Today's podcast talks about molds, air filters, the scents that we wear, even the healthiness of waters we drink. Watch this video as Dr. J and Evan Brand give us the geeky advice in creating a healthy home.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani
01:15 Mold Issues
02:41 Air Filters and Paints
14:30 Bug Sprays
16:49 Chemicals in Water
20:02 Air Filter Systems
27:10 Enhancing Detoxification
32:23 All About Scents
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey there! It's Dr. Justin Marchegiani, Evan how
Evan Brand: Life is good! Look, it's like 88 degrees in October this is unreal in Kentucky everybody is like
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Excellent man! Love to hear it. So, what's going on? any other updates for me on the health front? Let's cook 'em.
Evan Brand: Hmm… Not too much is cooking I'm still working on my course as you know our time these days is so valuable and limited that its– I had this idea in my head like I was gonna get this thing done by the fall and then here it's comin' out on the fall and I don't have it done. So, I know we've chattered off here about our– our courses that we're working on and we just have to make time to do it. But that's my only update and in terms of projects everything else is just– stay busy with the clinic and us keeps spreading the– spreading the good word, I mean, we get so much good feedback that I know we're on to something great and we need to keep goin' until– I don't know when, I– I don't see an expiration date for– for– for when our hustle stops.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I hundred percent agree with that, that
Evan Brand: Yeah. So, the reason I– I brought this topic up is because I had a guy who– uh– came to me for his wife's health issues and what he noticed is that everytime they left the house, her symptoms would get a little bit better. So, even if they went to the grocery store for an hour, if they went to their parent's house for a night or two, you know his wife's joint pain, her brain fall, her energy levels her symptoms would all change, it would get significantly better. We're talkin' 60-70% better just by leaving her house, okay. So, some would say well maybe that's EMF, maybe that's magnetic fields, maybe that's charged electricity, maybe it's this or that. And turns out it was a mold issue. And so they had mold in their basement that they weren't aware of–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Uh huh…
Evan Brand: –and I guess that mold was circulating throughout the whole HVAC system they got a test on from the E– E as an Evan, M as in Mary, S as in Sam, L as in Larry. em– emsl.com, they're like the mold scientific laboratory. They got a test kit from them and the mold levels in their house were off the chart. And so they're moving. Because they already had paid somebody to remediate and it didn't work. So– they just decided to downsize anyway into a smaller house 'cause their house didn't need the size than it was but now they're moving, and so hopefully she gets better but man, this just goes to show you, no matter how perfect your supplement protocol is, if you got an environmental–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Uh huh…
Evan Brand: –issue, like molded home or other toxins in your home maybe bad paints or lead or whatever else, you can still be sick despite having a good supplement protocol and all the lab testing and all that.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, hundred percent agree. The couple things that I do with my home is I got a couple of different air filters. I have uh– an advance air– air filter I have
Evan Brand: Yeah, your hair, your– skin, your nails, I mean you can see a lot of like, physical improvements too. People say, “Well why is it so important to filter the air?”. Well we hit on like the mold piece, VOCs are another thing, the Air Doctor that you and I both use, uh– that does filter out– VOCs which is great so if you did for some reason have like a toxic paint that's off-gassing, you can't filter some of that. Now I would say it's best if you can go in and use like a mineral-based paint. The one I use is called
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Ain't that water-based though?
Evan Brand: —
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So it's water-based
Evan Brand: I guess so, yeah 'cause you mix. It's half and half.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Okay.
Evan Brand: You take this bucket they give you, you add water, and then you put it on.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I mean it's tough 'cause you go water-based, it definitely doesn't quite last as long.
Evan Brand: Ahh.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: The oil-based paints, they have a lot more VOCs but they get hard. They get really firm afterwards and it becomes more solid so its– you know, double-edged sword. We're having some painting on this week so– guess what, we'll be out of the house for the weekend, just we're– goin' on a family trip. So– when I'm gonna have my air filters crankin' anyway and–
Evan Brand: What are you gonna, are you doing any– are you doin' any special brand or what are you– what are you looking into for paint?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Oh I just use the standard Sherwin Williams
Evan Brand: Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And I'm not gonna be in the house so– that way when I'm back, I'm good to go.
Evan Brand: And I don't know, it's like cause that stuff's gonna off-gas after it's dry, or do you think that the off-gassing is not as much?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: No, it– it's after 7 days, it's– it's done.
Evan Brand: Really?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: But I mean having the air filtrations gonna– you now, mitigate it. Cause that, the air filtration will mitigate all the VOCs.
Evan Brand: True. I just was more paranoid than you so I just got the mineral-based stuff. It's still on the walls so far but if it– if it fails then I'm– I may switch over to something else.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well it depends like if you're doing wall stuff, water-based paints' fine. If you're doing like cabinets, or things that are opening and closing, and getting wear and tear, that's where you want like, an oil-based paint.
Evan Brand: Okay, we just did walls.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, so for like a harder door that's
Evan Brand: Okay, okay, good point. So– so let's go back to the water piece, you know, I was mentioning like hair skin, nails, you know, we have a lo– a lot of compliments from people that– that do start to filter their water, they're like “Man! I didn't know my– my hair would get better”. So for example my wife and I with her skin. In the winter time, we used to put on lotion all the time. Now, I never have to put on lotion. My skin is so much more– I would say regulated I guess with– with– the– the filtered water that we bathe in so I had to recommend it if you don't have it already if you don't want to invest in a whole house filter. They're really not that expensive, they're, you know– with plumbing, paying a plumber included, maybe a thousand bucks for your whole house. And the one I have from the Pelican System, it last for 5 years before you have to change it so– that's pretty awesome. But if you don't wanna do that, you technically could just get the shower filters. Justin and I have talked about different brands, the Berkey one is what I like, the Berkey shower filter. And it reduces I think like 98% of the chlorine and some of the other chemicals.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Got it, yeah, I mean I
Evan Brand: Well, I think the Molekule – correct me if I'm wrong, cause you have one, I do not – is– I believe that thing kills viruses and bacteria too. I do remember reading something on their sales material about killing pathogen so, I mean, not that random people that are sick are coming into your house but if you're concerned about living in– a place where– you're– let's just say you're having people come in or out, or maybe you've got roommates or something, I'd like to have something that kills bacteria and viruses too, and I believe that system does. What about molds? Didn't they say something about molds' pores that it can kill too 'cause it's like a Zepa instead of a Hepa filtration?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah it has this– electrical component to it that– that actually kills a lot of the viruses and a lot of the compounds and it has the– the post-filter afterwards. So it has this component there using light where it kills a lot of these compounds and then it goes to the post-filter. So I mean that's this interesting new technology so, you know, I have all three of these different kinds of filters. So I'm experimenting and trying them out but, I think it's something that's noteworthy; I think a lot of people are using it; also it looks really nice. I like it. It just really– it's like a nice piece of furniture that sits in the corner and it's taller and skinnier so– it doesn't take up a lot of room. A lot of these air filters that look so
Evan Brand: Yes.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: –where it's like “Oh, man! It's just appalling seeing it in the corner of your living room”. Uhm–
Evan Brand: [laughs]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: But this new– I like this one. And the other ones, we just hide iin the corners in our bedrooms but this looks really great and it does filter out the viruses. There's this uhm– this– this– light kind of compound to it that really makes a– a big– a big difference. So I mean–
Evan Brand: [interrupts] Okay. So I– [crosstalk]. I wanna chat about testing a little bit you know, people are like okay, “Is my home toxic?”, “what can I do to test?”. Well the emsl.com – that's a mold laboratory – I think they also do water testing as well. So just check out emsl.com and you can actually order test kits from there. They have facilities all across the U.S. and maybe internationally, I'm not too sure on that part, but you can do a mold test. I believe what you do is you collect a bunch of dust, like let's say on your dresser. You just scoop some dust into this, and you send it off, and they're gonna let you know what the contents of that are. So that's the first step in terms of testing. The second step is to test your body. Uh– Justin and I use a test from Great Plains, it's very good called a MycoTox Panel and you can actually test for Ochratoxin and– Stachybotrys and all sorts of other potential pathogens that could have come from food but could also come from environment. And then also, we ran a panel called the GPL-Tox which is a chemical profile test done via urine, and we looked for certain chemicals. One that I look for all the time is Perchlorate. And Perchlorate, is– it's– crazy how many people in Florida have this chemical off the charts because of rocket fuel. When you use rocket fuel, I guess Perchlorate is an ingredient in rocket fuel. So people that live Cape– where Cape Canaveral is, where they're lau– launching a– rockets and such, the people that I– I've worked with near Cape Canaveral, their Perchlorate levels are off the charts. And on the lab, it says, it disrupts the Thyroid's ability to produce hormones; and– you and I were looking at some research earlier, the mechanism of this is it's inhibiting the iodine uptake. So it's almost acting like fluoride or bromide what it sounds like. Well maybe it's blocking this receptor and then iodine can't do its job so– uh– that's– that's huge and– and– where this Perchlorate come from, well if it's not from rockets then it's from fertilizers, it could be coming from bleach, but then it's also in your tap water. The good news is, some of the filtrations we talked about can actually filter out Perchlorate. So literally, every single day if you're drinking your tap water at your house and the fridge filter does not count, because the fridge filter does not filter Perchlorate–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly.
Evan Brand: And you're cooking, let's say like you're doing some steamed broccoli, you put that water in there, that water is now coated all over in your steamed broccoli– that's Perchlorate, and you could be eating little small bites of Perchlorate every day and you wonder why your thyroid doesn't get better when you take thyroid supplements. So this is the level of– specificity you have to have in the modern world and I don't get paralyzed by it, I mean you and I focused so much on action steps that– some people are like, “Oh my God the world's so scary and dangerous”, but it's like, there's an action step associated with this though.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yup, a hundred percent. So on the water side, you know, we just really wanna make sure at least and under the counter– slash countertop filter that– you know, that has a– a tank that can filter everything out really well. There's a couple of cheaper options if we need as well. Of course, we can always go to a whole house which makes it even easier because in all rooms, and everywhere, and showers are taken care of as well. Uhm– there's various air filters like I mentioned, the– the Molekule, they have– the– the Peugeot technology which is interesting. That's the– the
Evan Brand: The reason it's good that we also have the Air Doctor and we recommend you all get one too is because, that one filters down to .003 microns, so most Hepa systems especially something you wanna get at like Walmart or Target, filters down to 3 microns, but like car exhaust and diesel for example, a lot of these industrial pollutants, those are actually 2.5 microns in size, meaning that a 3 microns’ system won't work. You've gotta go smaller, you've gotta get .003. So that's the– that's the specificity, you gotta pay attention to, cause if you go to Target and you get a Hepa filter for like a hundred bucks, yes it's better than nothing but we want you to have no pollution, no car exhaust floating around in your bedroom.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly. Yup, 100%. So, I mean, lookin' at that, is there anything else you wanna talk about in the chemicals like the Perchlorate, I think it's really powerful because that's just the component like you mentioned with the rocket fuel that can kind of come in there and bind in and it– it– affect iodine, the uptake into the thyroid gland and iodine's used to make thyroid hormone. Remember T-4, T stands for thyroxine, the 4 stands for the number of iodine molecules. And then you have this iodination process where all these iodine molecules are bound up. And then you have
Evan Brand: Yeah, the other thing I wanted to mention in terms of like home toxins, are like bug sprays. Lot of people talk about bugs whether it's like ants, or roaches, or wasps, or bees. And a lot of these insecticides, these also are tested on the GPL-Tox. And I see most people add elevations in these toxic chemicals. So if you're spraying for bugs, even if you're not doing it, and you're hiring a “bug man” to come and spray. I had one client– she was off the chart with the Permethrin category of uh– toxins, and she said, “Yeah, I'm scared of spiders every time I see one I call the ‘bug man' and have him come just bomb my house.” And I was like, “Oh my Lord…”. So– there is a uh– a company, I
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yep.
Evan Brand: –we had an ant problem at our old rental house and so I just sprayed the perimeter of the house with an Orange Guard, it smelled delicious like oranges and it got rid of the ants in like two days and there
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah in my property here we use the company called “Chem-Free” and they came out and they use some essential oil blends and, a lot of times like for the bees, they would use like a peppermint oil type of blend, and they use that for like the cockroaches as well, and they would spray. That one's good. I mean, I like it, because a lot of these components, they aren't super toxic, or they aren't gonna be as toxic on the essential oil side, and– you can– and they worked. They actually knocked some of these uh– insects and roaches down which is great so you can still have– you can still have y– you know, the effectiveness of knocking some of these animals out but not creating the toxic environment as well.
Evan Brand: There's another company that you can look up, you can even get them on Amazon. They first were revealed on Shark Tank it looks like, but it's called the Wondercide. And Wondercide they had like natural pet care products but then they have home pest protection stuff too. So they do have like uh– a p– a peppermint insect repellent. And they have like an indoor pest control, and then they have an outdoor one which is what I use for all the ticks, because the ticks are really bad in Kentucky; and it's a cedar oil. So you hook it up to your water hose, and you just spray it, and it makes your whole place smell like cedar, which if you like that smell, good. And– we did see reduction in ticks for sure. It didn't cure it, like it's not gonna magically eliminate bugs but it sure repelled them.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Totally, yup. I think that's great. [crosstalk]
Evan Brand: So Wondercide– Wondercide, if people wanna look it up they have like organic soaps and stuff like that too but mainly I'm talking about for their home protection.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Excellent. You know, what other compounds are we worried about people getting exposed to that could be an issue. And of course we have the pesticides from our food,
Evan Brand: Yup.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And again I would say they dilute it down to a certain amount part per million but still uh– not good if you'll look at the amount of part per million in–
Evan Brand: Yup. And the– the other chemical I forgot to mention so far, lot of it is being banned and removed but it's Triclosan or Triclosan, and that comes from a lot of your conventional soap, it's an antibacterial. There's studies on that showing that it does reduce your uh– T-4 level. So it does reduce thyroid hormone levels. If you're washing your hands 5 times a day, let's say you're a nurse or something in a hospital setting, you're using this conventional toxic soap, that's not good. That means it's no surprise that a lot of people in the healthcare field themselves have issues, I mean, some of it could be the toxic soap they're using 20 times a day. And then all the skin care stuff that's in the– that's an easy one we test for all those chemicals. Nail polish, on that chemical profile test, they look for nail polish, they look for resins, they look for hair dyes, lot of women dye their hair, and then cosmetics so– gotta make sure all that stuff's clean. If your shampoo or conditioner has like artificial fragrances in it, we know those fragrances can hide Phthalates and all sorts of other endocrine disrupting hormones.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100%, absolutely. So the air stuff we talked about, the VOCs, right, the vo– volatile organic
Evan Brand: Well I was just gonna– I was telling you before we got on air here. I brought– maybe you should look into this. It's really this fun, you don't need it but it's fun. The uh– IQAir system, they have a portable air quality monitor system and I can test the levels instantly of the CO2 level in the house as well as the pollution level. It's looking for the 2.5 micron molecules so I guess in the city or to be– pretty helpful but where I live, you know, there's not much around to– to pollute the air. But what I've noticed is, in the morning, you know, you're breathing all night, so you're exhaling a lot of CO2, and we know that CO2, once you hit like a thousand parts per million I believe, the– headaches, fatigue, can start to happen, and my C02 levels in the home typically in the morning are about 1500. And if we just open the windows up, for 10, 15 minutes, we can get the CO2 levels down by like a thousand points. So we go for like the red category to the green category in this meter. So I mean, that's free, first of all to open your window. Now if you live like in India, and your air is so toxic, you probably don't wanna open the windows. But if it's a decent air outside, and– you could open the windows, that alone, is something that could significantly change how you're feeling.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100%. Yeah I– hundred percent agree. Uhm– anything else with the water component. Of course, we talked about all the different compounds in there, now the big things that I use, one of the good ones that I like is the Air Doctor, that's a good one. If you go to my site, I have the Air Doctor as well as the advance air setup those are both good units. If you go to justinhealth.com/shops and click on Justin Health approved products, I have some links to those, and again, Evan and I only gonna recommend products that we actually use. I think it's important that you actually use the product and you believed in it, I think it's great. Uhm– it's nice to have people that are guinea pigs that can kind of sign off on it as being a good product which is great, so if you wanna purchase that, you can do that, you can get more information there. Uhm– the other component is the Molekule, is a nice one. It's a little bit more expensive. So the other two, the Advanced Air and the Air Doctor, are about half the price, that's a good first step if you're tryin' to get your foot into the– into this area of cleaning out air quality and improving it. If you wanna go a little bit more whole hog then the Molekule's a– uh– a better option uh– on top of that, looks a little nicer as well. So those are my top three. Now there are some whole house systems but you gotta look at the fact that, you know, I like the fact that I can bring my unit with me if I were to travel, if you– if you're moving, those kind of things and maybe a little bit more difficult to– pull it out, install it so you have to look at you know, are you gonna be in a long term. And also it's nice to be able to bring it and put it right in your room and be able to have control over it.
Evan Brand: Yup, well said, and a– the whole house system is I mean, they do exist on the market but I do not
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yes.
Evan Brand: A blower, where it's connected to the blower? You have to–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yes.
Evan Brand: –that blower has to blow harder through all the multi-layers of the filter. So it makes that system work harder and make shorter the life of it. [crosstalk]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah and you also– yeah and you also have these vents and things. There's a lot of– there's a large distance between where the air is coming from and getting cleaned out, and then through all of the vents to where it gets to your room. It's just nice having it purified right at the spot where you're at, so it doesn't have to really travel more than a few feet to get to you.
Evan Brand: Right. Yeah, so, that's what I would do. And I have test– that's cool thing. I've tested Air Doctor and all the other systems to discuss with a portable monitor. The lower the number the better. The number coming out of the Air Doctor it's a zero. So, I know that it's legit, pure air coming out of it which is great. [crosstalk]. Yeah you gotta check it out man. It's uh– if you just type in IQ Air, and you type in– it's called Air Visual Pro, I'll put the link up in the Hang Out for you.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Oh great!
Evan Brand: I'll send it to you. I don't think the– the– the listeners will be able to see this link but I'll send it to you. But it's called Air Visual Pro, and– you know, I've got a practitioner account with them so you do get a slight discount as a practitioner. And uh– and that's what I have and it's just a little small thing, and it's like, you know, smaller than a computer but it runs on batteries and I just– I just– I'm ___ [24:15] with it man. I'll take it to the restaurant and say, “Hey what's the air quality in your…”, take to my friends' house and say, “Hey, what's the air quality in your house?”. It's just fun.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Oh, that's really cool! Oh wow. Amazing. I wonder what the– what 2008 Olympics, was it 2010 in China? What they had in Beijing?
Evan Brand: Oh gosh.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I heard the air quality was just absolutely terrible. I– I just see on the IQA website it has one looking at– at Beijing, versus the one looking at the office in the Beijing has the ratings that are to the roof meaning mo– more toxicity.
Evan Brand: Yeah the cool thing is there's an app with that uh– device as well so you can check your air quality and see how it compares to like other cities. It'll show you what's the tiniest air, what's the most toxic air, and– and people they can, if you want, you can have that thing hooked up to Wi-Fi which I didn't but, that way you can upload your data and people can see it around the map, “Hey, here's this guy in– wherever, and here's his air quality”. So it's pretty neat.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Love it. Anything else you want to address here so far Evan? What do you think? Anything missing?
Evan Brand: I– I think– I mean– we'll always do a part 2, part 3, you can never stop talking about toxins but I think we've covered a lot today. Clean up cosmetics, look at yourselves, look at your shampoo and conditioner, don't dye your hair– Now there is an organic hair dye but I don't know anything about it. I know it exists, so seek out like organic salons, don't get your nails done like, “that’s bad”, like maybe go to an organic salon. I measured a nail polish resin every single week in clients, the women who get their nails done every week on the GPL Tox, their certain chemical is off the chart. And it just– it causes headaches, nervous system issues, thyroid issues, so– I don't– I'm– I'm a guy so I don't get my nails done so maybe for women, they're like, “Oh my God, I have to have them done”. Maybe there's a better way to do it I just don't know of any.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Right.
Evan Brand: But– but look at it, get the GPL To–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Or it's this you know, do your best to find a higher quality organic salon that has some products that are gonna be less toxic. And, or– if you need to, just– take some extra antioxidants and or glutathione before you go or at least support those path while you still spread it out. A lot of those toxins are gonna be more water soluble, so it– it's not something that you're gonna like hold on too as much, so if you take good detoxification support you'll secrete it pretty fast. And you just try to find you know, I know like some of the salons my wife would go to there's like a small little upgrade where they can– choose an organic product that's less uh– toxic low. So that's a good option–
Evan Brand: Yes.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: –if you– have that.
Evan Brand: Yup, and a– I interviewed doctor Shaw, the guy who invented that toxic lab, if you wanna hear more about detox, just look at
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And also one of the things that shaw said from that interview if I remember correctly, you tell me if I'm wrong, he said something like one of the best things you can do to e– to enhance detoxification is
Evan Brand: Yeah, that's a– that's a– it was a number one thing. He personally did not use a sauna, all he did was he– likes to go for runs and ride his bike outside and sweat. And he keeps his chemical levels tested and they're always relatively low. He said, he did not see more of a benefit unless someone was too sick to exercise. To exercise and sweat, versus sauna and sweating. He said the whole near infrared, far infrared, the whole– debate about it all, he said sweating is the key, it didn't matter how you achieved it in his words.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: It's interesting too because remember, Shaw also– didn't really eat organic either.
Evan Brand: You know, that guy he– he taught at restaurants every single day.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, so there was a
Evan Brand: I agree.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: –I forget
Evan Brand: Tell me about it, that's a [crosstalk]–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: You know, here's the deal, like if I'm gonna cheat, right, I get it,
Evan Brand: [laughs]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So the fact that you're– you're doin' it openly in front of people means that you're probably doin' it a lot more frequently…
Evan Brand: Right. I know. Well doctor Shaw, I was blown away by that, I said, “So you eat out everyday?”, he said, “Yeah, I don't pack my lunch”. And I thought, “Man, so you're getting
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That you don't want to bless or something? [laughs] or–
Evan Brand: well, well, no, he used to say–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: He knows. He's not– he's not– he's not ignorant but I guess,
Evan Brand: We– well the saying, I was thinking of was something along the lines of like your hero, like a lot of times people have like a hero, or an idol like, “Oh I really look up to this person”, and then they figured out how they truly are, and they're not what they think they are. There was a movie about that, I don't
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yes.
Evan Brand: Did you see that movie?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I– I saw that movie, that's a good one and the I think– yeah, I won't give the spoiler but that was a good movie, yes.
Evan Brand: Yeah, so– so– yeah, so– maybe
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100%. Let me just add one la– last thing, so, the–
Evan Brand: Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: –the key things that we're lookin' at on the– on the water side, of course, are gonna be– fluoride, chlorine, uh– pharmaceutical drugs, whether it's birth control pills or statins or antidepressants, people flush things down and it's hard to get those filtered out.
Evan Brand: Yup.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Uh– we've mentioned the chloramines,
Evan Brand: Hard drugs–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And–
Evan Brand: There's hard drugs in there.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hard drugs, potentially heavy metals, mercury, lead, parasitic cyst and or infections debris, so those are gonna be the big things on the water side, and on the air side we have the asbestos, right? That's can create the– the Mesothelioma cancer, we have– various dust mites, uh– pollens, fungus, bacteria, viruses, we have the
Evan Brand: Poten– [crosstalk]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yup, we have the uh– the PBDE– the– what is it, the–
Evan Brand: It's a PDB–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Pyrrhotites.
Evan Brand: Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, PDBEs, yeah.
Evan Brand: So that could be– in your couch cushion, that could be in your the– your office chair, that could be in your children's pajamas unfortunately, which is ridiculous,
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah. They put a lot in the– the kids' mattresses, so we spend extra money to buy an organic wall mattress that didn't have the flame retardants…
Evan Brand: Yup.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And we also spend extra money to not get the flame retardants in– our babies'
Evan Brand: The car seat?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: A, the– the carrier– the carrier. So there was one brand I think it was
Evan Brand: Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Then we have the leads, especially if you have houses before 1978– 1978, lead could be used in that. We have various pesticides esp– especially spread out on the lawn, or if you live on the golf course there could be a potential pesticides going in that way. We use various
Evan Brand: Oh.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: –from the food packaging.
Evan Brand: Here's a– here's a PSA man, this is the biggest announcement ever, please, everywhere I go in society, I smell people's terrible laundry. You go in line in the grocery and you stand behind somebody in their flower-fragrance on their laundry. It didn't
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Dryer sheets man. People use, like a– we have the most hypoallergenic
Evan Brand: So that's what it is…
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: It's the dryer sheets.
Evan Brand: Oh my.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: It's totally disgusting, I mean, oh my gosh, it just gives me
Evan Brand: I get yeah– I get an immediate headache and part of me thinks well, does that mean I have a leaky brain, or does that mean that I'm just sensitive to it because it's a toxic chemical. I feel like everyone should get a headache from it because it's toxic.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well for me it just smells nasty. It's just so overpowering– it's so overpoweringly– str– overpoweringly strong. It's like people that need to– consume very high sugar foods. Like for me, my taste buds get overwhelmed, right?
Evan Brand: Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So it's kinda like that I mean, I think you just– you get a little bit
Evan Brand: So here's my– here's my–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Sure.
Evan Brand: –and then I know we gotta–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Sure.
Evan Brand: –we gotta wrap up. Switch over to free and clear, unscented laundry detergent, even whole food cells, their own brand of organic laundry detergent it's all plant-based and packed in so I they help the grease and all that crap. How do you close– Go fragrance-free, and then, do a fragrance-free or free and clear dryer sheet if you absolutely have to have it. We personally use the wall balls on our dryer, and that works as a replacement of dryer sheets and you never have to buy dryer sheets, the wall balls work perfectly. And then number 2 thing is– the perfume. So there's a chemically can test for called xylene, that's the parent chemical on the toxin report. So many people wear perfume, especially like I go to the park and you've got these women in their work out clothes, and they run past you, and then 2 seconds later comes the breeze with them of their perfume. It's like good Lord, let's go to nature, to just pollute it with– with pot– so many different potential toxins from the laundry, to the perfume. So please, please please, nobody wants to smell that crap, and you're making yourself toxic, I measure it everyday so from a clinician perspective, I've got proof– what these perfumes are doing to you and nobody else wants to smell that crap either.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, for me, the deodorant that I use actually has a really nice scent. Uhm– I use a brand called native COS– native COS and they have a coconut vanilla
Evan Brand: It's real though.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, it's real, so like for me, the deodorant that I use, I– I can smell it from the outside so it has the slight kind of
Evan Brand: Yeah, yeah. I'm not against scents completely. But if you have to smell, if you just wanna walk around smellin'–[crosstalk]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Wow, and you know, sometimes, less is more, right?
Evan Brand: Absolutely, so yeah, look at those natural ones, the native, I do have some of the native too. They sent me
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah I'm sensitive like I will react like my armpit will get super red, and their coconut is excellent. There's
Evan Brand: Good you said that cause my wife had the same thing happen with the
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yes.
Evan Brand: She can only do
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yup, unscented, try the coconut, vanilla too. That's worked great for me. And they have
Evan Brand: [laughs] Is that flavors? You could– you could it eat, you could–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Oh, you can– it– I mean, it's clean, you know. And again for me it's like, “You know, I'm– I'm busy, I'm working, I'm sweating– I
Evan Brand: The native– the native works man.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Very good, I mean, at the end of the day, I'm like, “Yeah that smells great!”.
Evan Brand: The listeners didn't hear that but he sniffed at himself. That one– that one in the Primal Pit Paste was the other one for me that worked pretty good but is a little harder to put on so the native is the best in terms of like, I'll rate that number 1 for now.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And like, the– the Primal Pit Paste is got a little bit more of a sticky coating to it, where like the native is like a very dry coating, so if you like, put your shirt on whatever, you don't feel like it's stuck up in your armpit there so that's kind of a nice thing about that.
Evan Brand: Yup, we went longer than we were supposed to but we just– we started thinking of all these other tangential toxins that people need to be aware of so I hope it's been helpful, uh– if you wanna reach out to Justin you can, his website is
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Absolutely. Let me just hit the last three things.
Evan Brand: Yup.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Right on to another big one which is a– you know, it's a– element in the soil and that can come up at– you know, for its– its– it's actually in the rock, you know, in the foundation of where your house would be deep underground. And when you're there it can come up to the house and that's linked with potential lung cancer at levels I think greater than 4 ppm as what the CDC wants to blow. Uhm– we tested our house at one point, it was 8, so we have uh– we got a right on kit in there to help filter that out. We haven't– down below .5 so
Evan Brand: Well said.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Of co– of course just like respiratory particles such as, you know, wood stew, fireplace, kerosene pipes, cigarettes, those kind of things, cigar smoke. And then we mentioned the volatile organic compounds. These are gonna come from paints, paint strippers, woods, aerosols, air fresheners, auto products, dry cleaning, clothing, household products, those are the big ones so. A good
Evan Brand: Yeah, you mentioned that a– the air freshener so I forgot about that. I'll tell you, uh– one little thing I do, this is a secret, I've never revealed this, but now the secret's' out of the bag. If I go to a place- a public place and there's a plug-in air freshener, I pull that thing out and throw it in the garbage before I leave. So if I go in the– if I go in the bathroom, and there's a plug-in or you walk in and then– [sneezes], and you get sprayed with fake chemicals as soon as you walk in to go pee, I just pull the thing out the wall and throw it in the garbage.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100%.
Evan Brand: That's my little public uh– that's my little public duty. I'm helping all of you guys have
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well you were doin' that
Evan Brand: Yeah, I got over 2000 signatures on it and there was someone else kind of uh– I don't know if it was food [crosstalk]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Awful.
Evan Brand: They have like– he had a headache, he was dizzy, and etc. after he got out of his uber so, this is a real problem and I hope one day that we can educate people and just do natural fragrance or no fragrance at all.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, uh– the good– the essential oil, there's gotta be some essential oil like, you know, the–
Evan Brand: The citrus one. They have a citrus– there's a citrus like odor-absorber that would work perfect to people can put under the car seat–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yes, yes.
Evan Brand: No one would know it's there and it would take care of all the toxic–
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: It would stop a lot of the odor. That's to– totally make sense Evan.
Evan Brand: Yup. But that's all I gotta say so check out the links and then you can check out justinhealth.com for consults or evanbrand.com. We love helping you guys. We really appreciate the good feedback, so feel free to write us a review on the podcast on iTunes because it does help us.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Great, and we'll put the links below on some of the products that we like and use personally so you guys know it's already betted. Give us a thumbs up, give us a share, give us a shout out, give us a comment down below; we appreciate you guys engaging; sharing is caring, thanks for everything. Evan, you have a phenomenal day, we'll talk soon.
Evan Brand: Take care man, bye.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Bye.
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