In this episode 38 protocols
▶ 18:43 Limit Microplastic Exposure Before, During, and After Pregnancy Behaviors “If you are pregnant or if you have young kids, or if you are a young kid, you want to go out of your way to limit your exposure to these microplastics and nanoplastics.” ▷ 22:54 Limit Plastic Bottled Water Behaviors “A very simple way to limit your exposure to microplastics and nanoplastics is to avoid drinking water from plastic bottles, in particular plastic bottles that have been heated up.” ▷ 23:54 Glass Bottle Tools “You're much better off having either a stainless steel bottle or some sort of ceramic mug or using glass or using some other vessel for water that is reusable. And of course that is not made of plastic.” ▷ 23:54 Ceramic Mug Tools “You're much better off having either a stainless steel bottle or some sort of ceramic mug or using glass or using some other vessel for water that is reusable. And of course that is not made of plastic.” ▷ 23:54 Stainless Steel Water Bottle Tools “You're much better off having either a stainless steel bottle or some sort of ceramic mug or using glass or using some other vessel for water that is reusable. And of course that is not made of plastic.” ▷ 24:22 Reverse Osmosis Filter Tools “The best way turns out to be a little bit expensive, admittedly, and that's to use a reverse osmosis filter. So reverse osmosis filters will get rid of all the microplastics and nanoplastics.” ▷ 24:29 Remineralize Reverse Osmosis Water Behaviors “Of course, it will also remove some key minerals from the water. So you'll have to remineralize that water.” ▷ 25:33 Fill Reusable Bottles With Filtered Water Behaviors “The home reverse osmosis filter with remineralization actually will save on costs, provided that one is good about filling glass bottles or stainless steel bottles with that water and making sure to, you know, when you leave the house to take those bottles with you.” ▷ 28:31 Use Non-Marine Salt Instead of Sea Salt Diet “Focus on something like pink Himalayan salt or salt that comes from a non-marine source, okay? It's very simple to do.” ▷ 32:43 Avoid Canned Soup Diet “My suggestion would be, unless you have a powerful reason to consume canned soup, don't consume canned soup.” ▷ 35:12 Avoid Microwaving Plastic Containers Behaviors “In general, it's a good idea to avoid putting any kind of plastic into the microwave, at least if you're going to microwave food and then consume that food.” ▷ 35:19 Avoid Paper Cups for Hot Drinks Behaviors “The other surprising, at least to me, source of BPAs and BPSs, so these endocrine disruptors and microplastics and nanoplastics that's very robust is paper cups.” ▷ 36:26 Transfer Hot Drinks Out of Paper Cups Quickly Behaviors “What I did is as soon as I got back, I took the coffee and I poured it into a ceramic mug.” ▷ 36:47 Avoid Drinking Through Plastic Lids Behaviors “The plastic lids, probably a good idea to avoid drinking through those plastic lids too often.” ▷ 37:24 Bring Your Own Travel Mug Behaviors “Probably a good idea to just bring your mug with you, your travel mug with you, try and make those mugs and travel mugs ceramic, stainless steel, or some other vessel that doesn't contain BPAs or BPSs.” ▷ 1:03:04 Cruciferous Vegetables Diet “One way that you can enhance phase two liver control detoxification processes is by increasing your intake of something called sulforaphane, which is present in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and cauliflower.” ▷ 1:04:17 Lightly Cook Cruciferous Vegetables Behaviors “If you cook broccoli and cauliflower lightly, okay? So you don't just turn into a complete mash. You don't boil it such that a lot of the nutrients are leached out into the water around it. So if you do sort of a light boil or a steam or something like that, or you pan cook it, maybe in some olive oil, you'll still maintain the sulforaphane in those cruciferous vegetables.” ▷ 1:07:24 Sulforaphane Supplements “In my case, after researching this episode, I opted to start taking 50 milligrams, five zero milligrams of sulforaphane per day. I'm going to see how that goes.” ▷ 1:08:37 Dietary Fiber Diet “One way to potentially increase the amount of microplastics and nanoplastics, BPAs, BPSs, phthalates and forever chemicals, those PFASs, from your body is to make sure that you're getting enough dietary fiber.” ▷ 1:12:18 Cast Iron Cookware Tools “Avoiding nonstick pans, trying to cook mainly with cast iron or ceramic and making sure that those are BPA, BPS and PFAS free.” ▷ 1:12:18 Ceramic Cookware Tools “Avoiding nonstick pans, trying to cook mainly with cast iron or ceramic and making sure that those are BPA, BPS and PFAS free.” ▷ 1:12:18 Avoid Nonstick Pans Behaviors “Avoiding nonstick pans, trying to cook mainly with cast iron or ceramic and making sure that those are BPA, BPS and PFAS free.” ▷ 1:14:20 Choose Lower-PFAS Carbonated Water or Avoid It Diet “You could either decide to avoid carbonated water altogether, or if you're going to be smart about it, you probably want to avoid the ones that contain more of these foreign contaminants.” ▷ 1:15:55 Deliberate Heat Exposure for Sweating Behaviors “The other thing is to sweat, okay? We vastly underestimate or downgrade the power of sweating... trying to get your body to sweat pretty robustly at least once a week is a good idea for all sorts of reasons.” ▷ 1:16:41 Sauna Tools “I've done entire episodes about deliberate heat exposure. So things like sauna done anywhere from once a week to four times a week, pretty impressive data in terms of reducing all-cause mortality, improving cardiovascular function.” ▷ 1:18:23 Avoid Packaged Food, Especially Plastic-Packaged Food Diet “The other two don'ts, or I should say don'ts, are things like avoiding consumption of packaged food or food that's packaged in plastic.” ▷ 1:18:55 Farmer's Markets Tools “One way that you can avoid plastic packaging is go to farmer's markets, bring your own bags, bring your own baskets.” ▷ 1:18:55 Bring Your Own Bags or Baskets When Shopping Behaviors “One way that you can avoid plastic packaging is go to farmer's markets, bring your own bags, bring your own baskets.” ▷ 1:19:46 Reduce Clothing Purchases and Reuse Clothing Longer Behaviors “The other don'ts that we haven't talked so much about are to reduce the number of clothes that you purchase.” ▷ 1:20:10 Guppy Bag Tools “There are the things like the guppy bag that you can, I love the name, the guppy bag that you can buy at pretty low cost. You can find those easily online that will trap some of that stuff.” ▷ 1:20:19 Washing Machine Microfiber Filter Tools “There are filters that you can put within specific washing machines. Some places actually require this now that capture those microfibers.” ▷ 1:25:15 Avoid Microwave Popcorn Diet “Microwave popcorn turns out to be a major source of these things. Basically any bag or container, canned bag or plastic that has a lining that prevents oily stuff from staining it and getting through, such as microwave popcorn, very likely is a source, or I should say a rich source of microplastics, nanoplastics and endocrine disruptors.” ▷ 1:25:54 Tooth Tablets Diet “When I did the oral health episode, I talked about some tooth tablets. I've become quite fond of these.” ▷ 1:26:00 Hydroxyapatite Supplements “These are tooth tablets that include something called hydroxyapatite, which is great for the remineralization of teeth because it turns out your teeth can fill in little cavities that start to form and overall tooth health.” ▷ 1:33:08 Nitrile Gloves Tools “If you are somebody who handles receipts a lot for your job, probably best to use nitrile gloves, okay? Not latex gloves, but nitrile gloves.” ▷ 1:33:18 Avoid Paper Receipts Behaviors “If you're somebody who purchases things, maybe just say, no thanks, I'll take the electronic receipt or no receipt.” ▷ 1:33:33 Avoid Handling Receipts After Applying Sunscreen or Lotion Behaviors “It's very clear that if you use sunscreen or lotions of any kind on your hands, you handle receipts, it can increase the access of those BPAs to your bloodstream.” ▷ 1:34:01 Check Cans and Kitchenware for BPA, BPS, and Forever Chemicals Behaviors “Look at the different things that you cook within your kitchen. Try and cook from cast iron or ceramic. And if you don't, look at the other pans and cans and things in your environment and see what your likely exposure to these BPAs, BPSs, and forever chemicals is and make choices accordingly.”