The Longevity Formula

Healthy Living Hacks: Sarah Crawford’s Guide to a Toxin-Free Life

• Dr. Brandon Crawford • Season 1 • Episode 20

Share episode

Send us a text

In this episode of The Longevity Formula, Dr. Brandon Crawford and his wife, Sarah, discuss various topics related to clean living and health. They start by highlighting the advantages of 100% wool rugs over polyurethane-coated washable rugs, explaining wool's natural antimicrobial and stain-resistant properties. They then share the story of how they met in elementary school and grew up together. Sarah now serves as the Chief Operating Officer of NeuroSolution ATX and is involved in multiple other ventures.

Throughout the episode, they address managing toxins in their environment, including the impact of travel on their son Nolan's health. The conversation expands to their decision to avoid vaccinating their children, discussing their reasons and personal experiences with vaccine injuries in their families. They also touch on the importance of air quality, clean water, and supporting local farmers for meat and eggs. They conclude by sharing their views on a balanced approach to health and wellness, emphasizing the importance of enjoying life while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.


What You’ll Learn

  • The benefits of using 100% wool rugs: Learn why they opted for wool rugs instead of polyurethane-coated washable rugs, highlighting wool's health benefits and natural properties.
  • Vaccine discussion: Gain insights into Dr. Brandon Crawford and Sarah Crawford's personal experiences and research regarding vaccination and its effects on children's health, including documented adverse reactions in their families.
  • Household toxicity reduction: Understand the importance of reducing toxins at home with tips on using clean cleaning supplies like Branch Basics and choosing non-toxic household items.
  • Deuterium-depleted water: Discover the health benefits of deuterium-depleted water and how it impacts cellular energy production and overall longevity.
  • Healthier dietary choices: Learn the importance of consuming heirloom, non-GMO wheat, and local, organic foods to minimize toxin exposure and improve overall health.


Ideas Worth Sharing

“We have family members that we love and we respect and best friends that fully vaccinate their children.” — Sarah Crawford

“If I make a product and that product injures someone, my company is liable. And that's true of every scenario, except vaccines.” — Dr. Brandon Crawford

Products


Learn More
For more information, resources, and podcast episodes, visit https://tinyurl.com/3ppwdfpm

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. Today, I have someone that is extremely special to me. It's someone that I've known ever since I was in elementary school. We grew up together. We know all the good things and all the bad things about each other, which there's much less for me to report bad about her.

Unless we're talking about our fam, no I'm kidding. So this is my wife, so we're talking with Sarah Crawford today. Thanks for joining us on the show. So there's so many different reasons to talk to Sarah, but just to kind of give you a little bit of background about who Sarah is. So Sarah is kind of a jack of all trades.

She is really good at a lot of things and honestly really could just kind of do anything that she wants to with her life. She's the Chief Operating Officer of NeuroSolution ATX. So here in Austin, she helps set up operations for NeuroSolution Atlanta. She's consulted and helped me out with setting up the Dubai operations.

She's the Chief Operating Officer of NeuroSolution Products. Currently she's She's venturing into real estate. She's purchased a house, doing some rental some rental things there. I don't know what to call it. Whatever. Honestly, she's, she's really good. She should really be a consultant for small businesses, large businesses.

She's extremely quick to pick up on where inefficiencies are. In business practices. So, but she says she doesn't want to be a business consultant, but she should be, 

Sarah Crawford: we had two kids and all these other things we do. Why anything else? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: That's right. And you're a vacation planner. 

Sarah Crawford: I am. I'm a dang good vacation planner.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Of all the things. What do you like the best 

Sarah Crawford: vacation planning? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Of course. Okay, cool. So. I don't know if I left anything off the list. Oh, and she's the HMFIC. So if anyone doesn't know what that means, don't worry about it. If you do know what it means, then there you go. So we're going to be talking about toxins and clean living today.

Something that has really kind of defined a lot about our life and how we do things, why we do things, et cetera. And literally we have known each other since we were in elementary school, right? I mean, I can remember driving over on my four wheeler, picking you up, and we were dating in high school and going on a dirt road and probably Yep, he was my 

Sarah Crawford: first kiss when I was 15, so yep, long time known him.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: That's right, so she doesn't know how disappointing I really am, I guess. I don't know. 

Sarah Crawford: It's all I've ever known. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Okay. So where do we go first? Do we, do we go right into Poofas? I mean, I don't know. What are we talking about? 

Sarah Crawford: I think we start like vacation, right? So recently we went to Barcelona for Christmas with the kids and While we were there, we stayed in the older building, like a hotel, 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: which was awesome.

Yeah, it was 

Sarah Crawford: awesome. It was great. And we got back. No one had started having raging eczema on his arms while we were there. And we didn't really realize, but it was, you know, was it from the cigarette smoke that was there everywhere? There was a 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: lot of cigarette smoke, a whole 

Sarah Crawford: lot of cigarette smoke.

But yeah, so we got back and he was bleeding his arms, scratching like crazy. You know, we tried, you know, ramping up a supplements, ramping up probiotics and biotoxin binder and binders and all the things. And then we pulled his blood and he did the finger prick test. Well, I 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: should start with this. I was, I was going to, you know, I was doing his labs and everything.

You're the one that said do the heavy metals and I didn't I mean duh, but I didn't even really think about it But Sarah's one she was like run the heavy metals too. I was like, all right, no reason not to 

Sarah Crawford: yeah Sorry, no one hates needles. I don't know why but I do he ended up 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Ended 

Sarah Crawford: up poking his finger and we did I think eight cards of six blood spots, right?

Dr. Brandon Crawford: So that was a fortunate thing with vibrant labs is that we can do a lot of these tests So we can do nutritional testing, heavy metal testing, autoimmune testing, like there's all kinds of things that we can test. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: So we did that and his everything like food sensitivity wise was pretty great.

I was like, wow, this looks great. I expected something crazy to be there, but it was nickel and formaldehyde. All the rest of the metals were fine. And so we were like, where did he get exposed to nickel and formaldehyde? And turns out Barcelona has a really high correlation to those things and their waters, especially in the water and old buildings, which I'm guessing their pipes have or may have nickel possibly are coded in nickel or something.

So then yeah, we went down that rabbit hole and looked and saw, well, nickel, how does it, you know, show that it's affecting you? And one of the ways it does is in your skin. And it was really surprising when he would work out, play basketball or do jiu jitsu and he would sweat a lot, it would be so much worse like whelps and really, really, really itchy.

Well, how does nickel detox one of the ways the pathway is for your sweat? So you know, just, it's crazy how much we love to travel, but you never expect to be, to have these kinds of toxins. And come in like contact with toxins when you travel, right? Absolutely. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yep. And so we started him on a heavy metal detox.

I will say, so with the new lasers that we made, we did have a green laser, right? And so we had that for like two nights because then I had to go back to the engineers, but we did use that green laser on his skin. It did help it by like 40%. It was, it was massive by how that helped. But besides that, We changed everything, really focusing on the heavy metals as far as detox goes, etc.

But then also kind of going back to okay, what are we missing in the house? What else do we need to clean up? How do we kind of, you know, veered away from this whole concept of like really being toxin free living, you know, how we should. So yeah. I don't know if you want to comment. Yeah. Well, I think, 

Sarah Crawford: you know, as your kids get older and you're through pregnancy and breastfeeding and you kind of stop thinking about the chemical load in your house or what's coming up and your kids are just older, you know, they seem to be fine with, you know, just using the free and clear tide or using this and that.

But I was like, what if it's the chemicals like we're using in the house, right? Just from, you know, dishwasher pods or. The Myers spray, which you think is super clean, but it's not. So luckily I was, I was researching and found branch basics. It's a cleaning supply company and it was founded by a mom whose kids couldn't, son couldn't detox like anything.

Right. And she found out through a whole line of things that it was from the toxins in her house, everything from perfume to hairspray to the cleaning supplies. So. I ordered all the branch basics and threw away everything else in our house. So I don't know, I don't know what's helped. I don't know what's not helped, but it's definitely better.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: It's definitely better. But yeah, 

Sarah Crawford: it's a journey, like keeping your kids healthy and figuring out what's affecting them. Luckily for Nolan, like it's really apparent, you know, even whenever he eats, you know, when he eats occasionally gluten here and there, it upsets his stomach a bit, but man, it, He has a huge skin reactor, like that is our biggest thing.

And for a kid, you know, people are always like, it's from all the antibiotics. My kids had one antibiotic in his whole life and it was because of an abscess tooth, you know, and the eczema started before that. And it's from the vaccines. Well, no, it isn't because he never had any vaccines. So even if you live as healthy a life as you can, your kids can still have these really weird issues and autoimmune reactions.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yep. Absolutely, which we can get into that from a neurophysiology perspective or not. I mean, Nolan's always had kind of this neurological imbalance, kind of like Gavin, like myself, like everyone. No one, you know, no one's perfectly balanced really and that will then allow for this imbalance in the immune response.

So it's important to acknowledge this and not just be. Doing what you can to avoid the toxins and live clean and all that, but also be working on that neurophysiology, making sure that you're stimulating the vagus nerve, you're reducing stress responses, you're, you know, doing all the things that you should be doing in order to get 

Sarah Crawford: better.

Once we got into summertime, you know, seventh grade stressful, kids are stressful, definitely saw a reduction in the eczema just from being home. Or when we go to the beach, he gets good sun exposure, like his skin gets better. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. Yeah. So the stress response from his school year, right? Hi. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. Yeah.

It was really, you know, we came back from Barcelona and it was crazy because school was nuts. So yeah, I did definitely wonder if that, I mean, I don't know why it wouldn't contribute to the reaction. It does. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: And, and now, you know, he's even. Changing schools and, and his stress response has just gone down so much.

So I do think that's a big contributing factor here too, but well, cool. Well, you kind of brought up a big topic that we don't vaccinate our kids. I don't know if you want to get into that at all. It's kind of a, kind of a big one, but why not? Right. 

Sarah Crawford: Let's do it. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: So so yeah, we don't vaccinate our kids.

Where do you want to go first with that? 

Sarah Crawford: Hmm. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Hmm. How did 

Sarah Crawford: that journey start? Well, I mean, I do look at our lives and think about how differently, how different our lives would have been had you not gone into chiropractic as a profession. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Right. Because I was accepted to pharmacy school. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah.

How, how different would our life look had you gone to pharmacy school? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I wouldn't be near this good looking. I mean, come on, I'd be just taking my statins and doing all my things and just sitting on the couch. I'm kidding. I don't think I look that great. But anyway but you're right. So, you know, just to give a little background I had been accepted to pharmacy school and we both grew up in more, you know, traditional medicine models.

And so when we were pregnant, of course, it's like, well, yeah, we're just going to vaccinate. Yeah. So let's kind of start this conversation about vaccines, which we honestly, honestly, guys, we did not plan for this to go in this direction is honestly, we sat down 10 minutes ago and this kind of just kind of bubbled up.

So that's cool. We'll talk about it. So there's been some things that happened on your side of the family. There were some things that happened on my side of the family. And again, like when we were first, you know, pregnant, of course, we were just going to do what, you know, everyone else around us did.

We're just going to fully vaccinate our kids. But because of these occurrences in the families we decided otherwise. So, I know on my side of the family I had someone that actually had medically documented seizure reactions that was brought to the service. Right. And literally the, the medical records were brought to me and said, Hey, look, this is what happened.

Here's the documentation. And I was like, wow, okay. So literally documented medical, you know, reaction leading to seizures. I was like, okay, so I need to think about this. And then same thing on your side, what had happened? I know it was some really adverse events. So I guess we shouldn't really. Tell the details.

Yeah. Like 

Sarah Crawford: regressive autism and absence seizures. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: And once vaccines were stopped, like they didn't even do a crazy detox regimen. Right. But yeah, I mean, normal functioning, thriving child now. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. And so, you know, I'm a, I'm a, like, I love reading research. If I'm going to read, it's going to be for us.

That's what he does 

Sarah Crawford: at nighttime after I go to sleep. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yes it is. So I'm glad that now it's public because I say that all the time, but no one, I don't know if anyone believes me. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: So what it did for me is it made me really go into the research and go, okay, let's read through this information, but I understood that the funding of the research mattered.

And so I would always look at who is paying for this study. And then there's other things to consider, like, Correlative values, T values, P values, et cetera that you really want to look at. And you can state things kind of differently to kind of lead someone in a general direction in the research.

But I consistently kept coming up short on finding a reason in the research that would really convince me, right, that, okay, this was literally done for the public, you know, really just looking at is this a good idea or not? I was really having trouble finding those studies. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah, like why does a baby at birth, or maybe it's the first two weeks, need a hep B vaccine?

Dr. Brandon Crawford: It doesn't make sense. Who are they 

Sarah Crawford: sharing needles with? Who are they having sex with? Nobody. Right. So why are we giving that to our kids? It makes zero sense. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. Exactly. And there's some 

Sarah Crawford: that make a little bit more sense, where you could argue. And where you could understand why parents are afraid of polio, right?

Why are you afraid of polio? Well, did you know it still happens all the time? It's just labeled different things. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: It's labeled as acute flaccid paralysis now. And so it is still out there. And I think what people don't understand is that when you see the data that shows Well, look, when we started vaccinating, diseases were here, you know, and for the people just listening, I'm pointing to a random place in space and then we started vaccinating and it went way down here, right?

Well, if you were to actually look at a larger data set, you would actually see that disease rates were way higher. Before the vaccine schedules were implemented. And that's whenever 

Sarah Crawford: we got clean water, we had proper sanitation, we had things like antibiotics that are needed sometimes. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. And so there's this whole history, this whole backstory that started before the vaccine schedules were implemented.

And that was huge for me, for me to understand that. It's like, well, Why did they only show me this little snippet of time in history? Because they're trying to convince me. But when you actually look at the big picture, it's like, wait a minute, man, that was a drop in the bucket. And again, you mentioned polio, and you still have acute flaccid paralysis as a diagnosis here, and what is it?

It's polio. But 

Sarah Crawford: looking back, you know, looping in Nolan, Like, aren't you happy we didn't vaccinate? Can you imagine with the formaldehyde exposure? What if he does not detox, detox formaldehyde correctly, which clearly he's not right. Well, that's in almost every vaccine, I think. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. 

Sarah Crawford: You know, those are the things you have to think about.

And some things you don't realize until your kids. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. And, and that could literally be a, I mean, for some, a life or death situation, game changer. Absolutely. I'll, I'll say this from, from a clinical perspective again, like I, we both respect both sides. 

Sarah Crawford: We have family members that we love and we respect and best friends that fully vaccinate their children.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. And I do want everyone listening to understand that, that we respect the decisions and whatnot, but. It's nice to be able to decide for our own family, right? I don't like being told what to do and what not to do. But me as a clinician, right? So my fellowship is in neuro childhood neurodevelopmental disorders.

I cannot tell you how many parents have sat across from me with tears in their eyes and they say the words, I had a normal child until. And that alone, I, don't need to read the research anymore because I can't even, I mean, hundreds, thousands, a lot, okay. I've been practicing for almost 15 years and I've always seen neurodevelopmental disorders.

It's always been something that, you know, we've, we've wanted to work with. I just, I can't tell you how many times it happened. And again, People that were vaccinating were on, you know, the bandwagon of vaccines are safe and effective and proven safe and all these things. And then their life takes a turn and it happens right after the vaccine and, and I understand that it doesn't happen for everyone.

It's like playing Russian roulette. 

Sarah Crawford: And thankfully 

it doesn't. But when it affects your child and drastically changes your life, like you are the statistic. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yes. And 

Sarah Crawford: it's really, really difficult. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. And it literally is like playing Russian roulette because you don't know. How your child's immune system is responding or not responding at that current time.

Vaccines have what are called adjuvants. Adjuvants are put in there simply to stimulate the immune system. That's what they're supposed to do. What if you have a neurochemistry, what if you have a neurophysiology imbalance that allows for this upregulated immune response? Like an immune response is too strong.

Sarah Crawford: Huh. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Right. You don't know. There's no way to know if this is in your child. There's no way. There's no test. So, it's literally like playing Russian roulette, and you could literally just, you know, completely ruin a life. Yeah, and the 

Sarah Crawford: studies aren't there. No. And the women who get these vaccines when they're pregnant, guys, the studies aren't there.

Like, there's no long term safety data, like, we don't really know what it's doing, and you don't know what it's doing when it's combined. Anyone ever figure out why we can no longer get individual vaccines? You can't get the measles vaccine separated from the mumps. You know, separated from rubella, like you have to get these compos 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah.

Sarah Crawford: Scary stuff. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: You can request it, but not everyone will give it, 

Sarah Crawford: but not everyone can even get it. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And I think another like huge factor for me was when there was a there was a law that was passed. It was called the Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. And this happened in 1986. Do you want to talk about that a little bit?

Yeah. I 

Sarah Crawford: mean, you can see there's. I mean, it's very, very apparent. You look at the, the vaccines that existed in like the forties and fifties compared to the vaccines that existed in the sixties, seventies and eighties. And then in 1986, I mean, the list went from, I think we were, you know, we were late eighties babies.

I think we got like, actually, here's a funny stat. I think I figured out that a three month old baby has received more vaccines or in this current day than we did in our entire life. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Wow. 

Sarah Crawford: And no one in my generation had measles, mumps, rubella, god forbid we had chicken pox. So besides that, like, that has to be, like, Make you think like, then why, why did we open up this vaccine schedule?

I think it's, I don't even want to quote a number. You can find it on Google. I haven't looked at in a long time, maybe 86, 112, something like that. It's a lot. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I don't 

know. It's a lot. Yeah. I actually don't know the current number either. Again, we literally, again, we, we did not plan to go this direction.

Our youngest kid's 10. I 

Sarah Crawford: feel like I haven't been down that rabbit hole in a while. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: He's nine. He'll be 10 in a week. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. You're holding off on that double digit. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I am. He's the baby. Yeah. But so this, this act was passed 1986 and it literally made it to where if you, if you or your child were injured from a vaccine, you could not, and still cannot directly sue The vaccine manufacturer, so that makes no sense to me.

If I make a product and that product injures someone, my company is liable. And that's true of every scenario, except vaccines. How does that make sense? 

Sarah Crawford: And the FDA wants to crack down on supplements. Yeah. Peptides. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh, God forbid. 

Sarah Crawford: But 

please open up your newborn baby to be injected with a vaccine that has a black box warning.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Right. 

And God forbid if you do have. You have a vaccine injury in your family. Well, for every vaccine that is administered, there is a tax on it that is collected by the government and it's placed into this vaccine injury fund. So now when there's a vaccine injury, it's not, you can't, number one, like I said, you can't sue the company that made the vaccine.

You actually have to petition to the government and go through the legal system, which is extremely expensive for the individual. I'm talking six figures typically. to then maybe have access to some of this funding that taxpayers paid into. So, so now taxpayers are actually the ones liable to pay for these injuries and only an extremely small percentage are getting anything.

Sarah Crawford: Right. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: And, and again, I didn't look at the statistics, but I know billions of dollars have been paid out. Through this fund for vaccine injuries, that means they've gone through the system. Someone has paid the six figures, they've got the attorneys, they've gone through the system and they were awarded.

The government said, yes, you were injured from a vaccine. You're due this payment. So billions of dollars have been paid through this system. Again, like how can someone say these things are completely safe and effective? And that's a load of crap, first of all, but then how can someone literally say, well, it's for, you know, the good of the, the people, like, well, okay.

It's for 

Sarah Crawford: the good of the people until that person is your child. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. 

Sarah Crawford: Right. Exactly. And then you're living it every single day and we've seen it. We witnessed it. Exactly. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. And again, it's different if we truly had something that eradicated disease. Truly eradicated disease and truly carried a strong safety profile, but that's just not the case.

If that were the case all day long, let's do it. But it's not the case. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Okay. Well, 

Sarah Crawford: that was a rabbit hole. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: That was a rabbit hole. Let's go on though. 

Sarah Crawford: We haven't been down there in a long time. I 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: know. You want to go get a COVID vaccine with me? No. Thankfully, we're in 

Sarah Crawford: Texas, y'all. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh, man, the greatest country in the world.

Sarah Crawford: That's right. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh, man. Yeah. And I just got back from California. That was fun. So. Wait, wait. 

Sarah Crawford: Can we say 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: this? What? Weren't 

Sarah Crawford: you, who, what did that one lady say? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Which one? 

Sarah Crawford: That super educated woman. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh, gosh. Which one? 

Sarah Crawford: What did she say? That she thinks that people who don't vaccinate their kids are my gosh.

They 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: compared, yes. 

Sarah Crawford: And I'm glad I wasn't there because I would have been like, well, we're pretty stupid over here then. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah, I was apparently compared to someone that believes the earth is flat because I don't vaccinate my child. So yeah, that's fun. 

Sarah Crawford: We just stayed hush hush. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Mm 

Sarah Crawford: hmm. It's okay. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh boy. Okay, that was fun.

Yeah 

Sarah Crawford: Other ways you can clean up your house in your environment. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah, we do Well, you know, there's lots of things air filters in your house 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: kind of air filters. Do we use we 

Sarah Crawford: have a Mila? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I love it. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah, we don't you know Yeah, why do we love it? I like it because it gives you a constant reading of the things in your house 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: It does the other 

Sarah Crawford: day I was blow drying my hair and ours went crazy like it started it runs like slowly and it like ramped up crazy I was like, I'm just blow drying my hair But I'm wondering if something in my hair products was maybe getting into the air and was probably more toxic than I realized Yeah 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: It's funny because it'll send little messages like what's going on here or like if the air is clean, it's like sure is boring around here like the kids.

Sarah Crawford: They like to toot on it. They fart on the filter. Or the other day we couldn't figure out what it was when we first got it, but it was because the air like the pollen in the air. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The pollen was really high in this. So, so it has like an automatic mode. I guess we should kind of explain that.

You can run it manually. Yeah. You can just turn it up however loud. That's what Sarah does when she tries to take a nap. You don't get it. When's the last time you actually got to take a nap? No matter what, you will not have a kid near you until you try to lay down and take a nap. And then, you know, within that.

30 minutes, what, 5, 10 times they'll come knocking on the door? 

Sarah Crawford: Mainly Gavin. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. So she'll put on manual mode and, you know, turn it up to kind of like buffer the sound. Or, I, you know, we'll typically keep it in automatic mode, which is like sensing the air. Mm hmm. So we really like that. Yeah, it is funny.

I think that was Nolan that farted next to it and it went crazy. That's a 

Sarah Crawford: But it is cool. Like, you can see, okay, what am I doing in my house? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Mm 

Sarah Crawford: hmm. What am I using? Why is this ramping up? But it makes you think about it, right? But we, yeah, we bought it. We made a new guest swing in our house and had one.

They have ones for pregnant women, for children, for home renovations, for every day, for pets. For like environmental allergies, they have different filters and they just come and you can change them out. Amazon has them. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. They're pretty cool. It's very important. Yeah. So, I mean, people that may not think about the importance of clean air it's extremely important.

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: And, you know, one thing, so we, we did live in a house that had a lot of mold in it back in the day. 

Sarah Crawford: Yep. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: We didn't have all these air filters back then. I'm sure it would have made a difference, but that was a reason, a contributing factor that we really only want to live in new construction now.

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. But then that comes with its own set of things where you have to offcast your house and have it exposed to proper light and UV and ozone and. You know, all those things, yeah, buying new products, like things you buy. I was buying new rugs for our house like last year and I was looking at the ingredients.

There's rugs, you know, the really popular washable rugs, but they are full of polyurethane like they're coated in polyurethane. You have to look at what are the things in polyurethane that can be harmful to yourself and you know, it's toxic, it has skin irritants. So we bought a hundred percent wool rugs, a little bit more expensive.

You can get them inexpensively as well, but you know, they are antimicrobial naturally because they're made from sheep wool. And they're naturally stain resistant. So still a really good direction to go if you don't want that huge toxin load in your home. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Sorry. I didn't, I was thinking you're really pretty.

I was I wouldn't even think about what I was getting. Sorry. Okay. Moving on. So I kind of. I kind of got a, I don't know where I was gonna go next. Almost 

Sarah Crawford: 18 years later. You still get like 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: that. I know. Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: It's good. Well, because it's true. You're pretty, your lady. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: You wanna talk about pfas now? 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Okay. 

Sarah Crawford: Fricking tepo, Chico. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: PFASs, 

Sarah Crawford: yes. Or forever? Toxins Per, 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: per poly fluoro al somethings 

Sarah Crawford: solution. I dunno, I don't remember what it's 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: PFAS. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. So Tepo Chico has 9.76 parts per. PPT. Is that parts per trillion? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Something. Something 

Sarah Crawford: like 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: that. It's a lot. 

Sarah Crawford: Anyways, supposed to have one. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Supposed to have one.

Yeah. And these things are, what, like forever plastics or something? Yeah, I'm thinking it's 

Sarah Crawford: somewhere like Petroleum. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Petroleum. Yeah, like Vaseline 

Sarah Crawford: kind of nastiness. Always stays in you. Yeah. Yeah, different things you can do. We bought an ARK carbonator for our house. A A R K E. And we have really clean water.

We're on well water that's been tested and it's super duper clean and 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: And we still run it through a filter. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah, run it through a filter and then back with more minerals. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: It's there's a particulate filter, a carbon filter, and it goes through reverse osmosis. It does then go back through a mineral filter because we don't want to just constantly be drinking reverse osmosis water.

Correct, 

Sarah Crawford: yeah. It'll 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: strip your body of minerals. So if you're doing a detox, reverse osmosis or distilled water is good. But if this is your constant drinking water, you want to add the minerals back or take a good mineral supplement. 

Sarah Crawford: So if you can have good, if you know you have good water at your house, then make your own sparkling water at home.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. And you can make 

Sarah Crawford: it as spicy and like carbonated as you want it to be. That's 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: right. Which is really 

Sarah Crawford: cool. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Well, Topo Chico's, but then it's like. Shut the front door. What are these poofas? 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: And, and stuff. Right. And so now we'll, you know, make our own or I personally like Rambler's. 

Sarah Crawford: Cause it has limestone.

We need to see what their poofas are. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. So Rambler's they're local in Austin, right? 

Sarah Crawford: That's Texas company. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: So they're filtered in limestone. That's cool because that means it's naturally deuterium depleted. So deuterium depleted water can be extremely beneficial. And if you buy deuterium depleted water, it's extremely expensive.

So like a case of deuterium depleted water is like 160 bucks. 

Sarah Crawford: And that's like for 24? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I think it's for 6 or 12. Yeah, it's really expensive. I just just was just recommending that for someone this morning, a patient and you know, just to give a little background on deuterium for those that may not have heard of this before.

Hydrogen ions come in three forms. You have proteum which is just your, your proton and no neutron. And then you have deuterium, which is a proton and a neutron, and you have tridium. Tridium is radioactive. So if that's in you, you know, put your head between your legs 'cause your butt. Goodbye.

No, I'm kidding. But deuterium what'll happen is in the electron transport chain. So within the mitochondria you're building this gradient of hydrogen ions. It should be mostly protean, right? Because when you add that neutron to the, I know you're like, shut up. 

Sarah Crawford: Right. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. But I have You like kind of where you can't leave right now.

So, so when you add the new, the neutron doubles the mass at the end of the electron transport chain is the ATPase ATP synthase pump. And so hydrogen is supposed to flow through ATP synthase. Deuterium doesn't fit, and so literally plugs up the ATP synthase which is bad. And so now you have reduced cellular energy production.

You're not producing as much energy in your cell. It's not going to heal. It's not going to do whatever it's supposed to do. So drinking deuterium depleted water can be very beneficial for someone with a heavy toxic burden. This is where I start. I just did this we just got labs in on a patient that's here today, and they were overloaded with heavy metals, with mold and mycotoxins, environmental toxins, all of these things.

It was a lot. I mean, it's normal for us to have something come back with like one or two things. But this was a lot. And so the first thing I do is I put them on deuterium depleted water. 

Sarah Crawford: Yep. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Anyway. 

Sarah Crawford: And it tastes like water. It does. Tastes like clean, sweet, like really good water. Exactly. So, so 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: modern life is the one that I get, you can literally get on Amazon, but this is why I like Ramblers because it is filtered through limestone and that makes it naturally low in deuterium.

Sarah Crawford: Yep. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: That was a long tangent, sorry. But it's important, 

Sarah Crawford: like water, it's a big deal. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: And we just happen to really like bubbles. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: We do like bubbles. So like what are, what do we give someone a window into us like traveling and like how picky we are about water. 

Sarah Crawford: Oh, we used to remember we actually bought a water filtration system like we have here for my parents house because we would travel there and they were on well water.

It tasted like bleach. Like you would bathe in it. Well, it was well 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: water, but then the local municipality just dumped a bunch of bleach into it. Yeah, 

Sarah Crawford: so it's like, I guess if you have over like 10 to 12 houses on one well, it's You know, thankfully someone checks your water every once in a while, but before they would know the inspection was coming They would just dump a bunch of bleach in it.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Right. 

Sarah Crawford: So that yeah, so we bought yeah, we're picky picky 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah, well and just a little word on a well water Just because you're on well water does not mean it's safe and clean 

Sarah Crawford: Mm hmm. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: That's something that people need to realize especially 

Sarah Crawford: if you're in a heavy farming area, but thankfully we're not.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly, but Our local water around this area does have high amounts of uranium and other things. Ours didn't, but there are accounts of that. And then even, you know, my brother's water down on the coast. They had high amounts of arsenic and they're in 

Sarah Crawford: Oklahoma to my sister. I think they had lots of arsenic.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's important. Fortunately, I had a patient that she, I think she was part owner of a hydro geology company. So we were actually able to get the water like very well tested. And but I did have a patient with multiple sclerosis that was on well water her entire life. And once we realized.

What was going on? We got her off the well water detox for all these things. Literally got her back up and walking and standing and like out of the wheelchair living again. That was, that was quite quite amazing. Anyway, so water is extremely important and you want to make sure you're drinking clean water.

What else? Like, what else do we want to talk about? Cleaning supplies or 

Sarah Crawford: Well, like other food we eat, right? I buy half a cow for my friend every year. True. Little things like that. It actually comes to be like half the price of grass fed beef whole foods, but her cows have never had vaccines, have never had antibiotics or they're not grass finished.

They're grass always. Now, what does that give you? Lean beef. Right. It's not the best, not the best marbled steaks. You're not going to get that. But yeah, I have a cow from her every year and we eat it makes awesome hamburgers and it's like red. It reminds me of venison, I guess, because that's fresh meat too, right?

Like we kill deer also, but like, it's red compared to like the pink, like spongy looking ground beef. You go to the grocery store. There's a big difference. We 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: hunt deer and 

Sarah Crawford: yeah, like supporting your little 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: deer, 

Sarah Crawford: we kill them 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: while we hunt them. 

Sarah Crawford: But we always eat what we kill. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Of course. 

Sarah Crawford: Yes. Yeah, it's important.

Like if you find a local farmer, like, and you can support your local farmer, like the meat can actually be cheaper than what you get at the grocery store. That's conventional. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. What about eggs? 

Sarah Crawford: We use Vital Farms eggs, but the yolks are like orange. Yeah, which is important. Yeah, we make pancakes. Like Brown Rock Donuts.

If you're from here, there's donuts and they're orange. Well, it's because back in the day they used really good yolks and their donuts were naturally orange, but now they put orange dye in them to make them orange. Exactly. Yeah, so like our pancakes are like super deep, deep and yellow whenever we make them, but.

Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Well, the yolk is really orange because those chickens are, they're, you know, going around eating bugs and like nutrient dense things that chickens are supposed to eat. They're not just kept in this tiny little cage and fed grain, which then you get this really light yellow. And unflavorful. Like when you get the 

Sarah Crawford: dark yellow, it's like cheesy and a lot of flavor in the yolk.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. 

Sarah Crawford: That's pretty cool. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Cool. Well, what else you want to talk about? 

Sarah Crawford: I don't know. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Well, okay. You mentioned vacation planning. How do you vacation plan with all of this stuff going through your head? 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. Well, we did look at going to the blue zone areas. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yes. 

Sarah Crawford: And we spent time in some blue zone areas.

We're going back to the blue zone area. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. So what's a blue zone? 

Sarah Crawford: What is a blue zone? 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: You should put 

Sarah Crawford: me on the spotlight, that's part of my name. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: So a blue zone are areas in the world where you have this very high percentage of people that live over a hundred. They call them what, centurions or something like that.

So the area that we're talking about is Sardinia. I believe, I think, I didn't do my research before this, but I believe Sardinia does actually have the highest amount of people living above a hundred. Again, don't quote me on that, but if it's not the most, then it's one of the most. Side note, something that's interesting is a new product that we've been carrying in the office.

It's called Fatty 15, so F A T T Y 15 it's a carbon 15 fatty acid. It is derived from dairy and the people in the blue zones, right, especially Sardinia, they have very high amounts of C 15 in their red blood cells. An interesting, so this is literally one of the most one of the newest discoveries as far as nutrient deficiencies go, is that when you're deficient in C15, you, it actually leads to red blood cell fragility.

Your, your, your cells actually are less healthy. The cell membrane is degraded easier. It leads to chronic inflammatory states, all these things. So people in blue zones have higher amounts of C15 in their blood. versus people that die early. And so I was, I only know this because I was able to talk with the founder of Fatty15, the product, and she's done a lot of the research.

On this topic. And so when you take I think it was a hundred milligrams of their C15 fatty 15 product you can very quickly, I think within a month, get within those those blue zone, you know, ranges that you want to for health and longevity. So that's what, you know, we've been taking, of course, I, you know, I don't take one or two a day.

I always started in taking like six a day, just, you know, cause that's how I work, but I'm giving it to the kids, giving it to you, me taking it, all the things, but, you know, Side note on Sardinia. And they, they do, they consume a lot of dairy there. So anyway, side note. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. But it's cool when you travel these places in Europe and other places, like we can eat gluten.

We're in Europe with no issue. And then this one thinks he can still be gluten free and eats a roll on the flight home. That's British airways and doesn't go so well. So yeah, that's really cool. We went to. A couple of years ago, we went skiing at that resort and we ate, 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: it was in Northern Italy. Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: And all the pastries and all the pasta and I lost five pounds.

I don't ever eat those things here. So just showing you like, you know, experiencing new things and seeing what you can do. And from that trip, I now buy Italian wheat. And occasionally make heirloom Italian wheat and occasionally make y'all cinnamon rolls. Everyone knows gluten free cinnamon rolls are doable, but they're not nearly as good.

So you can find those things like when you travel and you're like, Hey, we can do this to figure out how to do it. That's on Amazon. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. So heirloom means that the proteins have not been genetically modified. So it goes back to this concept of oral tolerance, where when you're developing in the womb Your mom's immune system has what's called antigen presenting cells and when the mom eats something These cells will sample that food protein and present it to your developing immune system And we'll say hey mom ate this it's safe.

Don't eat, you know, don't attack it and what happens with genetically modified food or hybridized food is is we're, we're taking food a and food B and we're producing food C. And that means a lot of those protein structures are changing. And you know, if that were to happen a few times, probably not a big deal, but hybridization of wheat happened.

I think it, I believe it started happening back in the 1960s. Again, don't quote me on that, but I believe and, but it's really, really, really rapidly picking up. Like it's being hybridized quite a bit. And now what they're doing. Is they'll actually spray it and they'll harvest the wheat and then they'll spray it with 

Sarah Crawford: glyphosate.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: We didn't even talk about glyphosate. That's Roundup and, but they do that because then it sprouts more and so you actually increase how much you can harvest. That's a big problem because now not only do you have a hybridized protein that your immune system doesn't recognize, but you have this chemically laden hybridized protein.

So that's a big problem for most people's immune system and it can be very inflammatory. Even people that don't have celiac don't need to be eating this. There's something called non celiac gluten sensitivity. 

Sarah Crawford: That almost everyone has 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: in America. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I mean, our testing proves that we test anytime we do food testing, we throw what's called a wheat zoomer on there.

And so we're the wheat zoomers by vibrant labs. It does a great job of breaking down all the different proteins that you can test in, in wheat and gluten. I've, I think I've had three come back in my entire career that someone can actually eat wheat. I mean, it's crazy, but yeah, I go. Europe, I'm fine.

If I'm eating heirloom, I'm fine, but things are starting to change there too, like, especially in Dubai. It's kind of 50 50. 

Sarah Crawford: Well, Amsterdam was no bueno. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Amsterdam was no bueno. 

Sarah Crawford: I thought Australia wasn't that great either with their gluten free products, with their 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: gluten. Pretty much Spain, parts of Italy, most of Italy.

I think those are pretty much areas. France was good. Yeah, France was good. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah, but it's interesting. Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah, it's very interesting. So there is a product though. The ion gut support is humic and fulvic acids. It'll really seal the gut barrier very quickly and actually helps to negate a lot of that.

So kids call it dirt water. So if they eat gluten, they drink a bunch of dirt 

Sarah Crawford: water. Well, 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: no one chugs 

Sarah Crawford: it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it's interesting. So all these like healthy lifestyle changes but it's hard, right? Sometimes. Like it's not doable or it doesn't work for you. I know I would love if I could use olive oil and coconut oil on my skin, but I can't, like, I can't use clean healthy skin products cause I break out like a teenager.

Right. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Well, I mean, it's not like you're using diesel and Vaseline on your. No, 

Sarah Crawford: no, I don't. But it's, you know, you have to find those balances and what works for you. And then there's also great blogs and podcasts that talk about, you know, making your own things at home. So it's not quite as expensive. So, you know, there's, it is a cost prohibitive in some ways, but looking at the long term benefits can be worth it.

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. I think so. I think that's a good discussion of just, you know, there is this healthy balance, you know. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: And, and we're not food Nazis. You're more of a food Nazi than I am. But obviously it's not like I'm eating a bunch of junk food. I mean, I'm still very conscious of, of what I eat. But it does involve this healthy balance, you know I think that in this.

Biohacking health and longevity crowd which is not our main audience, but a section of it it does get kind of tedious where someone will be like, I only eat this. I never stray away from this. Like, I, you know, I want to live to be X, you know, years or whatever. But there's also this balance of, you know, I do like queso.

I like ice cream every now and then. I love a good tequila. You know what I mean? It's that, that concept of I'm still going to live life. I'm going to do some things that maybe I won't make it to 150 or 180 or whatever, but I'm going to live damn good and I'm going to have a lot of fun while I'm doing this.

Sarah Crawford: Right, there 

is balance. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. Gotta find balance. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: For sure. Well, where do you want to go from here? 

Sarah Crawford: I think that pretty much sums it up. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: You think so? Yep. Anything else you want to a 

Sarah Crawford: lot of places. We went from a rug to vaccines. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Yeah. 

Sarah Crawford: To Italy. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Talk about farting into air purifiers. Yep.

Sarah Crawford: Test your air purifier. Maybe it's working, maybe it's not. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Fart next to it. 

Sarah Crawford: Fart next to it. You have boys, they'll enjoy it. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Exactly. Yeah. Then you can light them on fire. Light the farts on fire. That's fun. 

Sarah Crawford: Yep. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: You've done that? No. 

Sarah Crawford: But I have boys who this podcast should be listened to by pre teen children.

Oh, goodness. Because they would totally do that. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: That's all good. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. Cool. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: All right. Well, if you don't have anything else, I guess we'll sign off. 

Sarah Crawford: Yeah. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Fantastic. Well. 

Sarah Crawford: Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming. It's my second podcast. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: I know you finally made it in. It was, well, I had to drag you in by having one of your favorite people on Monica.

Sarah Crawford: I'll talk about home birth all day. 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Absolutely. I guess we could have done there, but we kind of already did with Monica. So awesome. Well, cool. Well, I hope this information helped you. I hope that it was entertaining. I thought it was entertaining. It was good. But really, if this information can help you or someone else that you know and love, Please like, subscribe and share this information.

That's why we're here. We're here to help people. So I appreciate you and I look forward to next time.

Voice Over: We hope today's episode has inspired you to take that next step towards your best self. Remember, the path to longevity is paved with small daily decisions. Your journey is unique, and every step, every choice, brings you closer to your ultimate vision of a healthier, happier life. For more insights, tips, and resources, visit drbrandoncrawford.com.

People on this episode

Head Shot

Dr. Brandon Crawford

Host