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today we're going to talk about the
toxins that are lurking in your kitchen
and I'm not going to be talking about
the obvious toxins like the chemicals
and detergents and bleaches and cleaners
and bug sprays all that kind of stuff
I'm going to talk about those hidden
toxins that you might not be thinking
about all right the first one I'm going
to talk about is the toxins in nonstick
cookware you know the stuff that
actually is really convenient for frying
an egg uh or cooking uh food that might
nor Al stick so I'm not talking about
Teflon Teflon shouldn't be having Teflon
shouldn't even be able to buy Teflon but
even those non-stick pans um actually
can flake off if you scratch it but
those most non-stick surfaces contain
pfas this stands for uh perr and polyal
alcohol substances these are forever
chemicals and they're really bad for the
body they're also bad for the
environment one scratch in a non-stick
surface can release 9,000
pfas forever chemical particles uh and
and that's something that you can can
get into your food so what's the
solution to that rather than use a
nonstick pan use natural nonstick so
cast iron that's properly seasoned uh
it's a great non-stick surface or cook
with stainless steel that's what they
use in restaurants it's a great uh
surface or use a copper pan all right
so another hidden source of toxins in
your kitchen are plastic containers you
know the ones that actually have been
sold plastic containers with a top so
convenient for leftovers so convenient
for bringing your lunch the next day to
work right well here's the thing we now
know that plastic sheds
microplastics and nanoplastics these are
tiny tiny little pieces of plastics into
your food and here's another one what
about the plastic cutting board right so
easy to clean uh uh lightweight well I
can tell you that when you cut onto the
uh plastic cutting board you're
releasing microplastics right into the
raw food uh that you're actually cutting
in an Italian study recently showed that
people with cardiovascular disease they
found 50% of those people when they
actually looked at the blockages in
their blood vessels had plastic
microplastics and nanoplastics stting
embedded inside the damaging plaques in
their blood vessels this means that uh
we're actually getting Plastics from our
food stuck into the disease tissue in
our blood vessels the clogs for your
heart for your cored arteries going to
your brain which is how they discovered
this some of it comes from food they
also think some of it might come from
the air that we actually breathe
nonetheless plastic in your kitchen is a
hidden source of the toxins that are
coming from U microplast Plastics okay
third hidden Source other sources of
plastic think about the amount of
plastic cups that you have or plastic
plates or plastic utensils or styrofoam
these are really kind of like the bread
and butter of convenience culture in the
kitchen they inexpensive you go to a
party you can entertain with them it all
goes into the trash so good in terms of
a convenience so bad when it comes to
your health all right now Ultra
processed foods another the packaging
another source of of Plastics in fact
many of these plastic packaging contain
bpas that's bisphenol a all right uh
there's 30 to 40 different kinds of
these harmful poisonous plastic they all
get shed um into our food think about
that um uh Frozen uh food that's got a
little plastic thing that you poke with
the fork and stick it into the microwave
what do you think that plastic is going
to be shedding micro Plastics into your
food so again lots of hidden toxins have
associ with microplastics so what's the
solution well avoid uh packaged foods
with plastic on them all right just know
that they're going to be Laden with all
these microplastics and shed them in uh
and rather than using uh plastic plates
and plastic silverware uh plastic cups
get paper cups paper plates or for
utensils swap out the plastics for
Wooden Spoons uh that might be actually
a much better way uh to be able
to avoid those hidden toxins and better
for the environment as well another
source of hidden uh toxins is your
kitchen sink sponge all right now this
is actually kind of a crazy thing but
we're using the sponge to clean our
plates right well Studies have shown
that sponges can contain
362 types of bacteria that you know the
sponge is used to for the plate it sits
there wet perfect uh environment for
bacteria to grow we don't wash the
sponge we actually wash use a sponge to
wash everything else it's just sits
there festering and growing like a petri
dish all right and and and and how many
bacteria can grow 362 types of bacteria
46 billion bacteria per square
centimeter of your sponge all right so
what's a better choice well you can
actually throw out your sponge you know
every after every use or after every
couple uses perhaps not very
economically efficient all right an
expensive way to clean your dishes or
you can actually use a brush all right
brushes have been studied and they've
been shown to Harbor less bacteria than
a sponge a sponge like the perfect petri
dish brushes are a little bit better
although they also grow bacteria as well
what you want to do if you use a brush
is to wash after you use a brush to
clean you want to clean your brush okay
uh wash your brush after each use uh use
hot water use some soap on the brush and
that'll keep the bacteria down all right
what about another hidden source of
toxins well soaps and detergents that
contain fragrance you know the uh the
the hand soap uh that actually smells
nice makes your hand smells nice you
know it could be lavender could be
Citrus whatever it is it turns out that
flavoring these fragrances contain
phalates that's spelled p h t h l te as
phalates and the phalates have been
shown to disrupt our gut microbiome they
actually turn our healthy gut into an
unhealthy gut an unhealthy gut means
your inflammation goes up it actually
can damage your mood because gut
bacteria talking to your brain sends uh
cross signals uh and lots of other
things that your gut bacteria are doing
can be disrupted by phalates found in
the scents the fragrances found in uh
detergents and in soaps okay so by the
way where else do you find them besides
soaps and detergents you see them in air
freshener you find them in cleaning
products those are all phalates so
what's the solution go for the non-toxic
it should be labeled non-toxic phalate
free look at the ingredient label look
for phalate free no fragrance cleaning
products are a much better choice and
avoid air freshers another source of
hidden toxins uh this one might not be
in your kitchen but just outside your
kitchen is the old charred Grill grill
right so think about it we're we're
cooking uh on the grill uh we got to
serve the dinner we might turn off the
heat and we go away well guess what all
that Char just stays on there until the
next time it turns out that Char on the
grill on the grate actually contains
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and
heterocyclic amines all right don't
worry about spelling all those things
remembering all those things those are
carcinogens all right those carcinogens
will get onto the food the next time
you're cooking on it unless you clean
those grates I know it's really hard uh
to clean the grates each time the way
that you want to so what's a solution
the solution is to uh deliberately clean
remember to clean your grill uh after
every single use all right and before
each use really scrub it clean all right
make sure you rinse off rinse it off and
get rid of all those uh Char fragments
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back to the video all right one last uh
hidden source of toxins is old expired
food right now nobody likes to waste
food we all have leftovers we keep them
in the fridge uh many of us don't Purge
our refrigerator on a regular basis so
the back of the fridge you wind up
having a lot of food that's been sitting
there a long time or you actually have
food that's been expired and you haven't
checked the date all right here's the
thing when you have old food bacteria
can grow it when you have expired food
expiration dates are talking about the
quality of the food but eventually they
can actually grow bacteria as well
bacteria like eoli salmonella
leria these are the bacteria that cause
food poisoning now why do bacteria cause
food poisoning well the bacteria release
toxins into your food that's what food
poisoning is is you're actually being
poisoned by the toxins released by the
bacteria that you don't want to be
growing in there okay we're not talking
about fermentation we're actually
talking about uh the growth of harmful
pathogenic disease-causing bacteria they
release endotoxins and other types of
toxins that poison our system how do we
know it poisons our system well guess
what it causes nausea vomiting cramping
diarrhea it can fever sweating it can
even affect your brain to make you
confus fused all right um and with all
that uh uh uh diarrhea you get
dehydrated okay this is why you want to
actually be very careful that you're not
actually keeping old uh uh multi Foods
expired Foods uh uh and um you're eating
uh fresh and so don't cook so much cook
for a day or two you don't want to
actually keep the food around food too
long so that bacteria will release
toxins into your food I hope you got
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