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After cancer, I removed nine things from my kitchen that most people still use.
I'm a certified integrative nutrition health coach, a nine-year cancer survivor, and I work with people on cancer prevention and recovery, so my kitchen had to change in ways I didn't expect.
When I started looking at refined oils, non-stick cookware, plastic containers, aluminum foil, scented plug-ins, plastic water bottles, plastic cutting boards, ultra-processed foods, and conventional cleaning products together, I realized how much daily exposure I'd accepted as normal.
No single product causes cancer overnight. But chronic exposure over years is a different conversation, and that's the one I want to have.
Learn what I swapped out, what I use now, and why each change actually matters. Some swaps were easy. A few took me longer than I'd like to admit.
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You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[0:57] Why refined vegetable oils are the first thing to cut from your kitchen
[2:03] The forever chemicals in non-stick cookware, and what Teflon flu actually is
[2:57] An overlooked problem with cooking on aluminum foil
[3:42] Microplastics are now showing up in blood, placentas, and breast milk
[4:47] What synthetic air fresheners are actually releasing into your home
[5:58] Heat turns your plastic water bottle into an endocrine disruptor
[6:35] Plastic cutting boards shed microplastics directly into your food
[7:04] Ultra-processed foods are actually designed to be addictive, and what to eat instead
[7:52] The cleaning products linked to accelerated lung decline in women
Resources mentioned:
Branch Basics | Website
Cleaning at Home and at Work in Relation to Lung Function Decline and Airway Obstruction by Svanes, Ø., et al. | Article
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