Hand sanitizer is something that many of us use everyday.

People carry around little bottles of pure L in their pockets purses, and we'll squeeze it into their hands every time they touch a door knob or shake a hand with a random person.

But you're actually protecting yourself from the microscopic, or is that are lurking on every surface?

Is your attempt to block out some small sickness with a disinfectant jail?

Just wishful thinking and you actually making it easier for your body to get infected with something?

While I'm your host, Caterina.

And on today's life's biggest questions, we're gonna be asking his hand sanitizer Dangerous for you.

First of all, let's look at how hand sanitizer works, what 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 too.

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 going 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 will Hand Sanitizer uses triclosan, which is a disinfectant that kills 99.9% of microbes that we see in all the commercials.

What what ends up happening is when you use products that have triclosan in the 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've ever heard about super esti eyes like super gonorrhea.

While 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.

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Lawson can make it easier for your body to absorb E P A.

Through your skin.

What is BP eight?

Well does a chemical that is found in all sorts of plastic and it really does a number on your body.

When B p A gets into your body, it 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.

Increase 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 BP absorbed by your skin by 100 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 rainforests, and this microbiome is very important.

In fact, so many aspects of your life and 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 in your brain.

So every time you use hand sanitizer, you're killing that Bio Maur and Maur, thus killing yourself.

Now all of what I just mentioned on Lee applies the hand sanitizer that uses try Lohse.

You can buy hand sanitizer that doesn't have any harmful chemicals in it, and on Lee 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, triclosan works its way into the environment.

One of the number one chemicals found in American water supplies is triclosan, which means the more you use it, even if you wash your hands before you eat or touch plastic means, the more it'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 cove in 19 virus spreading and people trying to be as careful as possible.

A lot of people using hand sanitizer and a pinch hand sanitizer can clean your hands off for a moment.

But if you're using anything other than an alcohol based hand sanitizer, you're going to do long term damage to yourself and the environment and increase the strength of different strains of diseases.

This, in turn, will create super bugs 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 any time you feel the need to next time you reach for a little bottle pure.

L 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 waiting more effective.

So in the end, try to avoid all hand sanitizers that aren't alcohol based and on Lee.

Use hand sanitizer if you really need to.

Well, that has been Life's biggest questions.

Answering the question of hand sanitizer is bad for you until next time I've been your host shade arena, and I'm here to answer all your questions.