Maya Rommwatt: Hidden Hazards, the Chemical Footprint of a Plastic Bottle
Release Date: 08/21/2023
Michelle Routhenstein: How to Have a Healthy Heart
Green Living with Tee
This week Tee is delighted to welcome Michelle Routhenstein, the owner of , a nutrition counseling and consulting practice specializing in heart disease prevention and management. As a registered dietitian nutritionist, Michelle shares her journey and insights into the importance of a science-based, personalized approach to heart health. She talks about the pivotal role of nutrition in preventing and managing heart disease, addressing cardiometabolic risk factors, and improving overall quality of life. Michelle highlights the significance of understanding personal risk factors, getting...
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Celebrating our 250th Episode: Understanding Toxins in 2025
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This week Tee is celebrating 250 episodes with a special talk about her passion for avoiding toxins and living a healthier life in 2025. From choosing organic produce to using safe cooking materials and avoiding products with harmful additives, this is an impassioned address on the vital reality of our toxic world and how to avoid it. Tee recounts personal experiences growing up in a toxin-aware household while offering tips on natural cleaning alternatives and of course, reading your labels and knowing your ingredients. For 250 episodes the mission of this podcast has been to inform...
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Dr. Ginny Trierweiler: Healthy Weight Loss Solutions From "Slender For Good"
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This week Tee sits down with Dr. Ginny Trierweiler a psychologist and certified health coach, about her forthcoming book "Slender for Good After 50: Eat More, Stress Less, and Never Diet Again." Dr. Ginny shares her personal journey of overcoming weight gain and health issues that began in her 40s due to hormone changes. Through evidence-based research, she discovered effective dietary principles that led to significant health improvements. Dr. Ginny discusses common misconceptions about healthy eating, the pitfalls of dieting, and how our processed food environment contributes to...
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Tee Forton-Barnes: Why Cheering for Your Home Team Is Healthy for You
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This week Tee is doing something a little different as she delves into the multifaceted benefits of supporting your hometown sports team, illustrated through their lifelong fandom of the Buffalo Bills. From childhood memories of attending games with their father to decades of holding season tickets, Tee underscores the deep sense of community and emotional well-being derived from being a dedicated fan. She explores how cheering for a team can foster social connections, reduce stress, and even encourage physical activity. Additionally, Tee highlights the formation of the in Buffalo,...
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Kate Donovan & Dr. Charles Moon: The Dangerous Chemicals Lurking in Your Home
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This week, we delve into the pervasive presence of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in everyday household items, such as cosmetics, cookware, and dental floss, and the significant health risks they pose. Linked to cancer, hormone disruption, liver and thyroid issues, reproductive harm, and abnormal fetal development, PFAS exposure has become a growing public health concern. Advocates are urging the state legislature to act by passing four critical bills to protect consumers before the session ends in June 2025. Joining the conversation are two leading experts in the fight against...
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Dr. LJ Johnson: Learning To Detox From Common Chemicals and Toxins
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This week Tee is delighted to welcome . Dr. Johnson specializes in hormones and gut health while utilizing holistic functional medicine. Dr. Johnson's passion stems from her own personal experience of managing multiple chronic illness diagnoses including the 16 years it took for her to be properly diagnosed with endometriosis. Dr. LJ has worked in the women's health industry for over 25 years while overcoming her own diagnosis of endometriosis. Her passion is to empower, motivate and educate all women, so they too can have quality of life despite their symptoms or diagnosis. In this chat,...
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Stacy Malesiewski: Why Indoor Air Is So Important to Our Health
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To kick off the New Year and promote simple steps to stay healthy this winter, Tee revisits a compelling conversation with Stacy Malesiewski from . Together, they explore the critical importance of purifying indoor air, as well as how outperform low-quality alternatives. With indoor air pollutants like mold, VOCs, dust, and wildfire smoke posing serious health risks—especially given that indoor pollutant levels can be two to five times, or even 100 times, higher than outdoor levels—this discussion offers valuable insights. Stacy highlights how Austin Air’s superior build quality and...
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Jenn Trepeck: Marketing vs. Facts: Reading Nutrition Labels
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As 2024 comes to a close, Tee revisits a conversation that embodies this podcast’s motto: “Read Your Labels and Know Your Ingredients.” Wellness expert Jenn Trepeck, host of the “A Salad With a Side of Fries” podcast, joins Tee to decode the complex world of food labels. Jenn is recognized as one of Podcast Magazine’s 40 Under 40 and a nominee for the 2022 International Women’s Podcast Award, and she shares practical insights on interpreting labels, understanding nutritional elements like fats and carbs, and identifying hidden ingredients. In this episode, Tee and Jenn tackle...
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Dr. Leona Allen: How Toxins Contribute To Weight Issues
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As we celebrate the holiday season and anticipate the coming New Year, one of the most common concerns for many is how we can enjoy our favorite foods without regret. Continuing to reinforce healthy eating habits is more pressing during this time of year. With this in mind, Tee is revisiting an important conversation she had in April of 2024 with Dr. Leona Allen about the role toxins play in both weight loss and overall health. Dr. Leona is a licensed chiropractor and the founder of . In this episode, the often-overlooked relationship between toxins and weight is examined as Dr. Leona...
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Carey Gillam: 'The Monsanto Papers' Exploring The Links Between Glyphosate and Cancer
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With the Holidays in full swing and food at the center of so many of our celebrations and festivities, Tee thought that this was a perfect time to remind listeners of the importance of eating organic foods in an attempt to avoid harmful and potentially cancer-causing agents in common herbicides and pesticides. So this week we are revisiting a conversation Tee had with Carey Gillam in March of 2021. Carey is a veteran journalist, researcher, and writer with more than twenty-five years of experience in the news industry covering corporate America. Carey is the author of two groundbreaking...
info_outlineThis week Tee is excited to welcome Maya Rommwatt for an investigation into the chemical footprint of plastic bottles on our health and environment. As Senior Market Campaigner at Defend Our Health, Maya persuades corporate policymakers to slash the use of dangerous chemicals and petrochemical plastics in popular products and packaging. She has also worked to clean up greenhouse gas emissions in supply chains and to protect critically endangered species, and she has been continuously advocating for a just climate transition in her hometown Portland, Oregon.
Maya received a M.S. in Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Oregon and she loves to explore the intersection between human organization and biological processes in order to improve our communities, health, and the world we live in. She believes in punching up and holding the most powerful to account, advocating for change through lobbying and holding our politicians and regulatory agencies to account to change the current policies on plastics and toxins in our environment.
In this episode, Maya unpacks a study that Defend Our Health has recently released on tracking the environmental and toxic effects of manufacturing plastic Coke bottles. This is an eye-opening conversation about both the impact of plastics on our health but also the devastating effect that the multi-stage process of making such bottles has on low-income and minority communities as well as our environment.
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