I work at a food processing facility. Even if you're buying it in a glass container the ingredients it was made from were still likely shipped and stored in plastic. My company is one of those 100% organic, GMO free, don't use corn syrup etc. type companies, but 100% of our raw materials are shipped to us in plastic bags buckets or drums.
@Rizzle concentrated sugar, its also basically in many American foods, so its very easy to ingest an unhealthy amount of it without even knowing. It's a great sweetening agent and is the most cheap.
Still, as one commenter pointed out rather cryptically, as the size of a container increases the surface area of the interior increases by the square while the volume of product increases by the cube. Not that other plant-based plastics shouldn't be explored, but using plastic only with industrial quantities would definitely decrease exposure. The company in question can't control everything, but should be commended for selecting a better option for packaging consumer quantities. Kudos to them for making their best attempt.
Yes, avoiding plastics and xenoestrogens is a good practice, but very difficult to do it completely. These compounds are almost everywhere: leeched into the water we drink, dust from our blinds, plastic on our food, you get the idea. A more effective strategy could be to simply minimize their effects through diet modification. Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc) may help in this regard due to a naturally occurring compound: indol-3-carbinol. I3C prevents the conversion of xenoestrogens into estradiol, a more potent form of estrogen. Do avoid plastics as much as you can, but also try working in more broccoli and cauliflower in your diet. Last time I tested my E2 (lab test name: estradiol with dilution), it was well within the normal range.
Meanwhile in the mirror Universe ".. and that is why glass is much more harmful for your sperm and the Earth than the usual plastics. Long live the Empire!" - Adam with goatee
The same can said about all metals used by humans but shattering the entire economy and technological growth is surely not what is needed, right?... Besides, the Sun will turn Earth into glass anyways. lol
When I was growing up, my parents had a liquor store. People returned their beer bottles and they would get recycled back to the Beer Company by placing them back into the beer cases. Why can't we do that today? some genius in distribution should figure out a way to send glass containers for everything back to where they can be reused again.
Convenience. It is more convenient to have single use items (use and toss) than to inconvenience yourself to save then take a trip to the store just to drop off glass bottles. The 5-10cent surcharge on bottles and canned drinks still exist as an incentive to return them to the grocery. But for the most part, unfortunately, reusable things (bottles, bags, diapers, etc.) comparatively are inconvenient than just tossing it out. Its a hard road as go back to the days where things were reused.
Honestly I missed the days (at least for me) when there was more emphasis on the environment. Like, I used to have recycling containers but now, we stopped using that because the trashing facility “sorts it for you”? (Sounds like marketing nonsense and they can just toss it all away.) I’d honestly love a system like Japan, which has a heavy emphasis on people sorting the trash. While there practices are extreme, it’s honestly not that big a deal in people’s lives to just have a container for paper, another for plastic, etc. Making a little inconvenience for people can honestly go a long way.
I really appreciate this, not a ‘you’re doing this and killing all of us’ attitude, but a ‘we’re doing this and I don’t know if we can fix it but we should try’ attitude. A+ Adam!👍
But also of we try it probably wont do anything anyway and the alternative is probably just as bad just in otherways..... (im still gonna use the shit ton of plastic i normally do just like everyone else :/ )
@@notwaffle Great you just made me think. Once on the use once and toss bandwagon we don't want to get off. When my son was born we used cloth diapers and had disposable ones for when we were out. People were switching over to the disposable. This is just an example of what has happened. I try to recycle and find it isn't that hard on me now that I'm older. Rinse out my cans, bottles and plastic and have them recycled. But people don't want to do that, claims it takes to much time. I do it while cooking. Of course I grew up in the country and my parents lived through the Great Depression so I picked up some "strange" habits. You have caused me to think about more than just this but I've already taken up enough time, but always willing to talk about such things.
@@francisdhomer5910 It's really mostly a habit and cultural thing. We're sold convenience because we're out of time... yet we do nothing with it it seems. We don't cook, we don't clean, we don't wash anymore, but we still don't have time!
@@notwaffle you can quite easily lessen your exposure. The most harmful use seems to be heating plastic. So get rid of all your plastic cooking utilities and replace them with wood, steel, etc. Throw away your non-stick pan alongside it. Get glass cans to store and reheat stuff in, instead of heating in plastic containers.
I switched to glass containers several years ago. I microwave a lot of foods and feel better about glass. It lasts forever and cleans better than plastic as well.
I would honestly still use glass containers as opposed to plastics even if plastics were non-hazardous. It's heavier and takes up more space, but cleans so much easier, lasts very long and just feels slightly more luxurious.
The cleaning benefit alone has been a huge plus for glass. I deal with spaghetti sauce and taco meat a lot, and that permanent orange stain 2/3rds up the side is really annoying.
@@TemporaryInsane not true. It's no more destructive to nutrients than any other heating method. Can you tell me which nutrients are susceptible to microwaves uniquely?
Not to mention the fact that literally every restaurant uses plastic cambros/ plastic cling wrap/ even plenty use plastic bags in hot water to hold hot food on top of all the canned products. It's quite literally impossible to avoid
You don't have to freak, at least not yet -they kind of misrepresented the science; it's actually quite far away from 'settled', so far (afaik) there has been no conclusive evidence that even BPA affects humans during normal (non industrial) use. The studies that they referred to were rat-cell studies, studies looking for effects in humans have been difficult due to the confounding factors. So yeah maybe reduce use where you can (even if just for enviro reasons) but you don't have to go "I need to stop the poison" hardcore, at least not yet (based on the available science).
@@LENZ5369 Actually complaining about something to the max is the only way to get anything to happen. Once nice people start to realize this, the problems of the world will vanish, but sadly who knows if it'll happen.
4chan has had around 50 million daily users for years now. I wouldn’t be surprised if a number of content creators of youtube actually used it in the past.
I worked for a time at a grocery store. One of the big, "I didn't think about that," exposures to bisphenols specifically is actually receipt paper. These days all the receipt paper ("thermal paper") manufacturers have jumped on the, "BPA-free," bandwagon, but like you mentioned almost at the start of this video, that likely just means either BPS or BPF instead (& usually they don't exactly tell you with what they've replaced the BPA). Ever wonder why you've seen a cashier change the paper in their printer but never the ink cartridge? There is no ink cartridge to change. The printer actually just applies heat, which causes a reaction in the coating on the paper so it changes colors according to what's being printed. That's also why they turn black if you leave them out in the sun, or, as was one of my favorite things to teach the people I was working with, if you spill alcohol onto them. It turns out that bisphenols are soluble in alcohol, as you'd expect them to be since they look pretty non-polar. You know how there's often a little bottle of hand-sanitizer gel at the checkout--maybe you've noticed it extra over the past year because of the covid-19 pandemic? That hand sanitizer is mostly various alcohols, ethanol and isopropyl, etc. Splash a little drop of that on a piece of blank receipt paper and you can see the elution of the coating on the paper pretty easily. I always used to caution customers who had just used hand sanitizer if I was about to hand them their receipt b/c I figured they'd probably want to know, "hey, let that stuff fully dry before you handle this receipt much because the endocrine-disrupting chemicals on it might leech off it and into your hands via the alcohol."
Damn I noticed how those thermal papers are easily damaged with alochol based sanitizers buy I never thought they ate helping leech out the chemicals too. WTF?
2019: stop using plastic to save the turtles. 2020: stop using plastic so everyone doesnt turn into a beta. If it wasnt clear enough this is a joke comment, if you want to argue and whatnot take it to your dms or whatever just please not here. :)
@@liamsweeney4754 when an insecure man is more concerned about his notions of manliness being affected via plastic than the future of this planet... Sad!
@@SpahGaming "Place" is a transitive verb. The voice crack did not place itself, it was placed by him; so I was indeed complimenting him on how he put it there and therefore did realise it was intentional. Also, did you know that "place" can mean "to make the voice resonate with a particular area of the body to achieve a desired sound", like he did when he cracked his voice? I'm double smart. ;-)
@@SpahGaming I could say the same thing to your initial comment. See how we got here? It's impossible to detect if someone is genuinely asking a question or being a wise ass on the Internet. But this way, at least you've learnt a new musical term!
I would imagine bottled water would be more harmful than tap water (assuming the tap water is safe for consumption to begin with), since, unlike tap water, bottled water gets stored in a plastic container for a long time. (Slightly off topic)
The amount of plastics being used appears to just be worsening as time goes on, it's genuinely impossible to avoid & personally difficult to reduce the use of. This situation warrants much more research and deserves to be a much more common concern to the general population. Nice video Adam 👍
In Sweden in the past year, I've actually started to see less plastics in packaging / single-use products. It's mostly been replaced by wood and paper, sometimes by sugar-cane plastics. So it's definitively possible, people just have to do it.
@@fredrikbystrom7380 oh wow that is amazing to hear! We have a long way to go here in Australia, id love to see more wood & papper being used so hopefully that will be the way of the future! 😊✌
It's frustrating as a parent that if I want to send certain types of food with my kids to school, it must be in plastic because the school won't allow glass containers due to breakage. Almost all of the food we bring into the house is packaged in some type of plastic also. It's a no win situation at this point.
Unschooling him, school teach nothing and it cost many thing irreversible. Think school as investment and ask yiurself, will you put your money into such investment? He can make money using programming as side job
Why must it be plastic? I understand the need for "no breakage". But stainless steel would also do the trick. Or really any other metal. But I would avoid aluminium, just to be safe.
There is a new material that Japan has come up with called *cellulose nanofiber*. Can be food grade. I dont know. It is still new and looks very promising as it seems just as strong as carbon fiber.
Hi Adam I’m really happy you made a video on this. I was faced with this choice last night on Amazon when I was deciding between plastic and glass freezer containers; I went with glass ultimately for these reasons. The trends of declining sperm counts is seriously concerning!
Topics like these are so hard to relate to for someone like me. I'm always struggling to eat healthy. Salad is pretty much a waste of money, because there's so little energy in it. Canned foods of every kind are a stable (staple?) in my life, as it fits within my budget. I really think the whole "power of the consumer" to change the behavior of the producers doesn't take into account all the people that just don't have the option of buying that other thing instead of this thing. Instead, consuming responsibly becomes a selling point rather than a way to force the producer to change.
It always amazed me when I saw coworkers microwaving plastic containers at work. Since I was a kid I was told not to do this and over the last few years I stopped buying plastic containers entirely, just using glass. That being said I primarily buy my meat frozen in plastic packets so I guess I'm not much better off. One way I helped cut down on plastic was by stop buying plastic water bottles. I use a filter for my water and I have glass bottles to store in fridge. That being said, my filter and it's pitcher are both plastic so... Fuck.
It's unnecessary to spend lots of energy to try and 100% eliminate something hazardous, whether it be plastic, air pollution, etc. It's going to be very difficult if not impossible. The better alternative is to spend moderate energy on minimizing the _majority_ of what's hazardous. It's worth spending a little time to minimize like 80% of your plastic exposure, even if you can never get to 100%.
@@supergalaxyelise3705 - yeah we never buy plastic bottles of water anymore if we can avoid it. At home we drink water that is filtered into stainless steel.
After the water has been filtered into the plastic pitcher, transfer it to a glass container (pitcher, mason jar, etc.). Minimize exposure, don't obsess about it.
Story Time: When I was living back home with my parents, they used plastic containers for all of our leftovers-- y'know, that old trick of keeping the tub of margarine? Yeah, like that. Never got my period the entire time I lived there, but couldn't ever find out why. Then when I moved out, and started using glass containers like the hippie I am...my body normalized, and I started having regular cycles. Honestly, it was the weirdest thing.
I take pains to avoid tephlon and nonstick cookware if I can. I live on the east side of the Twin Cities metro area (urban Minnesota) and 3M had to settle for a gigantic sum of money because they contaminated pretty much the entire east side's groundwater with pfas. I try to avoid drinking unfiltered tapwater now if I can. Just Google'd it, sounds like it -may- reduce pfas by half, but it depends on a lot of things like the filter's age, the size of the filter, and the water hardness.
I've been saying this for years, scary stuff! And the food end is just the tip of the plastic-berg. Think about all the plastic/nylon carpet out there, what about your shoes? Polyester blended clothing and bedding? These synthetic plastics are literally everywhere!
uh... just because its called plastic doesnt make it inherently bad. some plastics are better than others. plastic, being the indestructible non degradable material that it is is very useful for many purposes. just because its not ideal to wrap your food in it doesnt mean its inherently wrong. though i would love to see less things randomly wrapped in plastic
@@Passionforfoodrecipes Ceramics is similar to glass but it cannot perform the characteristics of plastic. (Which plastic is used in other forms than just for warping food/boxes.)
I've been stealing your facts and have been using them as ice breakers in conversation with my peers at work. When they want to delve deeper into the topic I just tell em "idk id have to look into the literature, I'll get back to u". Thanks man.
You have quickly became one of my favorite channels on RUclips, fantastic camera work, good short adds right at the beginning, good humor, confidence, great editing, good lighting, great upload schedule, good run time.
And if you liked that, here's more: you are great chef! Your recapies make sense flavor-wise. I have tried some and they are way better than online bloggers and even a lot of restaurant food. Perhaps because you have a similar style of cooking as me.
I'm not DONE COMPLIMENTING you. Your plates look good on camera, your dishes are colorful and look good on camera, you are attractive and expressive, making you entertaining to watch.
It is clear that you put in a long of effort and thought into everything you do, I love all the science aspects and how you go to experts and stuff like holy shit I just eat that crap up like I eat your Bolognese.
They didn't even really diss him, they just tried it out and it didn't work for them. They even said that it many not work for them but might work for other people, they were very respectful and kind
@Paraponera How the fuck is that awkward? Checking for STDs is normal and very important. Stop trying to stigmatize it and make it taboo. You're the one with the problem, not the people merely mentioning a mundane procedure. You are immature. Grow up and stop being terrified of the human body.
Wow, this is the first information on this subject that I actually trust. I've heard this before, but wasn't up to doing the required research myself. I know that you have.
i wanna cry. and thats last part omg, sometimes im so exhausted from trying to help the envirment, seems litterly imposibble.. still gonna keep on trying though
most plastic are artificial sure, but at the end of the day, they're just polymers made from hydrocarbons, earth harbour natural polymers as well, at some point of any civilization if they have hydrocarbon they're probably gonna invent plastics either way, and well, they're too useful to just be abandoned entirely, and remember, the phone you're typing in has parts made of plastics as well.
This is so important to start discussion on!!! I cannot stress this enough!!! Thank you Adam for doing such a good job shining a light on this inherent problem
I should point out, as someone who knows at least a bit about plastic chemistry: these chemicals, BPA, BPS, etc are for the most part additives used to make solid plastics more flexible and less likely to break. Hard, rigid plastics therefore generally have much less of these additives than soft flexible ones. Those stretchy sheets of cling film are gonna have a heck of a lot more BPA in them than a rigid polycarbonate dish that shatters like glass when dropped. The other thing that I'd say is that different families of plastic use fundamentally different sorts of additives than the polyesters and polystyrenes where you find BPA used. Formaldehyde-based resins, like melamine or polyurethane, are more likely to be safe, as in addition to being a lot less permeable, the additives they _do_ leach are usually just other formaldehyde compounds - probably not _great_ for you, but that's a category of compounds our bodies do at least have mechanisms for dealing with.
Old thread but still: Myth 4: Drinking out of aluminum cans or cooking in aluminum pots and pans can lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Reality: During the 1960s and 1970s, aluminum emerged as a possible suspect in Alzheimer’s. This suspicion led to concern about exposure to aluminum through everyday sources such as pots and pans, beverage cans, antacids and antiperspirants. Since then, studies have failed to confirm any role for aluminum in causing Alzheimer’s. Experts today focus on other areas of research, and few believe that everyday sources of aluminum pose any threat. www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers/myths Newer research that is has not yet changed the alz.org's stance: www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/aluminum-exposure-again-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-329670 Reference: www.iospress.nl/ios_news/human-exposure-to-aluminum-linked-to-familial-alzheimers-disease/
To the best of my knowledge conventional aluminum usage is 100% fine. It's nanoparticles that are contentious, bits of aluminum small enough to enter the bloodstream through your skin.
Im not gonna lie. Recently in 10th grade this is our lesson on Science. We had the triglycerides and monosaccharides earlier this year too. Pretty cool that your videos line up with our school curriculum. Very interesting.
Thank you so much for this!! We all need to be personally responsible on this and try to eliminate the food plastics. Eating in season, responsible canning, and keeping food distribution local are important for this reason, and so many others!
Just FYI, the first two authors on the "all plastics leach endocrine disruptors" paper have HUGE conflicts of interest since they work at two different consumer testing labs that test exclusively for endocrine disruptors in products and therefore have a vested interest in stoking public fear about this issue. Take that for what it's worth.
I appreciate the research put in and think these things should be progressively addressed but people forget the sheer scale of toxic mixtures we accept into our body. Anyone going to a public pool inhails plenty of chorimine gas (chlorine x pee ammonia, or air pollution from emissions. Living kills and the best thing to do is simply reduce the bad exposure you have and not age yourself with far too overzealous stress of inevitable.
And fiber in your diet helps to get rid of microplastics from you body, they say. Along with saturated fat and cholesterol that bind to the fiber that you poop out. We need at least 25 to 35 grams of fiber a day, but the average American gets about 7 grams. No wonder there's supposedly a laxative shortage in the US right now. Frigging SAD (standard American diet)! From various articles and stories I've read over the years about the medical field, I've come to an opinion that doctors are just greedy, incompetent idiots and nothing but pill pushers, and probably kill more patients than they actually save or cure. Well, guess what the newest research shows? The biggest killer of patients is not cancer or heart disease or what have you, but DOCTORS! I was right; doctors are idiots and nothing but drug dealers. And they're unaliving patients left and right by medical mistakes and misdiagnoses. So, I decided to take my health into my own hands. You have to. You can't trust these doctors, a lot of whom probably cheated their asses off to get through medical school. I went vegan last Veganuary and it was probably the best decision I've ever made. Was never a big meat eater but I liked dairy and cheese. But I cut-out all the meat and dairy, and like magic, the terrible muscle pain, tightness and inflammation in my neck, should and back area that I've suffered for thirty years was 95% GONE, and my chronic, painful, inflamed hemorrhoids hasn't flared up since. I feel freaking awesome and normal. I'm pretty sure it was the dairy. That half and half I'd have with my coffee twice a day was wreaking havoc on my health, because dairy is worse for your health than meat. Dairy is awful. Humans are the only animals that consume another species milk on to adulthood and most of the world population is lactose intolerant. It's like humans who drink milk are still nursing. It's unhinged. And for the love of gawd, don't feed your precious growing kids dairy. You're setting them up for obesity, diabetes, allergies, asthma, prostate cancer, breast cancer, etc. The only milk humans should consume is mother's breast milk when you are a baby. Besides, animal agriculture is destroying the planet and represents extreme violence, rape and murder of innocent animals. We artificially breed farm animals by the billions every year just to torture and murder them for "food", that humans don't even need to survive. Cheers. 🌱💚
Unfortunately I can’t “vote with my wallet” against plastics if there is effectively no alternative. The companies have all the power, we can lean on them, but with our voices and actions. Videos like this help to spread awareness. Normal people need to know before they can care. If normal people care, maybe there can be some changes.
You have to buy direct from the producers. Buy your meat from a meat locker and tell them not to use plastics during processing and send you the bill for the inconvenience. Buy your produce from a farmers market while it's in season and can it yourself. The problem is the grocery store and not the food supply. You just have to get closer to where your food comes from.
@@realmaximusfps I began experimenting with freezing beef on trays, then freezing them in water into a block of ice to prevent freezer burn. I then throw them into a cardboard box with the dates labeled on the box. My control (frozen then thawed) vs. test (frozen, then submerged and frozen into a block of ice then thawed) showed no discernable difference in flavor. I have 3 more frozen in blocks of ice that I will try at 6, 12, and 18 months to see if there's freezer burn. Freezer burn is typically caused from airflow around meat, so I don't think there will be a problem as long as the meat was frozen in water following an initial dry freezing.
Thanks for this... Really. I live in a bubble sometimes. That said, I was really troubled by the comment on sous vide, as sous vide cooking has been a bit of a passion of mine for the past couple years. This video inspired me to look into non-plastic methods of sous vide cooking. Found some silicone alternative re-usable bags to use with my circulators as well as looking into steam ovens, which can be a pretty good overall sous vide equivalent. Thanks again.
As a fellow cooking-enthusiast, I feel your pain. Biggest reason I never got into sous vide is because I was never convinced that plastic "is completely harmless", turns out I was right. How did things end up for you? Did you find non-plastic alternatives to sous? As far as I'm aware, silicone is just a variant of plastic and is no better?
There are tomatoes sold in glass jars, but they are more expensive so we always used fresh. My mom has been following everything the doctor recommended for years. It’s hard to completely avoid plastic though.
"There's a chemical in the food and it's turning all of the alpha males into bEtas" I don't know if it was on purpose but that was a very well timed voice crack there 😂
Good video Ragusa, one small critique. Boycotting is almost worthless these days. Consumers have very little control of industrial practices. You should've gone for the *head.* As Thanos would put it. Mass organization and lobbying to make it illegal. Like take teflon for example. You can never buy a teflon pan, but the creation process already effed up your world with chemicals.
Boycotting is definitively not almost worthless. If nobody buys teflon pans, companies will stop manufacturing them. Not saying we should only boycott, but I am definitively saying we shouldn't stop boycotting.
Just another FYI The paint used on our roads and crosswalks are nolonger oil based enamel. They use acrylic paint, now and this is why the paint fades away so quickly and the roads and crosswalks look like 💩. Think about it , asphalt is an oil based road material. Then you paint an acrylic paint on it. The paint will not have strong adherence and will break down and flake off in micro plastics which all washes into our drain sewers and eventually back into our freshwater supply. How much of those micro plactics get back to our drinking water? It's stupid to paint an acrylic paint over an oil base substrate. When we painted roads and crosswalks with oil based paints, they lasted for years. But nooooo if we spray oil based paint on asphalt the VOC' s get into the air... The silliness is the VOC's from laying asphalt is many times worse. It's like ordering a Whopper and fries, yet also getting a Diet Coke, seriously?🤔
Are people really so scientifically illiterate that it needs said? You can't genetically modify plastic because it never had genes to modify! It's pointlessly redundant.
I am a pre-medical student. And I would like to state that plastic not only disrupt our metabolic activities, they have the ability to cause mutation in somatic cells and form benign tumours. If they are not diagnosed/treated at early stages will lead to metastasis. In short CANCER.
@@bobsagget823 Not everything is carcinogen sir. We categorize carcinogen as well. Chemicals issued to be carcinogens as per IARC are categorized as follows- Group 1: most potent carcinogen. Group 2A: Substances that will cause cancer even if you are exposed to those carcinogens for a short duration. Group 2B: will cause cancer if you are exposed for a longer duration. Group 3: Substances that need research and some study to categorize them. Group 4: Substances that will not cause cancer.
Big fan of the scientific content you put out on this channel from time to time. I love that you go to the effort to talk to genuine experts and I think the regularity of the educational content is ideal to make sure people will actually watch it.
My question is, how long have these plastics been prevalent in food and is there a correlation with those side effects of the plastics in the population. Like, has there been a difference in the health of the population between not using these plastics and now using these plastics pervasively?
Is there any population which isn't using plastics unless your talking about native tribes? Even then most Native Tribes here in Indonesia has already been exposed to our modern society, they're sending their kids to school to learn and help their community. At school during recess time they would eat snacks which is wrapped in plastics. Definitely due to snacks being cheap like it cost $0.07 yes decimals after conversion to USD. Plastic Pollution happens everywhere in the country you could see the streets,mountains,sewage filled with trash. TLDR: I don't believe there's any population that isn't using plastic extensively throughout Asia, little kids diet would consist of snacks/candy/drinks wrapped in plastic. Probably due to how outrageously cheap it is to get the refreshments. Maybe we could compare the statistics before the plastic craze, but I doubt comparing old demographics would be realistic due to new innovations which improves the society overall.
@@kentji I'm trying to figurer out how you would do the research. You have brought up many good points. And the biggest problem is how would we get a control group? As you have shown it is in everybody's lives. At the moment all I can see is figuring out what the chemicals involved do to the human body. All of it would be theoretical for the same reason as we can't get a control group.
Males have become much less fertile overall. But it's impossible to pinpoint the exact cause because this phenomena is also correlated with higher rates of obesity and more sedentary lifestyles. Plastics could be one of the causes though.
+Adam Ragusea a follow-up video "how to de-plastic your kitchen" would be nice. You already showed using glass jars with plastic lids. Does lining plastic freezer containers with pergamment paper work?
From what I've read of the research and papers I could find on the effects of plastics (mostly related to microplastic/nanoplastic, but also endocrine disrupters), polypropylene (PP, recycle type 5) is *likely* to be the least harmful of the commonly used plastics. Not harmless, but less harmful than the others. Most food containers, electric kettles, thermos lids and so on are made from polypropylene, and that is probably the least harmful choice of plastic. It's also flexible, sturdy and long lasting. But please don't put it in the microwave, and always replace any scratched plastic, ideally with something made from stainless steel, glass or ceramic.
Does it really make any difference if the plastic is scratched? As far as I'm aware, food-container plastics don't have a certain coating on the inside. In other words, the food is exposed to equal amounts of plastic regardless if the surface is scratched or not.
Kudos to you Adam for bringing light to such an important topic. All the more reason to grow as much of your fruit and veggies as possible. And as consumers let's try to limit our plastic consumption as much as possible.
Thank you for having the courage to make a video like this -- a deeply controversial and flame-attracting subject -- with the conclusion "I don't know". That conclusion avoids hot-takes and counter-propaganda and reflexive sides-choosing. It makes us slow down just a bit and reflect. And reflection is a better place to learn from than fighting. I'm really worried about this subject, but have a hard time weighing the evidence I can grok; I'm glad for your introduction to the work. Thank you.
It would have been nice to put plastic estrogenics into perspective and compare their amounts with other estrogenics from foods like soy or fungi or herbicides or cosmetics and so on.
I also would like a study done on "Fasting" and "Microplastics" As Fasting clears the body out. Would be nice to see how effective Fasting is on getting rid of microplastics
This. Video needs to be longer and with more details about how much plastic is around us. Even in the air there are plastic particles we breathe, and every year we ingest a total of a couple of grams of plastic.
@@wlfgang I'd also like to know what potential solutions there are. Could we substitute plastic something else in applications where we really couldn't do without plastic? (such as the plastic lining in food cans) maybe there could be someone looking into something made from cellulose or something?
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I realized I watched him for food and now it’s like I’m going to class
He got us
@@elizabethroa6970 he got us all
Matthew Hernandez do we get suspended if we miss class?
IMHO his "sciency" videos are much better than the cooking videos. ;)
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I work at a food processing facility. Even if you're buying it in a glass container the ingredients it was made from were still likely shipped and stored in plastic. My company is one of those 100% organic, GMO free, don't use corn syrup etc. type companies, but 100% of our raw materials are shipped to us in plastic bags buckets or drums.
Have you ever heard of the tragedy of the square cube?
@Rizzle Incredibly unnatural, highly processed
@Rizzle concentrated sugar, its also basically in many American foods, so its very easy to ingest an unhealthy amount of it without even knowing. It's a great sweetening agent and is the most cheap.
They pack some vegitables into plastic at harvest, so not all that surprising.
Still, as one commenter pointed out rather cryptically, as the size of a container increases the surface area of the interior increases by the square while the volume of product increases by the cube.
Not that other plant-based plastics shouldn't be explored, but using plastic only with industrial quantities would definitely decrease exposure.
The company in question can't control everything, but should be commended for selecting a better option for packaging consumer quantities. Kudos to them for making their best attempt.
At this point I'm just going to start taking bets on which carcinogen wins. Good odds on booze right now, but welcome to the game, tupperware.
Tobacco.
The crispy bits on pizza
Just got to make sure you don't get your booze in plastic bottles. You know, for science.
Win what? The race to kill you?
@@grungepants not the crispy bits 😭😭
estrogen testicle is on the right
This is an award-winning comment.
This is honestly the most clever comment I've seen on this channel
im so mad
yes.
I'm fucking wheezing
Why I put estrogen in my wife instead of my food
fml LMAO
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@@daimond8226 this is RUclips not reddit
LMAOO
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Yes, avoiding plastics and xenoestrogens is a good practice, but very difficult to do it completely. These compounds are almost everywhere: leeched into the water we drink, dust from our blinds, plastic on our food, you get the idea.
A more effective strategy could be to simply minimize their effects through diet modification. Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc) may help in this regard due to a naturally occurring compound: indol-3-carbinol. I3C prevents the conversion of xenoestrogens into estradiol, a more potent form of estrogen.
Do avoid plastics as much as you can, but also try working in more broccoli and cauliflower in your diet. Last time I tested my E2 (lab test name: estradiol with dilution), it was well within the normal range.
What would you recommend with reciepts as a cashier. Ik that its the most concentrated source of bpa exposure. Could I reverse the effects?
@@topthermite9253 maybe ask the cashier to put the receipt in the bag instead of handing it to you
@@robertm5969 i know im several months late but he said *as a cashier.* he IS the cashier.
@@topthermite9253 maybe wear nitrile gloves while handling receipts
@@LlamasOnJUPITER thank you
Meanwhile in the mirror Universe
".. and that is why glass is much more harmful for your sperm and the Earth than the usual plastics. Long live the Empire!" - Adam with goatee
The same can said about all metals used by humans but shattering the entire economy and technological growth is surely not what is needed, right?... Besides, the Sun will turn Earth into glass anyways. lol
@erberen shamu
"And what's the alternative?" - Alternate D
...That doens't really work. It's not like we're talking about some sort of traditions here
the goatee reference. i like it
In this alternate universe, "Why I season my steak and not my cutting board."
When I was growing up, my parents had a liquor store. People returned their beer bottles and they would get recycled back to the Beer Company by placing them back into the beer cases. Why can't we do that today? some genius in distribution should figure out a way to send glass containers for everything back to where they can be reused again.
A lot of glass bottles are still reused/recycled in this way - at least in South Africa.
Convenience. It is more convenient to have single use items (use and toss) than to inconvenience yourself to save then take a trip to the store just to drop off glass bottles. The 5-10cent surcharge on bottles and canned drinks still exist as an incentive to return them to the grocery. But for the most part, unfortunately, reusable things (bottles, bags, diapers, etc.) comparatively are inconvenient than just tossing it out. Its a hard road as go back to the days where things were reused.
Honestly I missed the days (at least for me) when there was more emphasis on the environment. Like, I used to have recycling containers but now, we stopped using that because the trashing facility “sorts it for you”? (Sounds like marketing nonsense and they can just toss it all away.)
I’d honestly love a system like Japan, which has a heavy emphasis on people sorting the trash. While there practices are extreme, it’s honestly not that big a deal in people’s lives to just have a container for paper, another for plastic, etc. Making a little inconvenience for people can honestly go a long way.
@@chrissolace they cry if you toss an envelop with a plastic address window in the paper container.
There are different systems in different countries, in germany you pay a little extra for glass and get the money back when giving the bottles back.
I really appreciate this, not a ‘you’re doing this and killing all of us’ attitude, but a ‘we’re doing this and I don’t know if we can fix it but we should try’ attitude. A+ Adam!👍
But also of we try it probably wont do anything anyway and the alternative is probably just as bad just in otherways..... (im still gonna use the shit ton of plastic i normally do just like everyone else :/ )
@@notwaffle Great you just made me think. Once on the use once and toss bandwagon we don't want to get off. When my son was born we used cloth diapers and had disposable ones for when we were out. People were switching over to the disposable. This is just an example of what has happened. I try to recycle and find it isn't that hard on me now that I'm older. Rinse out my cans, bottles and plastic and have them recycled. But people don't want to do that, claims it takes to much time. I do it while cooking. Of course I grew up in the country and my parents lived through the Great Depression so I picked up some "strange" habits. You have caused me to think about more than just this but I've already taken up enough time, but always willing to talk about such things.
@@francisdhomer5910 It's really mostly a habit and cultural thing. We're sold convenience because we're out of time... yet we do nothing with it it seems. We don't cook, we don't clean, we don't wash anymore, but we still don't have time!
@@notwaffle you can quite easily lessen your exposure. The most harmful use seems to be heating plastic. So get rid of all your plastic cooking utilities and replace them with wood, steel, etc. Throw away your non-stick pan alongside it. Get glass cans to store and reheat stuff in, instead of heating in plastic containers.
I switched to glass containers several years ago. I microwave a lot of foods and feel better about glass. It lasts forever and cleans better than plastic as well.
I would honestly still use glass containers as opposed to plastics even if plastics were non-hazardous. It's heavier and takes up more space, but cleans so much easier, lasts very long and just feels slightly more luxurious.
The cleaning benefit alone has been a huge plus for glass. I deal with spaghetti sauce and taco meat a lot, and that permanent orange stain 2/3rds up the side is really annoying.
"It lasts forever"
As long as you don't drop them, which I do on a regular basis. Gravity is so strong around here.
microwave is not good. it kills all nutrient
@@TemporaryInsane not true. It's no more destructive to nutrients than any other heating method. Can you tell me which nutrients are susceptible to microwaves uniquely?
Not to mention the fact that literally every restaurant uses plastic cambros/ plastic cling wrap/ even plenty use plastic bags in hot water to hold hot food on top of all the canned products. It's quite literally impossible to avoid
It's definitively impossible to 100% avoid, but definitively possible to lower your exposure.
@@fredrikbystrom7380 Just buy Aromatase inhibitors
I was honestly expecting this to be a video where Adam debunked the myth that plastics are harming us. Now I'm sad that it's a legit worry :(
Yo fr
You don't have to freak, at least not yet -they kind of misrepresented the science; it's actually quite far away from 'settled', so far (afaik) there has been no conclusive evidence that even BPA affects humans during normal (non industrial) use.
The studies that they referred to were rat-cell studies, studies looking for effects in humans have been difficult due to the confounding factors.
So yeah maybe reduce use where you can (even if just for enviro reasons) but you don't have to go "I need to stop the poison" hardcore, at least not yet (based on the available science).
@@LENZ5369 There where more studies, with human testicles. NutritionFacts has a lot of articles about plastic with mentioned studies...
@@LENZ5369 Actually complaining about something to the max is the only way to get anything to happen. Once nice people start to realize this, the problems of the world will vanish, but sadly who knows if it'll happen.
Also, the plastic you get in your food doesn’t compare to the amount you breath in from car tires every day
Never thought I'd hear Adam Ragusea say "4chan fever dream".
nice halo pfp
Same I spit out my drink after he said that words
Dude saying he sometimes on /ck/ so it's not that surprising honestly
4chan has had around 50 million daily users for years now. I wouldn’t be surprised if a number of content creators of youtube actually used it in the past.
A lot of people like to downplay 4chan as crazy conspiracy theorists but in the end they've been right about a lot of stuff.
Looking at this comment section, I got the feeling that no one really takes the topic that serious. Which is kind of sad I suppose
It is. But some of us do!
Joke to cope. What more can I say.
@@pumpkin_patched yeah, I guess so
Fussel Knolle bruh can we just joke
But. I can have big boobs.
I worked for a time at a grocery store. One of the big, "I didn't think about that," exposures to bisphenols specifically is actually receipt paper. These days all the receipt paper ("thermal paper") manufacturers have jumped on the, "BPA-free," bandwagon, but like you mentioned almost at the start of this video, that likely just means either BPS or BPF instead (& usually they don't exactly tell you with what they've replaced the BPA).
Ever wonder why you've seen a cashier change the paper in their printer but never the ink cartridge? There is no ink cartridge to change. The printer actually just applies heat, which causes a reaction in the coating on the paper so it changes colors according to what's being printed. That's also why they turn black if you leave them out in the sun, or, as was one of my favorite things to teach the people I was working with, if you spill alcohol onto them. It turns out that bisphenols are soluble in alcohol, as you'd expect them to be since they look pretty non-polar. You know how there's often a little bottle of hand-sanitizer gel at the checkout--maybe you've noticed it extra over the past year because of the covid-19 pandemic? That hand sanitizer is mostly various alcohols, ethanol and isopropyl, etc. Splash a little drop of that on a piece of blank receipt paper and you can see the elution of the coating on the paper pretty easily. I always used to caution customers who had just used hand sanitizer if I was about to hand them their receipt b/c I figured they'd probably want to know, "hey, let that stuff fully dry before you handle this receipt much because the endocrine-disrupting chemicals on it might leech off it and into your hands via the alcohol."
Cashier here. I wear gloves and change them regularly.
Damn I noticed how those thermal papers are easily damaged with alochol based sanitizers buy I never thought they ate helping leech out the chemicals too. WTF?
Your right! Bpa is extremely heavy in receipt paper
Why I transition through my plastics and not my pills.
Dammit, you beat me to it!
I was waiting for that one!
why you transitioned in the first place
_definitely funny, did laugh_
Dark.
2019: stop using plastic to save the turtles.
2020: stop using plastic so everyone doesnt turn into a beta.
If it wasnt clear enough this is a joke comment, if you want to argue and whatnot take it to your dms or whatever just please not here. :)
2009: stop using paper, use plastic to save the trees.
2019: stop using plastic, use paper to save the turtles.
2029: *STOP*
I was expecting him to dismiss the notion but damn
imagine thinking that estrogen, let alone minute amounts of estrogen through plastic somehow makes you a beta.
oh wait it's a joke from anime profile picture
@@liamsweeney4754 when an insecure man is more concerned about his notions of manliness being affected via plastic than the future of this planet... Sad!
1:43 That voice crack was perfectly placed.
that was part of the act, you do know this now, right?
@@SpahGaming "Place" is a transitive verb. The voice crack did not place itself, it was placed by him; so I was indeed complimenting him on how he put it there and therefore did realise it was intentional. Also, did you know that "place" can mean "to make the voice resonate with a particular area of the body to achieve a desired sound", like he did when he cracked his voice? I'm double smart. ;-)
@@osirisgolad k, i was just checking. you don't need to go full r/iamverysmart about it
@@SpahGaming I could say the same thing to your initial comment. See how we got here? It's impossible to detect if someone is genuinely asking a question or being a wise ass on the Internet. But this way, at least you've learnt a new musical term!
@@osirisgolad Stop it! He's already dead!
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that Adam said he’s had a vasectomy
oh
Bruh, real subtle Adam...
We are now all cursed with knowledge.
About 500k men do every year. It's fairly common.
another fact to add to Adam's eccentricity.
Does this mean that the whole “the water is turning the frogs gay” is true
I... I am not sure...
most of what alex jones says is actually true, his delivery turns people off
ruclips.net/video/nBbkwlGM7X0/видео.html
yes alex jones was 100% correct about this
I would imagine bottled water would be more harmful than tap water (assuming the tap water is safe for consumption to begin with), since, unlike tap water, bottled water gets stored in a plastic container for a long time.
(Slightly off topic)
The amount of plastics being used appears to just be worsening as time goes on, it's genuinely impossible to avoid & personally difficult to reduce the use of. This situation warrants much more research and deserves to be a much more common concern to the general population. Nice video Adam 👍
In Sweden in the past year, I've actually started to see less plastics in packaging / single-use products. It's mostly been replaced by wood and paper, sometimes by sugar-cane plastics. So it's definitively possible, people just have to do it.
@@fredrikbystrom7380 oh wow that is amazing to hear! We have a long way to go here in Australia, id love to see more wood & papper being used so hopefully that will be the way of the future! 😊✌
Plastic: Kills turtles
Everyone: Meh still gonna use it
Plastic: Makes you into a beta male
Everyone: *Everything must be glass*
haha this is hilarious and accurate
Honestly people might actually do somethinf because this directly effects humans and even more so for women
I love animals but they will never be as important as humans. So ye ur comment unironically is me
there is literally nothing wrong with this viewpoint. Who fucking cares about turtles in comparison to human lives"?
@@w.o.jackson8432 lol
It's frustrating as a parent that if I want to send certain types of food with my kids to school, it must be in plastic because the school won't allow glass containers due to breakage. Almost all of the food we bring into the house is packaged in some type of plastic also. It's a no win situation at this point.
Unschooling him, school teach nothing and it cost many thing irreversible.
Think school as investment and ask yiurself, will you put your money into such investment?
He can make money using programming as side job
HonISfirE: “school is useless”
Also HonISfirE: “yiurself” “unschool”
would a metal thermos work?
Why must it be plastic? I understand the need for "no breakage". But stainless steel would also do the trick. Or really any other metal. But I would avoid aluminium, just to be safe.
Wax wraps/tin foil is a great alternative aswell!
This is the most depressing thing I've heard all day and I'm living in the pandemic
Cheer up
Fucking Pussy
@@AngelGabrielB is what we will be if we dont fix this problem
How is that depressing
@@_R_R_R true
YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE PHYSICAL TOLL 3 VASECTOMIES HAVE ON A PERSON
snip snap snip snap snip snap!!
😂😂😂😂😂
Shteve K lmaoooo give this man a medal
Why tf would you need 3 vasectomies? I thought one should be enough?
Jon D it’s a reference from The Office
There is a new material that Japan has come up with called *cellulose nanofiber*. Can be food grade. I dont know. It is still new and looks very promising as it seems just as strong as carbon fiber.
centpushups it causes estrogen cancer!!
@@MichaelRei99 proof please
Comxito Gaming disprove please.
@@MichaelRei99 u first disprove that it doesnt
Mike R you can’t just pull something out of your ass and ask someone to disprove it, that’s not how to logic
Hi Adam I’m really happy you made a video on this. I was faced with this choice last night on Amazon when I was deciding between plastic and glass freezer containers; I went with glass ultimately for these reasons. The trends of declining sperm counts is seriously concerning!
Topics like these are so hard to relate to for someone like me. I'm always struggling to eat healthy. Salad is pretty much a waste of money, because there's so little energy in it. Canned foods of every kind are a stable (staple?) in my life, as it fits within my budget.
I really think the whole "power of the consumer" to change the behavior of the producers doesn't take into account all the people that just don't have the option of buying that other thing instead of this thing.
Instead, consuming responsibly becomes a selling point rather than a way to force the producer to change.
It always amazed me when I saw coworkers microwaving plastic containers at work. Since I was a kid I was told not to do this and over the last few years I stopped buying plastic containers entirely, just using glass. That being said I primarily buy my meat frozen in plastic packets so I guess I'm not much better off. One way I helped cut down on plastic was by stop buying plastic water bottles. I use a filter for my water and I have glass bottles to store in fridge. That being said, my filter and it's pitcher are both plastic so... Fuck.
Better stop drinking water too since theres microscopic plastic in it :) theres no hiding from plastic
It's unnecessary to spend lots of energy to try and 100% eliminate something hazardous, whether it be plastic, air pollution, etc. It's going to be very difficult if not impossible. The better alternative is to spend moderate energy on minimizing the _majority_ of what's hazardous. It's worth spending a little time to minimize like 80% of your plastic exposure, even if you can never get to 100%.
@@supergalaxyelise3705 - yeah we never buy plastic bottles of water anymore if we can avoid it. At home we drink water that is filtered into stainless steel.
After the water has been filtered into the plastic pitcher, transfer it to a glass container (pitcher, mason jar, etc.).
Minimize exposure, don't obsess about it.
The filter that you use for your water is probably also made out of plastic
Story Time:
When I was living back home with my parents, they used plastic containers for all of our leftovers-- y'know, that old trick of keeping the tub of margarine? Yeah, like that. Never got my period the entire time I lived there, but couldn't ever find out why.
Then when I moved out, and started using glass containers like the hippie I am...my body normalized, and I started having regular cycles.
Honestly, it was the weirdest thing.
Thank you for sharing this with us!!
Peace and love ☮️☮️💜💜🌿🌿
Thats trippy af
That's some scary stuff, and I'm happy to hear you're doing better now. This entire topic is so depressing. It feel like nothing can be done.
thats just causally terrffying, thanks!
I take pains to avoid tephlon and nonstick cookware if I can. I live on the east side of the Twin Cities metro area (urban Minnesota) and 3M had to settle for a gigantic sum of money because they contaminated pretty much the entire east side's groundwater with pfas. I try to avoid drinking unfiltered tapwater now if I can.
Just Google'd it, sounds like it -may- reduce pfas by half, but it depends on a lot of things like the filter's age, the size of the filter, and the water hardness.
I've been saying this for years, scary stuff! And the food end is just the tip of the plastic-berg. Think about all the plastic/nylon carpet out there, what about your shoes? Polyester blended clothing and bedding? These synthetic plastics are literally everywhere!
uh... just because its called plastic doesnt make it inherently bad.
some plastics are better than others. plastic, being the indestructible non degradable material that it is is very useful for many purposes.
just because its not ideal to wrap your food in it doesnt mean its inherently wrong. though i would love to see less things randomly wrapped in plastic
Is there a better more efficient alternative to Glass/Plastic? And no, don't say Paper because everyone knows a drip of water can wreck it.
@@absolstoryoffiction6615 Ceramics I guess? Glass is good. It's hard to really avoid the plastic though even if we try (and i do)
@@Passionforfoodrecipes
Ceramics is similar to glass but it cannot perform the characteristics of plastic. (Which plastic is used in other forms than just for warping food/boxes.)
@@absolstoryoffiction6615 Yeah I've found it pretty much impossible to avoid all or even most plastics
Adam Ragusea is my daily dose of culinary fun facts. Thank you for everything and keep up the good work!
C H O D Y too bad he ain’t daily.
Man, I wish this was a FUN fact
Wasn't much fun about that video :/
bi-weekly dose*
feelsBadMan
ah shit, let the seasoning memes begin
He can never escape them for as long as his youtube career exists.
#bosgacog plzubi
my name is Arian Adam uploads new video
Seasoning meme: Ah shit! Here we go again!
@@Sammy-mp1wr give the r4c the new holo atleast
@@Test1ngOneTwo it just looks so good on the two guns it's on.
well, that was depressing
Yes, but informative
@@insertclevername4362 with the path the world is taking rn, theyre both synonymous at this point
@Got Put In A Spliff You’re delusional
WE HAVE A WINNER! SOMEONE WHO CITES SOURCES!!!!!
Thank you Adam
I've been stealing your facts and have been using them as ice breakers in conversation with my peers at work. When they want to delve deeper into the topic I just tell em "idk id have to look into the literature, I'll get back to u". Thanks man.
Small Brain: Marvel movie end credit scenes
Big Brain: Adam Ragusea Cinematic Universe end credits scenes
LOL XDD
Which one is bigger?
You have quickly became one of my favorite channels on RUclips, fantastic camera work, good short adds right at the beginning, good humor, confidence, great editing, good lighting, great upload schedule, good run time.
And if you liked that, here's more: you are great chef! Your recapies make sense flavor-wise. I have tried some and they are way better than online bloggers and even a lot of restaurant food. Perhaps because you have a similar style of cooking as me.
I'm not DONE COMPLIMENTING you. Your plates look good on camera, your dishes are colorful and look good on camera, you are attractive and expressive, making you entertaining to watch.
It is clear that you put in a long of effort and thought into everything you do, I love all the science aspects and how you go to experts and stuff like holy shit I just eat that crap up like I eat your Bolognese.
Thanks Adam i can use this Information on my essay about unnecessary use of plastic
Agent AzZ don't use it as a source
Trust in Dog yeah i know i am just gonna take some of the parts of this
@@opopo3342 pLaGArIsM
Anonymous User SHHHHHH
5:15 throwing shade at "sous vide everything" after they dissed his cutting board video lmao
They didn't even really diss him, they just tried it out and it didn't work for them. They even said that it many not work for them but might work for other people, they were very respectful and kind
@@SimonWoodburyForget what happens to a cast iron skillet?
@@darkhafgor Yes they are. Guga is a gentleman
Hey man, I just wanna say that I really appreciate food education videos like this one, please keep doing them, they're great!
Thank you for telling me about your vasectomy Adam. I really needed that information.
Jesus, how immature are these people? It's a medical procedure.
@Paraponera How the fuck is that awkward? Checking for STDs is normal and very important. Stop trying to stigmatize it and make it taboo. You're the one with the problem, not the people merely mentioning a mundane procedure. You are immature. Grow up and stop being terrified of the human body.
Wow, this is the first information on this subject that I actually trust. I've heard this before, but wasn't up to doing the required research myself. I know that you have.
i wanna cry. and thats last part omg, sometimes im so exhausted from trying to help the envirment, seems litterly imposibble.. still gonna keep on trying though
Plastic is looking to be one of the worst things humanity has ever done to ourselves and the planet.
most plastic are artificial sure, but at the end of the day, they're just polymers made from hydrocarbons, earth harbour natural polymers as well, at some point of any civilization if they have hydrocarbon they're probably gonna invent plastics either way, and well, they're too useful to just be abandoned entirely, and remember, the phone you're typing in has parts made of plastics as well.
With all this crazy conspiracy shit turning out to be true, I feel like just moving into the middle of nowhere and living off hunting.
Why I season my rifle and NOT the animals I hunt
This is fucking big and depressing and everyone's here making these retarded unoriginal jokes
@@yipperdeyip lol.
I know right, when i got it boy could i not stop laughing
@@yipperdeyip Humor is often used as a coping method.
This is so important to start discussion on!!! I cannot stress this enough!!!
Thank you Adam for doing such a good job shining a light on this inherent problem
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Ban farm subsidies,
Thank you for telling me that you have had a vasectomy, Adam.
Dude can nut in his wife without worry
@@Artix902 everything a man wants
He doesn't tell it explicitly, right
My dude always struck off as looking like every other nu male
Well, that might explain why he acts like a little pussy on video sometimes
This was educational. Thank you for this, Adam.
PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THIS
Why I use Bisphenal A in my pasta sauce, NOT my estrogen pills
All the trans comments on this are literal comedic gold
@ნიკა ელისაშვილი cuz estrogen pills are fuckin expensive
@@person9513 you'll never be a real woman
@@Tasmanaut who said i was trans? there are lots of women with hormone imbalances that need to take hormones.
But yeah i am trans, fuck you
@@person9513 Lmao “How dare you assume... you’re right.
I should point out, as someone who knows at least a bit about plastic chemistry: these chemicals, BPA, BPS, etc are for the most part additives used to make solid plastics more flexible and less likely to break. Hard, rigid plastics therefore generally have much less of these additives than soft flexible ones. Those stretchy sheets of cling film are gonna have a heck of a lot more BPA in them than a rigid polycarbonate dish that shatters like glass when dropped.
The other thing that I'd say is that different families of plastic use fundamentally different sorts of additives than the polyesters and polystyrenes where you find BPA used. Formaldehyde-based resins, like melamine or polyurethane, are more likely to be safe, as in addition to being a lot less permeable, the additives they _do_ leach are usually just other formaldehyde compounds - probably not _great_ for you, but that's a category of compounds our bodies do at least have mechanisms for dealing with.
There is polycarbonate that can shatter like glass when dropped? Really?
Lowering men's testosterone makes them more docile and less likely to revolt against government/corporate corruption😢
Hey Adam, can you do one of these on Aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease? It’s been a constant discussion in my house. Thanks, love u
Don't forget non-stick pans
Old thread but still: Myth 4: Drinking out of aluminum cans or cooking in aluminum pots and pans can lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
Reality: During the 1960s and 1970s, aluminum emerged as a possible suspect in Alzheimer’s. This suspicion led to concern about exposure to aluminum through everyday sources such as pots and pans, beverage cans, antacids and antiperspirants. Since then, studies have failed to confirm any role for aluminum in causing Alzheimer’s. Experts today focus on other areas of research, and few believe that everyday sources of aluminum pose any threat.
www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers/myths
Newer research that is has not yet changed the alz.org's stance:
www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/aluminum-exposure-again-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-329670
Reference: www.iospress.nl/ios_news/human-exposure-to-aluminum-linked-to-familial-alzheimers-disease/
@@tisjester I was about to comment, but you did a much better job. Thanks.
To the best of my knowledge conventional aluminum usage is 100% fine. It's nanoparticles that are contentious, bits of aluminum small enough to enter the bloodstream through your skin.
Literally no evidence that aluminium has any negative effect on the brain in the quantities that it exists in our environment
Im not gonna lie. Recently in 10th grade this is our lesson on Science. We had the triglycerides and monosaccharides earlier this year too. Pretty cool that your videos line up with our school curriculum. Very interesting.
Thank you so much for this!! We all need to be personally responsible on this and try to eliminate the food plastics. Eating in season, responsible canning, and keeping food distribution local are important for this reason, and so many others!
Hey Adam,
Thank you.
Just FYI, the first two authors on the "all plastics leach endocrine disruptors" paper have HUGE conflicts of interest since they work at two different consumer testing labs that test exclusively for endocrine disruptors in products and therefore have a vested interest in stoking public fear about this issue. Take that for what it's worth.
Important video. Props to you sir for bringing attention to this issue in an informed, calm manner.
its deeply sad that we have to steer the industry to not hurt us, instead of them realizing the problem and steering themselves.
“Buyer beware”
Always been the thing. The govt interventions aren’t for safety, they are just there for security.
capitalism gonna do what capitalism do.
@@joelman1989 tell that to China
*looks at plastic spoon and fork*
*looks at tv ready meal*
*looks at tubberware*
*looks at plastic cup*
*guess I’ll die*
This video is particularly outstanding. Thank you as always
I appreciate the research put in and think these things should be progressively addressed but people forget the sheer scale of toxic mixtures we accept into our body. Anyone going to a public pool inhails plenty of chorimine gas (chlorine x pee ammonia, or air pollution from emissions. Living kills and the best thing to do is simply reduce the bad exposure you have and not age yourself with far too overzealous stress of inevitable.
true. But not everyone is so careless about their health
A recent study shows the most micro-plastics is in indoor air. Yep. They say an air purifier with HEPA filters helps.
And fiber in your diet helps to get rid of microplastics from you body, they say. Along with saturated fat and cholesterol that bind to the fiber that you poop out. We need at least 25 to 35 grams of fiber a day, but the average American gets about 7 grams. No wonder there's supposedly a laxative shortage in the US right now. Frigging SAD (standard American diet)!
From various articles and stories I've read over the years about the medical field, I've come to an opinion that doctors are just greedy, incompetent idiots and nothing but pill pushers, and probably kill more patients than they actually save or cure. Well, guess what the newest research shows? The biggest killer of patients is not cancer or heart disease or what have you, but DOCTORS! I was right; doctors are idiots and nothing but drug dealers. And they're unaliving patients left and right by medical mistakes and misdiagnoses.
So, I decided to take my health into my own hands. You have to. You can't trust these doctors, a lot of whom probably cheated their asses off to get through medical school. I went vegan last Veganuary and it was probably the best decision I've ever made. Was never a big meat eater but I liked dairy and cheese. But I cut-out all the meat and dairy, and like magic, the terrible muscle pain, tightness and inflammation in my neck, should and back area that I've suffered for thirty years was 95% GONE, and my chronic, painful, inflamed hemorrhoids hasn't flared up since. I feel freaking awesome and normal. I'm pretty sure it was the dairy. That half and half I'd have with my coffee twice a day was wreaking havoc on my health, because dairy is worse for your health than meat. Dairy is awful.
Humans are the only animals that consume another species milk on to adulthood and most of the world population is lactose intolerant. It's like humans who drink milk are still nursing. It's unhinged. And for the love of gawd, don't feed your precious growing kids dairy. You're setting them up for obesity, diabetes, allergies, asthma, prostate cancer, breast cancer, etc. The only milk humans should consume is mother's breast milk when you are a baby. Besides, animal agriculture is destroying the planet and represents extreme violence, rape and murder of innocent animals. We artificially breed farm animals by the billions every year just to torture and murder them for "food", that humans don't even need to survive.
Cheers. 🌱💚
Thank you for covering this important topic of microplastics Adam
Unfortunately I can’t “vote with my wallet” against plastics if there is effectively no alternative. The companies have all the power, we can lean on them, but with our voices and actions. Videos like this help to spread awareness. Normal people need to know before they can care. If normal people care, maybe there can be some changes.
You have to buy direct from the producers. Buy your meat from a meat locker and tell them not to use plastics during processing and send you the bill for the inconvenience.
Buy your produce from a farmers market while it's in season and can it yourself. The problem is the grocery store and not the food supply. You just have to get closer to where your food comes from.
@@chucknorrispka well said man. It costs a fortunte this way though unfortunately
@@realmaximusfps I began experimenting with freezing beef on trays, then freezing them in water into a block of ice to prevent freezer burn. I then throw them into a cardboard box with the dates labeled on the box.
My control (frozen then thawed) vs. test (frozen, then submerged and frozen into a block of ice then thawed) showed no discernable difference in flavor. I have 3 more frozen in blocks of ice that I will try at 6, 12, and 18 months to see if there's freezer burn.
Freezer burn is typically caused from airflow around meat, so I don't think there will be a problem as long as the meat was frozen in water following an initial dry freezing.
@@chucknorrispka nice
That leaves room in the market for a competitor to sell goods without the usage of plastics
Thanks for this... Really. I live in a bubble sometimes. That said, I was really troubled by the comment on sous vide, as sous vide cooking has been a bit of a passion of mine for the past couple years. This video inspired me to look into non-plastic methods of sous vide cooking. Found some silicone alternative re-usable bags to use with my circulators as well as looking into steam ovens, which can be a pretty good overall sous vide equivalent. Thanks again.
As a fellow cooking-enthusiast, I feel your pain. Biggest reason I never got into sous vide is because I was never convinced that plastic "is completely harmless", turns out I was right. How did things end up for you? Did you find non-plastic alternatives to sous? As far as I'm aware, silicone is just a variant of plastic and is no better?
Best structured and evidential based video I seen in this subject.
Why I seasoned a test tube and not my wife's eggs.
There are tomatoes sold in glass jars, but they are more expensive so we always used fresh. My mom has been following everything the doctor recommended for years. It’s hard to completely avoid plastic though.
This information needs to be widespread
That last few seconds of the video encompassed my feelings towards how to save the planet so well. You would not believe.
And afterwards they say micro plastics is in the water this world is so broken now
Woot, NC State. It makes me happy with the recognition the universities in the Research Triangle get on here.
"There's a chemical in the food and it's turning all of the alpha males into bEtas"
I don't know if it was on purpose but that was a very well timed voice crack there 😂
Good video Ragusa, one small critique. Boycotting is almost worthless these days. Consumers have very little control of industrial practices. You should've gone for the *head.* As Thanos would put it. Mass organization and lobbying to make it illegal. Like take teflon for example. You can never buy a teflon pan, but the creation process already effed up your world with chemicals.
Boycotting is definitively not almost worthless. If nobody buys teflon pans, companies will stop manufacturing them. Not saying we should only boycott, but I am definitively saying we shouldn't stop boycotting.
Just another FYI
The paint used on our roads and crosswalks are nolonger oil based enamel. They use acrylic paint, now and this is why the paint fades away so quickly and the roads and crosswalks look like 💩. Think about it , asphalt is an oil based road material. Then you paint an acrylic paint on it. The paint will not have strong adherence and will break down and flake off in micro plastics which all washes into our drain sewers and eventually back into our freshwater supply. How much of those micro plactics get back to our drinking water?
It's stupid to paint an acrylic paint over an oil base substrate. When we painted roads and crosswalks with oil based paints, they lasted for years.
But nooooo if we spray oil based paint on asphalt the VOC' s get into the air... The silliness is the VOC's from laying asphalt is many times worse. It's like ordering a Whopper and fries, yet also getting a Diet Coke, seriously?🤔
*"Why i flavour my saran wrap not my dough."*
"sarin wrap" lolol
Sarin is quite different from Saran 🙃
I think they know excatly what sarin means 🙃
That GMO free label on that cling film cracked me up.
What does it even mean doe
counterPoppy no one will know
Are people really so scientifically illiterate that it needs said? You can't genetically modify plastic because it never had genes to modify! It's pointlessly redundant.
@@MK-dr7dx it is just so much fun to see these things, it always makes me smile in disbelief.
I've seen gluten-free labels in salt tubs.
Appreciate Adam for revising his takes based on current data. Ofc you can feel his pain when he's proven wrong but respect him more now.
I am a pre-medical student. And I would like to state that plastic not only disrupt our metabolic activities, they have the ability to cause mutation in somatic cells and form benign tumours. If they are not diagnosed/treated at early stages will lead to metastasis. In short CANCER.
That's worrying
way to spout a whole bunch of nothing. everything is carcinogenic moron
@@bobsagget823 Not everything is carcinogen sir. We categorize carcinogen as well. Chemicals issued to be carcinogens as per IARC are categorized as follows-
Group 1: most potent carcinogen.
Group 2A: Substances that will cause cancer even if you are exposed to those carcinogens for a short duration.
Group 2B: will cause cancer if you are exposed for a longer duration.
Group 3: Substances that need research and some study to categorize them.
Group 4: Substances that will not cause cancer.
guess who's going to eat a lot of plastic tonight
Just take estrogen.
It isnt so expensive
@@Dara-wk5ty but i need a prescription and my parents won't let me :(
hey babe, new hrt just dropped
Big fan of the scientific content you put out on this channel from time to time. I love that you go to the effort to talk to genuine experts and I think the regularity of the educational content is ideal to make sure people will actually watch it.
My question is, how long have these plastics been prevalent in food and is there a correlation with those side effects of the plastics in the population. Like, has there been a difference in the health of the population between not using these plastics and now using these plastics pervasively?
Is there any population which isn't using plastics unless your talking about native tribes? Even then most Native Tribes here in Indonesia has already been exposed to our modern society, they're sending their kids to school to learn and help their community. At school during recess time they would eat snacks which is wrapped in plastics. Definitely due to snacks being cheap like it cost $0.07 yes decimals after conversion to USD. Plastic Pollution happens everywhere in the country you could see the streets,mountains,sewage filled with trash.
TLDR: I don't believe there's any population that isn't using plastic extensively throughout Asia, little kids diet would consist of snacks/candy/drinks wrapped in plastic. Probably due to how outrageously cheap it is to get the refreshments. Maybe we could compare the statistics before the plastic craze, but I doubt comparing old demographics would be realistic due to new innovations which improves the society overall.
@@kentji I'm trying to figurer out how you would do the research. You have brought up many good points. And the biggest problem is how would we get a control group? As you have shown it is in everybody's lives. At the moment all I can see is figuring out what the chemicals involved do to the human body. All of it would be theoretical for the same reason as we can't get a control group.
I often wonder if my poor mental health is caused by it, I do everything a conventional healthy person does, but I still feel like trash
Males have become much less fertile overall. But it's impossible to pinpoint the exact cause because this phenomena is also correlated with higher rates of obesity and more sedentary lifestyles. Plastics could be one of the causes though.
6/10 video. severely disappointed that I cant just use plastics instead of obtaining a progesterone prescription
you need to make more videos like this, thank you for sharing
+Adam Ragusea a follow-up video "how to de-plastic your kitchen" would be nice.
You already showed using glass jars with plastic lids.
Does lining plastic freezer containers with pergamment paper work?
I started my switch from plastic to glass very recently, cutting excess sugar, etc.
fine work, Adam! thank you for this video.
Thank you for this video, i will try my best to avoid plastic products.
From what I've read of the research and papers I could find on the effects of plastics (mostly related to microplastic/nanoplastic, but also endocrine disrupters), polypropylene (PP, recycle type 5) is *likely* to be the least harmful of the commonly used plastics. Not harmless, but less harmful than the others.
Most food containers, electric kettles, thermos lids and so on are made from polypropylene, and that is probably the least harmful choice of plastic. It's also flexible, sturdy and long lasting. But please don't put it in the microwave, and always replace any scratched plastic, ideally with something made from stainless steel, glass or ceramic.
Does it really make any difference if the plastic is scratched? As far as I'm aware, food-container plastics don't have a certain coating on the inside. In other words, the food is exposed to equal amounts of plastic regardless if the surface is scratched or not.
Kudos to you Adam for bringing light to such an important topic. All the more reason to grow as much of your fruit and veggies as possible.
And as consumers let's try to limit our plastic consumption as much as possible.
-rarely use plastic container
-nvr consume canned tomato
-nvr use plastic wrap
-rarely drinks tetra packed bvrg
-dont have microwave
Cause im broke
Money is CANCER!!!!!!!!
Same
What do u even eat
Henrik Hempel
What kinda fucking idiot doesn’t cook at home
@@safir2241 i only eat home cooked food, but here's a shocking fact, you have to buy food before you cook it
I never thought there'd be a day i'd hear a cooking youtuber refer to something as a '4chan fever dream', but here we are.
i recently found out about this and greatly appreciate that you made a video on it
Thank you for having the courage to make a video like this -- a deeply controversial and flame-attracting subject -- with the conclusion "I don't know". That conclusion avoids hot-takes and counter-propaganda and reflexive sides-choosing.
It makes us slow down just a bit and reflect. And reflection is a better place to learn from than fighting. I'm really worried about this subject, but have a hard time weighing the evidence I can grok; I'm glad for your introduction to the work.
Thank you.
It would have been nice to put plastic estrogenics into perspective and compare their amounts with other estrogenics from foods like soy or fungi or herbicides or cosmetics and so on.
I also would like a study done on "Fasting" and "Microplastics" As Fasting clears the body out. Would be nice to see how effective Fasting is on getting rid of microplastics
@@jamesblack102this is a great question
Well at least we don't have to wonder why this video doesn't have 10+ million views anymore do we? Thanks for the info Adam!
Plastic releases estrogen?
*eats plastic*
Xenoestrogens are weird and may have bad side effects. If you want estrogen, seek out mammalian estrogen.
Could we get a follow up video on this in the future?
This. Video needs to be longer and with more details about how much plastic is around us.
Even in the air there are plastic particles we breathe, and every year we ingest a total of a couple of grams of plastic.
@@wlfgang I'd also like to know what potential solutions there are. Could we substitute plastic something else in applications where we really couldn't do without plastic? (such as the plastic lining in food cans) maybe there could be someone looking into something made from cellulose or something?