hello and welcome back to life's biggest
questions hand sanitizer
is something that many of us use every
day people carry around little bottles
of Purell in their pockets purses and
will squeeze it into their hands every
time they touch a doorknob or shake a
hand with a random person but are you
actually protecting yourself from the
microscopic horrors that are lurking on
every surface is your attempt to block
out some small sickness with a
disinfectant gel just wishful thinking
and you actually making it easier for
your body to get infected with something
well I'm your host Chad Erina and on
today's life's biggest questions we are
gonna be asking his hand sanitizer
dangerous for you first of all let's
look at how hand sanitizer works well
has disinfecting chemicals that come and
destroy any sort of microscopic
organisms that would be living on your
hands now some of you think that hand
sanitizer can replace washing your hands
with soap and water and I'm here to say
that that is 100% not true hand
sanitizer can kill surface-level
bacteria and organisms but anything that
might be locked away in dirt or mucus
the hand sanitizer will not get to so
that means if you cough or sneeze on her
hands there's very little chance that
hand sanitizer will do anything to clean
your hands you're much better off when
to wash your hands with some soap and
water for at least 20 seconds the reason
why soap and water is so much better for
you than using hand sanitizer is that it
will not only kill and stop the spread
of viral infections it will also remove
the leftover viruses that are left on
your hands soap and water is the cleanup
crew that will wash everything away
while hand sanitizer just kind of
spreads things around while killing some
of the infection so we know that hand
sanitizer is not the most effective way
to clean your hands but is hand
sanitizer something good to use in a
pinch well you can't get to a sink with
some soap and water
well hand sanitizer uses trial Osen
which is a disinfectant that kills 99.9%
of microbes that we see in all the
commercials
well what ends up happening is when you
use products that have trial Osen in
them bacteria and other organisms get
resistant to it and in turn they become
stronger against other antibiotics so
just keep that in mind they just keep
getting stronger I don't know if you
have ever heard about super STI is like
super gonorrhea
well that's from people using
antibiotics too much the disease getting
stronger and stronger because the
infection is getting stronger and
stronger and evolving and becoming
immune to our defenses also trial oson
can make it easier for your body to
absorb BPA through your skin what is BPA
well does
chemical that is found in all sorts of
plastic and it really does a number on
your body when BPA gets into your body
who will mess around with your hormones
it works as a synthetic estrogen which
your body can't process this can affect
your thyroid liver and tons of other
areas on your body leading to emotional
problems increased risk of heart disease
diabetes and weight gain and this isn't
just a small increase either studies
have shown that using hand sanitizer can
increase the amount of BPA absorbed by
your skin by a hundred times that is
actually insane and very dangerous if
you want to keep your body healthy and
happy and it doesn't just stop at your
skin almost everyone who uses hand
sanitizer will end up with traces of
chemicals in their stomach which makes
perfect sense because we normally eat
with our hands unless some of you out
there eating with your feet and hand
sanitizer destroys bacteria what do you
have in your gut
well bacteria tons of it some health and
fitness experts say that the microbiome
in your gut should be more diverse than
the rain force and this microbiome is
very important in fact so many aspects
of your life it affects your food
cravings how well your body can absorb
nutrients and even your mood in fact
some people think that your gut has a
larger effect on your mood than your
brain so every time you use hand
sanitizer you are killing that biome
more and more thus killing yourself
now all of what I just mentioned only
applies to hand sanitizer that uses
trial Osen you can buy hand sanitizer
that doesn't have any harmful chemicals
in it and only uses alcohol so just like
anything else that you use on your body
or put in your body you should read the
label first also trial Osen works its
way into the environment one of the
number-one chemicals found in American
water supplies is trial OSEM which means
the more you use it even if you wash
your hands before you eat or touch
plastic into the mort's in the
environment which in turn means it gets
into your body so what is the final
verdict on hand sanitizer is it
dangerous for you well the answer is it
depends
with the kovat 19 virus spreading and
people trying to be as careful as
possible a lot of people are using hand
sanitizer and a pinch hand sanitizer can
clean your hands up for a moment but if
you're using anything other than an
alcohol-based hand sanitizer you are
going to do long-term damage to yourself
and the environment and increase the
strengths of different strains of
diseases this in turn will create
superbugs in the future also
using hand sanitizer as a replacement
for washing your hands is not going to
work at all you still need to be washing
your hands anytime you feel the need to
next time you reach for a little bottle
of Purell think about if there is a
bathroom close by and if there is pop in
there instead it will only take a few
extra minutes and it will be way more
effective so in the end try to avoid all
hand sanitizers that aren't
alcohol-based and only use hand
sanitizer if you really need to well
that has been life's biggest questions
answering the question of if hand
sanitizer is bad for you until next time
I've been your host Chad Reyna and I'm
here to answer all your questions
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