Healthy Home Hacks Podcast Ron & Lisa Beres

Spring has officially sprung and for most of us, that means (you guessed it!) spring cleaning! If you have a pile of laundry waiting for you to scrub, suds, fluff, and fold, you’re not alone. In the U.S., 660 million laundry loads are washed every week, totaling a whopping 35 billion loads each year. But, have you ever considered what’s lurking in your laundry detergent? Could your laundry detergent be toxic to your health and the environment (hint: yes).
From phosphates and dyes to synthetic surfactants, optical brighteners, parabens, synthetic fragrances, and chlorine, your conventional laundry detergent brand is likely exposing you and your family to a host of toxic chemicals, allergens, respiratory irritants, hormone disruptors, and maybe even a cancer-causing chemical. Not to mention the plastic waste that your laundry jug is adding to landfills. To add fuel to the laundry jug fire, this plastic can take more than 100 years to break down. But the environmental buck doesn’t stop there. Laundry detergent is a major source of microplastic pollution, with a single load releasing up to 700,000 microplastic fibers into the water. Yikes!
Our guest, Anita Spiller, leads ESG for Tru Earth, a Certified B Corp global household cleaning product company, Anita focuses on eliminating household single-use plastics, battling microplastics, and donating earth-friendly products to organizations in need.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
 
The key issues Tru Earth’s cleaning solutions aim to solve How Tru Earth’s eco-strip compares to traditional liquid laundry detergent Common misconceptions related to earth-friendly cleaning products Advice for someone just learning about healthy and sustainable cleaning solutions Advice to listeners who are looking to make their first eco-swap The products Tru Earth offers in its full lineup Where to purchase Tru Earth products  You can learn more about Tru Earth’s products and mission at: www.tru.earth/Store. We’ll have all of the links in the show notes at https://ronandlisa.com/podcasts/100-green-your-laundry-routine/.
 

Unless you’ve been living under a Genetically modified rock laden with pesticides, you’ve likely heard of the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG’s) Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce which is updated every year. This guide is comprised of The Dirty Dozen; the 12 fruits and vegetables are the most contaminated with pesticides. And, the Clean Fifteen™; the product with the lowest amounts of pesticide residues, according to EWG’s analysis of the most recent USDA data. We’re digging up all of the DIRT (and pesticide residues) on your favorite fruits and veggies as we dissect the 2024 guide which includes data from 47,510 samples of 46 fruits and vegetables with our special guest, Senior Toxicologist, Alexis Temkin from EWG.

KEY TAKEAWAYS
 
Is the government protecting me from pesticides used on produce and does legal mean safe? What the term ‘organic’ means The 12 fruits and vegetables that were found to be most contaminated with pesticides, otherwise known as the Dirty Dozen Why 100 percent of Americans tested ages 6 and older were found to have detectable levels of certain pesticides How four of the five most frequently detected fungicides in the Dirty Dozen affect our health The two fungicides found in the highest concentrations of any Dirty Dozen pesticides A potential hormone-disrupting fungicide that may harm the male reproductive system found in 90% of peaches tested The best way to wash pesticides off produce How children are being affected by produce coated with pesticides The Clean Fifteen, the produce found lowest in pesticides  
You can learn more about the 2024 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce at: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/
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Who wants to lose weight? What if you could quickly and easily with just a weekly injection? You’ve likely seen the ‘incredibly shrinking celebs’ donning the cover of your favorite magazine or splattered across social media. What’s their BIG secret? Injections such as Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro? These peptides are boasted as ‘skinny shots,’ and are showing everywhere these days.
 
But are there any downsides to these skinny shots? Or, are there health benefits when it comes to peptides? Our guest today, Double Board Certified, Dr. Suzanne Ferree sheds light on how peptides can improve life in ways we don’t realize – and explains the difference between peptides and pharmaceuticals, their safety, and more. She is the founder of Vine Medical Associates and the Cellular Medicine Institute.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
 
The safety of Ozempic and other peptides for weight loss Are peptides linked to an increased risk for thyroid tumors and do some have a black box warning indicating so? Can peptides help combat fatigue? Peptides role in tanning, hangovers, and libido boosters How peptide therapy can help with a healthy anti-aging regimen The difference between peptides and pharmaceuticals Two easy ways to slow aging and the diseases of aging Targeting the root of anxiety and depression with peptides How peptides play a role in autoimmune conditions like MS, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto thyroiditis, and more Ways peptide therapy treatment options can be effective for health issues brought on by aging like joint pain, weight gain, and sleep issues   You can learn more about Dr. Ferree’s incredible services at: https://vinemedical.com/. Be sure to check out her new book, Counterclockwise: Using Peptides to Renew, Rejuvenate, and Rediscover (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases). We’ll have all of the links in the show notes at https://ronandlisa.com/podcasts/98-ozempic-the-skinny-truth-about-peptides/. 

Are you experiencing a host of negative health symptoms, but have no idea what is causing them? Or have spent boatloads of money, but feel like you’re living in a never-ending loop of suffering? Rather than just suppressing symptoms, naturopathic doctors work to identify underlying causes of illness and develop personalized treatment plans to address them. 
Our guest, Dr. Julia Greenspan, is a naturopathic doctor with over 17 years of experience treating over 10,000 patients.  She is the author of the holistic guide for long-haul infections called Rising Above Lyme Disease: A Revolutionary, Holistic Approach to Managing and Reversing the Symptoms of Lyme Disease and Reclaiming Your Life. Dr. Greenspan specializes in complex chronic (Long-haul) infections, Lyme disease/Co-infections, illnesses due to environmental toxicity (like heavy metals and mold), neuropsychiatric illnesses caused by infection (PANDAS/PANS), SIBO, mast cell activation (MCAS), chronic UTIs, repeated sinus infections, and bioidentical hormone therapy.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
 
1.    What defines long-haul infections beyond COVID-19
 
2.    What mast cell activation syndrome is and the symptoms
 
3.    How heavy metals and mold toxicity contribute to chronic infections
 
4.    How to assess the presence of toxins and the impact of infections in the body
 
5.    How to treat mold and heavy metal toxicity
 
You can learn more about Dr. Greenspan’s incredible services at: https://www.greenhousemedicine.com. She and her team of specially-trained naturopathic and functional medicine practitioners are dedicated to getting to the heart of the matter. 
We’ll have all of the links in the show notes at https://ronandlisa.com/podcasts/97-lyme-mold-mcas-environmental-toxins/.

Who wants more money this year? Silly question, right? We could all do more with more money in 2024, yes? But for the money to start rolling in, consider that you first may have to change your mindset around money.
Money can bring us absolute joy. But it can also bring unbelievable stress. And fear. And frustration. And unhappiness. Is it any wonder that we unconsciously push money away when it brings us negative feelings? But, the more we push money away, the more unhappy we become with our money and our lives. But we can change our relationship with money and open the channels to happiness.
Our guest, Ken Honda is Japan’s #1 bestselling personal development guru and author of Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money with book sales surpassing eight million copies. 
Ken is here to help us break the unhealthy patterns that keep us trapped in a stressful and unhappy life and to discuss six money mindset resolutions for 2024.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
 
1.    Why you should say these words when spending and receiving money
2.    Why you should appreciate what you currently have
3.    How to adopt an abundance mindset
4.    What trusting life has to do with abundance 
5.    Steps to forgive and heal your money wounds 
6.    How to discover, develop, and share your gifts
 If you want to heal your relationship with money, you can learn more about Ken’s incredible work at https://kenhonda.com/. 
Thanks for being with us today, friends. We’ll have all of the links in the show notes at https://ronandlisa.com/podcast/.

It's without question that environmental toxins are wreaking havoc on our health today. The prevalence of these toxins is posing a significant threat to public health, affecting everything from childhood development to adult chronic illnesses. A toxic environment and inflammation may even play a role in cancer. Fine-particulate air pollution present in the air we inhale daily can incite an inflammatory cascade and spur previously dormant mutant cells to form tumors.
Our guest, Dr. Tom O'Bryan, a renowned functional medicine expert in environmental medicine and a leading voice in the field of holistic health and wellness and the author of You Can Fix Your Brain and The Autoimmune Fix, guides us through understanding the unseen threats in our everyday environment while offering practical solutions for safeguarding the health of our families – especially our children.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
1.    Some of the most common environmental toxins affecting family health today
2.    How toxins impact children's health and development
3.    The long-term health implications of early exposure to toxins
4.    Some common misconceptions about environmental toxins and health
5.    Why functional medicine is particularly well-suited to treating toxin exposure
6.    Strategies for reducing exposure to environmental toxins at home
7.    The role nutrition plays in combating the effects of environmental toxins
 
You can learn more about Dr. Tom at https://thedr.com/ (how simple is that?). His new docuseries THE INFLAMMATION EQUATION: Decoding the Steps for Optimal is available to stream and we’ll be sure to put the link to that in the show notes.
As always, we’ll have all of the links in the show notes at https://ronandlisa.com/podcasts/95-navigating-the-toxins-hiding-in-plain-sight/.