 Well, hello everybody. I am live today on Dr. Jill live another episode with Warren Phillips. I'm going to introduce him in just a moment. He's also known as non toxic dad. Today you're in for a real treat because we're going to dive into really practical ways that you can live your life, build your home, protect your family from the toxins that we all encounter. I think often when we talk about this topic, it's just doom and gloom, and it can be completely overwhelming. But we're going to actually share practical tips from our lives. What do we do? What do we actually take into practice and play from the expert, the dad that is the non toxic dad. I was featured on his podcast and such an honor. And now here you are here. So welcome, Warren. Thanks so much for joining us. Dr. Jill, I absolutely love talking to you. We're so much on the same page and we really understand the impact of toxins. I mean on the world's health in general, but and how it affects the outcomes in our lives, our history, our future, our legacy as a dad. And you know, the next generation coming up, we've got to get a hold of this stuff so that we can really have that impact that we need. If we're bound up with all these toxins, we're done. And so pioneers like you, I mean, I've been doing this for 20 years as well. And we've been, we've suffered with all the symptomology, but we're both on fire to educate the world to live a non toxic lifestyle. So this, I couldn't be more happy in speaking to the right crowd and share any of the tips, tricks and things that I do that can make their lives better to help them make decisions and choices that are going to take them incrementally better in their lives. So I'm so excited. Thank you. You are so welcome. I love your energy and it's same for me because it's so exciting to know that there are solutions. Let me just do a brief intro so people know who you are. Warren also known as non toxic dad is a scientist and a dad who's dedicated his life to promoting a toxin free lifestyle. And like I said today, we're going to get really practical to give you some tips and tricks that you probably put into place right away. He's completed his master's in geology, then he worked as a scientist for several years, but then his focus shifted as he started struggling with unusual health issues and noticing the harmful effects of toxins on his health me to Warren. It sparked his passion in researching and proponent a toxin free lifestyle. And what I love is your mission is just to help others keep healthy and toxin free living. And what's really, really precious is as a dad, you know, as a family, often people out there like what do we do for our children and one of the things I'll just start with and then we can jump right in is 2001 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer the same year there's a study in Canada we think we talked about this cord blood of infants meaning coming right out of the womb, over 200 chemicals found in the cord blood he goes in Canada, but no different from the US and that that's 20 plus years ago. So what was happening is we realized that babies being born into this world that should be like beautiful sterile healthy immune systems were coming in this world and so that's 21 2223 year olds right now. And what how much more toxic load our babies nowadays coming into the world. So let's start with preconception you're out there you want to be a mom or a dad and we can talk about practical tips if you have children. What do you do if you want to be a parent and you and you're wanting to decrease toxic load. Where do we start. Yeah, I mean, you, I'd like to say, you know, really prepare a couple years ahead of time you want to detox your home first remove the sources of toxicity reduce your personal toxic exposure, and then start doing things supplement wise, definitely diet wise to start extracting toxins out of your cells in your, in your bodies so that doesn't go into baby so every as we prepared for each child and each time we got better right we want to have kids, we did the right things the best we could at the time with the timing. And then we also took a break from detoxification especially the mom's detoxification at least for six months, still eating healthy and doing all that but not pushing pathways and doing some of the, the medical I wouldn't call metal what natural methods of detoxification like electrolytes, DMSA, you know the harder deep heavy metal detox, boosting your glutathione or your, you know, methylation pathways all the things supporting the liver and kidneys and just really start flushing toxins through your lymphatic through your gut your colon, because those things circulate and circulation is going to lead to that getting into the blood into the system, and then getting into baby so there's this process of stirring up the pot. It's getting better as technologies are getting better so that's what we did we really looked at reducing our toxic exposure looking at the areas especially in the home where that baby is going to come into. That's also decreasing the toxic load coming into mom. And I always say start in your bedroom, because you said if you have a I had I started with a really small home so before we conceived, I was living in a 750 square foot two bedroom apartment so that was great, because I could get that. I still had to start in the bedroom because we didn't have much money then. So I had to use a fan instead of, you know, an air exchanger or a special filter on my, my HVAC unit my heating ventilation air conditioning. So I did a fan and a deamidifier to keep the humidity down so we didn't grow mold in my bedroom but I fresh air blasting in because it was a newer condo that was putting off a lot of vault organic compounds if you'd measure it in there. It was 345,000 parts, I think it's parts per billion they the meters measure with. And so I had to get that down had to do something for not only me so I could sleep at night at the time, because it would really race me and I didn't sleep well, but we just controlled our bedroom removed all magazines out of there. We didn't have money for a nice bed frame especially the organic wool natural all the wonderful things so we just took a organic mattress threw it on the floor, or we got a just the metal, this the metal frame threw it on that eventually. But we just really thought about the long term consequences to our own health to the mama and to the baby. So we just did the best we could and just removed all sources of toxicity. The solid wood furniture that we got hand me down wiped it all down but it was. This one was actually made from non toxic pain already. So that was great but it was blue and and yellow with little blue and yellow knobs I mean this was kids stuff, but I was so concerned about not only our health as but that future generation, because those studies were out in 2001 we knew that the cord blood was full of these toxins triggering genes, altering the microbiome, passing on all this toxicity to a little baby and their buckets are so small. And that's why kids are getting sick today in their 20s and honestly a non toxic dad my followers that the group and the team that's around me, cheering this all on and wanting this information 25 to 45. They're sick. Mostly women. Yeah, so love framing that and just to reiterate basically if you're a mom you're wanting either you have children or you're wanting to have more children or you're brand new and you haven't had children yet. It is really important if you are going to detox start 18 months prior to conception, and six months or so prior to you wanting to conceive or trying to conceive. You should not be doing any intense detox practices because that comes out in the breast milk it comes out in the through the placenta so we're actually saying don't detox if you're right before conception or if you have conceived and you have, you know, baby, ready to be born, please don't detox because you're going to actually do more harm than good but think about this beforehand. Now, if you have children. Let's move on to that because you're obviously a dad. How many children do you have one. I have three little girls. Awesome. Oh my gosh and girls and the endocrine disrupting effects of chemicals. Let's talk about girls specifically, you know a little bit about my history but I grew up on a farm and 25 years old got breast cancer. So clearly there was an endocrine disrupting effect on my own health as a child and when you get cancer 25 the insult to the DNA probably happened 10 or 20 years so maybe when I was five or 10 years older. So for little girls, what things might have endocrine disrupting effects and what can we do to protect our little girls, especially boys to, but especially girls with the breast tissue that endometrium and those hormone related tissues, I think are even more affected. Yeah, even preconception if you can't get pregnant detoxification really help because, and especially removing toxin because they're in this endocrine disruptors. Right. So that's huge like why would you put endocrine disrupting chemicals in your body when you want to get pregnant right and there's a lot of them we're talking about your fragrances get rid of your perfumes, shampoos that have fragrances anything with the fragrance grade plugins, the carrier fresheners get rid of all massive endocrine disruptors and neurotoxic inflammatory hormone disrupting get rid of that stuff try that stuff first right and I know a lot of moms have and they're still having troubles. I'm not, you know, pointing the finger or you did something wrong this is just life guys and I get it. I have lots of friends that have trouble even getting pregnant but if you are blessed. Are like parabens if you have methylparaben, ethylparaben, paraben, a bath or body product anything and anything you put in your skin goes into your body. So you want to be you want to start with when I get the breast cancer after the next several years of cleaning up you start with what do you put on your body what do you put in your body and for women and men we use a ton of hair care and makeup and products and all those things should be really looked at to see if there's toxicity involved. Yep, the phthalates all of it so EWG I know that you have tons of resources on your book you know all that stuff so you do need to take that journey. And I love to when you have an issue right if your kids misbehaving there's always a cause is it what am I doing self responsibility as a parent right if I'm not getting pregnant what can I take that's my responsibility not take on the things I'm not responsible for that have been put on me, but what can I do, I always look at it as responsibility and it's work and it's hard. And a lot of the times our emotional energy isn't there to make those decisions so I know that it's tough that's why you get on podcasts like this, get encouraged because we've been there eight years it took me to get functioning enough to ask my wife out and I wind up getting married three months later that should make you laugh. But it so but it took me a long time and it was hard work, and it was painful and it took a lot of great people in my life to encourage me to get there so I want you to be encouraged. First of all I always do that with you Dr Jill because I know that this can be very overwhelming and I know the people that follow you. Trust you and know that we're not putting fear here we're just getting to what the literature says this is not conspiracy this is not BS. It's a fact that this stuff affects your life and is wrecking your hormones and is making you sick fat. You name it we can throw all the nasty buzzwords that marketing uses out there that this is not marketing this is fact it's truth and you can take control of your life so kids. What do you want to avoid absolutely get rid of the toxic makeups I have a video that's 9.4 million views why because it is it is such a big deal these little kids are putting all these chemicals and in makeups and perfumes the smell pretty to be like mom shiny hair like mom. And at the end of the day that's setting themselves up for failure right it's setting themselves up for a lifetime of medication it's setting them up for the inability to get pregnant because it's a fact that they're endocrine disrupting it's a fact that they lead to cancer right and you and just a little bit it passed the test Joe it's like it's just you know it's fine in the safety studies. Okay at that with next one the phthalate the pair bin the pharmaceutical chemicals that are in your water you add that all up you don't have a chance. You are not going to win this fight unless you give your body a chance give your kids a chance by removing toxins so you need to definitely with your kids who have little buckets and maybe you didn't know about this stuff before right before you had your first and you see the consequences my kids just struggling with their health or immune system because they're immunosuppressive toxins right especially heavy metals if you're a mom with amalgam fillings the amount of mercury in mom's mouth is directly proportional to the amount of mercury it's going to show up in all the endocrine organs tissues brain you name it so that stuff then so amalgam removal is another great huge thing now if you have a baby or you're you're you're pregnant run away from touching your amalgam fillings, you will put so much mercury into your bloodstream and body, it would definitely hurt your in my in my opinion I'm not a medical doctor I'm not Dr. Jill. But the research shows that that's a whole bunch of mercury that's coming out and based on my experience, I mean I we taught doctors for 15 years and we've taught them detoxification thousands of doctors so we've seen the horror stories of moms making that mistake, but it's a great move and I would give it a year of after your amalgams out I would give it a year before I would start getting pregnant because that's a big one so that that was free but that's a huge source that goes into baby so when you have a child, you really need to make sure they're eating clean not eating the the chemicals that are literally banned in Europe like Skittles and I have some junk food over here to shoot a video. Europe is all going to be banned in California because the ingredients in it right probably be banned in New York, you know, we don't like New York and California depending on what side of the line you're on. But the fact is they're getting this stuff removed in Europe has banned this stuff, right and there's good reason for it because it's poisonous to your children. There's chemicals in there that aren't safe we think as moms and dads there's they care about our kids there's we don't even think for a minute, half the time and now the world's waking up to this we don't think that oh they wouldn't give us something would be hard on our kid or cause behavioral disorders or you know might make them sick or might make them not be happy or give them low energy or fatigue in school or they're not able to pay attention. These chemicals in these foods will 100% affect your child's outcomes in life and their behavior so you're investing truly into their your legacy for your family and their legacy as they grow and their genetics will change. Based on the foods that you're putting into their bodies how it affects their microbiome which is the fingerprint of whether they're going to be healthy or not. So be very careful so we talked about the makeups that we're putting on our kids get rid of that stuff guys be so careful with that the the don't let them put on perfumes right Jill some other ones that you find. So let's so the valleys are the and fragrance with fragrance is a universal term that can include some really toxic things so if someone says for fragrance on a label, you don't want to assume it's okay it's probably not okay. So assume that any fragrance or perfume. Yes, you're done. You know unless it says essential oils, you know what you're. Hey everybody, I just stopped by to let you know that my new book, unexpected finding resilience through functional medicine, science and faith is now available for order wherever you purchase books. In this book I share my own journey of overcoming life threatening illness and the tools and tips and tricks and hope and resilience I found along the way. This book includes practical advice for things like cancer and Crohn's disease and other autoimmune conditions, infections like lime or Epstein bar and mold and biotoxin related illness. What I really hope is that as you read this book, you find transformational wisdom for health and healing. If you want to get your own copy stop by read unexpected.com. There you can also collect your free bonuses. So grab your copy today and begin your own transformational journey through functional medicine in finding resilience. Yeah, really practically so I do my own testing in the urine for toxic chemicals every year. And I had been for years after breast cancer using only essential oils for perfumes, but I still have a collection of like designer perfumes like from the day, and I've never gotten rid of all of them It's hard. Yeah, but months ago I was like, Oh, can it really be that bad. I'm going to try just a little bit and I still try to put on my clothing not my skin and not very often. But I retested my phthalates the following year it was off the charts and I was like, Wow, I just showed in my own end of one self that this really really and this was like me once a month twice a month wearing the perfumes it wasn't that often. But it jumped up so high I realized, okay, I can't even cheat a little bit like why not just get rid of them they're gone now I just use essential oils and I love them. That's phthalates and the fragrance. The other thing you mentioned is parabens which is methyl ethyl parabens. And if you want to guide if this is all like foreign to you. As you mentioned, Warren environmental working group, EWG.org has free it's a nonprofit that does toxic research and helps us know what you can do for clean and they have a skin deep database where you can actually search your shampoo your products. I will tell you if you go to Walgreens or Walmart or Target or any of those names I'm not putting anyone on the spot. And you just get commercial products for hair or body or bath, you're probably buying something toxic. You literally have to search out the health food stores and the specific kinds of places that literally say, so the labels you want to start reading and looking for these words. Something else is non toxic sticky non stick cookware right let's talk about the FAOs. We just in our state of Colorado which you're not far away in Utah. Tested all the water supplies all the general drinking and public water supplies. Every one of them last summer showed toxic levels of PFOs and these are forever chemicals. We can't even calculate the half life so our generation and generations past are going to forever have this in the water supply and it's toxic it's carcinogenic. So you can filter it with carbon filtration, or with a reverse osmosis so you need to drink filtered water is the bottom line. But let's talk about in the house what are some practical ways like water and air and and emfs what what do you do with your family. I want to touch on a few other things to create healthy children right definitely I like to go RO because it's 99% carbon doesn't take out heavy metals people say that it does it doesn't a little bit of chlorine no fluoride and yours. It'll take out some vault organic compounds and petroleum based chemicals carbon based it'll pull some of that stuff so petroleum based stuff organic toxin so it works but there's a mineral thing but put some minerals back in I someone asked me the other day it's like well why would you you know the you're going to rob all these minerals from your body well if you're eating healthy. You have plenty of minerals to go around there's so much more minerals in your food, but I still even though I eat super healthy local from regenerative farms, where the regenerative farms are actually the plants are able to uptake the minerals because of the microbiota in the soil so it's not a mineral deficiency in our soil, it's a living soil deficiency is why we don't get our mineral so there's dead organic food that you're eating if they're not on a regenerative farm and they're using organic fertilizers, it's they need to get it from the bugs. Anyway, side note RO system so important don't let your kids eat things that are going to be sprayed with glyphosate so if you're out to dinner. Ask the question hey is this non GMO organic corn I would say organic and if it's not don't eat it like those are big ones when you go out. Ask about the canola oil right I know that people defend that it's not defensible that stuff is toxic and sick right look at how it's made and then tell me that safe right. It's not right so get the bad fats because your kids cells they're so membrane right the very foundation of their cells are made of these facts. And if you're not putting good fats in they're not able to have a healthy cell where they can get food in fluid through the cellular member the to the lipid bilayer. And if you can't get good things in and can't get good thing bad stuff out because you've inflamed that cell with bad fats. You're done in canola oil and other nasty seed oils the bad seed oils canola oil being the one but soybean oil thing like that. Sunflower oil better because it doesn't degrade not perfect but I would still eat something with sunflower oil that's just me but I avoid those other ones because you're. And then the trans and the saturated like. Trans saturated not saturated but trans we like saturated fats for hormones cholesterol good for your child's hormones right. This young multiply rapidly developing child like my daughter went like grew a foot in the last year right so she needs the building blocks for a healthy cell, we. I think it's a 7 billion cells a day or billions of cells a day that we recreate and if you recreate a healthy cell over it says seven to 10 years. You're going to have a healthy life because you're doing the right things to reproduce healthy cells the opposite would be cancer, having DNA damage and disruption and chemicals causing problems so you're replicating bad cells unhealthy and trying to build cells out of things that the fats you can't even make good healthy cells out of it's like good it's the old saying good things and good things and bad things and bad things out healthy foods and good fats. No glyphosate destroy your gut microbiome so your genes aren't triggered so you don't have inflammation I have a leaky gut so your kids don't have eczema and all these issues from leaky gut and autoimmune conditions going on so you're eliminating those sources but if you have a if you start from the end by the. You know say your kids seven years old by the time you're 14, it could be a whole different child right so if you start and even in your own life and brain cells they said that didn't reproduce and heal they do. If you do the right things so make sure your kids are eating right get rid of the GMOs get rid of the glyphosate right which you had a ton of Dr Jill. That's part of your history and your story right the bad fats get in the healthy fats raise healthy kids that have the building blocks to grow and be amazing in this world and we need amazing kids. Yeah, and I love what you said there is it's never too late to start so if you're listening to this and you have a seven year old or 14 year old and you're like oh well I haven't really done the best job you can start now and make a huge difference it's never too late. Even for me it was until 25. I thought I clean I did pretty well but my after my breast cancer at 25 I said I'm going to take this so seriously. I went through all my bath and body cleaning products everything I used in my house and I also want to say you know when you get when you first start looking at this. It is overwhelming and kind of expensive so I just want it took me at maybe 18 to 24 months to really go through everything. It's not an overnight thing it's just a bit by bit by bit and every little change that you can make is worth it and it's okay to take your time but start by looking at what are you putting in and on your body. Yeah, think about it Dr Jill you kept your perfume I remember keeping my cologne because I bought that but I found out about this stuff. You know and I tried it and made me brain foggy feeling well I'm like you know I'm getting rid of it now but you bought this stuff you invest and I'll just use it up no. I had this one client and I did see clients you know need a knee. This was this woman who had a really sick daughter right and I gave her what to do and she was on food stamps and had a was funding from this she was from the you know downtown rough area but this mom was monster to see her daughter get well like I was so inspired by this lady. She didn't wait right she ripped everything out of her closet got rid of everything and just started over started simple used a bar of soap for everything a clean bar of so we didn't need any of this fancy stuff not only did her daughter's fissure and they wanted to take out and put a bag on her. Not only did her fissure heal her son's heart condition fixed and she lost like 50 pounds. So when you do the right thing you get results you can do it slowly, or if you're that type like I am the all American athlete might have just held on to my jupe jupe baby, or my Dracar noir or whatever because I'm dating myself I'm 48 years old I didn't want to leave that stuff I left it, because it's hard to let go of the past. It's hard sometimes to believe that this stuff's really toxic, but we've done the research. There's nothing. There's no BS here. So if you can get anything from this conversation. Be aware and know that it's going to take time for you to do it and make it fun. Make it exciting. It's like I'm going to make this change. This is fun. People will think you're nuts. But the world between when we got sick I got sick when I was 25 as well. Yeah, how are you. I was 25. And I think we're about the same age too. Yeah, so we got sick at the same time, but there was no information out there. Right. The science backs us up now right we're not crazy you're not crazy. Listen to yourself listen to your gut you know this stuff is bad for you know it's bothering to take notice to feel it. Yeah, yeah. So these are the things we're encouraging you with great advice Dr. Joe. Oh, thank you. So we don't have much more than a minute or two but I want to just briefly touch on emfs. What do you do what do you think briefly touch on that and then I want to have a takeaway to leave everybody with so let's start with emfs quickly 90 seconds or less. MF is an umbrella right and this is one of the misnomers of it it's electric fields magnetic fields and radio frequency they all have impact on our cells by vibrating them in different directions, and which affect our endocrine system, specifically like melatonin sleep was where the research is at and then also highly probable or something like that I don't know the exact language of causing cancer right, but we know these are sleep disruptors we know they're they cause cellular inflammation we also know that electric fields are donors of negative electrons right, which fill up this capacitor body and our body needs to be connected to the earth grounded. And that's why grounding so important tons of research out there why, because we're discharging the negative electrons we're getting in the electric fields in our homes. So what I've done is you can buy a cheap meter that will say electric field and magnetic field meter I have I've got a really extensive meter here. You can get the really expensive ones that'll do them all to right. Yeah, but totally agree with you I just want to show I literally right here have it in my room that's radio frequency meter you can get for your own home. So for bedroom right what I would do is look for magnetic fields electric fields and if they're high, say 5050 volts per meter high for electric fields. You want them down below 1.3 at best as a building biologist says, I think for magnetic fields it's 0.5 milligals meeting you're throwing me into this is I'm not a building biologist have to throw it down there and if it's high. And go to your switches in your room have your kid yell at you start switching off your switches and on your on your box and you're going to get the best night sleep of your life because when you lower to zero if you can in your room. You can buy a little battery to charge stuff DC current doesn't bother you battery current doesn't bother you. It's the alternating current that goes back and forth that creates those fields. That's a huge thing you can do and you can just go right down to your switchbox shut those things down at night, until you can afford to buy a switch we can hit a button. And that's what I do before bed so and I also you can go underneath your desk put the meter unplug stuff move stuff around. I had 10676 volts per meter on my desk I knew it was frying me. I always felt fatigued and crappy at my desk but like you I'm busy I'm like this is the only time I do this. I got it down to like 18 just by moving stuff around underneath my desk so and I had I had a guy help me with that just the other day and it the science of it's crazy it can one wire is going this way and then you have another why going this it can really you know waves cancel each other right cancel the electric field the waves that it's like a sound wave that like headphones noise cancelling headphones so I think it's a big deal and it's becoming a bigger deal. It's not cool to talk about it because it's not as is is people don't want to believe it like they understand the toxicity issue. That is now in the forefront but I believe electric fields for me have made a massive difference in my sleep and my well being. Love it that was brilliant and just like you said you can get a meter building biologists are the kind of people that if you're looking for someone who's an expert they are usually trained in this I've had someone come into my house so if you warrants you can actually have an expert but you can do some of this yourself. Okay, I gotta let you go because I know you have a deadline with your daughter but let's just last 30 seconds what would be your takeaway encouragement to the listeners from the non toxic dad. Well, I mean, I, if you can look at all my videos and all the different toxins right that are that are that I talk about I cancel things right I cancel the toxin to create awareness. I do it in a funny way. I do it in a light way. I do it in an entertaining way because I just want to educate the world so they can make informed choices right. The fact of the matter is if you don't know well you won't do well right so get educated but never get into fear realize your body is tough. Dr Joe and I talk about this, you can recover from a lot, but you're not so tough that this stuff isn't affecting you, but you're going to survive you're going to be fine. But get educated. No, get educated about the sources of toxicity in your home, start in your bedroom getting that clean and your personal care products your bathroom, get that area clean get fresh air coming in start there so you can get the energy, get the free, the free brain space, get rid of the anxiety from the toxins that are in your life that are stopping your decision making that are decreasing your testosterone so you're not full of energy and vigor for life. And your life can absolutely transform but get educated and slowly toxin by toxin there's my daughter she's coming in come on in toxin by toxin. You can get a better life and heal those cells you're going to have cellular turnover billions of cells a day and know that you're getting better each day with every decision that you make invest into your health. It's the best investment. Here's fine with this when I didn't have any money when I was living in a small apartment apartment. And everything that I owned was donated or garage sale right I invested into the things that mattered first and I knew if I had my health because I lost my health. I told my wife we're never going to skimp on food and living a non toxic lifestyle, and we didn't have all the fancy stuff I didn't have the fancy meters and building biologists come into my house I didn't afford any of that but I got my life back it took me eight years, but I got there because I knew that it was the foundation of what was going to be the weak link to everything else in my life friendships, finances, vacations, family, all that was linked to one thing my health and if I didn't get that back. And I guarantee you if you looked at every area of your life and you looked at the weaknesses in your life, and you looked at the outcomes that you want in your life, and the legacy for your life. Your health is going to be the weak link. And that weak link can be strengthened by easy decisions by getting educated and making good decisions for you and your family. Brilliant. Warren, thank you so much. Where can people find you and then we'll let you be on your way just on social. I will link up to all of your places and go enjoy time with your family. Thank you for your time today, Warren. Thank you, Dr. Jill, you're amazing.