Hello and welcome back to Not Just Paleo. I'm your host, Evan Brand. Welcome to the show. Today, we're talking with Cynthia Matzky, who works for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She studies marine biology and conservation at the Scripps Institute. And what that means, that's a mouthful, what that means is she is in the middle of the ocean

right now studying the great pacific garbage patch i've known about this thing for a while but i

had to reach out and find the scientists behind the operation out there and figure out what's going on

in the ocean so this is one of those episodes where it's almost like after you hear it,

you wish you didn't know it, you always hear ignorance is bliss and things like that. And I know

some of these topics can be, I don't know if they're doom and gloom type topics, but I mean,

they're definitely pretty heavy. And I don't want you to get discouraged about the state of the

ocean or some of these big things. You know, the key thing is we

have to focus on what we can control, what we can do about it, how we can actually improve our

day-to-day life that makes big changes. So when hearing these topics, I know, because I've gotten

some emails, hey, this is deep stuff, you know, electromagnetic pollution and things like that some of these

things that are just so big and out of our control that we feel paralyzed and i don't want you to

feel that way fear is bad it tears up your gut it tears up your stress response i mean everything

is negatively impacted by fear trust me me, I've been there.

So just keep an open mind.

At least hear the information.

If you don't want to hear it, then that's fine.

Wait till next week when I have another episode about another topic.

So thanks for tuning in, and I hope to see a review on iTunes.

And now we're going to get into the show with Cynthia Mattsky.

So thank you for tuning in.

And if you haven't checked out my book, Rim Rehab, lately, it is becoming one of the best

...