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A Guide to Healthier Living: Avoiding Toxic Household Products · Chatting with The Experts with Paula Okonneh

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  Well, hello.
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  Hello everyone, and welcome to yet another episode of Chatting with
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  the Experts with me, Paula Okonneh, the host, where I share with you the
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  expertise of women from Africa, from the Caribbean, and in the diaspora.
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  They share my mission, which is to educate, empower and
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  inspire women globally.
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  Today, the title of our show is, is Your Home a Healthy Home?
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  And my guest who will be joining me shortly says that
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  common household chemicals may gradually be making families sick.
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  Before she comes on, I'll tell you about her.
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  So I have the privilege to introduce to you a health and wellness educator with
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  over 40 years of experience empowering individuals to live healthier lives
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  through education and lifestyle awareness.
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  She has dedicated her post-retirement journey to helping people uncover
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  hidden toxins in their homes and workplaces, guiding them through
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  safer, more sustainable alternatives.
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  This because expertise lies in environmental health and wellness
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  education, where she equips others with knowledge and tools to make
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  informed choices that support personal wellbeing and also planetary health.
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  She's also the founder of Health Matters, a mission-driven initiative that
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  promotes wellness through education and access to healthier everyday products.
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  Her motto, Hope is also an acronym which stands for Help One Person Everyday, and
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  this speaks volumes about her commitment to make a difference in the world.
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  Please help me welcome to Chatting with the Experts, Pamela Kollman.
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  Hi.
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  Hi.
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  Hi Pamela.
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  I I love that name Pamela.
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  'cause it's my cousin's name.
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  Oh, great.
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  And you know what the name Pamela means?
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  All honey.
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  So I have to be sweet.
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  What do you think about that?
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  You are sweet.
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  Wow.
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  Wow, wow.
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  It's something that you said, you know, you said common household
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  chemicals are making families sick.
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  Yes.
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  And that they are hidden toxins in our homes.
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  Oh my gosh, that's scary.
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  Yes, it really is , Paula, you know, most people really want to
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  live healthier lives, you know, but they're overwhelmed by the choices.
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  And they're misled by labels and things they, you don't know.
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  You know, I always say, you, you do better when you know better.
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  That's true in my life.
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  So I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to share with others.
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  There are hidden toxins in our home and what if we're not aware of
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  them, you know, then, then we just keep on doing the things that are
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  harming ourselves without even having any unwittingly doing those things.
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  So I'm happy to be here to share a few slides that of education that I've
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  learned in my research and happy to help.
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  So, you know, so what I'm hearing from you is that there are alternative solutions?
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  Yes, yes, there certainly is and there has been for quite some time.
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  I just wasn't aware of it.
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  So, I'm grateful to be able to share that as well.
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  What can we do that is more effective and cost less so I would actually
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  pay more just to have healthier things, but you don't have to.
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  You don't have to.
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  So, all right.
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  So you, we are gonna jump into the slides in a few minutes as you tell us more about
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  ways to avoid long term health hazards.
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  Yes.
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  Also, how we should be a lot more aware of labeling and labeling regulations.
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  Yes.
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  Wow.
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  Wow.
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  So let's jump into it.
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  Oh, okay.
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  I'll be happy to go right into there right now and share my screen with you.
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  And
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  get right into, , play from current slide.
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  There it is.
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  There's a question.
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  Is your home a healthy home?
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  You know, scientists and doctors are discovering that, , there certainly are
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  more chemicals that cause actually asthma, ADD, nervous disorders and so forth.
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  I'll show you, some of the items that we're also aware of.
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  Are any of these in your home right now?
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  That's a question, and I tell you, some of these have been in my home, but now I
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  know better, and so I used to think that these were safe because it's in the store.
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  It should be okay, you know, but actually the safety of the things are
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  passed by a law over 50 years ago, the 1966, Packaging Labeling Act.
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  And they actually have no requirements for products to be safe.
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  They don't have to list every ingredient.
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  It only limits their liability to have that labeling on there.
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  And so these warning labels are really.
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  They're a very tiny print, by the way.
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  And so you almost feel when you read the label, you have to have a hazmat
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  suit on, when you read what's in there and you find out how bad it is.
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  The harsh truth is that the American Cancer Society has shown that in the 1910s
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  , 1 in 8,000 people got cancer.
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  But let's stop right there.
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  You said one in 8,000 people.
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  Yeah.
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  Got cancer back in the 19, early 19 hundreds.
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  Yes.
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  That's what the Cancer Society has brought out.
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  But this shocking part is nowadays it's one and two and there's a reason for that.
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  There's a reason for that.
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  Back in the day, back in the wartime, they had all this chlorine that they
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  were using for gassing poisonous gas.
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  And they actually put it into, had to get rid of it.
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  So they put it into household cleaners.
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  So that's why this era was known as the chemical age and everything is right
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  there in our, a lot of it is right in our homes, and it causes all these problems.
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  ADD, ADHD, allergies.
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  Wait, wait.
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  Just pause that for a second.
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  Okay.
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  Oh, you are telling me that because they had excess chlorine from World War II,
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  they now had to do something with it.
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  Yeah.
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  World War I. Yeah.
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  World War I.
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  Yeah.
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  And they just had to get rid of all that, the poisonous gas in the war.
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  And that was part of the problem.
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  And then of course, they've had added more chemicals than that since then.
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  And these problems are.
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  Causing or dangers for our children too, you know?
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  Okay.
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  So I'm looking at this.
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  So now, okay, when we, most times we keep our, cleaning stuff underneath the sink.
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  Yeah.
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  You're showing that in this slide.
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  And so like this one here, a child sees, all right.
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  What we would see a, you know, just a regular bottle.
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  They're seeing like an elephant and a duck.
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  Is that a duck?
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  Yeah, it looks like it to them.
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  You know, they, they see things differently and they think,
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  oh, I'm gonna play with this.
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  Even though they have so-called childproof safety caps, they, obviously,
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  some things are gonna get, I'm gonna reveal in a minute what really.
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  So one of the problems is not just ingesting, but actually, , inhaling the
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  fumes and from the cleaning products.
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  And we don't think about that.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  So these are the routes of exposure, inhalation, skin absorption, ingestion.
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  We tend to think more ingestion
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  Yeah, that's what you think, you know, but that's third on the list.
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  It is the chemicals that are in the air.
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  That.
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  And there's a study coming up that shows that even the wipes that we use, the
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  chemicals are there, we're inhaling them.
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  And you know, of course skin absorption is important, but we always think of,
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  oh, the child ate, drank it or ate it.
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  No, it, they're inhaling it.
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  And, this is dangerous.
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  In fact, the American Association of Poison Control brings out
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  that every 30 seconds a child is poisoned in the United States.
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  So one of the worst things is bleach.
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  And that's the biggest one.
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  It's one of the number one cause of accidental poisonings.
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  So wait, I'm gonna make you stop again.
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  'cause I wanna read this.
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  Bleach is a poison because just today I was looking at something that I
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  had and I was like, you know what?
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  I'm gonna just soak this in bleach.
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  Oh, so you were saying that it's a, well, I know it's a chemical.
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  Yes, but it's, you know what?
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  One thing you didn't, I could tell you, Paula, it says registered pesticide.
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  It literally is a registered pesticide.
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  It actually causes severe eye injuries.
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  It burns your skin, your mouth, your throats, it's a neurotoxin.
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  It's bad for the liver.
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  And that there's no way to detoxify, bleach, you know, some things you, you
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  think that you can just, you know, . Put enough water with it, it'll be okay.
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  No, and it's fatal if swallowed usually.
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  So that's on the bottle, but nobody reads the label hardly remembers that
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  because you think you have to have bleach in for things to be clean.
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  That's what I thought.
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  But no, you don't.
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  There's actually an alternative to bleach.
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  I will show you soon.
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  Here's another thing you might wanna notice in household chemicals are, they
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  call it, remember in the beginning you mentioned that gradually making you sick.
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  It's a loaded gun because people who are living in their households, working
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  at home notice have a 54% higher death rate from cancer because they're in
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  the home with off gas and chemicals that they don't even realize that
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  their daily exposure is worse than if they were working outside their home.
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  So, okay.
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  So this now just says, mainly women, I guess when the studies are done,
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  we didn't have, you know, as many, well, it's changed recently though,
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  because after COVID, a lot more men and women were working at home.
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  Yes, yes.
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  So I guess the more recent studies will show that it's affected.
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  Both men and women.
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  Absolutely.
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  And children of course.
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  And the CDC, which is obviously the Center for Disease Control, discovered that
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  Monsanto was actually hiding the fact that they had Dioxin in Lysol for 30 years.
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  And that was an Agent Orange, by the way.
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  So, okay, let's pause it again there so that we can read this.
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  So the slide you just shown, Monsanto.
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  Monsanto?
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  Is that, is that how it's pronounced?
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  They are the manufacturers of Lysol.
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  Yeah.
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  Go back.
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  They were hiding this fact about Lysol, I don't know if they manufacture it now.
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  Okay, lemme go back that, that's a very famous place that is manufactured.
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  And they knew about it, about this, and that's what this is about here, that
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  the Environmental Health Newsletter brought out that Lysol was more
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  dangerous than they ever realized.
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  And now, they're discovering it even through, in other universities, like the
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  University of Bergen in Norway, they, they put out a study about the lungs.
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  I want you to go back, if you don't mind.
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  Oh, I don't mind at all.
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  Okay.
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  Go back again to the thing.
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  The one with Lysol.
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  Okay.
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  I'll go back.
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  No worries.
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  I can go back right here.
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  See that one please?
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  Yes.
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  Coming right up.
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  I was just anxious to show you there.
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  Right.
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  Okay.
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  Can you pause it there?
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  Yeah, it's passed.
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  I wanna read that we've known for a long time that Lysol contains a
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  substance called phenol, the ingestion of which even in small amounts can
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  cause nausea, vomiting, circulatory collapse, paralysis, convulsions, coma,
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  respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest.
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  Why would anyone with children keep such a product in their home?
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  Wow.
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  Okay.
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  And then in the box it said, we have learned recently that Lysol, which
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  we used a lot during, COVID, COVID and yeah, also contains dioxin.
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  That's the deadly agent used in Agent Orange.
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  That can cause genetic mutation, birth defects, and cancer.
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  So we are feeding, well, not feeding, but we are putting these things in
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  our homes without actually doing any research to make sure that
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  it's safe.
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  Yes.
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  In fact, to answer that question, you mentioned earlier , right below there,
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  it brings out that, in that Monsanto, which is Lysol's parent corporation,
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  admitted to a 30 year cover-up lying about the presence of dioxin in the...
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  chlorophyll.
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  Yeah.
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  And so that's the problem.
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  You know, there's just cover-up, you know, there's other cover-ups.
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  There's so many, I didn't even really get to bring and put 'em all in here.
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  One even with baby powder and stuff like that, but it's just the idea
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  of... here, it brings out in Greenpeace magazine they discussed that in length.
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  So, I'm going to have a slide that we can get a screenshot and
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  find this information out as well.
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  If somebody wants to research it too.
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  Well, you can notice I'm speechless.
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  You're talking, but I'm keeping quiet.
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  'cause I'm like, wow, these are
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  really, yeah, yeah.
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  'cause right, because during COVID that's everybody's like, where I even
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  saw it in my... where can we find Lysol?
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  They ran out at the store and I was so grateful to know and try to tell folks
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  that there's an alternative to Lysol, which I'll show here in the slides.
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  That is EPA registered and kills COVID and everything else that Lysol
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  kills, but doesn't kill you too.
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  So, okay.
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  Would you like me to move along?
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  Yeah.
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  And let's keep going, please.
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  Okay.
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  Sure thing.
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  I mentioned this Norway study, which is really remarkable because his
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  independent study that the doctors came up with, and it was actually written
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  up in the respiratory health survey.
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  It's over 6,000 women and men were involved in it and oh, and 22
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  health centers around the world.
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  So this is not a small study.
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  It's over 20 years of time.
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  It's written up in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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  So it's easy to come up with and take a look at on your own, but it's
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  just amazing what the findings are.
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  it was all over the news.
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  And, I actually have a copy of the study right here and I can actually PDF it
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  to anybody who would like to see it.
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  Okay.
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  It's just a two pages long.
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  I'll read one part of it here in a second, but, well, it's right here
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  in the slide 20 year study, 6,000 subjects plus and use of spray and
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  liquid cleanings was what was monitored and the lung capacity was monitored.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So here's some of the studies that was brought out.
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  Finding number one, using national brand cleaners as little as once per week is
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  damaging to the lungs as smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for 20 years.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Let that sit for a minute.
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  Yeah.
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  Let that sit for a moment.
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  I mean, that's just like, I, I had to read that several times once a week.
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  So if you're cleaning your home once a week, it's as if you just smoked, you
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  know, a pack of cigarettes every day.
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  That that's what's brought out in the lungs.
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  The same thing brought out in the lung study here.
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  This is the study here, and it's just incredible to me.
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  We know how to figure, what
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  I'm thinking is that if you clean your house more than once a week.
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  There you go.
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  Let's say you do it twice, then you're doubling your exposure.
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  Yes.
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  Significant lung damage.
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  And here's the thing, some people, this is their occupation.
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  They go and clean, you know, I mean, clean several houses.
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  That was what I did back in the day.
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  And my dear friend lost a lung not knowing.
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  Because she used bleach every day.
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  It wasn't just once a day.
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  And there's some people that like to clean every single day.
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  So, and what was one of the studies findings?
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  Women were more affected than men, even though, it had to do with our makeup.
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  But, in the study, it brings that out.
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  There's more on that if you want the study itself, but cleaning it at home like
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  right out was just like an occupational cleaner, if not more, because you're
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  here in a more closed environment than out in a bigger space cleaning.
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  So, the other thought, which I thought was really finding number four, is
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  that national brand cleaners are just as dangerous as spray cleaners.
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  So whether you use spray or liquid or wipes, it's gonna be the same
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  'cause you're breathing it in.
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  It's coming in.
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  The slides are going very fast.
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  Let's go back and sit on number four, if you don't mind.
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  Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Yeah.
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  I have a tendency to move right along.
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  I have that tendency in talking too fast.
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  That's fine.
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  That's fine.
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  If I can get myself back one more slide.
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  There we go.
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  There we go.
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  National brand liquid cleaners are just as dangerous for you as spray cleaners.
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  So, because you tend to think when you spray, you know, the
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  molecules are all in the air.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  You know, I think that's what I learned...
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  You'd think so.
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  And they are, but because the evaporation and you're using a liquid cleaner, you're
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  just pouring it on something or a wipe, it's going to still get in your lungs.
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  It's as bad as the sprays because it's coming up in the air.
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  Wow.
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  I was just looking at the study here.
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  If there's anything more on that, 'cause they have like a paragraph,
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  this is just a sentence, but in the actual study, there's a paragraph for
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  each thing, so I didn't wanna talk too long, but there's a lot of information.
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  Lemme pin you so we can see that a bit more second.
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  Sure.
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  Whoa.
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  All right.
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  Oops.
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  I hope I'm pinning you properly.
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  Hold on.
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  Let me see.
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  Pin.
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  Oops, I got that wrong.
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  Maybe watch it the slides there.
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  Okay.
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  Um hmm.
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  I can hold it up at the end after the slides maybe.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  All right, let's keep going.
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  Okay, sweetie.
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  And know this is really mind boggling.
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  I did not go over this quickly when I first saw this.
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  it's hard.
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  It's like, oh my gosh.
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  You can't believe it.
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  You know?
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  All these toxic chemicals and ammonia, they're just so terrible for all of us.
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  Then the mentioned that women who usually use national brand cleaning
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  products have increased rates of asthma.
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  That was finding number six.
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  And so then the seventh finding is that the damage to the lungs
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  would get worse over time.
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  And there's another paragraph here about that.
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  So, it's just disturbing.
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  You know, isn't it just disturbing?
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  It is.
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  Because, you know, people don't realize what's happening and when
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  they're checking their lungs.
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  And, I, for one, had asthma in the past.
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  I don't have it any.
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  Let's slow down here again.
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  So I wanna look at all these, what you have here.
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  You know, these are things that we're we all, we see
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  mm-hmm.
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  All the time in every room of our house practically, there's
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  going to be something that is
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  Windows.
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  I'm jumping to the Yeah.
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  Windows and glass cleaners.
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  All purpose cleaners.
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  Yeah.
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  We have all of that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And so did I. But we can still have those things, but in a safe way.
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  So I like just crumple that up and throw it away and say, no to
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  these products, but what do we do?
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  You know, there's something else and which I'll bring out and just shortly,
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  but I wanted to just show you the wipes.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  And let's pause here too.
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  Yeah.
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  We can take a good look.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Wipes.
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  Okay.
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  And notice it says on the label, hazardous to humans and domestic animals.
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  So, later in September I'm gonna be doing a zoom presentation called Paws Off the
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  Poison because a lot of folks have fur babies that they're really love, they're
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  part of the family and they're running around after they've done a swifter full
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  of chemicals, it is gonna be you know, entering their bloodstream as well.
• 20:10
  And we want our pets to live longer.
• 20:11
  Our children and our pets.
• 20:13
  Yep.
• 20:13
  Our children and our pets and ourselves.
• 20:15
  And ourselves.
• 20:16
  Then there's that now about us.
• 20:19
  Wow.
• 20:19
  So the Clorox and Lysol are again registered pesticides.
• 20:23
  Okay.
• 20:25
  Oh, moving on.
• 20:26
  Here we go.
• 20:27
  I finally can show you what's good, something good.
• 20:31
  The first EPA registered plant disinfectant.
• 20:33
  It kills 99.9% of all disease causing bacteria just like Lysol.
• 20:40
  But it's safe to even use on food surfaces.
• 20:42
  You can spray this on your child's highchair instead of a
• 20:46
  Clorox wipe like I used to do.
• 20:48
  And there's no warnings.
• 20:49
  The only No's on the label is there are no anything bad in it.
• 20:55
  And so it's wonderful to know that there is such a product available
• 20:59
  and people were clamoring for it, being able to get this from the
• 21:03
  Wellness Company, 40 years strong.
• 21:06
  It's a manufacturer in a store and this has thyme oil.
• 21:10
  And it actually kills all the germs that we need to kill.
• 21:14
  And it's concentrated.
• 21:15
  So two bottles you can get out of one bottle.
• 21:18
  Hmm.
• 21:19
  But the ads are saying start your day, your next meal
• 21:22
  with Clorox bleach, you know?
• 21:25
  It's just simply and it even has a nerve to say the simple
• 21:29
  solution for a healthy home
• 21:31
  We wanna keep our houses clean, our homes, our workspace, our living spaces,
• 21:36
  clean and safe for our loved ones.
• 21:39
  Yeah, I told you just this morning, I was thinking about, you know, I need to wipe,
• 21:44
  get some bleach and just wipe down...
• 21:46
  no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 21:48
  And it's such false advertising.
• 21:50
  It is terrible.
• 21:51
  It says that, and then on the back it says dangerous, you know, but they
• 21:55
  have to have it on there for liability reasons, but it's not prominent.
• 21:59
  This is what they should present instead.
• 22:00
  And people think, oh, I have to have bleach to clean off the,
• 22:03
  the chicken, you know, whatever.
• 22:05
  But Sol-U-Guard will do the trick.
• 22:08
  Wow.
• 22:08
  So moving on, there it is again.
• 22:10
  I just, we already talked quite a bit about it, but there it is again, the big
• 22:14
  fatality and that everybody feels they used to feel they had to have in the home.
• 22:19
  And there's the label on the back that I almost wanted to show that
• 22:22
  because it really brings out it's way down here in the tiny, but there
• 22:26
  it is, physical chemical hazards.
• 22:29
  So it's not only bad for our ourselves, but bad for the planet as well.
• 22:34
  So here's another aha moment for me.
• 22:38
  I used to use Cascade.
• 22:40
  I mean, it cleans well, it cleans everything.
• 22:43
  However, did I know it was a neurotoxin?
• 22:46
  No, I did not.
• 22:47
  It literally acts on the nervous system and of course.
• 22:51
  When we do our dishwasher, it vents to the inside.
• 22:55
  Our dryers vent outside, but our dishwasher vents inside.
• 22:58
  Inside the home.
• 22:59
  Yes.
• 22:59
  So we're in the kitchen breathing in hot chemicals that are, and
• 23:04
  then we have to go over and cough and don't even know what's wrong?
• 23:07
  I don't have a cold.
• 23:07
  Why do I have a headache?
• 23:08
  Oh, my nervous system is being affected by this.
• 23:11
  Mm-hmm.
• 23:12
  It's just terrible to know this is out there.
• 23:14
  The good news is there's Diamond Brite, which cleans just as good as Cascade.
• 23:19
  It actually cleans a little better 'cause it actually washes the dishwasher too.
• 23:23
  And it's half the cost.
• 23:25
  They have the liquid, they have the pods, and then all the other products there.
• 23:28
  You see Sol-U-Guard is that botanical disinfectant, that it's a wipe and
• 23:32
  you can just wipe down everything and not even worry about all the
• 23:37
  different chemicals that, that are in the products in the store.
• 23:41
  And it costs less because there's no retail space.
• 23:43
  It's actually delivered right to your door.
• 23:45
  Here's one of my biggest concerns is Dawn, because I...
• 23:48
  shocking.
• 23:49
  This one is shocking to me.
• 23:51
  It's everywhere because of the wonderful help it did in the...
• 23:55
  the oil spill.
• 23:56
  Oil spill and they show the ducks and, which is great, they saved the ducks,
• 24:00
  but you know, it's 'cause it cuts grease.
• 24:03
  it cuts grease.
• 24:04
  Why?
• 24:05
  Because of the chemicals in it.
• 24:07
  And it literally is in a modern day embalming fluid.
• 24:10
  It has formaldehyde in it as a lot of products do.
• 24:13
  Nobody would ever know, it doesn't say the word formaldehyde.
• 24:16
  It has other chemical names for it.
• 24:18
  So nobody would see the word formaldehyde necessarily in the back of something.
• 24:22
  But they're gonna see all these other names for it, and it's blue
• 24:27
  only because of the chemicals.
• 24:29
  Same thing for the shocking news that this Dawn is actually listed right there,
• 24:34
  as you can see in the middle there.
• 24:36
  But yes, Dawn Detergent.
• 24:37
  Detergent, right?
• 24:38
  In, in the Mayo Clinic's list of of household carcinogens.
• 24:43
  So it's no secret.
• 24:45
  It's just unknown.
• 24:46
  How's that work?
• 24:48
  I don't know.
• 24:48
  Yeah, so I mean, it's out there if you look for it.
• 24:52
  In other words, you can find out more if you search for it.
• 24:55
  Yes.
• 24:55
  And that's exactly the thing.
• 24:57
  I'm so grateful that I finally got introduced to this amazing
• 25:02
  information so that I could make a difference for my family and
• 25:06
  for, you know, my grandchildren.
• 25:08
  They all know about this, believe me.
• 25:12
  Hmm.
• 25:14
  Okay.
• 25:15
  All right.
• 25:15
  Another thing on the list that I don't know if you noticed,
• 25:18
  that was Pledge that was on.
• 25:19
  Yeah.
• 25:20
  Pledge.
• 25:20
  Yeah.
• 25:21
  And again, it's another one of those, this wellness company has something
• 25:24
  called Rustic Touch, which you can use and clean is as well, costs less.
• 25:29
  Again, no formaldehyde, not on any danger list out there.
• 25:33
  And then here's Windex.
• 25:34
  Did you think of cleaning your windows and having.
• 25:38
  You know, um, issues like maybe tumors, kidney issues?
• 25:44
  No.
• 25:44
  Attacks central nervous system.
• 25:46
  I've jumped to the middle liver and kidneys and linked
• 25:50
  to reproductive disorders.
• 25:53
  And we have a blue liquid cleaning a clear surface.
• 25:56
  The cleaner that I use, I love, it's Clear Power, cleans like Windex, but it's clear.
• 26:02
  It's clear and it cleans.
• 26:04
  So, are you saying that the blue color is formaldehyde or?
• 26:08
  It's a chemical that makes...
• 26:10
  the chemical to make it blue.
• 26:11
  Yeah.
• 26:12
  That makes, and it's more attractive, you know, to buy.
• 26:14
  And that's a color that's cool.
• 26:16
  And it makes people wanna, you know, be drawn toward it.
• 26:19
  And it's like the sky, blue sky.
• 26:21
  Yeah.
• 26:21
  And it's just like, oh, I think I wanna clean my windows and see the blue sky.
• 26:24
  And here you are not realizing that you're hurting yourself.
• 26:28
  And it's same thing with 409.
• 26:30
  This is something that, you know, we'd go around and clean like all the fingerprints
• 26:34
  and everything in the spring or whatever.
• 26:36
  Just all purpose, clean everything, but it causes depression,
• 26:41
  nausea, vomiting, headaches.
• 26:44
  I wouldn't, you know, you do spring cleaning, you're supposed to be happy.
• 26:47
  What's happening here?
• 26:48
  But 409 has all those problems, but on the back again, it has all the warnings.
• 26:53
  Wow.
• 26:55
  So phenols...
• 26:56
  This is an eyeopener.
• 26:58
  It is very dangerous.
• 26:59
  Phenol is very, most people would know that, but nobody would know
• 27:02
  what's in what they're using.
• 27:04
  And same thing for Tide.
• 27:05
  This is the most common brand.
• 27:07
  And that's why I put it up here because everybody, and I've heard a
• 27:11
  lady say, well, my grandma used Tide.
• 27:13
  I'm gonna use Tide.
• 27:14
  I'm always, you know, okay, that's fine.
• 27:16
  This is a personal choice.
• 27:17
  There's no pressure here for anybody to switch stores.
• 27:21
  It's just recommended because of the dangers.
• 27:24
  Actually Tide is one of the worst because it takes 52 years for it
• 27:28
  to be safe in the environment.
• 27:30
  So if you take a little time...
• 27:32
  Wait, wait, wait.
• 27:32
  Say that again please.
• 27:33
  It takes 52 years.
• 27:35
  So it lingers in the environment for 52 years?
• 27:38
  Yeah.
• 27:38
  For it to be safe with the environment, for it to become inert.
• 27:42
  It takes that long because it's so full of phosphates.
• 27:45
  It's the most heaviest laid in phosphate, you know, but , it cleans your clothes
• 27:49
  really well, but actually attacks the stain from the top, which is why
• 27:54
  you have so much lint in your dryer.
• 27:56
  The alternative, which is Mela Power.
• 27:58
  It goes under inside the clothes and brings out the
• 28:01
  stain and super concentrated.
• 28:03
  And that's 75% water, by the way, the shipping water and terrible phosphates.
• 28:09
  If you put it in your hand, which I don't recommend, because what you put
• 28:12
  on your skin gets in your bloodstream.
• 28:14
  But if you did, it would burn your hand because that's how powerful it is.
• 28:19
  Wow.
• 28:19
  In fact, commercials they show how keep laundry packs away from children.
• 28:25
  Well, you think?
• 28:26
  You know how about don't use them at all.
• 28:29
  It's actually banned in Europe.
• 28:31
  But not in the US.
• 28:32
  Yeah, I'm seeing it feminizes male fish.
• 28:36
  Yeah.
• 28:36
  Wow.
• 28:37
  And some of the leading detergents actually contain fiberglass.
• 28:41
  Fiberglass.
• 28:43
  My goodness.
• 28:44
  So how about something else Instead, the question is, why
• 28:48
  do we have this in our home?
• 28:49
  You know what?
• 28:50
  That's what I wanna know.
• 28:51
  Why do we want, do we have anything in our home that has
• 28:54
  these statements on the back?
• 28:56
  So take a look around and see, you know, is does it say danger may be fatal?
• 29:01
  Then does it really belong in our home at all?
• 29:03
  So that's why my topic is your home a healthy home.
• 29:06
  Just take time to go around, do the toxic roundup and see what's
• 29:09
  in there that's bad for you.
• 29:11
  And you could kind of tell by just walking down the, what I call
• 29:15
  the chemical aisle of the store.
• 29:18
  Is that you in your background?
• 29:19
  That have you walked down the aisle before and not been able to breathe?
• 29:24
  Wow.
• 29:26
  Pamela, I was asking, is that you in the background?
• 29:28
  Are you the one shopping there?
• 29:29
  No.
• 29:29
  No, not me.
• 29:31
  Stock bottle.
• 29:32
  Okay.
• 29:32
  Stop.
• 29:32
  But that could be me because I've done it before.
• 29:35
  I walked down this aisle and now I avoid it like the plague.
• 29:38
  I make a wide circle around this aisle because it's off gassing.
• 29:42
  These are closed bottles and boxes.
• 29:45
  So they are off gas chemicals.
• 29:47
  You can barely get through the aisle with your eyes watering.
• 29:49
  And that's the reason it's the chemical aisle.
• 29:51
  And even if you try to find something that's better for you, different brands
• 29:55
  that are out there, they don't work as well as the products I'm talking about.
• 29:59
  And they cost more because they're on a retail space and they have commercials
• 30:03
  and this ecosystem friendly line.
• 30:05
  There's a complete laundry system.
• 30:07
  There's Dish Care, all purpose cleaner, and there is the, I
• 30:11
  should give a drum roll right here.
• 30:14
  There's the bleach replacement.
• 30:16
  It's called MelaBrite.
• 30:18
  Okay.
• 30:18
  It whitens just like bleach without killing you.
• 30:21
  At the same time, there's no chemicals.
• 30:23
  And, the Sol-U-Guard is the one that replaces the Lysol.
• 30:27
  There's cascade replacement, there's the dawn replacement.
• 30:30
  There's all the different things that people use, that there is something
• 30:33
  for every single purpose in the home.
• 30:36
  And you don't have to worry, and it literally costs less and
• 30:38
  it's delivered to your door.
• 30:40
  Hmm.
• 30:40
  So I'm really proud to present the wellness company
• 30:44
  and their wonderful products.
• 30:45
  In fact, USA Today just announced in May that Melaleuca won the award
• 30:52
  out of thousands of retails stores as one of America's favorite stores
• 30:57
  and most trusted brands, and they didn't even ask for that accolade.
• 31:02
  They have tons of awards, melaleucaawards.com.
• 31:06
  But this award just happened and to be a trusted brand is really important.
• 31:11
  'cause as we can see, it's hard to be trustworthy when people are hiding things.
• 31:16
  But there, and that's why the rise of people at work are just,
• 31:20
  they probably sprayed that desk with Pledge, you know, poor guy.
• 31:25
  You know what I mean?
• 31:25
  It's just terrible.
• 31:26
  And this is all completely avoidable.
• 31:28
  All we have to do, as you said, our own research.
• 31:31
  Our own research.
• 31:32
  Do it.
• 31:33
  Check it out.
• 31:33
  Look at your stuff.
• 31:34
  And my goal is to put you on a path or anybody on a path
• 31:38
  to better health and wellness.
• 31:40
  Know what's in your home.
• 31:41
  Find out... we have the ability to do that.
• 31:44
  Know what's in there and here's the screenshot, what I was talking about.
• 31:47
  You can, if anybody wants to take it, because this is where
• 31:51
  the information I I gave you.
• 31:54
  That, I did that research from
• 31:57
  . Hmm.
• 31:58
  Traditional household products.
• 32:00
  You leave it, leave it up for a second.
• 32:01
  So anyone wants to take a screenshot can though you did say
• 32:05
  you have, some documents, some PDFs that you can share as well.
• 32:08
  Absolutely.
• 32:09
  Absolutely.
• 32:10
  Very, very happy to, very happy to share that.
• 32:12
  So, yeah, so the, the, the thing is, you know, we really.
• 32:17
  We all, especially after COVID, really do care about our health
• 32:21
  and we care about the environment.
• 32:23
  And, Melaleuca has been green since 1985.
• 32:25
  I mean, they, they were green from the beginning.
• 32:28
  They've always had green, healthy products for the planet, and that's so important
• 32:32
  because it's our home as well, our planet.
• 32:34
  Our home as well.
• 32:35
  Their home as well.
• 32:36
  And, and from my wellness journey.
• 32:39
  You know, I was doing workouts as a fitness professional, but workouts and
• 32:43
  wellness, it goes far beyond workouts.
• 32:45
  It's your environment.
• 32:46
  It's what you ingest, it's what you put on your skin.
• 32:50
  And that's why I'm so passionate about it.
• 32:52
  Mm.
• 32:52
  Would you like me to move ahead?
• 32:54
  Yes, please.
• 32:55
  Okay.
• 32:56
  So is this day one?
• 32:59
  Or is it one day?
• 33:00
  One day or day one.
• 33:01
  I like this.
• 33:02
  Up to, yeah.
• 33:02
  It's up to us, you know, to make a decision on and investigate.
• 33:06
  Am I still gonna keep buying the things that I've just learned
• 33:09
  or am I gonna switch stores?
• 33:11
  And of course, I can help anybody learn about how to switch stores, but it is
• 33:15
  really not, it's not spending anymore.
• 33:17
  It's just spending it better.
• 33:18
  Spending better.
• 33:20
  Mm-hmm.
• 33:20
  Safer, healthier products for your home.
• 33:22
  Wow.
• 33:23
  Just spending smarter.
• 33:25
  Spending smarter.
• 33:26
  Yeah, spending smarter.
• 33:28
  So, no more poison for the kids.
• 33:33
  They have never had any child, a safety proof cap on or any warning label.
• 33:40
  The only thing they have on there is what you don't get bleach.
• 33:45
  Don't get parabens.
• 33:47
  Yeah.
• 33:49
  Excuse me.
• 33:49
  Yeah, they, they don't have any of those.
• 33:51
  That's what you don't get.
• 33:52
  And what I love about what I do is, is also what I don't do.
• 33:55
  I don't sell these products.
• 33:57
  I just use them and I introduce people to them and I'm happy to do so.
• 34:02
  Very happy about it and happy for families that can not have to worry
• 34:06
  about what's under the sink or is has a childproof safety cap or just honor
• 34:09
  yourself by embracing your ability to take charge and take action.
• 34:13
  I love that quote by Sherre DeMao.
• 34:15
  She's got a lot of beautiful quotes and also the fact that to
• 34:20
  look ahead, you know, to, well, what am I gonna do hence forth?
• 34:24
  We're trying to have, you know, have longevity and that's what
• 34:28
  this is about for ourselves and our children and our planet.
• 34:31
  And I got the privilege of meeting Jim Rohn back in the day when, and
• 34:35
  he said, take care of your body.
• 34:37
  It's the only place you have to live.
• 34:38
  And
• 34:39
  I love that.
• 34:39
  Isn't that true?
• 34:41
  And I think, you know, that is so true.
• 34:42
  And, and take care of our planet, that's our home as well.
• 34:44
  Yes.
• 34:45
  This is the aisles of the store.
• 34:46
  Like I said, I can go through each aisle of the store with
• 34:49
  anybody, just a 10 minute overview.
• 34:51
  I can just send it to them.
• 34:52
  They can watch a little video and learn about it.
• 34:54
  The even half, never, ever brand, the only brand, like never, ever.
• 34:59
  What does that mean?
• 35:01
  Never any hormones.
• 35:02
  Never an antibiotics as even something says grass fed.
• 35:05
  They usually have hormones in there.
• 35:07
  So, that is literally the only brand out there that the calves are raised by their
• 35:13
  own mothers, their open spaces, and when they walk from the field to the harvesting
• 35:19
  plant, they call it state of the art.
• 35:22
  They just walk right over there.
• 35:23
  They don't, they have to get in a truck and be all scared and nervous.
• 35:26
  Just walk right in there.
• 35:28
  So there's, so it makes a difference in the meat.
• 35:31
  And so, exclusive stress, it's amazing the kind of people are
• 35:35
  just raving about this meat.
• 35:38
  Oh, wow.
• 35:39
  So that's it, Paula.
• 35:40
  Let's have a clean home.
• 35:41
  Let's have clean streams, have a clean conscience and, have,
• 35:45
  you know, safer, more effective, affordable products that you love.
• 35:50
  That's what they have and that's my desire, you know, to just feel
• 35:54
  good about what we're doing here.
• 35:56
  You know, every, on a daily basis, how we can make things safer
• 36:00
  for ourselves and our planet.
• 36:01
  And as you mentioned, my little motto has been hope.
• 36:05
  And you know, even though other people also is within that acronym I go by one
• 36:13
  person because I wanna think, you know, think about that one person, you know.
• 36:17
  And, so you're helping one person
• 36:19
  Every day.
• 36:20
  One person every day.
• 36:20
  I wake up thinking that, I hope this was helpful to more than once.
• 36:25
  Yes.
• 36:25
  Yes, yes.
• 36:26
  'cause I was gonna ask you how can people find you?
• 36:29
  But, I think I'll drop that in the chat for them.
• 36:33
  Because we can find you, we drop it in the chat on Facebook, IG, and
• 36:37
  you have websites and email and you people can actually call you as well?
• 36:42
  Yes.
• 36:43
  Wow.
• 36:44
  And so for those of you who joined us today and those who are watching
• 36:47
  this video at a later date, I want you to know that just as Pamela has
• 36:52
  been a guest on my show, so can you.
• 36:55
  You can reach out to me on my website, which is chattingwiththeexperts.com
• 36:59
  I'm also on LinkedIn as Paula Okonneh.
• 37:02
  My IG handle is at chat_experts_podcast and you can find me on Facebook as well.
• 37:11
  Last but not least, we are also on YouTube, I have a YouTube channel.
• 37:17
  Just search for Chatting with the Experts and subscribe, subscribe, subscribe, so
• 37:22
  that you in turn can be inspired, you can be, um, empowered and you can be educated
• 37:29
  like we just were by these amazing women.
• 37:33
  Thank you so much, Pamela.
• 37:35
  My pleasure.
• 37:35
  And here was that little, we couldn't pin it before you wanted me.
• 37:38
  This is the PDFI can send anybody.
• 37:41
  They wanna learn more about that lung study that was written the
• 37:44
  respiratory clinical care sheet.
• 37:47
  Yes.
• 37:47
  So for those of you who joined us, we'll now have an opportunity for you
• 37:50
  to get to speak with Pamela directly and get her contact so that she can
• 37:57
  get your contact so that she can send you the PDF that she just showed us.
• 38:00
  Thank you again, Pamela.
• 38:02
  Thank you so much.
• 38:03
  It was been my privilege to share.
• 38:05
  Learn something new.