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Formaldahhide is one of the most
dangerous indoor air pollutants in the
world and most people don't even realize
it's around them. Formaldahhide is a
colorless flammable chemical that's used
all over the place when it comes to
industry. It's used in building
materials. It's used in personal care
products, furniture manufacturing,
pretty much everything that you might
encounter normally in the course of your
life in a modern world has got some
formaldahhide as part of it.
Formatahhide can cause DNA damage.
Chronic exposure to things like
formaldahhide can even lead to cancer. I
want to give you some practical steps
how you can actually lower format
exposure in your house. This is actually
really important simple thing you can
do.
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Hi everyone, Dr. William Lee here. You
might not think about the chemical
formaldahhide when you're relaxing at
home, but chances are it's actually
there. And here's why that matters.
Formaldahhide is one of the most
dangerous indoor air pollutants in the
world. And most people don't even
realize it's around them. Now, you know,
I normally talk about food as medicine,
but the air that we breathe is just as
critical as food when it comes to your
health. In this video, I'm going to
explain what is formaldahhide, where it
hides in your home, what the science
says about its impact on your body, and
how food and lifestyle choices can help
protect you. Starting today, ready?
Let's go. Formaldahhide is a colorless,
flammable chemical that's used all over
the place when it comes to industry.
It's used in building materials. It's
used in personal care products. It's
even used in embalming fluid in the
funeral industry. formaldahhides used in
tanning when you actually have leather.
Furniture manufacturing uh to make
resins and adhesives pretty much
everything that you might encounter
normally in the course of your life in a
modern world has got some formaldahhide
as part of it. Now a lot of people think
about that as a factory chemical but
what you don't realize is that
formaldahhide
is actually produced naturally by your
own body. That's right. Every one of us
produces small amounts of formaldahhide
as part of our normal metabolism. And
that's because when we break down amino
acids and DNA, okay, uh we actually
generate a little bit of formaldahhide.
This is a natural process in life. But
here's the key difference. Your body has
a built-in mechanism to handle these
trace amounts of formaldahhide that
naturally come as part of your
metabolism. In fact, you have an enzyme
called formaldahhide dehydrogenase
to help convert formaldahhide into
formate. Okay, that's a much less toxic
uh compound than uh formaldahhide. And
then the formate gets detoxified by your
liver and then eliminated safely by your
kidney. All right. So our body is a
natural uh detox mechanism. So in small
amounts, formaldahhide is totally
manageable and actually normal when it
comes to health. But here's where the
big problem comes in. When you're
exposed to formaldahhide continuously
and at really high levels, like through
indoor air or treated fabrics or
household products, that's when your
natural detox system gets overwhelmed.
And the toxic effects of high levels of
formaldahhide circulating your body,
accumulating your organs can be damaging
for your health. So let's take a look at
this. At high levels, formaldahhide
doesn't just float around harmlessly in
the air, okay? Or in your blood. It
actually binds to DNA. That's your
genetic material. That's part of your
health defense systems. And it binds to
proteins in your body. Your proteins are
really the um pieces uh that actually
make the machine of your body work. And
when format binds to DNA and proteins,
it changes their structure and it
changes their function. So what does
that lead to? Formaldahhide can cause
DNA damage. And when proteins bind
formaldahhide, they are misfolded. So
think about proteins like a shirt that
you want to fold perfectly well to pack
into a suitcase, right? Formaldahhide is
like basically somebody pulling off uh
the the shirt out of your suitcase,
rumpling it. All right? And then you try
to pack that, it's not going to work
very well. When your proteins are
misfolded because formaldahhide is bound
to them, the proteins don't work really
well. And proteins actually impair your
body's ability to run its engine and
also to fix itself. All right? Now, if
this happens once in a while, not a big
deal. Your body's very resilient. But
over time, over a long period of time,
chronic exposure to this kind of
molecular disruption, that's exactly
what leads to cell breakdown, organ uh
breakdown, chronic inflammation,
cellular aging, and chronic exposure to
things like formaldahhide can even lead
to cancer. And that's why exposure to
format has been identified uh as one of
the top environmental cancer risk
carcinogens in the country in the United
States. It's been strongly linked to
nasal ferangeal cancer. That's a cancer
of the lining of the nose and the back
of your mouth. Makes total sense, right?
You're breathing this stuff in from
exposure. It's also linked to myoid
leukemia. That's a blood cancer because
now the formaldahhides binding to
proteins and DNA uh which is in your
body and your white blood cells are
where leukemia actually comes from. It's
also in your blood. Formaldi exposure is
also linked to lung cancer, chronic
respiratory inflammation, and other lung
damage. And that makes sense because
again, we're breathing it in. This is
why I want to share information about
formaldahhide and why you need to think
about it and you need to look out for
it, okay? When you actually think about
setting up a house or when you're buying
furniture or when you're looking at a
new car, for example, all those things
can actually be have lots of uh toxins
and solvents and formaldahhide exposed
to the materials that are in it. Let's
talk a little bit more about where you
might actually find this and what can
you can actually do about it. Where is
formaldahhide found in your house? You
don't need to live near a chemical plant
to be exposed to formaldahhide. It's
used in materials to make everyday
products more durable. That's the reason
formaldahhide was actually developed and
used. All right? But when that
formaldahhide is in your products, it
off gases over time. You know what
offging is, right? Think about it. A
carpet, brand new carpet, carpet off
gases. Brand new cars smells great. All
right, that's offging. Brand new
furniture also has this characteristic
smell. We associate it with something
new and something wonderful and it's so
cool and great. Smells great. Actually,
that's offging solvents. It uh ends up
in the air and then we breathe it right
in. Expose our nasal passages, back of
our mouth, our lungs to it, and then it
can get into our bloodstream as well.
How does your body handle exposure to
formaldahhide? All right. Well, there's
some good news to this. Your body isn't
completely defenseless. Now, I talk a
lot about the body's health defenses.
I'm about to tell you another way that
the body can defend itself against
formaldahhide. All right? And guess
what? Your body has a defense against
formaldahhide, too. And here's how it
works. Once formaldahhide enters your
bloodstream, let's say that you're
breathing some
off gasing in uh from an air freshener
or from a new carpet. Guess what? The
formaldahhide is broken down by your
liver into uh something called formate.
Remember I told you about the enzyme
formaldahhide dehydrogenase. your body
is ready to break this thing down. All
right? So it doesn't accumulate and then
that formate as I mentioned before uh is
much less toxic. It's in your
bloodstream. It gets filtered by your
kidneys and then you pee it out excreted
by your urine. This is your body's
natural detox system. And actually it's
not just formaldahhide but many other
chemicals that you might be exposed to.
That means your liver and your kidneys
are doing the heavy lifting when it
comes to detoxifying your body when it
comes to formaldahhide. And now to do
their job, you got to support these
organs. You got to make sure you're good
to your liver. All right? Don't drink
too much alcohol and don't get exposed
to other solvents that can actually
compromise your liver as well. Don't
overeat. You know, when you actually
have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,
basically metabolically, you've
overwhelmed your liver and now it's not
going to work as well to detoxify your
body against formaldahhide. And kidneys,
what about your kidneys? Well, the best
way to take good care of your kidneys is
to stay hydrated. And of course you can
eat the right foods that can help both
liver and kidney. But hydration is
really important. Your kidney needs to
be well watered. Uh think about it like
like a uh air conditioning conditioner
with a filter. If you don't run that air
conditioner, okay, and get things moving
through it, it's not going to actually
filter as well. And your kidney filters
blood. So you need to be able to keep
that blood flowing through that. Best
way to do that is by staying hydrated.
Okay. So, I think it's time to talk
about foods that can help strengthen
your body's natural detox systems,
right? So, let's start with your liver.
What are some of the things, the foods
that we can eat that can help improve
our liver's function? Well, here's the
thing. Most of the things that are
helpful, you already know, I've talked
about this before, whole plant-based
foods are definitely good. So, which
ones are they that help your liver?
Well, cruciferous vegetables, you know,
broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, they
boost enzymes in the liver that can help
to clear away toxins. Not just
formaldahhide, but also formaldahhide,
but other toxins as well. All right,
that's what you want. Cruciferous
vegetables. Eat your broccoli means
clear that formaldahhide and other
toxins. Garlic and onions. Now, I like
to cook Mediterranean as well as Asian.
I call it Mediterranean style cooking.
Uh that's the kind of uh food that I
actually whip out in my own kitchen. But
common to both Mediterranean cooking and
Asian cooking are garlic and onions.
They are incredibly flavorful. They're
they belong to the aliium family. You
can find them in the produce section and
in farmers market. So guess what? Garlic
and onions are rich in sulfur. All
right, that's an element that also helps
to improve the liver's detox systems.
Sulfur is needed to make something
called glutathione. And glutathione is
another molecule used for detox. All
right. So, eating garlic and onions
helps to power up your liver's
glutathione to be able to detoxify. So,
we talked about what we talked about
cruciferous vegetables, broccoli,
Brussels sprouts, kale, garlic, and
onions. Here's another one. Beets. Beets
contain a bioactive natural chemical
called betane. All right? And betane can
actually help your liver regenerate
itself. Your liver, by the way, is one
of those organs that has incredible
regenerative capacity. In fact, if you
were to take a healthy liver, all right,
if I took your liver and I cut away
twothirds of it, left only oneird back
in your body, threw the other part away,
all right, okay, we got to give it to
somebody to transplant a liver. We're
short of livers, that's important. But
that one-third of a liver left in your
body, guess what? Over the course of
about a year or two, can completely
regenerate itself. That is an example of
how you know how a starfish can regrow
an arm or a salamander regrow a limb.
Well, we humans can regenerate our
liver. All right, if you get the right
part of it. All right, so that's a
that's quite important. So liver
regeneration can be enhanced, can be
supported, promoted by eating beets.
Betane can help regenerate the liver.
What other uh foods are liver
protective? Green tea. My favorite.
Okay. And a lot of people's favorite
green tea contains polyphenols. Uh, one
of them is called EGCG,
epigalocatin 3 galate. Don't worry about
memorizing all the names. EGCG, it's a
kakin. It's a polyphenol. It's a
polyphenol that's a powerful
antioxidant. And this antioxidant
protects against the cellular damage
caused by formaldahhide. All right. So,
if you drink your green tea, have a beet
salad. All right. uh have some veggies
on the side, maybe some sauteed broccoli
or a kale salad or something else
delicious, roasted Brussels sprouts.
Guess what? You'll be actually
protecting your liver. Oh, and by the
way, one other thing about green tea,
the polyphenols also from tea actually
directly bind to they grab onto the
formaldahhide to neutralize that
chemical. Another good thing. All right,
mother nature's pretty smart. Put a lot
of useful things into her food. That's
why we call it mother nature's pharmacy.
Not with a ph uh like pharmaceutical but
mother nature's pharmacy with an f.
Okay, that's the liver. What about the
kidney? How do we actually take care of
the kidney? Well, we I told you that the
kidney will remove and expel eliminate
the formate which is the less toxic
version of formaldahhide that your liver
tackled. Right? So remember get exposed
to formaldahhide goes into your
bloodstream gets to your liver your
liver immediately starts to tackle it
breaking it down from formaldahhide into
formate. So go from very toxic to less
toxic. Still want to get rid of that in
the body goes to your kidneys. Your
kidneys basically filter it and get rid
of it. You pee it right out. Okay. So
what do you want to do for the kidney to
take care of it? Well I said this
earlier and I'll say it again. Hydrate.
Hydrate. Hydrate. Hydration is key for
life itself. If you want a good brain,
good heart, good skin, good hair, you
absolutely need to stay hydrated. And
too many of us actually don't keep up
with our water because we're just
trained to power our way through the day
and not pay attention to the fact that
we're losing water all the time. You
don't have to be in a hot environment
and sweating to lose water. We have
these things called insensible losses.
Every time you ex exhale, every time you
speak, all right, you're losing a little
bit of water. Actually, when your eyes
are open, you're losing a little bit of
water that evaporates through your
eyeballs. Hydration is key. Your kidney
needs to be well hydrated, well water to
efficiently flush out waste. And by the
way, even mild dehydration can slow the
system down. All right? And you feel it.
You feel tired, you feel sluggish, you
don't feel good. So, uh, water, drinking
water is the easiest way to hydrate. But
remember I told you tea can actually do
it. So if you want to actually boost
your liver and keep your kidneys going,
try tea. Water plus polyphenols, you get
double barrel benefits actually from
that. All right. Now, coffee is
something I drink every single morning.
Uh when I did a gap year in the
Mediterranean, I was in Italy, I learned
to actually drink coffee and espresso in
the morning. Now, besides the caffeine,
which is a good pickme up in the
morning, coffee actually has other
bioactives, natural chemicals like
chlorogenic acid. All right, chlorogenic
acid lowers inflammation. And guess
where it can lower inflammation? You
guessed it, in the kidney. So, drinking
coffee has its own bioactives that gets,
you know, into your bloodstream and
you're it's going to encounter your
kidney, lowers inflammation. That's a
good thing. And you're also getting the
hydration from the coffee itself. Now,
some of you might say, "Wait a minute. I
remember being told that coffee and tea
can cause dehydration." Well, if you
drink less than 10 cups of coffee a day,
less than 10 cups of tea, you're going
to be just fine. Okay? Research, human
clinical studies have actually shown
that you do not get dehydrated if you
drink less than 10 cups uh of tea or
coffee every single day. When you eat or
drink, keep your liver and your kidneys
in mind. They're helping your body stay
resilient, especially in an environment
that challenges it, including by uh
having formaldahhide offging from all
the stuff that we have around us in our
homes. I got to tell you one more thing
about formaldahhide. All right? Uh and
that's what it does to your blood
vessels, your vascular health. I'm one
of the few people you're going to hear
about this vascular health. I'm a
vascular biologist. I'm an expert in a
field of blood vessels called
angioenesis.
Angio blood blood vessel genesis how
your body grows them. So I want to point
out something that most people won't
know about even other doctors and
experts on health and wellness. All
right? And this is about formaldahhide
specifically and that is that
formaldahhide that you get exposed to
just by being in your house or in a
building can cause vascular damage. You
got 60,000 miles worth of blood vessels.
That's your vascular system, your
circulation inside your body. These are
the highways and byways of for the
oxygen that you breathe and the
nutrients that you eat. All right? Your
blood cells, your immune system,
everything's got to go through your
bloodstream. And when you're exposed to
formaldahhide, it damages your the
lining of your blood vessels. Now, how
do we know this? Well, lots of research,
but there's a specific study that was
published in the journal toxicology and
applied pharmarmacology. All right.
researchers from North Carolina did
this. They showed that exposure to
formaldahhide causes vascular damage in
women. So this is a small study but an
important one. We don't have to always
go to these gigantic studies. Even small
studies can give us a proof of concept
to show us actually you know this is
something we got to worry about
especially for harms. So what they did
is they took 10 women and these women
were uh in a health profession school
they were about to start an enemy class.
Now, I can tell you as a doctor, when
you're in medical school, one of the
first classes you take is anatomy class.
So, what do you do? You get your gown,
you get your surgical mask, you get your
gloves, you learn how to wash your
hands, and you enter this room. It's got
a lock on the door, and guess what? You
enter anatomy class, and it's a room
filled with kadaavvers, and you're going
to dissect them to learn the organs and
learn the parts of the human body.
probably one of the most important
courses that a doctor or a nurse or uh
somebody studying health professions
will ever actually take. All right? And
it's a real privilege to be able to do
this because there are people who
donated their bodies to science so that
we health providers can learn uh from
their bodies so we can help other living
people as well. It's a it's a it's a
real gift when that happens and it's a
and and we have to be really grateful
for it. Okay. But guess what? Those
cadaavvers are imbalmed with
formaldahhide. So these women in this
research study from North Carolina. All
right, the they were coming in to
dissect cadaabvers that have been
preserved with formaldahhide. And I can
tell you if you're if you ever uh talk
to anybody who's been to medical school,
all right, I will tell you that that
smell you'll never forget. You walk into
that room and the whole place smells
like formaldahhide. And it doesn't smell
like dead bodies, but it does smell like
formaldahhide. So what the researchers
did is they measured in their blood what
was what their blood was like at
baseline and then uh before and after
exposure to the formaldahhide. All
right. So and then they looked at their
vascular function and here's what they
found. They found in the blood when you
compare before exposure to the
cadaavvers from the formaldahhide to
after exposure a significant increase in
oxidative stress markers. So just being
exposed to formaldahhide causes huge
amounts of stress, oxidative stress that
can damage DNA. That's how we started
this video. Remember I told you about
DNA damage. Well, here it is. In people
in women, they are actually being
exposed to formaldahhide from cadaavvers
in anatomy class. And then what these
researchers did is they did a special
test called flow mediated dilation.
Here's what they found. When you
compared before exposure to
formaldahhide versus after exposure to
formaldahhide, guess what? These
researchers found that the women exposed
to formaldahhide from anatomy class from
a cadaavver had a 47%
decrease in their flow mediated
dilation. That's a 47% decrease in the
resilience of their circulation. All
right, that's a big deal. I I can tell
you this as somebody who studies blood
vessels. Wow, that is a huge decrease.
If that's happening in your arms, guess
what? that vascular dysfunction or
malfunction or loss of resiliency is
happening across the rest of your body
as well. Think about that uh implication
when it's in your brain less resilience
in your heart blood vessels less
resilience in your muscles less
resilience your energy level your
long-term health your metabolism all of
that's actually going to suffer. So this
is clinical evidence that even shortterm
exposure to formaldahhide has health
consequences. Good news is that the flow
mediated dilation your blood vessel
health will recover. But guess what it
takes? It takes your liver and your
kidneys to detoxify and eliminate it.
That's why I'm telling you this. All
right? So you get we get exposed to
toxins all the time. I'm telling you
protect your liver, protect your
kidneys, eat the right things, drink the
right things so that you can actually
recover from it. But this is about
formaldahhide. I just wanted to pin out
on one thing so that you actually know
about it. Let's say that you were
exposed to formatahhide and it damaged
your vascular system. And I'm telling
you, you don't have to be exposed to a
cadaavvers uh in an anatomy class to do
that. Just being in your home long term.
We're all getting some formaldahhide
from offging. Guess what? To help your
vascular system, your blood vessel
system recover, you can eat certain
foods that will protect and repair your
vascular system. So, what are some of
the foods that can promote vascular
health? help help vascular recovery. We
talked about one of them already, beets.
Remember I told you beets will help your
liver regenerate. Guess what? They'll
also help your blood vessels regenerate
so you can protect yourself. Spinach,
too. Spinach will also cause nitric
oxide. They have nitrates in them. Uh
increase nitric oxide which relaxes
blood vessels. Uh recruits stem cells to
replace and repair any damaged
circulation in your body. All right. So,
beets and spinach help repair your
circulation. Here's another one. Most
people are happy to hear this, and that
is dark chocolate. Dark chocolate has
lots of a plant-based substance called
cacao. Cacao is what chocolate's made
out of. And cacao, uh, which comes from
a a bean that looks like a like a
football pot, actually is packed with
polyphenol. The darker the chocolate,
the higher the number of polyphenols
that come from the cacao. Makes perfect
sense. 70 80% or higher is what I tell
people to aim for. What do these cacao
dark chocolate polyphenols do? They
promote stem cells to come out from your
bone marrow. Okay? They mobilize stem
cells and they improve flow immediate
dilation. They improve the resiliency of
your circulation. That would be
important to do if you're exposed to
solvents and toxins like formaldahhide.
What's another thing that can actually
improve your circulation? Fruits and
their peel. Fruits with peel. apples,
plums, cherries. Okay. Now, the flesh of
these fruits contain chlorogenic acid.
But the skin contains erolic acid.
That's uric
or sulic acid or sulic acid have been
shown to help protect and repair
vascular linings. That's your
circulation. Food as medicine doesn't
have to be honorous. Actually, it's
quite pleasurable. If I just told you to
get those ingredients, the the beets,
the spinach, the garlic, the onions, the
cherries, all right, and I gave it to a
chef, professional chef, and told them
to go knock themselves out, they'd come
up with an amazing meal for you. Food is
medicine. Not so hard to do. Now, I got
to tell you one more thing about
formaldahhide. Formaldahhide triggers
inflammation in the body, right? It's
irritating. It destroys DNA. It damages
your cells, damages your blood vessels.
What's going to happen? You're going to
get inflammation. So, how do you counter
that? Well, you eat foods that are
anti-inflammatory. I don't need to tell
you that eating anti-inflammatory foods
are beneficial. Everybody says that and
it is true. All right. So, but I want to
tell you what are some of my recommended
anti-inflammatory foods. You know, you
get a lot of bang for your buck if you
eat berries, blueberries, strawberries,
raspberries. They all contain a natural
bioactive called anthocyanins. That's
what gives them their color. Okay? It's
like a natural food dye. All right? And
guess what? That lowers inflammation big
time. Another thing that I recommend
that lowers inflammation is extra virgin
olive oil. Olive oil has
anti-inflammatory polyphenols. Good to
help neutralize the inflammation that
toxin exposure like formaldahhide can
actually cause. Turmeric. All right.
Another spice um actually has got
curcumin, anti-inflammatory. If you want
to get the most out of turmeric, mix it
with some black pepper. That's by the
way like why these two ingredients are
often mixed together in a curry. All
right? And the pepper, the pipperine and
black pepper helps your body absorb the
kurcumin from turmeric a lot better. So
just think about them as a pair. They
should go together. Here's another
anti-inflammatory food. Fatty fish.
Fatty fish contain healthy fats like
omega-3s. Omega-3 is found in seafood.
The omega-3s are protective. They
actually are anti-inflammatory. Now, if
you're a vegetarian or a vegan, all
right, and you want to have plants that
have omega-3s, well, you can get
precursor plants that have the omega-3s
and make your body make its own
omega-3s, like flax seed and chia seeds.
That's a way to actually get plant-based
omega-3s. All right, leafy greens, super
packed with antioxidants like uh
sulforophanes, anti-inflammatory. And
tomatoes. Tomatoes have lycopine and
betacryptosanthin. These are natural
chemicals. Trust me, I study food as
medicine. So, I I I'm the only person
that really needs to memorize all these
chemical names. You should just know.
Tomatoes, leafy greens, fatty fish,
spices like turmeric, extravirgin olive
oil, berries, right? That's all that's
all you really need to know about. But
tomatoes have lycopine and betstoanthin.
These bioactives are also
anti-inflammatory. So, a steady intake
of these kinds of foods that you'd find
in the farmers market or in the grocery
store in the produce section can keep
inflammation in check, reduce your
body's vulnerability to toxic exposures
like formaldahhide. So, uh I want to
give you some practical steps right now
how you can actually lower formaldahhide
exposure in your house. All right, this
is actually really important. Simple
thing you can do is open your windows.
All right, open your windows, let the
outdoor air come in. uh when you're
cooking, when you're cleaning, uh you
got, you know, you're using cleaning
materials, somebody's helping you clean
your house, open up your windows, let
the fresh air come in and blow out some
of that formalahhide. Uh use an exhaust
fan where you're cooking. That's an easy
way to get it all out. And if you can
get an air purifier, invest in an air
purifier in your home. The kind you want
to get has something called pico p
that stands for photo that's p electro
that's e chemical that's c oxidation
that's o pico pico technology helps to
remove toxins like formaldahhide and
when you're actually buying furniture or
paint or solvents or cleaning material
do your research check out for check out
the products prefer the products that
are what we call low VOC products All
right. Low in volatile organic
compounds. VOCC. Volatile organic
compounds. One of which is
formaldahhide. All right. And by the
way, when you're buying fabric, whether
it's clothing or drapes or sheets, avoid
the wrinkle-free ones. All right. Just
go for the natural fibers. Cotton,
linen. Actually, they're more natural.
They look better anyway. And uh and by
the way, for cleaning products, go for
the fragrancefree cleaning products. You
don't need that extra nice flurry sense
it's engineered and not the real thing
anyway. And by the way, if you can't
find the information on the package, I
always get really irritated when I'm
looking for information that should be
transparent and I don't find it. You can
search it on the internet. Oh, I can't
find it there either. Don't hesitate to
ask the manufacturers directly. Go to
the company that makes it. Send them an
email and just tell them, look, I want
to know, do you have VOCC's? Is it low
VOC or not? Do you have formaldahhide in
your product or not? All right,
transparency is an important thing.
Growing trend. I think more and more
companies are actually going to be um
heading to just telling people what's in
there. It's an informed choice. If they
even though they told you informat, you
might still choose it because you you
want it or you need it, it's okay. But
at least now you know. Informed choice
actually makes your home and your body a
little safer. Now, here's something else
I want to tell you. If you've got kids
or pets, children breathe more air per
pound of body weight than adults. So,
they absorb more of the formaldahhide
that's in your house. And pets, pets,
you know, they're they got short legs.
They're close to the ground. And pets
are in contact with your furniture and
your carpets much more than you are. All
right? Uh your dog, your cat, just think
about it. So, they're going to be
exposed to more volatile organic
compounds like formaldahhide than you
are. So when you make your indoor
environment safer and you open your
windows and let the formaldahhide out,
you're not just protecting yourself,
you're also protecting the ones that you
care about in your house. Now that you
know the facts, I'm going to encourage
you to take just one more step today.
I want you to find one product in your
home that might be leeching out
formaldahhide. All right? Maybe that old
particle board stool that you've had
forever. Throw it out. Okay? Um, read
one label. All right, look in the
cautions. Usually the cautions will say
contains formaldahhide. All right, look
at your paint cans. Look at your
cleaning agents under your sink. All
right, find one thing that has
formaldahhide and throw it out and
replace it with something that doesn't
have formaldahhide. And then crack one
window open, get some air to circulate,
just even for an hour. All right, let in
some fresh air. Let some of that
formaldahhide out. And I want you to add
one vascular supporting food to your
plate. And we talked about that. Beets,
spinach, dark chocolate, berries, you
can do it. All right? And it's going to
taste great uh as well. And of course,
tea and coffee are good for your liver,
good for your kidneys because of the
water, and good for your circulation as
well. Every small decision you make,
every little move you make like this is
a small step that will have big benefits
later for your health. So, here's a
question I'll leave you with. What is
one product in your home right now that
you are rethinking about after what I've
told you about from alahhide? Leave a
comment below. I'd love to hear about
how you're taking action. And if this
video helped you rethink your indoor
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