295: What's Up With Our Water?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Man-made pharmaceutical drugs and chemicals are making their way into our drinking water at unprecedented levels. What's happening exactly and what can we do about it? Carrie Jennings, a field geologist who works with Freshwater, a leading public nonprofit dedicated to preserving freshwater resources and their surrounding watersheds, answers these questions and more.
Today, Carrie explains how antibiotic use on farms, and residue from anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, and other pharmaceutical drugs end up contaminating our waters. She goes over the worst toxins, dubbed "forever chemicals," and tells us how to avoid them when making purchases. And she offers suggestions for what each of us can do to protect the quality of our water for our own health and the sake of everyone in our local community.
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| 0:00.0 | There's something disrupting the endocrine system of these fish at a critical time in |
| 0:06.0 | their development, and what is that something? |
| 0:08.9 | And the problem with that question is there are so many possible pharmaceuticals and chemicals |
| 0:15.0 | that we've created that we put on in all kinds of products that are passing through our waste |
| 0:20.9 | water treatment plants. |
| 0:22.9 | There are chemicals that we probably have only recently been able to detect in our waste |
| 0:27.0 | water in our rivers and lakes because there are such low concentrations that are hard |
| 0:31.7 | to measure, but potentially they are accumulating somewhere in the food chain and affecting |
| 0:37.1 | these organisms. |
| 0:44.4 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 0:49.6 | in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:52.3 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 0:56.9 | health. |
| 0:57.9 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 1:06.2 | Clean water is essential to life. |
| 1:08.4 | It nourishes hydrates and sustains us. |
| 1:11.1 | We couldn't even live on this planet without it. |
| 1:13.7 | Unfortunately, our water is more polluted than ever before. |
| 1:17.8 | Our water-made pharmaceutical drugs and chemicals are making their way into our drinking water |
| 1:22.4 | at unprecedented levels. |
| 1:24.5 | What's happening exactly and what can we do about it? |
| 1:27.2 | This is episode 295 and our guest today is Carrie Jennings. |
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