Podcast appearances and mentions of green living gurus

Toxins are hiding in plain sight—under your sink, in your laundry basket, on your skin, and even in your food. In this episode, we're joined by healthy home advocate and educator Therese “Tee” Forton-Barnes to explore the everyday products and habits that may be quietly affecting your well-being.From cleaning supplies and personal care items to food storage and fragrance, Therese breaks down what to look out for, how to read labels more critically, and where to begin when making the shift to a less toxic lifestyle.We discuss practical, accessible steps you can take to reduce chemical exposure in your home—starting with what you clean with, wear, and eat.Whether you're new to green living or looking to take your detox journey to the next level, this episode offers clear, actionable guidance without the overwhelm.Tune in and take the first step towards creating a healthier home, body, and life.Therese Forton-Barnes is a Healthy Home Advocate; owner of The Green Living Gurus, LLC and Tee's Organics. Podcast Host of Green Living with Tee.Therese "Tee" owns The Green Living Gurus, where she is a Healthy Home advocate with Cancer Prevention in Mind Health Coach. She was very fortunate as she grew up in a very healthy home, eating mostly only organic food during the 60's and 70's when fast food and junk food were on the rise. She went to Ithaca College to open a health food store and has been helping people for over 40 years keep toxins out of their homes.Tee is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host, and educator. She spreads awareness of chemicals in everyday products that could cause cancer and other health issues. She guides women in creating a less toxic home and lifestyle to ultimately increase the odds of a long, healthy, vital life and a safe environment in their homes.She does all of this through her weekly podcast, Green Living with Tee, her newsletter, blog posts, social media, home detox coaching, and ‘Tee's Organics', a line of household products that are healthy for you and your home.Find out more about Tee and her incredible work here:Free Facebook Group Healthy Living and Toxic Free: https://www.facebook.com/groups/833051790530511/about/The Green Living Gurus Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurusTee's Organics: https://www.facebook.com/Tees-Organics-104471715225842Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw* * *Check out our Patreon for exclusive bonus content and gold nuggets from this episode: ⁠www.patreon.com/c/IntoYourLife⁠Watch the podcast on YouTube here: ⁠https://bit.ly/IYLPodcastYouTube⁠And don't forget to subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter to receive insights on how to find more life in your life from our amazing guests: ⁠https://intoyourlifepodcast.com/newsletter

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Kavita Sahai about being told she was healthy even though she was suffering and how essential oils changed her life for the better.   For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/therese-forton-barnes          Highlights from today's episode include: Therese Forton Barnes  No perfume will ever tell you what, what ingredients are in their perfume because of this law. But that law, so you can take...you can make a product and you can put fragrance in it. You can put 50 carcinogens in there. And nobody's going to question you.   Therese Forton Barnes  Same with laundry detergent, exact same thing. What's in your laundry detergent, you're sleeping in it. You're breathing in the fumes that are off gassing from your clothes all day long. Your dryer is heating up all these chemicals.   Therese Forton Barnes  17:52 But try just eliminating what you're using for a month and see if you're having ailments. And I'll tell you 100% of the time that I get people to do this, they realize they're not waking up with a sore throat, they're not wheezing in the middle of the night, they're sleeping better.     ABOUT THERESE FORTON BARNES Therese Forton-Barnes, is a Household Toxins Health Specialist and Coach and owner of The Green Living Gurus and Tee's Organics. She will guide you on a road to avoid toxicants and chemicals that could cause cancer and other illnesses and lead you towards living a healthier low-tox life. She will help you navigate through the process of making healthier choices and inform you of alternative products and options that are not harmful to your health and the environment. She will help you decrease your exposure to chemicals and hopefully reduce the risk of illnesses and increase your odds of a long, healthy vital life. She helps you reduce your exposure to toxicants and ease the overwhelm and nerves of chemical confusion. She guides you in creating a non-toxic home to reduce the risk of illnesses and toxic poisoning and increase the odds of a long, healthy, vital life and a safe environment for you and your family. She does this through her weekly podcast show, newsletter, blog posts, social media, healthy home coaching and Tee's Organics, a line of household cleaners and products that are healthy for you and your home. Therese lives in her beloved hometown of Buffalo, New York with her husband Tom and Australian Labradoodle Murphy. After earning a degree from Ithaca College with a major in Business and a minor in Health Studies, she had a business plan to open a health food store so everyone could have access to healthy eating and living, just like she had growing up. But out of college she ended up on another path and founded Events 2 A Tee, an event planning business that has operated in the WNY area for more than 37 years. But, on the side and for the last three decades, she has helped many people and cancer survivors learn how chemicals can be affecting their health. Her mother taught her everything about living a non-toxic life, but unfortunately, chemicals eventually took her mom's life after swimming in a chlorinated pool everyday for over 50 years. In 2020, Therese pivoted to her true passion: healthy, natural, non-toxic living. Therese brings over 40 years of hands-on, real-world experience in living a holistic, non-toxic lifestyle. She is also furthering her education and training all the time. In 2021 she started a new business called Tee's Organics. The product line consists of: An all-purpose cleaning spray and three room sprays that are also good for linens, sneakers, hockey/athletic bags, cars, offices, and more. Her slogan is “Healthy for You and Your Home!” More products are in the works. Also, all purchases on her website support 1% for the planet https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/ Besides living a healthy life, Therese loves to exercise, sip on organic wine, cook, walk her dog, go to the beach, listen to live music, plan parties, hang with her husband and dog Murphy, attend  Buffalo Bills and Sabres games and to cruise in her 1971 Cutlass Supreme convertible. Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn |  Linktr.ee | X | YouTube | ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT  As a de-registered (2021) board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I've seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.  My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals. So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience". Manon's Mission: A Healer in Every Household!  For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog.  For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips   Follow Manon on Social – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Linktr.ee | Rumble   ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ:  Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives.  Subscribe and review on your favourite platform: iTunes | Google Play | Spotify | Libsyn | iHeartRadio | Gaana | The Healers Cafe | Radio.com | Medioq |   Follow The Healers Café on FB: https://www.facebook.com/thehealerscafe   Remember to subscribe if you like our videos. Click the bell if you want to be one of the first people notified of a new release.   * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!

Therese "Tee" is a Detox Your Home Guru and Health Coach at The Green Living Gurus. She grew up in a very healthy home in the 60's and 70's, went to college to open a health food store, and has been helping people for over 40 years keep toxicants out of their homes. She is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host, and educator. She spreads awareness of chemicals in everyday products that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other health issues. She guides women in creating a less toxic home and lifestyle to ultimately increase the odds of a long, healthy, vital life and a safe environment in their homes. She does all of this through her weekly podcast, Green Living with Tee, her newsletter, blog posts, social media, home detox coaching, and ‘Tee's Organics', a line of household products that are healthy for you and your home. Show Notes: 3:30 - the go-to person for helping people get toxins out of their homes 6:45 - taking it slow in the detox process and learning to look at labels closely 7:30 - Chanel pushed for law to allow non-disclosure of ingredients. 9:00 - testing ingredients and finding carcinogens in our personal care products 12:45 - a source of continuous exposure found in laundry 17:30 - organic all-purpose cleaner, safe for all uses 23:45 - essential oils used in the products that have anti-fungal, antibacterial products like cinnamon, clove, peppermint… 27:00 - air toxins and the need for routine cleaning and air purification 30:00 - simple way to test air quality to show chemicals/VOCs present in the home 31:25 - HEPA air purifier like Austin Air - link below for details 34:00 - symptoms related to autoimmunity that present with environmental toxin exposure 36:00 - mindset importance in healing journey 37:00 - Madison read hair coloring as a non-toxic option 39:45 - helping chronic illness warriors to restore health Contact: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/ For Our Listeners: Use ‘Healthyhome' for 15% off Tee's Organics --- Follow us on IG ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@functionallyenlightened⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to be notified when new interviews with amazing functional practitioners and chronic illness warriors are published. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.functionallyenlightened.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for information on how we can help you DETOX YOUR LIFE or to subscribe to our newsletter. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/functionallyenlightened/message

This week Tee is excited to chat with two Green-Loving Doctors about gardening and the health benefits of both connecting with nature and connecting with yourself. Bobbie and Jess are two physical therapists who, according to their website, are ”doing their best to keep their sanity and enjoy each day in this crazy life.” Dr. Jess is the owner and founder of Core Essentials Physical Therapy in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. She specializes in Breast Cancer Recovery complex musculoskeletal disorders.  Dr. Bobbie lives in Naperville, Illinois. Her physical therapy practice, Level Up Osteopractic and Wellness focuses on treating the whole athlete and specializes in working with gymnasts.  In this conversation, this dynamic duo of Doctors is more concerned about how our health can be transformed through the beautiful and surprisingly easy practice of gardening and healthy eating. Tee, Bobbie, and Jess discuss the many ways that home gardening can transform both your daily diet and your daily habits. This trio of Green Living Gurus also share simple tips and practical knowledge about how we can all enjoy the benefits of and joy of gardening, growing, and gifting the bounty of God's Good Earth. Connect with Dr. Bobbie and Dr. Jess Website Podcast Instagram YouTube  Facebook  ___________________________________ Follow Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes and The Green Living Gurus: Tee's Organics - Therese's Healthy Products for You and Your Home:  The Green Living Gurus Website  Instagram Youtube Facebook Healthy Living Group on Facebook Tip the podcaster! Support Tee and the endless information that she provides: Patreon Venmo: @Therese-Forton-Barnes last four digits of her cell are 8868 For further info contact Tee: Email: Tee@TheGreenLivingGurus.com Cell: 716-868-8868 DISCLAIMER: ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS GENERAL GUIDANCE AND NOT MEANT TO BE USED FOR INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PROVIDER OR DOCTOR FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. Produced by: Social Chameleon

Transitioning to a toxic-free lifestyle can be overwhelming. But lowering your toxic load is necessary. For your health, for the environment, and for generations of humans to come. ⁠ ⁠ Every day is a work in progress with the smallest opportunities to make the biggest changes to your daily routine. Eventually, these "little changes" add up a lot of improvements in your quality of life. If we all make these "little changes," just imagine how much healthier the earth (and the people on it) would be.⁠ ⁠ In hopes of inspiring big "little changes," we talked on IG Live with Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes of @GreenLivingGurus. ⁠ ⁠ Tee is an educated 'Household Toxins Health Specialist' and 'Head Guru' at the Green Living Gurus and owner of Tee's Organics. She has over 50 years of hands-on, real-world experience in living a holistic, non-toxic lifestyle.⁠ ⁠ We discussed how to reduce your toxic burdens. Save this video! You will get practical tips on transitioning to a low-tox lifestyle and a clear understanding of how "little picture goals" add up to "big picture rewards."⁠ Learn more about Tee's services: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ Get tested for BPA, phthalates, parabens, and other hormone-disrupting chemicals with Million Marker's Detect & Detox Test Kit: https://www.millionmarker.com/

Therese & “Tee” Forton-Barnes, is a Household Toxins Health Specialist and Coach and owner of The Green Living Gurus and Tee's Organics. Tee grew up in a very healthy home in the 60's and 70's, went to college to open a health food store, and has been helping people for over 40 years keep toxicants out of their homes. Tee is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host, and educator. She spreads awareness of chemicals in everyday products that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other health issues. She guides women in creating a less toxic home and lifestyle to ultimately increase the odds of a long, healthy, vital life and a safe environment in their homes. Key Takeaways Some of the chemicals that are a concern in our everyday living: fragrance, perfume, talc powder, and color from dye. Teens can get caught up in all the marketing and messages of food and body care products that are loaded with toxins. Parents can guide their teens to eat healthy by modeling what they eat and what they serve their families.  Use essential oils instead of perfumes and fragrances as it's a natural product. Essential oils can be mixed with water to create a spray for household use, your car, gym bag, etc. Laundry detergent and dryer sheets that include fragrance will coat your fabric with chemicals. Read your labels and know your ingredients! Sponsored by EdGerety.com Resources Use ‘Healthyhome' for 15% off Tee's Organics Follow on Facebook

Ellen Kamhi talks with Therese (Tee) Forton-Barnes, a Detox Your Home Guru and Health Coach at The Green Living Gurus. She has been helping people for over 40 years keep toxicants out of their homes. Tee is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host, and educator. Tee offers a weekly podcast, Green Living with Tee, her newsletter, blog posts, social media, home detox coaching, and ‘Tee's Organics', a line of household products that are healthy for you and your home. https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/

This week on Green Living with Tee, Tee welcomes Jenna Johnson for an informative conversation about how parents and individuals can begin to detoxify their everyday lives and take small steps towards a toxin-free lifestyle. Jenna and Tee discuss some of the practical first steps that any parent can take to protect their children from the overwhelming amount of toxic chemicals in our everyday products. Jenna brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this talk to help anyone overwhelmed by questions about harmful chemicals and toxins to begin taking the critical first steps toward a healthier and happier way of living. Jenna is a mother of three and a retired special education teacher who took her passion for toxin-free living and turned it into a way to connect with other families on her social media platforms. Jenna began her journey almost 7 years ago when she was pregnant with her first child. Jenna had no idea that toxins were harmful to her developing baby and once she dove down that rabbit hole, there was no going back. Jenna started a Facebook group as a way to share resources and journal articles regarding the safety of ingredients and started bringing awareness to greenwashed brands. Jenna left teaching to pursue her passion for helping families ditch toxins. Now she is coming out with a new children's book, focusing on the harm of plastic. “We have to teach our children to do better” Jenna insists and of course, Tee could not agree more! In addition, Jenna writes blogs and articles for companies that share her passion. She has published a Home Detox Guide ebook with over 150 pages of toxin-free tips, DIY recipes, brand recommendations, and ways to decrease your chemical exposure on a daily basis. Jenna has more guides set to release this year. Jenna lives with her husband and three children in Texas. Connect with Jenna:  Website https://www.iammamabearliving.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nontoxicmamabear The Complete Home Detox Guide: https://mamabearliving.ck.page/products/the-complete-home-detox-guide?fbclid=IwAR2WSaMwxgq6ZynHXgH6NeT1F2aU3ruGjE6OVwMrsrFhpWQ6Hp9NzrRWnMQ Free Guide on Safe Laundry: https://mamabearliving.ck.page/a28b16dced _____________________________________________________ Follow Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes and The Green Living Gurus: Tee's Organics - Therese's Healthy Products for You and Your Home: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/ The Green Living Gurus Website: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus Healthy Living Group on Facebook Tip the podcaster! Support Tee and the endless information that she provides: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheGreenLivingGurus Venmo: @Therese-Forton-Barnes last four digits of her cell are 8868 For further info contact Tee: Email: Tee@TheGreenLivingGurus.com Cell: 716-868-8868 DISCLAIMER: ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS GENERAL GUIDANCE AND NOT MEANT TO BE USED FOR INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PROVIDER OR DOCTOR FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.

Therese is the Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host and educator. She spreads the awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other health issues,Therese helps families reduce their exposure to toxicants and ease the overwhelm and nerves of chemical confusion. She guides them in creating a non-toxic home to reduce the risk of illnesses and toxic poisoning and increase the odds of a long, healthy, vital life and a safe environment for their family. She does this through her weekly podcast show, newsletter, blog posts, social media, Coaching offers and Tee's Organics, a line of household cleaners and products that are healthy for you and your home. In this episode, we discuss Therese's non toxic living journey, we focused on the importance of indoor air quality and ways improve it, and how to reduce exposure to chemicals.Highlights: -Tee's non toxic lifestyle journey -The harms of poor indoor air quality and how it can lead to a variety of health issues- Ways to improve indoor air quality.-The importance of becoming aware of the chemicals you are putting into your home, body, and food.Links:Tee's WebsiteBuy Tee's OrganicsTee's PodcastTee's InstagramUHoo Indoor Air Quality MonitorGinny Dent's StoryEnvironmental Working Group

If you've ever been overwhelmed by the thought of the toxins and toxicity that surround us, you may be relieved to hear our guest today. Therese “Tee” Forton-Barnes gives us a definition of toxins that makes it usable for each of us in our lives. We talk about eliminating the unnecessary toxins in our lives and homes and making the choices that are best for our health. It is a great conversation and we hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did.    In this episode you will hear:  Avoiding the toxins that are unnecessary in our lives.  How Tee started an organic product company.  The power behind essential oils.  The difference between glass and plastic containers.  Taking steps in the right direction (even if they are baby steps).  Why you need to stay away from fragrance.  Reading your labels and knowing your ingredients.      Therese is the Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host, and educator. She spreads awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other ailments.   She helps individuals reduce their exposure to toxicants and ease the overwhelm and nerves of chemical confusion. She guides you in creating a non-toxic home to reduce the risk of illnesses and toxic poisoning and increase the odds of a long, healthy, vital life and a safe environment for you and your family.   She does this through her Green Living Pioneer coaching program, in addition to a weekly podcast show, newsletter, blog posts, social media, and Tee's Organics, a line of household cleaners and products that are healthy for you and your home.     Apps Mentioned on Today's Podcast  EWG - Healthy Living: https://www.ewg.org/apps/  Detox Me: https://web.detoxmeapp.org/  Silent Spring: https://silentspring.org/    Connect with Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes: Website: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus  Tee's Organics: https://www.facebook.com/Tees-Organics-104471715225842  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw  Twitter: https://twitter.com/teeforton  Podcast: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/greenlivingwithtee   Shop Tee's Organics here: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/   Connect with R Blank and Stephanie Warner:  For more Healthier Tech Podcast episodes, and to download our Healthier Tech Quick Start Guide, visit https://HealthierTech.co and follow https://instagram.com/healthiertech Additional Links: Shield Your Body website: https://ShieldYourBody.com Shield Your Body Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/shieldyourbody Host R Blank on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rblank9/ Shield Your Body on Instagram: https://instagram.com/shieldyourbody

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Green Living With Tee of 2023. In order to kick off the new year, Tee wanted to share this conversation she had with Mike DiCioccio on his podcast, Mike'D Up! In this talk, Tee shares her story of becoming a Toxins Health Specialist while giving listeners an array of tips and tricks on how to live a more chemically-free lifestyle. Tee shares her expert insights by helping guide you to healthier choices for yourself, and your family, and yes that also includes your pets. She joins #MikedUp to educate us on the benefits of alternative products such as her Eco-Friendly product line, Tee's Organics, which are GREAT alternatives to keep your home sparkly clean while also reducing air and water pollution to help better preserve the environment! If you're new to the show, our host Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes is a Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, educator, and change maker leading an amazing effort to raise awareness on chemicals that are dangerous to our health that manage to easily find their way into our homes in common products and household goods. Connect with Mike: https://linktr.ee/mikedicioccio Produced by Social Chameleon: https://www.socialchameleon.us Interview Recorded via Riverside.fm: https://riverside.fm/homepage?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=mike-dicioccio Mike'D Up! Merch: https://mikedupmerch.com ______________________________________________________ Follow Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes and The Green Living Gurus: Tee's Organics - Therese's Healthy Products for You and Your Home: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/ The Green Living Gurus Website: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus Healthy Living Group on Facebook Tip the podcaster! Support Tee and the endless information that she provides: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheGreenLivingGurus Venmo: @Therese-Forton-Barnes last four digits of her cell are 8868 For further info contact Tee: Email: Tee@TheGreenLivingGurus.com Cell: 716-868-8868

Therese Forton-Barnes, aka Tee, is the Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, podcast host, and educator. She spreads awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other ailments. She does this through her Green Living Pioneer coaching program, in addition to a weekly podcast show, newsletter, blog posts, social media, and Tee's Organics, a line of household cleaners and products that are healthy for you and your home. The full show notes are available HERE. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have you ever considered the air quality in your home? If you're like most people, the answer is probably no. But did you know that the air inside your home could be up to five times more polluted than the air outside? And if you're a woman in her midlife years, that's something to take very seriously.   Therese Forton-Barnes is an indoor air quality expert and she's joining us today on the Hormone Prescription Podcast to talk about the dangers of indoor air pollution and what we can do to protect ourselves.   Therese is the Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She spreads the awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other ailments through her Green Living with Tee weekly podcast, her blog, the Green parent pioneer coaching program for families with children, and Tee's organics line of household cleaners and products.   In this episode, you will learn: The dangers of indoor air pollution The things that contribute to indoor air pollution The toxins and carcinogenic chemicals found in indoor air How to protect yourself from indoor air pollution What you can do to improve the air quality in your home   So if you're concerned about the air you're breathing, make sure to tune in and learn everything you need to know about indoor air quality and take action to protect your health.   (00:00): Plan your life. Like you will live forever and live your life. Like you may die tomorrow. Therese's mom.   (00:08): So the big question is how do women over 40, like us keep weight off, have great energy balance. Our hormones in our moods feel sexy and confident and master midlife. If you're like most of us, you are not getting the answers you need and remain confused and pretty hopeless to ever feel like yourself. Again. As an OB GYN, I had to discover for myself the truth about what creates a rock solid metabolism, lasting weight loss, and supercharged energy. After 40 in order to lose a hundred pounds and fix my fatigue. Now I'm on a mission. This podcast is designed to share the natural tools you need for impactful results. And to give you clarity on the answers to your midlife metabolism challenges, join me for tangible natural strategies to crush the hormone imbalances you are facing and help you get unstuck from the sidelines of life. My name is Dr. Kyrin Dunston welcome to the hormone prescription podcast.   (01:04): Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the hormone prescription with Dr. Kyrin. I'm so glad that you've joined me today. My guest today is Therese Forton Barnes and she is a toxin guru, or we're gonna be talking about the dangers of indoor air quality will be detailing the potential hazards to your indoor air quality and talking about what you can do about it. Her mom is the one who shared that quote that I offered in the teaser plan. Your life like you will live forever and live your life. Like you may die tomorrow. And I absolutely love that. I think it really speaks to addressing toxins in your life. They are long acting, and their effects temporarily are very delayed. So you wanna plan like you're gonna live forever, but you wanna live like you may die tomorrow. So we're gonna tell you the things you need to go in and get rid of to improve your indoor air quality and your health. I'll tell you a little bit about her and then we'll get started. Therese is a household toxins health specialist, and she's the head guru at the Green Living Gurus. She spreads awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other elements through her green living with tea weekly podcast, her blog, the green parent pioneer coaching program for families with children and teas organics line of household cleaners and products. Welcome Tee. Thank you for having me today. Looking forward to our chat.   (02:42): I love talking about toxins because there's so many of them and I think that it can be overwhelming when people hear about this topic to think, oh my God, how do I even begin to detoxify my life? My home, my car, my work, all the things that they need to detoxify. And I love that we've decided to focus on indoor air quality. I don't think that a lot of people realize how vital this is. Why is this so important Therese?   (03:14): So our indoor air is potentially two to 100 times more polluted than the outdoor air. And these are reports that have been put out by the environmental protection agency. And the reason why our indoor air in our homes, our offices, you name it is because our homes are now built to be airtight. Everybody wants to keep the air in to conserve energy. And the problem is you're not getting enough circulation throughout the home and enough clean air coming through your home. But the worst part about it is the amount of products that are being used in your home. Whether it's cleaning supplies, laundry, detergent, dry cleaning, coming in furniture. That's been sprayed with anti fire retardants and it goes on and on and on. And you're breathing these chemicals in all day long in your home. And so the indoor air in your home is just as important as your outdoor air or as important as a food you're eating too. So these are just things I love to focus on because it's something that people don't realize it, that they need to really look at their indoor air.   (04:29): I think that's so true. And you, you highlighted a couple points. I wanna just emphasize that most people focus on aspects of the environment. They have no control over, which is outdoor air quality mm-hmm can you move? Sure. I had a patient a few years ago who lived in the middle of Iowa in the middle of farm country, and there were pesticides in her air and she knew it was a problem. And there was really nothing she could do about it other than move from where she lived while she wasn't paying as much attention to the air quality inside. And oh, when we did, she found out she had moldy things in her house that were affecting her health. So I think this is really where you have a large degree of control to change the outcome. And I also wanted to highlight when you were talking, I was thinking about a lot of people are very familiar with the discomfort that comes from rereading air inside a mask over and over again, since we've had to do it for the past few years.   (05:33): And so think about that, your house is really like a mask, a big mask that you live in. And so if you have bad breath and you're breathing it in and out through a mask, you're getting that bad breath over and over again. It's the same in your house. If you have poor quality air, all the windows and doors are shut and they builders pride themselves on a well sealed home. That's energy efficient that really can have detrimental effects for us in terms of if we have poor air quality, we're rebreathing it over and over and over again. So let's start tea with the biggest offender. What is the number one offender you would say in the indoor air quality space that could potentially harm people?   (06:21): Well, in my mind, it is the cleaning products people are using because the cleaning products, people are using them every day, potentially spraying some cleaning products on counters almost every day to clean up your kitchen, whether it's to floor. And then if you have children or dogs, so they're even cleaning more. And many of the chemicals in these commercial cleaning supplies have extremely toxic ingredients in them and many have cancer-causing ingredients in them. So those are getting into your lungs. They're getting into the dust, that's on the floor in your house, that's regenerating throughout your home, and you're not getting rid of those chemicals in your house because you're using them. It's not like you're washing with water right afterwards, too. That, and goes along with that is also cleaning supplies in a SA in a different category, but it's your laundry detergent. So that's a, another cleaning supply, right?   (07:27): But that is now in addition to the chemicals that you're potentially using to clean your clothes, you're also breathing in potentially chemicals coming from your clothes, from your sheets. They could be out guessing all day long in your home. You could be breathing them in when you even leave the house. And they're venting. They're also venting into your house at some point, at some level, I know they vent outside, but you still can get those fumes inside your house. So those products, those chemicals, and if you think about walking down a laundry, I mean, a supermarket aisle where all your cleaning supplies are and you smell that smell. Those are all chemicals out guessing from all of those cleaning products that literally that's, what's happening in your home, too. Those chemicals just about gas.   (08:21): So let's dive into specifically, what are the toxins and carcinogenic agents in cleaning products? Let's start there. And I will add that, you know, I read that that years ago, Madison avenue was trying to figure out how to increase sales or promote their product above others in terms of cleaning products and particularly laundry. And they discovered that the first thing that people did when their laundry came out of the dryer to see if it was clean, was they smelled it. And that's how this whole perfusion of yeah. Smells. And so when you walk down the aisle, you can smell it. But I think most people smell that and they go, oh, that's the smell of clean . Yeah, right. So can you break down? What are the toxins and carcinogenic agents and cleaning products and laundry detergents?   (09:14): Well, one category is VOCs VOCs of volatile, organic compounds. Now there are hundreds, if not thousands of different chemicals that make those volatile organic compounds up, and those are ones that are just dangerous to get into your system. And you're breathing them every day. Now, the list of chemicals that potentially are made up of those VOCs and also all the other com is endless. I mean, there's been ammonia. Everybody knows ammonias in some cleaning products. There's, I mean, I can't, I'd have to pull up my, I have a list of all the chemicals that I could tell you that are in there. And I actually have that those chemicals that you can avoid in my free guide on my website, that I know you're offering your listeners. And it's a great guide because it lists what ingredients you should look for. The top ingredients you should look for in these cleaning supplies that are potentially getting into your house.   (10:15): So, and benzene is another one that has been known to be in some products. The biggest thing, if anybody wants to make a change to look for in cleaning products and in laundry detergent, and you hit the nail on the head is when they smell something, they think that that's a fresh smell. Unfortunately, that's the word fragrance. And that's a fragrance that is in those products. That is, they think that that's a lemon fresh smell or a lavender fresh smell. But unfortunately there is most likely no lavender and no lemon in there. And if there is, and they say that it's ascended with lavender oil, they only have to have 2% lavender in there. Unfortunately, many of the cleaning products, many of the laundry detergents have so many chemicals in them. They have to put fragrance in them to kill the smell of the chemicals that you're cleaning with.   (11:12): So you're getting twice as many chemicals as you really need to be cleaning with and putting in your laundry, but the word fragrance and people don't understand this when they buy products. And even it's in shampoo, it's in deodorant, fragrance is a trade secret. And it goes back that in 1940s, when the perfume industry and specifically Chanel number five was one of the companies that got our government to create this trade secret, because they did not want anybody knowing what was in their perfume. And so they said, okay, well, if you put the word fragrance on there, you do know how to detect, say what is in your product. This holds true today, still that law, that anybody can make a product, put the ingredients in there. But if you put the word fragrance on there, you do not have to tell them what's in there.   (12:00): Well, fragrance is made up of a laundry list of different chemicals in it. And lately three different studies were done that they found benzene in fragrance. And benzene is a common ingredient in fragrance and benzene is a known carcinogen. So some of them potentially cause cancer, but that causes cancer and they found it in a sunscreen recently. So the list goes on and on and on. But if you can get away from the fragrance, you're making a great step in the right direction to reduce your toxic load inside your home. And that goes with candles too. I mean, everybody wants something that smells fresh. We all associate with that freshness with probably growing up and our mothers and whatever they cleaned with. But unfortunately in the past 40, 50 years, clean is not what clean should be. And the chemical company has really created this mess in my mind to make us think that that is the way a house should smell. And it's, unfortunately that's not clean. That's unfortunately making your house more toxic and dirty for your body.   (13:18): So true. And everybody loves a new car smell, new house smell. And I say, run from the new car and the new house. So yes, the VOCs ammonia, benzene fragrance, which are mostly made from petroleum byproducts. So you wouldn't sit there sniffing gasoline at the gas station, nor do you wanna spray it on your fabrics at home or clean with it. And a question that I don't think a lot of people get is. And my kids used to say this to me all the time when they were growing up, when I kind of got on the bandwagon. Finally, when I saw the light about my own health at midlife, and I became trained in anti-aging metabolic and functional medicine and realized that toxicity was a problem. Cuz as a regular MD, we are taught, these are not issues. And that's how most of America and most industrialized countries are operating that this isn't a problem. But can you talk about cuz the next question my kids used to say, well, they wouldn't allow it. They wouldn't allow it. If it was toxic, they wouldn't allow it. If it caused cancer and I'd say, well, who's they to my kids first off. But I find this is the case with a lot of adults. They really think that there's some regulatory body that would not allow dangerous chemicals to be in our cleaning products. Can you address that?   (14:40): Yeah. And this is a very common, I hear it all the time and what I try to get people to understand is a little bit of history. Cuz sometimes history helps people understand why things are the way they are today. You know the fragrance thing. Oh. And people start understanding, wow, I can see where that happened, but why did that happen? Well, in the United States, we have a law here that your product is safe until it is proven guilty in the European union. It's opposite. They have to prove a product is safe before it can even go on the market. So you take these products, let's just take the sunscreen. I mentioned that many sunscreens actually for that matter, they got pulled off the market last fall. They were all on the market with benzene in the product. Now that would've never passed in the European union because they would've never been able to prove that that was safe.   (15:38): But unfortunately these companies here local in us, they now their back paling like, oh, we didn't know benzene was in our product and denying it. Of course they're gonna deny it. But so that is the biggest problem I see with products that is not food. Food has to be proven, safe and pharmaceuticals in that matter before it goes onto the market. So we have to be our own watchdogs here in the United States. We have to look at our labels. We have to read our ingredients. We have to know, unfortunately, no EPA is not protecting us when it comes to that. They are not. The FDA is when it comes to the food because as best they can, you know, I battles, I pick with that too. But with the EPA and all these products that are on all the shelves that we are buying in the grocery store, in the pharmacy, we have to look and see what we are using because either you are going to trust the company or you have to trust yourself because this, these have not been approved for human consumption or for cleaning. They might be say that they get rid of bacteria, but they are not going through all the ingredients and all those products and making sure that they are safe and the companies are not either.   (16:57): Yeah. The other thing I don't think a lot of people get is that even the individual ingredients that could potentially be toxic may have a low level of toxic potential, but nobody has studied the cumulative additive effect of these toxins together. And a hundred years ago, we might come in contact with just a couple chemicals in our lifetimes. And now we have 85,000 new chemicals since 1950. And no one has looked at the effect on newborns or uh, fetuses or women who are pregnant or children or adults, the cumulative additive effects and interactive effects of these toxins. So I remember that being one of the most impactful sources of information that I learned during my fellowship training was just, we're kind of in the wild, wild west when it comes to chemicals, we're in a live human experiment. Yeah. Where we're saying, okay, let's take the population of the world and let's dump 85,000 new chemicals and let's see what happens because they really haven't been vetted. So now we've talked a little bit about the cleaning products, the double problem of not only are they, the cleaning products, agents themselves potentially toxic or carcinogenic, but then you add on top the fragrance. When I see that word, I run and laundry detergent. Now talk about other laundry substances like dryer sheets and bleach and things like that.   (18:39): Dryer sheets, oh, dryer sheets. Oh, I can smell dryer sheets when I walk by vent. And when I walk by a person, I now have my husband. He can smell them on people these days, but dryer sheets are another one dryer sheets. You will not find the ingredients on a dryer sheet. Dryer sheets have known carcinogens in them. They are all chemicals that basically coat your clothing with these chemicals. So they don't stick together. Unfortunately they're loading them with other chemicals' fragrance to put them in there because those chemicals that they are coating your clothes with, they have to offset those to the smell of that chemical. So it's just like one bad thing after the next with dryer sheets. So that's another definitely bleach another, I mean you have to pick your poisons right. To try to get rid of everything right away. No, but you start with the most important things like getting rid of the dryer sheets, replacing them with wool dryer balls and some essential oils in those wool dryer balls. If you really want some sense and slowly getting rid of things that could potentially be affecting your breathing, which is our most important thing I'm addressing here because the indoor air in your home right now is so polluted potentially. So definitely dryer sheets are a big, big no-no in my book.   (20:05): So what dryer balls, can you talk a little bit about what those are and what they do and how they work and also the use of essential oils if people really love that fresh scent?   (20:17): Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I use dryer balls. I don't have much static, fortunately, because I don't have any chemicals in my laundry and washing machine or dryer because the chemicals will make your clothes tick even more. It's just a double edged sword. Speaker 3 (20:35): I have to say. I don't think that's a coincidence, right? So the more problems Madison avenue can give you the need to solve. And if they make your clothes, if the chemicals make them more static clingy, oh, well then you need something to treat the static clinging. I mean, that's true with women's hormones after they started using E equivalent or horse estrogen also known as Premarin in the beginning of the 19 hundreds for women, while then they created the problem of, um, uterine cancer. And instead of going back and saying, well, probably this was misguided, they just created a pro Jin to counteract the effects to prevent uterine cancer. So that is the way of industry, right? We live absolutely in that type of a capitalist society. That's always looking for advantage. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was some engineering to actually increase the static clinging. So you actually have to have dryer sheets.   (21:33): Absolutely. And it all goes all big circle of money and pharmaceutical industry and the chemical companies. And they're all tied into one another and it's a monster and it toxic. And we have to really, again, rely on ourselves and people like you and me and many other people out there that really are knowledgeable stepping back and looking at the whole big picture. Why is all this happening? I look at cancer. I mean, my aunt had ovarian cancer and this is originally why I really got so involved in this. And she was so healthy, but she used baby powder every single day in her private parts. And she got ovarian cancer and now low and behold baby powder causes ovarian cancer and it's still on the market. So I always look at where cancer has came from, look at where it is now. Do you hear any big cancer Institute talking about preventing cancer?   (22:34): We have a major one here. No, cause it's such a humongous industry. And the pharmaceutical industry feeds that industry. And I personally don't think they want it to go away because it would put out so many people out of business. I try talking about cancer prevention all the time, because I want people to prevent using chemicals in their lives that potentially can cause cancer or are known to cause cancer. But they don't talk about that. Unfortunately. And same it with Endocet disrupting chemicals. We could talk about that forever too. And what they're doing to kids, hormones and boys and the mess that's causing with kids' bodies and mimicking their estrogen and progesterone. So I think people get scared and I even have some best friends who are like, oh, it's so overwhelming. And I try to talk them through it. And it's just, you make little changes and the people that I've helped and a lot of different clients, you just take one step at a time.   (23:37): And it usually is starting with your cleaning, starting with your laundry, detergents, getting rid of that fragrance. Once you start there, then you're gonna be, be more aware. You're gonna start. I get people sending me, oh look, you told me about these PFAS chemicals in my non-stick cookware that and they see an article and then they start making changes on their own, which I love seeing. I sort of get the ball rolling with them and then they're aware of it. And then they start seeing more and more things reports coming up. Luckily now it's all over the place. There's so many things going on out there that people are starting to realize how toxic so many of these products are, but it's taking those baby steps and really just reading ingredients and knowing what you're putting on your skin. You wouldn't eat those chemicals. Why would you be putting them on your skin?   (24:29): So, and you made it such a great point. It's the cumulative effect. They might say that these chemicals in the lotion you're using is fine because it's, you know, low dosage. But how is that mixing with the chemical you're putting on your hair or your deodorant? They're all getting into your system somehow and through your skin or breathing or eating and how are they mixing in your body? I don't wanna know that, but I just think that this is just time for people to start looking at how they are in taking any of these chemicals. And you really have to look at everything you're using because we are living in a toxic world and it's getting worse.   (25:13): Yeah. I think the other thing most people don't realize is the temporal nature of toxin exposure to time to disease is so long. The lead time that nobody associates that, oh, when they get cancer, they're not thinking about the 30 years that they use dryer sheets and a toxic laundry detergent. Nobody that doesn't flash before your eyes. Right? Most of us think genetics, which is really only five to 10% of cancer. It's what, whether we turn our lifestyle, turns those genes on or not. So there's so many exposures and they are over such prolonged periods of time that no one gets this Eureka moment of, oh my God, it was the dryer sheets. Right. Which is fortunate and unfortunate. I mean, you know, think toxins that are that quickly, identifiable are usually not legal for human use or consumption, but it makes it challenging for us. Let's step onto. So you said cleaning products, laundry, detergents, and laundry agents. What would the next category in the indoor air quality space?   (26:29): Well, I mentioned candles candles. I'd like to bring up candles. And Kyrin on that last note that you just said, it's just this past weekend. I was at one of my best friend's homes and I was trying to get her to get a reverse osmosis system and, and talking her through how toxic our water can be, which we could talk about that too. But, and then I always am helping her at her house. She's like, oh, we're fine now. I mean, none of us have cancer now. And that's exactly what you just said. You don't wanna think about, you wanna prevent as much as possible. And I had to convince him like Kathy, so all the kids are going away to college, blah, blah. And like, you have to, if you really want to try to decrease your toxic load, you've gotta look at everything.   (27:12): So it just hit me when you said that, like, that's so true. I mean, even though you're, we're, I'm almost 60, but you don't want cancer when you're 70, do you? I mean, we all don't want cancer. We all don't want illnesses and it's trying to prevent all these illnesses and not just, I feel like it's Russian roulette, we're all playing Russian roulette with all these products we're using. So candles. Yes. Candles. So many people love candles. Almost everybody loves candles. So many candles can be same thing. The chemicals that they're using in the wax, even if it's soy. So people think, oh, I bought a soy candle. It's okay. That's not necessarily true. And also the wick can be led. So if you're burning fragrance in your house with a lead wick, you are burning chemicals in the air while these candles are lit in your home.   (28:08): I did not know that the wicks could be lead. Oh my gosh.   (28:11): I'm yes. That's   (28:12): Crazy.   (28:13): Okay. It is crazy. And the fragrance, oh my God. When I'm in somebody's home with the candle, people are kind of scared for me to go in their home period.   (28:21): Me too. Don't it's a compliment.   (28:24): Oh totally. I enjoy it. I mean, my friends are always like Curring around. I'm like, don't you worry? I'll look it around, but get rid of that candle immediately over there. Cuz I look for candles. They're out gassing. Even if they're not lit with the chemicals that are in them. And again, people have to be careful because many of them will say SCED with essential oils. That's not necessarily fragrance free. So again, it only has to have 2% essential oils for them to say that on there. So cuz essential oils, which I love, I don't know if I told you this, but I have a cleaning product line. Very basic one that I use essential oils. They're very powerful. They're wonderful. Their cleaning properties are great, but you have to know what you're doing with essential oils too. And they are great and they're great to use in many products. So,   (29:14): So what kind of candle should we be using Tee?   (29:16): Well, there's some good ones out there on the market. Fontana is a great line. Look up Fontana. Fontana is a made safe product. Made safe.org is a fabulous organization. Environmental working group, EWG. Many of your listeners may have heard of them. They're fabulous. ewg.com. You can look on their website and plug in your products to see on a scale of one to 10, what kind of chemicals are in them? But a whole other step up from that is the made safe organization. They analyze products and they, if it's a made safe organization like anything made safe certifies, I don't even look at the label because I know it is made safe. And I know that organization inside and out, so font has gone through the process of having their candles certified. So love Fontana, but there's other ones out there too, but you just have to be careful what you're buying. There's so many sold at farmer's markets. I know that because I'll talk to the people that are making them and what is in it. What are you using? And you just wanna know what you're burning in your home. It's almost the same thing as an air freshener that you're spraying. You gotta look at those chemicals, anything you're spraying in your home, a candle will do the exact same thing.   (30:36): Oh my gosh. Please tell me the next category is   (30:42): Air freshers, air freshers. How about the ones when you get in an Uber or a Lyft and they put those plugins in their vents, almost every single one does it. It makes me insane. I've tried complaining to Uber and Lyft endlessly. It doesn't work, but those or plugins in your house or any kinda spray aerosol can be toxic in itself. But anything you're using to spray in your home is you're breathing it in, period. So if you're smelling anything that can potentially be cancer-causing chemicals or other chemicals that can cause other illnesses.   (31:22): Yeah, this is really my pet peeve. I mean, partially because I had multiple chemical sensitivity a few years ago when I was made sick by a building and breast implants. But also because they're ubiquitous and they're highly toxic. And actually the studies do show that up to a third of people react. But the majority of them do not associate any health reaction with the air freshener, plugin, whatever, wherever the sense comes from because they're ignorant of the causal relationship. And I, I like to say that we're in the air freshener stage of where we were with cigarettes back when I was a kid in the sixties and seventies, right? Yes. Secondhand smoke. Wasn't a thing. Nobody was up in arms about it. And people freely smoked around their kids in the home. And now I know you probably can't go to jail or get a ticket for it, but it's not allowed.   (32:20): Yeah. Yeah. Can't   (32:21): Smoke, endorse. And so I think in another few decades, we'll get there when people wake up to the air freshener problem.   (32:28): Yeah, I totally agree. And some of the same chemicals in cigarettes are also used in air fresheners and cleaning supplies. You are spraying chemicals in your home. I mean, there's no difference to me whatsoever. And you brought up, I often hear, oh, I have a sore throat, or I have a sniffles headache. I know I'll get a sore throat, sniffles headache. If I sleep in a bed with fragrance sheets, like I go to Airbnbs, I have to bring my own sheets, open up the windows. We just went to one and it was so toxic. I couldn't. And they used, I don't oh, she told me they used gain with lavender and that it, it wasn't toxic. It   (33:08): Wasn't. Yeah.   (33:09): I was like, uh, anyway, so I'm just used to bringing my own sheets and pillows and towels now   (33:15): Towels I do too. Oh,   (33:16): Absolutely. A hundred percent. And if I forget them, I go by them. I'd rather have, you know, the new ones than the ones washed in laundry detergent anyway. So we were getting air fresheners.   (33:28): Yes. And I wanna add here, cuz I think you brought up a great point that we should highlight. Some people are sitting here. Going to Kyrin I have no idea what you're talking about. How would I even know if I had a problem in my house? And so I'm wondering if you can expound on that. I mean, I usually tell people, well, if you go out and spend a day at the beach or in the forest, camping or hanging out with friends, and then you come home in your locked envelope, and you notice certain things, nasal stuffiness, sore throat, itchy, watery eyes, itchy skin, maybe even rashes, stomach upset. It can show up as, or irritation. It can show up as mood irritability. I mean, it can be so subtle, and you think, oh, I'm just in a bad mood. Must have been that news report I listened to. And it may very well be that you are getting exposed to toxins in your home.   (34:31): Two other big ones, snoring and also terrible sleeping patterns. And habits are two big ones. I hear all the time and your body has to work so hard, getting rid of these toxins and processing them. So your organs are constantly fighting off toxins. They're made that way. Right. But to do that. And so our bodies are not made to fight off all these chemicals that are coming at us left and right, you walk out the door, you can't help what you're going to encounter, but you can when you're inside. And we like to say, you don't know, you feel bad until you feel better and until you right. They don't know. They really don't. And they think it's the pollen. They think it's, you know, they'll make excuses, or they just have allergies or it's allergy season or a headache. Why do I have a, well, you got a headache for a reason and you gotta listen to your body, even acne for that matter.   (35:36): Your skin's telling you something. And so many of these chemicals, I mean, I talk about cancer all the time, and we hear about them disrupting hormones. They can also be obesity, gens, too. Obesity. Gens are just like what they sound like. They cause obesity. So many of these chemicals make you fat. Many of them could potentially make your skin look older. You look older. So acne, many of them cause, but they all work differently in all of our bodies. Again, we don't know what they're doing to us and how they're mixing, but until you start getting rid of them and starting to clear the way for cleaner, fresher air, cleaner, fresher, and products in your home, I guarantee you especially get rid of fragrance. You will start to feel better and start realizing I hear it from every single person. Like I can't believe, I thought that was lemon fresh. I thought, I can't believe I slept in fragrance sheets for 20 years. Yeah. Okay. You might have felt fine, but what was it doing to your skin? What was it doing to your organ? So   (36:38): Right. What are the other big categories that we need to take a look at in our homes?   (36:43): Well, I mention what you cook your food with what you cook your food with what you store your food in. And of course food is huge. That's a whole, we could talk about food and organic food and making sure you eat as much organic food is possible and stay away from the pesticides that are being sprayed on all these non-organic foods that because once they start spraying them with pesticides, they gotta spray 'em with a lot more. And it's just a terrible cycle out there with Roundup and glyphosate and other chemicals coming on the market to take the place of glyphosate. So food of course, but what are you cooking your food in? So nonstick pans, which a lot of people used to know as Teflon were made with these chemicals, it's a whole series of chemicals called PFAS, P F a S or P F O S. And they're just coming to the surface right now and how toxic these chemicals are. And they're it's inflamed retardant, um, materials that firefighters use. They've used to put it on couches. They used to put it on furniture, on rugs, kids,   (37:45): Kids, sleepwear,   (37:46): Kids, sleepwear, dental, floss, dental floss, look for PFAS, free dental floss and kids, sleepwear and furniture. This is going back to the cigarette companies. The reason why kids slept wear and furniture is being was, but some of it still is being sprayed with fire. Retardants is because the cigarette companies, people were burning, and you know, were coming from the same generation. They fall asleep with their cigarettes in their hands in bed. This is the 1950s and sixties, right? And the government went to the cigarette company said, you need to put something in the cigarette. So they don't burn while people are burning their beds. And the cigarette company came back and said, oh no, we have a better idea. Why don't we spray all the furniture with fire retardant, spray, all the kids, baby clothes to sleepwear with fire retardant, baby's beds with fire retardants. And it's crazy to think about it, but that was the law. That's what   (38:48): They did. No. I'm like let's stop smoking in bed.   (38:51): Exactly. Hello. So that is where, and now you hear about all these firemen getting cancer from this fire. Um, not only from this stuff they use to put out the fire, but these houses that are burning down are loaded with toxic chemicals. So anyway, so, but the pans, when I was getting to the pans, those nonstick pans are made with PFAS chemicals. So I've gone through more people's homes and had them get rid of those pans, especially if they're scratched, which 99% of them are because you're only supposed to use wood on them and not metal. And most people don't use wood all the time. Anyways, I'll give   (39:30): A hundred dollars to anyone listening who has a UNS scratched. Yeah. Uh I pan I can't for over a year.   (39:40): Yeah, exactly. So a green pan is okay. That's a ceramic pan. People like their non-stick pans. The only problem is they last only a few years. So I like stainless steel, the old-fashioned way and my lodge cast iron pans. And I always say your pan does not have to be sparkling clean every single time you use it. If you ever go through a kitchen and look at all their stainless steel pans, it looks used. So that is one of my big things, is what you're cooking with. Because again, people are cooking every day and also those chemicals that you are cooking, those pans, those chemicals can also get in the air in your home as well. So, and what you're storing your food in? I do not like plastic whatsoever. I only use glass to store any of our food in because the chemicals in those plastic containers can leach into your food as well.   (40:32): So, and of course never MWA or plastic if you ever do microwave. So those are the top things that I would do. You can take it to a whole other level. Like I have air quality monitors in my house. So I'm measuring the amount of chemicals that are in my house. It tells me if any chemical is exceeding what it should be in here. And it's usually if, uh, something's brought into the home randomly and then air purifiers are another way that people can reduce the chemicals in your home as well. Dry-clean is another one. Dry cleaning depends on where you dry-clean. But if you have the option of airing out your dry cleaning before you bring it into your house, that is great. Let it out gas in your garage or outside. Especially if you have it sitting in your car and driving with it, open up the windows, those toxic fumes from the dry cleaning can also irritate your lungs as well. And you don't even know it. So,   (41:31): And there are a lot of now, now environmentally friendly, nontoxic, dry cleaners, and a lot of them, you can mail your dry cleaning to them and they will mail it back to you. So you don't have to live near one. Let's talk a little bit more about the air monitor and air purifier, cuz I think if people have listened this far and most of the people in my community, they get that this indoor air quality is a situation and then they wanna know, okay, well, do I need an air quality monitor? And if so, what are my options? And what should I look for? And do I need air filtration? And what should I look for? Can you talk a little bit about that?   (42:09): Yeah, absolutely. So the air quality monitor that I really love, it's called hoo it's, U H O O. You can buy that almost anywhere. I love it because I can monitor it on my phone. It's hooked up to the wifi, but it measures for rayon as well. So in the Northeast where I am in Buffalo, New York, a lot of rayon is in the Northeast. And so it measures for VOCs and another series of chemicals on there for mail to hide. So in my home, it's pretty, you're not gonna find many toxic chemicals in here, but I like having that air quality monitor for a peace of mind. I take it with me too when I can just so I can see, you know, I have fun playing with it. I'll take it to people's homes and show them that,   (42:58): Oh, I bet you are a favored guest.   (43:00): Oh yeah. Oh aren't I though pulling it out of my purse. Well, I always, I'm pretty cautious. I know who I can pull it out with and who I can, but they love it because the shows them like, wow, this really measures. Where do you think the VOCs are coming from? And then we'll look around and there'll be a perfume bottle somewhere close by in the bedroom that could be out guessing into their bedroom. Or, you know, I look at the air quality monitor as for your home. It's like getting your blood work done for your body. You wanna know what's going on in your body. If you have any issues, outstanding issues or something is wrong, right? You go for a physical, the doctor sends you in for blood work. Everything comes back fine. Well this air quality monitor your home is so important.   (43:44): Your air is so important to have it as a peace of mind to know, okay, I'm living in a clean air in my home. So in my mind, it's just, you know, gives me a peace of mind that it's a very clean air in our house. Then the indoor air purifier, which of course was a huge thing for COVID because it was cleaning the air for people and people wanted, I sold a ton of those. I actually represent one here in Buffalo. I love the most, not because it's in Buffalo, but it's Austin air purifier. It's 100% made in the United States here in Buffalo, all the parts, you name it because you have to be careful with that with a lot of things, parts that are made overseas, some of the plastics come out gas in your air purifier while they're running. So you have to be really careful with some of that.   (44:35): So the, it collects 99.9% of bacteria and chemicals and VOCs and from aldehyde. So if you have any chemicals floating around, it will collect those chemicals in the filter, and it's, and there's a lot of other good ones on the market out there. I just love this one the most. And we have one in our bedroom and I'll tell you my husband. I tell people this all the time. I mean, he used to snor so bad. Like I thought the roof was gonna come off the house. And once we installed the air purifier, I can sleep with this Norrie now I barely even hear it. And I called Austin air and I said, could this be possible? It's the air pur where they're like, of course he said, you see those floating dust particles going around when the sun beams in, well, that's what it's collecting. And that can be getting in people's lungs and causing them to snort at night and dust mites and everything else, you know, that you could be sleeping and breathing in amongst the chemicals that could be out guessing in your bedroom from the sheets. So it's just being conscious of what you're taking in is the most important thing. And then trying to get to your house as clean as possible.   (45:45): Yeah. I didn't realize we have gone so long. We're gonna need to wrap up. I did wanna just tie in this quote from your mom that I love plan your life. Like you will live forever and live your life. Like you may die tomorrow. I think that that really speaks to the whole toxin situation. If you're gonna plan, like you're gonna live forever, you need to address these things that you can't see and live your life. Like you're gonna die tomorrow, monitor your air quality, filter the air, get rid of these products. And I think we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about new construction and the dangers there you mentioned for Malda Hyde. I was made sick by a new office that I went and worked in because of the off gassing of the VOCs and their formaldehyde. I was actually rendered where I, I had a toxic and encephalopathy. Wow. Luckily what you was reversible, but can you talk a little bit about that?   (46:44): Yeah. So new build is there's a lot of absolutely. And out gassing of all these products and windows is being made. So you don't have any air leaking in. I'm so happy. I live in 120 year old home where the air is leaking out and leaking in. But so you need air flow in a house. So you could be getting so tired in a home because I hear people all the time, how tired they are, not only you're being tired, but those new from paint to any kind of flooring to what they're putting on the flooring to the, uh, walls to the ceilings. I mean, those are all products that are coded in potentially, uh, harmful chemicals. Now, thank God paints. You'll see all the time, low VOC paint. There are some better products out there building materials that are better products. But I have a, a home inspector that I work with once in a while.   (47:43): And he'll go through and homes just to see for different berries things that you know, he does, but he calls some of the homes. He said some of the homes I go in it they're like coffins. They're sleeping in these homes that no air is getting moving around. They're loaded with all these new products that have chemicals emitting off of them and they emit for a while. It's not something you have to get them out gas for a while. So new builds, I would definitely be concerned. And definitely if you're in a new build, I would absolutely have air purifiers running all the time.   (48:19): Yeah. And don't bring a new baby home to a new build. Please it's just overwhelm their detoxification system. It drives me crazy when I watch HD TV, which is my absolute favorite channel. I love architecture and design and building. And when these people are like, oh, we gotta get the new bill ready. So we bring the baby home and I'm thinking, no, don't do that to your child. And most people are not aware of the dangers of that. So we would be remiss if we didn't discuss it. You know, this actually is in the mainstream information back when they had the hurricane in new Orleans and they brought in all these trailers for people to live in, in temporary housing, I think it was 30% of them got deathly ill for moving into these trailers all at one time. So this was a population study and they discovered it was from the formaldehyde. So because we all move into new homes, popcorn style there's no, it doesn't seem like there's causality, but this was very clear and undeniable. So hopefully this will lead to some building regulation changes. Thank you so much T for the wonderful information, you have a free gift that everybody can access and download top 10 toxins to avoid, uh, where it'll have the link in the show notes. Anything you wanna say about that?   (49:42): Oh yeah. It's a guide. If you go to the shop tab and tab down, I think it's the top one toxins to avoid. So, and just read your ingredients, start reading your ingredients and knowing your labels, just like you would reading your ingredients and any food that you would eat as well, reading ingredients that you're using in your home and treat your home. Like it's your best friend because you need it as much as it needs you.   (50:05): I always say that your home is your second body treat us like your second body but most people are so challenged in caring for their first body. uh, it's usually not the first thing I say, but it really is your second body mm-hmm . So T's also got a 15% off a code. Dunston two zero that you can use. Uh, we'll have that in the show notes as well. If you're interested in purchasing any of her products and I wanna thank you team for joining us today.   (50:35): Oh, you're very welcome. And you know what? That should have been 20% off DUNS than 20. So even better, there'll be 20% off. So I'm gonna email you that link just so you don't make a mistake on that one.   (50:47): Okay. We'll have it in the show notes for you. Thank you all for joining us today. Thank you for your interest in your health and for really creating the brilliant health that you deserve. I hope that you've enjoyed today's podcast episode and that you've learned something and mostly that you take the information you've learned and you take action. So I want you to think about the one change that you're gonna make based on this information, whether you're driving a car or you're working out at the gym, just make a note based on what I heard today, I am going to do X today. Just one thing. And you'll find if you hear good information and you just take action on one thing with every podcast episode you hear or blog that you read, you'll look back in a few months and you'll see how far you've come with your health and your life. So that's my instruction.   (51:44): To you.   (51:44): Thanks so much for joining me. I'll see you next week for another episode until then peace, love and hormones. Y'all   (51:52): Thank you so much for listening. I know that incredible vitality occurs for women over 40. When we learn to speak hormone and balance these vital regulators to create the health and life that we deserve. If you're enjoying this podcast, I'd love it. If you give me a review and subscribe, it really does help this podcast out so much. You can visit the hormone prescription.com, where we have some free gifts for you, and you can sign up to have a hormone evaluation with me on the podcast to gain clarity into your personal situation until next time, remember, take small steps each day to balance your hormones and watch the wonderful changes in your health that begin to unfold for you. Talk to you soon.   ► Get 20% off Tee's Organics - Use the code "Dunston20" https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/   ► Grab Tee's step by step guide jam-packed with the toxins to avoid.   Learn about the many toxins in our homes and products and how they affect your families health.   This is an easy, actionable read, so you can get through it quickly and make the changes that will make an impact! https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/next/toxins-to-avoid-e-book/   ► Feeling tired? 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Topics Discussed: In this episode Debbie interviews Therese Forton-Barnes Therese is a Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, and educator. She spreads the awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other ailments.   She helps families and individuals worried about cancer and other illnesses by identifying carcinogens and harmful chemicals in their lives and homes that potentially harm their health. She solves chemical confusion and makes finding safe and healthy products easier. She also has a household product line called Tee's Organics - that are….Healthy for You and Your Home!   She also attends many webinars all year long put on by various organizations such as Environmental Working Group, Made Safe, Silent Spring, Women's Voices for the Earth, Plastic Pollution Coalition Clean and Healthy New York, and the Collaborative on Health and Environment. She never stops learning and fighting for regulations and laws to change to protect us from harmful chemicals.     We discuss ditching the fracrances , toxins in your life and simple switches we can make to improve our health    Connect with  --Therese  ( Tee Organics) IG: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/teeforton Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/therese-tee-forton-barnes-85a821a/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw   SUBSCRIBE TO START SMALL: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/start-small/id1537390467 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/49cOe3NI7OHSXACpUsQSkC Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcjQKGox5xnowa3nD1J5vGQ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/start-small TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Health--Wellness-Podcasts/Start-Small-p1380487/ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tb3lhYXNoZWFidXR0ZXIubGlic3luLmNvbS9wbGF5ZXJmbQ   Connect with us! Website: https://www.moyaasheabutter.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moyaasheabutter/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/moyaashea Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moyaasheabutter/ Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/start.smallpodcast/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcjQKGox5xnowa3nD1J5vGQ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/moyaashea/_created/ edited by @internationalconnection 

This week we talk with Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes, a Household Toxins Health Specialist and Coach and owner of The Green Living Gurus and Tee's Organics. We talk about how products we use every day within our home affects the air we breathe and how to find (or make) good alternatives. find out more at https://thegreenlivinggurus.com

Tee is a Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, educator and a change maker leading an amazing effort to raise awareness on chemicals that are dangerous to our health that manage to easily find their way into our homes in common products and household goods. Tee is an expert at helping guide you to healthier choices for yourself, your family, and yes that also includes your pets. She joins the show to educate us on the benefits of alternative products such as her Eco-Friendly product line, Tee's Organics, which are a GREAT alternatives to keep your home sparkly clean while also reducing air and water pollution to help better preserve the environment! Her podcast, Green Living with Tee, is a great resource that will help you navigate through the process of making healthier choices for yourself and your family! Follow Tee: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ Website: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ Podcast: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/podcasts/ Follow Mike: https://linktr.ee/mikedicioccio 7 Tips to Launch Your Podcast by Social Chameleon: https://www.socialchameleon.us Interview Recorded via Riverside.fm SUBSCRIBE, SHARE & LEAVE A REVIEW!

Therese Forton-Barnes, aka “Tee”, Environmental Toxins Health Coach, and the “Head Guru”: The Green Living Gurus, LLC are promoters of healthy living and a non-toxic lifestyle. The mission of Green Living Gurus, LLC is to help people reduce their chemical exposure and especially carcinogens in their homes. We assist cancer patients, survivors, and anyone with a family concerned about chemicals in creating a non-toxic home and reducing their chemical exposure and lessening their fear of cancer, and other illnesses, and increasing their odds for a healthy life. In this episode: Tee's story from growing up in an organic, healthy family to becoming an events planner, to fulfilling her dream of helping people eliminate toxic chemicals in their life. What some of the most common toxic chemicals are and how we can avoid them. How many toxic chemicals we are exposed to and that are in our body at any one time. How you can live a more 'green' lifestyle. The dangers of common household and personal care products. Simple switches to reduce your toxicity, including cleaning products, personal care products and cooking products. How you can improve the air quality of your home. Why big corporations don't have your best interests and health in mind and the trillion dollar business of toxic chemicals. The benefits of detoxifying your body and home. Tee's top 3 tips to remove toxicity from your body and home. - Plus a whole lot more! Connect with Tee: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ https://www.instagram.com/greenliving... Connect with Me: https://www.kinetikfitness.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/aliwestcoac... https://www.facebook.com/thekinetikfi... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR9O... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thekinetikfitnessshow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thekinetikfitnessshow/support

Why is it so important to remove and reduce our body's exposure to toxins? Therese of Green Living Gurus and I discuss the affects toxins can have on your health and offer ways and baby steps to begin your green living, non-toxic, healthy living journey.Therese is an Environmental Toxins Health Coach and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She is an entrepreneur, activist, and educator. She is spreading the awareness of chemical exposure that could cause cancer and other illnesses!She helps families and individuals worried about cancer and other illnesses by identifying carcinogens and harmful chemicals in their lives and homes that potentially harm their health. She teaches the Healthy Detox Method, solves chemical confusion, and makes it easier to find safe and healthy products. She also has a household product line called Tee's Organics - Healthy for You and Your Home! | Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes, an Environmental Toxins Health Coach (Green Living Gurus) and will guide you on a road to avoid toxicants and chemicals that could cause cancer and other illnesses and lead you towards living a healthier low-tox life. She will help you navigate through the process of making healthier choices and inform you of alternative products and options that are not harmful to your health and the environment. She will help you decrease your exposure to chemicals and hopefully reduce the risk of illnesses and increase your odds of a long, healthy vital life. She teaches the The Healthy Home Detox Method and solves the problem of chemical confusion and makes it easier to find safe and healthy products.  In 2020, Therese pivoted to her true passion: healthy, natural, non-toxic living. Therese brings over 50 years of hands-on, real-world experience in living a holistic, non-toxic and organic lifestyle and is furthering her education and training all the time. In 2021 she started a new business called Tee's Organics. The product line to begin with consists of: An all-purpose cleaning spray and three room sprays that are also good for linens, sneakers, hockey/athletic bags, cars, offices and more. Her slogan is “Healthy for You and Your Home!” Besides living a healthy life, Therese loves to exercise, sip on organic wine, cook, walk her dog, go to the beach, listen to live music, plan parties, hang with her 92 year old Dad, is an avid sports fan (especially the Buffalo Bills and Sabres) and loves to cruise in her 1971 Cutlass Supreme convertible.  EPISODE TAKEAWAYS:1) The quantity of toxins in our environments, our foods, our water and air cause an overload on our bodies which affect the immune system then causing illnesses.2) We as consumers can make an impact by NOT buying these toxic products. You can make changes-there are choices. Slowly make a transition, even if it is one product a month.3)Take baby steps4) NEVER buy anything that says "fragrance" or "parfum" on it, because these are chemicals and carcinogenic.Find Therese at www.greenlivinggurus.comgreenlivinggurus@gmail.comInstagram:  | https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurusYouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw  

So many people have been buying and selling houses over the past year!  Lately, people have been much more concerned about their health and wellness, both in their lives and in their homes. Fortunately, we now get to take our health and wellness into account when looking for a new home or fixing up the house we are living in.  I am Marla, the Green Home Coach, and I am excited to bring you another teach-talk! Today I will be doing Part 2 of an episode I did a couple of weeks ago with Tee (Therese Forton-Barnes) of The Green Living Gurus. In that episode, Tee and I had a fantastic conversation about different ways to make your home better and how to clean up your house to make it less toxic, safer, and healthier for everyone living in it.  In this episode, I will be talking about what you, as a new home buyer, need to look for to find a new home that works for you and has all the elements you need. I will help you formulate a plan and share some of the things I learned from my experience of buying a home about five years ago. Specific things When buying a new home, there are specific things to look out for that will give you a good starting point for having health, wellness, and comfort in your home. You also need to notice the things that are missing so that you can build them in and improve your home. Upgrading If your home has a very old furnace or air-conditioning system, it could be a perfect opportunity to upgrade to something energy-efficient with healthy ventilation. Possibly an air-purification system, too. Financial assistance Many options are available for loans or financial assistance for energy-efficient home upgrades, either through the FHA or privately.  A plan You need to know what you are looking for when buying a new home, and you also need a plan to know where to start. I will help you formulate a plan using a hand-out I helped create for a mini-workshop for new home buyers that was put on several months ago by a mortgage company in Oklahoma City.  Lists Make a list of your top three non-negotiable priorities. (These are the things you must have.) Make a list of your top three “nice-to-haves”. (These are things you would like to have but could do without if they were not there. Make a list of the top three things that you will not accept under any circumstances. (If you are working with a realtor, share those things with them.) Finding things you want that will meet your health, safety, and comfort requirements Look at the neighborhood where the house is to make sure that you will be happy living there. Communities and neighborhoods can differ a lot. Check to see if the home has enough insulation and that it will perform. (Energy assessments are available in most communities across the US if you want to be sure.) Check for ventilation. Make sure that there are operable bath fans and a kitchen range hood that vents to the outdoors. Check for any spots, and notice any musty or suspicious smells. If you find any wet spots, have them inspected to know why they are there. Look for durable and easy-to-maintain finishes and materials, like hardwood floors and scrub-able paint. (Use low or no VOC paint if you need to repaint.) Look at the countertop materials in the bathrooms and kitchen. Make sure that they are durable and meet your lifestyle. Find out what the operating and maintenance costs are. It is vital to know what you are getting yourself into and how much it will cost to run your home. (Set aside between one and three percent of the purchase price of the house for your annual maintenance.) Take the hassle factor into account. Make sure that the house is as easy as possible to run and maintain.  Book I recommend reading Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies by Eric Corey Freed. Although it is a little dated, it covers all the basics, and I learned a lot from it! Have a happy, healthy day! Did You Miss Part 1 with Tee? Health, Happiness, and Homes with Tee of the Green Living with Tee Podcast Referral Links: My website Green Home Coach Book: Living Green Effortlessly Learn how to make your home healthier for you and our world in my Love Your Everyday Green Home  Health Happiness and Home - How to Pick A Home that Truly Works FOR You Book: Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies, by Eric Corey Freed BONUS for RENTERS "This post may contain affiliate links for your convenience. That means that if you make a purchase, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend products or services that I believe in and usually use myself."    

Finding a new home is not easy. We all want to live in a comfortable place that keeps us in good health and wellness, but many of us do not even know where to start because there are so many factors to consider.  I'm Marla, the Green Home Coach, and today I am sharing the podcast with Tee (Therese Forton-Barnes), the host of the Green Living with Tee Podcast. Both Tee and I have a strong desire to help people make their homes healthier, so we decided to introduce our two audiences to each other by co-hosting this show. In this episode, we will be diving into some simple and straightforward ways to ensure that your home is safe, healthy, and comfortable for you, your family, and the whole community. About Tee Tee lives in Buffalo, New York. She has the Green Living with Tee Podcast, a business called The Green Living Gurus, and a product line called Tee's Organics, which will launch soon.  Tee came out of college as a party planner. She ran a party and wedding planning business for thirty-five years. When the pandemic started, it was the perfect time for her to start helping people get toxic chemicals out of their homes and introduce them to a new and healthier product line.  Why should you have a greener home? The air inside your home could be between five times and a hundred times more polluted than the outdoor air. To live your best and healthiest life, you need to control what you bring into your home. Take everything you use in your home, like cleaning supplies, laundry detergents, and even air fresheners and candles into account because the chemicals in those could weaken your immune system and potentially cause cancer or other illnesses. One thing at a time  Talking about toxic chemicals can be scary for some people when they realize that there could be toxic items in every room.  One thing at a time The only way to tackle the task is to do just one thing at a time and do the best you can. Baby steps Buying a new house is the perfect time to do a healthy detox inside the house. If you feel overwhelmed, start with baby steps, and have fun while you are doing it! Doing it better Having a greener home means doing things better! Regardless of where you live- if it is in a small apartment in the city or a large house in the country, there will always be things you can do to clean the air, lower the toxicity, and make your home safer and healthier for yourself and your community. Every little bit counts! Regulations There are currently no strict regulations for the chemicals that get used in our homes. Understanding your home Green homes can be certified by the National Green Building Standard, endorsed by the National Association of Home Builders. The requirements for that certification include homeowner education and homeowner documentation to prove that the people living in the home know how to operate it and keep it at its best. Location If your home is near factories that produce pesticides, you could find some of those toxins venting into your home. Toxins (like those found in dryer sheets) could also be venting out into the environment, and your home, from other homes nearby.  Structure There could be toxic chemicals in the products used to construct the walls and roof assemblies of your home.  Moisture Ensure that your home was built to keep the moisture out. That will prevent poisonous molds from growing inside the house. When buying a house, look out for any wet spots on the walls, ceilings, and floors. Also, look out for wood rot around the windows and doors. The Hayward Score The Hayward Score can be used to assess the overall toxicity in your home. Ventilation Having good ventilation in your home is essential. It is vital to have fresh air circulating in your home, especially if it is air-tight. Opening a window just a crack will improve the overall air quality of your home.  Systems  Have a fresh air intake put onto your HVAC system, and use the best filters that you can. A great trick I learned is to turn on the blower fans when I dust and vacuum to suck the dust out of the air. Remember to replace the filters regularly to ensure that the heating and cooling system keeps on working efficiently.  Air purifiers Air purifiers can catch some of the chemicals that you cannot prevent from entering your home. How to make things better and reduce the risk of getting sick If you buy a new house, give it some time to off-gas before you move in. Leave dry-cleaned clothes or any new items outside for a while to off-gas before bringing them inside. Choose interior surfaces that are easy to clean and durable. That will prevent having to use chemicals to clean them. Paint your walls with low or no VOC paint. Tee's top three tips for healthier homes: Ditch the dryer sheets and change your laundry detergent for a chemical-free option. Use only chemical-free cleaning supplies or make your own. Filter your water and stop buying bottled water. Light bulbs Use LED light bulbs. They are recyclable, last for years, and use less energy. Toilet paper Use tree-free toilet paper so that you do no longer flush trees down the toilet. Labels Read your labels and get to know the ingredients in everything you buy.  Remember- it all starts with clean air, clean water, and natural light. Referral Links: FREE Download - Health, Happiness, and Home: How to Pick a Home that Truly Works FOR You My website Green Home Coach Green Living Gurus Learn how to make your home healthier for you and our world in my Love Your Everyday Green Home  Green Living Gurus Do You Think Your Home is Healthy? Book: Living Green Effortlessly What is a Healthy Home? 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In today's episode of Toxin Terminator, Aimee is joined by Therese Forton-Barnes! She is an environmental toxins health coach, head Green Living Guru and co-founder of Green Living Gurus, founder of the To a Tee event planning agency, Member of ISIAQ-International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate, and is studying at IAWP, the International Association of Wellness Professionals!Always a student, she has just completed a course on Environmental Health, her passion is helping cancer patients, survivors and anyone with a family history of cancer in creating a non-toxic home and reducing their chemical exposure.The studies and research numbers on how we eat are staggering. No wonder we have such an obesity problem! Check out exactly what those numbers are, and what would you think the percentage of those eating fast food are? Think it's higher in kids or adults?We're looking at the issues with how we eat and what we eat as a society. You know diabetes will continue to rise as long as the largest category of foods are carbohydrate rich foods like grains, cereal, starches and sugars.So what do we want to avoid and why? And better yet, what are some good alternatives we as busy parents can incorporate to ensure we are getting the proper nutrition?Therese runs us through her top 6 recommendations with lots of tips and advice to help you get your kids on board!And wait til you hear what her top toxin-free living tip is. Wow, I was blown away!Connect with Therese:https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/833051790530511 https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus/ https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ https://twitter.com/teeforton Connect with Aimee:http://aimeecarlson.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheToxinFreeLifestyle/https://www.instagram.com/aimeecarlson6/https://twitter.com/AimeeCa44250287https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXz7-0umMiF7jxrw_fiVEmA/featuredDisclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission at no cost to you. Keep in mind that I link these companies and their products because of their quality and not because of the commission I receive from your purchases. The decision is yours, and whether or not you decide to buy something is completely up to you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aimee-carlson0/message

In today’s episode of Toxin Terminator, Aimee is joined by Therese Forton-Barnes! She is an environmental toxins health coach, head Green Living Guru and co-founder of Green Living Gurus, founder of the To a Tee event planning agency, Member of ISIAQ-International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate, and is studying at IAWP, the International Association of Wellness Professionals!Always a student, she has just completed a course on Environmental Health, her passion is helping cancer patients, survivors and anyone with a family history of cancer in creating a non-toxic home and reducing their chemical exposure.The studies and research numbers on how we eat are staggering. No wonder we have such an obesity problem! Check out exactly what those numbers are, and what would you think the percentage of those eating fast food are? Think it's higher in kids or adults?We're looking at the issues with how we eat and what we eat as a society. You know diabetes will continue to rise as long as the largest category of foods are carbohydrate rich foods like grains, cereal, starches and sugars.So what do we want to avoid and why? And better yet, what are some good alternatives we as busy parents can incorporate to ensure we are getting the proper nutrition?Therese runs us through her top 6 recommendations with lots of tips and advice to help you get your kids on board!And wait til you hear what her top toxin-free living tip is. Wow, I was blown away!Connect with Therese:https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/833051790530511 https://www.facebook.com/GreenLivingGurus/ https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ https://twitter.com/teeforton Connect with Aimee:http://aimeecarlson.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheToxinFreeLifestyle/https://www.instagram.com/aimeecarlson6/https://twitter.com/AimeeCa44250287https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXz7-0umMiF7jxrw_fiVEmA/featuredDisclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission at no cost to you. Keep in mind that I link these companies and their products because of their quality and not because of the commission I receive from your purchases. The decision is yours, and whether or not you decide to buy something is completely up to you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our immune system is our defense mechanism against viral, bacterial, and fungal infections. There are effective ways to boost your immune system and with a strong immune system, your body has the power to cure itself. The immune system helps to provide resistance to infections and toxicity. The key players include the thymus, bone marrow, lymph nodes—and leukocytes(white blood cells), along with a complex network of cells and proteins that make up your immune system. Without going into the scientific description, it is very well known that it is important to do some things regularly that help to keep your immune system healthy. Join the Green Living Gurus on other platforms and come along for some fun learning and healthy living! Website and blog www.thegreenlivinggurus.com Services: https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/services/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../green.../id1511690360... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenlivinggurus/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_phs1GZUPzG21Zgjnqtw Join us for the Live Show "Toxic-Free Tuesday" every  Tuesdays at 7:45pm(est) https://www.facebook.com/groups/833051790530511

Therese "Tee" and Aly discuss her book Non-Toxic Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World.  In 2013, Dr. Aly Cohen created The Smart Human LLC, a company designed to inform public and private institutions about environmental health concerns and practical solutions to help minimize chemical exposures. Whether found in hospital neonatology intensive care units, pre-schools, or even our own homes, the 87,000 chemicals surrounding us on a daily basis, may have serious health implications; neurodevelopmental, fertility, cancer, thyroid, and other endocrine system risks. The human fetus, toddlers, and teens are particularly vulnerable to the effects of some extremely low-level chemical exposures due to rapid growth and cell turnover during these vulnerable windows of development.  - 2:52 Aly talks about the book and which is an offshoot of a textbook she wrote with Dr Frederick S. vom Saal, PhD in 2017  - 3:45 The book Guides you to Living a Healthy Life and walks you through the solutions. How to understand the chemical problems which help you with the solution.  How to do changes at your own pace. Do it yourself solutions and other solutions made for everyone.   It comes from her and Fred's own experience. Dr Frederick S. vom Saal, PhD was the one primarily the person behind getting BPA out of baby bottles. Aly is also a  Mom and wanted to make sure her kids were not inundated with chemicals invading their bodies and shares her knowledge.   - 9:34 Once you start to reduce your exposure to certain chemicals in your life, there is evidence that the chemicals will also start exiting your system.  -13:36 Many physicians are not trained in chemicals and nutrition and they have very little time to share this information with their patients. Physicians have to learn it outside their practice. Most major Medical Schools are primarily subsidized by the Pharma industry and they do not even teach Nutrition right now in 2020. Even the best Medical Schools in the USA get about 5 hours of nutrition education in 4 years of medical school.  -15:20 It is an uphill climb:  Doctors are not trained in Chemicals like BPA, Phthalates, heavy metals, and environmental exposures, and how they affect brain health, the endocrine system and cognition and breast cancer risk etc... She is trying to change it from the inside out.  -16:48 There are many different formulas for products in Europe than for the same products in the USA.   -17:42 She is seeing sicker and sicker patients and at younger ages such as obesity, infertility, autoimmune diseases, and thyroid conditions in their 20's. Sicker people at younger ages.   -18:18 With regard to COVID-19 these chemicals cause inflammation in the body. You should be thinking about reducing inflammation by reducing chemicals that can contribute to a lot of chronic health conditions.  -20:31 Nutritional Sufficiency's: What you eat in nutrition can help you reduce the harm from these exposures.  She calls it human fertilizer.   -21:30 Vitamin D and the benefits 22:40 What is her biggest beef? Clean drinking water and Toxic Air fresheners  -29:37 The Smart Human - Her platform/website with tips every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. www.thesmarthuman.com  Order her book 'Non-Toxic Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World':  https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190082356/?ref=exp_influencer-c360edec_dp_vv_d Website:  https://thesmarthuman.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSmartHuman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesmarthuman/?hl=en Podcast: https://thesmarthuman.com/podcast/ For more information on Therese Forton-Barnes and the Green Living Gurus see the following: website:  https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/ email: greenlivinggurus@gmail.com

There are so many skin care and makeup products with harmful chemicals in them. BEAUTYCOUNTER is one company, started bt Gregg Renfrew after she realized there were so many harmful chemicals in products she was applying to herself and her children. Amanda Lux, a manager with BEAUTYCOUNTER, helps to guide us through the mission of BEAUTYCOUNTER  and all of the great non-toxic products they have. She will also tell us about their Blueprint for Clean standards Please join our Facebook Group called Healthy Living and Toxic Free(HLTF) and become part of our community on living a healthier life and avoiding harmful chemicals.  You can also join our Facebook business page Green Living Gurus. To join Amanda on her mission to help get safer products into everyones hands: Shop with Amanda here: https://www.beautycounter.com/AMANDALUX Or follow her on social media: Facebook: Amanda Michele Lux (Farrell) Instagram: Amanda_Mich

Are you ready to get started and learn about chemicals and getting them out of your house, office and your lives?Therese Forton-Barnes and The Green Living Gurus will guide you along the way. Learn about Therese and her experience. Take the first step to getting harmful chemicals out of your life and to making alternative choices for the better of your health and environment.