Ep. 195 What Actually Are Toxins and Should You Be Concerned About Them?

2024-10-28

It's spooky season and we have a great topic for this week's podcast! One of my biggest pet peeves is fear mongering and I always hated people fear mongering around toxins specifically because truthfully, I find it all very overwhelming. But I also recognize that knowledge is power, and my learning more about toxins, what they are, how they actually impact your body from a science perspective, and things you can do about it. We can better support our health and our body composition goals! In this episode, we're going...

It's spooky season and we have a great topic for this week's podcast!

One of my biggest pet peeves is fear mongering and I always hated people fear mongering around toxins specifically because truthfully, I find it all very overwhelming.

But I also recognize that knowledge is power, and my learning more about toxins, what they are, how they actually impact your body from a science perspective, and things you can do about it.

We can better support our health and our body composition goals!

In this episode, we're going to cover what are toxins and define them clearly for you, explain the concept of toxin burden that our modern society unfortunately has us content with 24/7, how frequent our exposure is to toxins, symptoms of excessive toxins, and much more!

Time Stamps:

(1:17) Scary Toxins

(2:24) Pet Peeve Around Fear Mongering

(5:02) What Is a Toxin?

(6:53) Toxic Burden

(8:20) Initial Exposure

(17:19) Managing Your Toxic Burden

(26:35) Caster Oil Pack

(28:27) Other Strategies

(31:11) Think Dirty App and Other Resources

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