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Age Better with Liz Earle

5 easy wins to reduce microplastics and forever chemicals – with Dr Sabine Donnai

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

Gut Health, Liz Earle, Women's Health, Supplements, Beauty, Education, Skincare, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Arts, Fitness, Midlife, Menopause, Healthy Ageing, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Better Second Half, Health, Wellbeing, Hormones

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Forever chemicals and microplastics have become part of modern life – they're in our wardrobes, kitchens, dental floss, in the water we drink, even the air we breathe. Dr Sabine Donnai joins Liz to explain why detoxification is just as important as sleep, nutrition and exercise when it comes to healthy ageing, and shares the simple, practical kitchen swaps and lifestyle changes that genuinely reduce your toxic load without going mad.


In this episode:

  • Why detoxification is just as important as sleep, nutrition and exercise
  • Where we encounter microplastics and PFAS daily 
  • The easy kitchen swaps to prioritise 
  • How your gut bacteria physically help you detoxify microplastics
  • The four ways your body detoxifies (gut, kidneys, liver, sweating) and how to support each
  • The role of advanced blood cleaning for those with high toxic loads
  • Whether we all really have half a teaspoon of plastic in our brains


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0:00.0

We're really focusing on lifestyle as an exercise and activity and nutrition and meditation and sleep and stress and all that.

0:09.2

But how about detoxification?

0:11.5

Sure, it's got to be the fourth leg on the table.

0:14.1

Because it's not that these chemicals are going to make us acutely ill, but what they do, they make us age less well. And that's the real cost. That's Sabine Donne.

0:25.1

She's a senior and well-respected medical doctor working hard to reduce the toxic load on our

0:31.1

bodies with the hope of improving both lifespan and health span. Hello there. Welcome to age better with me, Liz Earle.

0:39.4

Now, this is the place where we can all share the knowledge and the tools that can help us thrive

0:44.0

in later life by taking action today. Now, decline isn't inevitable, you know, and when we understand

0:50.6

what our bodies truly need, and when we can take control of small but powerful

0:55.2

lifestyle shifts, we really can age better. Now, something that can feel out of our control

1:01.8

is the amount of harmful microplastics, heavy metals, these forever chemicals in our environment,

1:08.9

which then end up in our bloodstream. Do you know, there are more than 10,000 different types of forever chemicals, or PFAS,

1:16.6

which are used in the production of just about everything, from heat-resistant saucepins and waterproof jackets to the food we eat.

1:23.6

Yes, even the healthy food we eat.

1:26.6

Now, some of these chemicals are now banned

1:29.3

due to their links to diseases like cancer. And Dr. Sabine D'onet is a global authority on

1:35.5

integrated health management and preventative medicine. As the founder of London Clinic,

1:40.9

VARV, she's leading the development of advanced health and longevity strategy services.

1:46.7

And something that she's been using with patients is a groundbreaking technology that removes

1:51.7

toxins from the blood. So how drastically can substances like microplastics, mycotoxins,

1:59.3

heavy metals and forever chemicals affect our health. And importantly,

2:03.4

is there anything that we can do to reduce the toxic load on our bodies?

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