Dr. Andrea Love
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Did you know that this toxic chemical could be on your food?
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And more. You have this kind of ecosystem where now it's the wellness industry and all these podcasters who are telling you the truth that the scientists and the doctors and the government are hiding from you. And that has led to the explosion of kind of this alt-right wellness industry.
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If you look at people who believe in those medical conspiracies, like we're hiding the natural cures for cancer or fluoride in our water is poisoning us, those same people that believe those, they're the ones that participate in the wellness behaviors, like eating organic, going to the farm stand and taking supplements and herbs and vitamins.
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And simultaneously, they're the ones that are not doing the proven things to improve health, like preventive well visits, vaccines, wearing sunscreen and going to the dentist.
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The water is toxic. The food is toxic. The vaccines are toxic. Well, parents are going to resonate with that because they want to do what's best for their kids.
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I think we have this more obvious convergence of political ideologies. The ultimate passage of the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which was bipartisan. It was led by Orrin Hatch and Tom Harkin. And that basically removed all of the oversight and regulatory ability of the FDA to make sure that supplements were safe and produced with quality. They're still not really effective.
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In addition to all of that, lobbying organizations of organic farmers wanted to have a certification created by the USDA. But the products that they're producing are not more eco-friendly. They're not more nutritious. You have a lot of eco-conscious people who have been misled that organic is pesticide-free and they're just naturally derived pesticides as opposed to ones that have been altered.
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And the irony as a biomedical scientist is that the way in which we create a cell therapy for cancer and the way in which we create a genetically engineered plant for farming, it's the exact same scientific principle. It's just what species you're working on.
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I think a lot of it really is you have this kind of ecosystem where now it's the wellness industry and all these podcasters who are telling you the truth that the scientists and the doctors and the government are hiding from you. And that has led to the explosion of kind of this alt-right wellness industry.
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And this has kind of converged with the growth of increasing health anxiety as a result of the COVID pandemic, where people were You know, they're looking for voices who are going to tell them the quick fixes to take control of their health.
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That's exactly right. And I think this is actually something that is deliberately exploited by these people who are pushing the contrarian anti-science rhetoric, right? Whereas instead where we could be having a legitimate conversation about something like Tuskegee.
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Right. And as a result of that, we have really strict laws about human subjects and human clinical research to avoid those things that were conducted very unethically.
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Or when we talk about how women were not historically included proportionally in clinical trials and laws have been implemented and regulations have been implemented because we know as scientists and as healthcare providers that when we don't appropriately run clinical research where we include the actual groups of people that need to be represented, the data can be impacted, right?
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That's why we talk about study design and sample size and why you can't use a mouse study to make human claims. And as a result, starting in the 90s, we've seen a dramatic improvement in participation in clinical trials, which then informs our therapeutic development. The infrastructure, the institutions have learned from this.
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And these things were bad and that's been acknowledged and we're doing better as a result. What ends up happening is instead of talking about that, they say, oh, well, they don't care about you. That's why they did this. And we talk about things like how the FDA has really strict oversight. And then it's inevitably, well, the opioid epidemic.
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And that is a really complex topic, but it completely derails any conversation about the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of medicines that are safe and regulated and overseen by the FDA.
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You could start to see some of these themes last summer when Ron Johnson hosted the Congressional Roundtable on Nutrition and Health, and it had Callie Means, RFK Jr., Vani Hari. Brigham Bueller, Jillian Michaels, all people that are Maha. But the on-ramps, they all pick at these individual ideologies that resonate with these different factions of people.
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So you're targeting parents and you're saying, oh, well, the water is toxic. The food is toxic. The vaccines are toxic. Well, parents are going to resonate with that because they want to do what's best for their kids. What they're not told is that RFK Jr. is spreading misinformation about
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modern farming tools like GMOs, he's the one that actually was one of the leading litigators making the false claims that glyphosate causes cancer, which has now been picked up by Moms Across America, by the Environmental Working Group, by Vani Hari, by all of these other activists that now tout that.
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Oh, let me count the ways. I mean, I've written quite a bit about this in terms of the harm of legitimizing health disinformation and pseudoscience at a federal level. Now that it's essentially been co-opted into the government, now you have someone who undermines things that save lives and prevent illness and improve health outcomes and also reduce health care costs for all of us.
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So everyone is going to be exposed to that. And as we're seeing measles outbreak continue to rage on, we're seeing vaccines continue to be undermined. That's going to cause preventable illness, preventable death. It's going to cause increased healthcare costs for all of us. And it's going to cause economic impacts for all of us.
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
Yeah, I mean, it's that. And it's also a lot of the other factors that actually do play a role in health. We call those the social determinants of health, right? Things that play a role in health outcomes. And I would not rank chemicals in the environment as positive. anywhere near the top of that list, right?
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I'm Andrea Love. I have a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology. I specialized... Previously in academic research in infectious disease immunology, so understanding host response to infection and how the immune system mediates symptoms and resolution of infection. I now work in life sciences biotech, where I focus on
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If you kind of look at the things that impact someone's health and their ability to manage a condition, get it diagnosed, you have access and ability to get healthcare, right? We know that people who are low income and don't have health insurance and can't seek healthcare in the US have worse health outcomes. They have delayed diagnosis of
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chronische Krankheiten wie Schmerzen, Autoimmunverletzungen und Lebensbedingungen. Sie können sie weniger umsetzen, weil sie all die Karten gegen sie haben. Wenn du über sozioökonomische Faktoren sprichst, ist das wahrscheinlich etwa 30 Prozent deiner Beiträge zu deiner Gesundheit. Das nächste wäre der echte Lebensstil, also Verhältnisse, Gesundheitsverhältnisse.
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Ich glaube, Dr. Cohen hat es vorhin erwähnt, dass niemand über Übungen spricht und niemand über eine gesundheitliche Diät spricht, und das ist nur objektiv falsch.
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Wenn du zu einem Immunologen sprichst, ob es ein klinischer Immunologen oder ein Forschungswissenschaftler ist, wenn wir über die Unterstützung deines Immunsystems sprechen, sind die zentralen Themen moderierter Stress, guter Schlaf, Praxishygiene, das ist Handhygiene, Ernährungshygiene, Oralhygiene, sexuelle Hygiene, all die Hygiene.
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Maintain an active lifestyle and that's going to be different for different people. Everyone needs a different amount of exercise, but we know that exercise is incredibly important for a lot of our physiology. It also would include things like a diverse diet. And we know that.
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88 Prozent der Amerikaner brauchen nicht genug Fibre, und das ist wahrscheinlich eines der einzigen wichtigsten Dinge, die wir tun können, um die Gesundheitsaufgaben auf der Bordseite für viele Gesundheitsbedingungen zu verbessern.
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Und es betrifft auch Dinge wie die Erkrankung von Vakzinen, die Präventiv-Weltbesuche, die echten Beobachtungs- basierenden Untersuchungen für chronische Krankheiten, akute Infektionen und so weiter. So those lifestyle factors, you know, wearing sunscreen, getting your flu shot.
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Yeah, but that's, so your immune system touches every organ system in your body, right? So when we talk about overall health, like the immune system is impacting all of that, right? Whether a pregnant person rejects their fetus, that's because of the immune system. Because the immune system is involved in that Ja, genau. A lot of the signaling cascades are involved.
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There's an entire class of macrophages that are specifically involved. They're called inflammatory macrophages. It's involved in cancer. It's involved in autoimmune disorders. It's involved in infectious diseases. It's involved when you go to the gym and have a hard workout and you're sore afterwards. That's your immune system doing muscle repair.
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So when we talk about overall health, it's all involving the immune system. And so all of these things that are good for overall health are also good for immune health. And when we talk about autoimmune disorders... There's a variety of factors that are involved, right? Aging is a contributor because there's immunosenescence.
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Your immune system is less able to properly regulate all of the complex pathways that it's involved in because there's different cell types, different organ types, different tissue types, different chemicals and different genes that turn them on and off. There's, as I mentioned, a lot of infections that are associated with autoimmune disorders and
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Weil wir sie jetzt besser verstehen und charakterisieren können, verstehen wir jetzt, wie sie eine Rolle spielen könnten. Zum Beispiel war die Epstein-Barr-Multiple-Sklerose-Veränderung erst ein paar Jahre her und wir sind noch in dieser Infanz. Wenn wir über das Immunsystem und das Immunsystem und wie es zur Gesundheit zutrifft sprechen,
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Your ability or the likelihood of whether you're going to get cancer or not is partially dependent on these modifiable behavior lifestyle factors, right? There's a lot of it that's completely out of your control because some of it happens completely randomly.
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Technologies and Assays for preclinical, translational and clinical research for vaccine development, cancer, immunotherapy, cell and gene therapy, pretty much anything related to biomedical science. And I also do science communication through Immunologic. Cool.
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Some of it happens because an error, a mutation occurs in a certain gene and your body just isn't able to use nucleotide excision repair or base excision repair or whatever the case happens to be. and it goes to rise, result, and that happens to be in one of those three critical oncogenic families and cancer progresses. And it's also important to note that there's this misconception that
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Family history is the determination. That's not genetics is probably 10% of these sorts of chronic disease outcomes or your likelihood of predicting whether someone's going to develop it. And a lot of it, it relates to a lot of randomness that you can't predict. And it becomes really appealing to tell people, well, I'm going to give you a label for this symptom that you're experiencing.
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And, and people want that solution because it's really, um, Es ist schrecklich für viele Leute zu sagen, hey, ich habe nicht so viel Kontrolle, wie ich gedacht hätte. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass Menschen länger leben, weil wir nicht kranker sind, als wir jemals gewesen sind. Wir haben unglaubliche Longevity wegen der Wissenschaft und der Gesundheit und der Innovation, richtig? Wir sterben um 47.
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Das war unsere gewöhnliche Lebenserwartung in den frühen 1900ern von akuten Krankheiten, die nicht mehr auf der Liste der leitenden Gründe des Todes sind. Und das ist der Grund, warum unsere Lebenserwartungen in den 70er-Jahren sind. Und das ist der Grund, warum wir Menschen länger leben. Das gibt unserem Körper Zeit, Schadstoffe zu erhöhen, weil wir leben. Das führt zu einigen dieser Krankheiten.
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Ja, also diese sind nicht aus guten Zeichen basiert, diese Befragungen. Sie sind aus den Befragungen von Cherrypicken und Extrapolation. Wenn du diese Befragungen sagst. Also wie die Pestizide, die auf den Füßen sind, die Trace-Levels, die in Teilen pro Billion, Teilen pro Trillion sind, die in deiner, vielleicht eine Trace-Residue auf einem konventionellen Lebensprodukt sind oder
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The kind of challenge to the hygiene hypothesis and claims that children living on farms had reduced rates of asthma or autoimmune disorders or things like that. There's tiny studies that are filled with confounding variables that don't account for all of the features that would determine health outcomes. And in fact,
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The more rigorous studies show that while an arm of the immune system that's involved in response to helminth parasites, more of an IgE-mediated response. Worms for the average person. Yes, worms, sorry, worms. Worms and parasitic infections. It's a very different response to what you have for virus, bacteria, fungal pathogens, etc.,
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That that kind of arm of the immune system does participate in allergic reactions, but there is not robust data that says kids that don't drink pasteurized milk, you know, have. Improved health outcomes when it comes to asthma and allergies and so on. Right.
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We know that at an early age your immune system is educating itself, you know, from when you're born to early colonization, where you start to develop your microbiome. But your microbiome is always changing. It is trillions of microorganisms. And they're dynamic because they're responding to their environment, right?
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The claims about microbiome and what's a good microbiome and what's a bad microbiome are...
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sehr überstatet von Leuten, die nicht vollständig verstehen, was das Mikrobiom ist, besonders wenn wir über das Blutmikrobiom sprechen, aber es gibt ein Mikrobiom überall, das ist absolut wahr, aber das sind lebende Organismen, die zu Inputs reagieren, richtig, also viele der Begriffe, die über Veränderungen im Mikrobiom sprechen, wie wenn wir über Artifizierte Süßigkeiten versus Zucker-Süßigkeiten sprechen und sie sagen, naja,
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dass es eine Veränderung in Actinobacter gab und deshalb muss es schlecht sein. Nun, all das, was es sagt, ist, dass das bestimmte Carbohydrat, das Essen für die Bakterien, bedeutet, dass bestimmte Bakterienspezies es genießen, also wachsen sie und die anderen wachsen nicht. Und dann werden sie zurückkehren, wenn du ihnen ein anderes Essen gibst, richtig?
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Es ist das gleiche, was einem Menschen als Organismus passiert. Dies sind Organismen, die sich immer verändern. Und also...
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You would have to control for that, right? So a lot of these kind of hypotheses are based on observational studies and those are... Exactly what they suggest. They're observational, they're hypothesis generating studies. So there's a lot of studies where someone with a GI disorder is going in and they're getting a biopsy of their intestine.
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And so while they're doing that, they're going to go do some brute force screening of different species of bacteria. There's a lot of caveats there because it's just one moment in time. It's someone who has a pathology. You can't necessarily say how it's temporally related and how it plays a role. If it plays a role, it's an observation. So from there you say, hey, well, we're seeing this trend.
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We're going to now actually conduct something a little bit more robust to better understand that. But we know that these sorts of claims about pathology Ja, genau. Antiseptika, wenn man eine medizinische Prozedur durchführt oder wenn man eine Forschungsstudie macht und eine sterile Umgebung benötigt.
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Mit anderen Antimikrobien, um die Oberflächen zu behandeln, um die Wahrscheinlichkeit des Transfers im Kontext von Nahrungsprodukten zu reduzieren, wo wir wissen, dass die Erkrankung von Nahrungsstörungen eine große Bedeutung ist, oder die Anwendung von Pathogenen auf den Beinen. Das ist nicht gleich.
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Das größte Problem, wenn wir über Mikrobien-Evolution oder Antimikrobien-Resistenz sprechen, ist die Überverschiebung von Antibiotika, wenn sie nicht benötigt werden. Und das ist ein ganz anderer Kaffee von Wurmen. Aber
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You know, the concerns or legitimate considerations of limiting the use of antimicrobials is very different than saying these chemicals are harming our microbiome because there's no data to actually show that whatsoever.
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I will show you all the studies if you need me to. Maybe I can jump in because the National Organic Program was adopted in 1990 and it has restrictions on what type of chemicals you're allowed to use, what types of farming tools you're allowed to use. But it really is nothing more than a marketing ploy.
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There's actually no criteria for nutrition or safety in the National Organic Program whatsoever. And so the USDA Organic Certification is pretty much just a label that was lobbied by National Organic Farmers Associations because they wanted an opportunity to legitimize Their farming practices to give the appearance of health, the healthism sheen, right?
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Ailey made a comment that it was about making this accessible. It's not about having money. You don't need to be rich. But the reality is that Organische Produkte kosten auf der Anzahl von 50-100% höher als ihre konventionellen Vertreterinnen und Vertreter. Und das ist pure Profit, wenn man sich tatsächlich die Profitmargin von konventionellen Füßen gegenüber organischen Füßen anschaut.
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Organische Füße sind 25-32% mehr günstig für die Landwirtschaftsorganisationen. Und wir sprechen von Big Ag, richtig? Wir hören die Sprache Big Ag, wie konventionelle Farmen oft dämonisiert werden, aber... Stonyfields, Applegate, diese sind große organische Infrastruktur. Organische Landwirtschaft kostet hunderttausende Billionen Dollar pro Jahr. Also sagst du, dass es keinen Vorteil gibt?
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Es gibt keinen, also nicht nur gibt es keinen Vorteil, es gibt tatsächlich eine mögliche Bedeutung. Also erstens, organische Landwirtschaft benutzt viele Pestizide. Sie sind nur natürliche Pestizide, anstatt von denen, die... Und was bedeutet das? I'm gonna tell you.
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So, naturally derived pesticides are chemicals that exist somewhere in the ether of nature, meaning they've been identified existing somewhere on this planet, and they have an anti-pest impact, right? So think about... A lot of plants try to deter predators, right?
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So they produce a lot of noxious things to prevent things from eating them, to prevent fungi from infecting them and so on and so forth. So a lot of the organic pesticides are chemicals that are produced by plants naturally and they've been isolated, studied and they're now produced by industrial chemical companies to be used as organic pesticides. So these are merely chemicals
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die irgendwo in der Natur existieren. Also zum Beispiel Pyrethrins sind eine Klasse von organischen Pestiziden, die in organischer Landwirtschaft verwendet oder ermittelt werden. Und ein synthetisches oder ein semisynthetisches Derivative, die Pyrethroide, ist für die Verwendung in konventioneller Landwirtschaft erlaubt.
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Now pyrethroids are actually more stable in ultraviolet light, so they don't deteriorate as quickly, which means that a farmer only needs to apply them once or twice in a growing cycle, whereas pyrethrins are very unstable, so they need to be applied repeatedly to have the same pest control effect. And You know, farmers have to use pesticides. There's no way around it.
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We have 8.1 billion people on this planet. It's not your backyard affluent garden. Like if we need to feed people when there are food deserts and, you know, malnutrition everywhere, pesticides are essential, right? And so we want to use the fewest amount possible that have the most specificity, the fewest off-target effects and most cost effectiveness, right? So those are actually,
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Two related chemicals, one is natural, one is synthetic. They have very similar impact on their target pests. And of course, pesticides have tropism. So an insecticide is not acting on people. An herbicide like glyphosate is not acting on people. Humans don't even have the enzyme that glyphosate targets. But it's kind of a lot of that same rhetoric.
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So a lot of the organic pesticides, because they're not legally permitted to be tweaked in order to improve the specificity, improve the stability, reduce the off-target effect, they actually are worse for the farmers because they have to use more of it to have the same desired effect. They're often worse for the environment because they'll target non-target species.
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So, for example, there are certain fungicides that are used in organic farming that are designed to... Sorry, certain insecticides that are used in organic farming to, say, target aphids on soybean crops. But they also kill the natural predators of aphids, the insidious flower bug and the Asian lady beetle. So now you're...
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was die Aphiden normalerweise töten würde, anstatt vielleicht einige der Aphiden zu töten. Nun, eine synthetische Version oder eine konventionelle Version davon hat Spezifizität gesteigert, also töte es nicht den Insidious Flower Bug, aber es töte die Aphiden.
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Darüber hinaus, einfach weil ein Chemikal natural ist, gegen ein Chemikal, das synthetisch geändert wird, bedeutet das nicht, dass es besser, sicherer ist. less impactful to the environment, less ecologically damaging, healthier. In fact, decades of data have studied health impacts from organic consumption versus conventional consumption.
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There's no health benefit, there's no nutritional advantage. A lot of people cherry pick a study where they look at trace levels of certain micronutrients like phosphorus and so on. That's not necessarily a reflection on organic versus conventional. It's usually... the soil or the ecosystem that it actually was growing in, right?
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Because they'll pull fields in Kansas or they'll pull fields from Europe and they'll try to compare the two. And those are not comparable sites, right? You have to compare within a region that has similar soil. So when you actually look at some of the data for organic pesticides versus conventional pesticides, there are a lot that are actually worse. So for example, um, Ailey lebt in New Jersey.
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Blueberry-Farming ist groß in New Jersey. Und in Blueberry-Farming gibt es viele verschiedene Mildews und Fungi, die Blueberry-Pflanzen töten. Es gibt etwas, was Mami-Berry heißt. Es gibt etwas, was Anthracnose heißt. Und wenn wir die Beeren-Kraft retten wollen, müssen wir diese Beeren So.
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Dieser Koppersulfat hat eine LD50, also eine 50 Prozent lethal Dose von 300 Milligramm pro Kilogramm per Körpergewicht, richtig? Also eine niedrigere lethal Dose bedeutet, dass das Ding an einer kleineren Dose toxisch ist, richtig? Der Koppersulfat muss bis zu sechs Mal während der Erwärmungssaison zu Berry-Fields verwendet werden.
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Wir sprechen also von Frühjahr bis April, März bis Juli, manchmal August, abhängig von der Hybrid-Berry, über die wir sprechen. Es muss bis zu sechs Mal während eines Erwärmungszyklus verwendet werden. Es muss zwischen 1,5 und 4 Pound Koppersulfat pro Hektar verwendet werden. Also 8000 versus 300. So a higher LD50 means it's less toxic because that means a
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an individual can be subjected to that much more of that substance before hitting that toxic threshold. So that's 26.6 times less toxic than the organic fungicide that's used on the berry crops down the road on the organic berry farm.
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On top of that, Mancozeb, because it's been allowed to be chemically altered using what we know about nature and what we know about science, to improve the specificity and improve the stability, only needs to be applied... two, maybe three times in a growing season, and it only needs to be applied at about 1.5 to 3 pounds per acre.
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So, say we look at kind of the ends of application and we say we have a one-acre farm, we are either applying mancozeb or applying copper sulfate. You're going from, you know, anywhere from 26.6 times more toxic on the copper sulfate up to over 100 fold times more toxic if you look at the cumulative application of the entire crop season.
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And so this notion that synthetic chemicals are automatically bad, that we want to reduce the exposure of them and we're going to use some sort of arbitrary blood test to look for conventional pesticides, but we're not going to actually look at the organic pesticides that are used.
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And ironically, because those are less regulated, they actually don't fall under the purview of the USDA Pesticide Residue Report, which is why they're always left off. And that's why the Environmental Working Group never mentions them, because The USDA doesn't monitor them.
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They don't regulate the safe thresholds, whereas conventional pesticides, 99.9% of the time, every single crop that is sampled, whether it's frozen, fresh, imported, grown domestically, are below all of the safety thresholds for whatever pesticide we're using.
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Gute Frage. Also, diese non-monotonische Dosenreaktion ist etwas, das charakterisiert wurde, aber es ist nicht etwas, das eine legitime Bedeutung in den Chemikalien ist, über die Ailey spricht. Und speziell für einige dieser, die als Endokrin-verbreitende Chemikalien bezeichnet werden, weil Toxikologen die niedrigeren Grenzen studieren, richtig?
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Das ist, wie wir Grenzen der Betrachtung an all diesen Assays haben. Wir wissen, was diese niedrigen Grenzen sind. Diese Sicherheitstrende werden beurteilt. Die Gesundheitsimpakte werden auch an den hohen Enden beurteilt. Es ist nicht so, dass wir sagen, dass wir es auf 10 Teile pro Millimeter entfernen.
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Wir werden alles darunter ignorieren, weil es wahrscheinlich kein Problem ist, weil wir das höchst sensitivste analytische Chemie-Equipment auf der Welt haben. Wir können Dinge in Teilen pro Trillionen entdecken, was im Kontext von einem Sekunden in 31.700 Jahren ist. Die Dose-Exposuren sind also 100 % studiert.
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Now, the studies that she's referencing are studies where they looked at things like BPA in petri dishes or in animal models. And none of those have actually been reproduced in humans whatsoever. There's actually no evidence of these sorts of chemicals that are being claimed to have this non-monotonic dose response in humans. And It's the exception, not the norm.
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There are very few outliers of chemicals that might have this effect. But it's why toxicologists actually do really rigorous toxicology studies. So if we talk about something like BPA, for example, because that was brought up, and it's Es wird als ein Endokrin-Bedrohungs-Chemikal genannt, richtig?
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Wenn Sie sich überlegen, wie Sie mit Ihrem Endokrin-System interführen könnten, muss die Substanz zum einen die Hormone ausdrücken, insofern, dass sie sich mit dem Hormon-Rezeptor verbindet und den physiologischen Effekt dieses Hormons erzeugt. Wenn wir also etwas wie BPA sprechen, wird es als ein Mimik von Estradiol genannt, richtig? Das bedeutet, es wird sich mit dem Estradiol-Rezeptor verbinden.
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Estradiol ist die aktive Version von Estradiol in unserem Körper. Well, if you look at How similarly it binds to the estrogen receptor? Well, BPA binds 1,000 to 10,000 times more weekly than estradiol does to the estrogen receptor. So in order to actually exert an endocrine effect, it would have to outcompete estrogen.
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So if it's binding 10,000 times more weekly than your natural hormone, that means you need to be literally blasted with BPA in order to actually experience some realistic effect. Und es gibt eigentlich keine menschliche Beweise, um das zu unterstützen. dieses leckere Wasser auf es, weißt du, was zu diesen Zellen passiert?
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Sie explodieren, weil das ist, was zu Zellen passiert, wenn du pure Wasser auf sie trinkst. Aber das passiert nicht, wenn du pure Wasser trinkst, weil dein Körper viel komplexer ist als ein Petri-Disch. Also, wenn du tatsächlich die Daten in Menschen für BPA schaust, dann ist BPA tatsächlich schnell metabolisiert.
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Es ist nicht in deinem Körper zu akkumulieren, um zu führen, dass es langfristige Effekte hat. Und so ist Endokrin-Entzündung ein echtes Phänomen, aber es wird von Menschen geoptert, die versuchen, Menschen über Chemikalien zu erschrecken, die tatsächlich keinen wirklichen Einfluss haben, die nicht tatsächlich einen Risiko für Ihre Gesundheit stellen.
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Aber es gibt Dinge, die Endokrin-Entzündung-Chemikalien sind, richtig? or hormonal contraception is a legitimate endocrine disrupting chemical. It's an intentional one, right? It's being done so to interfere with your reproductive cycle for a desired outcome.
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But things like parabens, which again also bind 10,000 times to 100,000 times more weekly to estrogen receptor than actual estradiol, BPA and these sorts of things, no one's being exposed to levels of these chemicals that would ever have an actual impact on their health. And it's kind of this like,
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Epitome of like fear mongering and risk perception gap, which is this belief that is created by people who scare people about synthetic chemicals versus natural chemicals that cause them to unnecessarily fixate or fear. Aber wir haben Pseudopersistenz.
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Aber das ist, wie du... Aber das ist, wie du... Weil das ist, was Menschen verursacht werden, leider. Nein, Chemikalien... Menschen werden jeden Tag zu tausenden Chemikalien verursacht. Ja, und dein Körper ist von tausenden Chemikalien hergestellt. Du sagst im Grunde, dass du all diese komplett disparaten Chemikalien nimmst, die komplett unterschiedliche Funktionalgruppen, Strukturen haben,
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Yes, because what you can do is you can do a Petri dish study and you can douse themselves.
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She thinks I'm a paid shill because I'm defending chemicals. I'm curious.
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She thinks I'm a paid shill because I'm defending chemicals. I'm curious.
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Ich denke, hier ist ein zentraler Teil der Pseudoscience, dass sie sagen, oh, well, synthetische Chemikalien sind schlecht und ich werde all diese verschiedenen Chemikalien auslösen. Aber du sagst, sie sind alle gut.
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Du sagst, dass Menschen ausgeschlossen sind.
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Ich habe eigentlich nichts davon gesagt. So when you're talking about chemicals, you have to parse them out, right? You can't say, oh, well, this herbicide that acts on this plant enzyme is and BPA and parabens and, you know, whatever other chemical. We're going to lump them all into the same category and say, well, we're just going to add up all these levels.
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This is exactly what the environmental working group does when they create their organization, by the way, EDG. EWG ist eine der größten Antiscience-Organisationen auf der Welt. Und sie haben tatsächlich ein Antivakzinen-Studium in den frühen 2000ern veröffentlicht, das besagt, dass die Chemikalien und Vakzinen Autismus verursachen. Aber was die EWG macht, ist, dass sie sagen, okay, na gut.
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These strawberries had five residues detected on them at parts per trillion, which each of them individually, because an herbicide is a very different chemical class than an insecticide or a fungicide. And that means that the way your body interacts with it is going to be wildly different because they all have different functional groups. They all have different chemical structures.
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You can't just say, oh, well, I ingested all these chemicals and therefore they're all going to act synergistically because that's not how chemistry and biochemistry works. Aber was der EWG tut, ist, dass sie sagen, okay, well, this one was three parts per trillion, this one was 20 parts per trillion, this one was 40 parts per trillion.
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They're all different classes of pesticides and all of them are a thousand fold lower than the safety threshold, which is already very conservative for these conventional pesticides. But because there were three of them or because there were four of them,
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Wir sagen nur, dass es schmutzig ist, weil es vier verschiedene Pestizide-Residuen gibt, obwohl sie alle sehr unter den Sicherheitsabschlussen liegen und keiner von ihnen überhaupt einen Risiko für die Gesundheit hat. Und wir werden das Essen als schmutzig nennen.
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Aber dieser andere, der nur eine Pestizide-Residue entdeckt hatte, und es war immer noch unter den Sicherheitsabschlussen, aber es war hundertfach unter den Sicherheitsabschlussen, immer noch sicher, immer noch völlig sicher, richtig? Aber es gab nur einen von ihnen. Dieser wird sauber sein, weil nur ein Chemikalus entdeckt wurde.
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Das ist ihre Taktik, wenn none of those foods are harmful at all whatsoever. And so they scare people, particularly lower income people, away from eating conventional produce, which is cheaper, perfectly nutritious, perfectly safe and actually more ecologically beneficial because organic farming yields lower food products per acre. Because it's expensive to eat.
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Es ist eigentlich nur 5% teurer, um zu wachsen, und es ist 32% teurer. Also es ist alles ein Profit-Margin.
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They just pool, they just take the data that was already collected.
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They call it contaminated. They use the phrase contaminated to scare people.
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Also was bedeutet das? Die Europäische Sicherheitsorganisation, die FDA, die USDA.
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Wir sprechen nicht über die Politiker. Wir sprechen nicht über die politischen Anwesenden. Wir sprechen über die Wissenschaftler und Toxikologie-Experten.
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Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health
Welcome to the Checkup Podcast. On this episode, we're answering a simple but loaded question. Are the everyday chemicals in our food, water and homes truly wrecking our health?
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Sweating is not detoxifying. It's a temperature regulation feature of your body.
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You can look at trace secretions, but that's not a detoxification practice. We've had this physiology for millions of years. But I want the answer to the EWG, whether she agrees with that assessment of how they assess risk, when... They're using the USDA Pesticides Residue Report, which, as I mentioned, doesn't include any of the organic pesticides.
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So they're telling people that these are contaminated with conventional pesticides when they're not. They're all well below safety thresholds and those safety thresholds have a What does that mean?
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And then they're going to bring it down another 1,000-fold to make it extra conservative. So you're saying that's your threshold for safety, which is extra conservative to account for high-risk individuals, right? Say pregnant people, young children, elderly, etc., right?
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Und dann sagen diese Pestizide-Residue-Reporte, dass 99,9 Prozent aller Füße getestet werden und alle Pestizide, die beurteilt werden, unter diesen Sicherheitsniveaus liegen. Also gibt es keine Welt, in der diese konventionellen Produkte kontaminiert oder dreckig sind. Und diese Sprache ist intensiv furchtbar.
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Ich bin interessiert. Nun, wenn es um die EWG geht, ist es intensiv, weil ihre Donorien große Organik-Färben sind.
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Yeah, so it's, you know, the precautionary principle is an approach that certain organizations and political lobbyists or, you know, I mean, you see it in science as well, but basically it is kind of the difference between hazard and risk assessment. And so a hazard assessment is making a, or asking the question, is there a world in which
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In some hypothetical, at some hypothetical exposure, some hypothetical outcome could be harmful, right? It's asking, is there some grain of possibility that something could be dangerous, right? Whereas a risk says, I'm going to take that hazard and I'm going to ask,
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Also die Analyse ist ein Schark im Wasser, richtig? Ein Schark im Wasser, im Wasser, im Ozean und ein Schark-Attack ist ein Risiko. Aber wenn du auf der Straße stehst, gibt es keinen Risiko, dass dieser Risiko dir irgendeinen Schaden verursacht. Es ist nur, wenn du physisch im Wasser schwimmst, dass jetzt dieser Risiko, der Schark und der potenzielle Attack von ihm, ein Risiko wird.
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Und auch innerhalb davon gibt es... Nuance, right? How close are you swimming to that shark? How long are you in the water with that shark? What species of shark is it? But there's a lot of variables. Yes. So precautionary principle essentially co-ops the hazard approach. And it says, well, if there's any hypothetical situation in which this exposure to this thing could...
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be harmful, then we must try to avoid it at all costs. But not only is that not realistic, it's not practical and it's also very selective, right? The precautionary principle is often applied by organizations like the Environmental Working Group.
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And they use it to apply to conventional pesticides, but they ignore the potential risks of all the organic pesticides that are used, like copper sulfate and all of these other substances that are used at much higher quantities than the conventional counterparts. And they don't ever use the precautionary principle. an those, right?
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And so when they create these lists and they're scaring people away from conventional produce, well, they mislead people to believe that organic foods are pesticide-free. In fact, if you look at survey-based studies with dieticians conducting the research, Über 95% der Menschen sagen, dass sie Organik essen wählen, obwohl es doppelt der Preis ist, weil sie es glauben, pestizidfrei zu sein.
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Aber es ist nicht so. Und diese Sprache wird spezifisch von Organisationen wie der Umwelt- und Arbeitsgruppe gemacht, um Menschen von konventionellen Früchten zu erschrecken. Und so ist das Präcautionary-Prinzip nicht ein verfügbarer Weg, wenn du ein Mensch bist, der in einem Welt existiert, richtig? or mowing your lawn, all of these things have risk, right?
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So if you were to apply the precautionary principle, then you would be sitting paralyzed in a box because you wouldn't be able to do anything. The reality is you have to take a realistic risk-based approach to your life. And that's really where this risk perception gap comes into play because this type of rhetoric scares people about things that are not the big picture, right? These...
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Das ist nicht die Lösung. Auf der anderen Seite... None of the food products are doused with pesticides, right? Pesticides are used at very specific parts of a growing cycle and they degrade, they deteriorate. Nobody is spraying finished produce with pesticides. And so these sorts of fixations are not actually looking at things that pose a real risk to health.
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So if that is feasible in your lifestyle, but the solution is not buying organic because those are still covered in chemicals, right? Like this, this is the false dichotomy, right? Es ist eine Fixierung oder eine Dämonisierung von synthetischen Dingen über natürliche Dinge ohne Kontext. Wenn du deinen chemischen Ausdruck reduzieren willst, dann musst du das zu Chemikalien anbieten.
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Ich stimme mit ihr. Und dein Körper kümmert sich nicht darum, ob ein Chemikalien synthetisch oder natürlich ist. It only cares what the functional groups are, what the chemical structure is and how it actually interacts with your body.
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If you take vitamin C and you extract it from an orange or a green pepper, because they have lots of vitamin C too, that vitamin C is going to be chemically identical to vitamin C that is synthesized entirely in a laboratory. Your body... Does not care whether it came from a natural source or whether it was synthesized.
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Glyphosate is not in the body in any measurable amount. Well, it gets into the body from the food we eat. In parts per trillion. In parts per trillion, I want to do a little tutorial on glyphosate because it's used as a poster child. Glyphosate is an herbicide and it acts on an enzyme called ESPS in plants.
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It is an enzyme that is used to synthesize specific amino acids that a plant needs because a plant photosynthesizes, right? It's not eating food, so it needs to make its own amino acids so that it can grow and have structure. So those amino acids are used to create structural proteins for a plant.
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Wenn Glyphosat, also lassen Sie mich klar sein, ich werde es nur sehr explizit sagen, Menschen haben diese Enzyme nicht. Andere Tiere haben diese Enzyme nicht. Insekten haben diese Enzyme nicht. Es ist spezifisch für Pflanzen, weil sie Photosynthetische Organismen sind. Glyphosat verbindet sich zu dieser Enzyme und verhindert die Produktion dieser Amino-Azide.
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Als Ergebnis wichert die Pflanze, weil sie keine strukturellen Proteine hat, und sie stirbt. So it's used as a broad spectrum herbicide. It replaced other herbicides that were not broad spectrum that targeted grasses or targeted broad leaf.
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And those herbicides were actually way worse for us, for our health, for the environment, for farmers who actually are the ones that are going to be exposed to any of these things in a measurable amount. So glyphosate.
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Das ist ein Herbizid und wir haben uns ermöglicht, oder Wissenschaftler, agrarische Wissenschaftler, haben uns ermöglicht, eine andere Version des Enzymes zu nehmen, das in Bakterien ist, die nicht von Glyphosat beeinflusst sind. Und sie haben es in sechs verschiedene Pflanzenspezies, die wir in den USA growen. Das Enzyme ist nicht beeinflusst.
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Also die Pflanzen, die die bakterielle Version haben, können in der Präsenz von Glyphosat wachsen, während die Blüten, die diese Pflanzen, die es notwendig sind, zu produzieren, noch wachsen können. Also Glyphosat wird nur an frühen Erhöhungen der Pflanzenschwälder verwendet, wenn Pflanzenschwälder herauskommen, wenn sie gefährlich sind. Sie werden später im Wachstum nicht verwendet.
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Und sie werden verwendet, damit wir Pflanzenschwälder kontrollieren können, ohne die Pflanzenschwälder Andere Herbizide wie Metallichlor und Alichlor, die mehrere Orte höherer Toxizität als Glyphosat waren. Glyphosat ist viel sicherer. Es ist tatsächlich sicherer als die organischen Herbizide, die in organischen Farmen genutzt werden. Klovenöl, Eugenol und 20% Acetat.
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Diese sind zweimal so toxisch wie Glyphosat.
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I mean, before I address it.
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Nun, es retten Bäuer, von anderen Herbiziden zu verwenden, die schlimmer sind.
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I'm not here to battle, I'm not here to support... I want to finish my thought about the glyphosate, because she brought it up and she opened the door and I want to address this misinformation that has been going on for 30, 50 years.
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Oh, so the claims that glyphosate and GMOs are harmful, that it causes leaky gut, that it causes celiac disease, that it's causing cancer. I mean, glyphosate is the poster child for demonization of both conventional farming and GMOs writ large. Und meistens von Leuten, die keine Chemie oder Genetik verstehen. Wir gehen gleich zurück.
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So, can I go back to the... So, this compound is, as I mentioned, they put a bacterial version of this enzyme into six different crop species. It's not impacted. There is an emergence of certain weeds that have developed... It is not. It is not. Ich meine, es ist 100 Prozent. Wir müssen das googeln.
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Und auch die Europäische Kommission hat die Registrierung von Glyphosat bis 2033 wieder geöffnet.
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Also Glyphosat ist kosteneffektiv, ermöglicht Landwirten, saubere Erdbeeren zu benutzen, um Weide zu kontrollieren. Es wird nur in einem spezifischen Erwärmungszyklus benutzt. Und wenn Menschen davon ausgesprochen werden, würde es auf einem Sojabaseprodukt sein, normalerweise etwas, das Sojabeenöl oder so weiter hat.
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And the levels that people are exposed to that might be in these products, they're detected by urine, right? So urine is a waste product, which means that your body is excreting it like it's supposed to. And so they're finding things like 390 to 400 parts per trillion of glyphosate in urine samples.
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What those people that say that fail to leave out is that they also looked at people who said that they eat organic food. And the levels were the same. So this is not... Uniquely because of conventional foods versus organic foods. And there's also no health impact of these levels because one, your body literally does not have this enzyme.
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There's no plausible mechanism of action, especially at those levels. Now, when we talk about the cancer claims, It's really important to understand that the IARC or the International Agency for Research on Cancer is one working group of the WHO. There is a different organization entity within the WHO called the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, the JECFA.
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And they have also done safety assessments on glyphosate. But the IRC is the only agency, I don't even want to call it an agency because it's a working group, that performs hazard assessment, not risk assessment.
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Now, in the context of glyphosate, the president of the IRC, or at least the president at the time, a gentleman named Christopher Wild, he actually omitted the largest epidemiological longitudinal study of farm workers in Glyphosate-Exposure. 55.000 Landwirte und über 12.000 ihrer Schwestern haben sie für mehrere Jahrzehnte getrackt. Es heißt das Landwirtschafts- und Gesundheitsstudium.
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Und sie schauten sich an, wie die gefährlichen Krankheiten aus dem Ausfall von Glyphosat aussehen, seit Jahren als Landwirte. Und es gab keine Beziehung zu Glyphosate-Exposure und Krankheitsaufkommen. Das ist der Grund, over 20 different scientific expert agencies around the world. This is not just EPA.
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This is European Food Safety Authority, Health Canada, New Zealand and Australian Food Safety Agency, Japan Health Safety Agency, France, it's called ANSYS, or maybe that's the Brazilian one, but Brazil, France, Germany, etc., European Commission, they have all...
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definitively stated and repeatedly definitively state that glyphosate poses no risk to human health, whether we're talking about farm workers who are exposed to higher rates of it or trace inconsequential exposures through food consumption. There's no data.
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Glyphosate is probably one of the most studied chemistries on the planet because of misinformation from organizations like the Environmental Working Group, like Moms Across America and other agencies. that kind of paint themselves as these champions of health, but in reality are actually undermining 50 years of data.
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And if you talk to farmers, this threat to their livelihood and also the threat to their safety, because they're the ones that are going to have to switch to a worse herbicide if glyphosate gets banned, it's also going to lead to billions of dollars in food cost, which is going to be transferred to consumers. Now, when we talk about genetic engineering, Aber Glyphosate und GMOs sind nicht gleich.
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Wir benutzen genetische Engineering für viele Dinge. Es gibt eigentlich keine GMO-Strawberrie, die existiert. Aber wenn wir über genetische Ingenieure denken, ist die gleiche Wissenschaft, die es gibt, um G-Kräfte zu erschaffen. Es ist die gleiche Wissenschaft, die wir benutzen, um Zelltherapien für Kanzer zu erschaffen.
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Es ist die gleiche Wissenschaft, die goldenen Reis erschaffen hat, die die Landwirte in den Philippinen ermöglicht hat, mit Vitamin A Reis zu wachsen, weil Vitamin A, legitime Vitamin-A-Defizienz, eine große Ursache für pädiatrische Leidenschaft und Tod ist. And that was approved. It was developed in the 1990s.
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GE crops undergo the most rigorous field and safety studies of any crops grown conventional, organic or otherwise. It was approved. It was developed in the 1990s. Golden rice. It was approved in the Philippines for farmers to grow in 2021. And a judge, because of misinformation scaring people about GMOs, rescinded that last year in 2024.
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So now we go from a developing nation that golden rice would literally save millions of children's lives to now farmers being told they're not able to grow this. And this was provided passively. Patentfree, you know, there's a lot of claims about how it's all this big ad kind of evil, you know, monopoly.
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But when we talk about things like BT eggplant, which allow farmers in developing nations to grow eggplant with fewer insecticides. Well, that was provided patentfree, low cost so that.
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GMOs haben die Anzahl der Pestizide, die wir zusammen über die letzten 20 Jahre genutzt haben, reduziert und es ermöglicht, die Nahrung von Färben zu erhöhen, weil diese wissenschaftlichen Mittel eine Innovation sind, die unsere Gesundheit verbessert.
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Ja, das ist eine tolle Frage und ich denke, dass es wirklich die Konfliktion dieses Themas unterschätzt und es ist etwas, das wirklich prävalent ist in den sozialen Medien und der Influencer-Industrie, weil wenn wir über Autoimmunsysteme sprechen, gibt es über 90 verschiedene Autoimmunsysteme und sie sind alle... Das ist unglaublich multifaktorisch, richtig?
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Und ein Rheumatologen handelt nur von Knie-Tissue, Rheumatologen-Disordern, die nicht die Skope aller Autoimmunität sind. Das wäre mehr unter der Skope eines klinischen Immunologen. Aber wenn wir über Autoimmun-Disordern sprechen, haben wir ziemlich gute Daten über einige der Beiträge zu vielen dieser. Und We have pretty good data about ways to manage these types of conditions.
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But I want to understand, because you said that, you know, people should be avoiding all these man-made chemicals. So why should they not be avoiding... Was ist ein organischer Komponent? You you omit all of the. So, for example, let's talk about like Salison, right? Salison was the precursor. It's derived from Willow Bark and it has analgesic properties. Aspirin. No, it's not aspirin.
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Actually, it's Salison. Salison has. Potentially very severe adverse effects. And thanks to chemical synthesis, we converted it to acetylsalicylic acid, which is aspirin. And sulfasalazine, which is another drug I use for my patients. So acetylsalicylic aspirin is man-made. It has better safety profile. It has better analgesic properties than the natural salicin.
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So why do you have a problem with man-made chemicals? Well, who has access to salicin? Well, you're proving my point. You're undermining man-made chemicals.
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What about copper sulfate? You don't have a problem with copper sulfate being 26.6 times more toxic?
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Was ist die Information, die unklar ist, dass synthetische Chemikalien eine große Bedeutung haben und natürliche Chemikalien sind völlig sicher und du solltest diese 21-Tage etwas für dein Körper detoxifizieren, wenn deine Organsysteme das für dich tun. Hast du den 21-Tag-Plan gesehen?
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Wie hast du das Buch gelesen? I was provided it to read during my prep for the episode. Okay, good, good, good. So I know that you said in the opening that you believe that environmental exposures are the number one cause of chronic and acute diseases. And as we talked about autoimmune disorders.
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Sie sagte, ähm, ich habe eigentlich die Quote, warte mal. Ähm, ich glaube, dass wirtschaftliche Chemikalien die Nummer eins sind, weil sie die meisten akuten und chronischen Krankheitsbedürfnisse sind. Das ist auf Seite 22 des Buches. Also, das ist objektiv falsch. Das ist unerlässlich Information, die das ganze Buch auf der Bühne ist. Aber ich sagte, ich glaube. Ich glaube.
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Ja, du glaubst, und das Glauben ist falsch.
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Es könnte einen Schaden für bestimmte Auslösungen geben. Und das ist der Grund, warum die Dose den Pest und die echte Identität der Chemie und der Identität der Auslösung wichtig ist, richtig?
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The central theme of this book is that environmental chemicals are the number one cause of acute and chronic illnesses and goes into a litany of synthetic chemicals, bad, everything else we're not even going to talk about. When if you looked at the biggest determinants of both acute and chronic health outcomes, environmental chemicals are not in the top five, right?
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But the hallmark or the central theme of autoimmune disorders are that your immune system, which normally should tolerate certain self.
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We're talking about healthcare access. Yes, lifestyle, but we're talking about corporate talking. When we talk about lifestyle, we're not talking about Ernährung, Ernährung, Schlaf, Stress-Management, Fibre, nicht zu essen, nicht zu essen, organisch gegen konventionell. Das ist ein kleiner Teil dieses ganzen Buches. Eigentlich hast du viele, viele Teile an organisch in dem Buch.
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Yes, and drinking should be driven by evidence-based guidance. And that's why when you talk to all credible registered dietitians who are the experts on clinical guidance for diet, they all say that messaging that tells people that organic good, conventional bad, does way more harm.
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Antigens Antigens are proteins or molecules that are present normally should ignore them and that establishes a feature of tolerance meaning it encounters things on your cells or things that you ingest the same reason that food allergies are not nearly as widespread as they could be theoretically because your immune system encounters them and it's like hey I don't need to have a reaction to that because this is something benign
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Yeah, I mean, it's a great question and it's a reason why there's a difference between a clinician and scientists, right? Scientists are the ones that conduct scientific studies and they ask all these questions, right? That's why we look at Toxicologists look at both chronic and acute exposures when also setting all of these safety thresholds.
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So a chronic exposure assumes an exposure of that level every single day for the course of a human life. So all of these pesticides, any regulated chemical. And again, that excludes organic pesticides because they don't fall under the regulation and also excludes like all the dietary supplements, which also don't fall under regulation.
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But we have data for those values, both the acute and the chronic levels at which there might be a health risk. Right. And so those are assessed based on the actual chemical itself. the nature of the chemical, right? What class of chemical is it? What functional groups that chemical has? Because a chemical is not just the sum of its parts, right?
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We hear that rhetoric a lot when they're like, oh, the aluminum in this thing, when it's not elemental aluminum, it's a salt and it's an ionic compound. And that changes the behavior of that chemical dramatically, right? So it's it factors that in it factors in how it's metabolized, right? Is it metabolized through renal metabolism, through blood liver metabolism? How is it excreted?
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Is there potential for interaction or receptor binding in humans? Und es faktoriert all diese Dinge ein, wenn es diese chronischen und akuten Niveaus betrachtet, richtig? Also ja, ich meine, es gibt Dinge, die wir kennen, die in unseren Körpern akkumulieren können, richtig? Wir wissen Dinge wie Vitamin A, welches Fatsolubel ist, kann schneller akkumulieren als eine wassolubel Vitamin.
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In certain instances that is not the case and that immune response leads to an inflammatory cascade where inflammatory chemicals are produced, it recruits and activates a variety of different immune cells and these are going to be different depending on what type of autoimmune disorder we're talking about and that can lead to tissue damage or cellular damage and
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Und das Gleiche ist für jede Chemie wahr, denn wiederum, alles ist Chemie. Du bist eine Tasche von Chemikalien. Dein Körper produziert mehr Formaldehyde in Höhe von der Größe, zu der du ausgesprochen werden würdest und all diese Sachen. Und so sind diese Dinge in den Faktoren, richtig?
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Und wenn du in dieser Konversation bist, wenn jemand versucht, eine bemerkenswerte Risiko-Anschätzung zu machen, was sie sich konzentrieren sollten gegenüber dem, was sie sich nicht konzentrieren sollten, würden solche Dinge eingeführt werden, weil wir Wissenschaftler haben, die tatsächlich dieses Werk machen.
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Diese Rhetorik, dass dieses Werk nicht gemacht wurde, nur weil jemand es nicht weiß, bedeutet nicht, dass dieses Werk nicht gemacht worden ist.
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So, all of the toxicology regulatory agencies conduct all of these data. So, if you wanted to understand what's been tested... So, I'm going to answer that after I finish my sentence. So, like, for example, European Chemicals Agency, they have everything that's ever been registered and tested, and that includes excipients, adjuvants, it includes any sort of emulsifiers or anything.
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Additive agents that would allow for distribution to ensure that it doesn't get degraded, stability, etc. Same sort of things that you would see in regulated medications. Now, these... Why not? It's going in our bodies. I'm speaking right now. Wait, hold on. Why wouldn't you want people to know that? Because only 28% of Americans are scientifically literate.
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Veränderungen in der Funktion einer Person, richtig?
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I'm saying that... weil sie eine Missverständlichkeit über Chemie haben und sie für Rhetorik fallen. Wer soll sagen, dass sie eine Missverständlichkeit über Chemie haben?
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Du hast ein Buch geschrieben, das basiert auf der Verwendung von synthetischen Chemikalien und nicht natürlichen Chemikalien.
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Also, es gibt keine einzige Antwort, richtig? Es gibt viele verschiedene Beiträge dazu. We know that there are certain viral infections that are players in this. So there are certain types of viruses that can establish latency after primary infection.
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Any chemical that is regulated where we're talking about a medication or a pesticide, the full... Medications and pesticides are two different bodies.
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Es gibt auch ungeinflagte Kosmetik und Pestizide. Weil das nicht reguliert ist. Pestizide sind reguliert. Und sie sind registriert. Du kannst also die Registrierung nicht nur des aktiven Ingredients, sondern auch der echten Marke, Formulierung, auch wenn es eine extensivere Veröffentlichung gibt und eine schnellere Veröffentlichung gibt. Du kannst die Registrierung von jedem von ihnen bekommen.
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Und das hat den Sicherheitsprofil.
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Es hat alle Sicherheitsdaten und alle Toxikologie-Daten.
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Well, it's not only hard to get, but it's... But this does not exist for organic pesticides, because they are not regulated.
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And that means that they while you recover from the illness and the infection itself, the virus, because of the nature of the genetics of it, can actually exist in your body, kind of hanging out indefinitely until something happens. And what that something might be, it's going to be different. Depending on the person. Sometimes it's an acute immunosuppression.
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Es gibt große Lobbyisten hinter den Organik-Farmen und Supplement-Firmen und der Gesundheit-Firmen.
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Like say they're a solid organ transplant recipient and they have to take immunosuppressant medication so they don't reject the organ. That could elicit something. There are, and there's a variety of different types of viruses that are associated with that. Some of the herpes viruses, some of the papillomaviruses.
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But the swaps are not better. They're less tested, less safe, more expensive.
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Let me use an example. So paraben fear was based on the same premise as BPA fear, right? It's an endocrine disrupting chemical, right?
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So what ended up happening is that lobbyists and wellness influencers kind of pushed this rhetoric that parabens, which are actually an incredibly safe antimicrobial that's used to prevent contamination in both medicines and cosmetic products for 100 years, used at a tiny level because that's all you need to control mold and bacterial contamination for things that you dip into repeatedly in your humid bathroom.
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Aber wegen dieser falschen Rhetorik, dass sie zu Kanzern verbunden waren, was aufgrund einer schrecklichen Studie basiert war, die im Grunde gezeigt hat, dass ihre Instrumentation kontaminiert wurde. Aber das hat all diese Angst verursacht, weil die Leute nicht wussten, was Parabens waren.
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Und sie hielten sich auf Menschen in den sozialen Medien und Medien, um sie über Chemikalien zu erschrecken, was einer der Schäden ist, all diese Informationen ohne Kontext, ohne entsprechende Bildung zu geben.
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So what ended up happening was companies were like, well, people don't want parabens, even though parabens are overwhelmingly safe and there's actually no human data that shows that it's a cancer risk. They're not going to buy these products anymore. So they have to kowtow to the public perception, which is part of the problem that we're in these days. And we have cleaner products because of it.
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We actually don't. We actually don't. So what ended up happening was some companies omitted preservatives outright and we saw a huge uptick in contamination and infections as a result, including... Not true. That is not true that I've ever heard of. I have actual data. So I know you don't have data, but I'm a scientist, so I have data.
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There was spikes in ocular infections because parabens are used in certain ophthalmic treatments as well as contamination and bacterial infections from preservative-free lotions, skincare products, baby wipes and so on. I have a very long list because I did an extensive presentation at a cosmetic chemistry conference on parabens specifically. So one route was no preservatives.
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We're going to market it as preservative free because preservatives, just like synthetic chemicals, sound scary, even though they actually improve the quality and quantity of our lives. The other option was other companies opted for alternative preservatives, one of which is methyl isothiazolinone or MIT. Now, MIT is also an effective antimicrobial. It has about 10% allergenicity.
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So what ended up happening was when companies switched to MIT over parabens, huge rates of dermatologic allergies, skin allergies were happening because this was being swapped out in cosmetic products, lotions, make-ups, etc. So you're swapping for a safer...
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Genau, das ist ein Herpes-Virus. Diese können die Latenz im Körper erzeugen. Das Epstein-Barr-Virus ist auch ein Herpes-Virus und das hat mit der Entwicklung von Multiple Sklerose zu tun. Aber es gibt auch andere, wo es ziemlich idiopathisch ist und wir genau nicht wissen, was es enthält.
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more well studied preservative because of public outcry and chemophobia and misinformation for a less safe, more allergenic preservative because of all this misinformation. So you can provide information to people and I think that's what we should be doing, but it needs to be the accurate information and factual information and not information that's based on the eye of the beholder.
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No, it's actually not. This is based on empirical data. Empirical data is what determines objective reality. What we have instead is not objective facts and evidence-based information. It's the appeal to nature fallacy and also telling people that they shouldn't trust
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Unternehmen, Wissenschaftler, die ihre Karriere an der Studie der chemischen Komposition, wie sie mit uns interagieren, wie sie von unseren Körpern exkretiert werden. Aber anstattdessen sollten wir unsere Homemade-at-Home-Produkte machen, die keine Sicherheit, keine Regulierung, keine Überzeugung, keine Chemie. Do you think that the idea that parabens were excluded unnecessarily?
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They're useful to cause health anxiety.
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Besonders wenn wir über Dinge wie Type 1 Diabetes sprechen, was ein Autoimmunsystem ist, wo eure pancreatischen Blutzellen zerstört werden und somit keine Insulin mehr produziert werden kann. Das ist eine sehr andere Pathologie als etwas wie Vitiligo, wo dein Immunsystem die Melanocytes in deiner Haut zerstört, lediglich zu dieser patchigen Pigmentation.
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So you made a quote, you said, I won't lie, eating mostly organic foods and buying chemical-free consumer products can be expensive, so I've come up with some hacks and tips to save money while making safer choices, which I share throughout this book. Everything is a chemical. We need to understand that your body is... Vinegar is a chemical. It's acetic acid. Agreed.
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Your actual body is made up of a network of chemicals. Your cells are chemical networks. Your cell membranes are chemicals. If you don't fully understand this... But everyone understands. I don't understand. What's your point?
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You're saying that we should be avoiding synthetic chemicals. Synthetic chemicals. There's nothing inherently bad about a synthetic chemical.
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Die Art und Weise, wie du diese Dinge behandeln wunderschön anders. Und das ist wirklich der Grund, warum du Autoimmunsysteme nicht in einem einzigen Bucket lösen kannst. We also know that there's some gender specificity. Women are about two times higher, more likely to develop certain autoimmune disorders than others. It's not all autoimmune disorders.
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Where do they get their funding from? You just said that you trust these apps to make these product recommendations, but your whole book is telling people to not trust scientists and trust your anecdote about your farm.
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These apps make money by getting subscribers that they scare about products and the products that they rate as bad. haben synthetische Chemikalien oder verwenden konventionelle Landwirtschaft oder haben Preservativen. Also ist es sehr viel die Begründung der Natur-Fallasie.
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Und der Grund, warum die Begründung der Natur-Fallasie ist, ist, weil es der falsche Glauben ist, dass natürliche Substanzen und Chemikalien inhaltlich besser, sicherer sind. Ja, genau. has no bearing on its safety or potential harm. And your entire book is antithetical to that.
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It tells people that they should be scared of synthetic chemicals by and large, without any context, and that they should not have any issues trusting any sort of entity that is making money by telling them that they should only source natural products. Not exactly.
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There appears to be a role in endocrine signaling, hormone signaling in that. That's also why we see... The majority of autoimmune disorders present during kind of middle age, where you start to see kind of increased. But a lot of changes in diagnosis or increased rates or increased prevalence is not necessarily because these things are actually happening more frequently.
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It's because we actually know how to characterize them better, how to identify these types of diseases. Wir hatten keine Diagnostik-Tools, keine klinischen Kriterien. Und weil die Symptome oft nebulös sind oder nicht unbedingt mit einander verbunden sind, ist es wirklich schwer, ein Label darauf zu setzen.
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Und deshalb ist es das gleiche Thema, das wir mit Autismus-Spektrum-Disordern sprechen, wo wir Rates in Bezug auf Diagnosen erhöhen sehen, was eine erhöhte Prävalenz bedeutet. Aber es ist nicht so, dass... more autism is necessarily happening.
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Es gibt natürliche Formen von Farben. Und Kokonillen haben höhere Allergen-Rate als ein rotes Farben. Es gibt keine Frage, dass regrettbare Substitutionen existieren.
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It's because the criteria, the clinical criteria, the scope of how you can recognize and diagnose and then manage it is better because we understand more about those diseases. Interesting.
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My website is immunologic.org. And my social handle is at dr.andrealove. Cool. Thank you.