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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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Today, we’re exposed to more chemicals and toxins than ever before in human history. Specifically, plastics are everywhere, and they’re becoming increasingly harder to avoid. Food at the grocery store is packaged in plastic, water is stored in plastic bottles, and microscopic plastic pieces are even in the air we breathe. Today, you’re going to learn about how our growing exposure to plastics is changing our health for the worse, and what you can do about it.
Our guest, Dr. Vivian Chen, is a board-certified medical doctor and the founder of the red light therapy device, Lumebox. She is passionate about lifestyle medicine, including nutrition, tapping into your body’s natural detoxification pathways, and light medicine. Today, she’s back on The Model Health Show to share the latest science on how plastics can impact your metabolism and overall health.
In this conversation, you’re going to hear the latest science on microplastics and nanoplastics, including their connection to brain health, metabolic health, and much more. Dr. Viv is also sharing how to make the most impactful and realistic ways to reduce your plastic exposure. This is an important conversation that everyone should hear, so click play and enjoy the show!
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0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. For more, visit the modelhealth |
0:06.5 | show.com. New studies have just been published affirming that plastics, microplastics, and nanoplastics |
0:18.4 | in our environment are, in fact, contributing to obesity. Today's episode is |
0:25.0 | dedicated to sounding the alarm on the influx and the invasive nature of these microplastics. How are they |
0:33.9 | contributing to unwanted weight gain and the inability for us to lose weight in a normal way? |
0:41.2 | There is something abnormal that is happening in our population. |
0:44.2 | Yes, the food culture is wildly messed up. |
0:49.8 | Yes, we have a very sedentary culture as well. |
0:52.8 | We've got all manner of issues that we need to clean up. |
0:56.0 | But this issue here on planet Earth is now omnipresent. |
1:00.9 | Plastics are now ubiquitous. |
1:02.9 | They're everywhere. |
1:04.2 | They're in the very air that we breathe. |
1:06.4 | They're in our food supply, our water supply, our personal care products. |
1:09.6 | The list goes on and on. |
1:14.8 | We're going to talk about these ever-increasing exposures today. And we have an incredible guest, one of the foremost experts in this subject matter, |
1:19.7 | to talk about the impact that they're having on our bodies, specifically how they're leading to fat gain. |
1:25.7 | What is the mechanism? |
1:27.2 | And also, what are the other issues that we |
1:29.8 | need to be aware of? And I'm telling you right now, when our special guest talks about the connection |
1:35.1 | with these plastics and our brain, it's just like, this is one of those moments where I just sat there |
1:40.5 | in awe. But we need to know this. And most importantly, we need to know what to do |
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