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I wonder if you could also find researchers that have different and even opposite measurement to this and interviewing them, because the more research gathered the better to find solution for everyone on all sides.
My main takeaway that's probably most doable, most practical at the moment as a good starting point: Do your best to avoid using plastic and heavily scented/scented products. Eat well. Keep moving.
How do you avoid plastic when everything is packaged, wrapped, etc in them? You'd hardly see any product on supermarket shelves wrapped in paper or other alternative materials.
Apparently the CDC, FDA, EPA don’t care. Government approved it. Just like the tax code with all the loopholes for the rich. All for the almighty $ bill over human life.
The more research on this topic the better. And even invite more researchers from different and even opposites isle would help a lot. Yes, we should focusing this to each individual level and their level of toxicity tolerance, rather than guidance of big corps.
It always bothers me when studies highlight lost productivity over other factors like human suffering and death, which in my opinion is more concerning. People's lives have value beyond their productivity.
I wish school cafeterias didn’t individually wrap everything in plastic. I miss the old days when lunch ladies made freshly prepared meals. Way back when.
Depends on where you shop. Frightening but true, Walmart has quite a bit of fresh produce that isn't plastic wrapped. As does Krogers, Giant Eagle. Meijers. I'm in Ohio, those are the stores I shop at.
@@tomcollins5112 thats works in season. A home garden is also workable for some but not all. And some people can't get to a farmer's market. A lot have been hit hard by the pandemic. The one in my town has been closed for months.
@@nerine9301 under ALL of this is the monetary system itself. And won't stop until we end money altogether. Most companies use these chemicals because they are cost effective. Remove the need to be cost effective and we might end up with a healthier world.
Phthalates are so hard to avoid. I changed my lifestyle due to unexplained infertility. It took us 9 years to concieve. I made multiple changes including reducing phthalate use, which was difficult. A few months later and with multiple IVF attempts, we finally concieve our first. I am convinced that phthalates played a big role in our infertility issues.
Phthalates are NOT the reason you were unable to conceive. This is one of those false anecdotes that gets amplified long enough to become “true” years down the line. Unfortunately, Dr. Hansen did not tell you the other side of the story.
I can hardly believe that poly-ethelene glycol can be considered safer than something else. This is a sad indication of the horrific level of contamination that we are subjected to every day. Even the substances we consider "natural" have often been treated somewhere along the line with manufactered chemicals.
Re: Plastic bottles for shampoos and liquid soaps. We can now buy shampoos bars, and I can switch to non fragrant bar soaps. Tossed out all plastic from my kitchen including water bottles, switched to glass and stainless steel.
Good job bringing this to light. I have know about this for years and have filters (air, water) in the house and only use galss and stainless steel. there is no way of escaping it but minimizing where one can is all one can do.
Let’s not forget about all of the different pesticides and chemicals found in fruits and vegetables and even in most of the drinking water supply. Also a new study that fairly recently came out found out that the air we breath may be more polluted than we thought. Phthalates are just the tip of the iceberg as far as I’m concerned.
I read that FDA doesn't even check what's in new food that comes out on the shelves in supermarkets. 😳😳 But you'll read it is banned in Europe and other countries. US is way much too laxed on food content.
Yeah and it's a bit late to tell us this now, we've consumed tons of it by now, only our kids can have a chance with us knowing about it now. This stuff is everywhere, impossible to avoid.
We used to use lead for a lot of things, until we found out that it can cause lead poisoning. We slowly worked to replace lead in everything with better materials. I underdtand phthalates are in much more products than lead ever was, but I feel like we can do this again.
I’m not a person who tries to use essential oils for ailments. However, I do like scented products so adding a drop of essential oils to an unscented product is a way that I like to get a bit of both worlds.
I'm doing the same thing. And I'm absolutely NOT into Woo Woo. A few drops of essential lemon oil in a big bottle of unscented body lotion is a luxury for me after my weekly Saturday bath with 3 drops of the same oil in the bath water. I do use unscented soaps etc in my shower during the weeks.
I drank out of plastic water bottles for years. I have an old house and pipes and the town water usually smells like a swimming pool. I thought I was doing the healthy thing by drinking bottled water, but that wasn’t good either. I now have a filter to clean the water 💦 there are hazards everywhere!
I recently moved into an apartment closer to the city here in Melbourne, Australia and the water smells and tastes horrible. I’ve been buying a lot of bottled water lately too.. so unsure what to do now :/ what sort of filter please and do you use it for the bottled water or town water?
That smell usually means too little chlorine for the amount of organic material. Our local water tends to contain geosmin, which is harmless, but smells and tastes horrible. Even water filter systems tend to have plastic in them.
Great article Dr. Mike || Since I was age 3 I was dealing with debilitating migraine. Fifty-years later the cause was "chemically enhanced prepared food, cosmetics, cleaning products practically everything including medications! Prescribed heavy duty meds causing vision, speech inpediment, but never give any to prevent the migraines Also prescribed self-injection Imetrix - migraine gone in twenty minutes no side effects I don't use plastic for freezer storage I use glass canning jars I only consume fresh foods, chicken, fish, vegetables and fruits and Do not take medications at all and question preparation when eating out Today at age 79 I have no health issues and look age 60 . . . Thank you for sharing this import health concern NY-USA
This video while informative, makes this feel so overwhelming that I feel helpless. I have enough of a struggle to make ends meet working three jobs to now have to figure this out. I need a bit of a break.
Don’t worry too much about it. This is why I normally avoid these types of videos because they do nothing but scare people. The reality is everything around us is killing us. But you know what else kills us? Time, disease, accidents…there is no point in overly fretting about this stuff. People who existed well before all the toxic chemicals of our modern age all lived and died as well. People who smoke everyday of there life live to be 90 and I have healthy friends who died in accidents. Just do what you can to a reasonable degree to be healthy and just enjoy your life.
changing just a few little things can help eg brown paper lunch bags instead of plastic wrapped sandwiches for the kids and it's easy to buy natural deodorants which would not have bad products in them. I used to buy my water in bottles but now I have a filter on my tap. Then just focus on the good things that you have done rather than what you have not done.
I feel ya.. once you learn truths, you can't unlearn them, and we actually will go through a depression because of this. it's very tough to take the red pill...the last 6 years have been very difficult for me... helpless feeling is common. . You're not alone. . but we will prevail. . just keep on keeping on
Great video but it just touches the tip of the iceberg. Imagine a society where you purchase your goods from the local grocer on the corner who gets things from a regional farmer. That’s how we lived 100+ years ago. Now think, who does that eliminate? The Walmart(s) of the world, that’s who. I’m certain their main focus is not on our health. It’s difficult but I’m slowly trying to live as close to the way nature intended.
The old golden age myth. There are multiple problems with this supposedly better way of doing things. Well the way nature intended is for us to live a short, brutal life.
There really was an article that stated that even huge metropolitan areas such as NYC CAN source all their food within 50 miles. During the pandemic lockdown, local farmers brought their produce into DC and gave it away free BECAUSE they knew their usual farmers market customers needed them. Large grocery stores strive to create the vidual appearance of abundance, but the abundance actually consists of colored cardboard and colored plastic and waxed produce frequently trucked in from South America.
I have severe chemical sensitivity so already do a lot of this.. all my products are naturally scented with essential oils. I dont drink water from plastics any more as I have a water filter. I use bicarb (baking soda) to wash my hair and vinegar to condition it (about 1Tablesspoon is used of these, mix with a little water.. leave on for 1min for each then rinse). I avoid using plastic wrap where I can but after this I plan to replace my plastic microwave bowls with glass.
Brilliant exposé, thank you. The book Slow Death by Rubber Duck first highlighted the concern about phthalates and this new research is further evidence.
There was a report several weeks ago that testing on very small children showed high concentrations of plastics in their bodies even at very young ages. Very intensive research is going on for many years on what microbes are in the intestines. It seems we need to develop some microbes as food that will digest plastics for us! A study out of England reported that half the world's population probably has a microbe that creates calories for us to get us through times of famine and that we ought to believe the obese people who claim they eat no more than thin people. The research project put 2000 people on 1200 calorie diets. Half lost weight. Half didn't. All those who didn't shared exactly 1 microbe that NOBODY who lost weight had in their intestines. People eat sugar and salt that are poisons in the quantities we eat. Now, we partially digest plastics.
From childhood we learn that even as science innovates to solve problems, the innovations can cause new problems. The challenge is to address topmost issues (such as the need safely to grow and mass distribute food and other necessities), and collateral issues as they arise.
@@burger_kinghorn Not always a "cycle," or an inevitably recurrent one; some past solutions have been more straight~line ascensions. But true, some past solutions~~such as oil industry products, such as the myriad forms of plastics, and fracked gas~~have created new, different, oft worse problems, such as in Oklahoma recent~geologic~era unprecedented earthquakes. But as I recall from an elementary science class, once any new worse problems are created by science, scientists must devise safer, healthier alternatives. My father was a chemical company production process engineer, who at various points, as when they found that chloroform as a coolant was carcinogenic, came up with a safer alternative coolant. Industrial processes and products that menace mass extinction need stop, pause to allow research, rethink and reset to safer alternatives, as for fuel. "Necessity is the mother of invention," to the inventive not addicted to past technologies that have spawned big ecological and life issues.
It becomes stressful trying to limit exposure because everything had it. I used to vacuum and mop my house everyday and sometimes twice a day when my babies were crawling. I even spent money on huge mark ups to get better products…. Just to find out that manufacturing processes could have *more than likely* add phthalates to the products.
@@seadragon1456 It sounds like you are in phthalate burn out. All we can do is the best that we can with the realization that it will never be perfect. It's kind of like dusting. You can spend time dusting your entire house, but the moment you have dusted it's already started to settle again. We do it anyway because we know that the thick layers of dust activate even more allergies.
So I'm going to die from chemicals and there is no way to avoid it. Thanks doc and thanks youtube for giving me one more thing to be anxious and paranoid about.
Would love to see research on plastics and autism. In the 60’s when baby bottles were switched from glass to plastic, an even larger to plastic Took place for all packaging. Soon after autism was rampant in children and still is today. I believe it affects in uterine fetuses and results in autism.
This hurts me a lot... I was diagnosed withh endometriosis in 2012, and it has been hard to live a clean and healthy lifestyle. Now I think it has something to do with my infertility, loss of menstrual cycle, and hormonal imbalance. I definitely have to do better, but I'm afraid to do so. I want to live to be 100 years old. I have to start now.
I gave up all household cleaning products, make up, body personal care products, laundry det and fabric softener and plastic to store food, eat food, or drink food from in my 30's. I am now in my 60's.
I just finished watching a YT video on flouride, Flouride + calcium, I have osteoporosis already. And I carry a plastic bottle of water with me everywhere, refilling it frequently with tap water. I know I would drop a glass container. I missed your videos, glad you are back.
Dr. Hansen, I wish the ending was more optimistic, finishing on a note that educates viewers on the importance of overall health in diet and exercise habits. As unavoidable as phthalates may be, our choices in those regards still have huge impacts on our mortality.
Thank you for bringing the truth to what these chemicals do to all of us. Hopefully one day we will ban them like some other countries have done. The only way it will happen is with the knowledge that they are dangerous, thank you for passing that on to all.
“Scientists convert plastic waste into vanilla flavoring” “In the future, your vanilla ice cream may be made from plastic bottles.”- live science 6/18/21
There is rational concern about harmful chemicals based on scientific data and then there is irrational chemophobia (and GM-phobia); based in antiscience and the naturalistic fallacy. Most vanilla flavoring is synthetic and they use precursor chemicals extracted from burned wood and fossil fuels; that article was about potentially reducing the environmental harm from the production of vanillin; while also reusing some of our waste plastic (rather than just dumping it).
@@sharonjuarez7093 you can get vanilla sugar anywhere -its just flavouring and/or partially extracted vanilla pods; that is mixed with normal white sugar. You can make it yourself with your used pods. And 99% of all vanilla flavouring used worldwide; is synthetic vanillin -everyone uses the flavouring, the pods are too expensive and too environmentally harmful for mass use.
The fact that these everywhere chemicals are everywhere, that they have existed (or at least been widespread) only within the last half century or so, and that human life expectancy has increased over this same time period argues very strongly to me that they're not as harmful as this guy says. Besides, it is VERY hard to establish a cause and effect for "everywhere chemicals". It would be better to discuss the merits and shortcomings of the peer reviewed publication and get a better sense for just how good is the underlying science.
Lack of exercise is the main problem in America. You can blame plastic snd all sorts of stuff, but the bottom line is people are overweight and get zero cardio for decades then they develop health problems.
It's great that your platform brings this to the attention to many who may not have been aware previously to this information that's been around for quite sometime. This isn't new news unfortunately. Your platform "could" potentially bring about change. I use "could" Cautiously bc your not the first person with a platform to showcase this. I ask what will you do to bring about change that's not surface level chatter but deeper and more meaningful?
Very interesting and informative! I'm sure phthalates are not the only harmful leeching chemicals in plastic products, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and other commercial everyday items... for a couple of years now my take has been: go natural, go organic (grow any food you can), filter your own water, and go plastic-free as much as possible (zero-waste movement ftw). I think in natural products, scents through essential oils are fine though??? Especially organic oils?
I gave a presentation on this topic in 2009 and my hydrogeology professor tore me a new one saying my sources were incorrect and that there was currently no proof that any of these chemicals were a risk to humans or their reproductive systems. I hope she remembers.
Phthalates are mainly used in PVC. Most food packaging are made with other plastics, like PE and PET. PVC is phased out from most food packaging around the world except for in the US. PVC also cause problems with dioxins when incinerated. PE cling wrap is a better alternative to PVC, but do not cling as well.
Chemicals are the least regulated of all hazards in both the general public and in the workforce. And phthalates are just one group of chemicals. There are many other groups that are equally hazardous and some that are probably more concerning than phthalates.
Yeah, I can think of BPA (as well as BPS and BPF), glyphosate (Roundup), and PFOA/PFOS (byproduct of Teflon manufacturing, Dupont famously dumped it into a water supply)
when he says switching to unscented and fragrance free soaps, shampoos and conditioners etc. what is meant is not using the products which literally have "FRAGRANCE" listed as an ingredient . you might be surprised just how many products this innocuous sounding substance contains but it is in multitudes of things , including many deemed healthy . but these "FRAGRANCES" are far from harmless , they have been linked to many cancers , auto immune disorders , endocrine dysfunction among other health problems. our corrupt regulatory agencies wont do anything about controlling them so as with most anything else in america we must vote with our dollars . DO NOT PURCHASE ANY PRODUCT WHICH CONTAINS "FRAGRANCE" IN THE INGREDIENT LIST ! READ YOUR LABELS !!
TY..SO MUCH SIR.DOC.MIKE H..this is very interemsant info. We know more about health & protect our selfs..God bless U & fam..Doc.Mike H..stayedSaved..✝️❤🙏
You are a source that I absolutely trust... was aware of phthalate but not to the extent you have provided....have been trying to live plastic free; however it is hard but still worth doing! Thanks for this great video!
They are all corrupt and work for the CABAL !!!! DEMONIC I SAY !!!! NO ONE CARES ABOUT US CAUSE THIS IS SATAN'S WORLD !!!! IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE IF WE DON'T TAKE A STAND !!!! 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@amandah.1468 The object of this whole so called "Pandemic" event is population control. Bill Gates warned everyone, especially when he said on Ted Talks on RUclips that if he could return after this life, he'd rather be a virus and kill a lot of people. No guessing about that.
This is good to be aware of. Thanks for the information. I eat a whole food plant based diet to avoid heart disease but even much of the produce I buy (for example lettuce) comes in plastic. With Covid19 stores would not let me bring in cloth bags for produce so I started to use more plastic as that was considered safer. Hopefully with vaccines we can return to reducing plastic especially around food.
He wasn't specifically warning about the BPA coating inside of any can that doesn't rule them out on the label. BPA may not be the only problem, though. The alternative coatings may have detrimental aspects too.
So there’s really not many practical ways to avoid a higher exposure to it.. The best way is to regulate its use to reduce its impact on the population..
I test my patients for phthalates, and I help them detox from them. This is highly important for all humans to do, because these contributed to my first patient that passed aways death!
Why not post about the solution and not the problem. Why aren’t all doctors speaking up? Why does the CDC, FDA, EPA not ban it? Why is it approved? Why are you telling people any of this if you and all others doctors treat these patients and not take care of the problem? So many questions, and no answers.
Well, Pam you have to know the depth of a situation before you can work toward solutions. All doctors are not aware of all health problems. The CDC does not have authority to ban harmful products. Things are not individually approved, for instance, plastic bottles. Doctors are not in charge of the world. They treat disease they don’t regulate products. There are answers but we are not willing to give up plastic…. Even when we know it’s killing us. Remember cigarettes used to be ‘good for you…
All those three letter entities are corrupt and evil !!!! They all need taken down !!!! They do not have our best interest in mind ....actually the opposite !!!! 🤔🤔🤔
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Don't eat too much plastic!
I guess if we don't eat or drink, then we'll be fine. I was wondering why these plastics or chemicals cause heart problems but not cancer?
I wonder if you could also find researchers that have different and even opposite measurement to this and interviewing them, because the more research gathered the better to find solution for everyone on all sides.
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Why do you turn off comments for the covid video?
My main takeaway that's probably most doable, most practical at the moment as a good starting point: Do your best to avoid using plastic and heavily scented/scented products. Eat well. Keep moving.
How do you avoid plastic when everything is packaged, wrapped, etc in them? You'd hardly see any product on supermarket shelves wrapped in paper or other alternative materials.
@@arnie3631 it is tough, we need legislation to start tackling these chemicals on a wider, societal scale.
The price we pay for convenience is our health
Truth
Apparently the CDC, FDA, EPA don’t care. Government approved it. Just like the tax code with all the loopholes for the rich. All for the almighty $ bill over human life.
@@pamelaneibuhr6959 EPA cared. but look into who was last appointed to head of EPA from 2016-2020.....
that makes a difference.
And what does the convenience get us? Nothing of particular value.
The more research on this topic the better. And even invite more researchers from different and even opposites isle would help a lot. Yes, we should focusing this to each individual level and their level of toxicity tolerance, rather than guidance of big corps.
It always bothers me when studies highlight lost productivity over other factors like human suffering and death, which in my opinion is more concerning. People's lives have value beyond their productivity.
Not to those in charge.
Agreed, though it's done because human suffering and death are not a concern for corporations or governments.
Death by convenience, always been that way.
Unfettered capitalism at its finest
Indeed, sickening.
I wish school cafeterias didn’t individually wrap everything in plastic. I miss the old days when lunch ladies made freshly prepared meals. Way back when.
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They dont do that anymore? Sad
Probably still had phthalates back then too though
Bring foods at home go to schools that’s safety no problem with all . 👍😃
That was when you had to pay for lunch
Basically everything is killing us.
yeah that was my take away from Epidemiology class 101
febreeze doesn’t have that chemical…
Time is the most lethal one.
Fabreeze is still a chemical freshener. Use essential oils.
@@shep2285 you can have negative reactions to those too although they're usually better
There's basically nothing in the supermarket that's not wrapped in plastic
Totally. Even a lot of raw vegetables and fruits are wrapped, which blows my mind!
Depends on where you shop. Frightening but true, Walmart has quite a bit of fresh produce that isn't plastic wrapped. As does Krogers, Giant Eagle. Meijers. I'm in Ohio, those are the stores I shop at.
Shop from the farmer's markets. Buy your food straight from the farm.
@@tomcollins5112 thats works in season. A home garden is also workable for some but not all. And some people can't get to a farmer's market. A lot have been hit hard by the pandemic. The one in my town has been closed for months.
@@nerine9301 under ALL of this is the monetary system itself.
And won't stop until we end money altogether.
Most companies use these chemicals because they are cost effective.
Remove the need to be cost effective and we might end up with a healthier world.
Phthalates are so hard to avoid. I changed my lifestyle due to unexplained infertility. It took us 9 years to concieve. I made multiple changes including reducing phthalate use, which was difficult. A few months later and with multiple IVF attempts, we finally concieve our first. I am convinced that phthalates played a big role in our infertility issues.
I am having a problem conceiving too, any advice
Preseed lube helped us conceive. I also eliminated as much plastic from our home as possible.
I hope your future is beautiful with your baby
Phthalates are NOT the reason you were unable to conceive. This is one of those false anecdotes that gets amplified long enough to become “true” years down the line. Unfortunately, Dr. Hansen did not tell you the other side of the story.
So where have you been exposed to phthalates?
I can hardly believe that poly-ethelene glycol can be considered safer than something else. This is a sad indication of the horrific level of contamination that we are subjected to every day. Even the substances we consider "natural" have often been treated somewhere along the line with manufactered chemicals.
Yep, this of coarse has been the plan the cabal, luciferians, satanist have implemented centuries and centuries ago to slowly kill us.
Soo true..women paying millions on creams
Did you know that your DNA is polymer?
Then don’t buy their products. Quit supporting them.
Re: Plastic bottles for shampoos and liquid soaps. We can now buy shampoos bars, and I can switch to non fragrant bar soaps. Tossed out all plastic from my kitchen including water bottles, switched to glass and stainless steel.
I think that if you were buying natural soaps those would be okay with the scents as they have only got essential oils to scent them.
Good job bringing this to light. I have know about this for years and have filters (air, water) in the house and only use galss and stainless steel. there is no way of escaping it but minimizing where one can is all one can do.
Let’s not forget about all of the different pesticides and chemicals found in fruits and vegetables and even in most of the drinking water supply. Also a new study that fairly recently came out found out that the air we breath may be more polluted than we thought. Phthalates are just the tip of the iceberg as far as I’m concerned.
Can’t worry too much..do your best and live a healthy active lifestyle.
"If you have the money we'll approve anything you want" says the FDA.
Source?
@@spacetoast7783 what’s your age? Just wondering cause.. 😂🤣🙈🙊
@@lovelyj78 Old enough to not be doing your homework for you, kiddo.
Where's the FDA in regards to all this preliminary research !?
More than likely they are in the pockets of Corporations who make them.
yes
The federal government wants to cull the population wake up.
They’re busy injecting us with safe vaccines.
I read that FDA doesn't even check what's in new food that comes out on the shelves in supermarkets. 😳😳
But you'll read it is banned in Europe and other countries. US is way much too laxed on food content.
Dr. Hansen, thank you so much for talking about this serious topic!
Yeah and it's a bit late to tell us this now, we've consumed tons of it by now, only our kids can have a chance with us knowing about it now. This stuff is everywhere, impossible to avoid.
We used to use lead for a lot of things, until we found out that it can cause lead poisoning. We slowly worked to replace lead in everything with better materials. I underdtand phthalates are in much more products than lead ever was, but I feel like we can do this again.
A fellow optimist, I also agree.
Yep, but we'r also need to replace that other poison too, graphic oxide and more.
Lead was never ubiquitous. I consider myself an optimist. But you win. You're a much bigger optimist than I.
I’m not a person who tries to use essential oils for ailments. However, I do like scented products so adding a drop of essential oils to an unscented product is a way that I like to get a bit of both worlds.
I'm doing the same thing. And I'm absolutely NOT into Woo Woo. A few drops of essential lemon oil in a big bottle of unscented body lotion is a luxury for me after my weekly Saturday bath with 3 drops of the same oil in the bath water. I do use unscented soaps etc in my shower during the weeks.
Excellent idea. I love rose scent so that should be easy to do.
Some essential oils can disrupt your hormones. Lavender especially. Such a bummer
@@cassandra820
True. That is why I don't use much, and I don't use lavender.... 😒
Me too
I drank out of plastic water bottles for years. I have an old house and pipes and the town water usually smells like a swimming pool. I thought I was doing the healthy thing by drinking bottled water, but that wasn’t good either. I now have a filter to clean the water 💦 there are hazards everywhere!
I recently moved into an apartment closer to the city here in Melbourne, Australia and the water smells and tastes horrible. I’ve been buying a lot of bottled water lately too.. so unsure what to do now :/ what sort of filter please and do you use it for the bottled water or town water?
Me too. Been drinking bottled water since 1998 🙆
@@chawkz Hi, I use a PUR faucet water filter. It seems to work great
That smell usually means too little chlorine for the amount of organic material. Our local water tends to contain geosmin, which is harmless, but smells and tastes horrible.
Even water filter systems tend to have plastic in them.
@@ian1352 you are right my water filter does have plastic too.
Great article Dr. Mike || Since I was age 3 I was dealing with debilitating migraine.
Fifty-years later the cause was "chemically enhanced prepared food, cosmetics, cleaning products practically everything including medications!
Prescribed heavy duty meds causing vision, speech inpediment, but never give any to prevent the migraines
Also prescribed self-injection Imetrix - migraine gone in twenty minutes no side effects
I don't use plastic for freezer storage I use glass canning jars
I only consume fresh foods, chicken, fish, vegetables and fruits and
Do not take medications at all and question preparation when eating out
Today at age 79 I have no health issues and look age 60 . . . Thank you for sharing this import health concern NY-USA
Oh my, our medicine is in plastic bottles. It’s seems like there’s plastic in everything in some form. Thanks for the information. It’s 😳
yep....Plastic is like China. It's in everywhere. You just can't completely boycott both
It’s depressing.
Glass and stainless steel are good.
This video while informative, makes this feel so overwhelming that I feel helpless. I have enough of a struggle to make ends meet working three jobs to now have to figure this out. I need a bit of a break.
Don’t worry too much about it. This is why I normally avoid these types of videos because they do nothing but scare people. The reality is everything around us is killing us. But you know what else kills us? Time, disease, accidents…there is no point in overly fretting about this stuff. People who existed well before all the toxic chemicals of our modern age all lived and died as well. People who smoke everyday of there life live to be 90 and I have healthy friends who died in accidents. Just do what you can to a reasonable degree to be healthy and just enjoy your life.
Nothing to worry about, enough chemicals will solve your problems… eventually :)
You're doing your best. Worry about what you can change. Others can worry about the rest. It's ok xx
changing just a few little things can help eg brown paper lunch bags instead of plastic wrapped sandwiches for the kids and it's easy to buy natural deodorants which would not have bad products in them. I used to buy my water in bottles but now I have a filter on my tap. Then just focus on the good things that you have done rather than what you have not done.
I feel ya.. once you learn truths, you can't unlearn them, and we actually will go through a depression because of this. it's very tough to take the red pill...the last 6 years have been very difficult for me... helpless feeling is common. . You're not alone. . but we will prevail. . just keep on keeping on
Great video but it just touches the tip of the iceberg. Imagine a society where you purchase your goods from the local grocer on the corner who gets things from a regional farmer. That’s how we lived 100+ years ago. Now think, who does that eliminate? The Walmart(s) of the world, that’s who. I’m certain their main focus is not on our health. It’s difficult but I’m slowly trying to live as close to the way nature intended.
The old golden age myth. There are multiple problems with this supposedly better way of doing things.
Well the way nature intended is for us to live a short, brutal life.
There really was an article that stated that even huge metropolitan areas such as NYC CAN source all their food within 50 miles.
During the pandemic lockdown, local farmers brought their produce into DC and gave it away free BECAUSE they knew their usual farmers market customers needed them.
Large grocery stores strive to create the vidual appearance of abundance, but the abundance actually consists of colored cardboard and colored plastic and waxed produce frequently trucked in from South America.
Just like cigarette companies, all they care about is money!
I have severe chemical sensitivity so already do a lot of this.. all my products are naturally scented with essential oils. I dont drink water from plastics any more as I have a water filter. I use bicarb (baking soda) to wash my hair and vinegar to condition it (about 1Tablesspoon is used of these, mix with a little water.. leave on for 1min for each then rinse). I avoid using plastic wrap where I can but after this I plan to replace my plastic microwave bowls with glass.
Don't use microwave at all
I grew up eating frozen totinos pizza that I would microwave ON THE BOX it came in 🙃 Now there is a warning on it to NOT do that.
King Midas of our times. Everything we touch turns into plastic.
Brilliant exposé, thank you. The book Slow Death by Rubber Duck first highlighted the concern about phthalates and this new research is further evidence.
It's practically impossible to avoid...
All I heard: We are all going to die
You were aware of that before, right.
Lol😆
Yes!
The Sky is Falling... lol 😆 🤣 😂
There was a report several weeks ago that testing on very small children showed high concentrations of plastics in their bodies even at very young ages.
Very intensive research is going on for many years on what microbes are in the intestines.
It seems we need to develop some microbes as food that will digest plastics for us!
A study out of England reported that half the world's population probably has a microbe that creates calories for us to get us through times of famine and that we ought to believe the obese people who claim they eat no more than thin people.
The research project put 2000 people on 1200 calorie diets. Half lost weight. Half didn't. All those who didn't shared exactly 1 microbe that NOBODY who lost weight had in their intestines.
People eat sugar and salt that are poisons in the quantities we eat. Now, we partially digest plastics.
We're doomed if we don't eat and we're doomed if we do eat.
don't sweat it. everyone dies from something eventually. chill out and enjoy life while you have it
Lets use cardboard instead…wait, he just said its in recycled cardboard too! Lets stop recycling? Sorry Gaia, damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
No winning. At least cardboard is biodegradable.
@@piaz2023 Yeah, I just wish it were waterproof or liquid resistant, I would use it a lot more.
From childhood we learn that even as science innovates to solve problems, the innovations can cause new problems. The challenge is to address topmost issues (such as the need safely to grow and mass distribute food and other necessities), and collateral issues as they arise.
@@JudgeJulieLit many problems we face today stem from solutions to past problems. It's a cycle.
@@burger_kinghorn Not always a "cycle," or an inevitably recurrent one; some past solutions have been more straight~line ascensions. But true, some past solutions~~such as oil industry products, such as the myriad forms of plastics, and fracked gas~~have created new, different, oft worse problems, such as in Oklahoma recent~geologic~era unprecedented earthquakes. But as I recall from an elementary science class, once any new worse problems are created by science, scientists must devise safer, healthier alternatives. My father was a chemical company production process engineer, who at various points, as when they found that chloroform as a coolant was carcinogenic, came up with a safer alternative coolant. Industrial processes and products that menace mass extinction need stop, pause to allow research, rethink and reset to safer alternatives, as for fuel. "Necessity is the mother of invention," to the inventive not addicted to past technologies that have spawned big ecological and life issues.
Just something else to add to the 'This is going to kill you' list. Rest assured, next week will have something else. What a world we live in.
So essentially, you're saying there's no way it's humanly possible to avoid any of this
No, essentially, he said you can't avoid ALL of it, but that you can mitigate your exposure.
like death itself.
It becomes stressful trying to limit exposure because everything had it.
I used to vacuum and mop my house everyday and sometimes twice a day when my babies were crawling. I even spent money on huge mark ups to get better products…. Just to find out that manufacturing processes could have *more than likely* add phthalates to the products.
@@seadragon1456 It sounds like you are in phthalate burn out. All we can do is the best that we can with the realization that it will never be perfect. It's kind of like dusting. You can spend time dusting your entire house, but the moment you have dusted it's already started to settle again. We do it anyway because we know that the thick layers of dust activate even more allergies.
A big first step is to buy fruits and vegetables in their whole form and actually cook at home. It will also save you money.
So I'm going to die from chemicals and there is no way to avoid it. Thanks doc and thanks youtube for giving me one more thing to be anxious and paranoid about.
@Dennis we live in an unsafe world. You are only safe and secure in God. Get to know Him. You'll be glad you did.
Need peace, calm, rest receive your salvation - Jesus.
Plastics are just a piece.
@@gregriahiggs7268 Orthodoxy is unconsciousness!
@@exuberant8385 Orthodoxy is unconsciousness!
Everything is basically killing us!Most of these Corporation's and Companies know this is going in their products..
Would love to see research on plastics and autism. In the 60’s when baby bottles were switched from glass to plastic, an even larger to plastic
Took place for all packaging. Soon after autism was rampant in children and still is today. I believe it affects in uterine fetuses and results in autism.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
correlation does not imply causation
@@nekohanyougirl It might if it were properly studied. To my knowledge it has not.
@@nekohanyougirl But it does tell you where to look.
Except it was discovered and named by Dr. Asperger in the 1940s.
This hurts me a lot... I was diagnosed withh endometriosis in 2012, and it has been hard to live a clean and healthy lifestyle. Now I think it has something to do with my infertility, loss of menstrual cycle, and hormonal imbalance. I definitely have to do better, but I'm afraid to do so. I want to live to be 100 years old. I have to start now.
Lions, Tigers, and Phthalates, Oh My!
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@@roslynjohnson6310 ???
Sounds like we’re stuck with it. There is literally no way to a avoid it
I gave up all household cleaning products, make up, body personal care products, laundry det and fabric softener and plastic to store food, eat food, or drink food from in my 30's. I am now in my 60's.
Everything is killing us!
That's why an American woman in 1900 had a life expectancy of 45 and a life expectancy in 2021:of 76?
With everything going on and about to happen ,I'll put this at the bottom of the my list of concerns .
Stay tuned for the next thing that to be terrified by.
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yO 🤣🤣🤭🤭🤣
Urine samples given in plastic specimen jars …..
Wow that's so crazy and sad at the same time, thanks for the information doc, you're the best!
As always, very informative and of course very high quality production. So very much appreciated. Thank you, doc!
@mig uel it must be so frustrating to be you, peddling such tosh and not being taken seriously, huh?
We're doomed! :(
I just finished watching a YT video on flouride, Flouride + calcium, I have osteoporosis already. And I carry a plastic bottle of water with me everywhere, refilling it frequently with tap water. I know I would drop a glass container. I missed your videos, glad you are back.
Dr. Hansen, I wish the ending was more optimistic, finishing on a note that educates viewers on the importance of overall health in diet and exercise habits. As unavoidable as phthalates may be, our choices in those regards still have huge impacts on our mortality.
I knew not to microwave plastic but it did not think storage itself was a problem. Yikes. I am bathed in this stuff daily.
Why’s the FDA hasn’t done anything about this issues?
They're too busy trying to keep helpful medicines away from us.
The FDA is mostly funded by the very companies and industries they are supposed to be monitoring. A huge conflict of interest.
They are evil and corrupt ... that's why !!!! 🤔
Thank you for bringing the truth to what these chemicals do to all of us. Hopefully one day we will ban them like some other countries have done. The only way it will happen is with the knowledge that they are dangerous, thank you for passing that on to all.
“Scientists convert plastic waste into vanilla flavoring”
“In the future, your vanilla ice cream may be made from plastic bottles.”- live science 6/18/21
Even better , they use a modified "E. coli" bacteria to do it!
I make my own fresh vanilla beans and vodka
There is rational concern about harmful chemicals based on scientific data and then there is irrational chemophobia (and GM-phobia); based in antiscience and the naturalistic fallacy.
Most vanilla flavoring is synthetic and they use precursor chemicals extracted from burned wood and fossil fuels; that article was about potentially reducing the environmental harm from the production of vanillin; while also reusing some of our waste plastic (rather than just dumping it).
How come in other countries they have vanilla sugar but in U.S. we have to use the flavoring ??? 🤔
@@sharonjuarez7093 you can get vanilla sugar anywhere -its just flavouring and/or partially extracted vanilla pods; that is mixed with normal white sugar. You can make it yourself with your used pods.
And 99% of all vanilla flavouring used worldwide; is synthetic vanillin -everyone uses the flavouring, the pods are too expensive and too environmentally harmful for mass use.
Couldn’t it be more of a correlation than causation? Like people who eat out a lot and eat more processed food are more likely to have heart disease?
The fact that these everywhere chemicals are everywhere, that they have existed (or at least been widespread) only within the last half century or so, and that human life expectancy has increased over this same time period argues very strongly to me that they're not as harmful as this guy says. Besides, it is VERY hard to establish a cause and effect for "everywhere chemicals". It would be better to discuss the merits and shortcomings of the peer reviewed publication and get a better sense for just how good is the underlying science.
My husband works in plastic. He’s been breathing in the fumes for over over 30 years.
What are his health issues?
Like always Dr. Mike excellent information. 👏🏼🙏🏼
and much paranoia
Lack of exercise is the main problem in America. You can blame plastic snd all sorts of stuff, but the bottom line is people are overweight and get zero cardio for decades then they develop health problems.
How about air fresheners that are plugged in...
It's great that your platform brings this to the attention to many who may not have been aware previously to this information that's been around for quite sometime. This isn't new news unfortunately. Your platform "could" potentially bring about change. I use "could" Cautiously bc your not the first person with a platform to showcase this. I ask what will you do to bring about change that's not surface level chatter but deeper and more meaningful?
Very interesting and informative! I'm sure phthalates are not the only harmful leeching chemicals in plastic products, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and other commercial everyday items... for a couple of years now my take has been: go natural, go organic (grow any food you can), filter your own water, and go plastic-free as much as possible (zero-waste movement ftw). I think in natural products, scents through essential oils are fine though??? Especially organic oils?
I gave a presentation on this topic in 2009 and my hydrogeology professor tore me a new one saying my sources were incorrect and that there was currently no proof that any of these chemicals were a risk to humans or their reproductive systems. I hope she remembers.
How long does a plastic product leach toxins? Is my 10 year old mixing bowl going to stop leaching toxins at some point??
Phthalates are mainly used in PVC. Most food packaging are made with other plastics, like PE and PET.
PVC is phased out from most food packaging around the world except for in the US. PVC also cause problems with dioxins when incinerated. PE cling wrap is a better alternative to PVC, but do not cling as well.
It'd be great if someone can invent a substitute for phthalates, cuz It'd be such a pain to avoid this :(.
That's really the only way. Just like lead was removed/replaced from products.
Chemicals are the least regulated of all hazards in both the general public and in the workforce. And phthalates are just one group of chemicals. There are many other groups that are equally hazardous and some that are probably more concerning than phthalates.
Yeah, I can think of BPA (as well as BPS and BPF), glyphosate (Roundup), and PFOA/PFOS (byproduct of Teflon manufacturing, Dupont famously dumped it into a water supply)
Very informative Dr. Hansen. Thank you so much!
when he says switching to unscented and fragrance free soaps, shampoos and conditioners etc. what is meant is not using the products which literally have "FRAGRANCE" listed as an ingredient . you might be surprised just how many products this innocuous sounding substance contains but it is in multitudes of things , including many deemed healthy . but these "FRAGRANCES" are far from harmless , they have been linked to many cancers , auto immune disorders , endocrine dysfunction among other health problems. our corrupt regulatory agencies wont do anything about controlling them so as with most anything else in america we must vote with our dollars . DO NOT PURCHASE ANY PRODUCT WHICH CONTAINS "FRAGRANCE" IN THE INGREDIENT LIST ! READ YOUR LABELS !!
TY..SO MUCH SIR.DOC.MIKE H..this is very interemsant info. We know more about health & protect our selfs..God bless U & fam..Doc.Mike H..stayedSaved..✝️❤🙏
Geeeze our regulatory agencies are allowing us to get sick.
You are a source that I absolutely trust... was aware of phthalate but not to the extent you have provided....have been trying to live plastic free; however it is hard but still worth doing! Thanks for this great video!
Why are these products permitted in consumer products?
Why?$$$$
Increased profits
Get you to the doctor.
They are all corrupt and work for the CABAL !!!!
DEMONIC I SAY !!!!
NO ONE CARES ABOUT US CAUSE THIS IS SATAN'S WORLD !!!!
IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE IF WE DON'T TAKE A STAND !!!! 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for this informative video. 👍
He forgot to say face masks we use for COVID-19 so called Protection. And Pthalates also reduces the size ofc Male genitals over time.
The face masks have pthalates in them?
@@amandah.1468 The object of this whole so called "Pandemic" event is population control. Bill Gates warned everyone, especially when he said on Ted Talks on RUclips that if he could return after this life, he'd rather be a virus and kill a lot of people. No guessing about that.
@@amandah.1468 Yes and also have nano particles !!!! That's why I have never worn them or engaged in their death games !!!! 😁😁😁
Thank
You always Doctor Mike Hansen for the information 🤓
Just a question. Are you vaccinated?
It’s always something to think about when it comes to our health. Thank you for this information.
My house is now empty. Every time I watch these videos, I throw things away.
why not just become homeless?
What about phthalates in shampoo and other skincare products?
Well thank you, now I’m afraid of very walls in my house 🙈
hide under the bed
There is practically no way to avoid it, but we can try to minimize it.
I wonder how PEX plumbing tubes stand in this, do they contain and bleed such contaminates?
This is good to be aware of. Thanks for the information. I eat a whole food plant based diet to avoid heart disease but even much of the produce I buy (for example lettuce) comes in plastic. With Covid19 stores would not let me bring in cloth bags for produce so I started to use more plastic as that was considered safer. Hopefully with vaccines we can return to reducing plastic especially around food.
The covid vaccines are part of the problem you fool! 😂
Thank you for sharing Doctor Mike!
This video is gold!
Too much entertainment we need more value!
You the best!
He wasn't specifically warning about the BPA coating inside of any can that doesn't rule them out on the label. BPA may not be the only problem, though. The alternative coatings may have detrimental aspects too.
Thank you! Grateful to you for sharing your knowledge so generously!
Hi Dr.Hansen as always thanks for all your videos you are awesome and the best. 💪 have a good evening pal ✌ 👌 👍
So there’s really not many practical ways to avoid a higher exposure to it.. The best way is to regulate its use to reduce its impact on the population..
that sure worked well with narcotics...
so I can't use tupperware to store my leftovers no more ? :(
Glass all the way
Thanks for a very Informative Video Mike Hansen.💚
We have Tax on plastic bags from Foodstore in Sweden/ Europe
I test my patients for phthalates, and I help them detox from them. This is highly important for all humans to do, because these contributed to my first patient that passed aways death!
Thanks for the updates Doc🤟🏿
I am using old fashioned canning jars for so much .
What about waxpaper? Is silicone ok?
Try researching what kind of pot or pan to cook in.
don't believe the lying BS about Teflon
What concerns me alot is the water i drink from the plastic bottles while biking. Often times the water heats and tastes….
Like an old commercial says “Plastics make it possible “
Can you do one on Roundup and also it's origins? Thanks
Love you for so many reasons Mike!! Thank you!
Omg 😱 I did not now. Thank you For your kind Doctor.
Thank you so much very interesting indeed! Blessings from London
Why not post about the solution and not the problem. Why aren’t all doctors speaking up? Why does the CDC, FDA, EPA not ban it? Why is it approved? Why are you telling people any of this if you and all others doctors treat these patients and not take care of the problem? So many questions, and no answers.
Well, Pam you have to know the depth of a situation before you can work toward solutions. All doctors are not aware of all health problems. The CDC does not have authority to ban harmful products. Things are not individually approved, for instance, plastic bottles. Doctors are not in charge of the world. They treat disease they don’t regulate products. There are answers but we are not willing to give up plastic…. Even when we know it’s killing us. Remember cigarettes used to be ‘good for you…
All those three letter entities are corrupt and evil !!!! They all need taken down !!!! They do not have our best interest in mind ....actually the opposite !!!! 🤔🤔🤔
@@sharonjuarez7093 absolutely, I agree