Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by non-toxic living and confused by the "natural" claims on your product labels? Today, we are breaking down the truth about greenwashing and giving you the exact non-toxic swaps you need to start cleaning up your home, pantry, and cosmetics immediately.

Our guest for this episode is Amy Hartshorn. She is a nontoxic living educator, certified organic farmer, podcast host, and retreat leader based in Waitsfield, Vermont. She was the founding Executive Director of the Household Toxins Institute, created with the founder of Seventh Generation, and served as technical editor of Green Living for Dummies. If you are a conscious consumer ready to protect your family's health, this episode is essential listening.

You can read how to spot 12 toxic ingredients on food labels in this NNBL.Blog article.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Labels Greenwashing And Spotting Fake Claims
• 3:30 Amy’s Non-Toxic Origin Story
• 6:24 Fragrance Antibacterials And Daily Exposures
• 9:40 Start With Priorities Not Perfection
• 14:24 Organic Shopping That Fits Real Life
• 17:18 Helping Kids Avoid Hidden Toxins
• 23:27 Glyphosate, gluten-sensitivity, Celiac disease, Wheat And Healing Paths

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Most people's longevity biomarkers never appear on a standard checkup and that gap may be shortening your health span. Bestselling author and fitness expert, Timothy J. Ward reveals the three markers that do an extraordinary job predicting how long you'll live and how well, and why training all three is possible at any age, even if you've been told it's too late. This episode is for veterans, first responders, blue-collar workers, and caregivers who are done being told their "your labs are normal" while you body tells a different story. The answers you've been looking for are here!

Chapters

• 0:00 Three Biomarkers That Predict Longevity
• 1:29 Tim Ward on Preemptive Healthcare
• 5:43 Aging Strong In A Sick Culture
• 14:44 Toxic Food
• 17:50 The Health Metrics Doctors Miss
• 25:12 Biomarker Panels And Healthy Baselines
• 29:32 Making Advanced Testing Affordable
• 33:03 Custom Supplement Packs And Bioavailability
• 35:40 The Longevity Matrix And Fitness Quadrant
• 40:41 Training Zones For Real Life and Sports

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Functional medicine holds the answers veterans, first responders, blue-collar folks, and caregivers are searching for, but the conventional system keeps running out of time to give them. This podcast strips away the noise around nervous system regulation, TBI recovery, and caregiver burnout and replaces it with an exact road map from the world's best experts. If you've spent years serving, caregiving, or working in conditions most people can't handle and your health is now paying the price, you just found the right show.

Host Antoinette Berrafato is a TBI survivor, former Army Air Assault Medic, and The Wellness Warrior — the New Normal Big Life podcast host who used nature therapy (archery and kayaking) to recover from physical limitations, finding passion, purpose, and people as a recipe for mental health. She rebuilt her health from rock bottom and brings expert answers to the questions you're actually living. Every episode is shaped by real listener questions or topical health events, covering root cause medicine, somatic healing, and the health challenges the conventional system consistently misses.

Chapters

00:00:00 - Introduction to New Normal Big Life functional medicine and holistic health podcast
00:00:17 - This podcast is for veterans, first responders, caregivers, and blue-collar workers.
00:00:22 - We cover nervous system regulation, TBI recovery, root cause medicine
00:00:29 - About the host - U.S. Army veteran, Antoinette Berrafato
00:00:45 - Every episode features MDs, functional medicine doctors, health researchers and innovators
00:01:46 - Start with the start here playlist

New Normal Big Life streams free in audio and video on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow the show so the next episode finds you automatically.

New episodes drop weekly. Start with the 'Start Here' playlist at nnbl.blog.

We want to solve your biggest health challenge. Send us a text

Support the show

New here? Start with our 6‑episode playlist: https://nnbl.blog/podcast/start-here/
Free listener ebooks & guides (newsletter subscribers only): https://nnbl.blog/new-normal-big-life-ebooks-and-guides/
Rebuilding Resilient Lives Uncensored Community: https://rebuilding-resilient-lives.mn.co/share/kNbNMRnkLlpKWjar?utm_source=manual
New Normal Big Life streams free in audio and video on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

DISCLAIMER: For informational purposes only, not medical advice. Always consult your own healthcare professional.