Show 1301: What Are Forever Chemicals Doing in Food Packaging?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In our nationally syndicated radio show this week, our guests discuss “forever chemicals” (PFAS) used in a wide range of products. How do they affect our health? What Are PFAS, or Forever Chemicals? Scientists refer to a large class of synthetic chemicals, per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, as “forever chemicals.” A Dupont chemist created […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com
0:14.0	Have you ever heard of Forever Chemicals?
0:17.0	They last a very long time.
0:19.0	What are they doing in fast food paper packaging?
0:22.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. P-fast stands for purr and polyfluor-alcohol substances.
0:39.0	These forever chemicals are ubiquitous in our environment.
0:42.0	You find them in cosmetics, water resistant
0:45.2	clothing, stain repellent carpets, and food packaging.
0:49.2	P-FAS chemicals are found in water, air, and soil.
0:53.0	Do they have negative effects on our health?
0:55.0	We talk with one of the country's leading toxicologists about the health effects of PFAS.
1:00.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, what can we do about forever chemicals? In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, one of the features of COVID-19 that makes it different from most other infections is the risk of long COVID. Many previously healthy people
1:26.1	report fatigue, brain fog, breathing difficulties, heart problems, dizziness orraines, months after having recovered from the acute infection.
1:37.1	Doctors have been blindsided by the number of people who are now suffering from persistent symptoms
1:42.3	of long COVID.
1:44.3	According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office,
1:47.6	up to 23 million Americans may be affected.
1:51.5	Many have been unable to return to work. Physicians don't yet know what the best
1:57.1	treatment might be for long COVID. The National Institutes of Health have initiated a program called
2:03.0	Recover to coordinate research on long COVID treatments.
2:07.0	Scientists wonder whether COVID vaccinations can reduce the likelihood of
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