones when I'm not using it, put it on airplane mode and try to delineate my time throughout the day.

52:28And so when I'm working and focusing, that's work time. And I don't have my phone there to distract me, not just the EMFs, but the distraction of it. When I'm spending time with my family or reading books to my kid at night, I don't need to have my phone on me. You know, when it's family time, let's put the phone over there on the cabinet and let's not even have it around us. And then at nighttime, when we're sleeping, we don't necessarily need to have our phone. Some people have parents or children away and you want to have availability, but it doesn't need to be by your nightstand. Maybe put it across the room.

52:54Do you think it should be in the other room? If you don't need it, then yeah, because it's a true addiction. Whether we all like to admit it or not, we're addicted to our phones. So any kind of addiction, if we can put it away from us, out of sight, out of mind, is very powerful. So like if you could have a charging dock and it was outside of the room, you think that's the best idea? That's the best idea. Yeah, but it's hard. People truly want that. It's a comfort thing. They need to buy them. I think that for our new house, we should, because we got rid of the TV in the bedroom, I think we should put a charging dock in the other room.

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59:36Yeah. But a lot of parents are like, that's not realistic. My kids are out. Maybe they're teenagers. They need to be able to hear. But going back to one of the things you talked about that refrigerator story since meeting you one of the other things i do if we're looking at a new property or looking at you know configuring the house and you could do this if you're renting or getting an apartment or houses i always look at the layout like ahead of time i get like you know like the blue the floor plan and i see like okay where's the laundry room compared to where the children's room is where's the kitchen compared to where and i try as best i can and this is not always easy but you can do this if you're looking at space or thinking about moving just to see that proximity because to your point like if if you can get some proximity between you know that electrical item and where the kids are sleeping where you're sleeping like why not what about telephone wires around the house what's that what about telephone wires so that's good if your home is hardwired for telephone and you can do old school telephones and that's another way work around where you don't have the emf but people that are close to you know that number and they can call you and get ahold of you on that.

1:00:40So the telephone wires are okay? The pillars outside the house? Not cell phone towers, is it? Like the power lines outside the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that okay? So if they're close to you, so if the high voltage power lines, like the big ones cross, you want to stay at least a football field away from those 100 yards at least. But the more the local ones, you know, 100 feet for the smaller neighborhood ones, you want to stay away from those. What do you think about all of these fake lights? Like what, for me in my own house, I prefer, I honestly prefer no fake lights. I'd rather just wake up with the sun and have the, have the sunlight, the room.

1:01:15And then I like red light. Right. What do you like when you're around all these lights, is it a lot for you? Yeah, the people, and I feel it. And a lot of people are very sensitive and it's more to the flicker, but also to the excessive blue light that's in it. It's not natural. So if you look at a light scope meter and hold it out to the sun, it's a nice, even color spectrum where we're getting all the frequencies and ancestrally, that's how our bodies evolved so we had the sun at the daytime and then at night we had candles and lanterns and fires and that's what our eyes are used to and so now with this world we have all this artificial light and it's flickering it has a flicker rate to it and it does that to save energy but that flicker rate our body can sense that and it causes a big stress on the brain but also the color spectrums are wrong and so that throws our body off i get headaches from sitting under these that's what i really want to do work with you on our new house we're trying to create one of the healthiest houses we can.

1:02:05I want to talk to you about what light bulbs that we should get. And you said, you mentioned that it's supposed to be in a certain spectrum. What is that? Is incandescent? No. Well, incandescent can, but you want the no flicker and there's film grade ones that don't flicker that have the right spectrum. Block Blue Light is a really good company that we recommend that they have good bulbs for it. But really it's about following what nature is doing at the time. So if the sun has already gone down, you don't want bright overhead lights. You want the natural amber color, even the red color right before bed, because that's what's triggering our body to suppress melatonin and getting us ready for bed.

1:02:39Hot plastic, Ziploc bags, to-go containers, Postmates, hot chicken sitting under a plastic container. What do you do? Yeah, so this is the microplastic discussion. The studies show that we're consuming up to a credit card's worth of plastic every month or maybe every week. I don't know. It's a lot. It's more than you want to think about, but it's coming from all of the plastic sources that are touching our food. So that really is a big one. Right off the bat, you want to go through your kitchen and get rid of all the plastic, the cutting boards, the storage containers, the Ziplocs. When food comes to your house and it's stored in plastic, if you can switch it out, put it in glass containers, that's better.

1:03:17But really, it comes down to the food that's physically touching, especially when it's hot. You never want to reheat anything in the microwave that's touching plastic. You shouldn't be using a microwave anyways, but if you are, definitely don't be putting microwave food. Would you have a microwave in your house? so we didn't for a long time and the new house we bought has a microwave that's built into it and so we've wanted to the whole time take it out but we really haven't figured out what are we going to replace the spot with and i'm not going to lie there's times when we're in a hurry when we use it you know we shouldn't we're not perfect with that but again like once like you know if you're microwaving your dinner every single night it's like hey maybe that's not going to be the best one like once in a while you don't have to microwave your dinner with me as a chef um no you're seeing my plastics from postings i just starve to death because i'm not getting any any home-cooked meal.

1:03:59I'm just dying, withering away. I have a rapid fire questions, but before you go, if you could give the audience one thing to change in their home tomorrow, just one thing, where would they start? I mean, you know, one thing I've been talking more about is the mind and the body and the interaction and toxic people in the home. And that's one thing that we don't really think about as the environment. But when you have toxicity in the home, as far as people goes, that can create a bad vibe. And we all know you go into a party or a room and there's someone in a bad mood, there's a jerk, there's someone, you can feel that energy.

1:04:33So that's where it comes back to really looking at the mind and how, what things like showing gratitude is a big one. Showing forgiveness is a big one, not holding onto the shame and the guilt. Those things truly do put off onto other people. And so if someone in the house that you're living with has those things going on, that needs to be addressed. Most toxic room in the house? It's definitely the bathroom for most people because of all the hairspray and the nails and all the stuff that we do, personal care products. You know what I would like to do? You also said flush the toilet with the seat down.

1:05:04Yeah, everyone knows that. Do you not do that? No, no, I do. Okay, we got to flush the toilet. A lot of people just let it fly. No, we got to flush. And the bathroom is where you have, you go to the bathroom in there and we're cleaning and that's where a lot of water is. So it's more prone for mold. So bathroom is definitely the most. Why can't we do the room and then the bathroom far away from the room? I don't get the toilet in the bedroom. Is that a, like, can we petition that? I don't understand the toilet. I can build an outhouse for you like they do in the old days. Literally. You can get up and hold a candle and walk your ass outside.

1:05:35Can we rebrand, test my home outhouse? I would love that. Everyone go outside to the outhouse. I'll get you one of those old sleeping hats and a candle. Put a well next to it for fresh water. An outhouse and a well. What's better? Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah. yeah so like i could potentially now that you're talking like we could build an outhouse you could sleep you know we get the toxic person out of the house i don't want to sleep next to the outhouse right if the bathroom is that where you would start with most people's like check for mold see what's going on in your bathroom check your cabinets in the bathroom like that's the place that's going to originate most of the it is that's where we see most of the problems because that's where most of the problems happen because of the water and the chemicals that's why most bathrooms have a ventilation fan.

1:06:16It's there for a reason because it is the most toxic room. So a lot of people will just leave that fan on all the time just to exhaust out. If you don't have an ERV or fresh air ventilation system, that's one thing you can do is leave that fan on. But I would say the most impactful room is the bedroom. That's the most important room to have dialed in because we spend a third of our lives there. That's like the one true sacred place. Where we sleep at night is the most sacred place that we have. That's where we feel the most safe. that's where bodies are healing and resting that's where we're connecting with our partner love, sex, intimacy and healing that's the most important things that we have and that's where we need to really focus our time I totally agree with you on that I think that's such a good tip item that you avoid like the plague honestly probably just chemicals chemicals really cause a big problem and mold and mold's a big one mold and chemicals those two things the last question the most shocking statistic that would surprise the audience 70 % of homes have mold in them, have a mold problem.

1:07:1670 % that you go into that you see. And now, of course, it's a sliding scale. It's a spectrum. Some are extremely bad where the occupants are getting sick right away. But a lot of times it's just a low level thing where they just don't feel the best. They feel a little brain fog. They feel a little irritability. They don't have the energy that they used to. So it's this low level, long-term exposure that's affecting their quality of life. They don't realize it. Ryan, if someone cannot do your whole program and they want to get a mold test at home, which mold test do you recommend off Amazon? So we have one.

1:07:45So a lot of them on Amazon. Well, that's the thing is that there's all these different ways to test for mold and they all show a little piece of the puzzle. Like the air test will tell you what's going on in the air right now. The dust test or the ERMI will tell you what's been in the air that's now in the dust. A visual is going to tell us what do we actually see? What do we smell? But to get a full picture of the mold, you kind of got to do all the pieces. but really we have one on our website that we take the swab of the air filter so it tells us what's been in the air that's caught in your air filter and we send that to the lab and analyze it and we see what's floating around and that's right on our website you showed me what everyone can get for free ryan test my home has given everyone a free test my home environmental risk screening it's valued at twelve hundred and fifty dollars right so this is what we do for our high ticket clients when we go do the full analysis of their house we always start with the risk analysis so we have them jump online and answer a bunch of questions and just talks about how do you use your home how do you interact with your home the history of your home what chemicals do you have do you have water filters are you opening the air you're taking the shoes off so based off of this analysis we can kind of know what we're looking at when we go into the home and a lot of times at this point now we have a pretty good idea of what we're going to find and what we need to fix just simply based off of this analysis because we've looked at all the data and it also ties in with the health of the home and so that's something we want to offer for free for you guys listeners.

1:09:06You also have the free healthy home starter guide. Yeah. So that's like the top 20 biggest tips that you can do that are free that you can implement right away that have the biggest bang for the buck. So you are giving a lot of free stuff away. Everyone go to testmyhome.com slash skinny to make your home the healthiest it can be. You guys have never offered this to anyone else. This is new, but comprehensive. And I think this is such a great way to get the home clean. so that's testmyhome.com slash skinny i will be documenting my own journey with ryan i'm sure there's things that i'm going to need to change in our new home and i'm so grateful to know you i think what you're doing is so incredible and it's important and it's educational and it's it's there's no there's it's taking people who maybe are ignorant about the home and not knowing any of these stuff and giving them knowledge and knowledge is power yeah and as lauren would label me the skeptic in the room even i'm not that skeptical i think since working with you on our first home and learning all about this and now doing you know this show and the previous one like we've completely changed our environment and i talk about it on the podcast all the time like from the air purifiers to the ducts to the wi-fi to the cleaning supplies to how we sleep and as you were talking about the bedroom being the most sacred space like our sleep scores are through the roof and we sleep very well and that's obviously had a big impact on our health because we've cleaned up our environment.

1:10:29When we first got to Texas, that wasn't the case. When we lived in LA, God knows what was going on in that place. Yeah, this has been a journey. I want everyone to know this. This is not like we woke up. This has been constant refinement and editing and something I'm really passionate about for my kids. You know what's crazy? When I think about the place we lived in LA now, it's like there was literally a toilet on a door right next to our bedroom. The washing and dryer machine was right by our bedroom. It was wild. I could touch the TV like to you, like with my hand. I leaned over. It was a huge one.

1:10:59There was stuff. We had a person below us. I think he was a meth addict. We used to sleep with our cell phones right next to our ears charging. You just don't know. But the point is, we didn't know. We weren't educated. We didn't have the conversation. And what I want everyone to know is, of course, we've had the pleasure and the benefit of working with you. But a lot of these things we're talking about, You could start doing free, cost effectively, no cost, and especially with the stuff you're offering, then it's worth it. And also, Jasper, J-A-S-P-R.com slash skinny. I think he gives you$400 off the Air Peer Fire.

1:11:37And we love Mike. Mike has become a friend, yeah. Those are amazing. And then also Branch Basics, skinny 15 for 15 % off. These are just easy things. Easy codes that all Ryan and Michael and I love. You can see more of Ryan on my Instagram story at test my home on Instagram This is a really big lever that people can pull for their overall health and wellness And it's not just like hey, I'm sick. What's going on is how do I optimize my life? How do I feel better? How do I live longer? How do I have more energy? How do I have clearer thoughts and think better like all of these things you can improve?

1:12:06By controlling the environment around you and looking at the environment and realizing that that does affect our body big time. The people in the room, the view that we have, the chemicals that we're breathing in, the lighting, all of these things really matter. You can create a horrible environment and wreck your life, or you can have an amazing environment, truly like a temple. And this is biblical stuff too. I mean, this isn't brand new things that we're just coming across. This has always been taught and always been shown that having the correct environment around you can really optimize your life.

1:12:35Yeah. And even when you say a third of our life is spent in our bedroom, you hear that, But every time you hear it again, it makes you think. You're like, oh, shit. Because you're asleep, you're not aware a lot of the time. But it's very true. Yeah, so important. Thank you. Thank you, Ryan.