Is Your Sponge Making You Sick? Shocking Truth | Courtney Swan DSH #1093

I'm excited about this new year because I feel like more and more people are really becoming conscious of seed oils.

I hope that there's going to be a shift or restaurants are going to 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 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 a 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?

Because 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 R.K.

Jr.

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 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 policy yeah and a big part of what i was seeing was the ingredients and the food right yes that was the main issue yeah and actually uh if anybody has seen the kelloggs thing that's been going on that's kind of where that's where vonnie started talking about all of that and started her like cancel kelloggs because she wanted to create a movement behind that and i think that's, I mean, she just testified or not testified, but she did a speech yesterday saying if 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, 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 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 this 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 a non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

They're still using it.

And they're still spraying it all of our food.

And it's all over conventional.

I mean, there was this 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, Fruit 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 a heart healthy meal yeah they also market it 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 Zin Honeycutt has a company called Moms Cross 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.

Chickpeas, huh?

Chickpeas 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.

Yes.

Those have glyphosate on them too.

Yep.

Yep.

Almonds.

Oh, 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 that if you're not buying organic, it's probably Dalston 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.

Oh, man.

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Water.

We started making our own at our house.

See, that's amazing.

Sourdough.

And then you get organic peanut butter and you get a real fruit spread that's not made with high fructose corn syrup.

And then you can enjoy that peanut butter and jelly, but it's about the ingredients.

Crazy.

Do you use the Yuka app when you shop?

Yeah, Yuka is great.

I also really like Trash Panda.

It's another really good one.

If people don't know what that app is, 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 with Yuka, though, I'll say is they don't account for seed oils oh yeah see trash panda does oh they do yeah so i got to switch to trash panda then yeah trash panda is really good and i started using seed oil scout oh seed oil scalp has amazing 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 yeah and i check it all the time for new restaurants because they're always putting new ones on there i love that um i'm 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 there's going to be a shift where restaurants are going to 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 states I can't remember where.

Was it in, it might have been in New York where they're saying they're going to take the fluoride out of the water.

I don't remember.

Was it in 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, you know, the Kellogg cereals, the fruit 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 of 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 shouldn't be in schools.

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 going to get the Unreal candy bars.

I'm not the like, get raisins and popcorn.

Like I'm, I'm a true, I love Halloween and I, that was one of my favorite holidays growing up and I loved 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 hyphricus corn syrup and all the ingredients.

I've had.

Yes.

I actually really like Smart Sweet.

Yeah.

I'll say Sprouts has some decent candy.

Yeah.

Sprouts and uh Whole Foods.

Yes.

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.

They're like they're M's.

Yeah.

Those are amazing.

Justin's peanut butter cups or or whatever.

Yes.

Those are good.

Also, Justin's just came out with peanut butter MMs 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 only 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 did not even have a microwave in my home for like 10 years.

My last two homes, they have them 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, doesn't taste as good.

No.

You'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 the microwave?

Yeah, that's a lot.

That's a little pressure.

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 yeah you know eating out of the oven yeah 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 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 yeah it really doesn't take that long it takes a couple 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 tough on pans big deal I think we talked about this on your show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just found out about sponges from Dr.

Pampa.

Wait, I don't know about this, actually.

Yeah.

So do you use a sponge at home?

So after like two days, the bacterial growth is so like massive

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.

So there's so much bacteria on that that it's just getting everywhere.

If 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, because 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, good, get good filtered water, do the things that you can control.

And then just try not to stress about the breast 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.

Oh, because I've been traveling.

I haven't done it 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 up front.

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 a while.

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 an ex, and I'm trying to grow that right now by Real Foodology.

All right.

Where we're not censored.

Yeah.

We'll link it below.

Thanks for coming on in.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.