Show 974: Toxin ToxOut
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Living in the modern world means being exposed to a great many chemical compounds, from those in our shampoo to the ones that make up that unforgettable new-car smell. The safety of many of these compounds is unknown, but others have recognized toxicity. And simple actions, like eating soup from a can, could raise our body burden of chemicals like BPA, a known endocrine disruptor.
Several years ago, Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith co-authored a book on these everyday exposures, Slow Death by Rubber Duck. Now they have teamed up again to tell us how we can avoid toxins and ultimately get them out of our bodies.
Which detox techniques work best? Mr. Lourie and Mr. Smith devised a number of ingenious experiments to get the answer.
This Week’s Guests:
Bruce Lourie is a leading environmental thinker, writer and speaker. He is president of the Ivy Foundation and director of several organizations in Canada and the United States.
Rick Smith is a prominent Canadian author and environmentalist and executive director of the Broadbent Institute. He was the executive director of Environmental Defense Canada for almost 10 years.
They co-authored Slow Death by Rubber Duck; their new book is Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of our Bodies and our World.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:01.9 | And I'm Terry Graydon. |
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| 0:17.3 | That's S-Q-U-A-T-Y-P-O-T-Y dot com. |
| 0:27.2 | We're all exposed to a range of chemicals in our daily lives, from compounds and shampoo to whatever's in the water we drink. |
| 0:37.9 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:48.4 | Are any of the hundreds of chemicals we encounter so frequently dangerous? |
| 0:53.3 | If so, are there ways to avoid or eliminate |
| 0:55.7 | them? Is organic food worth the higher price? Bruce Lorry and Rick Smith wrote slow death |
| 1:02.9 | by rubber duck, in which they look at everyday chemicals in our bodies. Now they've written |
| 1:08.5 | toxin, talks out, about how we can get those compounds out of our bodies. |
| 1:14.7 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out how the authors devised experiments on themselves to test detox techniques. |
| 1:23.9 | First, this news. |
| 1:29.0 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, |
| 1:32.3 | the flu is making an appearance around the country, but in many cases it isn't behaving like the usual influenza. |
| 1:40.1 | There are reports that people are ill with aches and fatigue. |
| 1:44.0 | They lose their appetites, but they don't have much fever, and they aren't coughing. There are reports that people are ill with aches and fatigue. |
| 1:44.1 | They lose their appetites, but they don't have much fever, and they aren't coughing and |
| 1:48.4 | sneezing as they normally would with flu. |
| 1:51.7 | Experts have expressed concern that some of these cases may be misdiagnosed as bacterial |
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