Cleaning Supplies, Household Chemicals & Your Health

08/25/21 • 60 min

What are the dangers and impacts of conventional cleaning supplies, laundry detergents and chemical products on your health and the environment? Find out in today's episode featuring the founder and environmental engineer behind Meliora Cleaning products, a Chicago-based manufacturer of people- and planet-friendly household cleaners.
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During this episode, you'll learn:

Why you should be more mindful about the products stocked under your sink and in cupboards
How cleaning products impact reproductive health, especially in women
Why “fragrances” are so problematic
What specific ingredients often found in cleaning products should be avoided
How you can avoid harmful fragrances in everyday household and hygiene products
How to understand ingredient labels on cleaning and household products
How conventional cleaning and laundry products impact the health of our Earth
Misconceptions about non-toxic cleaning products?
What sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate is
What glycerin is and how it interacts with the body
Why you should opt for bleach alternative
What you should know about bath & body soaps
Why support B Corp certified companies is important

More about Meliora Cleaning Products :
MELIORA MEANS BETTER: Pronounced meh-lee-OR-ah, Meliora Cleaning Products is a Certified B Corp committed to people, planet, and profit.

About Kate Jakubas:
Kate Jakubas is the Founder of Meliora Cleaning Products and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Stuart School of Business. Kate earned her BS in Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Masters in Environmental Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2013. She holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from ASQ.

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Why you should be more mindful about the products stocked under your sink and in cupboards
How cleaning products impact reproductive health, especially in women
Why “fragrances” are so problematic
What specific ingredients often found in cleaning products should be avoided
How you can avoid harmful fragrances in everyday household and hygiene products
How to understand ingredient labels on cleaning and household products
How conventional cleaning and laundry products impact the health of our Earth
Misconceptions about non-toxic cleaning products?
What sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate is
What glycerin is and how it interacts with the body
Why you should opt for bleach alternative
What you should know about bath & body soaps
Why support B Corp certified companies is important

More about Meliora Cleaning Products :
MELIORA MEANS BETTER: Pronounced meh-lee-OR-ah, Meliora Cleaning Products is a Certified B Corp committed to people, planet, and profit.

For more on Lauren Kelly & The Clean Body Podcast:

Lauren’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/HolisticLaurenKelly/
The Clean Body Podcasts's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecleanbodypodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HolisticLaurenKelly

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Ayurvedic Medicine, Balancing Hormones, Bio Individuality + More

Today on The Clean Body Podcast, I talk to the founder of You Again Priya Mullvihill about bio-balance, bio-individuality, Ayurvedic medicine and more.
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During the episode, you'll learn:

How Priya discovered Ayurveda
How Ayurveda works into a holistic lifestyle or source of holistic medicine
What the foundational basics or principles of Ayurveda are
What the constitutions (also called Doshas – Vata, Pitta, Kapha) of Ayurveda are
What body types, mental characteristics, and emotional tendencies indicate within Ayurveda
What Prana is and how one can focus on or control it
Different lifestyle practices that fall within an Ayurvedic lifestyle
What bio-balance and bio individuality is
What functional ingredients are
What the functional benefits You Again cookie, brownie, and muffin mixes offer
How You Again mixes compare to conventional mixes and support gut health
How Ayurvedic foods and You Again mixes support hormonal balance?

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About Pirya Mullvihill
Prior to launching You Again, I spent nearly a decade working in both public and private accounting, more notably working in senior management roles at successful high growth natural food CPG brands (RXBAR and Your Super). With a personal passion for product development and my CPG experience, coupled with navigating my own health journey with an eating disorder, malnutrition, and hormone disruption (with the use of superfoods + adaptogens), I decided to bring You Again to the market in late 2020, realizing the world is in need of functional comfort food.
Learn More About You Again:

Website: https://youagain.co/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/youagainfoods
Twitter: https://twitter.com/youagainfoods

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How Mold In Your Home Is Deteriorating Your Health

If you have leaky gut, chronic fatigue, brain fog, mood disorders, allergies, respiratory dysfunctions, or other chronic conditions, have you ever considered that mold toxicity may be the root cause? In this episode of The Clean Body Podcast, I'm talking to the author of The Mold Medic Michael Rubio. During the conversation, you'll learn:

What mold, mold sensitivity, and mold toxicity are
How many people are impact by mold toxicity right now in America
How mold toxicity causes and/or contributes to candida overgrowth, leaky gut, chronic fatigue syndrome, acne and other skin conditions, joint and muscle pain
What mold toxicity symptoms often look like
How mold can get into your home
What mycotoxins are
What the most common kinds of mold are found in people’ homes (and where!)
How to locate and detoxify mold
How air quality plays a role in prevent mold
How air purifiers work to manage mold

About Michael Rubino:
Michael Rubino is an international mold remediation expert with nearly a decade of field experience working with individuals who are immunocompromised to improve the air quality in their homes. He is a council certified Mold Remediator by IICRC and ACAC and a contributing member, sponsor, and speaker for the Indoor Air Quality Association. He works with roughly seventy-five to 100 families each year as they return to their homes after mold exposure.

About The Mold Medic:

Is mold a problem in your home? It is for many people, and often they don’t know what to do about it. Every year, mold damages property and costs homeowners money. Mold also can be dangerous to your health, especially if you’re susceptible to chronic mold sensitivity.
Luckily, The Mold Medic is here to equip you with the tools to fight the mold battle safely and effectively. With over seven years of field experience, Michael Rubino excels at working with individuals who are immunocompromised to improve their homes’ air quality. Rubino’s step-by-step guidebook is an easy, accessible tool that will teach you how to find a team to locate the mold, the process involved in removing it, and what is needed to detoxify your home and belongings from mold-created by-products.
Rubino’s expert advice is the go-to resource for anyone worried about an increasingly common problem that can have life-threatening side effects. The Mold Medic can help you breathe easier.
Learn More About Michael, The Mold Medic & All American Restoration:

Michael Rubino's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themoldmedic/
The Mold Medic website: https://www.themoldmedic.com/
Mold Talks podcast: https://www.allamericanrestoration.com/mold-talks/
All American Restoration website: https://www.allamericanrestoration.com/

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The Clean Body Podcast - Cleaning Supplies, Household Chemicals & Your Health

Transcript

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We're used to reading ingredients on food forever. More recently in the last decade or two people are much more focused on looking at what's in cosmetics,

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just at the very beginning of being able to read ingredient labels on cleaning products. I think this is going to be an area that changes really quickly. I would love to be at a place as a society where you pick up a bottle of cleaner,

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