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125| Insights: Personal Care Products and Household Products: What Impact Do They Have on Our Health?

125| Insights: Personal Care Products and Household Products: What Impact Do They Have on Our Health?

FromRemove the Guesswork: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing for Busy Professionals


125| Insights: Personal Care Products and Household Products: What Impact Do They Have on Our Health?

FromRemove the Guesswork: Health, Fitness and Wellbeing for Busy Professionals

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
May 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Have you ever thought on how other chemicals enter our body? In this week’s Insight, I talk about the negative impact these strong chemicals and what you can do about it.
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Topics Discussed in this Episode:


The effect of harmful household cleaning products


How harmful chemicals in personal care products enter our body



Key Takeaways:


You don’t to kill all the bacteria. It’s good for our microbiome. It’s good for us to built up immunity using these things. So that, we aren’t too clean.


They are full chemicals and that can cause problems with our hormones.


A lot of these household products will come and close contact with your skin, if you use bleach on the floors and you walk on the floors, your feet will be absorbing some of that bleach.


And they clean, but they also take out everything else. And they have a significant amount of collateral damage in terms of the fumes you inhaling.


The largest organ of the body porous, so it absorbs very very easily.


An implication to some of these is it can affect your hormones. It can affect the hormones in a number of different ways, and in every estrogen could be affected by certain products. Other hormones can be affected that can significantly impact our health.


A few study in recent years, theories that aluminum based deodorants could increase the risk of breast cancer. That study suggested that chemicals in these deodorants, including aluminum, absorbing the skin and can have this effect.



Action Steps:


Slowly reduce the the use of chemical household cleaning products.


Look for more natural products.


Start small, reduce exposing your body to chemicals.


Get to know more familiar on what these products do and what’s with in them.



Leanne said:
“This week, I just want to highlight and to create an awareness of what you put on your skin. And then, the chemicals and other such thing that are sprayed, wiped or used in home, because that also has benefit. Then you more likely to breathe them in, as well as absorbing them through the skin.”
“So pay attention to all the different ways to come and contact with these chemicals, and try to reduce that chemical footprint if you like in your body.”

Thanks for listening!

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Released:
May 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Remove the Guesswork podcast is for busy professionals who want to improve their health, fitness and wellbeing using the latest science and technology to cut through the noise and get better results, faster. In each 30 minute episode I’ll talk with some of the leading names in the health and wellbeing industry about the latest innovations, interview people who have transformed their health to find out how they did it, and share my own personal story of chronic stress, burnout, career change and subsequent lifestyle transformation. Other popular topics include personalisation; optimizing human performance; work/life blend; the importance of recovery; finding consistency; thriving not surviving; becoming a health warrior; biohacking and intelligent training. Leanne Spencer is an expert in health, fitness and wellbeing. She is the author of two bestselling books, Rise and Shine and Remove the Guesswork and TEDx speaker on why fitness is more important than weight. Visit our website www.bodyshotperformance.com for more information.