260: Life in plastic...NOT fantastic
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Plastics pervade our lives. From water bottles, toys, food containers, cars, to our cars and clothing, plastic seems to be in everything and just about everywhere! We know that plastic particles pollute the ocean, but they also impact our individual health, as well.
Today, Dr. Anthony Jay from the Mayo Clinic explains the hormone-disrupting effects of plastic on the human body. He talks about its sources--leaching into our food from packaging, for example--and how it can lead to apathy, depression, hormonal dysfunction, and more. He offers ideas for how to minimize our exposure to it and how to detoxify from its buildup in the body.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm much more concerned about the liquids that are in plastics and I think those are a bigger priority to avoid and even more so the liquids that are hot. I mean there's no question people need to minimize that. Once in a while it's okay but when it's |
| 0:13.7 | constant these daily exposures to these toxins I mean they're toxins there's no |
| 0:18.1 | two ways about it and when people are literally drinking out of plastics every day, they're heating their food in plastics, |
| 0:24.4 | they've got dishes that are plastic, utensils sometimes in plastic, there's just so much leaching, |
| 0:29.9 | you're spiking your blood levels and that's a major problem. |
| 0:32.8 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, |
| 0:41.0 | welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, |
| 0:45.1 | Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:47.0 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 0:51.6 | health. Hey, Hilda here. |
| 0:57.0 | From water bottles and prepackaged foods to cars and clothing, plastics pervade our lives. |
| 1:06.4 | Plastics are so prevalent that they pollute the oceans. |
| 1:09.5 | But do they pollute our bodies as well? |
| 1:12.4 | This is episode 260 and our guest today is Dr. Anthony J. |
| 1:16.4 | Anthony has a PhD in biochemistry |
| 1:18.6 | from Boston University School of Medicine, |
| 1:20.8 | where he studied fats, hormones, and cholesterol. |
| 1:23.9 | He currently works at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, researching stem cells, epigenetics, |
| 1:29.4 | and infrared light. |
| 1:30.9 | Today, Anthony speaks to us about the hormone disrupting effects of plastic on the |
| 1:35.1 | human body. |
| 1:36.1 | He explains where it comes from, like leaching into our fruits and vegetables and meat from |
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