NO TOX exposes the hidden toxins in your thoughts, your words, the things you buy, and the people around you. Then we show you what to do about it.
Hosted by Jesse Henry. On Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere else you get podcasts.
Toxicity can live in your body, your home, your relationships, and your mind. Most of us are walking around carrying a toxic load we never chose. It's time to wake up and remove the toxins.
Every episode, Jesse Henry sits down with a leader, a doctor, a scientist, a healer, or a builder who lived through their own toxic wake-up call. What did they find? What did they cut? What did they change?
Society has sacrificed human and planetary health for profit. It's time to take control of our destiny so we can live a healthy and sustainable life.
With Meghan Swidler , Functional Health and Detox Practitioner
Meghan Swidler had the Cornell degree, the startup life, and a VC job offer that looked like the dream on paper. Underneath it: cystic acne, gut issues, and a hormonal mess doctors kept waving off. She quit the VC job the day after she started it. This one is about root cause, not symptom management.
The research here is educational and common sense advice backed by science. Talk to a qualified clinician about your own health.
In a large English survey, nature contact was associated with self-reported good health and wellbeing.
Limitation: An association in one survey. It does not prove that 120 minutes causes better health for every person.
Read the source →A meta-analysis synthesized research linking greater greenspace exposure with several health outcomes.
Limitation: Included studies vary in design, exposure measurement, and population. The review does not establish one universal effect size.
Read the source →Reviews pathways through which nature contact may support mental health, including stress reduction, social connection, and physical activity.
Limitation: A framework and review, not a clinical prescription or a quantified treatment outcome.
Read the source →Reviews evidence that feeling connected to nature is related to subjective wellbeing and may inform wellbeing interventions.
Limitation: The reviewed literature includes varied measures and many non-causal studies.
Read the source →Examines research on physical activity in natural environments and potential mental and physical-health outcomes.
Limitation: An older review. It does not support a generic 10 to 15 percent mood-improvement promise.
Read the source →Examines the relationship among green self-image, pro-environmental values, social norms, and subjective wellbeing.
Limitation: The study concerns relationships among measured variables. It does not demonstrate a 12 percent life-satisfaction increase.
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One kind of toxin you can hold in your hand.
The other kind of toxin can run your life without you knowing it.
The show helps you identify the physical and non-physical toxins.
The chemistry of the physical world you move through every day.
Most of what gets sold as food is a carrier for things that were never meant to be eaten. The label tells you, if you read the whole thing.
Your tap water has a list. That is not a moral failing. It is an exposure, and exposures can be handled.
Skin is not a wall. It takes in what your clothes were finished with, all day, against your body.
A dozen products before coffee, and nobody reads them. That is the whole problem, and it is a fixable one.
Your home has a chemistry. The pan, the couch, the candle, the spray under the sink. Right now someone else picked it.
Air, light, sound, soil. The commons got contaminated while nobody was watching, and it lands in your bloodwork.
The inputs that never touch your body and still shape the outputs.
Everything you can see started as a thought. A polluted one builds polluted things.
A feeling you will not process does not leave. It moves in and starts paying rent in your nervous system.
You attract who you are, not what you want. Some of the people around you are weight, and weight has a cost.
How you talk to yourself sets the terms for how everyone else gets to talk to you.
The work gets done in recovery. Skip it and you run a deficit you cannot see until it is big.
The job is not to build intuition. It is to clear out the noise that has been drowning the one you already have.
Our show focuses on helping you find sustainable thoughts, words, and things in your everyday life. This is the supply chain of how our thoughts turn into the physical world around us.
Your home, your products, your routines. Change the inputs and the body gets a fair shot.
Food is not a moral scorecard. It is a daily decision about what gets to become your cells.
Chase capacity, not the mirror. Movement is the pharmacy you already own, and recovery is where the work gets done.
What you think becomes your reality. Notice the pattern, change the frame, and give yourself a cleaner place to stand.
How you speak to yourself and to a room shapes every relationship you carry into the world.
How you operate when nobody is watching becomes the culture you build, and then the legacy you leave.
Entrepreneur. Author. Speaker.
Founder and CEO at ALT LABS.
Having a stutter as a kid put Jesse in speech therapy and stage acting for over a decade. Communication did not always come so easy.
At the end of college, Jesse gave a TEDx Talk, worked as a speaker under Tony Robbins, then became Chief of Staff for Oren Klaff. This gave Jesse the practical experience to communicate to large audiences.
In 2020, Jesse founded Heartland, a natural fiber plastic additive company. Jesse is third generation in fibers and materials. Over many years, Jesse learned what is sustainable, and how to optimize for a healthy life.
NO TOX is where all of it meets.
More at jessehenry.co →The same idea, on stage
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