DeepSummary
Emily Toops shares her family's journey towards a non-toxic lifestyle, starting with eliminating processed foods and cleaning products. Motivated by health issues like her husband's migraines, daughter's eczema, and her thyroid problems, they moved to a farm, bought a milk cow, and transitioned to an animal-based diet focused on raw dairy, meat and vegetables from their farm. This dramatically improved their health.
Toops then discovered the healing benefits of beef tallow for her daughter's eczema, leading her to create Toups & Co Organics, a skincare line using tallow and other natural ingredients like raw milk. She emphasizes the importance of questioning mainstream narratives, avoiding toxic products with fragrance and chemicals, and making gradual changes towards a cleaner lifestyle.
The episode covers topics like dry brushing, home births, homeschooling, the life lessons a farm lifestyle teaches children, and practical tips for reducing toxin exposure from products, food, and electromagnetic fields. Toops advocates for a back-to-basics approach focused on what humans evolved with rather than modern chemicals and processes.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Eliminating processed foods, toxic cleaning and personal care products can dramatically improve health conditions like migraines, eczema and hormonal issues.
- Beef tallow and raw dairy products like milk from grass-fed cows are highly nourishing traditional foods that can promote healing.
- Reading product ingredient lists and avoiding items with fragrance, chemicals and unpronounceable ingredients is key to reducing toxic exposures.
- Making gradual lifestyle changes towards non-toxic alternatives like natural home and body care is more sustainable than attempting everything at once.
- A farm/homestead lifestyle reconnects people to where real food comes from and instills values like self-sufficiency and critical thinking in children.
- Being exposed to toxins can desensitize people to feeling unwell, so eliminating them allows realization of how much better one can feel.
- Common sources of toxins include EMF from wifi/devices, plastic food containers leaching chemicals when heated, conventional cleaners/detergents and more.
- Questioning mainstream narratives and thinking critically rather than blindly accepting norms is important for health and making conscious choices.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Some people don't have, like, this health crisis that makes them want to make a change. And so either you have a health crisis or you just come to the realization that, hey, this really is toxic. Someone else has a story or has something that's happened to them, and you're like, it's time to wake up. You know, I don't want to wake up when I'm 70 and I have cancer and I'm like, now I'm going to make the change.“ by Emily Toops
- “Our main goal in all of this is to raise children who think outside of the box. You know, their thought pattern is not that person said so, so that must be it. You know, I really want them to question the narrative.“ by Emily Toops
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The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast
Lauryn Bosstick & Michael Bosstick / Dear Media
3/22/24