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Governments need to start banning various plastic

Most, if not all aluminum and steel cans for food and beverage are plastic coated in the inside. It is everywhere.

A few months ago I threw away all of my plastic cups, plates and bowls and replaced them with glass ones. I realize that getting rid of all plastics is impossible, so I just try as best as I can without being overly neurotic about it.

I can highly recommend Lifestraw (glass pitcher). Removes plastics and many other nasties (including PFAS). However a recent report also shows that *simply boiling water* reduces microplastics surprisingly well. Apparently binding to calcium deposits in the kettle - the harder the water the better results. Nonetheless consumers should start demanding more glassware or nothing will happen.

it hurts my heart to see what humanity has done to the environment

Great that you did this nanoplastic video, Brad. I've been writing about them for years, but your audience is far bigger so hopefully this will sound the alarm and encourage people to adopt your strategies to reduce the micro/nano plastic burden in people.

Unfortunately plastic is everywhere, even in the air we breathe. Studies have shown plastic deposits in lung tissues. Start buying swapping your plastic chopping board to either an Oak or Pine, not bamboo as it dulls the knife

Avoiding plastic wrapped food and water bottles seems near impossible for me. I wish I had some quantitative data on what type of plastic is the most damaging. I suspect microwaving food in plastic boxes is the worst so I'll definitely avoid that. But otherwise, I'm pretty clueless.

The most recent thing I've seen is that the majority of microplastics come from tires. Every time you drive, dust comes off of the tires as they roll. That's why it's everywhere.

6:06 Make sure that you use a filter with a pore size of 0.2 microns or less. Brita filters are not effective for microplastics. 5:56 The problem with salmon (farmed or wild) is that not only are microplastics a problem but the presence of chemical pollutants in the oceans which are deposited in the fat of salmon.

The production and editing of your videos has become very polished.

Hi Brad, maybe look at our old longevity friend NAC. Not only can it help remove heavy metals but it could have a role in ameolerating microplastics effects..a quick Google search gave this... Investigation of pulmonary toxicity evaluation on mice exposed to polystyrene nanoplastics: The potential protective role of the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine

We're doomed

Modern homes are built with plastic-based PEX plumbing.

Thank you so much for raising awareness on these very important issues! People need to pay attention even to their clothing because we are exposed to plastic insertion to our bodies via abrassion to clothing that contains plastic in the fiber :(

Another research from Denmark recently found plastic in most people blood. The funny thing is how despite war on plastic how beverage companies now use more plastic bottles than ever before!

This was a good evidence based and practical video. Cheers

You forgot one of the main sources: irrigation pipes used in agriculture. UV light degrades them and the microparticles are spread and enter plants and animals throught water.

I’m in the 3D printing world. I’m always advising people to use enclosures and air filtration devices (or vent outside). People think melting plastic is harmless 😮

I think even in the last 10-20 years as your graph shows the increase has been huge. There has been a background increase globally of rates of cancer etc which I believe may be explained by more than just obesity rates etc. The anti vaxxer crowd love to point out these issues, but vaccines pre date all these diseases increase. I think micro plastics will turn out to be the cause, we have done terrible things to our environment. As a teacher, the number of students with all sorts of weird organ issues that just did not seem common only 15 years ago seems to ever increase. anecdotal ofcourse, but if I were to guess it will be micro plastics.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

What I understood from the study is that the big amount of the plastic found is front nylon filters (reverse osmosis) rather than the pet from the bottle itself. I'd be interested to hear from people knowing about this, mineral water for instance I suppose there shouldn't be a reverse osmosis process and thus less microplastics?

Dr. Standfield, thank you for another eye-opening video. I need to watch my water bottle consumption! May you do a video on Urolithin A? Also, a video on EGCG? I tried searching your channel, but no videos came up for these. TYIA!

Used to do that for a while in a nursing home now. 77 years

Also get an undersink water filtration system that includes carbon block filters. Apec has a 3 stage system that is affordable and include a sediment filter and 2 carbon block filters. Cheers😊

Micro plastic beads have been removed from cosmetics through regulatory rules for years now. Consuming any beverage from a plastic bottle is like Russian roulette. You don’t know how the bottle has been stored. If it has been exposed to a heat source at any point the contamination risk from not just micro plastics but also various hormone disrupting chemicals increases significantly.

I always thought the micro plastic issue was serious but steeped in scare mongering. Terrifying that it’s actually that serious and scary

THANK YOU for speaking up on this important issue! Please also look into Chlorella's effect on nanoplastic. Is it also true that Plastics get into our body through FATS?

Thanks Dr. Brad. I recently bought stainless steel cups (pods) to use in my Keurig, rather than the plastic pods normally used. The use of stainless steel pods also saves money by putting ground coffee in them.

Id like to see the amount of plastics in healthy people. If you are going to nake the correlation in sick people, then you need to first servey a study of healthy people.

What about the capsules supplements come in???

The astounding volume of abandoned plastic in the oceans and on land indicates that the worst is yet to come. Even if people stopped buying plastic bottles today, it would take decades to curb the increase of microplastics in the environment.

@Dr. Bra, unfortunately, public access to the paper is not available. Could you share the size span of particles by polymer type found in the atherosclerotic plaque? I'am interested in a deeper dive deeper into the topic.

Plastic is made of oil and oil comes from plants and trees. It's not all plastics that are bad, it depends how they chemically construct the plastics.

It is a problem that at least initially nearly all food is wrapped in plastic. There may be some instances where you can find something packaged in some type of cardboard material that has a wax layer, but that is fairly rare.

Hello Doctor. I remember a while ago there was a supplement you said you were going to take when you had a new baby to cope with the lack of sleep I believe. What supplement was it and do you still like that plan?

Hi Dr brad, I bought silicone freezing bag from Amazon this week, they don't contain microplastics

Wow, this issue is out of control.

because of microplastics, I just ordered a glass blender and threw my plastic blender yesterday. This video from Brad came in time !

What meat or dairy product doesn’t come in plastic?

what type/brand of water filter should I use?

DInosaurs' revenge

Dr. I saw NAC + Gly in your supplement stack from age 45 onwards. I also watched your video on it. What are the effects of taking NAC +Gly if you are younger than 45? I am 36. TYIA!

the only plastic container i use is the plastic for my water its number 2 plastic HDPE i think so that should be good right idk i know i feel different side effects from this plastic but whatever lol i gotta get a glass jug

Not like there's any good way to realistically avoid them though. They are already well distributed in our food & water supply.

Any suggestion on a new protein shaker that is not made in plastic but still light?

This adds to my health anxiety because there isn’t much I can do about it.

Water-filtration using reverse-osmosis may be effective in removing micro plastics in tab-water. Pre-filter of 1-5micron removes the larger piece while the R.O.membrane removes particles down to 0.0001micron. Other filtration techniques don't have this fine particle-size.

I saw a test where they pulled off a fleece sweater stood next to a glass of water. The amount of plastics that got into the glass was staggering. So Id say avoiding synthetic clothes are probably a big one.

i knew plastic was bad people that said i was a hypochondriac lol not great to see i was right because it would be better for everyones health if i was wrong :( i have feelings about things with health that turn out to be true but i dont make a youtube channel being a quack like others on here. also thanks brad for providing real information and not being a quack for easy income i really appreciate it man hopefully when i work i can support the channel

Thoughts on takeaway coffee cups; especially bad (heat + coating), or no different to other risks like a plastic water bottle?

All I know is that I drank out of soft plastic water bottles for years. Decades, even. Then I noticed my testosterone was dropping precipitously, both in blood tests and subjectively. I switched to water from glass or hard plastic bottles (i.e. the big 5 gallon/18 liter jugs you find at many grocery stores), my testosterone immediately (within 2 months) bounced back to over 600. And I could subjectively feel the difference in a big way.

I think trying to avoid all food contact with plastic is near impossible at the moment. Maybe if we knew which items are made of what plastics we could identify the ones most likely to end up inside us.. for example is the container for my nutribullet blender I make my super healthy morning smoothie actually leaching into my smoothie and poisoning me or it is ones of the safer ones?

Compelling study Brad with some good strategies for limiting exposure.

Ditching plastic water bottles to start with ,what I find contradictory with government and environmentalist is we have plastics everywhere. Good packaging,baby bottles , prescription and supplement bottles and much more .....

Are there any studies that have investigated ways for these microplastics that have already been taken into the body to be broken down, either from natural processes in the body or other methods?

PE and PVC are the most common materials for water piping in homes and buildings.

Isn't that too late? There are countries that even use plastic bag as plastic bottle for beverages. In South Korea, they are cooking instant noodles in it's plastic bag by pouring hot water in the plastic bag and waited for a few minutes then start eating the noodles from inside the plastic bag.

Waiting to see which supplement will counteract/chelate plastic toxicity.....wait for it, it's coming, as this is a worldwide issue.

Please do a video about the new study claiming that intermittent fasting increases risk of heart disease etc.!

Glas bottles are cleaned with microplastic abrasives like in many shampoos. So they could in theory contain even more plastic at the end.

Fibres, probiotic foods and resistant starch should probably provide a healthier intestinal barrier that reduces the absorption of microplastics.

Any recommendations on water filtering systems or pitchers that do not have plastic?

Vehicle tyre degradation into air and water - major causes of micro plastics. How do we limit this?

Pretty scary but pfas and glyphosate seem scary too. Which plastics are worse/better

How can you ever avoid plastic particles...even if you drink tap water that water has been exposed constantly to plastic pvc or pec piping...whether you drink urban water or well water. Unless you can get water from its ground source directly...you are drinking plastic.

Probably best advised to avoid exposure to plastic food and drink vessels. Also probably shouldn't burn it in your firepits either, since that can generate unburned microplastic particles in the gases, smoke, and ashes, which could be inhaled.

These suggestions are all good to try and minimize the potential exposure to MNP’s even if the cause and effect is definitely is hard to tease out. One item which needs further investigation is if the higher presence of MNP’s in blood vessels may be related to damaged glycocalyx. It seems plausible that it *may* normally serve as a barrier to the MNP’s. In this way the MNP’s may largely be a marker of endothelial dysfunction and the local ECM’s. The MNP’s could be causing plenty of other issues once they are in the tissue, but this hypothesis could explain why not all of the participants in the study saw MNP’s in their tissues. Something I would love to have teased out is if the course of events and confounding factors are the following: highly processed individually wrapped foods tend to be higher in MNP’s and other plasticizers due to packaging and contamination -> these foods also tend to allow for higher glucose excursions and over consumption which seems to have greater damage to glycocalyx integrity especially if not much time is given for repair between excursions -> over time this could also become entangled with type-2 diabetes further exacerbating endothelial disfunction which further aggravates atherosclerosis -> the MNP’s then become further integrated into the plaque as part of the atherosclerotic process. Unfortunately the glycocalyx is notoriously hard to study since it is really only intact in-vivo, but hopefully better in-vivo imaging techniques and labeling allows us to see this in living humans.

I wonder if there are supplements and herbs that can be taken to reduce this problem in your blood?

Avoiding plastic in every day life is - ABSOLUTLY IMPOSIBLE. I wonder if long periods of fasting will make any effects on the microplastick in the cells.

Arent water filter (container and the actual filter) made with plastic? Is it worth filtering the water?

I wonder if toothbrushes are a confounding variable (how often, sonic, etc) since that wasn't mentioned and also I didn't think about it till I brushed my teeth later.

I never really thought about what my cookware is made of before. 😱 I'm ordering a ceramic pan and ditching the old teflon one.

It doesn't seem like they adjusted for any risk factors like assessing their diet. There could easily be confounding variables. For example, people eating highly processed food that comes in plastic packaging would have microplastics in their plaques. But the causal factor could be the food, not the plastics.

Electron micrographs were fascinating , makes it very real

Eliminating microplastics exposures is impossible; what are some strategies that we can use to help our bodies “flush” them out?

What about silicone cooking utensils?

How to remove them from the body successfully?. Does somehow fasting or dry fasting help with this?.

Does your water filter leech as much plastic into the water as drinking out of a plastic bottle?

I would suggest you look into blood and plasma donations to reduce microplastics in the body as well. There are recent studies suggesting this is possible.

Another thing you didn't mention is to donate blood. Good for others, your health generally, and can reduce PFAS and microplastics levels. If you are on finasteride you can't donate but for most it is a good option. Controlling the input of micropastics is good but boosting the output is another option.

Does drinking milk(calcium) help mitigate these risks? I hear about things binding to calcium

Does reusing plastic containers reduce exposure to plastics? I assume virgin Plastics would have more residues from the manufacturing. I reuse a few plastic bottles to store my filtered water and add a drinking bottle. Thank you for all the good information!!! 👍👍👍👍🧡

I HAVE SOME HOMEWORK TO DO THIS WEEK.

Could you please talk to us about lectins and the theory of Dr Gundry?

Your optimal blood levels are prob. Diffrent if you need to get more plastic out of your system i would guess. Btw how did they calculate that number, i saw some graph i would say it is little lower 3.5 or so

I'm more worried about this and other toxins in our food chain than climate change...big time!!!

Sometimes I worry about this and then I don’t. The nanoplastics smaller than cells are more of a concern since they can interact with biomolecules.

Well SHID time to actually re-start using my reusable coffee cups (they're ceramic with food grade silicone lids), one state in Australia has already banned the single-use ones with plastic anyway and I'd rather not look like I'm just doing as I'm told by only using them after the eventual ban here.

Why is it binary "with MNPs" or "without MNPs"? Everyone is on a continuous spectrum in terms of how much MNPs is in their system.

Do all types of plastics end up in products, or just some? Come on, this is very important

Is HINT water tested for microplastics?

Reduce your cholesterol by eating tons of oreo Cookies

You should mention potassium chloride (added to table salt) for its benefits.

Read the study twice looking for a reason not to run screaming into the night. I did not find one. At least you and other KZfaq doctors I respect are reaching the same conclusion about the study so I'm somewhat reassured I'm not completely nuts. Deeply suspicious of "ceramic" coatings on cookware. Increasingly it seems to mean an exotic plastic resin matrix instead of the pottery-fired-in-a-kiln we peasants consider ceramic.

What about supplements? They all have plastic containers. In some ways I think it is easy to go really OCD on this subject, which can be dangerous too for living well

You can also use hemp for clothing. Check it out.

Most all of my supplements come in plastic bottles. 😢

What about polyethylene terephthalate bottles?