You Eat Plastic Every Day. Here's How To Avoid It.
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Microplastics are everywhere, including in your body. I spent 24 hours doing everything I could to avoid ingesting them. It shouldn't be this hard.
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I made another video where I avoided touching plastic. It will also surprise you: • I Went 24hrs Without T...
Links:
Abundance of microplastics: www.nationalgeographic.com/en...
Microplastics and health: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... 
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I post a lot about the environment over on instagram: instagram.com/kbaute/
Kurtis Baute where is your hair?
To save earth eat seafood instead of bovine meat.
To save yourself from plastic don't eat seafood.
Natural conclusion: Just eat avocado, bananas and oranges.
Hey Kurtis, can i translate the video with Greek Subtitles because I want to send it to my chemist professor who doesn't know English? Thanks a lot. 😊
Plastic pullover + plastic shoes, leaving plastic everywhere he moves.
Whats your take on air fryers, that are made from plastic?
Wish we would just go back to glass.
JOEGGGJOE Yeah. Its extremely sustainable and better for the environment
JOEGGGJOE You'd rather eat glass?????
@@spaceisalie5451 yes.
Not possible. Americans need vegan leather (oil), plastic containers (oil), plastic clothing… even most “soap” is not soap anymore. Like Dove is a beauty bar not a soap… we are a nation of oil consumers.
kurtis: *looks at every single grain of salt through a microscope to make sure it doesn't contain any plastic*
r/madlads
r/ihavereddit
BloomFilms r/ihaveihavereddit
Yoey Schwab r/ihaveihaveihavereddit
Ozan Canca r/ihaveihaveihaveihavereddit
When u realize tiping "r/madlad" on yt does nothing but u do it anyway.
r/madlad
A week?
I can eat a credit card in 10 seconds
Challenge Accepted! Wait, no, that's not what this is...
mind and eat it before the expiry date .
I think you'd be surprised by how difficult it actually is to eat a credit card.
😂
yummy 😋
Hey Kurtis, not enabling ads is a pretty cool thing to do! But unfortunately it also diminishes your reach within the platform since RUclips doesn't get money from your vids, so the algorithm favors you less. Just thought I'd let you know.
I've been trying to teach the algorithm. I go over there to the "up Next" feed, and click "not interested" on all the BS videos. I don't know if it helps, but it can't hurt.
@@ambulocetusnatans my youtubes updated itself and now I can queue up next to my liking; so I just take from fave channels, where ads are low. This one is doing it for the fans
I got this recommended though xd
Yeah, honestly, it's probably hurting him more than it's helping. If it leads to his video getting less views because it's not monetizeable then the message is reaching fewer people.
@@ambulocetusnatans so now, instead of just seeing videos of stuff we like, we are spending time teaching an algorithm to stop being so capitalist?
That moment when you realize that plastic fiber probably came from his sweater
Jeremy G lmao
Ya he was wearing plastic clothing for sure.
Maybe but whether you choose to believe it or not micro plastics are everywhere esp in our water in our food chain. This is fact.
@@colekeller most clothes do have traces of plastic fibres tho
Yep, polyester is plastic and his mattress & couch may have been made of poly as well. It leaches in sadly.
We know that plastics are endocrine disrupters really do we need to say more.
Yeah, this « we don’t have studies yet » is so silly. No need for a study to show me eating plastic is not exactly healthy !
Meanwhile wearing a polyester hoodie
I'm only in my teens and everything like this always has me overthinking 24/7, this stuff scares and worries me. I wish I never had to worry about this. Ever. I have heard and seen many ways people are trying to fix this issue and it makes me happy hoping fresher, better water and food, air in the near future.
'Video number two' - I see what you did there, Kurtis!
I don't get it, explain pls
@@PabloPerroPerro
1 = wee wee
2 = poo poo
3 = you don't want to know but you do if you have kids
Jason Axford is 3 incest?
@@gerRule 👍🤷♂️
😂😂😂😂
Awe man... how did I not notice that 😂👌🏼
I'm so sick about this. I cannot believe this is happening to all of us. I do not eat seafood and I'm so happy I do not now. I eat & drink alot of stuff in plastic and breathing it as well. I'm so sick now I do not know how I'm going to do this. Lord have mercy on us.
Plastic: it's for the synthetic people who prefer convenience over nature.
Which one do you prefer?
@AHOB Oktober we tried that with gays, now they have their own pride month. I do not want a vegan pride month in the future.
Try and live without it.
Did you also make sure there was no plastic in the clothes you wore? My understanding is that can be a big source of the plastics in our body.
Of course, it is, but then again. It's impossible to do now.
I made a video where I didn't touch/wear plastic for 24 hours. I wasn't mad enough to do both of these challenges simultaneously though. ruclips.net/video/XgD9ItnBQsA/видео.html
He's wearing plastic sunglasses so
Derek D and the sunglasses he wore
THE MICROSCOPE PROBABLY HAS PLASTIC TOO!
This was really well put together, thanks Kurtis, really great video!
Thanks Dom!! :D
And now they found it in our Blood as of 2022
You were ahead of your time !
You are the best kind of RUclipsr. I like watching people do things 99% of us wouldn't do, go that extra mile. Great stuff. But. A WHOLE CREDIT CARD WTF
In the alternative universe version of this video I ate a credit card in a single sitting.
That seems a bit much. I'd say a tenth of that.
Are you scientist panch?
All recorded on plastic camera 😆
You saying you don't record stuff by etching it into a rock? Weak
I was wondering why he was wearing plastic on his eyes with the sunglasses lol
How about that magazine as well?
Kurtis: “I’m living in a hut in the middle of an island so I don’t swallow the plastic in the air.
Also Kurtis: *[Wears plastic sunglasses]*
That alone exemplifies the silliness of virtue signalling and pretended self-awareness.
Famous people self-promoting how they avoid plastic bags for the environment usually are the same ones travelling on private jets for a sandwich... or a RUclips video.
@@DJVARAO spoken truth !
The same myopia that's causing everybody to pollute and non accepts they are doing it too
Yoshiko Chikuni ..not to mention all the plastic in his hoodie, shoes, etc🤣
It’s easy to knock.
Your hoody is 90% polyester.
Eoghan Hynes the blue micro plastic from the salt was from his hoody
Wow, 90% polyester? I guess the upside will be no wrinkles as I age.👏😃
3:22 Remote parts of the world like - the Alps?
You've never been to the Alps have you? Literally every single valley and every single hillside is populated
also skis are plastic
tolga1cool and they put everything in plastic
Me: *eats wrappers off of sweets occasionally*
Kurtis: "You eat plastic everyday"
Me: "Well, Duh"
What
bruh
mm delicious plastic
it tastes like capitalism
Im reading this in snufkin's voice and honestly, fits very well
This is like asking for 10page long wannabe politics/philosophy expert comment.
Is the popcorn ready ? :D
@@baumkuchen6543 ein Baum Kuchen Kommentar zählt auch ;)
Føxtrøt 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Found the political autism
Hi! I'm an undergraduate researcher at UMass currently studying the effects of microplastics in soil and in our waste management systems! I'm writing up a report and wanted some inspiration to get me started, and this was a wonderful video! The experiment I just ran was looking at the size and number of microplastics in soil and how that would impact lettuce growth and the soil rhizospheres and such. It definitely had a large impact, which was expected, however because there is so little research, as you said, we have to do these basic experiments to show it because they've never been done before. Of course, this was with pristine plastics (as we'd have to degrade our own plastics, which is a very difficult thing to do- we recently found a way to do it but it's not perfect by any means. Only a few small change in the structure of the plastic) so we're going to run it again with degraded plastics if we're able to. Personally, I believe that there is no avoiding plastics at this point and I hope to do more research on the chemically damaging aspects of microplastics in our own bodies. Microplastics are toxic (at certain levels, as is any pollutant) but no one really knows what it does to our bodies. Of course, this research would require another few organic chemistry classes (the bane of my existence) but it'll be worth it for science.
Love your content!
We also don't know if the microplastics we ingest has an effect on our health. Scary stuff.
In water, hydrophobic molecules tend to stick together. Most plastics are hydrophobic so they can potentially accumulate hydrophobic toxins. If this gets into the body and into our tissue, I wonder what kind of effect this would have. Especially if hormone mimicking compounds gets into our system.
It is certainly bad. Especially for your testosterone levels.
They want to destroy men
@Greg Fom I do not know exactly about this, but there is probably effects which we have some clue of and some we do not know about. I guess as time goes by we will get a better picture of the long term effects of single substances and these cocktails of chemicals, since this is all pretty new. There is a lot to read on Nature if you are interested in what that is currently going on.
This is where natural selection kicks in and the ones with the genes that are the best at dealing with micro plastics survive and reproduce
May fortune be ever in your favour
Goes to remote island to avoid plastic.
Wears plastic glasses and clothing containing plastics.
We can not avoid it anywhere we go... Tiny particles have been found floating in our highest peaks the ALPHS..
WHAT we really need to is cleaning it up and stop dumping it in our Oceans!!! Plastics are all around us. We don’t need Russia, N. Korea nor Iran to nuke us, in a short time we will/ are killing ourselves.. Come back in 10,000 or so years it might of heald it self by then..
And ISLAND Beach has GARBAGE EVERYWHERE , even in FISH , etc….. you catch !🤣😂😅😂🤣😡🤬😫😭
A few thousand years from now:
Human 2.0: wow, it seems primitive humans use to eat plastic on a daily basis, it must be ceremonial!
more like 70 years from now
Your hoodie is probably synthetic fibers (i.e. plastic). 😤
So when can we expect that coffee song on Spotify, ehh?
this
5:04 Hopefully some lab will answer the call of doody.
This is incredible. I had no idea there was plastic in the air like that! Thank you Kurtis for making these pure videos and giving us honest, bite-sized looks at issues like the plastic crisis. I look forward to your next adventure, and I wish you and Sir Stabbington the best.
wow, I have never hated plastic as much as I do right now. Thanks a lot! I mean I have always known about the issue with seafood (including heavy metals too) but I never realized just how unavoidable it really is. Sadly it all makes sense. But I am not prepared to make such drastic changes to my diet, so I must continue eating food laced with plastic at the same time know what I am doing how bad it must be for my Stomach, Bowels, and Body :( I feel a little down right now. I was going to make Smach Burgers (Ultra Cheese Burgers) but now I think I will just have a hearty meal of nothing :/
Thanks for verifying what I already knew, and tell people all the time! And you just really supported me with storing everything in glass I just started that this past month and I appreciate it!
Unfortunately, I’ve been getting sick from fish over the past 3 years. Which means I’ve had it about 3 times. Between the plastic in the water and the ongoing Fukushima leak that’s not talked about any more; the oils spills on the East Coast, I should know better. But I love it! 💛 But now, I’m committed to flax seeds! 😁
Please keep doing what you do!
Your clothes whose fibre is synthetic is mad of plastic
My wife is mostly plastic
This is why everyone was an absolute Chad 200 years ago.
It's now in the clothes we buy, which makes it extremely difficult to avoid.
The only way to avoid plastic is going underground or in to space.
inuyasha haha he Will find out in time..
Good luck living in space without plastic haha
It is in SPACE SHIPS !
Starting around 0:39 he starts moving his camera slowly, he switches hands at 0:49, and he did it so smoothly. congrats my dude that deserves some appreciation.
Thanks for your experiment because I said years from the beginning of the use plastic that it could be unhealthy and we should continue using bottles. Although, glass was fragile it was easier to clean and use. Hope to see it used more now they have discovered new findings about plastic. I'm old school I feel we should study things longer before using them among the people.
Unfortunately it's not just seafood. Plastic is commonly added to livestock feed as a biproduct of trying to reduce food waste in landfills. Eat Vegan, buy low waste, buy fresh spices and condiments, filter your tap water and buy North Sea salt.
Your channel is so, so well produced and informative. Its a crime that you don't have a bigger following.
Your comment about ads restored some of my faith in humanity and made me smile. Thank you for being a decent human being!!
Wonderful stuff you're doing, and honourable that you're disabling ads, and by extension, your RUclips income, to support human and environmental health. You are truly awesome.
Kurtis, Thank you so much for doing this. Not just this project, your channel and a whole! I'm a person who currently pursues a job in Graphic Design, since it was the most affordable associate degree I could go for right now at my country. But my heart and passion has always, always been science - From agriculture to microbiology, physics and ecology. Your videos make me reconnect with that part of me that awaits the moment it can sprout. Despite not having the most stable mental health, I do and I will work hard, and I believe that I'll be able to study abroad In less than five years! But, your channel, is among those that truly inspire me most. Your sincerity, your trust, and your passion outshines anything I've ever seen in this platform - Thank you.
Thank you, kind soul. Hope you have a fantastic week. :)
Great video bringing more awareness to the severity of the plastic issue.
ah yes, the caffeine withdrawal headache, I chuckled too much at this! Thank you for producing such a lovely helpful and informative video. I think the more videos like this help to draw education and discussion to this global issue, the more we can all begin to start effecting change, a healthier life for all of us starts with recognition, Our Poor Earth!
could we get a video about the different types of plastic, like food grade?
there is no such thing as “food grade” plastic, plastic is literally cancer for the earth.
@@Ofmyownvolition Stop writing false information. You clearly dont know anything about plastics.
If it has a F or a C in it then it's probably especially bad?
Food safe means it wont degrade into your food as quickly as other plastics
literally one of the best you tubers out there very inspirational and joyful i love it i would love to say more but it's 2:30 in the morning
Unfortunately even fruits have plastic in them according to recent studies
He: "Why am I here?"
Me ".... Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg..."
I watch to much RUclips ....
I have one kidney that has become cancerous, I've lived off off plastic water bottles for 30 years... be aware
This is just mind-blowing. kinda sad to be honest but I guess this is the start of a whole anti-plastic revolution:)
Solution: Ban plastics.
I am in admiration of your decision to disable ads. It’s so selfless to do that. keep up the good work on your videos.
I'm thankful you proposed a video for Tom Scott's vacations and got selected.
Of the many science/knowledge channels I'm subscribed to (some English ones and mostly French stuff), you're probably the most original one I know of.
You keep surprising me with these projects seemingly coming out of nowhere (especially since I'm not following you on other medias).
You always base your videos on experiments, which isn't a norm (at least for the channels I'm following).
You always go all the way to illustrate your point, and I enjoyed each and every video you made since I subscribed.
Thank you for being an awesome person :)
Well this comment made my day. Thanks!
Your efforts are really appreciable.
Great video! You REALLY should provide a link to your Patreon site especially if you talk about it :)
I've never thought about this, thank you for the video!
You are one of the amazing people we need. Love you for what you are doing❤
Surprisingly what's good for the planet is also good for us
2:47 just to suffer?
Leo gets it.
seriously life seems to be suffering
should've started the video with "you're breathing plastic, right now" that keeps people watching.
At least until the plastic gets them.
Legit the next RUclips ad I saw after this was for evian. "Purity uncompromised." Hmm. Not so sure about that anymore.
I read a study which said ~45% of microplastics come from rubber tires! We don't talk about it because it's impossible for us to change our society to this
How the elites lessen life spans of surfs.
Hey, where is that place? It looks a little like where I live actually. Not exactly, too nice weather lol.
Kurtis, you're incredible! Thank You!
Thank you for the wonderful research you do. I enjoy watching your videos and I too take as many measures as possible to consume little or no plastics, whether it be eating or in everyday use.
Two most effective things I was told elsewhere:
- Drink tap water (if it’s recommended where you live)
- Con’t cut food on plastic
Who has another low hanging plastic fruit?
Don't microwave your food in plastic.
@@Coccinelf I keep telling my wife this. Doesn't seem to sink in.
@@mozkitolife5437 maybe it's time to buy new microwavable storage containers so she has the convenience of microwaving leftovers in glass? I dunno, just an idea.
@@amyrlin026 Good idea, but that requires taking the food out of the plastic packaging and into another container. Too inconvenient for her.
@Coccinelle Thanks, I’m already following this, but good one. 👌🏻
::cackles:: video #2.
A thing I wonder about: what about things like milk cartons and tetrapacks? I know they use LESS plastic which means they're probably better than plastic milk jugs, but how does the plastic that they do use affect recyclability?
Most plastics/composites are down-cycled. The more you process these materials the worse performance you usually get.
I love your channel.. I don’t want to sound bad but I really wish your channel remains like this, unpopular, simple, unexplored..
I would like to at the same time wish you a lot of success and growth!
Thanks for no ads .
funny to see this now that they found micro plastic in human blood
"I look through every grain of salt under a microscope" madlad Kurtis
how should someone drink water if they can't buy bottled water?
If you have drinkable water from faucets in your home, drink that.
@@ScopeofScience i do, but i think alot of people can't drink the Water from the faucet.
FYI: Distilled water is not bad for you, you get minerals from food not water. The minerals in water our bodies can’t use. Distilled water = no plastics and 0 PPM
This is pretty interesting!
"Video number 2" - I see what you did there
Thank you for removing ads of plastic
it shldnt be this hard for the kids ,,but it is,and its time for the parents to stand up
I heard somewhere that plastics (particularly certain kinds) affects hormones in the body. I'm not an expert, so can't say with certainty, but this could possibly explain some anomalies we see in behaviors outside traditional social norms, if you get my drift. just saying, it could be a possibility and I wouldn't be surprised if it was an explanation.
Don’t worry, it’s food safe plastic 🤪
This is a great video! It's so cool that you took a stand and disabled the ads on this channel. Not many people would go to those lengths. I'm glad to have stumbled upon it. That cob house looks like it's somewhere in BC! Is it AinBnB-able perchance?
I so appreciate you Kurtis!... This video really puts the worlds plastic epidemic into prospective for those that watch it and the message is spreading my friend!...
*Had plastic sunglasses on his face half the time*
"And have my poo analysed"...
Ah, the wonders of science!
Lab report: Affirmative. This is definitely poo.
This is plain crazy!
I love it! ❤️
I run a company that sells hot pepper infused sea salt (Josh's Jungle). Each grinder lasts about a year or 2 of constant use and I chose plastic grinders because my assumption is that it lasts long enough to not really matter all that much. Now I'm questioning this decision, but can't really go back as it cost me a loan just to got the grinders.
You know , this guy is the easy target for any hipster hippies market like wholefoods 🤣🤣🤣🤣
everyone: if you drink a glass of distilled water you‘re gonna die instantly
kurtis: I‘ll be okay for a day
It's a salt thing
I drink exclusivly distilled water for years and i am very alive lol
Distilled water is fine, the minerals you may get from non-distilled water are very few and inorganic anyway. Minerals from food makes much more sense.
@@monsimix6839 I assume you also eat salted food and probably some quite natural (not premade grocery store garbage) foods
I only drink distilled water and I’ve been drinking it since college. It’s the best tasting water ever. I brew it at homes I supplement with minerals instead of drinking disgusting tap water
Now that's giving a new meaning to *"taking it with a grain of salt"*
Governments: lets ban straws
No one: hey coca-cola and Poland springs, this has got to stop
Neeko Z
Can you explain this comment?
It’s already ban in Seattle Washington.
I'm pretty sure that person meant stop bottling everything in plastic
kash bash some cities have banned straws and single use plastic bags. Which is great. But much more needs to be banned such as Coca Cola in plastic bottles and single use water bottles.
Drinking beverages out of cans should be close to same as bottled since the cans have a plastic inner coating.
Every one of your videos is so profound and excellent, thankyou!
I wonder if any negative effects will be negated if we acquired the ability to digest plastic.
No you weren't crazy because now its headline news.
Ugh why don't turtles just do what you did turtles are so dumb...
like duh, just stop shoving straws in your nostrils.
@@shitlordflytrap1078 if they stop, i'm going to show them there myself.
@@shitlordflytrap1078 Exactly dude
I've been thinking about this quite a bit as I eat plastic packaged products all the time. How much plastic can we eat until it becomes a probelm?
If you drink water from gallon jar based spring water and if the alternative is tap water, then which is worse getting poisoned through plastic or contaminants in the tap water?