Episode 464: Forever Chemicals: What are PFAS?

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This week, Sarah and Stacy dive into the science of PFAS and forever chemicals, why they are so problematic, and what we can do to limit our exposure and make a change. You can find the full show notes with links to the products and articles discussed on this episode here. Instead of a listener question this week, Dr. Sarah and Stacy tackle a trending topic in health-conscious communities. Science has shown, pretty unequivocally, how harmful these chemicals are for decades. It's not recent science. And what we see in modern days is regulatory agencies not being able to keep up with capitalism demands. This topic is difficult to see in something other than a "conspiracy" lens. But that is why it's important to Stacy and Sarah now, more than ever, to make sure they stick to scientific research as much as possible. There are specific areas known to have high levels of PFAS. If you know you're in one of those areas, it's possible to test your blood for your exposure levels. Stacy reminds the audience that she and Sarah are not medical professionals. So, if you have any health concerns around this topic, be sure to see a doctor. Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com and thepaleomom.com! If you haven't yet unlocked our bonus content, checkout Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content and how Stacy and Sarah really feel about the topics they discuss. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of realeverything.com. I'm all about loving
0:10.0	the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.
0:15.0	And I'm Dr. Sarah Bountine of the Paleumum.com. I believe that scientific literacy is the key
0:20.1	to improving public health.
0:28.2	Welcome back to the whole view episode 464, whereby I have opened a can of worms for Sarah.
0:37.8	I feel like I feel like I hit maximal outrage in researching this topic.
0:48.9	But I don't know. I think we're going to get into it and maybe maximum is actually about
0:56.2	to occur in the next hour. Yeah, we're going to go from Max. We're going to talk about it.
1:01.1	Volcanic eruption of anger. So let me just give kind of a preface for everybody. We're going
1:07.2	to be talking about PFAS and there's going to be a whole bunch of chemical names.
1:14.0	And I think what's interesting to me is even as someone who's been focused on learning
1:18.5	about the chemicals in our life that cause harm, right? We talk a lot about health here
1:24.4	on the show. And for the first half, at least of that journey for me, I was really focused
1:30.8	on food. And then the world kind of opened up. And I started learning more about other
1:37.1	things in and out of our control that also affect our health. And you know, we talk about
1:43.5	sunlight and sleep and all these other things that you can control. And then there are things
1:48.5	that you can't control. For example, toxic chemicals in your environment. And that is
1:55.6	why before we jump into what these are and why they're forever chemicals and how that
2:01.3	could affect health in the environment, I want to remind you that as angry and upset as
2:06.5	we might get, none of that changes the fact that it exists, the fact that there's nothing
2:12.7	really that we can do in a lot of different ways, other than be aware and not continue
2:17.9	to be more exposed. So I just want to give that like front end reminder that this is
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