#219 Is Aluminium Foil Toxic? With Dr Rupy
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In todays episode we’re going to be addressing aluminium in cookware. Every time I use foil on social media I always get comments about how toxic foil is to the brain and how I shouldn’t be promoting it, given my position as a doctor.
So I decided to review the evidence for these claims with the team and do a thorough dive into this topic and find out if there’s any evidence for these inflammatory comments.
Today we talk about …
- What aluminium actually is
- How it’s handled by the body
- Whether foil leeches aluminium into food
- How much the human body can tolerate
- And finally, what practical steps we can take to reduce our exposure if you choose to do so
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| 0:00.0 | Doctor's Kitchen, recipes, health, lifestyle Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Doctor Rupi your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer |
| 0:26.2 | in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:32.2 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you |
| 0:37.8 | to lead your best life. |
| 0:44.3 | In today's episode we're going to be addressing aluminium in cookware and specifically foil. |
| 0:51.0 | Every time I use foil on social media I always get comments about how toxic foil is to |
| 0:57.8 | the brain, how I shouldn't be promoting this, given my position as a doctor, how it increases |
| 1:04.2 | your risk of dementia. |
| 1:06.0 | So I decided to review the evidence for these claims with the team and do a thorough |
| 1:10.9 | dive into the topic and find out whether there's actually any evidence for these inflammatory |
| 1:16.9 | comments. |
| 1:17.9 | Today we're going to talk about what aluminium actually is, how it's handled by the body, |
| 1:23.4 | whether foil actually leaches aluminium into food and then into us and finally what practical |
| 1:29.8 | steps we can take to reduce our exposure if we think aluminium is toxic and obviously |
| 1:37.2 | we're going to answer that question right at the top. |
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