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🗓️ 17 June 2024
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Today, we discuss our last episode with Cezmi Akdis. Needless to say, the episode was quite shocking for the both of us. Rinsing our dishes after the dishwasher, switching from plastic wrap to silicone, checking our detergents' ingredients--we go over which practices we will be trying to implement in our own routines and what surprised us the most.
Cezmi's Boston Globe article "Scrubbing Away Our Collective Health"
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the talk. Today we are going to be talking about all the things we learn from Chesney-A-Qdis. |
0:06.4 | One of the pleasures of my life is recording the episodes with you for food we need to talk and kind of like hamming it up and having fun and then sometimes we just get sober because we've heard advice about some real dangers out there. |
0:24.0 | And I think it'd be worth spending a few minutes |
0:27.0 | kind of reflecting on what we heard from |
0:30.0 | last week's episode with Professor Cheszmi Actus about, wow, the things that are |
0:36.9 | confronting us through the environment and how these pollutants will get |
0:41.3 | through our barriers and our barriers would be our skin or our gut. |
0:47.6 | And then your body starts to react and that reaction is inflammatory and then these pollutants the microplastics that he spoke |
0:56.6 | about could end up well if they hit your immune system I mean if they hit your |
1:01.2 | rather your your your nerves, well, you might have multiple sclerosis. |
1:07.2 | And if they hit your pancreas, we're talking about diabetes, and if they hit your skin skin you might have dermatitis. What are you going to |
1:16.6 | change in your life after hearing these wise words? I just want to say I |
1:19.9 | changed some things already prior to this because my roommate was very into this. |
1:24.3 | Okay and she had air purifiers and every room in the house. I remember thinking like you're crazy. |
1:28.9 | Uh-huh. And slowly over time I started to be convinced because when we would take out the filter from the air purifier like every six months or whatever |
1:36.1 | It was so disgusting. I was like oh, this was in my air |
1:40.4 | Right and better in the filter than your lungs, right? |
1:43.0 | Because imagine these things are going into your lungs. |
1:44.8 | Imagine the damage they caused in your lungs |
1:46.3 | and you get lung issues, right? |
1:48.0 | Anyways, or asthma, I guess, would be the technical thing you get. |
1:50.4 | So that was like the first thing I thought of and then we started to have these really |
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