Dr. Aly Cohen
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Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
But that only removes a very small proportion of contaminants in general. They vary in terms of manufacturing. Same with the refrigerator. A refrigerator door often can have a water system and a filter, and that's a carbon block as well. But then when you move to different options, you can move all the way up to reverse osmosis, which nowadays is very, very cost effective.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I've watched the prices drop over the last 10, 15 years, and they run about $275 to buy and about $150 for a plumber to install in one hour because they're just splitting the water line. You can have it on top of your counter in your kitchen. You can have it underneath your sink, which is much easier, believe it or not, because you don't have to keep refilling it.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I've tried them all out in terms of convenience. And I will tell you reverse osmosis now that it's cost effective. I do encourage people to think about that when they're moving into apartments or homes, even if you're going to colleges, if you're going, you know, traveling and renting apartments, there's there's really a lot of options that you can filter your water.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So any filtration is better than none for sure. But then there's a variety. And I talk about in the book, a variety of options for people to decide what's best for them.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
A reverse osmosis moving, well, in terms of its benefit. Oh, it's going to be up to supreme for sure.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It's also found naturally in some foods such as farm foods. And it's also on food washes. So it's in the food system of cleaning our produce that we may or may not have control over. So because of these outside invaders that like to stick to the thyroid gland and disrupt its function, iodine protects the thyroid gland. So you don't want to take too much. You don't want to take none or too little.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Really anything. It's up, you know, the thousands of chemicals that vary from whatever. I mean, look, we just had a, you know, a clog in our sink and we poured Drano down, right? Anything that you put down the sink or actually the toilet, sewage becomes drinking water. So the number of things that are in our drinking water is remarkable.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
When it comes to the most common, well, often you'll get things like industrial chemicals, things like heavy metals, like arsenic, sometimes lead even. For sure, you can get, you know, cadmium. There's lots of things like BPA and plasticizer chemicals. There's certainly detergents, which are intentionally added.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
as well as chlorine and often fluoride that are added at these wastewater treatment plants intentionally for various reasons. Right. But our job is really to think about how do you remove the chemicals, even those that are intentionally added when they hit your home, when they hit your glass. So the point of use.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And so that's really the value, no matter where your water comes from into your home, whether it's a well, whether it's wastewater treatment plant, you have an opportunity to to really clean what goes into your body. And your body is 85, 87% water.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So if we can get that right, it's really helpful, not only in terms of what we're exposed to, but how we detoxify our body from things we don't always have control over.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
For sure. So when I talk about any of these exposures, I color my hair. I've watched my kids play lacrosse on toxic turf five times, you know, five, three times a week, whatever games. The idea is that life is such that you don't want to flip out over one or two exposures here and there or any of these kind of like, you know, what I call the allow of my four A's is.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Life in general is fluid and we're going to be exposed to birthday cakes and travel. What you want to be thinking about is the chronic exposures that you can control because by volume that will add up over time. Even if they're very, very, very small doses, very small amounts because of the way they work in the human body, even the very smallest doses can actually have some effects on our health.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I would say we do have to worry more because in the amount of time that we've had from generation to generation, 10, 15, 40, 50 years, we had an exponential growth in the number of chemicals that have come into the market. We're upwards of 95,000, maybe even more in terms of the chemicals.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
that have been added in fact about a thousand to fifteen hundred new chemicals add into the system every year about 15 new compounds are uh patented every week and most of them if not all of them have not been tested or been required to have testing for safety or toxicity before they go into the products that go in onto our products into our into our homes and onto our bodies
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So there's a recommendation I have of about 150 micrograms of iodine as sodium iodide often, even in a multivitamin. It's very protective and very helpful.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So thinking about just the vast number that have increased and the fact that all of these different areas of our lives, like water systems, have not improved, you know, there's lots that we are now kind of catching up with. Humans never were exposed to this level of synthetic chemical exposure in our whole, you know, millions of years of existence until about 75 years ago.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So it's a very short period of time for the human body to really adjust or adapt to these exposures.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So, you know, what happens with our air is that things in the air don't just stay in the air, right? There's particles that you can't even see. They're called particulate matter. And they're so small that they're even, you know, say 2.5 microns, which is so small. It's basically the size of maybe half of the diameter of a hair. in terms of its tininess.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah, the studies really show there's lots of nutrients and we can go into that, but there's lots of nutrients we're not getting in modern day time that we needed as evolutionary beings for millions of years. And iodine is just one of those things that we're not getting every day. We're not getting the right amounts. We're inconsistent. We have busy lives.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So there's a lot of particulate matter that we are breathing in that we just can't see, right? Unlike smoke, where you might actually see smoke, that's enormous number of particulate matter kind of combined together. Now, when it comes to the air, it passes, right?
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You know, air goes in front of us constantly, but it can be reaccumulated with a lot of chemicals when it comes to things we bring into our home, for example. When your home is really airtight, as they are, you know, for economic reasons to keep our
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
heating and air conditioning bills normal or low, and we don't open windows, then we're really keeping a lot of the chemicals that aerate into the air sealed in, which means that we're breathing in those chemicals quite readily and quite often.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Dust essentially is when those particulate matter, those chemicals that are in the air, and think like air freshener, candles, incense, when those, even smoking, those chemicals fall to the ground, fall onto surfaces, And that's what accumulates in dust.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
In fact, studies that show, you know, dust actually is one of the most toxic components in homes because it tends to be what's gathered from all of the products, cleaning products, personal care products, industrial chemical products, even, you know, cables and things like flame retardant chemicals end up in our dust. And what's on the floor? Pets. kids, hand-to-mouth behavior.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So it's a great place to work in terms of solutions. You know, you can work by cleaning up dust or not bringing in a lot of these air balloons in the first place, which often we do into our own home.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Well, we know that many of the contaminants in particulate matter, you know, air quality issues, can increase a lot of things. It's associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease. It's been associated with mental health issues such as, you know, anxiety and depression. We know there's associations.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
This has been well studied around the world in some of the most polluted cities in the world that conditions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and early dementia have But we also know that it affects the immune system, which is the area I like to talk about specifically in the book. It is very inflammatory, many of these chemicals that get in through breathing, right?
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
We're breathing them in just like oxygen, right? We can't go without oxygen. Well, what comes in with that air also is circulating throughout our body. And it can, in fact, increase the inflammatory response in the body. We have acute issues such as asthma, right?
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
If you're an asthmatic and you breathe in some of the particulate matter, often in cities, but even in other areas, you could have an acute response, which is an asthmatic reaction, a spasm of your breathing apparatus. But then there's these chronic low-level exposures, again, that you are bringing into your body. They can be measured in blood levels and urine levels.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You know, we don't have always the access to foods that we want. So really, it's not even in food. And actually, in the 1950s, it was added to bread as a public health service, knowing that we have such low iodine levels in our food. But no one eats bread really anymore. A lot of people don't eat bread. I shouldn't say everyone. And it used to be in table salt.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And we also have a great opportunity to reduce those exposures as well. But health issues are real when it comes to particulate matter, and we should really pay attention.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I'm going to bump the D and I'm going to put it right underneath the water because it's such a major exposure into the human body.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I'll put it in D and, oh, you can just leave it with this nonstick pants, of course.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Oh, it's fascinating. And there's other data to suggest when temperatures change, when ozone goes up in terms of its levels and there's a poor air quality rating, that there's higher levels of admissions to the emergency room for psychiatric issues. There's fewer police stops. There's less inspecting of our food when it comes into the country.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So when you talk about productivity, you're also talking about sort of downstream effects that can affect all of us. But the productivity issue is a real issue when it comes to not just climate change and temperature, but also what's correlated is actually particulate matter issues.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
The CO2 monitors are very inexpensive, and that's easy to pick up. What I found recently when I was researching the fire information in terms of L.A. 's exposure, you really can think about your air filter in terms of what's called – circulating air delivery rate, CADR, is what you want to start thinking about when you're looking at these. I mean, ratings are great, right?
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It was added to table salt, like Morton's type of table salt. Now a lot of people are having Himalayan sea salt, kosher sea salt, very unprocessed sea salt processes. And there's no iodine in those products. So we're not getting iodine, even though we think we're getting it from salt. We're not getting it from food.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
But if you want to actually look at what you're trying to accomplish, it's you want to circulate the air in such a way that it manages a certain space. So the active way to do that is to look for the CADR on a air filter and look for 300 CADR for every 500 square feet. So the idea is you want to match the filtration ability to the space that you plan on using it for.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So again, 300 CADR for every 500 square feet, and you would increase that for what you're using it for. The other thing you can really consider for those listening is the HVAC system in your home, right? You know, the HVAC system, heating and ventilation, an air conditioning system. You know, if you have vents in your home, you can change out what's called the MERV rating of the filter.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And the MERV is the, I wish I knew the name of the acronym specifically, but basically MERV ratings are based on what you're trying to accomplish in your space. They're usually set as a default between five and nine MERV. But you can move up to, say, 13, 14, 15, even 16, especially in areas where you've been hit with fires and smoke.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And so you're creating a better system by which you can catch that particulate matter and just make sure you're on top of changing them out regularly.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah. And not only that, I, so I have a system for doing that because I have a work water filter that's reverse osmosis under my kitchen sink. Um, and I have a home one. And so essentially I just time it to major holidays. Which is kind of a bummer if I'm not invited to something, but I'm changing my filter instead.
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But really, if you think about it, New Year's and Memorial Day are really two opportunities around those times that are six months apart. And so I really actually make that a mission to keep on top of those two holidays. You can pick any holidays you want. But when you're talking about three month changes versus six months changes, if you tie them to things that have meaning to you.
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then you're more likely to stay on top of it. And I write down the date every time I do it because you want to make sure you have that date so you can work off of that. And sometimes I forget and I hope people who are listening are not forgetting like I did.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It's limited, and it's just something to think about among several others, which is why one of the solutions, besides being worried about which foods and how often, is to really think about even a multivitamin that has the right amount, which is about 150 micrograms of iodine per day.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah, the forays was something that I designed because I teach doctors, I teach high school and college students. And after doing this a long time, you start to figure out what is the simplest way to chop up this topic into a way that people can really absorb it. So the forays are very simple. It's basically number one is assess.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You have to assess the situation to really know what you're trying to fix, right? So in the book, I have a 50-question survey that really just asks very basic questions. You give a one or a zero answer. You add up those numbers to kind of see where you're starting from, which is reasonable and shouldn't be overwhelming, but it's good questions that everyone can answer.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So assess is looking at the problem.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah. So do you filter your water? Do you use do you dry clean your clothing? Do you travel through big cities to go to work or to home? I mean, these are all different, very reasonable questions about exposures that anyone could wrap their head around. And once you get a level, a number, you can kind of say, OK, let's see where I can go with this.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
The second A is avoid, right? So we can avoid. I call it avoid and swap. But avoid is really, do we really need all of these cleaning products? A door cleaner, a window cleaner, a sink cleaner, a carpet cleaner. You know, there's a lot we can cut back on. that we've been marketed to in terms of keeping up with the Joneses in terms of cleanliness, antimicrobials, bacteria fears.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
We want to keep our microbiomes healthy, and we don't need all of these products that we've been told we do. So avoiding is one good way, like air fresheners and all that, but also swapping. Having the ability to swap out what we do like using to cleaner versions, making smarter choices. This is really part of this whole process, right? We want to keep some of the stuff we like.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
The third A is add. And this is really kind of critical because you can take away all the triggers, all the environmental chemicals, all the exposures that are harmful in the world. But what you also need to think about is how do you give the human body things that it needs to thrive at the cellular level, at the organ level? So, for instance, there are nutrients in food that we now know.
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Not only help us nutritionally for growth and development, but actually offset the effects from harmful chemicals on our epigenome in terms of our gene expression. So we have food that is essentially medicine to offset modern exposures that we are now seeing. But we also want to add in things that help detoxify the human body. So sweating is remarkable.
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It's something we've held on to for millions of years. We want to add in great sleep. So not just quantity, which we all think about rest and feeling alert, but we also want to think about how do we get the best sleep so that we can clean out chemicals while we sleep through what's called the glymphatic system. It's the fluid around our brain and our spinal cord.
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And as we sleep, we're really kind of washing these out in many ways. Science is really robust on this. So adding in exercise, adding in sleep, adding in nutrition sounds very anthropologic to me, right? So that's the kind of things I want people to think about, taking away the problem and adding in solutions. The last of the A's is kind of, you know, like this is life. It's called allow.
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That's the third A. And the third A allows someone like myself to go get my hair colored because I actually really want to keep doing that for a while until I change my mind. It's traveling to other countries and not having access to certain things that I might want to have part of my life like I do at home. It's birthday cakes.
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It's anything that we need to really keep us motivated and know that this is not about perfection. It's about being realistic and having this process, removing these chemicals, detoxifying in a way that is personal and is a journey for everybody. There's no regret. There's no rush. It's a process that you layer in over time.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah. So, you know, we have a wild, wild west of chemicals that go into our personal care products and certainly in our cleaning products. Again, we are not required in the United States. The government does not require manufacturers to test any of the ingredients, any of the ingredients that go into these products. before they go into our home and potentially into our bodies.
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And so the idea that anything can go into them really means that it could be thousands of chemicals and often are. So when it comes to cleaning products, a lot of things that are added, particularly are phthalates, which are fragrance and odor, because we want to clean with products that have odors like lemon that may not be real or...
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ocean breeze or, you know, pumpkin spice when it comes to candles and cleaning products and those kind of things. So those phthalates actually are proprietary. They are not required to be tested again, and they extend the scent or the fragrance to have a longer shelf life. And phthalates are linked to a whole host of endocrine and immune system issues in the human body. Like what?
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So we know with phthalate testing and phthalate studies that are quite robust that they can contribute to changes in male genitalia from a newborn exposure or in utero exposure perspective. They've been linked to affect hormones like insulin, which affects sugar, thyroid gland. They can affect growth and development, fertility issues, but they can also increase inflammation.
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Again, from an immune system perspective, someone who takes care of immune and autoimmune disease patients for 22 years, these exposures are pretty pervasive. And so we don't want phthalates in our bodies, especially during vulnerable periods of development. So as a pregnant woman,
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You know, as a young child into our teen years and even during menopause, these are vulnerable periods where hormones are really going up and down. That's when many of these endocrine or hormone disrupting chemicals and immune disrupting chemicals can have greater effect. So we want to be thinking about that.
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But other chemicals in cleaning products, quats are a group of chemicals that were added particularly after COVID because they really went after the microbes. We were very afraid of microbes for good reason, right? We didn't want to have a virus affect us such as COVID.
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So the cleaning industry went nuts and they started putting in so many toxic chemicals that really wipe out the microbiome of our skin and can get into our bodies and can be measured in blood and urine. So, again, there was a free for all. It's a wild, wild west. Lots of chemicals we don't need. Let's go back to basics. Let's use things that our grandparents used.
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white vinegar, you know, lemon juice, Castile soap, sea salt for scrubbing. And I even have do it yourself recipes for those products in the book. Or you can use resources that are in the book as well to choose safer, lower toxicity products.
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I would put them, they're pretty gnarly. I would put them probably around F.
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Yeah, I think so.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah, it's proprietary fragrance, you know, antimicrobials, antibacterials, just real things that we don't want in our system anymore or ever.
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Let's put that up at A or S. A is fine. Yeah, it's wonderful. I mean, these are the things that are harmless to the human body, been around forever, completely accessible, and completely inexpensive. So I'm a big fan.
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This response is not only is it cleaning, it's actually antibacterial as well and antiviral. So when we're thinking back to, you know, some of the most common exposures, the
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flu there's lots of things that can be killed off from just white vinegar but also if you're thinking about that level of cleaning in terms of say covert exposure or the flu uh in your household being rampant you can also think of isopropyl alcohol which is this rubbing alcohol So there's even stronger stuff if you need it that's really safe as well. But vinegar is really classic.
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It's been around forever and it has different percentages. There's sort of 3% for cooking and 5% for cleaning that's available even at big box stores. So if you're really going to be using it for cleaning, I would choose the higher percentage.
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So I think I would probably rank it around a, you know, C. Let's put it as C because I want to save some other offenders for the top ones. But it's a bad guy. It's a bad guy. And we want to really think about where we get it, where we get exposed to it, the chemicals that are on nonstick cookware. So as you mentioned, it's everywhere.
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So it is complicated. And we are now finding some genetic predispositions for autoimmune disease in addition to what we call environmental hits or environmental exposures. But there's no question about it. There are many more personal care products directed, marketed to women, for sure.
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And even African-American women who have a different set of products that are marketed to them as well with different ingredients. Some of them have
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estrogenic components that are much higher than in other products that too has become a problem not just even amongst earlier puberty amongst young kids and boys are included in this not just women but but young girls young boys as well but we have to be thinking if that's if we know that the associations for shifting puberty younger over the last several hundred years that
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is an endocrine disruption component, it's also very, very strongly connected to the idea that we can have autoimmune and immune disorders, which again, endocrine system and the immune system are much more connected than anyone really thinks about. We think they're siloed, but really there's crosstalk between these very important systems in the human body.
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So absolutely, there's no question that has a lot to do with maybe why we're seeing more autoimmune disease and immune disorders in women. But there's other theories involved. Hormones are really quite important. Estrogen, androgens are key. But again, there's these genetic findings such as the Xist gene, which I talk about in the book.
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that really is helping us to understand why it is that most autoimmune diseases affect women more than men. Although there's many, type 1 diabetes included, that are equally slated amongst both genders, as well as some that are more male-dominated, like ankylosing spondylitis and, yeah, psoriatic arthritis, definitely.
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Well, most of the stuff that's marketed has fragrance, okay? That's the selling point, right?
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So fragrance, again, these phthalates, which is a class of chemicals, which is, you know, one of many classes of chemicals that are used in these products. But phthalates are specifically designed to keep the smell and odor of a product lasting longer, whether it's laundry detergent, whether it's cleaning products, whether it's personal care products.
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We also know, like, for instance, feminine care products can have chemicals that you wouldn't think of, like antimicrobials in the cotton. And if it's not cotton, it may be rayon or other types of polyester making up a tampon, for instance. There's also, you know, chlorine in cotton and some of these plasticizers.
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So when we think about personal care, we should also be thinking about feminine care products. And internal exposure as well, because women should understand how absorptive that part of the body really is as well in terms of, you know, getting those chemicals into the body.
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People use a lot of these products that are coated with a super slick surface. And that slick surface, which has made it so convenient to cook, to drop our baked goods out of the pan, to cook our eggs on, so to speak. It's a group of chemicals called perfluoralkyls or the PFAS chemicals. They are specifically designed functionally to make things slippery.
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But, you know, when it comes to these personal care products, we have chemicals like mercury and makeup that have actually been at very low levels, not a problem in terms of regulation. There's no oversight. And it's used as an antiseptic. There are parabens. There are chemicals that help skin absorb chemicals to make them smoother and softer, such as lotions.
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They're functional chemicals that are synthetic that are really trying to sell the product in terms of what they do. So it's one of those things where it's a mishmash of anything best to go with the least amount of ingredients and the ones you recognize. And if you can't see those findings on a label,
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certainly, you know, use groups like Environmental Working Group, their Skin Deep database, Clearia app, Yuka app, Think Dirty app. They often use a lot of the same databases, which is great, but they're all usable in their own way and really just very accessible. I do this with high school students. I
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toss all these products to the kids and they download the Skin Deep database and they look at those numbers themselves, the ratings, they look at what the ingredients are and they look at different options for themselves to choose. And I actually make my son do this in order to get any products that he wants to buy.
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I mean, it's really kind of insane. And listen, you know, as a mom, people might think that my house is like, you know, a prison of only healthy products. But, you know, in real life, as with everything, you have to be flexible. And so when my son, one of them, he likes more cologne than the other, and he walks through the kitchen to go out to school...
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I mean, it's like I can't even stand the stink in the kitchen. They're petting the dog and the cat. They now stink. And it doesn't even wear off because, again, those psalates are doing their job. Now, I sat down with my son and we did like a little sample sampler of a really non-toxic perfume or cologne. Really, it's kind of like unisex perfume.
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you know, odors now, but this is a big thing for these kids. And sure enough, the safe products are just as if, you know, they're wonderful smelling. We picked which ones we liked and we ordered them, but the options are out there and they're getting better and better. So, you know, I really encourage people to think about that because it's something you put on your body.
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It's going to last in your home. It's going to potentially end up on your, you know, surfaces and dust. So let's start by what you bring into your home as the starting point for good choices.
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I'll tell you, it's real to me. I'm staying in a hotel and the place is pumped with odor. You know, it's pumped with the smell. Some of the most popular retail stores actually are spraying intentionally. It's part of the kind of Disney experience of shopping these days.
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So but interestingly enough, in California, under the American Disabilities Act, they stopped putting perfume in magazines where, you know, when you used to get magazines back in the day, They smelled 10 feet away before you even took them home or picked them up out of the mailbox. And that had a lot to do with what you ripped open. You would smell the latest scent that's being marketed.
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They're also used for, you know, rain gear to make things waterproof and greaseproof. So in a lot of fast food wrappers and a lot of fast food or food packaging. Okay. And the PFAS chemicals, there's over 15,000 of them now. But we certainly know that they're in nonstick pans, nonstick cookware, nonstick, you know, utensils even.
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Turns out that they don't do that anymore because air quality is really a right, right? You don't want to have to be in an office.
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And your head is out the window like a dog. I know it's terrible. And it's funny. I take pictures of this sometimes and I open up the window and I can't even breathe. I don't know if they got the memo, but maybe they're watching this podcast. So let's hope.
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You know, I would say because of the plethora of them and what we like to use, I'm going to put it at probably D. OK, we're going to throw it on D. Yeah.
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Yeah, I would say pretty, pretty toxic. And I will make one extra little tidbit of a point for the young people and anyone listening who gets manicures, pedicures. Thinking about even just your base coat, you know, I bring my base coat if I'm going to get a manicure or pedicure and that's a treat for me because I don't typically do that.
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But when I do choose to do that, thinking about the layer that hits your nail and your body is really an important choice and can be done quite easily when you look it up and bring your own. So, you know, these are options to not take away all the fun if that's what you choose. You just have to be smarter and kind of think about things ahead of time.
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Yeah, perchloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene.
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So I think it starts at choice, you know, buying products or buying clothing that really doesn't require dry cleaning is a really good start. I mean, I've really stopped buying clothes that were super vulnerable to wrinkles if I didn't want to have those in a business space. You know, that's one option.
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But I tend to actually you can do steam cleaning, you know, and really talk to your dry cleaner because a lot of times they don't quite understand, you know, what it is to stay away from those chemicals. You know, there's even marketing of organic dry cleaners, which I've never seen that as any legitimate business.
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So I'll give you an example of how this is a slippery topic, because I had someone come in to manage mold, and they said, oh, these are all natural sprays. They were convinced of it. These are the people who worked for the company. And even the head of that division I spoke to and she's like, oh, I'll send you the MSDS, which is really the report on the chemical to tell you what it's all about.
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And so it's just something that we can easily swap, which is why I love some of these. You know, you're calling out great ones because these are the things that we can actually very inexpensively swap out. PFAS chemicals have a whole host of health effects that we want to avoid.
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Well, it turns out that the active ingredient in this particular mold spray was point zero zero five percent. In terms of the active ingredient, which was claimed to be. safe, right? However, the 99.995% was proprietary inactive on the bottom of the label.
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So in other words, again, it's a very slippery area to say anything is safe when most of active ingredients are a very small percentage and most of the inactive ingredients contain some of the worst offenders.
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so i can't speak to every business certainly i don't want to bad mouth any company doing it well but i think you have to do a lot of research to see that that's happening did you ever find out what they were using oh yeah i was very upset about it what was it um off the top of my head i remember looking it up and it did have health related issues the
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The active ingredient had lower risk, but whatever was revealed in the inactive was not good, and that made up 99%. And I was even telling the people that worked for this company who were spraying, they were flabbergasted because I wanted them to understand what chemicals they were handling, especially young people handling these without gloves.
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So you really want to be thinking about exposures occupationally, in your home, and really do your research. But steam cleaning... If you just get a steam cleaner, it's very reasonable. And if you're going to wash your laundry, I mean, I tend to just, you know, have certain things that need to be wrinkled, you know, to be washed.
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And then I will iron them with my own steamer or have a steamer machine. There's a lot of better ways than dry cleaning, I think, that people can get through this process.
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Yeah, and you can even put this away, by the way, outside your home. So say you really do need to dry clean stuff, right? Because life is life, right?
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Keep it outdoors. Don't let it come into your home and put it in the foyer closet, which a lot of people do. Keep it in the garage. Keep it outside your home. Let it off gas for at least a couple of days, if not more, and then bring it in. Because that way you're removing a lot of the chemicals that are called volatile organic compounds that are harmful.
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that play into health issues that you breathe in that become your dust and so on and so forth. So just keep it out of your home.
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Some of them affect the immune system for sure, which is what I talk about in the book, lowers our ability to create antibodies if we get vaccinated intentionally to create that antibody response to protect us, but also can cause inflammation. So it's the opposite. It can actually increase inflammation. also linked to a variety of cancers like kidney cancer for sure.
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Right. Number one super fun site in the country is our state.
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Oh, you know, well, we're the we're the what is it? The veggie state where the the green state of growing. But, you know, our soil is pretty bad and I wouldn't be surprised about that. But, you know, there are parts of New Jersey that are extraordinarily beautiful.
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You just have to say what exit you're from.
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The garden state. That's what it is.
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That's what we call it.
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Yeah, well, basically, plastic is human-made chemicals put together. It was great in the 1940s when they were discovered, you know, polyethylene glycol. I mean, all these components of plastics, you know, that gave us rayon and naugahyde and formica and plexiglass. I mean, these are things we've heard of that were designed to make life convenient, right? You drop dishes. They don't break.
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Really great for, you know, the 50s moms. and so on and so forth. But in terms of the matrix of plastics in general, plastics break down. It's not like stainless steel. It's not like glass. These are materials that are, although they're designed temporarily to do what their job is to contain things often, amongst other things, they really do break down.
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And you know this when you take brand new Tupperware, right? If you get plastic containers, that you're going to use for storage and you put them in the dishwasher under high heat and multiple uses and scratches, they become opaque. You cannot see through them anymore. And that's owned to the fact that these materials are breaking down and making them cloudy.
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And plastics also can be infused with lots of pretty bad chemicals, right? So plastics can have antimicrobials, so cutting boards. You know, thinking about microplastics as one component, but also the chemicals that are infused into plastics because they are able to absorb some of these added chemicals, right? Because again, the matrix is not very strong.
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So the general rule is, you know, they are convenient. And unfortunately, they're part of our food system. But we can work around it. Plenty of solutions in the book. But the idea is that you do not want to heat them or scratch them up because that makes them more likely, just like the, you know, the nonstick pans to get into the foods and drinks that they carry.
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So in our household, yeah, we have frozen foods that are in plastics when we, you know, we live like everybody else. But my kids are really good at switching their stuff into glass and stainless steel to heat up. I used to use steamer bags for years, even while I was researching chemicals, because it was so convenient that it really didn't even occur to me.
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And it turns out that those steaming baths, which, you know, really do heat up to high temperatures, they're dropping those microplastics in the condensation inside the bag into the food. So just thinking about one extra step and having the right inexpensive cookware and storageware, you're done. You know, these are the swaps that make life easy and you keep moving.
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But again, these are exposures, low levels over time that we want to try to either reduce or avoid as best we can. And so it's a process. But then I think people should be aware of what's getting into their bodies and how simple it is to swap out these things.
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Yeah, you know, you shouldn't need Tupperware. If you're thinking about kids, you know, we use stainless steel for when I had kids growing, you know, if they dropped a cup or a plate, you know, so be it. It didn't crack and break. You can also use plastic lids. I mean, you know, as long as it's not touching foods, it's very convenient, especially when you're taking food to work or you have...
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you know, foods for kids on the go. But in general, you want to avoid plastic for storage and for cooking wherever you can, you know, avoid it. I mean, it's really hard because our food system is so filled with single-use plastics.
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You know, I'm here traveling and to find glass water bottles, and we can talk about that, water bottles and how to manage water and water, you know, system, but it's really impossible to find any water in glass. And when I go out to dinner and they actually say, would you like, you know, fizzy water or still? And they come to the table with a glass bottle. I'm just like thrilled.
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I'm like crying and hugging the waitress.
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It's honestly, it's like, you know, oh, my God, you know, it just made my heart just, you know, fill. So, you know, the idea is that we unless you make your own food. Unless you control the food system, we are at the whim of that. We have to get savvy around it. And there's lots of things in the book that I share and I'm sure you're aware of that really help us to do that.
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I would say probably, you know, I would say almost like a B. I think that's okay because when I think of how easy the change out is to the benefit, you know, the risk benefit ratio there, it's really a good one. You know, it's very easy.
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Yeah, interesting. BPA is used for a lot of things. It's not even just used in canned foods as the epoxy lining, the plastic interior of all cans, even organic food cans, believe it or not, even baby food cans, right? It is part of the food packaging and BPA itself is part of that.
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When it says BPA-free, it's really, as you said, really unlikely that it is truly healthy or safer because there are so many what we call regrettable substitutions to BPA that were designed by the manufacturers of BPA to get around the problems with BPA and the reputation of BPA.
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BPA was actually removed from plastic baby bottles and plastic sports bottles in 2012 due to a lot of the work of my co-author for two previous books, who's an emeritus reproductive neurobiologist from University of Missouri. So his work, along with colleagues around the world, was a heavy lift. But they were only able to get it out of baby bottles that are plastic and sports bottles.
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But it's everywhere else still, unfortunately. Now, Canada has actually just put forth legislation based on his work and others to get BPA out of packaging, food packaging, because it's such a huge source into the human body. And the substitution bisphenols, BPS, BPSIP, BPF, they are, again, used instead where BPA was used. formally used in many products.
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So the long story short is, or the short story short, is stay away from plastics. Don't believe BPA-free really means that much. Try to use glass and stainless steel when it comes to even water bottles and carrying water. And that's a good start, really.
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Yes, and an image just came to mind of a place where they made omelets at a buffet that I was at recently. And, you know, they love these really quick and easy omelets where they slide right off and they're scratched up because they've been used for, what, a million, like, you know, hotel guests.
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I would say it's equally weighted between the food itself, which has its upwards of we now have 12,000 food additives that are allowed under the generally recognized as safe designation. which is a very weak, if not terribly poor regulation that was, you know, basically a problem from 1958, you know, amended food additives amendment, basically. And so essentially we have no protections.
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The food itself can have all these ingredients that we don't want that are unhealthy for the human body. And then the food packaging that is often part of processed foods is another component. I think people don't often think about food packaging as kind of a, you know, a mechanism for getting exposed to these chemicals.
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When you go with whole foods more often than not, you're getting far fewer chemicals than Now, that being said, what I wanted to bring to the table here is that even the best diets that are green leafy vegetables and fruits and vegetables can have high loads of pesticides.
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And so not to make everyone upset, but to really think about not just the quality of your food, which is fruits and vegetables and thinking about sort of like a Mediterranean diet, nuts and seeds and all those good, healthy things that we've been eating for millions of years up until now. really the last 100 years.
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But thinking about USDA organic as an option, it is probably the only, I say, redeemable component of our food system that we have. It's because it really limits thousands of pesticides and fertilizer chemicals and really doesn't allow any genetically modified ingredients as well in the food. So we can find this now accessibly at low cost at any big box store.
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And mind you, frozen USDA organic produce, which is really pervasive around the country, especially in big box stores who know how lucrative it is to make these, they have the added benefit of being nutritional products. and nutritionally sufficient. In fact, they are picked and flash frozen in order to keep them fresh, but also that maintains all of the nutrient value.
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And the idea is that the scratches actually break down that coating and release more of those nonstick chemicals, the perfluorococals, into the foods that you're cooking. into whatever you're using, even with your cookware in terms of utensils, the scratches make that matrix looser.
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So you get this wonderful combination of cleaner food in terms of USDA organic regulation But then also the nutritional value, which is that add portion of my four A's, is already packed into those frozen produce. You just want to swap them out, put them in glass and stainless steel to heat them up.
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But essentially, it's democratized, you know, food and, you know, healthy food in a way, because now everyone can reach those goals of getting those in their local, you know, big box store if they can find. And we're talking big box stores all over the country.
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I'm going to put it next to my water filter at S. Okay.
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It's that important. And we can't live without food and we can't live without water. So those are the two biggest inputs that I really want people to think about. And it doesn't have to be perfect. But when you're talking about stocking your home fridge, things that you can control for the most part, that's where you can start to have the most impact.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah. And listen, maybe some of the kids out there don't like their greens, but cruciferous vegetables are really superpower foods, right? Because cruciferous vegetables, which include kale and broccoli, asparagus.
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Sprouts. I mean, help me out here. There's just so many of them. I list them all in the book. But of course, you know, there's ones I've never even heard of, like kohlrabi. They're ones that we don't even usually use all the time. But they are remarkable in terms of the compounds that they contain that help detoxify the body. They churn up some of the chemicals in the liver.
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They induce what's called stage two detoxification pathways or conjugation. They help break down these chemicals into much less toxic components to eliminate. So cruciferous vegetables, you know, like mom says, eat your vegetables, but choose cruciferous whenever you can. There's other ones. There's the omega-3 fatty acids are really critical in terms of human health history.
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Getting that from small fish instead of large fish because large fish tend to bioaccumulate A lot of chemicals up the food chain. So thinking sardines and salmon and herring, mackerel, you know, are really wonderful in terms of choosing those smaller fish. So omegas are really great. You can get them from plants as well, and they convert into the more active forms.
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And especially if they're, you know, fatty foods like eggs, fats tend to draw in more of those perfluoroalkyl chemicals. So olive oils, all the oils that we use to cook with can add, you know, kind of more problems if you're working with scratched cookware.
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antioxidants like quercetin, which is, you know, from apples and onions, vitamin C. These are really helpful in the body's detoxification processes. So there's lots we can do. Food is medicine. But particularly, as I call out in the book, certain foods actually offset some of the genetic or epigenetic changes that come from exposures to chemicals that you, you know, can and can't control.
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So it's kind of a protection mechanism by what you eat.
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Well, iodine is a pretty important micronutrient, and I would probably rank it pretty, I would give it like a C or a B. B, let's do B. Okay, tell us about it.
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Depends on the brand.
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So I actually really believe that as much as fish is wonderful for protein and for nutrition, it's delicious. I love sushi, but we space it out quite infrequently so that we can manage some of those exposures. But unfortunately, I think that as the oceans get a little dirtier, we are going to have more problems with, you know, eating a lot of fish. And so your story doesn't surprise me, actually.
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But, you know, like you said, there's lots of different ways we get exposed. And so it is thoughtful to think about different places that you can be exposed to mercury. I mean, it could be occupational. It could be.
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Yeah, amalgams, you know, generally they don't leach. They're pretty solidly staying there in general. I heard the opposite from a lot of dentists. Well, when you start to manipulate them, that can also, you know, you want to be careful about your dental care, right? Because every time you're brushing and every time you're getting any dental work, you are manipulating them.
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So it just depends on...
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really what your degree of dental care is it's not on the top of my list when I tell people what to do because it's usually quite expensive and there's a lot of things that as you're doing here ranking makes a lot more sense to me for the average mere mortal right but when it comes to my recommendations with fish I really do try to limit it to two or four servings maximum per week of small fish
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And that's not a lot. That's a reasonable amount. And then I do actually believe and I talk about this in my book in terms of the four fertilizer supplements, which I believe in modern day times, thinking about anthropology and evolution.
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What are the highest yield supplements that I believe every human should be on from birth till death, which is very dramatic, but I really believe in the science. And one of those four fertilizer supplements, which has such high yield benefit to human body, to the brain, to sleep, to inflammation, is high quality Lactobacillus. well vetted omega-3 fish oil.
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And I find that there's far fewer, you know, companies that are doing this well, the more watered down it is, which is, you know, like any good thing in life, maple syrup, honey, and everything else that's good and hard to source is often watered down. And that tends to be reflected in the price point.
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So in the book, I talk about how to find and vet out those products, but omegas as a supplement to me tends to be at the level that we need to thrive and to be healthful and tends to be a supplement-based choice in addition to fish.
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Oh, I know this literature, actually. Is there any truth to that? I had to present some of this literature, actually. Yeah, so selenium is actually remarkably protective to the human brain. And when they've done studies of ratios in the diet of fish, specifically where the selenium to mercury ratio was very high, it was actually shown to be protective clinically in populations that they looked at.
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And so there is interesting science regarding selenium being incredibly protective regarding heavy metals, particularly methylmercury, which goes back to the fertilizer chemicals. that I've said, I mean, fertilizer supplements that I believe every human should be on, which I'll name them now because it involves selenium.
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A multivitamin, a well-done multivitamin will have selenium in it daily, will have iodine in it daily, will have active forms of vitamins like methylfolate instead of folic acid. So a multivitamin that's done well is a remarkable flooring to your life in terms of just daily exposure to good, healthy nutrients that we have needed for millions of years. Selenium is in there.
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The second fertilizer supplement that I believe is necessary, even with the best diets. I mean that even with the best organic diets, because our food system is so nutrient deplete. The second one is vitamin D, which a lot of people have heard of, right? It's pretty sexy to know about what your D level is. The question is, how do you get it to a level on your blood testing that's high normal?
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So 60 to 90 is where I like to aim. So it's not how much you take because everyone has an individual need, absorption issues of the gut. All these things are variable. But what the goal is is to live at a level where your blood is 60 to 90 in a range that's normal of 30 to 100. So nothing excessive, but just high normal. And that's easy and cheap and available, vitamin D3.
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The third is probiotic, probiotic to help the gut microbiome for all the losses that we go through in terms of stress or, you know, foods that don't agree with us or chlorinated drinking water, any of the kind of the targeted chemicals that hit our guts, you know. you know, processed foods.
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Having a probiotic that's healthy, reasonable, affordable every day to me is offsetting some of the losses every day. And then the last piece was the omega-3 fatty acids. If done well,
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and a highly concentrated DHA EPA is remarkable for so many normal physiologic processes, including improved sleep, including mental health, including inflammation that I use with my immune and autoimmune disease patients. higher levels. So you have to sort of adjust what you're taking and why you're taking it.
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Those four things to me really do give the human body a great ability to manage most of its physiology without being excessive, but done well. And selenium will be very helpful every day if you're exposed to any number of inputs that expose you to mercury.
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Yeah, so fermented, I mean, there's just so many foods that are good for human health. It's hard to list them all because fiber is another area that you could talk about in terms of what we're missing, what we need, and what binds chemicals. But fermented foods are really great because the composition, the acidity, the way that they handle the gut microbiome, and let's list a few, right?
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Things that I don't like, like kimchi, you know, sauerkraut is not my favorite, but it's loaded with, you know, probiotic and prebiotic components. But then, you know, there's other things like pickles and vinegar, things that people can wrap their head around. But fermented foods in general is what feeds the microbes in the gut microbiome. It's an ecosystem.
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Because we're going to have multiple solutions.
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So by eating those foods, again, food is medicine, right? When you eat those foods, you're supporting the buggers that are in your gut that are in 26 feet of bowel. that line this tube that we call the gut and you're feeding the good guys.
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And those good guys are making, you know, for a better word or not, poop, essentially small chain fatty acids like butyrate that actually circulate through the body, get to the brain are very healthful. So they help with mental health and that gut brain connection. So if you sit back and you think to yourself, this is an ecosystem that I'm contributing to.
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That's fine with me.
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It's like feeding your salamander in middle school, right? You're watching this whole process go through and then you're feeling the physiology change. Fermented foods are great. And it's been part of the human diet again for millions of years. The question is, can we get them consistently? Can we get used to certain foods and really start craving them consistently?
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We'll drop it down.
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So that we have them in a way that really supports most of our diet when we have access to it.
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So I care about it and I really wouldn't be even here talking to you about it if it wasn't for years ago when my golden retriever got sick. I was a young mom and I had this beautiful four and a half year old golden retriever named Truxton. And he got sick and I thought, you know, he swallowed a sock or something happened where he just, you know, he'll get better tomorrow.
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Well, he also developed what was, you know, at that time we found out was autoimmune hepatitis. So his immune system basically had turned against him. and attacked his liver. And his liver, hepatitis liver, was the size of a golf ball by the time we got him diagnosed. And he didn't last, you know, he lived maybe six more months very comfortably, but he lived six months.
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And my sadness over this puppy, this, you know, first born child of mine, so to speak, was just so heartbreaking. And I started to question his exposures because I had no other way to explain a young, healthy golden retriever with such a rare diagnosis in dogs. So I looked at his water and I looked at his air quality and we live on a farm in New Jersey. So I worried about pesticides.
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I worried about the red vinyl plastic toy that he was sucking on all the time. And I didn't know this at the time, but I was really kind of performing an environmental health survey. And now we have it in the book, right? But it took 15 years to get to this point.
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And having layered in question after question of what's going on in human exposure from what I was learning about animal exposures, it really just took off. And it was a mission of sadness, but of also curiosity. And also being sad that I didn't learn any of this in medical school. And it's still not really being used in training of any health care professionals in any large way.
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And that's a shame because we have so many ways to get this information to people to do better in terms of their choices and their health risks. So my journey really came from a place of sadness, but it has led to so much good in terms of what I'm able to do with curriculum and teaching. And this is actually my third book. The first two were in Oxford University Press.
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One was a textbook and another was another consumer guide, more of a guidebook. This is the first time I'm reaching out to everyone in a way that's super easy to navigate. It's tangible. It's got a 21-day plan so people can just start right in. and really make simple choices. It's got a food pyramid that starts and ends with quality and looks at food packaging and detoxification processes.
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It's just a really, I think, easy way for people who have no concept of this concept to get into it and get started.
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Yeah, it's a great question because, you know, at the time I didn't know anything about environmental health, zero. And it began the journey. But, you know, at the time we were looking at his toy, his red plastic toy, very common dog toy. And it turns out that in terms of human studies, especially occupational studies of people who work with polyvinyl chloride as a chemical,
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which we use in everything, right? These are the plasticizer chemicals. Turns out higher rates of autoimmune hepatitis and autoimmune and hepatocellular cancer, so liver cancers, in occupational exposure, so people who work in these factories, higher than other people who don't work in these factories.
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And so, you know, the studies really started to make me think that that plastic toy that he happened to be, you know, sucking on and sleeping with and it never left his mouth for four and a half years may have been one of the biggest triggers in terms of his immune system taking a turn. he may have been predisposed, right?
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We all have our genetic predisposition, but that might've been the trigger in terms of the load and the exposure that put him into his condition.
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean, listen, you have to have an ounce of the why, of what the issues are, a little bit of the fear factor. But you don't want it enough to keep you from making changes and making really reasonable, practical, simple, smarter choices.
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I've been following the autism world for a long time.
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Yeah, and I would say kids on the spectrum and from my perspective, immune and autoimmune and cancer, we're seeing lots of younger people getting exposed to things and having diseases that they have no family history of. And then again, to your question about in utero exposure, I want to start by saying, you know, I have such anxiety over in any way making moms moms to be.
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You know, sort of, you know, blamed for things they may not even be aware of. When I was a mom and I had two kids, I was eating McDonald's every morning with my first kid. I mean, it probably explains a lot of his behavior, you know, being bad right now. But, you know, the idea is that like when you don't know, you don't know. I mean, I was rolling up and getting my pancakes every morning.
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Exactly. And I think that that's one thing we have to sort of make sure we are clear about. There's no regrets. There's no blame. People shouldn't be blaming themselves. But there is interesting data showing that the in utero exposure to many of these chemicals The placenta, which we usually think is protective to a growing fetus, is actually really not that protective.
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We know that when babies are born, when they cut the cord, that that cord blood, when it's sampled, has up to 200 chemicals, industrial chemicals. There was a 2005 study from Environmental Working Group that's always talked about because you don't have to recreate it. It's just, you know, we know that that's going on. And that was 2005, right, 20 years ago.
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And we've only had more chemicals added to our exposures, you know, to our bodies in terms of where we walk through life. But that vulnerable period where brain development is going on, where sexual dimorphism in terms of how the brain turns into male, female, how the body's organs turn into male or female parts. We know how phthalates can participate in terms of changing parts.
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male genitalia at birth in terms of how they develop. There's a lot that goes on from an in utero perspective where that is hopefully going to be where people can aim for the cleanest environment we can get.
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So we do want to educate young girls and boys and, you know, people who are planning to become pregnant in terms of getting your body perhaps ready as much as you can for a growing, developing pregnancy. The brain itself, somewhere around 250,000 neurons a second are created during fetal development.
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And I think that's the beauty of how you're presenting this today is that we want to really see what the problems are so that we can go into action mode.
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And so, you know, we know a lot about fetal alcohol syndrome in terms of which trimester drinking alcohol can affect the brain development. We now know a lot more also about these chemicals and exposure levels comparatively. So we want to just kind of work towards keeping that environment cleaner as best we can. To your point,
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in utero exposure with all of the chemicals that are being you know in around our lives and moms are you know unfortunately unable to control for all of them that's an area where we want to really be thinking about the most in terms of taking care of our body in terms of how many
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
nail salon visits how much shampoo conditioner that we you know we can vet out as much as we can lotions that are geared towards new moms um you know or even babies when they come out you know you want to be thinking about all of that um in on and around exposures that you can control for as best you can and also cleaning your home what you breathe what you sleep on you know you know what your air quality is what your water quality is for everybody but particularly that um
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
you know, vulnerable population of pregnant women.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I can't say that for sure because, you know, it's complex. You know, we have genetic predisposition. We know that genetic changes take place from exposures from generation to generation independent of autism. So we have epigenetic changes from exposures. So we don't know what the setup is before, you know, pregnant women might be exposed in utero.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And we also have genetic contribution from both males and females, right? So it's not just an exposure-related issue. It's a dance between our genetics, our lifestyle, and our exposures. But do I think that it's a big problem? Do I think that we're going to get more data on this? For sure. And I do think... the growing rates of autism are pretty remarkable.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And we know that many of, say, the vaccines have removed thimerosal and have removed some of the more concerning adjuvants is what we call them. So I think we need to really be thinking about doing behavioral change, particularly in this population, for sure.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
How about candles, incense, air fresheners, plug-ins? I want to call that out because I know we think of cleaning products as really cleaning surfaces and windows and drain cleaners. But I think some of the things we take into our homes that are considered more fun, just paying attention to those things.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I think is something we should be considering and swapping out to safer versions, beeswax candles that we know the manufacturers, safer places to buy them. Certain stores actually vet for these chemicals. But thinking about just what we do to keep up with the Joneses between fragrances on our body, fragrances in our home. Lawn care is another one I would call out.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You know, let your lawn go or at least cut it down because keeping up with the Joneses means hiring pesticide companies where your feet track all those chemicals, your pets track all those chemicals into your home.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So, you know, kind of sitting back and observing and thinking about what you've been marketed to and keeping it more simple, I think is a really general way of looking at how we walk through modern day life with all these toxins.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
But it's pre-order now?
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Yeah.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Yeah, I think you start with the high yield stuff. You know, drinking water, your habits, you know, when you make coffee or tea in the morning. Get that corrected as best you can in a way that makes you feel good because you're doing- Can we talk about that for a second?
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You know, look, I'm a tea drinker. My husband's a coffee drinker and he uses a French press that's made of glass and metal. Old school stuff. I mean, let's think about how people made coffee before we had, you know, a plastic machine with with the K cups, you know, I think there's a lot of simple ways that we can make it more work for sure. But you have to value that. Right.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
But from a tea perspective, I use loose leaf tea to cut back on microplastics. So I'm using like sort of a, you know, a metal stainless steel, you know, diffuser in my tea. And I'm using filtered water. I'm using organic cream and sugar. If I choose to use that, I'm using a ceramic container.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
I carry my stainless steel, you know, water bottle with no, by the way, plastic, you know, straw, plastic cap that people drink. I think to myself, that's great that you've got the stainless steel bottle, but maybe finish off your process and have to, you know, take off the lid. But essentially the habits that you create, that you layer in cleaner changes and smarter choices,
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
That's a great place to start because that's your largest load, right? You're getting that on a daily basis. So that's a good place to start other than, you know, worrying about, again, going out for a night out with friends. And, you know, are you going to go in the back kitchen of a restaurant that you go out to and you're going to look to see if it's canned foods?
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You're going to look to see if they filter their water. There's only so much you can control. So quality of life and not freaking out is a key portion, you know, key point of what I do. But I like to say, keep it simple, stupid. Start with, you know, high yield changes, keep your hobbies as clean as possible or work your way through it. This is a process. You know, this is a journey for everyone.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It was a journey for me for 15 years. And I don't expect and I hope it doesn't take 15 years for anyone else. Hopefully with the book and anything I post on social media, because, you know, I have a social media handle for the smart human. But anything I post tends to be, here's the problem, here's the solution, or else I don't post on it.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
You know, I want people to know there are solutions for all of this. But take your time. Make it stick. This is not a diet. This is really about layering in a process to make good choices throughout your life.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
My podcast actually focuses on the researchers that create... you know, the data and the research that the headlines use, right? I wanted to get to the source of great science. I had a, I'll give you an example. I had Dr. Goodson, Will Goodson. He's a breast surgeon and he did some remarkable work where he took fine needle biopsies of volunteers, 28 women, normal, healthy women, 28 volunteers.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Great question. So iodine is something that most people haven't really heard about. And it's a micronutrient that protects the thyroid gland. And it actually is not in a lot of the foods we eat anymore, other than, say, some seafood and some seaweed and maybe yogurt, real yogurt, navy beans. But iodine is something the human body doesn't make on its own. We have to get it from food.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
He did fine needle biopsies voluntarily on these women. They changed out their personal care products. And about a month later, I think it was exactly 28 days later, they all showed up voluntarily to have a repeat fine needle biopsy.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And he was, and this is his work, he was able to show that there was a change on the signal towards reduction of cancer risk by changing out their personal care products over that month.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It was remarkable. And, you know, these are the people that I like to have on my podcast, the people that I have just been watching their research, you know, but they don't always have a voice in the media. It's not what they do. And so I have doctors on that talk about integrative medicine from a cardiology perspective, from a pediatric perspective, researchers. So the podcast is really a hobby.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It's really my, you know, it's a joy for me to do. Gets me a chance to get people at the table that I've always respected.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
The Smart Human Podcast. Amazing. And same with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook. All of it is The Smart Human. And thesmarthuman.com, I actually have courses up now. So people can take small courses on pesticides, drinking water. integrative rheumatology, things about my career as an integrative rheumatologist. So I hope people will access all this information.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Thank you so much, Drew. I appreciate your support over the years. Thank you.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So let's start by saying, well, where do we get our water from? Let's make this simple. We get most of our water from our tap, which would be our faucet, but that water could either come from a well from our town or underneath our home, but most of it really comes from what are called wastewater treatment plants. And that's the places across the U.S.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
where there's 160,000 of them that actually clean the water that comes into them and then sends the water right out to our homes. You know, it could be down the street. It could be 10, 30, 40 miles away. Who knows? But wastewater treatment plants, the problem is that they are the laws surrounding those wastewater treatment plants are from 1974, the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
It's critical for brain development in babies. So babies have to get it from breast milk. But other adults and young children have to have thyroid every day because it washes out every day in order to sit in the thyroid and protect it from a lot of the chemicals that we're exposed to, such as perchlorate for one. And that's in a lot of food packaging, especially processed food packaging.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And under that legislation, only 91 chemicals were are looked at in terms of their levels, their MCLs, maximum concentration level, and then remediated if they get too high in the water system. The problem is, is that 91 back from 1974, you know, is really way, way long period of time without any changes. And we've had thousands of
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
Harmful chemicals that we now know harmful chemicals have been added into our environment that make their way into the water system, including what goes through those wastewater treatment plants and then right out the other side. So the problem is, is that our water has gotten dirtier and we have no infrastructure that's fixed this, you know, the problem.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
And so we're really drinking pretty dirty contaminated water. And it changes over time. It changes with, you know, weather patterns, floods, you know, anything, you know, seasonal spraying of pesticides, anything that gets into lakes and streams, aquifers under the ground, anything in the air quality will make its way into these water systems that will eventually make it into your glass.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So water is actually really my number one priority.
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The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So I have to pick that as my number one most underestimated, underrated contributor to human health issues. That would have to be F. F. All right.
Dhru Purohit Show
The Top 10 Toxins that Are Wreaking Havoc on Your Health and How to Protect You and Your Family from Hidden Toxins in the Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
So really filtering your water. And there's a variety of options for filtering your water. And most people have either tried them, thought of them, grew up with these filtration systems, whether it's a pitcher, which is typically what's called a carbon block. It's a big block of carbon. Water runs through it pretty quickly, which is convenient, right? And then goes into the pitcher.
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Sie sind also seronegativ?
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Seronegativ bedeutet, dass ihr A und A niedrig oder negativ sind. 5% von Lupus-Patienten können immer noch Lupus haben. Und dann haben sie seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis. Es gibt also viele Menschen, die nicht alle Boxen beobachten. Das ist immer mehr ein Problem, wo diese Menschen zwischen den Kräften fallen.
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Und wirklich war die einzige Lösung, Medikamente zu geben, wenn sie auf diese Kriterien passen, sonst bekommen sie keine Medikamente.
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Das ganze Bereich, was man mit diesen Patienten tun kann, außer sie wegzuschicken und zu sagen, dass deine Läden großartig aussehen, du siehst großartig aus auf dem Papier und diese Leute haben immer noch echte Symptome, ist wirklich das, was zwischen den Kräften fällt. Was ich sehe, ist ein echter Problem in der Medizin.
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Let me see if I'm following this right. Is it, those people are now in addition being diagnosed with autoimmune conditions, whereas in the past they weren't, and that's leading to the uptick of new autoimmune conditions?
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Well, what's really, I think it's a separate, there's a couple different issues here. I do not entirely agree with the idea that we're just getting better at diagnosing, because doctors have 15 minutes to see their patients. It's a very crowded system.
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Und wir wissen, dass es einen Riss in vielen dieser autoimmunen Krankheiten gibt, die nicht mit einer besseren Diagnostik-Fähigkeit korreliert sind, in Bezug auf mehr Labor, das gemacht wird. Ärzte sind oft nicht trainiert, um einige der autoimmunen Symptome zu erkennen, auch in der Primärwohnung. Es ist kompliziert.
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Wir wissen auch, ich will nicht so viel über Autismus sprechen, aber wir wissen, dass es viele... Problems in Bezug auf das Vakzinargument. Ich bin sicherlich nicht ein Anti-Vakzin-Person im Allgemeinen. Ich bin ein immungetrainter Person, immunologisch getrainter Person.
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I've never heard someone refer to themselves as an immunologic trained person.
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Yeah, I don't know if I said it properly, but I guess a person who's really been in this field and studied and really had a good, I think really great Western training in this area. But we know there's another role here because autism is on the rise. It's actually used to be one in 68. Now it's one in 48. Now it's one in 32. And it's actually, that's from 2022 data, I believe.
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So we're kind of waiting to see what the next range of numbers is. Aber die Idee, dass die Umwelt keine Rolle spielt, wenn wir die individuellen Chemikalien betrachten, wenn wir einige dieser Klasse von Chemikalien ausbreiten, sehen wir nicht nur in den Laborstudien, sondern auch in den Tierstudien. Und jetzt haben wir viele epidemiologische Studien in den Menschen.
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Ich schreibe sie in Textbüchern und ich schreibe sie in diesem Konsumbuch. The idea is that we now have plenty to follow through in terms of exposures. Phthalates, for example. Dr. Shauna Swan, she's done some incredible work over the last 20 years showing changes in congenital boys' genitalia due to phthalate exposure and the correlation.
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Wir haben das zuerst in den Tierstudien gesehen und dann in die klinischen Studien gebracht. Wir haben es mit dem BPA gesehen, in Bezug auf Immunsystemverletzungen, die Perfluoroalkohol-Chemikalien, PFAS. Es gibt jetzt etwa 15.000 davon und wir versuchen, sie aus Wasser zu holen. Ich weiß, es hat viel News gemacht.
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It truly highlights how passionate both guests feel about the topic at hand. Without further ado, please welcome Dr. Ailey Cohen and Dr. Andrea Love to the Checkup Podcast.
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Aber sie haben auch eine Rolle im Immunsystem, wo sie die Fähigkeit der Körper zu zerstören, eine Reaktion auf eine Impfung zu bauen. Also, im Grunde genommen, um die Immunsysteme zu verringern. Also, es hat potenziell sowohl eine inflammatorische Komponente als auch eine anti-inflammatorische Komponente. Egal wie, es ist eine Zerstörung, was ich mit der Endokrin-Zerstörung beziehe.
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Wir wissen, dass diese Chemien eine große Rolle spielen. Wir wissen, dass sie in unserem Körper sind. Wir wissen, dass sie in unserer Urin, Breastmilch und Blut messbar sind. Und wir wissen, dass sie nicht nur von einer Tierwissenschaften-Evaluierung korreliert sind, sondern auch von einer Menschenwissenschaften-Evaluierung.
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Ich möchte nur darauf achten, dass wir nicht nur denken, dass es alle Chemikalien sind, die Probleme verursachen. Und natürlich würden wir gerne sagen, dass die Ärzte einen besseren Job machen, ich selbst inklusive. Aber ich denke, die Zahlen zeigen nicht, dass es nur diagnostische Agilität ist.
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Dr. Love, how did you come to the conclusion that it is more doctor attribution or diagnosing of the conditions?
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But these are all things that improve your health in general, but specifically for immune health.
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Ich bin gespannt auf die andere Seite. Vielleicht können beide von euch eine Chance nehmen. Der Farm-Effekt, hast du das gehört? Kinder, die sich um Rohmilch-Expositionen befinden, sie spielen im Dreck. Im Grunde eine Herausforderung der Hygiene-Hypothese. Gibt es eine Wahrheit dazu, dass eigentlich eine Auswirkung auf was wir als schmerzhafte Bakterien bezeichnen und solche Auswirkungen?
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Ist das etwas, von dem wir weggegangen sind, das wir in der Gesellschaft zurückbringen sollten? Oder ist das... wie ein erhöhtes Risiko ohne eigentlich einen Vorteil zu bekommen.
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Ja, das ist ein sehr guter Punkt. Und es ist absolut wahr, dass wir, wenn wir mehr Mikroben, die nicht pathologisch sind, unser Immunsystem bauen. Und es geht zu diesem Punkt von Chemikalien, dass wenn wir Dinge wie Triclosan benutzen, und wir benutzen einige dieser Antimikrobien, die in alle... Ist Triclosan ein Antibakterium?
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Es ist ein Antibakterium, aber es ist tatsächlich in Soap, aber sie haben es aus dem... Es gab so eine Überraschung über die Liquid-Soap. Es wurde Liquid-Soap ausgetragen, aber es wurde in Cutting Boards infiziert. Es wird in Teile, Sehlen infiziert. Es wird in viele Dinge infiziert, weil wir Angst vor Mikroben haben. Das ist die Marketingkampagne. Aber in Wahrheit funktioniert es gegen uns.
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Wir werden höchst resistent an Antibiotika, wenn wir sie brauchen.
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Ja, ich mache, das ist nur ein guter Punkt, zeitgemäß. Ich mache die Konstruktion in meinem Wohnzimmer gerade. Und ich habe Flöten gedreht. Die Grund, warum ich sie bekommen habe, war, weil sie schmerzresistent sind und ich habe große Hunde. Aber auf der Label steht, Antimikrobial-Floor. Was bedeutet das?
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Well, that's a tough gig to follow.
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Es bedeutet Bacter-Ban, Micro-Ban und ca. 30 andere Antimicrobien. Und das ist ein Problem? You want to be able to respond to those when you actually need an antibiotic. And when we are infused with all these antimicrobials, which, by the way, are listed as pesticides under the US pesticide listings, they are designed to really knock down microbial... Look, we need a microbiome in our gut.
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So, I'm a physician. Dr. Eliko and I trained in internal medicine, then board certified in rheumatology. Went on to do training with Dr. Andrew Wiles' program for integrative medicine and became board certified. Und all this time also, which we can get into or not in the show, but was learning environmental health haphazardly.
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We have a microbiome on our skin. We have microbiomes in every part of our body, lungs, brain. And that microbiome has been part of us for 4.5 million years. Now you add in 95,000 chemicals that are really is the going number. I mean, of course, it's higher, a little bit lower. But you add that in just the last 75 years of human existence. This is really a problem.
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So we have to step back and think about that in terms of How do we keep our gut healthier and our skin and all these microbiomes?
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So does the chemical that they add to do the antimicrobial floor coating, does that end up impacting, let's say, my microbiome living on that floor?
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Well, it's hard to say exactly, right? Because you're an N of one person.
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Aber im Allgemeinen, sprichst du, würdest du denken, dass wenn du Mikroben ausknockst, die tatsächlich auf einem Mikrobiom balanceiert sind, es ist alles um Balance. Es ist, weißt du, haben wir so viele oder mehr non-pathologische Mikroben in diesen Mikrobiomen, wo auch immer sie sind? versus the pathologic.
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And when you knock down the everyday good guys, you're allowing the potential risk for the bad pathology, the bad pathogens actually, to kind of override. This is what we see in gut microbiome studies, particularly in immune and autoimmune disease patients.
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Retrospective studies show that the gut microbiome of the gut, which is so incredibly important, 26 feet of bowel, very vulnerable, very thin microbiome that lines the interior of the gut, is very susceptible to things like chlorinated drinking water or ultra-processed foods or pesticides on fruits and vegetables. And so it's not to scare people to flip out. I mean, I have colored hair.
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My kids play lacrosse on artificial turf like three times a week right now, actually. It's the idea of how do we take really reasonable, good practices You know, practical changes that are based in science, based in really great studies around the world and put them into use because we can't get these chemicals necessarily out of our lives by regulation. We are living in them.
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They're in our stuff. And so thinking about where they're derived, how they get into our body, you know, what locations, what activities, what purchases will help us have empowerment over our choices and really kind of change the destiny of our health. I mean, that's really the message here.
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Dr. Love, ich habe gesehen, dass du ein paar Reaktionen hast.
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And basically, you know, started to write textbooks and books on this topic. And then at this point I'm merging all of 22 years of clinical experience and environmental health and integrative into a perspective that I think is relevant and urgent for our times.
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What if in that situation they find that people who have higher levels of that bacteria that ended up growing tend to be unhealthier? Is that not a fair positive pathway?
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Ich bin also kein Experte in diesen Bereichen, aber ich sehe die Schwierigkeiten, die meine Patienten haben, sowohl bei der Entscheidung, welche Produkte sie kaufen sollten, welche Produkte sie vermeiden sollten, was sie auf Social Media lesen. Und wie wir wissen, gibt es viele Missinformationen auf Social Media. Es gibt Sensationalismus, es gibt Angstmongerung.
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Well, what about the 95,000?
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It's an estimated 95,000 since 1940s, 1950s when this really took off. We had an explosion of really good intentioned und Plexiglas für Kriegerpiloten und Pestizide, die overseas kämpfen. Und ja, es war eine wirklich spannende Zeit. Wir hatten Plastik, das auf dem Boden fällt, und man muss keine Gläser zerstören. Also gab es viele wirklich gute Innovationen.
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
Das Problem war, dass diese Chemikalien an der Zeit wirklich ausgelöst wurden und wirklich...
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
No one really followed to see whether or not they get into the human body, how long they last, what's their half-life, how do they break down, and where do they go once they go through the toilet and the water systems that actually end up circling back into us in terms of wastewater treatment information, which we can talk about.
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
But the idea is that we've created sort of this, you know, we've let the genie out of the bottle. Und das Problem ist jetzt, wir müssen viel Arbeit machen, um unsere Körper besser zu machen und diese Ausflüge zu reduzieren, die wir kennen, die zu chronischen Krankheiten gehören. In Bezug auf das Mikrobiom, ja, in Wahrheit, ich stimme total zu, dass das Mikrobiom flüssig ist und es mit uns wächst.
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Und in Wahrheit, mit einem Essen versus einem anderen, ob es High Fiber ist oder nicht, werden wir die Konsistenz verändern. Was mit Autoimmunen und Immunverletzungen passiert ist und was auf epidemiologischen Studien herausgefunden wurde, ist, dass
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
and even retrospective studies as well, looking at charts and disease diagnoses and going backwards, is that the gut tends to have more pathologic bugs than healthful bugs when it looks at the balance in many, certainly psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. And
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Basically going back to lifestyle changes, including but not limited to thinking about how chemicals affect the gut microbiome by what we eat, how our stress changes the pH level in our gut and how that plays out into nutrition. the growth and the life of these microbes, but also thinking about even the barrier contact.
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It's not just allowing the barrier to be loosened up, leaky gut, so to speak, and to allow some chemicals and even triggered chemicals Komponenten durch das dünne Mikrobiom in den Blutdruck, das ist, wenn wir diese inflammatorische Response bekommen. Wir müssen es nicht sehen. Wir können es zellulär sehen, wenn wir Blut testen. Wir können es durch Marker und Cytokine machen.
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
Und wenn Leute das entscheiden. Aber das ist technisch ein bisschen tiefer als, denke ich, der übliche Klinik, wie du oder ich.
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Das ist das, was ich nur bringen wollte, dass ich mich erinnere, dass einer meiner Patienten etwas über leckeren Gehirn erwähnt hat. Und als ich ein bisschen Zeit darauf geschaut habe, haben viele der Ressourcen, die ich täglich benutze, kind of represent leaky gut as a pseudo diagnosis where it's not real yeah do you feel like that's an unjust
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Und wir sehen das auch in unserer Politik in diesen Tagen. Es ist also sehr kompliziert für die mittlere Person, all diese Daten durchzuführen.
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Ich glaube, es ist unrechtlich, denn hier ist die Sache. Schau, ich gehe nicht verrückt mit Testen. Es gibt viele Praktizierende, die Stuhltesten machen. Ich will das nicht tun, weil ich glaube, dass der Mund so flexibel ist und es verändert sich. Es ist ein Punkt im Zeitraum, genau wie viel Blutdruck. Blutdruck ist sogar ein Punkt im Zeitraum.
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Aber ich denke, es ist besser, die Ressourcen der Menschen effektiver zu nutzen. Und anstatt viel Geld auf Testen zu sparen, das oft gemacht wird, besonders in der Funktionalen Medizin und der integrierten Welt, Was ist die Unterschiede zwischen einem USDA Organic und einem traditionellen Produkt? Great question.
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So, USDA Organic began in the 1990s and it took about a decade to get it into the system as something that actually matters. And it really basically, the main goal of USDA Organic is to keep synthetic chemicals or compounds out of the food system in a way that is reasonably done. So it's not perfect, but it is the best we have. And so...
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Unter der USDA-Organikregelung für das Essen, weil ich das von persönlichen Pflegeprodukten unterscheiden möchte, die viel laufere Regeln auf diesem Titel haben, regelt es grundsätzlich Tausende von Pestiziden, besonders Pestizide und Fertilisierungs-Chemikalien, die ermöglicht werden, Teil des Lebens zu sein, das von der USDA-Organik erzeugt wird.
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Also bin ich gespannt, dass ich beide von euch heute hier habe, um sozusagen am Ende der Dinge zu kommen und herauszufinden, was wir suchen sollten, was ein bisschen zu schrecklich ist, das wir nicht konzentrieren sollten, und das Mittelgrund zu finden, auf das wir alle einverstanden sind.
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I think we need to really make sure we have references, if that's possible. And also I'd like disclosure of who we work for. I don't work for anybody. Is there a chemical-based payment for it? Oh, it's the paid shill comment. Yeah, I mean, I'm worried about that kind of exposure.
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It also limits, it actually does not allow for any synthetic coloring, any synthetic preservatives like BHA and BHT amongst others. It does not allow, I think I said food dyes. It also doesn't allow chemicals for food sensation like crunch chemicals that are synthetic. It doesn't allow for genetically modified ingredients. So the USDA Organic
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Das ist eine Demokratisierung des Lebenssystems, weil es jetzt für alle zugänglich ist. Es ist nicht etwas, das für die Reichen begrenzt ist. Und die Frozen USDA Organics sind eigentlich unglaublich, weil man sie jetzt überall finden kann. Man kann sie in jedem großen Supermarkt in den USA kaufen.
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Und sie haben die zusätzliche Wertung, außer dass sie keine Chemikalien haben, eine große Dose von Chemikalien. sie haben auch einen hohen Nahrungswert. Sie sind also nahrungsvoll genug, weil sie flachgefrostet sind.
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Und das ändert wirklich die Gesundheit des Blutmikrobiom, die Gesundheit unseres Bluts, was sich in vielen dieser Studien wiederum darstellt, dass der Blut kritisch für die Entwicklung von Autoimmunen und Immunverletzungen ist.
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Was ist die Unterschiede? Du hast gesagt, synthetische Pestizide gegenüber normalen chemischen, organischen Pestiziden. Was ist die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden?
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So, you know, this may be above my pay grade because I'm not an industrial chemist, but I will say that, you know, when we think about the, first of all, there's over 13,000, I believe is the going number I have to check in terms of registered pesticides that are used in farming. Some of them are also allowed into the food system.
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Propylparabens und einige von den Parabens sind eigentlich beide Pestizide als auch Gemüse, die in der Nahrungssysteme und auch in der Kosmetik verwendet werden können. Wir wissen also, dass es eine Krossover in Bezug auf Funktion gibt. Viele dieser Gemüse haben duale Zweifel. Aber in Bezug darauf, welche von ihnen in der organischen Nahrungssysteme erlaubt sind und welche nicht,
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Ich bin interessiert, Dr. Cohen, für dich, zu Beginn deiner Praxis, du arbeitest, oder du arbeitest immer noch, als Rheumatologe. Was hast du in deinen Patienten gesehen, die dich dazu gebracht haben, zu denken, da ist etwas anderes los? Es ist nicht genug, was ich mache, basierend auf dem, was ich durch meine Residenz und Freundschaftstraining gelernt habe.
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Es ist nicht perfekt, es gibt Befragungen von bestimmten, aber es sind Tausende von chemischen Differenzen, in Bezug auf das, was möglich ist.
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Aber in Bezug auf die Einflussdifferenz, vergessen wir, dass es 13.000 gegen 1.000 gibt. Was verändert sich für eine Person, wenn ich ein organisches Pestizide-Food versus ein synthetisches Pestizide-Food esse? Ist es auf praktischer Ebene, ist etwas in meinem Körper verändert?
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Ja, deine Blutniveau verändert sich. Also Organophosphat-Pestizide können gemessen werden, Glyphosat kann gemessen werden, das ist Roundup. Diese Ebenen können in menschlichen Fluiden gemessen werden.
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Und bedeutet die Präsenz dieser Ebenen etwas praktisch?
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Wir wissen nicht, wer ein Problem entwickeln wird oder nicht, aber wir wissen, dass wenn sie in deinem Körper sind und dein Körper sich nicht daran gewöhnt hat, wissen wir, dass es Mechanismen gibt, die ich mich einstellen kann. Es gibt also nicht nur das Problem der Gutt-Mikrobiom-Interface, wo du Mikroben tötest, wie du sie in einem Feld tötest. Das sind Pestizide.
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But you also have the potential of doing things like molecular mimicry, which is when your body basically doesn't recognize these compounds entirely, fights against them, and antigens or antibodies, I'm sorry, antigens or proteins in the body basically are getting caught in the fray. So the body is basically not recognizing self, self-antigens, and that's how autoimmune disorders can be triggered.
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And that doesn't happen with organic pesticides?
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Well, humans are very, you know, there's many confounders, right? When you're talking about human beings and you can't isolate just one chemical to one expression.
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The reason I think about it that way is if we're going to recommend, say, do this pesticide versus this pesticide, we should have a reason for making that recommendation.
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Well, the idea is that our bodies are going to have more than a few chemicals in them at any given moment. Because your body is a sack of chemicals. Oh, absolutely. So the idea is, I'm not calling out one chemical. I never do that. I'm talking about, this is how we look at this holistically. We don't need these chemicals. They're not great for human existence. They're not great for human health.
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Let's try to cut them back where we can.
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No, I agree. I'm just curious specifically for the... The reason why is I had the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, on the podcast not too long ago. And he said that he recommends organic foods to people. And I said, that's interesting. Why? He said they're pesticide-free, which they're not, because they have organic pesticides.
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Wenn wir sagen, dass organische Pestizide healthier sind, warum machen wir das? Wie du gesagt hast, gehen deine Blutniveaus hoch, aber wir wissen nicht, was mit diesem Niveau zu tun ist. Wenn ein Patient mit Zucker in seinem Blut kommt, kann das total normale und physiologische Zucker sein, oder es könnte auf einem Niveau sein, wo wir sie als prädiabatisch oder diabetisch nennen.
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What's the takeaway? You're getting to mechanisms.
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So many of these chemicals that have been identified, and this has been the research for the last 25 years in the endocrine disrupting chemical research world, which is very siloed because they've been attacked by American Chemical Council and many of the, obviously the big pharma, big pesticide groups. They are now worldwide in terms of their Interaction with their research.
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I work with a lot of them. They are an exclusive, interesting group of thousands of physicians and PhDs and researchers who have come up with robust information on how chemicals such as pesticides and again, there are so many, I'm not calling out one versus another, have effects on the endocrine system, the human endocrine system.
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And when they called this endocrine, when they coined this endocrine disruption, this was 25 years ago. And since that time, having talked to some of the forefathers of this, Pete Myers, Fred von Saal, Terence Collins, they really didn't know exactly how many of these chemicals that they were studying. They started off with BPA.
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Well, I started to see younger, I mean, the blunt part of this is I started to see younger people presenting with autoimmune and immune disorders at ages that you would normally expect and was also as very interesting as they had no family history. And when I began this process even 15 years ago, I had an inkling there was something else going on besides family history.
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Bisphenol A is sort of the poster child for endocrine disruption, because it was the first one they got their hands on. And they found that they could mimic estrogens at very, very low levels, parts per million, parts per trillion.
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But keep in mind, when you take Paxil or when you take Lorazepam or you take Xanax or any Metoprolol, you're going to have parts per million, parts per trillion to have the same clinical effects as you're comparing to chemicals that have parts per million, parts per trillion. So I want to give an idea, when we diminish the dose,
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dass weil diese Endokrin-verbreitenden Chemien wie Hormone funktionieren, können sie große physiologische Auswirkungen haben, auch bei niedrigen Dosen, die früher nicht als schmerzhaft bezeichnet wurden. Jetzt haben wir viel Informationen, die zeigen, was die Non-Monotonic-Dose-Response heißt. Tolle Bücher über das. Und die Idee, dass... Was ist diese Response?
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Also im Grunde, wenn du denkst, dass die Dose das Verbrechen macht, also klassische Toxicologie, Paracelsus, damals in den 1560er oder 1600er, oder wie es damals war, Das ist die klassische Perspektive der Toxikologie. Wir denken davon, dass je mehr man etwas auslöst, desto mehr wahrscheinlich wird man eine Reaktion haben. Denk an den 21.
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Du trinkst Alkohol, wirst trank, wirst am nächsten Tag krank. Die Dose macht den Schmerz. Aber das Interessante an der chemischen Forschung, die die Endokrine zerstört, ist, dass sie weltbekannt ist, robust ist.
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is that they discovered that at very, very, very low levels, lower than anyone would have expected in conventional toxicology testing, that you could have the same physiologic response as high dose response. So instead of having this linear response, you had a U or an Das heißt, bei diesen niedrigen Ebenen hattest du die gleiche Antwort hier. Ich meine, bei den niedrigen Ebenen ist es hoch.
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Und niemand hat sich darüber interessiert. Und das ist es, was wir über... Ich sage, warte, es ist nicht so, als ob ich die echte Forschung gemacht hätte. Aber ich teile diese Information, weil es so gut gemacht ist, dass die Idee ist, dass die Chemikalien, die jetzt menschliche Hormone mimikieren,
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which have been physiologically conserved through evolution to do very big things with very small amounts, thyroid hormone, insulin, growth and development, fertility hormones, development in utero to develop male or female genitalia, brain changes to basically turn into a male brain or a female brain, endocrine sensitive hormones that affect cancer specifically,
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When these chemicals are able to mimic in vitro and human epidemiologic studies, we now understand that they can do more than we thought they could. And when you're a soup, of chemicals, because we're getting them from everywhere, right? We don't always get smacked in the face by these chemicals, but we can measure them in blood and urine. And I'm not suggesting people go do this.
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I say everyone's contaminated until proven otherwise. It's 2025 and we love our stuff. But the idea is we can start to remove some of these higher yield exposures by, you know, thinking about what we're consuming, thinking of our body as a sponge and a vessel. When you start to change behaviors, when people give up
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And then I had to learn about how there's other aspects that affect how genes are expressed, our diet and our lifestyle and how they affect disease risk and presentation. Und das ist wirklich so, wie ich angefangen habe, mehr davon zu sehen, was ich nicht sehen wollte. Leider passt es den epidemiologischen Zahlen weltweit.
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molekulare Mimikrie, Blut-Mikrobiom-Effekte, wir wissen, dass inflammatorische Bedingungen, Entschuldigung, inflammatorische Veränderungen von verschiedenen Zellen, T-regulatoren Zellen und F-Kappa-Beta, diese sind die Monitoring-Immunsystem-Zellen und zellulare Überwachung,
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die eigentlich darauf achten, in Bezug auf das, was wir jetzt wissen, auch auf der zellulären Ebene, wenn wir zu bestimmten Chemikalien ausgeschlossen sind. Es ist also nicht nur das, was wir denken, wenn wir im Sonnenschein gehen, wenn wir arbeiten gehen, wenn wir zur Schule gehen, dass es dich in den Mund schmackt. Wir sprechen über sehr, sehr kleine Mengen über den Zeitraum,
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Das wird durch Mischungen, und wir haben Mischungsstudien, um das zu zeigen, dass es nicht gut für die Gesundheit ist. Es ist nicht so, dass man es ausflippen muss. Es geht darum, wie man es in einer sehr gerechtfertigten Weise macht. Und ich leite drei Pflegeprogramme darauf.
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Ich schreibe zwei Textbücher und ein Konsumentenbuch, um zu zeigen, dass man es nicht ausflippen muss, sondern wie man es in einer gerechtfertigten Weise macht, damit der Blut wächst, dass man gesund ist, dass man Medikamente nutzen kann, dass man all das machen kann, aber in einer juristischen Weise.
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Ja. I'm still stuck on the why we're recommending the organic chemical pesticides versus the synthetic ones.
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In den Vereinigten Staaten sind 7-14% der US-Population eine Art Autoimmunerkrankung. Das sind ungefähr 24-30 Millionen Amerikaner. Es steigt. Wir müssen herausfinden, warum und wie wir in dieses Thema einsteigen, oder zumindest versuchen, unsere Gesundheit in jeder Art und Weise zu behalten. Das ist also das, was ich tue.
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Nehmt mich also durch das Buch. Welche Rolle denken Sie, dass die Detoxifizierung und das Umfeld in diesen Zahlen teilnehmen? Ist es das ganze Ding? Ist es ein Teil der Menschen, die durch das Umfeld verletzt werden?
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Ja, mit Menschen, wie auch mit allem, was mit Menschen zu tun hat, ist es konfliktierend, weil wir so viele verschiedene Leben haben. Wir haben verschiedene genetische Prädispositionen, unsere Lebensformen verändern, unsere Rolle und unsere Risiken für die Entwicklung einer ganzen Menge von Krankheiten.
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Jetzt, diese LD50, über die Sie sprechen, ist es ein Weltraum, in dem diese U-Kurve, die erwähnt wurde, wo es eine kleinere Dose ist, vielleicht mehr problematisch sein kann?
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Also wenn ich über diesen Thema spreche, sage ich, egal ob du irgendeine Art von Krankheit entwickelst, ist es eine Dance zwischen deiner Genetik, deiner wirtschaftlichen Ausführungen und deiner Lebensform. Und du kannst eigentlich einen großen Teil aus diesen drei kontrollieren.
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Wir sagen gerne, dass wenn du deine Meinung zu einigen der Aktivitäten, die wir jetzt wissenschaftlich kennen, mit robusten Studien, verändern, deine Ergebnisse durch eine Vielzahl von Mechanismen, über die wir uns befassen können, dann hast du wirklich viel mehr Kontrolle über deine Gesundheit, als du denkst, du hast.
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Do you mean like who our sponsors are?
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Okay, so Pseudopersistenz by definition is the fact that whether or not you're getting a tiny bit of dose of BPA from a canned food, which is the majority of our intake of food. Es ist durch Kanten, Kantexposur, weil das die Linien sind. Hast du eine Zeichnung dafür? Ja, ich habe eine Zeichnung. Ich bin nicht hier, um zu kämpfen, ich will nur teilen.
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Was wir wissen, ist, dass BPA in unseren Körper kommt, als ein Beispiel für viele Chemikalien. Es gibt viele Bisphenol. Bisphenol A ist der, der aus Babybotteln blockiert wurde. in Plastik, weil ihre Beweise so robust waren. Nun, leider konnten wir es nicht aus dem ganzen anderen bekommen, dass wir BPA haben.
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Es ist einer der höchsten Produktionsvolumen Chemikalien international, glaube ich nicht, und in den USA. Aber hier ist das Problem. Wir werden von diesen Chemikalien in so vielen verschiedenen Wegen ausgeschlossen. BPA ist nur eines der vielen.
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Und wenn wir über die Unterbindung sprechen oder die Unabhängigkeit von einem Rezeptor, wenn wir von einer so genannten Pseudopersistenz inundiert werden, das bedeutet, selbst wenn es eine Halbzeit von sechs bis acht Stunden hat, wie es BPA in einem gesundheitlichen Mensch im Körper macht, bekommen wir es immer noch von jedem Essen, das wir essen.
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Wir bekommen es immer noch von Dingen, die wir trinken, von unseren Plastik-Wasser-Botteln.
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Was bedeutet Pseudopersistenz?
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So it means that it's persisting because we're getting multiple exposures over time so that you could get a leg up on breaking it down, hopefully through physiology, which I talk about in the book, how to harness our body's ability to break some of this stuff down. But if you're always getting exposed to a chemical through our...
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Und wenn ich über die Umgebung spreche, sage ich, dass das eine der wichtigen Dinge ist, die wir aufnehmen müssen, weil wir nicht warten können, um andere Menschen zu regulieren. Wir können das Problem nicht geben und wir können das wirklich für uns selbst tun. Wir können das durch Reduktion von Auslösungen, durch sinnvolle Methoden tun.
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von gesetzten Füßen und ultra-gesetzten Füßen, durch Pestizide, durch die Arten von Füßen, die wir wählen.
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There are over a thousand identified EDCs in all of the literature. If you go to cdc.gov, even the US government identifies this.
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These are human studies. These are epidemiologic studies. I have a whole textbook of it. And there's multiple textbooks out there that I didn't write. I think we need to really make sure we have references, if that's possible. And also I'd like disclosure of who we work for. I don't work for anybody. Is there a chemical-based payment for it? Oh, it's the paid shill comment.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm worried about that kind of exposure.
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Do you mean like who our sponsors are?
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Wie ist das eigentlich besser, als was du sagst, dass ich das nicht mache?
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Es ist kein großes Problem. Es ist nicht so schlecht. Es ist nicht so viel. Ich habe nicht so viel.
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Lass uns versuchen, uns einander zu verstehen. Was ist der Begriff?
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Und dann können wir auch das auslösen, um unsere Krankheitsrisiken zu reduzieren. Also, du weißt, es ist etwas, das wir behandeln können.
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I know during my residency training, the environment was a very small, if at all, covered topic. Maybe pollution, asthma, something very surface level. Perhaps in an autoimmune-focused residency, you have more education on that. But I'm curious, where did you end up getting all of your information, your data? How did you start compiling all of this?
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Glaubst du nicht, dass die Umwelt-Working-Gruppe-Klassifikation, dass sie mehrere verschiedene Chemikalien auslösen und das als eine Art von Food Dirty nennen?
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Weil ich das Wort Dirty Dozen gehört habe. Ja, Dirty Dozen, Clean 15. Und hier, ich bin nicht hier, um eine Organisation zu repräsentieren. Ich arbeite mit ihnen.
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Du hast gesagt, dass sie eine wirklich tolle Organisation sind. Ja.
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You've consulted with them. It's on your website. Well, I consult with them because I did CME programs for 30... So you're a paid consultant with the Environmental Working Group. No, no, I was never paid. You were never paid by the Environmental Working Group. Never paid. A thousand percent.
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Well, they never paid. Let's leave the payments out of it.
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No, no, I did that as an educational. I actually traveled around to 30 different CME programs to teach people about endocrine disruption. So here's the thing. I'm not going to nitpick whatever they have on their site. I have no control over it. What I'm saying is I...
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Their messaging is very clear, that when we are exposed to chemicals that we now know their physiology can be harmful to human health, it's a great idea to think about not being exposed.
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The Dirty Doesn't Clean 15 is actually saying, out of the conventional fruits and vegetables that are tested every year, by the way, they use national agricultural... They use the National Pesticides Report, which they omit that the thresholds are all 99.9% of the thresholds are well below the standard. They are testing the surface residue. They don't test anything.
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They are taking the data of the conventional fruits and vegetables that are tested randomly throughout the United States. And what they said was, listen, if you can't afford USDA organic, you just don't have access or whatever number of reasons you may not choose. These are some of the dirty dozen, the dirtier types of, what they mean by dirty is the higher residue.
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But is it contaminated?
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It's not contaminated. Well, I'd like to, let me just finish. I'm just saying that the way they designate Dirty Dozen Clean 15, it's a way that they've been trying to help out the public in terms of what they can say. You know, listen, if you don't have access, here are better choices. Typically, the Dirty Dozen are 12 of the produce that basically have risen to the top of having, in general,
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höhere Pestizide-Residuen auf der Oberfläche. Es geht nicht um die Innenseite der Früchte, sondern wirklich um die Oberfläche. Und die meiste der Dirty Dozen besteht aus den Früchten und Vegetablen, die eine Haut haben. Und man denkt, dass es absorbent ist. Also ist es eher möglich, dass man auf der Haut irgendeine kontaminierte Resonanz hat.
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Während die Clean 15 sind konventionelle Entscheidungen, die niedriger sind, was vielleicht bessere Entscheidungen sind, wenn man nicht Zugang zu Organikern hat.
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Aber wenn es unter dem Sicherheitsniveau ist, warum beschäftigen wir uns mit dem?
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Unter dem Sicherheitsniveau, wer designiert den Sicherheitsniveau? Das ist eigentlich eine Frage, ich weiß nicht, wie man das beantworten kann. Dutzende Sicherheitsorganisationen weltweit.
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Die FDA und die EPA haben sich enttäuscht. Lass uns über Leid sprechen, zum Beispiel. Nein, nein, nein, wir verändern das Thema nicht. Die Idee, dass wir ein paar der Gesundheitsversicherungsveranstaltungen, die FDA und die EPA, vertrauen, wir wissen, dass sie...
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Warte, lass uns die Pestizide beenden.
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Genau, wir sprechen darüber, dass die Menschen in der Industrie eine sehr starke Influenz haben. Wir müssen also darüber nachdenken, was für die Gesundheit richtig ist. Es ist ein drittländisches akademisches Testen. Not within the government necessarily. The EWG is not a third party academic testing. They're the communicators. Let her finish and then you'll get a second to reply.
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The idea is that we have never known much about endocrine disrupting chemicals unless it was the studies of third party testing from academic centers using... Ja, genau. So the only thing we're left to is things like the USDA organic and or the data and science that comes from third party testing and academic centers and shared information around the world.
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Yeah, well, unfortunately, even today, 2025, we're not getting any of this education. I wish my residency did have that information or even my fellowship, which focused obviously on the immune system as a rheumatologist.
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That is how we now know about endocrine disrupting chemicals. We also know about immune disrupting chemicals from some of the work that we now know can extrapolate into the immune system. So we know that there's more to these chemicals than saying, oh, they're no big deal. We created them 75 years ago. They have no health effects. It's just not true.
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So there is good proof that they have health effects.
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Yes, and I'm happy to supply all of those studies for you. I mean, I really am. Because what I want people to understand is, there's no perfection here. Ich bin kein Purist, ich bin ein Realist. Und ich denke, die meisten Leute würden sagen, dass man in den Vereinigten Staaten gute und schlechte Dinge hat, man hat gute und schlechte Dinge, man nimmt das Gute mit dem Schlechten.
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Aber die Idee ist, dass wir jetzt mehr Schlechte haben, wenn es um menschliche Gesundheit geht. Und wir sehen das in epidemiologischen Studien.
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But you don't think that has more to do... Hold on, Dr. Love. You don't think that has more to do with just like lifestyle choices?
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Absolutely. No, it's not just chemicals. I'm not here to just say chemicals are the only issue. It is our lifestyle. If you're not sweating, you're not helping to remove chemicals. If you're not sleeping well with good quantity and quality, your glymphatic system, which bathes our brain and our spinal cord, which has been shown in beautiful studies... Diet and exercise, we all agree.
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And that's kind of a well understood concept.
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Well, that's not true, because we can test this. We have 9-11 studies that show... Even methamphetamine studies from the New York Police Department.
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So my loading up of data and information and asking the right questions really started 15 years ago, when I was really quite surprised that I didn't know this material, because I was researching why my dog was sick. That's really the start of my whole career in environmental health.
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So they'll see the risk starts at level 1,000.
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Nun, lasst uns nicht zu Intentionen kommen.
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Aber ich meine, nur um hier zu verstehen, was konzeptionell passiert. Also, Sie haben dieses Konzept beschrieben, durch das Sie entschieden haben, Sie sind zu der Abschätzung gekommen, dass sie sicher sind, auch wenn sie kontaminiert sind. Glauben Sie daran, dass wir es zumindest simplifizieren können?
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Ich kann nicht sagen, dass alles sicher oder nicht sicher ist. Sie sollten von den Chemikalien identifiziert werden, von denen wir jetzt wissen, dass es über 1.000 sind. known and reported endocrine disrupting chemicals within our synthetic compounds since the 1940s, 50s that we've been studying. So it wouldn't be good science for me to say that everything is bad.
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What I want people to think about is there are some things that we now know to be true about these chemicals that can be harmful to human health. We know that from epidemiologic studies. We know this from not just mouse research.
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When you say epidemiologic studies, you mean you've seen people who consume foods that have pesticides?
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For instance, children that are exposed to phthalates. They'll follow them at birth and moving through age 2 and 6 and 8 in terms of their behavioral changes in terms of any identifiable behavioral risk. There's the Chamaco studies, for instance. They've been looking at a really interesting cohort out of California.
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They followed these mother and children pairs for literally, I think, 25 or 30 years now. So just like NHANES data that physicians need to rely on where there's CDC testing every two years to look at what is in the human bodies.
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Und er selbst hatte sich an einer jungen Zeit mit keinem Familienhistoriker und einem vierundhalbjährigen Golden Retriever verletzt. Ich denke, was passiert, ist, dass man manchmal von einer schlechten Situation getroffen wird. Es schlägt dir in dein Herz, deine Kischkes, so zu sprechen, und du verwendest viel Zeit, um die Wissenschaft herauszufinden, um einen Grund und einen Effekt zu erstellen.
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And what was the outcome of that?
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So NHANES studies is where we get a lot of our data from. This is from our own CDC data. So that the exposure to many of these chemicals has been on the rise. We're now expanding the list of chemicals that are being tested every two years because we have such a growth in chemistry, in our environment.
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Was wir sehen, ist, dass die epidemiologischen Studien, die Sie bezeichnen, die nicht existieren, die existieren, auch aus europäischen Ländern existieren. Aber was zeigen sie? Sie zeigen, dass wenn Sie...
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Wenn ich ein epidemiologisches Studium sehe, denke ich mir, okay, wir werden Smoker tracken und wir sehen jemanden, der Smokt, gegen jemanden, der nicht Smokt. Und wir legen sie in zwei Koordinatoren und wir sehen Menschen, die Smoken, haben höhere Raten von COPD. Ehrlich gesagt?
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Dann in diesem Gruppe, sagst du, es gibt Forschung, die Gruppen von Leuten, die von BPA ausgesprochen wurden, angeschaut hat.
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Das sind Korrelationen. Das sind Korrelationen. Das sind keine Causationen.
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Aber was ist das Ergebnis? Was messen sie? Ist es nur so, dass wir eine unnötigere Bevölkerung sehen?
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Also wir sehen, es hängt wiederum von den Chemikalien ab, die studiert werden, weil wir Gruppen haben, die weltweit mit verschiedenen Chemikalien studiert werden. Wir haben Gewürze, sicherlich in China und Asien. Es gibt viele mehr Gewürze und Luftverschmutzung, die wir sehen.
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Aber jetzt... Warte, Dr. Love, warte, warte. Du musst dich auf ein Thema konzentrieren. Ja, lass mich das einfach so festhalten, weil ich es wirklich verstehen möchte. Wenn wir über Pestizide sprechen, sprechen wir über Pestizide, die nicht gesund sind. Synthetische.
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Und dann frage ich dich eine Frage wie, epidemiologisch, was passiert, wenn jemand dieses Pestizid gegen organische Pestizide konsumiert? Und du sagst, es gibt Studien, und dann gehen wir weiter mit Studien über schwere Metalle.
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Aber können wir... Also klar, lass uns dranbleiben. Der Punkt ist, dass Menschen als Individuen über ein Leben lang zu vielen Chemikalien ausgewogen sind. Es ist also sehr schwierig, Menschen individuell zu studieren. Das ist ein Zufall, richtig? Ich stimme dazu. Das ist eine sehr schwierige Sache zu tun, weil wir von verschiedenen Dingen täglich ausgesprochen werden.
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Und es geht nicht nur um das Essen, es geht um das Trinken von Wasser, es geht um Kosmetik und persönliche Pflegeprodukte, es geht um Femininkämpferprodukte, richtig? Intravaginale Ausbeutung und so weiter und so fort. Aber was wir in Bezug auf bestimmte Klassen wissen, wie Thalys sind einige der am besten studiert, in Bezug auf eine Gruppe von einem Komponenten.
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enorm, ich würde nicht sagen enorm, ich würde sagen, sehr gut studiert, insbesondere von einem großen Gruppe von Forschern, die von Shauna Swan und ihrer Crew geführt wurde. Aber international wissen wir, dass es Änderungen gibt, dass die Höhe der Ausbreitung, z.B.
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in feierlichen Frauen, die Höhe der Ausbreitung der Phthalate während der Begegnung korreliert, korreliert und ist mit einem höheren Risiko für Entwicklungsveränderungen in Babys, ob es die Kryptokytismus und der Verlust von Testis, ob es eine genitale Distanz ist. Das ist das eine Ergebnis für eine Klasse. Es hängt davon ab, was du testest.
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Ich bin interessiert, wie wir von dort aus kommen, weil es viele Dinge gibt, die damit verbunden sind. Wie stark ist diese Verbindung? Zum Beispiel brauchen wir kein randomes kontrolliertes Studium, um zu wissen, dass Smoking schädlich ist, weil die Verbindung so stark ist. Und es ist wiederholbar, es ist testbar in vielen Populationen auf der ganzen Welt.
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Sind diese Studien auf diesem Niveau, wo die Beziehung so klar beurteilt ist, oder sehen wir einige potenzielle Beziehungen, wo du sagst, es wäre besser, sicher zu sein, warum nicht sogar zu versuchen?
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Das ist ein precautionärer Prinzip.
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Du hast absolut recht.
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Ist das also deine Strategie? Also, einige Studien sind viel robuster in Bezug auf Beziehungen, Entschuldigung, nicht Beziehungen, Beziehungen. Und einige haben weniger eine aggressivere Beziehung. But the idea amongst so many chemicals that we have to wrap our head around, right? Not everyone is going to be a toxicologist. I'm not a toxicologist. I don't know every nuance about every chemical.
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But the cause and effect is not always direct. And I started following the papers that were available even 15 years ago. People like my co-author Fred Vomsal, who was largely responsible for having BPA removed from plastic baby bottles in 2012. And I started looking at all the research and reaching out to the authors and really trying to figure out if this was true.
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I'm a clinician, right? I'm just trying to interpret some of the best studies that I'm aware of and put them into usable, tangible processes. Praktische Informationen. Das Prinzip der Vorwarnung ist ein sehr gut verstanden Kommentar auf die Idee, dass wir nicht immer hart und schnell notwendig sind, cause-and-effect-Daten zu machen, um sinnvolle Änderungen zu machen.
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Und das ist wirklich der Motiv hier, ist, wirklich zu können, zu denken.
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Das ist interessant, Dr. Love. Ich denke, es ist ein guter Zeitpunkt für uns, darüber zu sprechen. Ich erinnere mich, ich habe einen Short über schwarze Plastik gemacht. Es gab einen großen Artikel, der herauskam.
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Es gab einen großen Korrektur, der nachher herauskam, wo sie sagten, dass alles mit Küchenutensilien, alles, was du benutzt hast, das in deinem Mund endet, ein Risiko sein könnte, weil rezyceltes schwarzes Plastik ist. I made a short about it, a lot of people made a short about it, but you were very outspoken about it.
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Is this precautionary measure that's being recommended not something you vibe with? And if so, why not?
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Ist das qualitativ versus quantitativ? Genau. Okay.
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Because again, when you're trained in medical school and medical training, you believe that is it. You believe there's nothing else that can affect your opinions about how you go through life and how you make choices and what disease risks we can avoid. So it was kind of relearning. Not relearning, because I believe in science. Obviously I treat with medications and
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So this is interesting because I just did a whole debate on Jubilee against about 20 anti-vax individuals. They're probably more vaccine-skeptic individuals. And what I came away from in that conversation was that they... Individuals have different risk tolerances. In fact, I asked one of the police officers in the final part of the debate, what do you judge a safe activity to be?
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And he said, well, nothing's safe. And I said, well, look, like being in a field, yeah, there's bacteria below, there's lightning above, and you could say that's not safe. So you have different risk perception. And everyone kind of sets their own standard. For example, I'm a professional boxer. Die meisten Leute sagen, bist du verrückt? Das ist eines der riskiersten Dinge, die du tun kannst.
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Und sie sind richtig, weil der Risiko davon enorm ist. Aber ich habe diese Risiken akzeptiert und ich habe diese Risiken verstanden. Also verstehe ich diesen Risiko als akzeptabel für mich. Ist es nicht fair, wenn jemand sagt, ich will so viele Chemikalien entfernen und sort of in this precautionary principle, isn't that a reasonable approach or you don't find that to be the case?
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But it's required by the body to have vitamin C. It's not required to have glyphosate in your body.
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I really walk a fine line between just learning both sides of the stories and things that were just left out and still are in medical training.
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When you say both sides of the stories, which both sides?
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Well, both sides of the stories, meaning when doctors, and this is happening now, roll their eyes when patients go to see them and say, hey, doctor, what can I eat that might help make my flares and lupus and rheumatoid arthritis reduced? Or why did I get this disease? What can I do about exercise? And does that make a difference? Or if I go gluten free, is there a benefit to it?
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Aber Glyphosat ist mit genetisch modifizierten Sehnsüssen verbunden? Nein, es ist nicht. Und es braucht mehrere Sprays. Was bedeutet das? Also in anderen Worten, es ist zu dem Punkt gekommen, wo die genetisch modifizierten Seeds, die gepaart und ursprünglich designt wurden, ich glaube, von Monsanto, aber wer weiß, welche Unternehmen das jetzt machen.
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Eigentlich wurde das Glyphosat gepaart zu den genetisch modifizierten Seeds, um es so zu machen, dass die Seed wächst und dass als Herbizid würde es die Weide umsonst töten, richtig? Aber was nach Jahrhunderten des Studiums jetzt passiert ist, ist, dass es immer mehr und mehr Glyphosat-Spray benötigte. Because it was becoming resistant.
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So just like antibiotics become resistant when they're exposed to, you know, when you're exposed to more and more of them, you become resistant, I should say, from them working, you know, or bacteria become resistant. I'm sorry if I'm not saying this correctly. So what's your quibble with this?
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So my quibble is, if you're going to argue and say that, you know, other types of pesticides that are used in organic farming are, you know, really more toxic, I'm throwing this back to you and saying that we have thousands of pesticides that are registered, that we now know that if they're paired, which often they are, to genetically modified seeds, require...
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Sie gehen durch Resistenz, sie gehen durch die Tatsache, dass sie durch mehrere Sprayings gehen müssen und dass wir mehr Glyphosat in unserem Lebenssystem bekommen, nur weil wir sie immer noch sprayen müssen. Also die Idee, dass es uns irgendwie von extra Sprays retten kann, ist nicht wahr. Es ist einfach nicht wahr.
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Nun, zwei und sechs halb, du weißt, sechs und eine halbe Dutzend, der Punkt ist, dass es nicht ist. Was ist die Alternative? Hör auf, hier ist die Idee.
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But what is the glyphosate misinformation?
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Glaubst du an diese Beschreibung, dass es für all diese Dinge verurteilt wurde?
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Ich glaube, es gibt eine Wissenschaft dahinter, was ich sage. Nein, aber du sagst, dass es verurteilt wird. Glaubst du, dass es dämonisiert wird?
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Nicht dämonisiert, sondern dass es verbunden ist mit all diesen schädlichen Heilungen.
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Ja, wir wissen, dass es mit genetisch modifizierten Sehnsüssen zusammenhängt, dass es Risiken gibt. Wir wissen, wie man Strawberrie in der Temperatur resistieren kann, um zu kühlen. Es gibt gute von genetischer Modifikation. Es sind die schlechten Formen... Aber es geht um Glyphosat.
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Ja, in Bezug auf Glyphosat, es wurde zu einer weiteren Produktion von Glyphosat gelegt, mehr Spray, mehr im Ernährungssystem, mehr im menschlichen Körper. Und das korreliert mit einem Potenzial für höhere Risiken für Kanker und eine Vielzahl anderer Gesundheitsbedürfnisse. So there's plenty of information to look this up.
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Or, you know, there's just a million questions that I think patients are now asking. They're getting smarter, they're getting sicker, but they're getting smarter. They're getting more inquisitive. And a lot of, unfortunately, I think the medical institution, not the doctor's fault, the training fault. You know, I look at the system as the place to fix it.
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Like the IARC, the WHO.
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IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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This is something that I actually spent some time looking into because I know that WHO and the IARC came to very different conclusions when it comes to their stances on whether or not there is a cancer outcome or perhaps a possible cancer outcome. Yeah. Und sie kamen zu verschiedenen Ständen.
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Und mein Verständnis, und ich bin gespannt, ob einer von euch einen Stand in diese Richtung hat, mein Verständnis ist, dass das WHO an einem anderen Endpunkt geschaut hat als... Entschuldigung, das EPA an einem anderen Endpunkt geschaut hat als das WHO.
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Das EPA hat nicht die Mehrheit der Chemikalien in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl der Glykophosphate in Anzahl
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They also were not looking at the way that... They were looking at how people get the chemical into their body as opposed to workers being exposed to it over spray and the workers getting exposed to it on their bodies. Is that the correct understanding? No. What's the correct understanding?
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Es fühlt sich an, als wäre es ein leichter Google.
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Aber es wird aus jedem Park in den USA genommen.
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Warte, du hast gesagt, du würdest etwas über Glyphosat sagen.
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I'm always looking at the system approach, um, And that's really walking the fine line is really trying to measure as much science into the equation and using medications when I'm thoughtful and judicious about them. But really incorporating lifestyle and diet and again chemical reduction as a really great starting point because we know that has such an effect. Why can't we integrate all of that?
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all aspects of human health and lifestyle into our teaching to patients.
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I'm curious on your side, Dr. Love, from a research perspective, has this epidemiological shift been noticeable for you in terms of people having higher levels of autoimmune conditions? What have you seen on the lab side and what has been the cause that you guys suspect that is behind this uptick?
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Aber Sie sind nicht gegen GMOs, oder?
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Also genetisch modifiziert. Und noch einmal, das ist nicht das, worauf ich mich fokussiere, wenn ich versuche, sogar Hochschulstudenten zu beraten. Diese sind... Specific topics that are really should, they require depth. They require a bigger conversation and probably more specialized conversation than I can even share with you.
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But genetically modified engineering in and of itself as a concept is quite remarkable, right? Picking up genes and moving them into andere Bereiche, die das Produkt besser für die Menschlichkeit, für die Menschlichkeit besser machen können.
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Aber ich denke, das größte Argument, und das ist so weit, wie ich gehe, weil ich möchte zurücksteigen und versuchen, mehr Perspektive auf Chemikalien zu geben, weil ich nicht hier bin, um nur über organische versus nicht organische zu argumentieren. Es gibt so viele Bereiche, über die wir sprechen können.
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Aber essentiell nimmt es Organismen, Entschuldigung, Genetik von einem lebenden Organismus und setzt ihn in einen anderen lebenden Organismus und setzt ihn in einen Code ein, das diese Genetik für Generationen zu verändern. Und ich denke, das ist das größte Problem, inwiefern diese Genen genommen werden, was sie kontrollieren, was das Potenzial für Schaden sein wird.
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Und ich denke, das ist wirklich das größte Problem. ist, wenn man Futter modifiziert, was in der Regel nie modifiziert werden sollte, wie Medikamente. Also, Menschen haben genetisch Futter modifiziert für 20.000 Jahre. Ich bin noch nicht fertig. Ich würde gerne, um meine Gedanken zu beenden. Die Idee ist, dass die Technologie und die Wissenschaft von Menschen großartig sind.
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Ich bin ein großer Fan. Ich liebe Medizin und ich liebe all die Dinge, die die Leben der Menschen gestärkt haben. Aber es gibt auch Probleme, die mit unseren wissenschaftlichen Vorstellungen zusammenkommen.
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Und ich denke, es ist fair zu sagen, dass wenn du über Chemikalien denkst, was wirklich das Bereich ist, über das ich am meisten sprechen möchte, ist, dass nicht jeder Chemikalien einfach einen in den Mund schmackt oder dich macht, weißt du, außer du bekommst, weißt du, Arsen in einer dezenten Anzahl, richtig?
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Die Idee ist, und ich sage das, weil ich selbst in einer Welt lebe, in der ich mein Haar Farbe und meine Kinder spielen, ich trinke aus Plastik.
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Du hast deine Risikotoleranz, die wir gesprochen haben.
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Genau, das Leben ist Risiko-Benefit-Ratio. Wir lernen das in der Medizin, wir sehen das mit Patienten.
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Ich bin interessiert über das Ratio für dich. The way that I was able to make that decision for myself to go box was because I'm aware of the statistics of higher rates of neurologic damage, chronic disease. You have chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's. I'm aware of those risks. Exactly.
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But in this scenario, where it sounds like the knowledge on what those risks are, are a bit cloudy at the very least, because there's clearly some debate here. How is one able to make that risk assessment?
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The debate here is not exactly the most, you know, the high level in terms of what I consider making people's decision making. I think people need to read Bücher und Studien, die die Wissenschaften ausdrücken. Und ich glaube, das ist nicht die gesamte Diskussion.
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Aber die Idee ist, dass wir so viel Informationen haben, von gut gemachten Studien, die nicht nur auf Tiere gemacht werden, die wir kontrollieren können, all die Verbrecher, all die verschiedenen Komponenten, die es so schwierig machen, in Menschen zu studieren. Und die Idee ist, wirklich zu sagen, hör mal, Let's step back a second. We were not exposed to these chemicals.
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We know there's a correlation, not a causation. We know that disease in terms of chronic health conditions, we know heavy metals are related to higher rates of cardiovascular disease. We've seen this. This just came out in JAMA, like not even a couple months ago, but we've been seeing this in our medical journals, which is unique because it's making its way into Western medicine.
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Whereas we said in the beginning, we're lacking sort of that connection between lifestyle and exposures and really what we're dealing with Aber wenn wir zurückkehren und sehen, dass viele dieser menschlich hervorragenden Komponenten nie wirklich für das Immunsystem und das Endokrin-System gemeint waren, dass sie potenzielle Effekte bei niedrigen Dosen von Ausdruck über die Zeit haben.
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Wie viel Zeit? Wir wissen das nicht in jedem Individuum. Haben wir Probleme, wenn du Mischungen von Tausenden von Chemikalien hast? Von all den Dingen, die wir lieben, die wir auf unsere Körper legen. Ja, das Potenzial ist da. Und die Idee ist nicht, alles gut oder alles schlecht zu sagen. Ich habe das nie gesagt.
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Es ist wirklich, dass wir anfangen zu denken, was wir essen, was wir trinken, wie wir unsere Wasser filteren, wenn wir unsere Wasser filteren. Warum wäre das wichtig, wenn du über das Wastewasser-Treatment-Plan-System in den Vereinigten Staaten wüsstest? Es würde Sinn machen, zu einem gewissen Grad zu filtern, wenn du das kannst. Und schau dir das an, es ist nicht zu teuer, das zu tun.
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So it's an idea of stepping back, looking at medical anthropology or anthropology and evolution and saying, human beings are now thrust into a modern day environment where we're exposed to so much stuff. We know a lot about a lot and a little bit a lot. And we need to think about just taking our lifestyle and our exposures and adding them to the picture of human health. Das ist es.
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Ich habe eine Frage. It's a different world that I'm practicing medicine.
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And I do understand that. I'm not here talking to just the higher echelon. I want to bring it down to a point where people do recognize this is something we all deserve to think about and perhaps put into motion.
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So, like you're saying, it's not... Es gibt Menschen, die das können. Warum sollten sie nicht die gleichen Informationen verdienen? Aber wissen wir, dass das das tut?
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Du sagst, dass nur Menschen, die schlecht sind, bestimmte Informationen verdienen und Menschen mit mehr Bedingungen. Ich meine, wir müssen anfangen, das zu tun. Well, we know lead is not good for people. So we would think that, you know, that's been proven. Well, PVC is polyvinyl chloride. It's part of our piping. It's certainly more solid because it's solidified.
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It's not the liquid form that, you know, we hear about in train derailments. That's many of the liquid in the VOC versions of vinyl chloride. Aber die Idee ist, wer was zu wissen hat, ist für mich nicht fair. Denn es ist nicht aufgrund der Wirtschaftspolitik basiert.
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Du kannst in einen hohen Preis Supermarkt, ich meine, in einem Departement-Store und kaufen, du weißt, ein 50-Dollar-Lipstick, das so toxisch ist, wie du in einen lokalen CVS oder Walgreens gehen würdest. So I'm trying to let people know that it's not a matter.
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First of all, autoimmune diseases don't just affect this lower socioeconomic because they're not getting their food and they're not exercising. And, you know, that was one of the things that I my ears perked up. Autoimmune disease and immune diseases. Well, because in terms of just I don't even know what that was about.
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But the idea is that all humans have the same risk of developing immune and autoimmune diseases. We know that.
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We know that certain, certainly minor, socio-economically challenged environments have higher rates of air pollution, have higher degrees of exposure for manufacturing, have higher rates... So wouldn't that argue against your point about eating organic foods and making these lifestyle changes? Well, organic is not the only recommendation in the book.
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I mean, there's literally hundreds of recommendations.
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What I'm saying is everything I recommend...
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Everything I'm recommending is information that should people choose to prioritize. Okay, there are people that prioritize perhaps getting their hair done versus getting a gym membership. You know, these are the choices we make and I'm not judging because I have my own issues. I don't like to cook all that much and I like my hair colored.
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My point is that I think people should be able to have the information to choose what they want to use. Well, they should have accurate information.
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Well, what's the information that's inaccurate here?
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Ich habe dein Buch gelesen.
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What's the claim? Sorry, say that again.
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Das Glauben ist falsch, das ist nicht aufgrund der Literatur überhaupt. Was glaubst du? Warum glaube ich das? Weil ich alle 22 Jahre Rheumatologie korreliere und verstehe, was ich sehe, nicht nur in meiner eigenen Praxis, was eine sehr kleine Praxis ist, aber korreliert ist mit der Epidemiologie, die in dem Buch steht, dass wir eine weltweite Epidemie sehen. Vielen Dank.
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Der Punkt, den ich versuche zu machen, ist, dass unsere Welt drastisch verändert ist. Und wir müssen uns überlegen, was wir essen, was wir konsumieren, wie viel Medikament, wie lange wir auf dem Medikament sind, ist es, das Problem zu lösen? Ich benutze sie immer.
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Was ich von Leuten tun will, ist, dass sie sich bewusst und verständlich sind, dass es von einigen dieser Auslösungen einen Schaden gibt. Das ist das größte Auslösungsvermögen.
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Also schau mich an. Ich spreche über einen Aspekt, der eine große Komponente der menschlichen Existenz ist, nämlich das Essen.
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But I also said, because there is no good. If you eat conventional food and you would like to make it cleaner. There's no reason to make it cleaner. Take one part of water, clean water and baking soda.
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There's no reason to make it cleaner. Can I bring up an interesting point? The topic of cleaner is an interesting topic. We're talking about the floors in my house having an antimicrobial surface. And we're talking about how that actually might be harmful because they're cleaner. So cleaner is not better.
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Cleaner is not necessarily better, but we do not think that chemicals help human physiology. They were never meant to be part of the human body for millions of years. So this is just the appeal of nature. So the idea is cleaner being better. Well, cleaner with synthetic chemicals is not necessarily cleaner or better.
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Cleaner, like removing harmful topical chemicals and residues, could be very beneficial to your gut microbiome. We know that because we've seen it. The question is, how strong is the could?
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That's my question.
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How strong is the could? Sie könnten, was meinst du?
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Wie du gesagt hast, sie könnten schädlich für deine Gesundheit sein.
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Es gibt so viele Studien, du weißt, die Idee, dass ich jede Studie zitieren werde und darüber sprechen werde... Ich meine, wenn die ganze Begründung ist, dass wir von diesen Chemikalien detoxifizieren müssen, müssen wir wissen, wie schädlich sie sind. Also die Idee ist, dass... Weil du ein Buch geschrieben hast, also solltest du die Daten haben, richtig?
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Ich habe drei Bücher geschrieben, zwei sind Textbücher mit Oxford University Press, also sie wurden peer-reviewed. Du weißt, es ist einfach verrückt, dass ich diesen bestimmten Thema verteidigen muss.
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in so einer detaillierten Weise.
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Aber was ich tun will, ist, ich versuche dir und dem Publikum zu helfen, zu verstehen, dass dies nicht eine Wahl ist, welches Chemikalien schlecht ist und alle Chemikalien schlecht sind, oder dieses ist nur schlecht und dieses ist mehr schlecht. Die Perspektive auf das Buch...
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die Perspektive auf alles, was ich jemals gelernt habe, ist, dass wir darüber nachdenken müssen, die individuellen Studien, die wir kennen, die für diese Klassen vorhanden sind, die robust sind. Und dann müssen wir entscheiden, wie wir das in unsere Leben und Entscheidungen einbringen wollen. Wie du gesagt hast, mit Boxen. Wir können alle wählen, ob wir mit Organik oder nicht gehen wollen.
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Oder sind wir überreaktiv? Unsere Gäste heute sind Dr. Ailey Cohen, Rheumatologin und wirtschaftliche Gesundheitsanwältin, die sagt, dass tägliche Chemikalien, zu denen wir aufgewachsen sind, die Nummer eins sind, die von den akuten und chronischen Krankheitsbedürfnissen sind.
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Schau, wenn ich zu Abend gehe, ist es nicht so, als ob ich in der Küche schaue, um zu finden, was sie mir geschenkt haben. Ich wähle, um zu Abend zu gehen, um einen guten Zeitraum zu haben, und ich übertreibe diese anderen Komponenten in meinem Gehirn, damit ich mehr Kontrolle bei Hause oder im Arbeitsplatz habe. Das sind die Art von Entscheidungen, die wir machen.
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Das Ziel hier ist es, die Überraschung insgesamt zu reduzieren, denn wenn wir die Überraschung reduzieren und wir keine testbaren Chemikalien in unseren Körpern haben, sind wir weniger möglich, zu sehen, was wir in den Studien, die zeigen, sehen. Möglicherweise. Möglicherweise. Aber, aber, aber wiederum, das ist etwas wert, weil wir krank sind.
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Also die Idee ist, dass ich es mit der Überraschung insgesamt in Bezug auf unsere Risiken korreliere.
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Du setzt mehr Kraft auf diese Korrelation.
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Weil ich es sehe. Ich bin ein Klinik, 22 Jahre alt. Ich habe diesen Weg studiert, nicht nur Endokrin-Entzündung. Das war der Anfang meines Arbeits. Ist das wahr? Ich meine, ich war selbst ein Skeptiker, richtig? Wenn ich nicht in der Medizin gelernt hätte, wollte ich sicherlich versuchen, ob das wahr oder nicht war.
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15 Jahre nach dem Verständnis, 22 Jahre nach der klinischen Medizin in der Rheumatologie, gibt es keine Rheumatologie-Situation, die klar ist. Ich meine, Medizin ist sehr, sehr... Schmutzig und komplex. Schmutzig, es ist schmutzig. Und nicht alle Symptome korrelieren zu einer echten Krankheit. Du musst alles durchgehen. Ich versuche nur, auf die Weise zu wehen, wie man Menschen healthier macht.
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Ich glaube, das ist der einzige echte Unterschied hier. Und meine Frage ist zu Dr. Love. Für... Individuen, die vielleicht, wenn Sie sich an einen Niveau eines Gemüses betrachten, zu denen sie ausgesprochen werden, wissen wir, dass es einen bedeutenden Blutabschluss hat. But then perhaps we don't have data to say over the course of their lives, they're at this low level.
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Is there a potential risk that we're not accounting for because of the length of exposure as opposed to the level?
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Also, um ehrlich zu sein, die Chemie, die im Publikum veröffentlicht wird, wir haben aktive Inhalte in Pestiziden und wir haben inaktive Inhalte, die der Publikum nicht wissen.
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Also, in anderen Worten, zum Beispiel, wir hatten gerade einen Wasserspann in unserer Küche und wir hatten eine Remediationsfirma und sie haben einen Anti-Mold-Agent gesprüht, über den ich nicht glücklich war, weil ich auf der Arbeit war und ich wusste nicht, dass sie versprühen. Also habe ich gefragt, um zu sehen, was sie sagen, war, oh, es ist alles natürlich, richtig?
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So I looked at the MSDS report, which is basically the chemical sheet that talks about what's in this product. Okay, and then everyone has access to this, you know, for any chemical, technically. Yeah, I think my like landscapers would send that over before. Yeah, and so at the very top you see an active ingredient that's .005%. Und du denkst dir, oh, das ist so wenig, das ist nichts.
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Ich kenne nicht mal den Namen dieses Komponents, es ist etwas aus der organischen Chemie. Dann schaust du auf den very bottom und du siehst inaktive Inhalte und es ist im Grunde 99,999%. von dem, was übrig bleibt, von diesem Spray. Und es ist proprietär. Was wir hier vermissen, ist, wenn du sagst, dass die Wissenschaftler... Was bedeutet das? Es ist eine private Blende. Es ist wie Coca-Cola.
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Es ist wie bei Supplements.
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Es gibt eine proprietäre Blende. Aber das Interessante ist, was wir über Pestizide und die agrarische Gemeinschaft wissen, ist, dass sie nicht alle Wissenschaftler dem Publikum verlassen müssen. Das ist ein Fakt.
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Also wenn ich sage, dass wir versuchen, darüber nachzudenken, was wir in unseren Körperen reinigen, dann denke ich darüber nach, was wir nicht erzählt werden, weil es keine Anforderungen gibt, die ganze Konstitution dieser Produkte zu beweisen.
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Wegen der proprietarischen Blende.
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Wegen der proprietarischen Blende. Und ich denke, das muss in diesem Bereich gewartet werden.
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In the situation that Dr. Love is describing, where she's saying that the chronic amounts are tested, the doses are tested. We don't know that. You disagree that that exists?
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I disagree that we are being made aware of all of the science. See, they're not required to do these tests.
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But she's saying that they exist.
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Well, this is going to be a matter of... They actually are required to do the testing. Where is this testing actually?
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Well, where is the testing then?
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Within all of the toxicologists. And is it released to the... Why do you care if it's released to the public? Because you're spreading... Well, that's not the answer. The answer is, where do people get the information that these levels are being tested at parts per million, parts per trillion, parts per billion?
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You mentioned the chronic... You tell me where that material is.
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These are additive agents.
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Was schafft diesen Schiff? Von dem, dass es eine benannte Substanz ist, bis jetzt, dass man es als einen hostilen Verbrecher behandelt?
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That is ridiculous. You're saying they're too dumb to care what goes in their body?
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Ich meine, das ist, Menschen sollten das Recht haben, zu wissen, was sie in ihrem Körper investieren.
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Weil wir nicht wissen, was in den Pestiziden ist. Aber bist du in der Lage, diese Daten zu bekommen? Das ist der Appell zur Natur. Diese Daten sind entweder nicht benötigt, es ist ähnlich wie kosmetische Chemikalien, They're proprietary. No, they're actually regulated by two wildly different organizations and entities and have very different laws behind them.
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That may be true, but they're both not in the United States. They're not required. It's not like the European Union. It's not like other components. We are not privy to the components in these ingredients.
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So if you are privy, what does that solve?
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Es löst sich, naja, es hängt davon ab. Würdest du wissen, was in 99,99% von dem, was in deiner Küche gespürt wird? Ich weiß nicht, was mit dem zu tun hat. I would like that too, but what I'm saying to you is that the problem comes from when these chemicals are created, they are not required by US government to not only test for safety and toxicity, particularly in vulnerable populations.
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That sounds like you're talking about supplements. Vulnerable populations like pregnant women, children, elderly, immune compromised. So the point I'm making, if they create the rules... Und sie erstellen die Komponenten. Und sie sind ermöglicht, sie in irgendetwas zu legen, was sie mögen. Das ist nicht überhaupt das, was passiert.
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Wir als Konsumenten, ich sage, legt den Halt hier auf und sagt, bevor Sie das in Ihren Körper legen, ohne sich darauf zu erinnern, was in ihm drin ist, warum denken wir nicht ein bisschen darüber, Alternativen zu wählen oder die Ausprägung zu reduzieren?
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Aber die Regulierungsagenturen checken nicht, vergessen Sie die Ausprägung, sie checken sie nicht.
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They don't have to say that they're even checking. But can you ask? You said you can request the data. Where can you get this data that's transparent that they're going to tell you that they did study it?
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For this conversation, can we get the data?
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We have the FDA and pesticides are very different. We have a totally different regulatory system for FDA. Wait, you just confirmed...
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Und das hat die Daten.
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Aber du sagst, die Daten sind nicht akkurat oder einfach schwer zu bekommen?
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Independently of the distinction, the point is, is that when you look up these chemicals, they don't pull into studies that show when they've been tested in... They'll give you the compound, the shape. That's false. They'll give you some of the structural information.
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But they're not giving you safety data.
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They're not giving you necessarily the safety data that we want.
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Can I make a comparison?
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Because they can decide, they can cherry pick what they choose to show the public.
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Can I make an analogy? Yeah, of course. I'm flying on a plane this week. I have no idea what Boeing does in putting that plane together. I have no idea how they check the screws. I put my blind faith in them because- Would you want to know? No, absolutely not.
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But the reason why I think it's illogical to worry about that from a mental health standpoint is that there's so many anxieties that face us every day.
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No question about it. But should you want that information? Should you? And by the way, getting on a plane, you might argue, is a little different in many ways than consuming certain foods over time. Yeah, it's probably less safe. Well, it depends on how you perceive it, right? You know, it's your risk-benefit ratio.
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Right, but I'm saying in terms of the unknown. Right.
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Like, I'm sure if I really... Well, should we all live in the unknown? Is that the argument?
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Well, I think that there has to be some level of trust that the regulatory agencies are doing their duty.
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But I'm saying to question that trust. That's what I'm saying. Question that trust.
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Which we should trust and audit those agencies. Nein?
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Nicht die Chemikalien entfernen.
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Es gibt viele Lobbyisten überall. Wenn du dir praktische Hinweise geben möchtest, das scheint dein Ziel zu sein, um einen großen Unterschied zwischen Chemikalien zu machen. wouldn't it be to say, I don't trust that they're putting out the data. I'm going to call in my book for better oversight, being able to audit these agencies. Well, that's where we are right now.
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As opposed to saying, let's hide from the chemicals, because we don't yet know.
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Up until this point, up until this moment, we just got red dye number three out of the market, right? So I'm saying, listen, this is great. We have a movement towards thinking about the food chemicals. We knew that red dye number three was a problem in 1990 when they got rid of it in cosmetics. Now they're finally getting rid of it in food, right?
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That's been a little controversial. So I'm curious your take on it.
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Look, you could argue everything's controversial. For everything pro, you've got a con. And we know this in medicine too.
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But that's a little unfair. I'm just curious. Well, it's not unfair in the sense that my point that I want to make... Because you can't equate every stance that subjectively someone may have about it. But I'm saying in this... In echter wissenschaftlicher Literatur gibt es eine Debatte darüber, ob Red Dye Nr. 3 wirklich menschliche Schäden hat. Ist das eine faire Statement zu sagen?
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Es ist fair zu sagen, dass das Animal Studies Precautionary Principle fair genug ist, um zu sagen, dass wenn es schädlich ist in Animal Studies, dann sollten wir darüber nachdenken, in unseren kleinsten, stärksten Menschen, unseren Kindern und sogar unseren eigenen Körpern.
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Aber fair zu sagen, dass auch eine sinnvolle Meinung es andersherum nehmen kann. Like, for example, if one of my patients says, don't put your stethoscope on my chest, it's going to give me cancer. Unreasonable thought. Can I disprove it with 100% certainty? I can't. But I can say with reasonable certainty.
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So I think in this situation, we can say with reasonable certainty, there's some disagreement surrounding Gredd-Dynamo.
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I agree with you. I'm not here to say anything's hard and fast, because these studies can all be in one way or another not big enough. And, you know, participants, or maybe they didn't account for lifestyle before they went into this study, which is my argument for a lot of these studies.
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So there's like a hierarchy and a strength level of all these studies.
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Mein Ziel ist es, den Leuten zumindest die Fähigkeit zu geben, zu sagen, Hör auf, du hast Agentur über deinem Körper. Du kannst entscheiden, ob du die Bolzen wissen willst oder nicht. Du kannst entscheiden, ob du spielen willst, weißt du, Boxen machen willst. Ich entscheide jedes Mal, wenn ich mein Haar gekleidet habe, was heute Morgen war, ob ich das machen wollte.
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These are the choices we make, but to say that we shouldn't know anything about anything, to be protected and shelled off from decision making, especially at different socioeconomic levels or knowledge base, I think is not fair. And that is the idea, is that we should be thinking about... Precautionary principle. And not only that, guess what? They're great swaps. They're great alternatives.
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That is the messaging I've always given. Here's a little bit of the problem. Here's a lot of the solution. The idea is that you don't always have to say, oh my gosh, I'm getting rid of this and I don't know what to put in its place. We have so many options now and they actually are affordable. That is the messaging that I'm really trying to share with people.
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You mean a lipstick with lead versus something without lead or something without parabens is less... That's an extreme example.
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That's wildly hyperbolic. People should have a choice as to what they put on their body.
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Please put it on the website. Yeah, no, we'll have it up, yeah.
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Like chickenpox and shingles is it?
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Well, parabens are still being used in lots of products. But I'm saying in these examples. Jukka, these are apps that are... Those are all fear-mongering misinformation apps. Okay, so they're all bad according to her, but what I want to say is that... Well, they are because they're based on the appeal to nature fallacy and the environment of working group claims.
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They're very useful for people who have a lot of reactions to chemicals in general.
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Well, I don't understand why we can't be looking at those to make our own decisions on ratings.
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Well, can I give a practical situation where I think this actually played out historically in kind of an interesting point for the time being. Sure. When the polio vaccine was first released, we did a huge video on this. We hired a medical researcher to help us get really the best data on it. And what we found was
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When the polio vaccine came out, there was a cutter incident that happened as a result of the polio vaccine, where one lab mismanufactured the vaccine. They messed up. They didn't kill the virus. And as a result, this vaccine actually ended up giving kids polio. Kids were paralyzed. Kids died.
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I think I've heard this story.
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Terrible story. It was the worst vaccine situation in history. The reason why that happened was the lab messed up because all the other labs made it correctly. Public outcry happened. They said, get rid of this vaccine. This vaccine is so bad. Look what it did to these children. What ended up happening is we swapped to a different vaccine, an oral vaccine.
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This vaccine actually ended up giving people true polio because it wasn't the same type of polio vaccine that was given before. What ended up happening is because of public outcry, we literally overcorrected and ended up giving a vaccine that while wild type polio was eradicated, lab type because of the vaccine was still happening.
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So I worry about these situations where we overcorrect because of a chemical. and then come up with a solution that might be worse than the initial problem. You know, there's no question. Do you think that's an issue?
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I think that's, you know, these are great stories and anecdotal and I agree and I think I've heard that story and we've never been perfect in a lot of things. Truly, humans are, you know, not perfect. Natürlich.
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Aber die Idee ist, dass die Idee in Bezug auf das, was ich tue, und ich versuche, in meiner Linie zu bleiben und wirklich darüber zu sprechen, was ich tue und was ich schreibe und was ich poste, ist, dass man sich bewusst hält, dass ich keine Ausstrahlung erzeugen kann. Ich bin nicht eine dramatische Person in meinem Leben. Es ist wirklich, dass man wirklich einfach eine Idee gibt, wo...
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Issues may exist. Give them reasonable resources should they choose them or not. And I do give those lots of resources that are managed and evergreen and taken care of by other people. Because that's what they do for a living. That's what their jobs are. It's not me to tell which brand to do. I don't even endorse brands. I don't endorse products at all.
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I've chosen not to do that so that the work that I teach people... ist unbiased. Das ist, wie ich die Arbeit, die ich mache, ausgewählt habe. Aber ich denke, was du sagst, ist, wie du den menschlichen Ausruf kontrollierst. Wir sind so kompliziert als Menschen und sehr wenig, ich würde sagen, besonders jetzt, unsere Niveaus sind viel niedriger.
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Wir werden sehr hyperentzündet über Probleme und es ist wirklich eine schmerzhafte Sache. Ich stimme dir zu. Aber wenn es um Messungen über Chemikalien geht, sage ich einfach, Think about what we put on in and around our bodies. Be conscious. Here are some resources to look up.
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Here are the companies that I know are looking them up as well and have rating systems based on their science that they pulled. These are the things that we now know could potentially be harmful. It's not all black and white. Never been. It's how do we make our bodies less vulnerable by... Ja, genau. How do we exercise? How do we move?
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Well, I don't know if we want to live 20 years life expectancy.
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Well, you know, listen, we are living longer, but we are also living pretty sick. We have, on average, 6 out of 10 people have chronic health conditions in this country. And that's because we don't have universal health care.
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Well, that's why I think a good point for us to end on is to talk about the things we agree upon, which is the exercise component, the decreasing of processed foods, getting more fiber in our diet.
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Which have chemicals.
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Absolutely. Everything has chemicals. Chemical is a complicated word.
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Sie ist hier, um ihr neues Buch Detoxify zu promoten, das wirklich die Botschaft schlägt, dass diese toxischen Chemikalien nicht nur um uns herum sind, sondern wir sollten nicht warten, bis mehr Forschung vor uns kommt.
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In fact, many synthetic chemicals... That's a very large statement to make out of 95,000 chemicals. But isn't it equally large to say that it's dangerous? Aber die Unterschiede sind, dass ich Leute frage, was sie persönlich wählen sollen. Wenn sie eine Erkrankung in ihrem Haus machen, welche Teile sie einsetzen, was sie in ihrem Haus wählen sollen.
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Ich habe entschieden, Ceramische Teile in meinem Büro zu verwenden, weil ich nicht Carpeting wollte. Ich wollte keine Synthetische Fibre, ich wollte keine Schmutzungen. Das sind Chancen, die wir haben, die wir machen können.
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No one's arguing about your choice to make that. But why would, as a doctor, you would recommend someone to not get carpet in their home?
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Oh, I'm not sure if I would recommend it. I'm saying that I personally chose to do that because of these reasons. This is why. But there's no science behind those reasons. Well, there's not going to be science behind everything in life. Do you know who has to do the science? Scientists. Well, no, you have to raise money. Scientists have to do the science.
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So it's a great question. So they're pulling from a lot of the same data, from what I understand, is they're using some of the ATDSR I can't even remember what the acronym is, but basically it's the chemical data that they have found from MSDS forms as well. And they've put it along with epidemiologic studies, animal studies, occupational studies of these exposures.
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So they're combining what is given to them by the manufacturing of these chemicals along with studies that are not shared by manufacturing, which is how these play out. in real life situations, be it animal or human studies. So they're combining a lot more information to give to those, you know, to add to those recommendations. And so it is what we have. It is not perfect, but it is what we have.
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Is this a situation where, because... There are so many chemicals. Like, for example, I'm going to do a patient situation. It's a big topic. So a patient comes into my office, says, Doctor, I want to live the healthiest life possible. Tell me what chemicals I need to get rid of.
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I would love to answer that one. Based on that and based on the information that's been provided today, I think the answer to that patient is, I don't know, put your focus elsewhere.
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Is that fair for me to say? That's what you got from this conversation today?
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Well, because there's...
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It's too broad of a topic to be able to make a statement that is broad brush.
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So let me answer that question because I really want to tell you what I actually tell my patients, just like you have patients and I have plenty of patients myself. What I always talk about is what are the highest yield changes that make the most sense?
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Okay, highest yield.
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That's very reasonable.
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So what are we exposed to the most? What we breathe. Right? So maybe you don't want to have so many synthetic chemicals in your home, which is economically sealed.
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But your broad brushing synthetic chemicals now is bad.
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Was meinst du? Weil du sagst, du willst keine Synthetik trinken. Weißt du, wenn du puren Öl trinkst, würdest du sterben? Du weißt nicht, wenn du puren Öl trinkst, würdest du sterben? Du weißt, wenn du puren Öl trinkst, würdest du sterben? But what third party academic testing is showing, and by the way, they have to fund their own studies.
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So we don't have money free flowing to do every study on every chemical that could potentially be harmful. Which is why the argument, at least the messaging I want to give, is that because we can't have more of these academic third party unbiased studies.
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We should say, I don't know.
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Well, we should say, let's be thoughtful. I don't think we don't say just roll around in them. It's more to be thoughtful. So when I think about what I tell patients, It's not complicated. I simply say, think about, as you said, unprocessed foods is one area that we now know plenty of study.
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Western medical journals, you know it and I know it, have higher rates of cardiovascular disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancers, a variety of cancers. That would make sense to think about the quality of your food by reducing processed and ultra-processed foods, which on average have lots of more chemicals than more natural foods.
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But it's not necessarily because of the chemicals. It's not the chemicals.
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Well, it's a variety. It's the macros as well. It's the low fiber. It's the oils that potentially could be more harmful.
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Processed, ultra-processed means that the food has been treated in some way. Cutting it is processing it, right? So like there's some degree of processing.
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So why did you say ultra-processed?
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I want to see your definition of ultra-processed. So for me, ultra-processed als Beispiel würde es ein Doritos-Chip sein, etwas, das man in seinem eigenen Zuhause nicht machen kann. Und der Grund, warum ich denke, dass ultra-verpackte Füße unnötig sind, ist, dass sie... Lose Ernährung. Lose Ernährung. Du willst sie viel essen. Deine Satiety-Trigger sind alle getrickt.
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Aber es ist nicht so, dass ultra-verpackte Füße schmerzhaft sind, sondern es ist so, dass die Firmen es entschieden haben, sie ultra-verpackt zu machen, in einer Art und Weise, die macht, dass du mehr von ihnen essen willst. Ist das nicht so?
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Das ist einer der Aspekte von Ultra-Fast-Foods. Das bedeutet nicht, dass die Chemikalien nicht schädlich sind. Wir wissen, dass viele der Chemikalien, die in diesen Füßen sind, nicht nur die Größe der Stemmzellen erhöhen können, die sich in Fettzellen verändern und sie richten. Aber das sind alles Hypothetiken.
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Wir haben Studien auf Adipocytes und enthalten... Das sind Lipophil-Chemikalien. Petri-Disch-Studien. BPA ist einer der bestmöglichen Studien. Ich bitte Sie, diese auf Ihrem Website zu stellen. Ich werde Ihnen die besten Studien geben, die Sie... Ich bin froh, die Studien zu sehen.
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Aber ich möchte, dass Sie wissen, dass die Chemikalien, die in einige dieser Füße verwendet werden, spezifisch nicht benötigt wurden, um Testungen zu machen. Und die Testung, die gemacht wurde, wurde von Organisationen und akademischen Zentren gemacht, die wählen, diese zu schauen, um zu sehen, wie sie sich beeinflussen.
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Was die Ernährungstests in meiner Erfahrung gezeigt haben, ist, dass, auch wenn man diese ultraverarbeiteten Füße in sinnvollen Mengen konsumiert, was sehr hart und kaum möglich ist, weil sie produziert werden und sie deinen Körper schützen, aber wenn du in einer metabolischen Wartung kontrolliert bist und ultraverarbeitete Füße gegeben wirst, bleiben deine Ergebnisse im Grunde die gleiche.
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Das ist der Grund, warum ich denke, dass die Chemien nicht der größte Faktor hier sind.
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Also, ich würde mit Ihnen aufgrund vieler Literatur auf die Qualität der Futter nicht unterscheiden. Und übrigens, nützliche Nahrung ist so ein wichtiger Aspekt der menschlichen Gesundheit. Denn wenn ich über die Entfernung von wirtschaftlichen Chemikalien spreche, wie du es bestens kannst, in Ordnung, spreche ich auch über die ADD, die vier A's, die ich in dem Buch diskutiere.
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Assess, avoid or swap. The third A is add, which is the nutrition that humans are not getting over millions of years that we are deficient on, which I would hope you would agree with. Vitamin D, Magnesium, some of the B vitamins. Because we're not eating them. Exactly.
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But not because we need to get a bunch of supplements.
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But here's the thing. These chemicals have also been shown to affect DNA methylation, which is how genes are expressed, the epigenetics of our genes. I mean, we didn't get into more mechanisms, but I'm happy to go there. I think epigenetics is out of your scope.
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The idea that we are also exposed to chemicals that can affect gene expression is something that should really be looked at hard and fast. We have a lot of data on this. So it's not just taking away triggers or components that could really irritate the immune system, the endocrine system. It's also how do we offset with certain nutrients that we know offset DNA methylation and epigenetic changes.
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I think I have a really good point for all of us to end on this exact topic. And that's currently our administration has been talking about making America healthy and all these statements by talking about foods, but our budgets to do all the research that you're saying is required. And I think we all agree is required. It needs to continue.
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I've never said wait for Godot. You know, my argument has always been, listen again, back to precautionary principle. You can take red dye number three out and we can all clap. We have, six potential PFAS chemicals in our drinking water system that was put on hold from being managed in our drinking water system, which by the way only manages 91 chemicals since 1974, Safe Drinking Water Act.
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So we have a water component that I talk about in terms of high yield change to patients. We have a food component. But guess what the take home message is? We can't wait for our regulation to happen because again, it takes too much money.
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But we need it to happen.
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Well, we need it to happen, but it's not going to happen in our lifetimes where we're getting sick. You and I are not going to live long enough for all of those chemicals to be evaluated.
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You think we won't be able to add more chemicals to the Safe Drinking Act?
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The chemicals are being added.
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I'm saying to the checks of the Safe Water Act.
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Oh, they're not going to be added because it has to go to manufacturing, getting into our water system, which is our lakes and our streams. That goes to the way farming industry works. It goes to the way manufacturing is allowed. certain amounts of chemicals into waterways. Waterways become our drinking water. Sewage becomes our drinking water. This is a huge topic.
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I'm not following. Are you saying we shouldn't do this research?
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Of course not. I'm saying if you want to do this research, that's great and I applaud it. But we need it.
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Right now we're saying it may be causing these things.
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So let's put it this way. While we're waiting for this wonderful research, which I applaud, while we're waiting, in the moment now, when I'm seeing patients walking in at age 14 with rheumatoid new onset or lupus with no family history, with Crohn's disease, with MS, the vast majority of immune disorders that I see as a rheumatologist,
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While we're waiting for those studies to get done, which I applaud, I'm on the same page, we have to do something to at least consider what we're doing with our bodies. And it's being thoughtful and judicious about what we eat, what we drink, what we breathe. It's not complicated. It's more about being thoughtful.
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Well, it's very complicated. Denn zu entfernen Red Dye Nr. 3 klingt, als wäre es ein Wettbewerb. Aber was verwendest du? Welches Dye verwendest du, um es zu verwendest?
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Es gibt gute Intentionen, schlechte Ergebnisse zu erzeugen. BPA wurde aus dem Markt genommen.
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Guck dir das an. Es wurde mit BPS, BPSIP, BPF überflutet. Dies sind sogenannte regrettbare Substitutionen. Und wir kennen sie. Sie sind durch die Geschichte.
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Das ist der Grund, warum ich denke, bevor wir eine Wartezeit-Rekommendation machen, sollten wir wissen, worauf wir uns wechseln.
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Das ist absolut wahr. Aber unser System ist wirklich ein Problem. Ich stimme dazu. Es ist ein Problem und wir können darauf stimmen.
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Was ich als Ärztin sage, die sich sehr um Patienten und meine eigene Familie und mich, die von unserer Umgebung erkrankt sind, sehr traurig ist, was auch immer diese Ausdauer sein kann, wir müssen uns überlegen, was wir essen, was wir trinken, was wir in unseren Körperen geben, was wir auf unseren Körperen geben, was wir als Tampons benutzen.
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Let's think about what our body is absorbing because we have plenty of good data that is precautionarily telling us these are good decisions to make in terms of swapping or removing or reducing. We don't need all of the chemical cleaners that we think we do. Why do we need a door cleaner and a carpet cleaner and an oven cleaner and a sink cleaner and a window cleaner?
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Why don't we take vinegar and add a little Castile soap or a little warm water and a little bit of, you know, or why don't we look for resources that can help us choose better if we're not going to make our own concoctions? All of which I put in the book, by the way, I'm putting these ideas into people's hands because guess what?
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They're smart enough to know and have agency over their body, no matter what their education level is. where their income is. They have a right to be healthy. And that's what I argue in this book. And that's what I'm sharing.
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Sure. Well, I look forward to getting the data so we can compile it and perhaps do a part two. So thank you both for your time. Appreciate it. And where can people follow you on social media?
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So, under thesmarthuman.com is my website. I have courses. I have a bunch of stuff there. And also Ailey Cohen, A-L-Y Cohen, M-D. And that's also been, you know, an area that people can reach me. And I hope people will follow and check it out. Cool.
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How about yourself, Dr. Love?
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This was a tough one to moderate for sure. A lot of claims, a lot of terms, and definitely some drama. After sitting through the discussion and then re-listening to it, I think the main issue I have with the entire detoxifying stance is that it often skips logical steps, which are really important.
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For example, we don't have quality evidence proving that organic food is healthier, yet Dr. Cohen throughout says that if we want to be precautionary, we should avoid conventional produce. Well, to be precautionary, you should do something that's proven to be safer. And organic is not necessarily proven to be safer, so that idea doesn't quite come together.
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Ultimately, while I agree, making some simple swaps, like getting rid of single-use plastic, especially in the kitchen, and washing your produce, could be reasonable, the many steps recommended throughout the book go too far for what we actually know about environmental chemicals, and therefore, in my opinion, it's bordering on fearmongering.
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I want to thank both Dr. Cohen and Dr. Love for the spirited and nearly three-hour discussion. Hopefully you enjoyed this lengthy conversation. If you enjoyed it, please don't hesitate to give us five stars, as it truly helps our podcast find new viewers. And if you want another great conversation, check out my debate with Dr. K about Eastern versus Western Medicine. Really worth a watch.
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And as always, stay happy and healthy.
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Yeah, for me, when I have a patient coming in with Symptome von dem, was ich mir vorstelle, eine Rheumatologische Krankheit zu sein, eine Autoimmun-Krankheit. Ich mache fast das gleiche jedes Mal. Ich bestelle Inflammator-Marker, ich bestelle doppelte DNA-Testungen und bekomme sie in eine Rheumatologie-Konseln.
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Given the gravity of her claims and expertise required to properly explore them, I invited microbiologist, immunologist and biotech scientist Dr. Andrea Love to give her perspective on the matter. Fair warning, this discussion is probably the most spirited we've had on the podcast thus far, and I certainly didn't expect the dramatic turns it took through several of the segments.
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Also in einer solchen Situation, haben Sie eine höhere Diagnose-Rate für eine dieser oder all diese immunologischen Krankheiten gesehen, weil sich einige Kriterien verändert haben, oder ist das stabil geworden?
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So what we're seeing more and more is that you don't always have to fit the criteria for a standard western medicine-diagnosed disease, of course. In other words, there's a lot of people that come into my office Es gibt verschiedene Symptome. Sie befinden sich nicht immer bei allen Kriterien für Rheumatoide. Sie befinden sich nicht bei allen Kriterien für Lupus.