My dad worked for a DuPont subsidiary. He opened up chemical plants during the 50,60’s & 70’s. He would bring home cool plastic cups & little tv trays. I’m sure I’m LOADED with microplastics. He lived to be 94. But died with or from Leukemia. When I looked into his type of leukemia, it’s usually due to chemical exposure. He DID exercise & stayed 10 pounds under the recommended wt for height. What really helped him was his walking regiment. Daily 5 miles. In the mountains. Walked to post office, grocery store, everywhere. He could move unassisted up until the week before his death. At the end, he lost all interest in food so it was obvious his organs had stopped functioning. Zero pain as well. Thankfully

This guy is a hero, no selling products no marketing, just educating people 👏

Finally a famous KZfaq doctor is pointing this very real threat out. So many people are ignoring this!

I don't think people realize how much plastic we are surrounded by. I live on a farm and I pick up so much plastic from the side of the road so it doesn't end up in your food. It's my small step. Farmers on big farms can no way do what I do so the plastic just ends up in your food. It's just a small example of plastics in our lives.

I can’t handle ONE MORE thing to worry about. I’ll just die when I die.

Microplastic dangers have been known FOR DECADES -- and now they've made them totally unavoidable.

I'm old enough to remember when plastic started showing up more and more. I hate plastic and do my best not to have any in my house. But they wrap meat in it. I bought a quarter beef and have them wrap it in paper. We lived just perfectly without plastic for eons. Reject plastic in every form.

The reason why they're finding harm in amphibians is because it's in the water

Do NOT use dish washer soap that comes in pods. Do NOT use laundry soap that comes in pod form. Using the straight liquid or powder form.

We dumped all of the plastic we could years ago. Glass food storage containers, glassware and such, wood cutting boards, try to buy food products that are in glass containers instead of plastic, etc. May not be much, but every little bit helps.

I knew some of these things before, but today I decided to throw away my plastic kitchen equipment. I bought a lot of things made of glass, wood and steel for my kitchen. Thank you for reminding me, Dr. Berry!

I've been progressively eliminating plastics from my food supply for the last year. One neat thing I discovered; the food products in glass containers typically have healthier ingredients.

Im a nurse and cannot think of hardly anything that isnt packaged, stored, or used thats not plastic. 😢

I read an article that microplastics were found in 6 out of 6 placentas! 😮 This topic is such a great concern! I’ve stopped buying plastic water bottles. I’m in the process of removing plastics from our lives as much as possible. I think if we go back to “ old school “ living, it would be of great help. Like Dr Ken says, we can’t remove it 100% but let’s do what we can to reduce.❤

Corporations are more worried about being woke than about micro plastics.

There are some cool bacteria that eat petrochemical elements like oil and plastics and poop out water, Great use in solving tankership accidents, maybe they could help out in medicine too.

I am a Ronald Regan Gen X conservative and I am now realizing most of the Industrial Revolution was a mistake even though it did give us cool electronics and cars. Dupont (see the movie "Dark Waters"), Big Food, Big Pharma, etc. has resulted in so much harm to not only us, but everyone on this planet. I am like Lt. Exley in LA Confidential after he and Bud White get into a fist fight. Bud White asks Exley, "The Night Owl made you. You want to tear that down?" Exley replies "With a recking ball. You wanna help me swing it?" Don't get me wrong. I am still for Capitalism, Free Markets, and Christian values. It is just that I hate the harm companies did fooling around with chemicals. "Better living through Chemistry." BS!

At my age, I can’t generate any energy towards this issue. It’s quite literally already too late for me and everyone else around me.

Transfer anything in a plastic container like spices, refrigerated products such as yogurt, cottage cheese containers etc. start collecting jars from your neighbors. Become known as the “glass jar” person in your neighborhood.

We bought a water-distiller and are now distilling ALL our drinking and cooking water with our distilled well water (remineralizing with Redmond real salt in small dissolved amounts to create trace amounts in our now awesomely clean water). We store all our water in glass jugs!

Thank you Dr. Berry I saw my neurologist today and he was amazed to the point he wished he could video me today because the positive change in my Dystonia. He of course did not listen to me saying I had change my diet recently but felt I had just found my sweet spot. He said you were the person with the worse case of Dystonia that I have seen to wow you look normal. Do not get me wrong I still have Dystonia but was amazingly improved. More to the story but thank you for convincing my husband and I to follow the PHD.🎉🎉🎉🎉. I will challenge him with my diet at my next appointment in 12weeks. It was so exciting to see him so surprised with me.

Much microplastic exposure potentially comes from the bags for fresh vegetables in grocery stores and food wraps. In the laboratory work I do, we use various microscopic equipment like scanning electron microscopes. When a sample comes in for analysis and it has been wrapped in common plastic or put in a sandwich bag, under magnification we see it covered with plastic particles. Oftentimes the sample can not be analyzed properly because of the plastic contamination all over it from these common wraps. We eat vegetables that have been wrapped and transported in these materials.

I'm sure the pharmaceutical industrial complex will have a pill or vaccine for that.

I love seeing Dr. Berry going natural hair color. Good content. Greetings from Germany

Also, think about bedding...we spend a lot of time asleep. I am gradually swapping my bedding for natural fibres. Already have all 100% cotton sheets and wool blankets. Eventually I will change my synthetic pillows, but I'm stepping forward slowly. I would love to get a non-toxic mattress, but they are expensive.

I could be wrong, but when I heard about this I asked the tech that was doing an ultrasound on me & he said "Oh yeah, you can see the plastics in your blood." I just kept thinking "This can't be good."

Think about all the carpeting in all the houses in all the world... Plastic!

NIH "Covid-19 face masks: A potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment?" 2020 Jun 16

Meat at the grocery store is almost always wrapped in plastic, and usually is sitting on styrofoam in the package.

Also be aware that most clothes and fabrics ( I'm thinking sheets towels etc) have a coating to prevent stains and wrinkling. Also plastic. It's everywhere 💩

We only use wood / stainless steel / glass / we watch very closely any products we use on our bodies as well

We're all doomed. Keep up the excellent work.Thanks a million Dr Berry.

At 62 & 64 I guess we are now a Barbie & Ken!😂

No make up or hair dyes for me ! I’ve always believed in natural beauty but sadly most ppl feel they need it to feel good it’s sad

Huge need for factual, research based information about plastics and PFAS type forever chemicals. Switched to dry laundry detergent sheets and glass food storage containers but that is small impact. But if people stop putting plastic in the dish washer that might help stop putting small particles into the waste water. Hand washing plastic is much less abrasive than dish washer detergent. Education! Also get a good water filter. I am confused about boiling water to drop plastics out of suspension but then what type of filter will work? Will a coffee filter remove those particles. Getting rid of my coffee maker because of plastic coffee basket. Switching to a glass water kettle and a stainless steel mesh basket "pour over" filter. Most air fryers are plastic but a few available in stainless steel. Also confused about ceramic non-stick coatings; are they PFAS free? So much to discover. So much to learn... So much to discern!!!!!!

Thank you for speaking out about this!!

Wow, every this in a hospital is plastic cleaned with chemicals

I have known about micro plastic problem for years and this is the best practical advice I have received

There's a mushroom called pestalotiopsis microspora that's known for eating plastic, together with a type of worms. I don't know why nobody is implementing these possible solutions on a vast scale, we need to make something NOW

Pex, cross linked polyethylene, tubing is used in household plumbing now instead of copper tubing. Doesn't showering, washing your hair & hands allow your body to recieve these particles from the supply lines even if you don't cook with house tap water. Most medicines come in & are stored plastic bottles

I use steel utensils, ceramic dishes, wooden stove utensils, but I still have a nonstick pan to chuck out and replace with either a cast iron or stainless steel skillet. I have some new stainless steel sauce pans, etc. Most of my food is nonprocessed, whole natural food. Thank you!!

Dr. Berry, thank you for everything you do for humankind. I never ever would have thought about plastic particulates coming off our clothing. I am anaphylactic to latex since 1998, back when Universal Precautions was hitting heavy due to AIDS virus. I should have been more scared of latex than the AIDS virus. The medical field is still ignorant of latex allergy. The only thing I can do is avoidance. I guess I will have another thing to be cautious about. I have been modified keto, sugar free, refined foods reduction and using only good oils since November. 30 lbs gone. I have watched many hours of KZfaq just to educate myself on our food industry and big pharma. I just can not wrap my head around our Washington people. I am 68 and I tell my 21 year old grandson what is wrong with our current world and that he can make a difference, maybe not a big difference but a difference none the less.

I have called my representatives and told them instead of going for our cars, they need to get rid of plastic for food etc. But they do not care.

The utter insanity of drinking bottled water may very well be the cause of most of this exposure. Even if you don't ingest much actual plastic from one bottle of water, that bottle ends up in the waste stream and generates all the little bits of plastic that subsequently get into everything. Drink well water if you can and filter it as much as you can.

Everything we buy is either plastic or wrapped in plastic. Redmond's real salt was in a plastic bag. Stainless mugs, Yeti or otherwise have a plastic lid. Big problem to deal with.

Rayon synthetic carpeting fibers - switch to ceramic tile. Wooden floors have plastic polyurethane coatings/stains. If you have the old linoleum have that removed too - sometimes it was made with asbestos - mesothelioma. Get rid of vinyl flooring. Get HEPA air filter, good quality furnace air filter changed regularly.

Thank you for this! So many tell of problems but very few ever tell of anything we can do to prevent or treat these issues. As a southerner born and raised in MS I love your tell it like it is no nonsense no sugar coating personality! So many professionals in any profession try to come across as professional as possible, try to mentally monitor what they say as they are speaking, and use words some people don’t understand. I love that you let loose and are passionate about what you say. You just use everyday words that everyone should understand. People can tell when someone isn’t being their true self. You are as real as it gets. I’d love to see a video if you don’t already have one that tells how to feed bigger than average family carnivore without breaking the bank or on a budget. If you have made one and could tell me around what date I need to look for it that would be great! I have 5 kids. God has a sense of humor because when we tried for baby #4 he gave us boy/girl twins. We still have 3 of 5 at home. They are now 20yr old son in college. Twins are 15. So they eat a lot! Do you or your wife have a recipe book for families living this way? I have lupus so I’m sick and tired of being sick & tired. My oldest daughter 26 was diagnosed at 14 but hasn’t needed meds because it’s barely active thank the Lord! My oldest son has tested positive several times but always gone back to normal levels when he was being monitored by a children’s hospital for a year twice for elevated liver enzymes. Had an amazing doc from Africa who said it was his adhd med the first time & the acne med the second time. He’s sensitive to meds. And he wasn’t eating enough fruits and veggies according to the doc. He hasn’t had any issues since. That said we found out last year my youngest son, one of the twins, has a leaky heart valve that he’s had since birth. The doc heard a heart murmur that no one had ever heard during one of his last appts for accutane. She sent him for a scan and called us back to let us know what they found and sent us to LeBonheur. They confirmed it and now he has to be monitored every 6 months and cannot play contact sports. I think of all those years we didn’t know and we had him playing sports. Thankfully it was baseball and basketball and nothing happened but it could have. After I found out it will have to be fixed eventually but can be done thru the artery in his groin area I felt a little better. We’ve been blessed not to of had anything major in our kids so far even though that is major to me. I’ve had friends whose kids have had major issues and have lost children so I’m thankful we haven’t. I just think we are reminded from time to time how lucky we really are. But it’s caused me to be more cautious and aware of what we eat and are exposed to. We live in the middle of soybean fields. I know we are exposed to pesticides, herbicides, & fertilizers. We did drink only bottled water because our community water system was over 20 years outdated and was supposed to of been replaced. We had leaks all the time. They finally replaced it all but with all the fields I don’t trust it. I did buy a water filter countertop system but not an osmosis because I couldn’t afford one. I spent a year researching them before buying one. I got the best one I could afford. Now the osmosis systems have come down especially the countertop models. Do you have one you recommend? And in the event that we are without power for any reason are there any gravity fed systems you would recommend just as a back up? I kid you not but I have 4 massive black lawn bags packed full of Tupperware my mom gave me in storage when she got divorced. She had an addiction that started in the 80’s and never stopped! Some of it is worth some money. Now I have an excuse to sell it. 😂 Thank you for all you do!

Well this brings lots of things to mind. I love fish, but fish swim in a sea of mico plastics, so what about eating sardines and salmon? We have plastic plumbing pipes in homes now, even the water filter is made with a plastic housing.... We are avid campers, we use a Brita water pitcher, made of plastic, worse, the fresh water holding tank of our trailer is made of plastic....

I have to think about Adidas how they recycle plastic from the ocean to make tennis shoes, but my brag about it …..and then you wear the shoes and you get hot and sweaty during a run or just a relay wear and tear on them seeps into your skin topically and then into your blood…. Same with plastic shower poofs you’re in the hot water scrubbing your skin with plastic…..😳 I use everything cotton/ glass/ metal if I can

As a worker heavily exposed to polypropylene dust in disposal cup factory, i became seriously concerned when i couldn't breathe properly ( probably bcos i thought i had codvid). Turned out my alveoli were choked in propylene dust.

Thanks for telling people to contact their representatives,and take action in every way possible.

For most people, eradicating plastic from our lives immediately is impossible. Certainly for myself, The effort would cause more stress and harm to health then it's worth. We need to know what are the worst sources of contamination to focus on. For example, heating food in plastic is much worse then cold food in plastic containers. Cutting food on plastic is worse than scraping a spoon against plastic because the knife causes more damage. Some types of plastic are more harmful than others. I would like to see a lot more research on risk levels of all different variables.

They are dropping from the sky every day in the CHEMTRAILS😢😢😢

In college, I would store everything in plastic containers and microwave them for lunches and dinners. I was sick every other week. Finally switched to glass and used wooden cutting boards and haven’t been sick since.

My wife has been onto this micro and nano plastic issues for several years now. Thank you Dr. Berry for bringing this to the masses. This is huge and we ALL need to pay attention. Now!!

The good news is plastic has a 1000 year life, the more we become plastic the longer we will live. The bad news is, there is no escaping this , plastic is our life. But like the doc says eat real food and hope for the best, worry, worry, worry is not going to change anything.

What about all the plastic tubing in medical treatments like respiratory therapy, CPAP, oxygen therapy, tubing for blood & IV transfusions and all of these things? What was used before these products came on the market? Super scary!

Thanks Doctor, another thing to worry about! ❤ You I trust and appreciate, always a good message! 🙏🏻🕊😇🧂 California here

Straight FACTS🙌🏼. I try to eliminate all plastic in my home & recycle all plastics. It’s a huge problem to your health. It makes humans have fertility problems. Plastic was made less than 2000 years ago.

1st) before we worry about it, what severe health effects have been proven (not possibly but factually proven) from nano/micro plastics? ,2nd) plastics are everywhere obviously so why should average people stress? ,3rd) eat natural animal based proper human diet stretch & walk daily in nature helping live less stressful life & you’ll be healthier than majority of society today, “thanks for the informative video Dr.Berry”

Don't forget that if you are a parent, all of the plastic toys that sometimes end up in our little ones' mouths.

It’s time for these big companies to step up and take responsibility for what they’ve done to the world with plastic

Thank you for taking the time to warn us about this ONE MORE ATTACK on us human beings from the industries! God bless you and your family!!!

Many carnivores advocate for sous vide (boiling in plastic bags) cooking. I have always been reluctant to have anything to do with heated plastics and food. Thoughts?

Cut what you can fast often and just live your life as healthy as possible as long as you are allowed.

People need to freak out because then maybe people will listen and do something! Thank U for your truth and videos.

I just got rid of my plastic air fryers that also had fn Teflon.

Lobbying should be illegal.

We use a reverse osmosis in our home and only drink mineral water from glass bottles

I agree with Dr Berry. One point about ROs which I have used for a very long time in my house. The filter housings and tubing are plastic too, as well as the RO membrane itself.

Excellent message! Thank you . And tell me why they made hemp ILLEGAL & replaced hemp rope with PLASTIC?.... 🤔 Oops, I forgot to mention, the replacement of glass & paper food containers/bags/wraps were replaced with PLASTIC .... 😠

Thank you thank you Dr Berry❤❤❤

There us no way to avoid microplastics. Absolutely none. It is everywhere.

Thank you, Dr. Berry for bringing up a fearsome yet critically important subject .

Thank you for your work! What a gross negligence of our medical industrial complex that more doctors and so called "medical professionals" are not investigating and covering these very prescient health concerns.

thank you

Paper cups are also lined with it. Dryer sheets are FULL of it and stink, btw

Dr. K. Berry, It's another way to minimize the population. Dr. Berry we all must prepare for what is coming. Prepare,Pray, and use common sense. Above all! Make sure your found in Christ! Thank You so much for giving us sound wisdom about our food. God Bless You And Your Family.❤❤❤❤❤❤🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌👑👑👑👑👑👑

THEY CAN REVERSE A HECK OF A LOT OF THE DAMAGE THEY'VE DONE WITH PLASTIC, GOO BACK TO WHAT WAS BEFORE PLASTIC BECAME SO DAMN PREVALENT. THANKS FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS. SURPRISED YT HASN'T SHUT YOU DOWN.

Ruth here, God is going to help us clean up our systems, fix our medical system!!!

Had an “incredible” experience recently! I bought a bunch of organic bananas and it was wrapped in plastic! Bought them since there weren’t even regular bananas for sale. I think I left the plastic on overnite and next day all banana skins were splitting and ripening! Overnite!!! They were basically inedible. Took them back to store the next day…related my story to manager. Got new bunch for free! Manager later told me that the banana supplier was low on staff and this processor decided to wrap bananas in plastic to speed up packing process. Incredible, huh? Organic plastic-wrapped bananas!!

Thank you so much Dr Berry for your willingness to tell us that we need to do something about this.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks Dr Berry for going through this in an urgent but realistic way without being overly hyperbolic. This is wild once you start to think about it. The first thing in my opinion is to get the water we drink filtered for both plastic nanoparticles and solid particles. Turns out RO water does it. Berkey type filters also do it. Carbon filter your shower water as well. Microplastics and nano plastics in the steam will be easily breathed into your lungs during your shower. Wearing natural fiber clothing is important but what's more difficult is to know what kinds of coatings are on the fabric of your store bought clothes. 100% cotton is often treated to make it whiter, give the fabric more body and make fabric have a nice sheen. Then you have your bedding. Most blankets are made from 100% synthetic or plastic. All night long you rub those blankets and breath it in. Yikes! Me too:( I'm looking to use good quality linen sheets. And good quality silk bedding also. I guess wash them well and don't use dryer sheets made of plastic. Blankets could be wool or well washed organic cotton quilts filled with wool or silk instead of polyester fiberfill. Even with all kinds of changes one will still get a lot of this stuff, but if you use products that are less likely to have microplastic and nanoplastic shedding in the items you bring near your mouth you will ingest less of it and breath a bit less of it. I know I felt overwhelmed by the potential scope of the problem and didn't want to think about finding solutions. Some changes I've already made. I need to make more.

The one thing we can do is quit buying the products put in plastics and also styrofoam. Wear natural fibers, they are higher frequency. This crap is in everything but if eating fish, eat smaller fish since they aren't in. the oceans as long as the larger ones. It's hard for the body to secrete. Corporations need to quit putting products in plastic bottles. Even if you recycle, we don't know where a lot of that goes and I think it was put on barges and then dumped in the oceans where some of it breaks down into tiny particles that fish eat and then goes through the recycle system to rain down on the earth and getting into everything. Everyone should do a parasite cleanse and metal detox and overall detoxing of the body. Shop around the edge of the store and pay attention to your meat as well or buy local. Grow your own food, start a garden. The deletes who have been running this earth have been doing their best to destroy humanity with toxins, this isn't the only thing that's been going on with our air, water and food due to the soil/GMO and all of it. I quit buying anything from the big corporations several years ago and yes, they and our governments are one big ole family of control over the masses. I don't use the microwave anymore either. I use filtered water and don't buy bottled water, buy a water filter system, less expensive.

I wonder how bad it is for me working in a plastic factory

I drink distilled water for years now and it improved my Gfr score.

Thank you very much Dr Berry for talking about this. People make fun of me for not wanting glitter in my home.

thank u sir

Plastics have been ubiquitous since the 1960s. We took our school lunch in Tupperware containers and drink in beakers. How can these substances be so dangerous when many of us are now in our sixth/seventh decades and in good health, in my own case having drank, smoked and eaten junk food daily upwards of 35 years? The organism is more resilient than health professionals of whatever stripe typically acknowledge, none of which is to detract from Dr Berry’s excellent guidance or the value of carnivore/keto/IF regime generally, especially for those in middle age or later life.

There is an Australian company that has developed an enzyme that can be used in plastic packaging which makes it biodegradable. It is a breakthrough technology.

We've migrated soooo far from ancestral past. Reproducing it in 2024 requires conscious choices re everything. Not paranoia just mitigation and trusting HOW YOU FEEL! Third year of my paleo journey...

I have been talking about plastic being scourge on the planet for years.

Lobbying ahould be illegal. No under the table money passing. Most of the senators and reps would quit and maybe good, honest people with a heart for our Country and People would fill their seats.

What can we do as a society, to start reversing this problem, when it is everywhere! Not only is almost everything packaged using some form of plastic, but recycling efforts cost more to process, than the money it saves doing it, and they are very restrictive as to what plastics they will accept. And on top of that, the amount of people that just don't know or care what to do with it, and it is by far the most common kind of trash that is discarded, and thrown on the ground.😔

Thanks Doc. Refreshing to hear a MD call BS on BS. I knew it was bad but its wose than I thought.

I cut up quite a few patterns, to sew, out of fleece. I got the first and only chest infection I've ever had. Had to have antibiotics and was wheezing so much it was scary. Needless to say, it put me off sewing, completely. Even 100% cotton materials are probably sprayed with something nasty.

Houses nowadays are using pecs in place of copper pipes

My favorite dish currently is bacon chips and stew meat cooked together in a pot on the stove. I use my kitchen scissors to cut the bacon into small pieces. I also make it with pork chops, and bacon, that I cut with my scissors too. So quick, easy, and yummy!

Thanks!

As much as I appreciate this it sure is depressing.