Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Plastic pollution has some good news and some bad news, okay?

The bad news is that there's a lot of plastic in our environment, there's like a hundred

million metric tons of plastic in our environment.

And that was in 2016, I can't imagine what it is now.

In our oceans, there's eight million tons of plastic every single year that's dumped

in our oceans, mainly from several large rivers that dump into the oceans.

If we all eat, swallow, and breathe, 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic every single week,

that's five grams of plastic, that is a credit card every single week that we're eating.

Not bad.

We get this plastic from our water, shellfish, salt, and beer.

Of course, if you're in Keto, you don't have to worry about that beer.

Now typically there's seven different types of plastic, okay?

And if you want to isolate what plastic is, you look at the bottom of your plastic water

bottle, whatever you have, and you'll see this little triangle here, and it'll have a number

of one through seven.

And this one is number one, which is PET, which is polyethylene-terifolate, which I could

be between the name, but anyway, it's a type of plastic.

Okay, so that is the bad news.

There's some good news.

In Japan, in 2016, the identified a bacteria, in other words, it releases an enzyme, which

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