Change Your Brain Every Day - Top Toxic Products You Should Stop Buying

Episode Date: October 7, 2019

An oft overlooked fact about personal products (makeup, hair & skin care, etc.) is that what you put on your skin goes into your body and affects it. Therefore, you could be poisoning yourself every day and not even know it. In the first episode of a series on toxic products, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe how easy it is to be tricked by product marketing, as well as the simple way to see exactly how healthy the products you use are to you, so you can throw them out!

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Amen. And I'm Tana Amen. In our podcast, we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Amen Clinics, where we have been transforming lives for 30 years using tools like brain spec imaging to personalize treatment to your brain. For more information, visit amenclinics.com. The Brain Warriors Way podcast is also brought to you by BrainMD, where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body. To learn more, go to brainmd.com. Welcome back. This week, we're going to talk about toxic products that you use on yourself and in your house. I wanted to do this this week because

I saw my brain scan after going through surgery, and I've actually had 10 surgeries and anesthesia affects your brain. And I've spent what a decade, my forties, late thirties and forties doing food. And so I want, you know, I want to do everything I can to make my brain better. I didn't like what I saw in my scan and wanted to make my brain better. And so the next thing is products. And when I really realized how bad some of the products were that I was putting on my body. So why did you get scanned? I wasn't feeling right after surgery. So you had a hysterectomy. I had a hysterectomy and I just didn't feel right. I kept saying I felt like I was walking through mud and I go back to the doctor and she's like, well, you're fine now.

Like you're recovered. And I recovered fine. I mean, the recovery process was fine. I was exercising again or trying to. I didn't have the same energy. And I just didn't feel quite right. I couldn't articulate why. I just didn't feel quite right.

I even went and checked to see if I was going through menopause. And everyone kept saying I was not. My hormones were all normal, but I didn't feel normal. So when I got scanned, my- Well, I would actually never call you normal. That wouldn't be in the top 10. Amazing, awesome, passionate. Okay. But this is not really about me, except that I want to get to products. So when I saw my scan, it looked a little sleepy. And so I'm like, you

know, I want to focus on getting as healthy as I can. And so I'm already doing food. I'm like, I went after food. I got, I went, but I have to say I was not as motivated for a while. So my food even got a little bit sloppy. So I got really motivated to get my food back on track, but I have to say I was not as motivated for a while. So my food even got a little bit sloppy. So I got really motivated to get my food back on track, but I really wanted to focus on products. And so I started using the app Think Dirty and all my quote unquote healthy products that I was using were not that healthy. So just like with health food, when things say healthy or health food, you have to be really suspicious and read labels. Or they put it in green packaging so that you assume it may be. Now, before we talk about it, let's talk about a review. And then let's remind you, if there's one thing you learn

from this podcast, please post it on any of your social media channel and hashtag brainwarriorswaypodcast. And if you leave a review on brainwarriorswaypodcast.com or on Apple Podcasts or wherever podcasts are, we will enter you into a drawing for a free Brain Warriors Way cookbook. So this one made me cry. This is from Catherine Willett. I have followed Dr. Amen since he was first on PBS, which is now, goodness, 11, 12 years ago. And I have since found him and Tana on YouTube. Thank God I did because it may save my 33 year old son's life. I am in the middle of trying to fight for his life as I did for my own, but have to get the pieces of the puzzle together. In the meantime, until I can gather my thoughts, thank you for your comments on meningitis and mold. I think this is key. Oh, that's really sweet. Well, good. So let's talk about products. So

one thing I want to start with is that my very expensive, like the most expensive products I had from the department store that say phytonutrient based on Think Dirty rated an eight or a nine. Now zero is the cleanest. It's the most green. Ten is the worst, the most toxic. They were rating an eight or a nine, and they were the most expensive products I had. So Think Dirty is free. You can download it on the App Store. And it basically tells you on a scale of zero to ten how quickly these products are killing you. Right.

So most of my products are really awful. So sunscreen, hairspray, a lot of that kind of stuff is the worst, right? Deodorant, those are the worst. Most of them are the worst. But there's a lot of really great products out there that are really clean. And so I went, I found a couple of brands that I just love. And I was surprised. And I tried to do this in the past and the makeup that was natural, not all of it was great. Deodorant wasn't really great in the past, but now they've gotten really on board. And some of these brands are making really great products. They not only smell great, they feel great and they work.

So I'm really excited about it. And I went and bought a bunch of stuff that was, and so I'm testing some of the stuff and sharing with people what's working and I'm asking my community to do the same. So please, if you guys have products, share with the community. Here's the only thing I ask. It has to be under a three, three or lower. Anything above a three is not considered green. So use Think Dirty. Let us know if it's a three or less and share it with us. So you can share it here. You can tag us on Instagram. So the ones I have found so far that I love, and I'm going to keep continue doing this for personal products, a hundred percent pure is amazing. Just amazing. For hair products,

inner essence is really great. A hundred percent pure is great. Inner essence. Those are a couple of them. There's a couple others. Pacifica makes a couple of products that are really great um their eyeshadows are really nice and they're green um the makeup from 100 pure is just awesome though it's really really really nice i haven't found a product of theirs i don't like yet um and you are not a spokesman for that i'm not so people no i'm not getting sponsored let's take a step back and go, so why do people, why should you really care? And most people don't know that whatever goes on your skin goes into your body. So your skin is the largest organ in your body and it absorbs things. Well, if that wasn't true, then Johnson & Johnson wouldn't have just lost two major lawsuits. With baby powder.

Right. Right. So this is really important. Whatever goes on your skin, goes in your body, affects your body, and becomes part of your body so before i wrote memory rescue i never really read ingredient labels on the deodorant shampoo bath soap hair i mean i have no hair now so it doesn't matter sunscreen and so on but things like parabens and phthalates fragrances pegs they're toxic for your body that many of those are called hormone disruptors and you know And as you age, you mentioned menopause, and people know I turned 65 this year. As you age, your hormones go low and low, but they don't have to. It's often an accumulation of the toxins that we put on our bodies. And in the next podcast, we'll actually go through, I'm going to ask you

questions about toxins to know your toxic load, but I'm so proud of you for really getting your scan, becoming even more passionate about how do I make this better? So two of the household products that we found that we really like, Eco, so obviously is a really good one. Seventh Generation makes some really nice ones. But here's what I noticed. As I was doing this, my skin started to feel so much nicer and my hair, like I'm using less hairspray,

trying to go more natural. Today's one of the first days that I used any of my old products at all. I'm only using about a third of them because I have to do a bunch of filming and I don't have everything I need that's natural for filming to make your skin look smooth for camera. And it feels icky. And I'm starting to realize that I actually prefer going without with just less in general, like almost no makeup. I'm starting to get used to it

because your skin starts to glow more and feel nicer. And now that I have like the old powder and stuff on, it doesn't feel good. It's, you start to realize how dull your skin looks. Your hair starts to look shinier and you mentioned it because you don't use the hair spray and stuff like that. You start to realize it's softer and shinier. Yeah. So you just start to realize it because Because it's more natural for you. So when we come back, I'm going to give you a questionnaire on how do you know about the toxic load in your body if you can't get scanned? And so is there one thing you learned today that you can post?

Like whatever goes on your body, goes in your body. Or do you have a product that you love that's below a three on Think Dirty? Share it with us that you just, you know, something you want everyone to know about. And if you post it or leave a review, we'll put you in a raffle for the Brain Warriors Way cookbook signed by my beautiful wife, Tana. We'll share with you who our winners were too. Oh yeah. We have books today to give away. Stay with us. If you're enjoying the Brain Warriors Way podcast, please don't forget to subscribe.

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