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Microplastics - What to do... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 1: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 1: health challenges, not just masking the symptoms. Here we dive
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  Speaker 1: deep into how holistic approaches such as advanced chiropractic care,
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  Speaker 1: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. An article just crossed
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  Speaker 2: my desk that was talking about microplastics and of course
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  Speaker 2: contributing to clogging arteries. And I'm thinking anything that you
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  Speaker 2: would find in your arteries that is foreign is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a heart attack or stroke risk. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we need a whole article to actually tell us
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  Speaker 2: that that could increase our risk of stroke and heart disease. However,
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  Speaker 2: I found it fascinating that the that they described the
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  Speaker 2: plaques and the arteries, and some plaques they said were
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  Speaker 2: different than others, and they actually described what the plaques contained,
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  Speaker 2: But then they talked about the microplastics. Now, I guess
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  Speaker 2: it's only people that have plaques in their arteries that
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  Speaker 2: they could measure because they're the only people that they
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  Speaker 2: could actually do some type of research and pull that
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  Speaker 2: plaque out and try to figure out how much microplastic
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  Speaker 2: was in there. Now, while that was all fascinating, I
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  Speaker 2: found the more fascinating thing was simply how big these
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  Speaker 2: microplastic are. What they call them is nanoplastics. How big
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  Speaker 2: they actually are. They said there were one thousand nanometers,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm thinking one thousand nanometers. I'm pretty sure I
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  Speaker 2: don't have any idea what that even looks like. And
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  Speaker 2: then what they were doing, they were so kind as
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  Speaker 2: to actually tell us, Okay, human hair is between fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand and eighty thousand nanometers wide, So if you have
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  Speaker 2: thin hair, then you're going to be hearing that fifty thousand.
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  Speaker 2: If you have very thick hair, you're at eighty thousand nanometers.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, wow, a fiftieth of a human hair.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty tiny, And of course you cannot see it
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  Speaker 2: with the naked eye. And they found that there were
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  Speaker 2: these microplastics in people that didn't have any symptoms, and
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  Speaker 2: of course there were microplastics in people that had symptoms
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  Speaker 2: or that had had strokes or heart problems, things of
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  Speaker 2: that nature. Many strokes, and so they were between sixteen
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  Speaker 2: and fifty one times higher in plaques from people who
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  Speaker 2: experienced that stroke than they were I guess from just
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  Speaker 2: the normal average person. Now the big question is, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: what are these microplastics, where do they come from? How
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  Speaker 2: do I stop this? And of course microplastics are everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: If you've done any kind of research. It's actually pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 2: They say that even if you use a plastic bag
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  Speaker 2: around you, thousands of particles of plastic are coming off
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  Speaker 2: in the air and you're breathing them in. And they
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  Speaker 2: might think, well, why is that such a big deal, Well,
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  Speaker 2: this is how the body works. If we were, let's say,
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  Speaker 2: in a sawmill, because we're gonna go with the olden
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  Speaker 2: days where we actually did everything by hand, and you
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  Speaker 2: and I are sawing wood and little chunks and particles
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  Speaker 2: of wood, cellulose fiber sugar all packed together, which is
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  Speaker 2: what fiber is. And you're thinking fiber sugar. Yep, it's
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  Speaker 2: really densely packed sugar. And so that fiber that is
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  Speaker 2: that wood, that particulate of little splinters if you will,
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  Speaker 2: that are piling off the wood as we would saw
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  Speaker 2: away at a piece of lumber. Those little particles are
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  Speaker 2: flying up, well, we're gonna breathe them in. And even
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  Speaker 2: if there's dust, like let's say we're riding a horse
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  Speaker 2: and we have a whole bunch of horses and we're
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  Speaker 2: all riding together and the back person is all dusty,
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna breathe than that dust or that particulate from
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  Speaker 2: sawing a wood or whatever it is in the air,
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  Speaker 2: and your lungs are gonna say, I don't want this.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever makes it to the lungs, the lungs are
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  Speaker 2: going to hand all that debris off to the blood system.
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  Speaker 2: And the blood system's gonna say, got it, let me
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  Speaker 2: get this out of here for you. And so the
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  Speaker 2: blood transports that particle to your liver, and then the
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  Speaker 2: liver puts it in your gut and you poop it out.
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  Speaker 2: So you're either going to breathe it out. You're either
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  Speaker 2: going to have the mucous membranes on your nose and
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  Speaker 2: throat basically work all those particulates up to your mouth
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  Speaker 2: and nose and blow them out, or have dirty boogers
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  Speaker 2: and pick them out, or coff them up and spit
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  Speaker 2: them out, or swallow them into your gut, and your
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  Speaker 2: gut's gonna digest that cellulos or it's simply gonna remain
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  Speaker 2: as fiber and be somewhat for your gut to poop
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  Speaker 2: out eventually. But that's how it's getting out of you.
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  Speaker 2: So if that's the normal way that we get rid
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  Speaker 2: of things, Now let's look at microplastics. What do we
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  Speaker 2: do with microplastics? Well, like any medication or drug or
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  Speaker 2: alcohol or what other substance that we would put in
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  Speaker 2: our body that is of not natural means, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: the paint we're breathing in right now as we sit
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  Speaker 2: in our house, or if you're in the car and
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  Speaker 2: you're breathing all the plastics that are coming off your
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  Speaker 2: brand new dash or steering wheel or seats that you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting in. You're literally sitting in a cloud of microplastics
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  Speaker 2: floating around you that you're breathing in. So we're getting
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  Speaker 2: all of this stuff all the time. In what does
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  Speaker 2: our body do. Our liver literally breaks down those chemicals
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  Speaker 2: by oxidative processes and now gets rid of it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: anybody who's been around for a little bit has probably
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  Speaker 2: heard of antioxidants. Now, they're not a lot anymore, because
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  Speaker 2: there was the heyday of antioxidants in the late eighties
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  Speaker 2: and nineties, and we would give antioxidants to people in
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  Speaker 2: the droves, and we realized that was not a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: We do need the oxidative capability of the body to
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  Speaker 2: break down things. So a little bit of antioxidant is
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  Speaker 2: a good thing, a lot is not. It's like anything. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: if a glass of water is good, then could you
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  Speaker 2: pour a billion gallons of water on me right now?
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  Speaker 2: That's called drowning folks, And it's too much water. So
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  Speaker 2: there's always too much of a good thing, seems like.
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  Speaker 2: But at this point we would say, how then do
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  Speaker 2: I now support my liver's ability to detoxify. Therein lies
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  Speaker 2: the question. So if we're surrounded by all these toxins,
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  Speaker 2: what are we going to do at least what seems
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  Speaker 2: like the right thing to do? First? Okay, how can
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  Speaker 2: I reduce them? Well? I have a phone and it
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  Speaker 2: has a phone case. I have a computer, I do
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  Speaker 2: have a car. I do have paint on my walls,
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  Speaker 2: and carpet on the floor, and perhaps a screen door
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  Speaker 2: on the back that's probably made out of plastic or
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  Speaker 2: some type of plasticize something. It's true, we have lots
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  Speaker 2: of things, So could we begin the process of starting
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  Speaker 2: to eliminate that. Could I go with a natural wood
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  Speaker 2: fiber floor, I could. Could I go with a natural
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  Speaker 2: paint that is less chemicals? I could? Could I go
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  Speaker 2: with just wood inside my house? I suppose I could.
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  Speaker 2: Could I wear natural fiber clothing instead of who knows,
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  Speaker 2: polyester whatever, acrylic blah blah blah. Yes, I suppose I could.
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  Speaker 2: Could I have wooden chairs instead of nice cushy plastic chairs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll opt for leather instead. Could you buy
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  Speaker 2: an older car? Yes? Is it still going to have plastic? Yes? Unfortunately. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so the some things we're not gonna do without. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna do without my phone case. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: do without my car. Okay, Well, then let me then
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  Speaker 2: start cleaning up my environment in other ways. Can I
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  Speaker 2: use less chemicals around the house? Yes? I could. Could
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  Speaker 2: I buy more natural food so that I don't buy
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of canboxed, processed, packaged, plastic packaged food with
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of preservatives and a bunch of garbage in it?
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  Speaker 2: That I don't need any more burden than I already have, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we could do that, and I recommend it. So then
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  Speaker 2: we've done everything we can and now we're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: but they're still everywhere. They're in our water, they're in
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  Speaker 2: the air. If I go to the grocery store, it's everywhere. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I get you. So, now, how can we enhance liver
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  Speaker 2: function and detox We can do that, So how would
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  Speaker 2: we do that well by eating foods that would be
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  Speaker 2: helpful to that phase one phase two detoxification that we
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  Speaker 2: talk about. When it comes to inside the body, each
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  Speaker 2: cell has the ability to detox chemicals, and the liver
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  Speaker 2: has a vast majority, or rather responsibility of processing the blood,
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  Speaker 2: if you will. So everything gets dumped into the blood
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  Speaker 2: by the cells, including the lungs when we breathe stuff
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  Speaker 2: in or eat stuff, and so it's got to go somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and so the liver's job, it bears the biggest responsibility
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  Speaker 2: of detoxification and breaking down chemicals in phase one phase
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  Speaker 2: two detoxification. And what runs those phases is things that
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  Speaker 2: we would find in vegetables, especially like beets and cruciferous vegetables, kale, broccoli,
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  Speaker 2: brussels sprouts, cauliflower, those kinds of things. Now, some of
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  Speaker 2: you out there are probably saying, well, if I do that,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to decrease my thyroid function. Well, I suppose
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  Speaker 2: if you eat that much it could maybe depress your
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  Speaker 2: thyroid function some. But if you have enough good food
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  Speaker 2: and iodine and you're doing fine the other ways, your
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  Speaker 2: thyroid's probably going to be just okay. If you want,
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  Speaker 2: you could get adjusted and therefore help the thyroid and
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  Speaker 2: all of your glands, including your pituitary, hypothalamus, adrenals and gonads,
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  Speaker 2: the ovaries, the testes function better to take burdens off
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  Speaker 2: of your thyroid, and thus it would function better. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe an iodine supplement might be helpful if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do that much. If you're going to think, man,
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  Speaker 2: I've really got to do a lot of kale, Brussels
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  Speaker 2: sprouts and broccoli, And I had some brussels sprouts last
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  Speaker 2: night that they had cooked with onions and bacon, and
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, wow, it was amazing. So there
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  Speaker 2: are really quite good ways to make things and to
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  Speaker 2: actually have them alive, which will help you in the
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  Speaker 2: long run. So it always comes back, it seems to
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  Speaker 2: having a good diet, not stressing out about stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: de stress seeing your environment. If all that you can
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  Speaker 2: make it reasonable, you can go over the deep end.
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  Speaker 2: And now you're OCD and you're creating harm unto yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So let us take a nice deep breath, look around
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  Speaker 2: and decide what makes sense for me? Now. Just because
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  Speaker 2: I might go to greater lengths than you, does it
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  Speaker 2: make you wrong and me right? No, because there's people
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  Speaker 2: out there that will go greater lengths than I will.
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  Speaker 2: I don't expect to live further, nor do I want
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  Speaker 2: to in a body. I'll wear this meat suit as
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  Speaker 2: long as I have to, and then I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 2: it go. And so let's not be crazy. Let us
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  Speaker 2: be a bit lad, and let us listen to and
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  Speaker 2: begin to make better decisions, at least a bit more
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  Speaker 2: conscious decisions. What am I willing to forego and what
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  Speaker 2: am I willing to change? Are great questions. So just
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  Speaker 2: a quick aha moment and maybe some relief about nanoplastics.
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  Speaker 2: Do I really need to be that darn concerned? Well,
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  Speaker 2: if your diet's complete crap, and you eat crappy food
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  Speaker 2: and you're always around plastics, and you find yourself a
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  Speaker 2: bit overweight and you're having some chest pain, and you
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  Speaker 2: bruise easily, and you're wondering if you're close to a
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  Speaker 2: stroke or a heart attack. You may want to be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more radical in your choices, but I
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  Speaker 2: would also encourage you to ask harder questions about why
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  Speaker 2: did I make these choices in the beginning, when we
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  Speaker 2: likely knew they were not going to lead us into
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  Speaker 2: a good path. Now that's a topic for another time,
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  Speaker 2: But as microplastics go, let's see how much we can
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  Speaker 2: limit and begin to clean up our environment. Until next time,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doctor Troy, and remember there really is way more
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  Speaker 2: right with you than there is wrong with you. Then