115: Chemicals that wreak havoc on our health
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that there are chemicals that we encounter on a daily basis--in our food, water, even in our personal care products--that are detrimental to our health? The chemicals, called estrogenics, mimic estrogen and disrupt our bodies' normal functions. You may have heard of BPA (Bisphenol-A), for example, which is a chemical found in some plastics that has been linked to health problems and has been therefore banned from baby products here in the U.S., but it is just one among many estrogen-mimicking chemicals that threaten our health.
On today's episode, Dr. Anthony Jay, author of "Estrogeneration: how estrogenics are making you fat, sick, and infertile" explains how estrogenic chemicals are wreaking havoc on our bodies' hormone balance. He tells us where these chemicals are found--from our drinking water to shampoos to sports drinks to sunscreen to grocery store receipts--and he gives suggestions for how to minimize our exposure.
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| 0:00.0 | The solution is recognizing these chemicals and avoiding them, getting them out of your diet and your personal care products and your perfumes and your sunscreens. |
| 0:10.3 | I want people to realize these are real health issues. |
| 0:13.0 | They take a long time, you know, it's not like a food sensitivity or something. |
| 0:16.0 | It's not like an immediate headache or bloating. |
| 0:19.0 | You don't feel it quite as dramatically as with some other chemicals because this is acting like natural |
| 0:24.8 | estrogen it's fooling your body so you don't get this really immediate response |
| 0:29.1 | it often takes years you know fat builds up stores these chemicals, I call it the estrogenic paradox. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for |
| 0:49.6 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing arts. We are your source for scientific |
| 0:54.8 | knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm your host Toula Labrada Gore. This is episode 115 and my guest is |
| 1:06.6 | Dr Anthony Jay. Anthony has a PhD in biochemistry and he researches stem cells and epigenetics at the Mayo Clinic |
| 1:14.9 | in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also the author of a best-selling new book on |
| 1:19.2 | artificial estrogen chemicals called Estrogeneration. How estrogenics are making you fat, sick, and |
| 1:25.8 | infertile. Today we dive into our understanding of these chemicals that he discusses and he |
| 1:30.8 | says that we encounter them on a daily basis and they can cause everything from weight gain to depression to infertility and more |
| 1:37.8 | Anthony explains how these chemicals mess with our bodies and what we can do to minimize our exposure. I met Anthony at the |
| 1:44.6 | Wise Traditions Conference in Minneapolis last November and he made a big |
| 1:48.1 | impression on me because he has a way of taking complicated medical and |
| 1:52.0 | scientific terminology and concepts and |
| 1:54.5 | communicating them in an accessible way. |
| 1:57.5 | You're going to love today's episode. |
| 1:58.7 | I hope you get as much out of it as I have. |
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