Household Solutions for Active People
Lesson 12 from: FAST CLASS: Achieve Ultimate Human PerformanceBen Greenfield
Household Solutions for Active People
Lesson 12 from: FAST CLASS: Achieve Ultimate Human PerformanceBen Greenfield
Lesson Info
12. Household Solutions for Active People
Lessons
Class Introduction
00:57 2Seven Big Issues in Training
11:58 3The Right Way vs. The Wrong Way to Train
11:15 4Mobility
10:27 5Balance
06:30 6Fueling for Performance
06:47 7Fermented Foods & Sweeteners
07:13 8Ultimate Human Performance Juice & Smoothie
03:23Lesson Info
Household Solutions for Active People
you guys, you know, we talked a little bit yesterday and the day before about how we can sometimes think that exercise is just the tool to fix everything right. We can just go beat up our bodies and train and go for a run and go lift weights or go play tennis or go golf and it just kind of cleans out the body or maybe we can go to the sauna or the steam room and detox and sweat a little bit. But the fact is that it really doesn't make sense to be spraying water on a fire on one end and gasoline on the fire on the other end by dumping a bunch of things into our bodies or onto our bodies or in the environment around us. That is basically creating a toxic stress load. We just got done talking about stress. And one of the things that I mentioned was how even things like food additives and environmental pollutions toxins, molds, things of that nature can create a cortisol release in your body and can create stress. It can also create things like hormonal disruption, the xeno estrogens and t...
he phyto estrogens that we talked about yesterday causing estrogen dominance and women, there are endocrine disrupters and things like perfumes that can cause issues with men and testosterone and what's called andropause. These are all issues that affect athletes and I know Jessa, my wife has a lot to teach us, so she's gonna be going over personal care products, household cleaners today and a whole bunch of stuff that's super duper, easy to do if you just know how so Jessa taken away. Thank you Ben. Um a lot of times I'm always surprised at how people um you know take such good care of their diet and their bodies and that sort of thing. But what what is the reality is like you're cleaning products and stuff like that, you inhale them a lot, which goes directly into your bloodstream, which goes directly to your organs and it's like unlike eating, it doesn't go through a whole filtration system, it's like immediate the same thing with your body products, That's why, you know when you put topical magnesium and you generally put it in a very vascular area is because it's going straight into your bloodstream and it's going out to your body. So first off we're gonna talk about how to make um a simple dish soap. Um So this is what goes into a dish soap, you're going to have um you have shredded soap, um I like to use dr Bronner's, it's a vegetable based soap, it's very clean um it has no ingredients that I would have a problem within them. So dr Bronner's is a good one, a lot of times you can have local soap makers and they use goat milk base and they used um hemp oil based or olive oil based soaps and those are all really good, so if you can get a local one even better, but this is dr Bronner's and then you're gonna need some hot water and you're gonna need, let's see here two cups of hot water, so I'm gonna pour it in here. The hot water is used for dissolving the soap basically. You're trying you're turning your soap into liquid. Uh huh. The round throw in this and this might take a not too long, depending on how hot your water is to um to dissolve the soaps. Just so does that dr Bronner's, those shavings that you just dumped in there, Does that come in a box or a bottle or no? You just, you know, you can you just get your cheese grater out and it's soap, so it's not gonna like put any kind of chemical on your cheese grater and just shut it. So it was like a dr Bronner's bar, so when you use the cheese grater and you shredded it exactly. And actually I have a great laundry detergent recipe as well where you do something similar, it's a good arm workout, especially depending on how much you're gonna make. So we're just gonna do, so this is almost dissolved. Okay, there you go. And ideally you want to wait until this is lukewarm until it comes to like a room temperature um just for time purposes, we're gonna just go ahead and mix it all up and I'm gonna give you kind of like the basic idea, so I'm gonna pour this into the bowl and then you're just going to add in the rest of your ingredients which are gonna be um fourth cup of glycerin and lemon essential oils. Lemon is really really good as a degree sir. Um It's a natural degree sir and it's also got a really great fresh scent and smell and lemon is naturally a disinfectant. So we're gonna pour in, this is to half a teaspoon of lemon essential oil. Um This is glycerin and this is kind of what makes your soap bubble. Um You use it, you can make kids uh you know a little bubble blower thing, this is you, the glittering is what's gonna make it bubbly basically. And even if your soap does not bubble up, it does not mean that it's not working or that it's not you know present. So so those are all the ingredients, You're gonna have 1/4 cup of soap flakes, two cups of water, a quarter cup of glycerin and um a lemon essential oil and that is it. And what will happen as it cools as it will start to gel like your so your normal dish soap. So that is the basics of making um dish soap. The next one I'm gonna teach you guys how to make is a distant thing and I chose um easy one, like one that you would use often because there are lots of different things you can make but I'm and picking the most applicable ones that I think people use most often and this is a disinfectant spray and what you're gonna need is distilled water is the best. Um And you can actually easily make distilled water, you just basically pour in a vessel and let the chlorine evaporate off of it overnight or for like 24 hours. So that's an easy way to make distilled water if you don't want to go purchase it or you kind of were like oh I forgot to make or buy the distilled water you can make it. So um so it's two cups of water and then it's a quarter cup of vinegar vinegar is a natural um uh what's the word? It's natural, it absorbs odors. So um so it's not gonna smell vinegar, it will smell vinegar initially but eventually it will absorb the gross odors. And it's also um it's also a disinfectant. So and then we have a tea tree oil, a quarter teaspoon of tea tree oil or lavender oil. Teacher oil is nice because it's a natural antibacterial. So it's a good way to make a disinfectant you can use whatever essential oil. The most disinfectant part of this is the vinegar um It's not gonna be like bleach or something like that. So um if you wanted to put lavender oil in it that's totally fine you could use rose if you wanted to um if you prefer that smell um just use the essential oils is what I would strongly suggest to do. So if I've got chicken juice out on this cutting board, I can literally use that and that was that will clean my counter. Yes and I don't have to use harsh cleaning chemicals or like a commercial disinfectant and actually really easy disinfectant is just getting a piece of lemon and just rubbing your boards with it if you're really worried about because it's the acid it's killing what's present right there. So next we have scoring powder which is super super simple to make um it's equal parts salt to equal parts baking soda. The salt is the scrubbing mechanism and the baking soda is absorbing mechanism. So um can I interrupt you? What is scoring scoring? It's like you know the powder like if you want to get the rings off your toilet or something like that or in your bathtub in the sink you can actually spray your sink or if you have a really bad stain. Um I like to spring my stuff with vinegar and then I just leave the scoring powder on overnight and then the next morning it comes off a lot easier because it's allowed the baking soda time to absorb the stain and also the vinegar, they both work up as absorbers. So that's a really good way to get rid of some really tough stains. So um this is easy um I like to use funnels just because it keeps things from getting real messy. This is the baking soda like I said, equal parts baking soda to salt. So if you're using a cup of baking soda, use a cup of salt. This could take a little while. Yeah, we're just gonna we're just gonna dump it, we're gonna dump it. There we go and then the salts, hopefully, sorry. There we go. And then if you want you can add really any kind of essential oil if you wanted to smell nice. I think here we have, this is peppermint just in time for christmas. So peppermint throw it in there and then you close it up and you shake it now if you let it sit for like three days, which is obviously you're not going to go through this in three days. Um The smell gets a lot nicer. Yes, does the, what kind of salt are you using? Just table salt. It doesn't really matter, you're not eating it. So I like to use the cheap stuff because why why wash down the good salt? So that's a good question
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