
#829: Join us as we sit down with Dr. Daniel Pompa – health expert, author, speaker, trainer, & founder of the Pompa Program, a comprehensive cellular health analysis. After battling mysterious health issues over two decades ago, Dr. Pompa...
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Lauren Everts
The following podcast is a Dear Media Production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire.
Michael Bostick
Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur, a very smart cookie.
Lauren Everts
And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostick.
Michael Bostick
Are bringing you along for the ride.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Get ready for some major realness.
Lauren Everts
Welcome to the Skinny Confidential. Him and her today's guest went from being one of the most successful chiropractors in the country to a man struggling with unexplained health issues that nearly ruined his his life. But what he discovered in his journey to healing has not only transformed his life, it's changing the way we think about health. Detoxing, longevity. Dr. Daniel Pompa is here to expose the hidden toxins in your everyday life that are silently making you sick. The truth about fasting and why everything you've been told about detoxing might be completely wrong. This episode is going to open your eyes, challenge mainstream health advice, and give you the real tools to reclaim your health. Dr. Daniel Pompa, welcome to the Skinny Confidential. Him and her show. This is the Skinny Confidential.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Him and her expose the most toxic thing that you think is happening today.
Michael Bostick
Wow, there's a lot.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Pull out your scroll.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, settle in, settle in. All right. Yeah, look, I mean, I. Here's the. What I always tell people, start here because it's so big, okay? Water, I mean, just. I can't believe how. How many people are still drinking city water, tap water, if you will. It amazes me because the amount of drugs in the water alone could be the biggest problem. The amount of birth control that they're finding in the water, okay, that affects men, that affects women, that affects all of us differently. But the fact is, is it's not a small problem. It's a big problem.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What if they're showering in it?
Michael Bostick
Well, then even a bigger problem. So because you're taking in water particles, molecules, if you will, in to your lungs, which goes directly into the bloodstream. So even chlorine, you're taking, you know, a mass amount, a regular, normal shower, you're getting about nine to 11 glasses of chlorinated water, right? So a lot of people have a point of service unit or maybe they're drinking bottled water. Who knows what they're drinking? But the fact is, is you're showering in it. So you're still getting a lot of the chemicals just from showering it. You need a whole house water filtration system. But for you know, by all means, please, at least get an RO unit to filter the drugs out. RO is inexpensive, but it filters out fluoride, which is another major, major problem. Chlorine. Well, of course, chlorine is easy, but it's the drugs in the fluoride that RO filters out that you have a.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Daughter or a son that's little like two, three, and you put them in the bathtub every night and. And they take a. A bath. Is the birth control, like, get. It's. It's seeping.
Michael Bostick
Well, of course.
Lauren Everts
Can I ask you a dumb question, though? How is the birth control getting in the water? Is this something that.
Michael Bostick
Is this how this is going to work? You're going to ask the really good question. He's asking. I'm just wanting to.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I'm going to ask the better question.
Lauren Everts
Is this, like, people are. It's getting into the supply when they go to the bathroom, people are putting.
Michael Bostick
That's out. Yes.
Lauren Everts
Okay.
Michael Bostick
Yeah. That wasn't a dumb question. Because I think if I was out there listening, I would be thinking the same thing. Well, what do you mean.
Lauren Everts
The frogs are gay? I'm like, explain what's happening to me.
Michael Bostick
And then I. Yeah, exactly. Why are there drugs in the water? Yeah, yeah, that's how I mean, literally. I mean, this isn't reality, but you're drinking your neighbor's hormones, you know, you're taking your neighbor's estrogen, you know, so.
Lauren Everts
To speak, because they use the restroom. It gets into the water supply. It doesn't get filtered out properly.
Michael Bostick
Exactly. Because you have to understand the filtration, the way it works. They're more concerned about contaminated water from a, you know, infection standpoint than they are filtering out drugs in the water. It's very small. So to your question, you can absorb a lot of these. And by the way, hot water makes the absorption higher, obviously, because it opens up the pores.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Someone can get a water filter. Do the shower filters work that people put on their showers?
Michael Bostick
Well, they can. Okay. But you need a good one because it has to be big enough. Because a lot of people get these really tiny ones. Cause they spend, you know, $20 on Amazon or something. But the problem is the medium's not enough to impact what's running through it. So you have to get the bigger ones that do screw on. Right. I mean, they could be $100, but then at least they filter out, you know, some of the contaminants, like some of the heavy metals. But they'll filter out the chlorine for sure.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
How did you become so passionate in the subject of toxins and EMF and radiation and all these Things I didn't.
Michael Bostick
Choose it, I chose me. 1999, I got very sick and pained. A purpose. I mean, that's been my whole life story, unfortunately. And you know, really what happened was what happens to so many people today, right? It started with fatigue. You have to understand, I lived a healthy lifestyle even then, right? I mean, so it wasn't like I grew up with a very healthy lifestyle. Home cooked meals, Thai and family. My mother, you know, did all the cooking. I grew up, you know, rarely eating fast food. You know, I could probably, you know, count the number of times we just didn't do that. So I grew up very healthy. So for me, all of a sudden to get fatigue, I was training a lot at that time. I was running a very busy practice, two young boys at the time. And I was putting in 250 to 300 miles a week on my bike, training at an expert level, high level. So I thought I was over training, cut back, nothing. Didn't get better, got worse, cut back even more, off the bike for weeks. So that's when I realized, okay, this is more than fatigue. Thought it was just my adrenals, my thyroid, because I had a lot of those symptoms. Blood work normal. That was disappointing. I remember I spent $4,000 on blood work out of pocket and looking for an answer. And when it comes back, Dr. Walks in the room and his exact words were, son, you're healthier than me. I was like, that was a bad day because if he would have told me I had cancer, I'd have been like, great. Now I know what I'm fighting up against, why I feel bad, let's go. But it wasn't that way at all. I went on for, you know, whatever, more years, just going, what is wrong with me? You know, searching the Internet, like many and back. This is back in 1999, so it wasn't what it was today. But you know, looking for answers. And put it this way, long story short, everything I teach today, I've been training doctors for 20 years on my protocols. Everything came out of that. So it was from pain to purpose.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So what did you find out was wrong with you?
Michael Bostick
Well, when people don't feel well and they have a lot of unexplainable illnesses, whether it be autoimmune hormone problems, just list off the symptoms from anxiety, brain fog, you know, can't sleep, weird things happening, gut problems that just aren't fixing. Well, typically it's neurotoxic illness and that's what I had. But what does that mean? My big player was mercury. And how the story goes is this. I was online searching for answers. As I explained, I found Mad Hatter's disease. You know what that is?
Lauren Everts
Never heard that.
Michael Bostick
Okay. Well, people making felt hats used mercury as part of the process. Okay. And they all became Mad Hatters. I had every symptom.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Wait, I don't understand.
Lauren Everts
You're saying hatters back in the day would use this and they would get that, and you somehow had this, but you weren't a hatter?
Michael Bostick
When I looked at the symptoms that those Mad Hatters had, I had all of them. And it was from making anxiety, irritability. Yeah, they were just getting. Getting mercury poisoned.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Got it.
Michael Bostick
Here's the problem. In that $5,000 worth of blood work that I got, one of the tests was mercury. So I did a blood mercury test, and it came back negative. And it was a year or so later. I was working with a very bright endocrinologist because my hormones were jacked. Just putting it mildly. My ability to adapt to stress was nil. Even sound would send me over the edge. My wife literally would have to oftentimes just take the kids out of the house because, you know, I was not good. But the Mad Hatters had all those symptoms. But the point was, is that this endocrinologist said, wrong test. That would be if you had an acute, meaning, daily exposure. Like the people making hats. Right. They were getting a daily exposure of mercury. So it was in their blood. It wouldn't be in your blood because it's only there for a few days, and then it's out of the blood. And what happens is it goes into your tissues where it bioaccumulates. That means stockpiles builds up over time. So he said you have chronic, so it wouldn't show up on your blood anyways. I did a different test where you challenge it out of your tissue, and then there it was.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And what was it from?
Michael Bostick
Good point. As I turned out in my Cycling Journey journal, I went back and I looked at when my symptoms began. There was a clue that I never saw. It began days after I got two big silver amalgam fillings removed, which contained 50% mercury, which most countries have banned. Not here in the United States, but that. I never picked up on that correlation. I remember fatigue. I remember not feeling well after that. But I thought it was the anesthesia. You know, I just thought it was the procedure. Who knows? But I never rewound that clock. I was also living in a very low grade, moldy home. It really wasn't bothering anyone else in the home, you know, but because I was neurotoxically not good from the mercury. What happened was, is it just sent my bucket overflowing.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
It's very similar to. You have to hear the owner of Branch Basics, her son had poison from cockroach spray when he was really little.
Lauren Everts
And he got stuck in a gymnasium where they didn't know he was in there back in the day. And they sprayed his roach spray all over. And he was, as a little kid, was stuck in the gym.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And. And her as a mother was like, why does my child look like a sprayed roach? That's what he looked like after he got the poison. And so what she said is, like, he couldn't even be in the house because they had to sleep outside because he was already so, like, there was so many toxins that, like you're saying with the sound, any little thing, thing, a pin dropping would annoy him because he couldn't take on anymore if he.
Lauren Everts
Even smelled any chemical cleaning supplies.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, you know, I. I sometimes do this, right? And you know, I'm going to do it anyway. So if I had two of these, right, you could see the water line. So can you all see the water line from over there? But it's dang near to the top. Okay, let's say I had another glass here with just barely a little bit of water in. If I stress this one, it's going to overflow as it just did a little bit, Right? Okay, think about that. This is someone whose bucket is very full with toxins. But I'm going to be honest, the body doesn't know the difference of physical, chemical, and emotional stress. That bucket is full. It just takes one more little bit of a something, whatever it is. And now you're sick. Overflowing symptoms. Now, this glass here, that's barely filled with water, I could stress that a lot, Right. And not have problems. Right? So here you have two people living in a house with mold, maybe, Right. Which is another big reason why people get sick. And this is the one who gets sick right here, right? Yeah. Maybe genetically their pathways aren't as good, but typically, typically it's just exposures over the lifetime, and we accumulate these toxins. So part of the answer to your question was, you know, I. I couldn't. Once I got sick, I became so chemically sensitive. And the answer to your question was, how did I get into this? Right. All the toxins. And my Instagram is warning people about toxins. When you become that sensitive, my bucket Was that full? I had to live life very differently for me to go out in public and be exposed to somebody that had perfume on. You learn how toxic things are because if someone had and it's not in your head, meaning someone has essential oils on, I'm like, oh, I'm going to react, right? You know, they have per clone or perfume on. And then I'm like, oh, I'm not reacting. And. And I find out, oh, they had essential oils on. Okay. But when someone has perfume or cologne on, I would be just brain fogged, irritable, you know, and it would be like I could be sick for days after that. So what it does is it makes you a recluse. I mean, you just back up into your own little safe space if you can find one. And that's how I know, you know, that's how I learned about a lot of the toxins and things, because my life had to be at a different level of toxicity today. I can handle it. I can sit next to people with perfume, cologne, and I can handle it. I prefer not, but I can handle it.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So you can't handle a Christmas tree in an Uber?
Michael Bostick
Yeah, no, the Christmas tree in your Ubers. I mean, you know, now that I know that I know, it just pisses me off. Yeah, right? Yeah. It's like. Because this is a true story. My wife and I were literally in Vegas and we, it was so bad that we. My wife was saying, pull the car over. Okay. It's like. And we did. We pulled the car over. We made him pull the car over. We had to jump a medium, literally, to get off of a busy road because we couldn't go one. We were gagging and this guy's riding around like this. But, yeah, those Christmas trees, you know, they have many neurotoxins in them. Those things are absolutely not good for anybody, especially if your bucket's full.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
We. Dave asked Asprey, just came on the podcast, and he's going to do the.
Lauren Everts
Show with Dave in a few days.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
You got it. You guys will be great. He says he asks the, the driver to put it in the glove compartment.
Michael Bostick
Oh, I've done it all the time. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I've taken them down. I matter of fact, I was getting in an Uber and I, I saw he had it, like, on the back seat hanging there, and he was coming around the other side. I took it off and threw it under his car. People want to deal with it.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
It bothers people. It's funny that you say this, though. Because sometimes I notice like stuff, and maybe I just have less capacity. Stuff will bother me. That doesn't bother him. So for instance, when we wake up in the morning and he turns the lights on too bright, it. It bothers me and it doesn't bother him. Or certain sounds will bother me. Like I can't go into a gym that's playing like gangster rap at 7 in the morning. It's like too jarring.
Michael Bostick
But it doesn't bother him either. But yeah, that said, yeah. So the word neurotoxin, right? Not all toxins are created equal. Some are much worse than others. The ones that accumulate in our nerve tissue, the biggest nerve in the body is your brain. And those are the really the ones that cause some of the symptoms that you just mentioned. But depending on what parts of the brain it accumulates, can really have different symptoms, different diseases, conditions that go along with that. But neurotoxins are deadly and they get into the brain. Mercury is deadly because it makes its way into the brain. Those silver fillings that made me sick. Studies show that it not only accumulates in the brain, but it oftentimes communicate. Accumulates in the pituitary hypothalamus. What is that? That controls your thyroid? No wonder I couldn't figure out my thyroid. No wonder my blood work was normal, because I had normal hormones. But the problem was my control tower wasn't, you know, getting the right system.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
You mentioned that you had them removed. Why did having them remove activate it? Wouldn't that help you and alleviate it?
Lauren Everts
Because they grind and the stuff sprays everywhere.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Got it.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, it vaporizes. So how? Those fillings are 50% mercury. They vaporize mercury for the life of the filling. So if someone goes on Google, Google the smoking tooth video, that video is purposely a 25 year old silver filling. And what they do, it's very clever. They put the filling in front of a, basically a screen, a fluorescent screen that shows mercury vapor. Okay. They rub it with a pencil, just simulating some simple chewing, right? And you see mercury vapor just pouring off of that 25 year old filling. The reason 25 year old filling is important is because many dentists, because of the ada, not blaming Dennis, they would tell them, oh, old fillings, all the mercury's gone. Anyway, their first stance was, oh, the mercury doesn't come off right. It's locked in.
Lauren Everts
Well, the first verse was, it was fine, right?
Michael Bostick
Fine. Totally. And the mercury's safe. It's bound up in there. Well, not true. Not true. And yes, it does leech it amounts that accumulate in the brain over time, and eventually, yes, you'll be affected. Now I did something even more. I Wore contact lenses. 70s, 80s, early 90s is when finally mercury and contact lens fluid saline solution was banned. It was going right into our brain.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Oh, my God. Cause your eye is your brain.
Lauren Everts
Do you know Dr. Jerry Curitolo, one.
Michael Bostick
Of my good friends?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Oh, my God. People loved him on the podcast.
Lauren Everts
He's the best. So he's been on. We see him when we go to New York. And like, that's a lot of.
Michael Bostick
By the way, I go to New York just to see. Not just to see him, but, you.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Know, to get my dental work done. He has this list that he wants.
Lauren Everts
Fellow Italian man, I can't be pregnant.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
To do his list.
Lauren Everts
But it's interesting because he came on and we had to did a whole episode, so. And he talked. And a lot of his practice is working with people to safely remove those. To get them out of the mouth.
Michael Bostick
Well, exactly. And you know, look, I send Jerry a lot of people because my program is virtual. We touch. Literally, we touch all of America. And we have dentists around the country for this reason. Because when people can't figure out their problem, right. Whether it's the anxiety, the sleep problems, the brain fog, the gut problems, how many people do not look here, Right. I mean, your gut.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
He's pointing to his mouth if you're listening.
Michael Bostick
Oh, yeah, you're right. We have viewers and listeners. So I have to be more descriptive. Right in the mouth. Right. It's like so much disease starts right here, especially chronic disease. And by the way, we have so many people who have gut problems. Yeah, your. Your immunity starts in your gut, et cetera, et cetera. But really your gut starts in your mouth, and that's what the problem.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Interesting. That's very interesting.
Michael Bostick
And it's not just mercury fillings, by the way. There's things called cavitations, which are hidden infections that you have no pain and no clue they're there. Like say you got a wisdom tooth out when you were 12 years old. There's a 80 some percent chance that that heals over and leaves a cavitation that is like a cavity in your jaw that brings infection into your bloodstream, continually drives autoimmune, drives unexplainable symptoms and illnesses, gut problems, you can keep going down the list. And people are trying to use all these probiotics, fixing their gut and taking hormones, trying to fix their hormones, and they didn't look right here. I'm putting in my mouth again, Dr.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Jerry, if anyone's listening, is a really great place to start. Basically, he audited Michael and my whole mouth, and he is totally against root canals, which I'm sure you are too. He does not like root canals. And I've talked to a lot of doctors about root canals, and it is up the link of. Between root canals and a lot of different things.
Michael Bostick
Yes, root canals. By the way, I. There was a study done. I. Boyd haley@the IAOMT.org they took dentists from around the country, and they were sending in root canals. Root canals that weren't bothering people were most of them. The root canals they just took out. 100% of the root canals had deadly infections associated with them. These are called anaerobic bacteria. They are deadly. They will drive autoimmune. They will make gut problems, and yet all of the root canals had them. So I am under the belief that there is no safe root canals. When I was sick, I got mine out. I had no problems with it, but I said, take it out.
Lauren Everts
So at the core of this, though, is some people listening. They're like, I have that or I have that, but I don't have any symptoms. It's like their bucket has not yet been overfilled. But as. As things accumulate more toxins, more procedures, more whatever, at some point, if that bucket gets overloaded, then everything can start to fall apart.
Michael Bostick
Michael. Unknowing to me, my bucket was filling. I lived a healthy life, right? But when I had those amalgams removed that day, mercury vaporized in the process, and my bucket overflowed. And once that happens, your genes start getting triggered. Things start happening. Right? And that's exactly what happened, by the way. You know what the number one source of mercury is? Our moms. There's a study called the Drach study, a German study. It was the first to show that. Ladies, the number of fillings that you have and your mom had is proportional to how much they found in the baby's brain and utero. That was an autopsy study. So if you had six fillings when that child was born. Yeah, proportionally on the autopsy study, that's how much mercury they found in the baby's brain. That's where it starts. That's what happened to me. Now, that was just one of my exposures. Oh, you know what the number one source of lead is? Moms? Because most lead is stored in the bones.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Moms get blamed for everything.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, Dads, we have our problems. We have our problems. But anyways, I knew that Was coming. Yeah, exactly. I knew that was coming, too. But the fact is, is that it's normal to lose bone during pregnancy because of hormone shifts. But out comes the lead in utero. My. When I do a lecture on heavy metals, I show my wife's lead level, which was off the chart. There's a whole story there how we found that. And then I show my sons, all my biological sons, their lead was off the chart. Where did they get it? They got it from mom.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So what is lead from usually?
Michael Bostick
Well, we grew up in the lead generation, right? Well, depends on our age. But in 1978, it was in everything. Every paint, every home, every window. You test a dust in a home built before 1978, every time there's lead.
Lauren Everts
In the dust, cooking supplies.
Michael Bostick
It was in everything. Paint on everything, pencils, everything.
Lauren Everts
Lead pencils.
Michael Bostick
It's like everything had lead. But the point was, is then, I mean, they took it out, you know? But our parents grew up in the lead generation. I grew up in the lead generation. And so we have that in our tissue.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What are three to five things that you would avoid like the plague? For anyone who's listening, like what. What do you think is really important that you value to just not have near you?
Michael Bostick
Have near me. I hate fragrance. We already discussed that. But. But here. Here's the problem with fragrance, and here's what everyone can change and should change immediately. We talked about water, okay? But the fragrances in what they're washing their clothes in, okay? Fabric softeners, okay? The. Here's why in plug ins and fragrances in everything. Dish soaps, you know, Michael's hair gel.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That I can't.
Michael Bostick
I. I hate that hair shampoo, right? So fragrance is a massive toxin. Here's why. There's a reason. Because it is. They have IP laws, intellectual property protection over fragrances that they do not have to expose what is in them. So chemicals that have been outlawed for years because they're known cancer causers, hormone disruptors, they are still in fragrance, and they're there legally.
Lauren Everts
We know a very, very wealthy gentleman that made all of his money by going to the big fragrance companies and basically copying them, calling something different. They could not do anything about it because you don't have to disclose all of these reasons and then just undercutting back a long time ago. These are much older gentlemen now, but he made a living basically being able to do this because of what you're talking about, because there's no. There's no recourse on being able to. You can't like, try trademark, a fragrance you have to disclose.
Michael Bostick
Absolutely. So when I was very chemically sick, any fragrance would send me absolutely reeling. I mean, it would be. That's how toxic it is. So remember I was the canary in the coal mine. Did I just date myself even with that? Do people know what that is?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I do.
Michael Bostick
Okay. You do. Okay. That means canaries, they were literally. They are. They're so chemically sensitive that they die first. So they brought them into the mines. They become a barometer for the safety of the air. And then the miners had time to get out if the canaries died. But, you know, that became me. Right. So fragrance would just set me off like that.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What were. What are your other things that you would avoid at all cost?
Michael Bostick
Well, let's see. I would avoid at all costs. Well, I mean, I avoid mold at all costs because mold is absolutely deadly. So when my wife and I walk into a hotel room, I can smell it a mile away.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What's it smell like?
Michael Bostick
Well, depends. Some smells like cat urine. There's a type of mold. Some smells like, you know, like a teenager's love bedroom socks. I know. It has that musty odor. Some molds have like a. Like a wood smell. Like a wet wood smell.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What do you do if you check into a hotel room and you can smell mold? What's your.
Michael Bostick
Well, one thing you can do is always go into the hotel. Lift up the. The. The. What do you call the toilet? What's the thing on the top? The toilet lid, but not the lid.
Lauren Everts
The lid. The thing that has the covers.
Michael Bostick
The water in the back. Like the back. The main. I don't know. Yeah. What do you call that?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
You guys stare at it all day when you pee.
Michael Bostick
Tank.
Lauren Everts
The tank lid. The tank.
Michael Bostick
My wife's over there.
Lauren Everts
Thank you.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, yeah, exactly. My wife's over here.
Lauren Everts
You'd think we'd have learned a few things doing this show for as long as we don't take.
Michael Bostick
Right. They'll tank anyways. Lift it up. If you see a black ring around that, there's mold in that room.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What if you. What if that happens at your house?
Lauren Everts
There's more.
Michael Bostick
Yeah. So go in your home right now if you're listening. This is fun. Lift up your tank lid, and there should be no black around there. The reason is, is because if you have mold, that means it's accumulating where water is always laying. Right. So that's a really good, simple test you can do to see if you have mold. So mold is a real problem.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Anything Else that you would avoid at all cost?
Michael Bostick
Well, yeah, my, my wife's giving me symptoms. I don't know what this means, but. You mean breast implants, honey. Well, I'm going to avoid that anyway. Okay. Yeah. So no, it's, it's funny.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Cancel your penis implant.
Michael Bostick
Exactly. Yeah. Well, I mean I, I say that because I, I see what makes people sick. Right. And breast implants are a big thing coming that's. People don't understand.
Lauren Everts
She did, she had, if she did a whole, we did a whole episode with Dr. Whitfield out here. She had hers removed and we did a whole. She docum. The whole thing and we talked all about it.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, well, it's. People are learning, but it's going to be a slow road to learn because what people say is, I feel fine. It's like silver fillings, right? You feel fine until you don't feel fine. Right. But I mean, you know, so it's not that I'm getting those, but I think those are extremely toxic. But the point is, is though, I mean, I think that when you look at your everyday life, you know, even avoiding the foods on the dirty dozen is very important, right? Because the amount of glyphosate, which is a chemical that causes many problems. You see it right now, commercials on television awarding people millions. I think it's billions of dollars now because of the damages and the cancer causing effects of this chemical that's being sprayed on our food even now to this day. 60% of the rainfall has it in it. But the fact is, is we're still eating foods massively contaminated with this glyphosate. And yes, it's causing gut problems and that's why we have gluten problems today. And yes, it's opening up the blood brain barrier and making the heavy metals and other chemicals you're already exposed to going deeper. 2012 study senior scientists at MIT, Stephanie Senna, she was the first one to show in that study that glyphosate opens up the protective barrier of the brain and is allowing these heavy metals like mercury and aluminum to go deeper into the brain, driving Alzheimer's, dementia and so many of the conditions, autism that we're seeing explode today. Oh, and by the way, aluminum right now, major, major issue because they're putting it in jet fuel to make jets more efficient, right? It saves them billions of dollars, but it's falling out of the sky, right? Because hey, it makes the fuel more efficient. And yeah, that's a big business.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
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Michael Bostick
And.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
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Michael Bostick
Oatmeal's loaded with glyphosate.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
But I found one online that's by a farmer. It's like, called One Day at a Time or something. And it's glyphosic.
Michael Bostick
Glyphosate free, that is.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And it was the only one that I could find online that had that. Which is because you think you're, like, buying oatmeal being, like, healthy, and it's just sprayed with it.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, you know, it's.
Lauren Everts
You know, oats aren't that great for you anyway.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, exactly.
Lauren Everts
People get mad when you tell them that your cholesterol.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That's a whole show better than an Eggo. I use it for my waffles to make them. Three ingredient waffles.
Lauren Everts
Yeah.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Yeah, okay.
Lauren Everts
Better off with an egg, maybe.
Michael Bostick
You know, I. You know, I think, though, when you look at something that, to answer part of your question, I can't. If you're using Tide or, you know, these. I don't even know what some of these companies that make the. The detergent that we wash our clothes in. And fabric softener. I hate fabric softener. It's another one. When I was sick, once I was in a working environment, my team would literally had words to warn me. And one was Bounce, Bounce baby. Because that was a marketing thing for Bounce. Do you remember Bounce? Okay. So they would say, bounce, bounce, baby. And that means that someone was coming in my office with massive fabric softener, and it would ruin my day.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Well, it can't. You can smell it on the clothes.
Lauren Everts
Oh, yeah.
Michael Bostick
No, you can smell it when you walk down a street. I did a video, an Instagram video. My wife and I were walking down the street, walking our dogs, and I could say I could tell every house that has hormone problems, you know, how's that? Because everyone that's piping out that smell, like, literally, you could say that house is giving fabric software that, like, I want to knock on their door and warn them, like, that's a hormone disruptor. Like, you should stop. Stop using it and watch the health of your family get better because they're compensating with hormones and all these things when they're using a massive hormone disruptor fabric softener. I wouldn't touch it for the world. That's probably my other big pet peeve.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Here's where I struggle. I am like you, where I'm very sensitive and I'm very aware, sometimes almost hyper aware, as Michael would call it. But how do I also live a Normal life because we're living in the world where there are these things. I can't change everyone. You can't. Like you said, you can't go in the houses and tell these people this. How do you create that balance without going crazy?
Lauren Everts
Well, unfortunately, when you remove these things for me in particular, like I'm not as sensitive. But we don't have any of these products in the house anymore.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Besides your hair gel and hairspray that he brings in the bed and sleeps on the pillowcase every night.
Lauren Everts
Besides.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Please, I know, Please, I.
Lauren Everts
Please to have gone through this with you.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And then he wraps my barefoot dreams over his helmet head of. Of the.
Lauren Everts
Can you convince him I have gone through this before.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Oh my God. This is what it.
Lauren Everts
You will literally have somebody come over with a paint booth gun and give you a spray tan.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Not in our house. Never in our house.
Michael Bostick
Oh, this is fun.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Never in our house.
Lauren Everts
The hotel room.
Michael Bostick
Oh, I did a video on that.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Never in the house. Lauren, never ever has anyone spray tanned in la.
Lauren Everts
Were they?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
LA was different since la. That was.
Lauren Everts
If you guys do a podcast together, this is what it'll be.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Can you tell him about sleeping with his hair gel in the bed?
Michael Bostick
Yeah. It's not Michael. It's not breathing it in all night.
Lauren Everts
I got a new brand. Jack Henry. Jack Henry is the new brand. It's clean.
Michael Bostick
It's clean.
Lauren Everts
Organic money gave it to me.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What about the hairspray?
Lauren Everts
Hairspray is not so clean.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
But you know, you gotta live. You gotta live a little bit if you're gonna.
Michael Bostick
They have alternatives for everything. You just have to value it enough to dig in there.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
If you're going to wear it, that's fine. But take a shower before you get in bed.
Lauren Everts
Okay, fair enough. But what I guess back to what I was asking before, I was. How do you not go crazy rudely interrupted was what? What I noticed is like when you remove these things and you get them out and you stop using them, you become even more aware of them when you get introduced. It's almost like you. You're blind. Like a lot of people that like I don't have these issue. I don't. You don't notice it when you're using them. It's just like. It's just part of your daily. You know, it's just like your scent. But then when you get rid of this stuff, like we switch to branch basics and all the cleaning supplies and.
Michael Bostick
There'S no more aware.
Lauren Everts
Yeah.
Michael Bostick
See what is that? My go. It's your body Warning you, right? I mean, you know, so we have. God gave us sensors, right? For a reason, to save our life, right? We have a lot of different sensors. That's why we don't touch hot stoves, right? That's why we have a nose. Go. Wait a minute. I know that smell. Oh, my gosh. We're in danger, right? It's like, that's why I walk in. I smell mold. My body made me. I can smell mold where other people can't smell a darn thing. Why? Because my body warned me this is bad for you, you know? So when you get rid of things, your senses go up. Trust in it, so it doesn't make it healthier when you don't notice it.
Lauren Everts
I agree.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, I mean, look, these things. Part of that question one of you asked was like, how do we live a normal life? Right. First of all, when you empty your bucket out, this is what I've spent my adult career doing, is like, showing people how to empty that bucket correctly. Because in our space, everybody does it wrong, you know? But the fact is, is if we can get the bucket lower now, we can actually live a more normal life. I don't react like that anymore, Right. That said, I can use this little sense here as my warning to move away now, and I can live a normal life.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So how do you make it not make you crazy?
Michael Bostick
Look, it doesn't give me symptoms anymore, but, like, if someone was sitting here with fabric softener on. Yeah, I'm. I'm bothered by it, and I'd probably want to do this. I used to always pull my shirt up over my nose. Even when people, like, on an airplane, if they had perfume or clone, I'd literally sit there like this the whole time.
Lauren Everts
I'm like, maybe we're going to advocate on this show to go back to masks. It'd be the first time we ever did.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Don't want to breathe in the microplastics and masks.
Michael Bostick
Yeah. Yeah. I was never a mask fan, regardless. No, but that's a whole nother topic. But the fact is, that's a whole nother.
Lauren Everts
We won't take you there.
Michael Bostick
You know, I was kind of shocked when I come to Austin. See, I got sucked in. Now when I come to Austin, I'm like, I see people with masks on here, like, a lot. Yeah. More so than other places.
Lauren Everts
Well, I will say this. Listen, I love Austin, but I told one of my friends very excitedly who's from Houston, I said, yo, I'm moving to Texas. He said, where I said Austin. He goes, that's not Texas. And I said, what? And I was super confused by what he meant. But it's, it's a little different than other places in Texas. And I, and I love it. I think like it's a, it's a, it's a good melting pot.
Michael Bostick
It's a mix. Yeah, I just couldn't help noticing that. But anyway, so, okay, I'm still caught on this thing of just living normal life because I live a normal life, I just live a less toxic life, you know what I'm saying? Meaning I choose better toilet paper. That's a choice that doesn't affect my life. Right. I mean, in other words, all we have to do is the things we can control, control them. I don't stress about the things I can't control anymore. I don't. Right. Because I can't control them. But if you take control of the things you, what you're washing, you and your children's clothes on, you can control the toilet paper, you can control the fragrances, you can control the shampoo you use, you can control the water you drink, we can control. And that's what I do. So I live a very normal life. I just choose to live a more toxic free life. Not perfect. We'll never stop the exposures that we get some of them.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Let's talk about toilet paper. Okay, you are an example, expert in this. What is really in most toilet papers? What do people have no idea that's in there?
Michael Bostick
Oh, there's something called dioxins. Okay. Dioxins for years have been known to cause cancer even at low levels. Well, dioxins are in there because they use certain chemicals to basically make it nice and white. So when they bleach this paper to make it look clean and we like that look, well, dioxins are formed and it holds those dioxins, here's the problem. You're putting that in an area that has very absorbent types of cells and tissues and thereby. Oh, and by the way, and in that area, I hope everyone can understand where I'm talking about is very close to, to organs and glands that are very sensitive to cancer or these chemicals that can drive bad cells and drive cancer. So putting that right in those areas every day, day in, day out, is not a good idea. I refuse to do it. Okay, so the bleaching agent is not good. You want chlorine free, you know, not non bleached toilet paper. The other problem is they use formaldehyde. Formaldehyde, known cancer causer. Hormone disruptor. Why do they do that? Because they use it to hold and make it stronger. Right. So you want a. If you're going to invest in your family, invest in good toilet paper.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Ours is chlorine free and formaldehyde free. You would be very happy with it.
Michael Bostick
And I'm walking out with one of those because if you see my Instagram, my wife and I always travel with our own toilet paper.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And what's the brand that you guys normally use?
Michael Bostick
The Whole Foods brand is a good brand, actually. It's, It's, It's. It's formaldehyde free. It's chlorine free.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Ours is unscented. There's no scent.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, well, I'm going to. How do we get yours? Is the better question.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Well, it launches. Well, why. This episode is up. It's already launched.
Lauren Everts
We're going to give you some.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
It launched on April Fools.
Michael Bostick
Yeah.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Because I. People thought I would be joking. I'm not fudgeing. Joking. Toilet paper is disgusting.
Michael Bostick
Yeah. So this is one of those, These big ones, right? Like, you know, we're kind of talking about, right, what you wash your clothes in. Big one. You know, what you, the water you drink. That's a big one. What you're wiping your butt, your butt every day because of those tissues. That's a big one. Right. We could talk about female hygiene products. IG shut my video down because it was like, I'm saying, what was a study. I. I sent them the study, and this was a unique time. They actually reversed it, but I actually had this, you know, send the study showing, yes, these female products have heavy metals and toxins that are known cancer causers. And we're putting them on those tissues. And I quoted a study. Tampons.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I can't with tampons. Don't even get me started. I've been. I've told my friends since I was in high school, I don't wear tampons. They're like, ew, you're so gross. What do you use? I'm like, I am not gonna stick something up there for eight hours and let it sit and marinate in my vagina.
Michael Bostick
Yeah. On those tissues.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I don't know where it came from, by the way, in the plastic applic. I don't. I've never. It's. I've always energetically been like, something's weird there. What is in tampons that people don't realize?
Michael Bostick
Oh, gosh. I mean, we've talked about formaldehyde. We've talked about dioxins. All of those that are in toilet paper are in those as well. And that study that I was just talking about was showing the heavy metals, arsenic, lead, I mean, cadmium. I'm going by memory here. I mean, we're like massive. And it was ridiculous. And you're. Again, it's the. If you're wiping your face with it, it's one thing, but it's in those tissues. It's very absorbent.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And for a little girl who just turned 13 to be like, here, it's just.
Michael Bostick
It's ridiculous. And then if they, if they have fragrance. We already had the fragrance talk. I mean, it's a whole nother level of. You don't even know what cancer causing, hormone disrupting chemicals are in there. And that is a big problem. Listen, I hope people hear this. It's like we're talking about something that our parents didn't have to deal with. The chemical revolution started after World War II, but it has exploded in the last 20, 30 years to the point where if you desire to not die or be affected by all of these top conditions like cancer and, you know, you name it, diabetes, thyroid problems, blah, blah, you go down the list, autoimmune, then you better pay attention to what you're bringing in your homes and putting in. And on your bodies, you just better. I mean, this isn't some weird thing we're talking about. This isn't fringe. It's not my opinion that cancer rates are soaring in children right now in the last 20 years have raised 60%. I mean, this is not my opinion here. And this is chemicals. It's like in. All the experts know it's chemicals, right? This is what's happening to our world right now. And yet what's in vogue is trying to fix hormone problems by taking hormones. There's a time and a place. I'm not being completely critical here, but the big causative factor are the toxins that we're exposed to.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
My biggest, proudest things, like what that makes me so happy and brings me so much joy is being able to protect my home and being like, yeah, what, what's the fountain cleaner you're using? Or what's the pool like? I constantly am editing myself and being like, how can I do better? Because you're so. You have to be like a soldier in front of your house. And. And what's wild is people will sneak it in. I've had people sneak. I. I could tell you stories about people sneaking stuff in. Whether it's the painter is trying to use a Paint thinner that I said no to, or, like, cleaning supp. Like, you have to constantly be diligent on making sure it doesn't get involved.
Lauren Everts
There's still a lot of people, even people listening to this that are willing completely say, like, I don't believe any of this. Total horseshit. Total. Like, the moment that I was converted, it was years ago. And our friend Chervine, who has a company called Symbiotic, you know, so he basically, he said something that really just resonated with me. I think it was him. And he said, we're doing all of these things with these scents and fragrances to mask what you talked about earlier, what our body is trying to signal to us. Like, why do you have this BO that you need to put all this deodorant on? Like, why do you smell bad? Why does your breath smell? Why? Like, it's your body saying something is wrong and signaling to you so that you can fix it. And what we've done as a society is we've masked that scent and hidden those signals so we can never tell. And all of a sudden, the symptoms overrun us.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That's what they do to the vagina? Yeah, that's what they do. They say. They say, oh, you think your vagina smells? Here's a douche. Oh, you think your vagina smells? Here's a vagina.
Lauren Everts
Your breath smells. Use mouthwash.
Michael Bostick
Why does it smell mouthwash? You know how toxic Jerry talked about this, right? Mouthwash kills a bacteria in your mouth that you need to produce something called nitric oxide. What does that do? Well, it violates your vessels and brings oxygen into your cells. Well, the study showed. And they did this in. In young men that just using it for seven days raised their blood pressure. Why did it raise their blood pressure? Young men who had no blood pressure problem? Well, it raised it because it killed this bacteria that makes nitric oxide. Nitric oxide keeps our vessels dilating so we don't get high blood pressure. Got high blood pressure? Yeah. Oh, and by the way, it also kills bacteria. Again, that we know by using mouthwash for just a short period of time affects the bacteria in your gut. And we have this, you know, world problem of gut problems, and people are using mouthwash. Don't use mouthwash. Don't ever use mouthwash.
Lauren Everts
This is like a super controversial. Not controversial. It's just the truth. You know, over the years, people will come and, you know, talk to us about different deodorants. And I, like, I haven't worn deodorant since I was maybe 15, 12, 15 years old. She knows ever. And. And I say that because, like, I don't. I'm not masking any scent. Like, I don't have. But if. But. But I've noticed, like, if I ever start to have that scent, it's likely because I'm sick or I'm detoxing, something or something is off. And so I think, like, for people that have this extensive body odor, I'm not passing judgment. Like, it's your body trying to say, hey, there's an issue going on that you need to look.
Michael Bostick
My wife and I do not smell. And there's a reason for that. And that's the reason. By the way, I have to say this. Men, no offense, Michael. No offense, women are getting this way more.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That's why I'm proud of my husband.
Michael Bostick
You said, like, you know, there's people out there going, these people are full of crap. Right. It's like, no, no, no. Women are tuned into this. Like, moms are tuned into this. Men come along, you know, which you did, you know, but we are definitely later adapters than women on this, because women are absolutely. They are intuitive to the health of their children and their family. Even their husband. Right. Even far before their husband realizes there's a problem and they're sick. Yeah. The wife realizes it. So they're. They' ones that are realizing the chemicals are making their kids sick.
Lauren Everts
Yeah. I think, like, what I like about doing the show, because people ask me speak as a man, I speak to a lot of women. But what I tell other men when they ask me that, I said, well, ultimately, in the day, the women are going to get the information, and they're going to act on the information much quicker than the men. And I know, like, in my life.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What do you love about your wife?
Lauren Everts
I mean, like, she. She's largely driven these conversations and these change in their household. In the beginning, I was more resistant. Now I'm just like, okay, well, it's going to happen anyway.
Michael Bostick
Yeah.
Lauren Everts
So I'm going to get on board. But now I'm also way more receptive to it because a lot of the things that she was early on have now become mainstream. I mean, the fact that we're. That there are people in the current administration that are talking about issues now that were fringe. Like, if you were to talk about some of the things we're talking about today on this show four or five years ago, people are up in arms. They weren't. They weren't ready. You started saying mouthwash, and you Start deodorant, like fragrance, cleaning supplies. People would just say like, oh, look.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
At this, there's been an awakening. I can feel it.
Lauren Everts
Journalists will write about this show and they'll call us like, what is like, like pseudoscience.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
He knows.
Lauren Everts
Or woo Woo. Yeah, they've called us Woo woo.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And I'm like, you know, you know.
Lauren Everts
You gotta wonder though. Like, I feel I, I'm empathetic to those people because it's, it's going to disrupt a lot of things and it's going to change a lot of the way that we behave. But I'm super passionate that it's also going to save a lot of lives.
Michael Bostick
Oh, listen, we have no choice. We, we have to shift. Listen. But you have to vote with your dollars. Right. Meaning that when we start reaching for healthier products, they're going to start making more healthier alternatives. Right. And that we see that happening right now. I mean, I feel that. But the problem is that we have an industry that is very powerful and it's cheaper and easier to make toxic products. It just is. Right. So we're paying a premium right now, but it's going to continue to get out.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
You look at ingredients sometimes on like a shower gel, let's say, and there's 7,000 ingredients in it. And sometimes I'm just like, couldn't they just have put like, like Johor oil and like, I don't know, I don't get why it has to be like.
Michael Bostick
Well, a part of, it's that big IP thing. Right. Like they make it very complicated, you know, because they don't want people to knock off their product. Yeah, it's very, it becomes a chemical solution and yeah, it's poison.
Lauren Everts
Yeah, it's. It's funny though, because, you know, as you develop a platform which I'm sure you've discovered, you will see some of that stuff at work. And we kind of just try to ignore it and stay away from, we don't really address it, but I guarantee, like, have, you know, even this conversation, if an article gets written, certain people will try to discredit the whole conversation by discrediting the person.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, Woo woo.
Lauren Everts
Pseudo, all that stuff. And it's, and it's done in a way so that if people start to look at the information, say, like, I want to hear what this guy has to say. When you lead with a headline like that, it's like, oh, actually like everything he said is irrelevant. It's a mass discreditation of people that are trying to get this information. And My whole thing is, here's the information, now do with it what you want. If you still want to use the fabric softener and the Tide in the Windex, go for the deodorants and all.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Or turn me off like, yeah, by.
Lauren Everts
All means, go ahead. But this is, this is for the people that are like, okay, I want the information and then I want to be able to deduce what the right decision is.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What brand of baby wipes do you like? Do you have a brand?
Michael Bostick
Honey, I haven't had a baby in so many years.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I know, but we need, we need to know. Like, I feel like that's something you should do. Post on. Because I use so many baby wipes every day and moms are using them all the time, and I was using one of the most famous brands and guess what? I got Triclosan in my blood.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, Triclosan. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, that is an anti back bacterial that I, I, they're taking it out of things was shown to cause liver cancer and yet it's still in products. I mean, by the way, hand sanitizers. Okay. Yeah. Okay, There you go. There's another one that I will never ever do for many reasons. Hand sanitizers. Right. It's like, you know, first of all, here's what people don't understand. This became a thing, a bigger thing with COVID I mean, a company that.
Lauren Everts
Just got funded like a billion dollar valuation.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I've never used a hand sanitizer during COVID Not once.
Michael Bostick
Me either. Not once.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So anyone who shook my hand, Sorry. Never used a hand sanitizer.
Michael Bostick
No, but see, what people don't realize is you're destroying your force field.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That's why I don't want to do it.
Michael Bostick
Exactly. If you understood the microbiome, that means all the bacteria that are on our hands, that protect us, if it wasn't there, we'd be dead. Okay. It is the best protection. When you do that, your body has to remake and it goes through a process where you're vulnerable now to bacteria, the very thing that you're trying to kill, which you can't. The moment, it's so silly. The moment you touch something else. Now you're picking up a foreign bacteria. Now because you use hand sanitizer now, you have no force field. Now you have no protection because it is. The greatest protection is the bacteria that is on us. And that is a microbiome, by the way. The healthier you are, the better microbiome you have, even on your skin. And by the way, that same microbiome communicates with your microbiome in your gut. So if you keep killing your microbiome on your hands, studies show it affects your gut.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Tell Michael and everyone about baby monitors because you went viral.
Michael Bostick
I'm so glad you said that. Yeah. Because baby monitors are extremely high in radio frequency. Electromagnetic radio frequency. EMF, as it's known. Well, it's extremely high. I measured it just to show people how high it is. Like, I tell people, never ever put a phone, you know, right here. Always use speakerphone. Distance is your friend. Well, these monitors are so high, you would literally. I showed. You'd have to bring it all the way across the room, you know, for it to be at least a safe level. But you're still raising the level of radio frequency radiation in that baby's room.
Lauren Everts
What about the ones that don't have WI fi?
Michael Bostick
Well, that's what you need. Usually you need the Wire and In1. Now companies are making them because of this, where you just. You can wire it in. That's what you do because. And you can do wiring. Video still, right? You can have it wired in and still do that. But, yes, hire somebody and have them wired in.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
How do you protect your home from emf? And do you have a WI fi kill switch? Like, what do you do?
Michael Bostick
Okay. Multiple things. We're buying a new home right now. I had my guy came, come in. He measured everything, and I have a device to measure myself, but he does all kinds of different ways.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Is it test my home? Ryan?
Michael Bostick
Yeah, Ryan. Ryan. Ryan Blazer. Yeah, we love Ryan.
Lauren Everts
He tested our home, too.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Yeah, I knew you were going to say that.
Michael Bostick
I bet you mine was low.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That's my guy, too.
Lauren Everts
We share the same guys.
Michael Bostick
Ryan was like, I can't believe how low this home is.
Lauren Everts
Okay, But Josh, who else we got Dr. Jerry.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, exactly. Josh. Our same body worker.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
When I build Ryan, I need you to come tell me every single last nail butthole to do on my house.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, no, exactly. That's what we. I. I have sent Ryan out. I have to tell this quick story because we're talking about this very thing, right? This girl. Ryan and I just happened to be at the same home in Arizona, but he was there for a different reason. I was there for a different reason. But the. The gal, the little girl in the home, she had migraine headaches, debilitating migraine headaches, night terrors, panic attacks, and I thought it was a mold problem. Ryan thought it was a mold problem. He was measuring the Mold. You know, we're trying, trying to figure out the situation. Well, as it turned out, it was the amount of EMF coming off the wall where she slept. So her head was right where the highest level of this radio frequency, electromagnetic frequency was. The refrigerator was on the other side of that wall.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
He told this story on our podcast.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, yeah.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And said, like, it solved all her.
Michael Bostick
Problems, every problem, like, instantly. Okay. I, you know, so I think it's a good story to show you that, you know, so to answer your question, what do you do? First of all, where's your router? Make sure your router is nowhere near your, your bedroom, your kid's bedroom, and. Absolutely. And if it is way far away, if it is, you can just hit the switch, your fuse box switch. And now they even have a device where you could put next to your bed that connects to the switch box. So you don't have to walk downstairs if that's a problem and hit the switch. But you can turn off your electricity in your room if you want to change your sleep overnight, turn off the electricity in your bedroom and watch how much better you sleep.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
But here's the thing about that. So I have my Jasper going.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, I knew it. So I don't do that. Okay. I don't have to do that because I've lowered the EMF so low in our room that I don't have to do that. I'm giving you a choice if, like, I, I can't do that. And I want to sleep better right now. Yeah. Because I do. I, I want to. My Jasper's going. My. That's my air filter that has my chimes carbon. Yeah. Noise thing. Right. So you don't want to do that, but you could at least also, if your router is there, you could turn off your router only and they have switches where you can actually turn down.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
The router and you can do like a kill switch on your WI fi.
Lauren Everts
What I was explaining a lot of people also, they have like TVs and routers and cable boxes in their bedroom. Like, we, we have all that stuff out. So really, like at night for us, electronics wise, it's the Jasper and the eight sleep.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What about like the phone?
Michael Bostick
It very little comes off of those types of things, though.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What about the phone in the bedroom? Even if it's.
Michael Bostick
You have to turn the phone off, you know, airplane mode, at least. Airplane mode. I mean, you know, you don't not want that next to your bed on. Absolutely not. Good.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So can you. Would you recommend turning it off or turning it on airplane mode.
Michael Bostick
Airplane mode works. I mean, I've tested. I have a device, right? So when it's on airplane mode, it's not giving.
Lauren Everts
But the bigger thing, again, because I think people are like, well, how extreme is this? The bigger thing is like if you're sleeping with your head next to your phone or a router or against a wall with a bunch of like cable box.
Michael Bostick
That's a big. That's the thing we can't avoid. Avoid. It's the toxic conversation again. We can't avoid all of the EMF that's coming into us, right? It's impossible. But again, what can you control? Putting a phone on your ear is not my opinion. I mean, that leads to tumors eventually. When it's there done long enough, stop doing it. Put it on, you know, speakerphone. It's something so easy to do.
Lauren Everts
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Michael Bostick
Yeah.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What is your opinion?
Michael Bostick
I measured that. I did an Instagram. I showed people it was thousands of times higher than when you're wired in. Right. So we put, put it next to it. I mean, when you see the level on the device and the video, I did go, you know, it was like, I mean, you, you can't argue with that. And that's going right into your brain. Right into your brain. Right. So I, I never, I see people in our space, like, healthy space, you know, that we're in with those in their ears and I go like, my gosh, it's like, it's the water conversation. I say, like, if you knew what was in that water you're drinking, you wouldn't drink it. If I could do a test right now and show you the amount of hormones and the amount of chemicals, cancer causing chemicals that are in there, you'd be like, yeah, I'm not drinking it. The problem is it's there. And just because you don't see it doesn't not make it any less dangerous. Same with the WI fi. Right. It's like if you knew what those things were doing in your ears, you would never, ever use those, ever.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Can you believe that? They're giving them at schools the Apple earbuds for kids to use on a device. And then all the kids have the Apple Watch because their parents are like, I'm not going to give them a phone. I'm just going to give them an Apple Watch. And then they sleep in the Apple Watch.
Michael Bostick
The Apple Watch is giving off radiation all day long. Oh, and by the way, did you see the new study? The bands have forever chemicals in them, you know, and, and the audience is.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Like, oh, my God.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Lauren Everts
So, but I think, like, listen, the way I like to digest these things because I know there's a lot of the audience is like, oh my God, what can we do? The thing is, you just have to be conscious of all these things and then decide what you're going to partake in and not partake in. Like, if you want the Apple Watch in it, like, maybe do you need to sleep in it? Can you take it for a run? Do you need to wear it all day? Me, I wear a metal watch. Like, there's, there's no.
Michael Bostick
The metal. That's totally different.
Lauren Everts
There's. Yeah, but there's, there's, there's, like, for me, I think the big thing is a lot of people don't have any of this information. And then they're like, what the hell happened to me? And it's like, well, a lot of the changes we're asking you to make are not so insane. Yeah, don't put your head next to the phone. Don't put your. Don't sleep next to Wi Fi. You know, maybe change to a cleaner cleaning supply. Like, maybe don't use, use a fragrance free. Like there's, there's alternatives.
Michael Bostick
These are changes that everyone could do, like right away.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Do you think that. That minimizing your exposure to all these chemicals is also helping people get pregnant?
Michael Bostick
Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, changing your water again when there's birth control, as this new study is showing levels of birth control and water. Yeah. I mean, it's no wonder you can't get pregnant. And by the way, high mercury plays a big role. I mean, there's other, you know, toxins that play a big role in why, you know, infertility right now is a big problem for many people. It's a toxic issue. Nine out of ten times.
Lauren Everts
You know, it's like, I think my personal issue with this like overall health space is some of the, like I've seen some people going off the deep end in like the minutiae was like, I know seed oils are a big deal. I know the water's a big deal. I know like all of these things we understand, but at the same time it's like they're missing some of the big buckets, like what's your sleep like? Are you getting to the gym? Do you have a well rounded diet?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I think water's a big one.
Lauren Everts
Sure. All these things. But the point is, I've said this a million times on the show. I don't want to hear someone in the health influencer space screaming about a seed oil that's in one chain store when they haven't been to the gym in eight months and they can't lift a bag of books off the floor.
Michael Bostick
Let's talk about seed oil. You know what I mean? Come on.
Lauren Everts
I'm happy to talk about seed oils. It's a major issue.
Michael Bostick
Listen, I, I do say that we need to focus on the majors, right?
Lauren Everts
Sure.
Michael Bostick
In, in, in my space you have a lot of people fussing over a lot of little things. Right. They're expensive biohacks and you know, different things like that. That's fun. I like doing it too. Right. So no, no critique here, but fact is, is that they're missing the big things. Right? The big things. I mean, again, if you can't afford all organic, you know, you saw the atrazine study, you mentioned it. I think. Lauren, the atrazine study was the company that makes this chemical, this pesticide, right. They hired this guy, what's his name? Tyrone Hayes, I think his name was. Right. Sign. Brilliant scientist. Right. They hired him to prove safety on their study. Well, poor Tyrone, or whatever his name was, is, is he finds that this stuff is making frogs, male frogs, female, and it's affecting, you know, literally the, the egg all the way up to where these frogs are turning, which is.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Where Alex said they're making the frogs gay.
Michael Bostick
Yeah. So anyways, but so it's turning these frogs anyways. Alarmed, he brings it to the company saying, hey, I mean, like we have to solve this, right? It was it like so. Well, instead of solving the problem, they just trashed him. Right. Attacked the person instead of the problem because it was cheaper and easier, I guess. But this chemical is being sprayed on our food is known to literally make male frogs, female. Change this, it blocks. There's a process that makes testosterone become estrogen. That's really what it Does. It's called aromatization and it's an enzyme. It kills, blah, blah, blah. But it's happening and yet our kids are still eating this. I mean, if you're eating non organic food, you're being exposed. And the glyphosate you're being exposed. If you can't afford organic, at least eat from the Clean 15, avoid the Dirty Dozen.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
What's the Clean 15? Give us some examples.
Michael Bostick
The Clean 15. Avocados, right. Thicker skin, things like that on the Dirty Dozen. Spinach, A lot of green leafies are on the Dirty Dozen. So strawberries are on the Dirty Dozen. The grapes are on the Dirty Dozen.
Lauren Everts
Things are spraying.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, there's. Those are. They're spraying more of these chemicals. They need a lot of chemicals and they absorb a lot of the chemicals. Right. Whereas the clean 15, they're things that typically they don't need. They just not at threat for certain pests. So you can google what they are. But the point is, we need to be very conscious about what these chemicals we're getting in our food, in our water. You know, obviously the average woman takes in 400 some chemicals in her morning regime. 200. Some 287, I think are known cancer causers. When you start the day right, men, we start with less products. But yet, you know, unless you're Michael.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
And you have the hair gel and Michael.
Michael Bostick
Michael's way over. You know what, Lauren, you can help me out.
Lauren Everts
Wait till I serve. Circle around to the fake eyelashes.
Michael Bostick
That was a big video.
Lauren Everts
Yeah, because I had over there, I.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Have a brand that's always sold out that is an eyelash glue brand that doesn't have all the things in it.
Michael Bostick
All right, good. Let's test that. No, I'm not. I don't know.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I actually do want you to test it.
Michael Bostick
Okay. Yeah, good. But. Okay, so give you guys, I got these women. So I had no idea that that video would go to 15 million views.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Every girl wears them.
Michael Bostick
I didn't know that. Okay, So I always said I didn't like them. Right. And, and so here's. This is a funny story too. I got like three open loops. I'm going nuts. My. My son brings his new girlfriend. We meet her for the first time. My wife and I are meeting her for the first time and he, he says, this is my girlfriend. He says her name. And the next thing I was about to. And she's getting rid of the fake eyelashes. I swear. Okay. I mean this is like 21 year.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Old son wearing fake eyelashes, right?
Michael Bostick
Now, what's that?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Can you tell I'm wearing them?
Michael Bostick
Not from here. I can't. I can't. That's all. I'm being honest. I'm not just, you know, being nice.
Lauren Everts
But what you said in your video was. You said, like, you weren't a fan.
Michael Bostick
I'm not a fan.
Lauren Everts
And the women went wild on you because they were like. You didn't have to say you're not a fan.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got slammed from every direction. I was like, oh, whatever. You know, I didn't care. Because the problem is, is that it? They are toxic as heck. This is a true story.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So lashes are toxic or the glue.
Michael Bostick
It's the glue. Well, I mean, arguably, there's some chemicals in the lashes, but mostly the glue.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I'm gonna tell you the glue I use.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, mostly the glue.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Look at the ingredients. Live. And do not sell this out, though, you guys. This is my favorite eyelash.
Michael Bostick
But so in there, I said how it can cause blindness. Okay? And I quoted a study, but people were like, oh, my gosh. I don't know anyone. True story. The gal who worked for me that wore fake eyelashes, okay. She literally, the next week, got some dawn dish soap in her eye and rubbed it. It emulsified the glue, and she literally had to go to the emergency room. Her cornea detached. They were saying that she might lose her eyesight. To this day, she still doesn't have perfect eyesight. Fortunately, she didn't lose her eyesight, but massive blurred vision. Couldn't see out of the eye. I mean, wore a patch for months. That's a true story. I mean, the irony of that. And I. I brought that video, and people just thought I was making this up. So they. They didn't even. Like, it didn't go anywhere.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Let's have you read the ingredients of the brand I like and tell me what's wrong with it. The brand that I use is called Tru. It's always sold out, and it's all natural lash adhesive. And I give it to my makeup artist. These are the ingredients, but I will not read them. You have to come get the phone because I'm too embarrassed. Okay. Read them, because I don't know how to say any of them.
Michael Bostick
Go ahead, say it.
Lauren Everts
Aqua palulin Rosa, damascina, rose water, Aloe barbudenis, Aloe vera leaf juice, glycerin, pelargonium, Pelargonium. Pelargonium roseum, asparum oil, Beeswax, Rhineic. There's a lot of ingredients okay, so.
Michael Bostick
Here'S the thing, right?
Dr. Daniel Pompa
It's biotin.
Michael Bostick
What you've read so far. A lot.
Lauren Everts
It seems like a lot of stuff.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Yeah. Maybe I found a good one. I'm just saying.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, you might have, right?
Lauren Everts
I hope it's a good one.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Oh, look, I might have found a good one.
Lauren Everts
I hope it's a good one so this company can get a win on the board.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, I mean, like, there's a couple in here. I don't. I. I don't know exactly, but I mean, this is, this is, is way better.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Thank you. Because the one in the drugstore, we all know the brand. It's the brand that every single girl knows. It's white and it has either pink or blue writing on it.
Lauren Everts
You know what?
Michael Bostick
We're done. Can we do an Instagram video? Let's talk. Let's bring that. Because I was criticized, you know, for not bringing an alternative. So, I mean, I think anything with beauty.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Call Lauren Bostic.
Michael Bostick
There you go.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
I'm already getting your guys phone number.
Michael Bostick
That's how I'm going to start the Instagram video. I'm going to start it by listening. Y'all wanted to agree. I didn't know, so I called Lauren. Busting. Here we go. And I got the answer.
Lauren Everts
Before this episode airs, call this company and get us some stock in this business. Yeah, we're about to blow this down.
Michael Bostick
15 million people watched one video. About time they all wanted an alternative.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
It's funny because, like, when people come on the podcast, I am not someone that's always like, oh, let's exchange numbers, you know, because we have a lot of different guests on. But you guys, you better bet your ass. I asked for you and Dr. Jerry's number. Medical Medium came on. I'm like, can I get your number? There's certain people that you just. They just know that when you have a question about, like baby products or a wipe or a paper towel, you can text and be like, it's better than chat. GPT.
Michael Bostick
Yeah, yeah, that's it exactly. We need these.
Lauren Everts
A list celebrities. We need the people that know what they're doing.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
That's what I mean. I don't care. Dr. Jerry, anytime I can call, I can ask him a question.
Michael Bostick
He's great and he'll give you that laugh.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Before you go, I do want to talk about detoxing. It's a huge buzzword and you have said people are doing it wrong.
Michael Bostick
Yes.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
How do you do it? How can we detox from all these harmful chemicals in an Effective way.
Michael Bostick
You know, that's the thing. You know, it's. If you want to be healthy today, you better learn how to detox correctly. And in our space, it's terrible. What they call detox, what they think is detox, literally. My passion, my. My purpose, the reason I got sick, I am sure, is to really bring, you know, humanity the right way to detox. Okay? Real detox is a cellular problem. What do I mean by that? Without getting too technical, your cells have pathways that get rid of toxins day in, day out. If they didn't, we'd be dead. Okay? So when that's working really good, you're really healthy, you're hormonally healthy, all is well. But when those pathways start shutting down, slowing down, you start accumulating toxins in your cell. What does that do? Starts triggering genes. See, because your DNA is in that cell, and all of a sudden, now you trigger a gene. It's called epigenetics. Meaning the old dogma was, oh, you just had diabetes because your father or mother had it, right? No, that's bunk. Genes get triggered, they get turned on. But those toxins that are building up in the cell starts turning on bad genes. Then your hormones get affected. Why? Because hormones attach to receptors on the cell and have to get in the cell, and you feel great. Thyroid works. All is well. Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. But what happens is when cells become toxic, they get inflamed. And when they get inflamed and everyone's hurt. Inflammation is the cause of everything. Cellular inflammation. So now you can't hear your hormones, so it doesn't matter what blood levels are. Remember I said when I went, I spent all this money, all my hormone levels were normal. When I knew my testosterone was tanked, I knew that my, you know, my thyroid wasn't working right because I. My hair was thinning. I had every thyroid symptom. My blood works normal. Well, what they didn't tell me is my cell was inflamed and I couldn't hear the hormone. So it's like screaming at your kids. And the more you scream, the louder you scream, the more hormones you take. You know, they just hear you less and less and less. That's what our cells, a toxic cell, cannot hear. Hormones. Simple as that. So one of the first things we do when we look for, you know, people trying to figure out what's wrong is we measure their cellular inflammation. How much cellular inflammation do you have? If you have a lot, you're probably toxic. If you have A lot. You don't hear your hormones.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So how do you detox from it?
Michael Bostick
So my process is we. I have what I call my five Rs. That became a roadmap of what I use to teach doctors on how to upregulate these cellular pathways of detox. But now it's kind of caught on in the public. But so my system is about fixing that cell, upregulating those pathways. That's where detox starts. Now, once the cell starts unloading, now, you use chelators and binders out around the cell so you don't redistribute them and they go somewhere else. Because that's what people do. They make this mistake. They take things that drive a hormone. Like. I mean, I'm sorry. That drive a detox. And that can be very dangerous. Right. So most detox that people are doing is very dangerous. You have to protect that so they don't redistribute. Oh. And then you have to open up the gut, the liver, the kidneys, and the lymphatic. But that is the downstream part of detox. The upstream part is getting the cell to do it.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
But what is the actual thing they're doing when they're detoxing?
Michael Bostick
Okay. So that's a process that I can't. This is the scams. Here's the product, right? Yeah, no, that's. That's not the way it works.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So you'll be like, cut toxic chemicals. Cut.
Michael Bostick
We want to eliminate. Imagine this, Right. We want to eliminate what's coming in.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Okay.
Michael Bostick
While we're opening up these.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
It's a pro. It's like.
Michael Bostick
It's a process.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Yeah. I think if you ask me, like, the way I'm trying to live, it's not one thing that made all the differ. It's been a lot. It's been changing the toothpaste.
Michael Bostick
Right.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
So, Dr. Jerry, people come and they.
Lauren Everts
Say I need to lower my blood pressure. And they spend three weeks lowering their blood pressure. Doesn't work. It's a year. It's like. It's a year of changes.
Michael Bostick
It's. It's like, again, yeah. It's the process. My program teaches people the process.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Yeah.
Michael Bostick
And then that way they can actually do it long enough to matter, you know? But what is frustrating is people think that just. I love. I have a sauna. Saunas are very good. But just sitting in a sauna is going to detox them. No, that is. Opens up a pathway. It's much more complicated than that. I could do a whole lecture on the cell membrane and why that is the key to detox.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Well, if you go in a sauna and then you get into your bed that was washed with Tide and you lay down on your fabric softener pillow.
Michael Bostick
Right. Or you have a husband that has hairspray that he's.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Or you have a husband that I literally might have to divorce and send papers to. If you don't get rid of that, then it's like, how are you going to live?
Michael Bostick
Yeah.
Lauren Everts
Once we get the results from this.
Michael Bostick
Glue, by the way, once you learn how to do detox. Right. It's like, you know, that's how you're going to function in society today.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Where can everyone find you, your program, everything that you are working on?
Michael Bostick
See your viral videos in my Instagram. It's Dr. Pompa, Dr. And then P O M P A.
Lauren Everts
We just covered a lot of ground and I have all these cards.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Yeah.
Michael Bostick
There's way more.
Lauren Everts
And there's. We could have just.
Michael Bostick
I know, right? Yeah, exactly. And you know, and if you go to Pompa program, there's an inflammation test. I do know. That's. You start there.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
Saliva or blood.
Michael Bostick
It's a urine test you can do in your home. Right. Cellular inflammation. It looks at lipid peroxidation. Right. Start there. But, yeah, I mean, they can go to pompaprogram.com. they can go to Dr. Pompa. That's a website. That's my Instagram. Simple.
Lauren Everts
So when you launch your podcast with your wife, you're gonna have to come back on because we didn't even get to fasting.
Dr. Daniel Pompa
You should talk to Dear Media about your podcast.
Lauren Everts
We can talk anytime you want, but like I said, open invite, man. We could. We could just riff with you for.
Michael Bostick
I love it, man. These are topics. I mean, y'all are into it, so it makes it fun, right? I mean, but people want to be healthy, they better get into it.
The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast: Dr. Daniel Pompa on Curing Chronic Health Issues, EMFs, Daily Toxins, Birth Control, Hormones, & The Modern Health Crisis
Episode Release Date: April 14, 2025
Hosts: Lauryn Bosstick & Michael Bosstick
Guest: Dr. Daniel Pompa
The episode kicks off with Lauryn Bosstick and Michael Bosstick introducing Dr. Daniel Pompa, a renowned expert in chronic health issues and toxin exposure. Dr. Pompa shares his journey from being a successful chiropractor to battling unexplained health problems, which led him to uncover the pervasive toxins affecting modern health.
Notable Quote:
Lauren Everts [00:18]: "This episode is going to open your eyes, challenge mainstream health advice, and give you the real tools to reclaim your health."
Dr. Pompa highlights the alarming presence of pharmaceuticals, particularly birth control hormones, in city tap water. Michael emphasizes the severity of the issue, explaining how these substances can enter the bloodstream through both ingestion and inhalation during activities like showering.
Notable Quotes:
Michael Bostick [01:14]: "The amount of drugs in the water alone could be the biggest problem."
Dr. Daniel Pompa [02:48]: "Putting a son or daughter in bathtubs with contaminated water can seep these hormones into their system."
The discussion moves to practical solutions such as whole-house water filtration systems and Reverse Osmosis (RO) units. Michael recommends investing in quality filters to remove harmful contaminants like fluoride and chlorine.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [02:48]: "RO is inexpensive, but it filters out fluoride, which is another major problem."
Michael shares his personal story of developing chronic fatigue and other health issues despite maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Initial blood tests failed to identify the problem until an endocrinologist suggested that chronic exposure to toxins like mercury had bioaccumulated in his tissues.
Notable Quotes:
Michael Bostick [04:09]: "I got very sick and pained. A purpose. That's been my whole life story."
Dr. Daniel Pompa [07:25]: "You have neurotoxic illness that didn't show up on blood tests."
Michael discusses how mercury from dental amalgam fillings and mold exposure exacerbated his condition, making him highly sensitive to everyday chemicals and fragrances.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [09:54]: "The body doesn't know the difference between physical, chemical, and emotional stress."
The hosts identify fragrances in household and personal products as significant sources of toxins. Michael criticizes the chemical secrecy in fragrances, which often contain harmful substances like cancer-causing agents and hormone disruptors.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [23:00]: "Fragrance is a massive toxin... chemicals that have been outlawed for years are still in fragrances."
Michael emphasizes the dangers of mold, describing how it can cause severe health issues and how to detect it in hotel rooms and homes by checking toilet tank lids for black rings.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [24:49]: "Mold is absolutely deadly. You can smell it a mile away."
Both hosts express concern over formaldehyde and chlorine in toilet paper and the presence of heavy metals in tampons, linking these to increased cancer risks and hormonal disruptions.
Notable Quote:
Dr. Daniel Pompa [41:18]: "Most toilet paper has formaldehyde and chlorine in it, which are known cancer causers and hormone disruptors."
The conversation shifts to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from devices like baby monitors, phones, and routers, highlighting their potential to cause migraines, panic attacks, and other health issues.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [55:16]: "Baby monitors are extremely high in radio frequency and EMF, which can contribute to severe health problems."
Dr. Pompa delves into the proper methods of detoxing, emphasizing that it’s a cellular process involving the upregulation of detoxification pathways. He criticizes common detox practices that can be harmful, advocating for a more structured approach to eliminate toxins effectively.
Notable Quotes:
Michael Bostick [79:12]: "Real detox is a cellular problem. Your cells have pathways that get rid of toxins day in, day out."
Dr. Daniel Pompa [81:41]: "Our program teaches the five Rs to upregulate these cellular pathways of detox."
The hosts recommend switching to non-toxic cleaning supplies and personal care products. They endorse brands like Branch Basics for cleaning and advocate for using chlorine-free, formaldehyde-free toilet paper and baby wipes.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [35:00]: "We have a Premium Starter Kit that replaces dozens of toxic cleaners with one powerful plant and mineral-based concentrate."
Michael provides actionable strategies to minimize EMF exposure, such as relocating routers away from bedrooms, using wired baby monitors, and switching devices to airplane mode at night.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [56:11]: "Hire someone to wire in your baby monitor to reduce EMF exposure significantly."
The discussion covers the risks associated with cosmetics like fake eyelashes and the importance of checking ingredient labels to avoid toxic adhesives.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [75:07]: "The glue in fake eyelashes can cause severe eye infections and even blindness."
Dr. Pompa and the hosts acknowledge the challenges of maintaining a toxin-free lifestyle in a world filled with unavoidable exposures. They stress the importance of controlling what one can and not getting overwhelmed by what cannot be controlled.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [40:18]: "We can't control everything, but we can control the things we bring into our homes and consume."
The episode wraps up with a strong call to action for listeners to become more conscious of their toxin exposures and make informed choices to improve their health. Dr. Pompa underscores the urgency of addressing the modern health crisis caused by pervasive toxins and offers his expertise through his programs to guide individuals in their detox journeys.
Notable Quote:
Michael Bostick [51:52]: "We have to shift and vote with our dollars by choosing healthier products, even if it costs a premium now."
Dr. Daniel Pompa’s insights provide a comprehensive overview of the hidden toxins impacting modern health and offer practical solutions for mitigating these risks. Lauryn and Michael Bosstick effectively guide listeners through understanding the complexities of toxin exposure and empower them with actionable steps to reclaim their health.
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