Digital Social Hour - Is Your Sponge Making You Sick? Shocking Truth | Courtney Swan DSH #1093

Episode Date: January 12, 2025

Is your sponge a secret health hazard? 🧽😱 Discover the shocking truth about everyday household items that could be making you sick! Join Sean Kelly and guest Courtney Swan as they uncover the hidden dangers lurking in your kitchen.   🍽️ From toxic food ingredients to surprising bacterial growth, this episode is packed with eye-opening revelations. Learn about the alarming presence of glyphosate in our food, the dangers of seed oils, and why your microwave might be doing more harm than good.   🔍 Courtney shares her experience testifying before the Senate and reveals how consumer awareness is driving change in the food industry. You'll get practical tips on how to shop smarter, eat cleaner, and protect your family's health.   Don't miss out on this must-watch episode! Tune in now to arm yourself with knowledge and take control of your health. Hit that subscribe button and join the Digital Social Hour community for more insider secrets on living your best life. 🚀   #HealthyLiving #FoodSafety #DigitalSocialHour #CleanEating #WellnessJourney   #cleaningandsanitation #preventfoodborneillness #foodborneillness #foodsafetymanagement #foodsafetyandhygiene   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Courtney Swan Returns 05:00 - Prolon Fasting Benefits 06:02 - Homemade Bread Tips 06:14 - Yuka App and Trash Panda 06:37 - Seed Oil Scout Insights 07:44 - Soda Ban in Schools Debate 08:44 - Healthy Halloween Candy Options 09:54 - Microwaves and Health Risks 10:59 - Kitchen Sponges Hygiene 11:29 - Laundry Detergent Pods Safety 13:03 - Finding Courtney Online   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Courtney Swan https://www.instagram.com/realfoodology   SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/

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because I feel like more and more people are really becoming conscious of seed oils. I hope that there's gonna be a shift or restaurants are gonna stop using it. Oh, it's already starting because I got Seed Oil Scout three years ago in Vegas. There was maybe one or two restaurants on the whole app. And now there's like at least 25.

There was a big study that just came out linking it to colon cancer. So I think people are really starting to pay attention. All right guys, Courtney Swan is back. It's been a while. How you been? Good, how have you been? I've been great.

Maha and Maga, right? A lot has happened since the last time I saw you. If you had told me when we talked a year and a half ago that this would be all converging together, I wouldn't have believed you. Who would have thought you would testify at Senate? Oh my God, that was so incredible. I'm so grateful for that experience.

It's so surreal. Yeah, so what was the outcome of that? Cause I saw a lot of viral clips. So did anything come from that? Yeah, I mean, we got a ton of exposure for our movement, which was incredible. I think it got a lot of people on the same page with RK Junior and this whole Maha movement. We're hoping to do a lot more of those because we're hoping that we can actually drive change.

That was kind of a beginning step to get the conversation started and make people aware of it so that hopefully we can start driving more change in Washington so we can actually change the policies. Yeah. And a big part of what I was seeing was the ingredients in the food, right? Yes. That was the main issue. Yeah. And actually, if anybody has seen the Kellogg's thing that's been going on, that's

kind of where, that's where Vani started talking about all of that and started her like cancel Kellogg's because she wanted to create a movement behind that. And I think that's, I mean, she just testified or not testify, but she did a speech yesterday saying that they're down 54% in sales. What? Yes. 54%? And she started that at the Senate and it created just like a wildfire.

And that's a huge company. So when you hear 54% for like a small business, that's still a lot, but for them, that's hundreds of millions, right? Oh yeah. Well, and it's also, I mean, it makes sense. You know, it's un-American. The fact that these American companies are creating these food products here in America that are made with poisons that they don't put in other countries. It's literally, it's an act of

terrorism against us. Yeah. Against our own people. Yeah. Because you read the same ingredients in Europe. Exactly. Nowhere close, right? Yeah. Well, and a lot of, if they get the American version in Europe, it actually comes with a warning label on it, but they're forced to create better formulations in Europe where they don't use those toxic food

dyes because they have found that it causes hyperactivity in children. There's also links to cancer. Wow. That's nuts. And are the most harmful ingredients in something like that, the food coloring, the food dyes? I mean, there's also glyphosate, which is not actually on the label. This is what I testified in the Senate about is that Bayer bought Monsanto, an agrochemical company back in 2018, and they control largely our entire food supply because they're in charge of the seeds. And the genetically modified seeds are getting into our food system and they're spraying them really heavily with a chemical called glyphosate. It's herbicide, very heavily linked to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In fact, they've been sued $2.2 billion, I think now they've had to pay out to farmers for getting

non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. They're still using it? And they're still spraying in all of our food. And it's all over conventional. I mean, there was a study that came out through the EWG environmental working group last year. They found that 80 to 90% of the grain products on our store shelves had glyphosate contamination. Oh my gosh. So all the bread, all the... Yeah. Bread, I mean, Cheez-Its, you name it. Like all the Kellogg cereals, Froot Loops.

And we're feeding these to our children. Cheerios actually, they did an independent study and they came across... They found that they were really high in glyphosate. That's crazy. Yeah. And they market that as. That's crazy. Yeah. And they market that as a heart healthy meal. Yeah, they also marketed directly to children. Right. I saw, I think it was Bonza,

one of the healthier ones, they had a ton of glyphosate in it. They actually, that was really wild. So I have a, my friend's in Honeycutt, has a company called Moms Across America, and they do a lot of independent testing. Yeah. And they found that Bonza had the highest amount of glyphosate than any other food product they've ever seen.

Crazy. Shake peas, huh? Shake peas are one that if you're eating them, make sure that they're organic because otherwise they're really, they're very heavily sprayed with glyphosate. So all the nuts and seeds, those have glyphosate on them too? Yep. Yep. Almonds, all exactly. Peanut butter. Peanut butter actually is really heavily sprayed with glyphosate as well. So you want to make sure that, I mean, unfortunately the reality is, is that if you're not buying organic, it's probably doused in glyphosate. I used to love me at peanut butter jelly growing up. Oh, I love peanut butter. Peanut butter fluff, peanut butter

jelly. I know. It's such a classic, but look, you can still do that, right? But you need to get real bread. American bread, like Wonder Bread or Sarah Lee or any of those breads, they don't mold. I just saw a video actually that was going viral of this woman that had all these different breads. It was like Sarah Lee and Wonder Bread and they had been sitting on her counter for months. They didn't mold.

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you can just go to the grocery store and you can look at any label and scan it in the app. And then it tells you all the ingredients and it tells you whether or not you should buy that. But one thing where you could all say is they don't account for seed oils. Oh yeah. See, Trash Panda does. Oh, they do? Yeah. Okay. So I got to switch to Trash Panda. Yeah. Trash Panda is really good. And I started using Seed Oil Scout. Oh, Seed Oil Scout is a great one. I travel so much and I use it all the time. And it also helps me find new restaurants in my city. I just moved to Denver and I check it all the time for new restaurants because they're always putting new ones on there. I'm excited about this new year because I feel like more and more people are really becoming conscious of seed oils. And it's made it so hard to eat out if you're trying to avoid seed oils, but I feel like people are becoming so conscious

of it that it's going to... I hope that that there's gonna be a shift or restaurants are gonna stop using it. Oh, it's already starting because I got seed oil scout three years ago in Vegas. There was maybe one or two restaurants on the whole app. Wow. And now there's like at least 25. So that's amazing. Yeah, it's definitely growing. Well, there's a, there was a big study that just came out linking it to colon cancer. Wow. Yeah, it just came out like two weeks ago. And so I think people are really starting to pay attention. Also the fluoride studies are concerning.

I mean, lowering IQ by three points. I mean, yes. That's no joke. No, and there's a couple of states, I can't remember where, was it in, it might've been in New York, where they're saying they're gonna take the fluoride out of the water.

I don't remember what the year was. Was it New York or Cali? I don't know. I don't think California. California actually just passed a law though, that they're no longer going to allow food dyes in schools. Oh, nice. Which is huge because that's going to take out all of the Kellogg's cereals, the Froot Loops. Yeah. Do you think soda vending machines should be banned in schools? I do. I know this is kind of controversial because people don't want to have their food

controlled. But the way that I view this is it's similar to like look at what happened with DDT. When we found out that DDT was seriously harming people, we had to have the government intervene because we can't just have a free-for-all with all these chemicals in our food system. And with something like soda, I feel like having them in schools, I just think that they shouldn't have direct access to that. I think that once you're an adult and you're free to make your own decisions, like not saying that kids aren't,

but I just feel like it's pushed on them at such a young age that we shouldn't allow them in schools. I mean, they're loaded with sugar. We know they're terrible for you. They're linked to diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is rising in teens like crazy right now. I personally think, yeah, they should have me in school. What candy did you give out on Halloween at your house?

So actually I wasn't home this year for Halloween. And now I've been traveling so much. I'm like, where was I? But my plan was I was gonna get the unreal candy bars. I'm not the like get raisins and popcorn. Like I'm a true, I love Halloween. And that was one of my favorite holidays growing up. And I love getting the candy, but I want the healthy candy.

So get like the unreal bars where they make like snicker bars and they're just without the hypergys corn syrup and all the ingredients. Smart sweets I've had. Yes, I actually really like smart sweets. Yeah, I'll say sprouts has some decent candy. Yeah. Sprouts and whole foods.

Yes, yeah, exactly. That's where I go. So I would have just done a whole foods and I would have gotten like all the different. Unreal gems are really good too. Like they're M&Ms. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's where I go. So I would have just gone to whole foods and I would have gotten like all the different unreal gems are really good too. Like they're M&M's. Yeah. Those are amazing. Justin's peanut butter cups or whatever. Yes.

Those are good. Although Justin's just came out with peanut butter M&M's and they're so good. I got to try that. Are the nuts organic though in it? Yes. They are? That's a good question. I'm pretty sure they are. I think all their stuff is organic. Yeah. I'm so careful when I shop on the shelves these days at grocery stores. I try to stay on the outside. Yeah. No, it's good. That's smart.

Even like, I used to buy a lot of freezer stuff. I kind of chilled on that. I used to do that in college and then I realized. Because I don't use microwaves anymore. Same. I don't use a microwave. I haven't used a microwave in like 20 years. Whoa. Well done. You beat me by 20, 19 years and six months.

I actually, I actually did not even have a microwave in my home for like 10 years. My last two homes, they haven't built in the kitchen. But when it wasn't in the kitchen, I wouldn't even buy a microwave. I just didn't even have one. The food, first of all, it doesn't taste as good. No.

They're cooking out the nutrients. It's also, it kind of weirds me out when you look at a package and it says 40 minutes in the oven or two minutes in the microwave. What is happening in a microwave? Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's crazy. That's like a huge difference. I just feel better. I've been like just eating out of the oven lately. You know, eating out of the oven. Well, just like even like the thing you microwave the takeout containers, there's plastic in it. Yes. So you're eating plastic. So I put it in glass. Yeah, you have to.

To be honest, yeah, I try not to do that often. But when I do, yeah, I I put it in glass. Yeah, you have to. To be honest, yeah, I try not to do that often, but when I do, yeah, I'll put it in glass and then heat it up in the oven or just put it in a pan on the stove. It really doesn't take that long. It takes a couple of minutes on the stove in a pan. It's not a big deal. Yeah, kitchen's one of the most dangerous places

in the house if you're not doing it right. Yes, Teflon pans, big deal. I think we talked about this on your show. Yeah, I just found out about sponges from Dr. Pompa. Wait, I don't know about this actually. Yeah. So do you use a sponge at home? Uh-huh.

So after like two days, the bacterial growth is so like massive. I mean, it makes sense. That you need to be constantly swapping out your sponge, but most people do not. Oh yeah. We've had the same sponge for like four months. That's what I'm saying. I need to go home and just brush that out. So there's so much bacteria on that, that it's just getting everywhere.

I mean, it makes- You think you're cleaning a plate, you're making it worse. It makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And dishwasher pods are another big one. Well, those are plastic coated. Yeah.

So actually a girlfriend of mine found pods that she really liked. And so what she does is she opens the plastic part and then just dumps the actual detergent in the machine. Oh wow. So that you don't have, cause it puts microplastics all over your. I didn't even think about that. But yeah, when you throw it in the laundry machine, the plastic's gone.

Where is it? Exactly. It melts and then it goes into the water and all over your dishes. I know it's so, it's, look, it's one of those things that I try to remind people that you can really go down a bunch of rabbit holes and really freak yourself out and become super paranoid.

You just can't allow yourself to do that. Like you just buy the products that you know are clean and safe, buy the organic food whenever you can, buy whole real foods, prioritize that, get good filtered water, do the things that you can control. And then just try not to stress about the breasts because our bodies are also resilient. There's many things we can do like sweat.

We've talked about this. Get in a sauna, sweat everything out and just hope for the best. I can't wait to sauna tonight. Cause I've been traveling. I haven't done in three days. I'm like craving it. I'm like addicted.

Yes, it makes you feel so good. Yeah, I got, and also air filters. Yes, air filters I think are a really massive one. Massive. Yes, and they can be a big investment upfront but if you get a good, I really like the brand Jasper. They are expensive. They have a higher price tag, but they have a lifetime warranty. They will always replace it for you. And he even said when they update the machinery on it, that he will send everybody out the new updates on everything because he's

guaranteed that like once you buy one, you have it for life. Oh wow. And they're really superior. That's cool. I'll look into that one. Yeah. Shout out to him. Where can people support your mission and Maha? Yeah, at Real Foodology. So I have a podcast. It's called Real Foodology. And then I also have an Instagram account and a TikTok Real Foodology. I'm also on X. And I'm trying to grow that right now. Let's go. Real Foodology. All right.

Where we're not censored. Yeah. We'll link it below. Thanks for coming on again. Thank you so much. Bet MGM is an official sports betting partner of the National Hockey League and has your back all season long. Thank you so much. or your style, there's something every NHL fan is going to love about BetMGM. Download the app today and discover why BetMGM is your hockey home for the season. Raise your game to the next level this year with BetMGM, a sportsbook worth a celly, and an official sports betting partner of the National Hockey League. BetMGM.com for terms and conditions.

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