358: Toxins Make You: Sicker, Fatter & Poorer With Dr. Leonardo Trasande
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
From the melting ice caps to dying marine reefs and depleted fish populations, we’re facing some big challenges right now, but very few people flip the lens to look at their own bodies to ask: “How are these petrochemical toxins affecting me and my family?”
The truth is, toxins affect all of us from the moment we’re born. Newborns enter the world with 200+ chemical toxins inside them, and the quantity tends to go up and up as we age. Plastics can make your fat cells bigger and mess up your hormones. Chemical additives in foods can give you brain fog and mood disorders. Artificial sweeteners can affect cognition, digestion, and hunger. These toxins are huge and growing problems, and most people are not paying attention.
On this week’s show, you’ll meet a medical doctor, a father, and a researcher who is uncovering simple truths about our toxic world along with practical solutions for staying sane and healthy.
Listen & Learn:
- Why you should cook with stainless steel or cast iron
- Why plastics #3, #6 and #7 are the worst (look at the recycling symbol)
- How microwaving plastics can release endocrine disruptors
- Why canned foods of all types should be avoided
- Why hormones-disruptors can affect everything from your mood, waistline and sex drive
- Why Europe has banned 1300 chemicals in household and food products and the USA has only banned 11
- Why flame-retardants are required in the USA, despite questionable efficacy huge side effects
- Why you should buy paraben-free, phthalate-free, and SLS-free products
- Why “fragrance” is often code for “dangerous chemical we’d like to keep secret”
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Leonardo Trasande is a pediatrician, professor, and researcher. He is the author of the new book, Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future and What We Can Do About It.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. I am a yoga trainer. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a |
| 0:08.3 | nutritional coach. I'm also a father. But first and foremost, I'm a student and I love learning. |
| 0:13.2 | This show is really a platform for me to learn and share my best learning with you. |
| 0:17.6 | I go out and find authors, researchers, teachers, figure out what they're doing that could hopefully apply to my life in your life, |
| 0:24.4 | and I share it with you in this short format that makes it easy for you to learn. |
| 0:29.4 | On this week's show, we'll be talking about environmental toxins, |
| 0:32.5 | specifically petrochemical toxins, |
| 0:34.8 | things that are in our air, our water, our food supply, |
| 0:37.5 | but also in skin care products, |
| 0:39.3 | which are often overlooked. |
| 0:41.3 | There was a study about 10 years ago by the Environmental Working Group, a pretty small study, but nobody's really interested in redoing it just because it seems so logical. |
| 0:51.0 | But they took the umbilical cords of 10 babies and they found that there were 200 different |
| 0:55.1 | petrochemical toxins in newborns, which makes sense, right? |
| 0:59.9 | Because mothers are exposed, they're exposed in the hospital, and what are these chemicals? |
| 1:05.0 | There are things like phalades, things like PCBs, they are things like fluoride, |
| 1:09.0 | they are all the stuff that's in our food and our water and our environment on a daily |
| 1:14.2 | basis. Now of course the risk of toxins has to do with the concentration. So a little |
| 1:19.8 | bit of toxins not so bad, higher concentration, higher numbers, more bad. A younger child of |
| 1:25.6 | course is also more susceptible as is an older person to the negative effects of |
| 1:30.2 | toxins as is a healthy, you know, younger person who's matured because of immune |
| 1:35.4 | strength and things like this, but this is something we all need to be |
| 1:38.8 | concerned about because we live in an ever growing toxic environment, |
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