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Hidden Toxins In Your Home Exposed: Mold, Air Quality, EMF's & The Simple Fixes For A Healthier Home Ft. Ryan Blaser

72 min episode · 2 min read
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Ryan Blaser

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72 min

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2 min

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Productivity, Health & Wellness, Product & Tech Trends

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Key Takeaways

  • Mold prevalence: 70% of homes contain mold problems ranging from severe sickness-causing levels to low-level exposure creating brain fog, irritability, and reduced energy. Testing air filters, dust samples, and areas with water exposure reveals hidden contamination requiring chlorine dioxide gas treatment or remediation.
  • EMF bedroom placement: Electromagnetic fields from refrigerators, appliances, and electronics can penetrate 6-8 feet through walls, disrupting sleep and causing neurological issues. Moving beds away from kitchen appliances and keeping phones on airplane mode at night eliminates exposure during the critical third of life spent sleeping.
  • Chemical off-gassing timeline: New homes release toxic chemicals from cabinets, flooring, and paint for 2-3 years. Air sampling detects volatile organic compounds while opening windows, using air filtration like Jasper units, and avoiding synthetic fragrances, candles, and cleaning products reduces indoor chemical load significantly.
  • Shoe contamination transfer: Shoes track public bathroom residue, toxic cleaning chemicals, microplastics, and microbiology directly into homes where children crawl. Implementing no-shoes policies and providing house slippers for guests prevents outdoor contaminants from entering living spaces, especially near sleeping areas.
  • Bathroom toxicity concentration: Bathrooms contain the highest toxin levels due to personal care products, hairsprays, cleaning chemicals, and moisture-related mold growth. Flushing toilets with lids down, running exhaust fans continuously, and switching to natural materials like organic cotton and bamboo reduces chemical exposure.

What It Covers

Ryan Blaser from Test My Home explains how to identify and eliminate hidden environmental toxins in homes, covering mold detection, EMF exposure, air quality testing, chemical off-gassing, and practical solutions for creating healthier living spaces.

Key Questions Answered

  • Mold prevalence: 70% of homes contain mold problems ranging from severe sickness-causing levels to low-level exposure creating brain fog, irritability, and reduced energy. Testing air filters, dust samples, and areas with water exposure reveals hidden contamination requiring chlorine dioxide gas treatment or remediation.
  • EMF bedroom placement: Electromagnetic fields from refrigerators, appliances, and electronics can penetrate 6-8 feet through walls, disrupting sleep and causing neurological issues. Moving beds away from kitchen appliances and keeping phones on airplane mode at night eliminates exposure during the critical third of life spent sleeping.
  • Chemical off-gassing timeline: New homes release toxic chemicals from cabinets, flooring, and paint for 2-3 years. Air sampling detects volatile organic compounds while opening windows, using air filtration like Jasper units, and avoiding synthetic fragrances, candles, and cleaning products reduces indoor chemical load significantly.
  • Shoe contamination transfer: Shoes track public bathroom residue, toxic cleaning chemicals, microplastics, and microbiology directly into homes where children crawl. Implementing no-shoes policies and providing house slippers for guests prevents outdoor contaminants from entering living spaces, especially near sleeping areas.
  • Bathroom toxicity concentration: Bathrooms contain the highest toxin levels due to personal care products, hairsprays, cleaning chemicals, and moisture-related mold growth. Flushing toilets with lids down, running exhaust fans continuously, and switching to natural materials like organic cotton and bamboo reduces chemical exposure.

Notable Moment

Blaser discovered through ketamine therapy that childhood trauma from accidentally killing a pet cat at age four created lifelong patterns of control-seeking behavior, manifesting in his career building nightclubs and optimizing environments, which he resolved through forgiveness work and subconscious healing.

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Episode Transcript

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now, Lauren Everts and Michael Bostick are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. Today, we have Ryan Blaser from Test My Home back on the Skinny Confidential, him and her show for the second time. Ryan Blaser is the founder and CEO of Test My Home, specializing in identifying and eliminating hidden environmental toxins that impact health. After overcoming his own severe symptoms caused by mold and lead exposure, he discovered the power of addressing the home environment directly. By uncovering environmental toxins and issues in the home, he's been able to restore his health, and now you can too. Lauren and I personally have worked with Ryan to come into our home here in Austin, Texas, identifying things that we need to be aware of. Anyone that's interested in nontoxic living and living in the cleanest, healthiest way or just getting some pointers on some healthy swaps to make in the home so that you can feel healthier and live better, This episode is for you. With that, Ryan Blaser. Welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. This is the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Welcome back to the show. Thank you. Your episode crushed it. Test my home, if you guys haven't listened to go listen to it. He basically gave us all different kinds of things that we could do to improve our home and make it more healthy. It's a very successful episode. We have you back because we really wanna dig deeper in this episode. First, update us since you've been gone. You said that you did ketamine therapy. You have to tell me about that. Yeah. So I've been doing some deep work trying to go into the subconscious, trying to heal, you know, some of the past traumas and things because I was doing all the things. I was exercising, eating a healthy diet, had the pretty much perfect environment, but still there were things that were still coming up. I wasn't feeling the best. We've realized that when I was four years old, I had this pet little cat that my parents gave me, a little kitty cat. And I was playing with it, and I played with it too rough and I killed it. And as a four year old, I was like, oh my gosh. What did I just do? You know, I went to church and learned don't kill. And I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm a monster. What did I do? Like, God's not gonna love me. My parents are gonna be disappointed. I hid the cat and, you know, they found it and stuff, but I felt that deep pain and …

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