Dhru Purohit
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And then we go in without a mask, without anything else, without ventilation often inside the laundry room.
And you're just peeling all that stuff out and you're breathing in a ton of microplastics.
microplastic particles nanoplastics that are in the air that are all byproducts of these you know athleisure and other things that look there's a lot of really great things about them and they look cool and other things like that and there's a lot of great companies that are trying to do their best in the space but because they become so ubiquitous that's another form of exposure that we've gotten that's one of your categories do you want to talk about
And it can feel like a lot in the beginning when people are navigating, but really going back to our original theme that we started the podcast with is that it's actually making a list of things that you don't have to buy anymore.
Yeah.
Dryer sheets are a perfect example.
You don't need those softeners.
You don't need those things.
And when you start to use some of these cleaner brands, you realize that, hey, this is actually a great way to save money instead of stocking up on all this stuff that's making you and your family, you know, potentially more likely to experience disease.
Yes.
No.
You talked about glass.
We featured a study in our newsletter this week, and it was one of the first of its kind studies showing that people were put on a very specific protocol of a diet and reducing takeaway in plastic and methodically reducing the amount of plastic that was inside of their kitchen and that they measured their blood work before and after for all these PFAS chemicals, right?
And these plasticizers, they all have crazy names.
They're like so long.
but all these basically plastic toxins.
And what they showed is that even in seven days, we'll link to the study, we'll put it on YouTube and Spotify over here, people can see it on screen, in seven days was enough to make a meaningful difference by simply just cutting back food storage, not buying as many things that are stored in plastic.
If you buy things that are stored in plastic, especially liquids, immediately transferring them over to light glass when you can, because you can't have the perfect situation all the time.
Yes.
And then making sure you don't order takeaway that's, you know, brought to you in plastic and a few other things that were inside of there.