it's kenyans who say they're struggling with high cost of living. catherine, so reports from nairobi. this kenyans are angry. thousands of them stormed the jesus. we must charge while a service was being held on sunday, saying they wanted to occupy the building. the protests, what triggered by these appliances by president william, brutal of a $150000.00 to help build a new charge. san canyons are accusing politicians of using the collaging for political gain. yeah. mean, seem done to people say i'm coming, but i'm not. i do everything for the glory of god, despise the protest. the president needed a similar amount to another charge on the same day. even come a good month to the this is a game that i applying with us. we are the ones who are suffering only god can save us now. we are on our own to politicians,

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differently safe easily. but also the pesticides and probably genetically modified toxic chemicals that can be found in your mental product where be coming plastic bag with warm water like this could create billions of micro plastic particles in the teeth. and so the phones that the structure of our sports watches contain forever chemicals as an insane, the high and warm and high level of depth, technical in over $144.00, she in at 10 with all the express close. rob did you still want to make me agree to when we scroll through social media, if it was like every day brings a new post revealing how something we use or consume is actually harming us. so today we're looking into the latest research on the health and environmental implications of current consumer trends and breaking down possible practical

solutions for those who just want to stay healthy for that we have joining us today . donna checks in the cover and environmental scientist and micro plastics. research are roxanne, a food scientist known online, but her account hydroxide and the medical doctor tarik, pasha surgeon, and urologist, who runs nice superhero foods on instagram. thank you all so much for your time. dr . tarik, we have over 1000000 the followers on in the ground where you and your wife post about food being the ultimate medicine. what would you say are some of the most common talk since we may be ingesting with our foods? is there a particular chemical or contaminants that concerns you the most right now? well, certainly 1st i'd like to make one correction the brains behind my super hero foods . i give all credit to my wife haley. she's done a tremendous job running the channel. i'm just uh, just deposit, but uh, i really there now appreciate per fabulous work and i wanna make sure that she gets

recognized. let's get right into it. absolutely. i think we can keep it pretty simple. my job is probably more simple than your other guest. it's essentially ultra processed foods, i think are absolutely the most dangerous toxic product that we can actually consume. and that is, let's step back a 2nd and define what an old process food is. it's basically any food that has ingredients that you can't find in your kitchen, you can easily go find in your cupboard or something like that. second definition would be a suit with, with, if it's in a package that is in a box that has multiple ingredients that you can even understand or even know how to pronounce them. and the 3rd thing would be mostly would be fast food. most fast foods are order processed, and this is a massive, massive problem because this is not real food. and essentially the, the main products are the main things that in the arc, that's our seat. all of them we can get into these things,

see the oil transfats and sugars, which is a whole topic in itself. and i'm happy to kind of how many inches specific questions, right, but the, i mean, 1st of all, food foods using radians, that we combine our kitchen and food with a long list of ingredients that we don't understand. that was basically everything . right? yes, unfortunately our, our kids in our diets are now almost 65 to 70 percent of the food that we consume our calories from ultra process food. i want to make clear, this is not food. it is some kind of edible substance. there isn't nothing about it . that nourishes us. we are basically becoming sick not from lack of calories. actually we have plenty of calories, but no nourishment, not only do we not have nourishment, this toxic food leads to metabolic dysfunction. now metabolic dysfunction is a fancy word that just says that our bodies, our sales can't process, can't use the energy from this food in an efficient way, much like

a car that's given really nasty gas or gas mixed with a bunch of impurities. how do you expect that car to run well or run very long or, or break down much soon and, and it should. so these, these toxins lead to metabolic dysfunction which leads to diabetes, fatty liver or liver disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, a dimension and much, much more. oh, i'm roxanne as a full scientist, you actually run an account that rationalizes some of the panic. there are several clips there where you are actually talking about the regulations and the fact that people might be exaggerating, in some cases. can you talk us through that? yeah, of course. so i think with any level of like online panic or so in the seeds of, you know, potential problems, there's bound to be some misinformation sprinkled in there that can influence people who are looking for real facts. the concepts that there are hidden chemicals

in our food in the us and even in canada is sort of a misconception. i'm talking specifically stuff like food dies and food additives. one of the main misconceptions i see is that the, the e u or europe doesn't use any food, dies or additive, and that's why they're healthy there, but are labeling laws here actually require from dies and food additives to be disclosed on the label. i think that's why people panic when they see the scary chemical names, but in reality we are just disclosing it to you. and because there's no layman's terms to summarize these in a way that could be potentially helpful. i think consumers see, come muscles and see that as a scary thing, rather than understanding that there's a purpose to these additives. they've been many times well studied and well produced in the level of dosages that they use. and i think to like the european versus us food misconception, run steve in the you,

they are not required to disclose what food dies are on the label, so it will just be labeled under and e code. for example, this misconception that red 40 is banned in the you, it's not, it's just called e 129 there, or a lower read e c. and on the flip side, there's also 2 dies that are banned here in the us that are allowed in the. ready colors like the 153 at the n, c, blue 2 and blue one. and so i do think a lot of them is information sort of meant to kind of, i think, distract consumers from sort of these larger macro factors that are the reason why we face so many health problems in the us. mac for factors being things like walkability in cities, food accessibility, and reduction of food deserts, having the time and affordability to cook, healthy meals to learn about how to do healthy food. i think these macro factors are much larger instances of how our health can be. you know,

would you say that you were really dr. terracon in the sense that these alter process foods were present to things or so and how about to alter processed foods? i do think that groups that are not nutrient dense are problem. so, but it's, it's not necessarily because of so how do i explain this? it's not necessarily because that there's like a scary chemical and it, it's more of the fact that a lot of these foods are just not very high in macro nutrients like protein, healthy fat, um vitamins minerals that sort of thing. so again, it's more focusing on a macro level because if we band food dies tomorrow, like and every one of them was gone, it's not like our health would improve overnight. and um, and then of course, the rest, sorry, go ahead, you know, go ahead and start with me real quickly ultra process to the problem with the ultra process foods. is the fact of the matter not only that they're nutrient dense,

they are concocted in a way to create food addiction. and what ends up happening is we eat and eat and eat the, and it overrides our brains satiety signals. and i dare anyone to go right now and eat 10 rib by steaks. you cannot eat 10 revised steaks or a 24 inches or anything real. our body has a natural, a compensatory mechanism to allow us to feel satiated, to feel and nourish. because our body screens out, we're not getting those macro newt nutrients that she was referring to, such as protein and fiber and all these wonderful nutrients that you can. we don't even know like the matrix of an apple. like you can't tell me, a pop tart is the same as an apple, the matrix, the beauty, the fiber of how it comes from the tree and is water from the, you know, water from the rain and the sun. these are all things that we have gone away from. we need to return back to to restore help. yeah,

i guess i just want to say that i agree with what dr. tart is saying, however, it does just go back into that macro versus micro level. i mean, if alter process foods don't have a lot of fiber or protein, of course the satiety will not be there as much. but there are large variety of products may produce protein powder, other things like that, that do increases satiety, wellbeing. all says, i think there's a level of new ones in the spectrum to this. that is meant to be addressed in my opinion. um however, of course the whole foods die will always be good. and 10 revised space has hundreds and hundreds of grams of protein. but i would also argue can't eat several skips of protein powder at one sitting due to these macro nutrients. so focusing on the macro is very important in this aspect. and, and what i want to talk about now, because we're going to continue this conversation about everything that we are ingesting and absorbing and, and what it's doing to us. and one of the things that kept popping off on these

time lines as we're researching for this show, is the fact that plastic is everywhere. um, recent studies sounded like a plastics in breast milk in human hearts and brain tissue. and obviously we all know that the water is essential for life, for the water we are consuming, may also be coming with more things than we expect our produce. are seen a highly explain what if i told you were not just drinking the water and these bottles, but tiny particles of plastic to researchers have found that one meter of bottled water contains around a quarter of a 1000000 tiny pieces of plastic. see, most of these bottles are made from polyethylene to escalate, also known as p t. and over time, especially when exposed to heat or sunlight, they start breaking down, setting these tiny pieces of plastic right into the water. this plastic is also commonly used for food packaging. so technically we're eating it to we're still learning what micro and nano plastics could do to our health in the long term. but

early research suggests they may be linked to cardiovascular issues like strokes and heart attacks that could cause inflammation and disrupt or hormones. so while we might not yet fully understand the long term effects of micro plastics, one thing's for sure. we're consuming them every day. donna, that is the core of your research. how exactly is this? is this happening highways? and how are these micro classics basically entering everything and, and, and stain our bodies to me. yeah, i would say that the answer to this question lies it in the question itself. as you say, plastic is everywhere and everything that we interact with on a daily basis, all the updates or even the clothes that we where the personal care products that we put in our scheme. um, even to foods that we eat is wrapped around plastic or stored in plastic containers

or yeah, it has to do with plastic. so because we surround or so was plastic. update this plastic then breakdowns into micro plastics and as it does in, degrades really is a way it stays for decades or even hundreds of years around. so it will enter the environment as and what's her soil or air. and as it enters the environment, that is will eventually enter the human foot chain. so that's how we just micro plastics through fluid and through air, through water, through basically everything. um dr. terika from medical perspective, i just want to understand this correctly. why is the body not eliminating these micro plastics naturally? and what are some of the risks that we know at this stage involved with us? just keeping all this in our bodies?

you know, we were not, we were not involved or we were not created in a way to be able to uh, eliminate my for plastics. again, this is a, a, a, a, a creation of this generation or a recent generation which i'm highly against the plastic plastic bottles. i recommend stainless steel or glass much, much better for us. and these plastics. unfortunately when they're heated, they are even. busy worse, so you certainly don't want to use a like plastic uh or styrofoam and heat your coffee with these leach into our body . and unfortunately they will reside in our body forever. and it's as the clip show we have quite a bit of micro plastics up to almost a credit card or more in our inside our bodies. and why we think this is important . i can tell you 1st hand, i'm seeing the effects of this, primarily through i believe hormones disruption. i see in my clinic a lot of low testosterone and also problems with for tilly. so do

a deal reduction in opportunity and low testosterone are ramp it to such an extent that we are now lowering the range of normal. so what it used to be considered normally arrange is 323521200. now it's 202890 grams per deciliter, so we're actually lower, we're removing the gold, the gold post, so we don't die diagnose as much low testosterone and also problems with brutality . so this is a major, major problem. this hormone disrupting, our bodies, are beautifully designed with the most intricate hormones system. and that's why i'm such a big proponent about out a blank or plastic as well as again i disagree with the or come to our panel member that dies are important. artificial dice do affect our behavior and it's not so much the, the, uh, the, the toxin is in the dose. if you accumulate a lot over a long period of time, we will start to see and we are seeing us break down in real time. i see it every

day in my clinic. oh donna, you been researching this? why would you say it has taken so long for people to actually wake up to the problem that micro plastics were present? as doctor static said it's, it's a quite new research stopping. we under been introduced to plastic as a material for a 2 years. and in terms of science, it's quite new. and the market, plastic research itself is like maybe 1520 years, which is also very, very new topic for, for the science. so we're only now discovering all these things, even there is no for example, there is no standard right now in the labs, in the research on how to quantity fi and qualify the micro plastics. and we're still working on the even standard design. seeing the research itself, so it's going to take some years for us to understand everything. yeah, and we don't have a lot of people who are exposed to plastics for a long,

long time because as i said, again, the material. so it's quite new. i'm over the but what is your budget real quick? so we, it's a very important concept that we need to be a head of the science, the science due to its nature, which is which i appreciate very much. so science is the backbone of, of medicine, backbone at any inquiry, but lot of times it is delayed 101520 years. we have to be a head of the science. it took the f day over 25 years to band a trans fat and my food expert would. what would certainly agree with me that trans fats are absolutely in a bama nation to our health, heart disease stroke dementia. it took over 25 years, the, the to get it out of our food and it's still in our food. if there's less than point 0.5 grams of trans fat in a process that they don't have to label, they don't have to listed on the label. it'll say 0 trans fats. but in reality

there is at least 0.5 grams. you do not have to report it, and overtime this accumulates and causes massive disturbances in our body. and obviously there's a lot i was advised out there about what is safe and what is not when it comes to the full rate, but also the products we use every day. how much of it is actually true because metric scientist jen know markovich helped us set the record straight on a few items. this method so pervasive that many international cancer societies now have mis pages to debunk it. though, over whelming evidence does not support the idea that anti per sprints, or deodorant causes cancer or that leaving them specifically in anti pers, brands is linked to adverse health outcomes for people who use that unless they have allergies. and that's a different thing. sunscreen is good for you, especially if you're thinking about risk for skin cancer. sunscreen has

a health benefit to people in reducing your risk for skin cancer. also array of different skin is it conditions associated with site exposure. there's a misconception that they are unsafe, but this is based off of many misinterpretations of the total evidence which overwhelmingly supports the safety of 5 screens on the markets. this misconception is based off of a misconception about the satellites that are used in fragrance and cosmetics in general, and the risk associated with ballots as a class compared to individual chemicals. so yes, certain validates do have endocrine, for example, disrupting impacts in this case. but it's not the one that is relevant to fragrance, which is diantha valley over a low monthly supported to be safe, overwhelmingly not supported to be endocrine disruption or endocrine disrupting in

the context of these products. and this is based off of the fallacy that natural equals better. but i mean, you just have to think about this for a 2nd. poison ivy is natural. and if you stick that on your skin, maybe knock are going to be great news for you, especially if you've already had her your actions. that the reality is natural ingredients in cosmetics are some of the more challenging ingredients when it comes to safety. it's not to say that they don't have a place there great to work with and formulations, but this blanket idea that natural equals better is misplaced, especially considering the ingredient types that have the highest composition of allergens happens to be in the natural category. roxanne, i wanted to bring you back in to ask you about trust. many people have been talking

about losing trust in corporations and government. would you say that that lack of trust, or at least the question around the trust is, is justifiable? absolutely. i mean, for me personally, i'm a scientist, so i'm always questioning everybody around me. and i personally think there can never be too much concern over us regulations or what companies are doing. since you know, food has to be sold and there is a profit incentive to it. that money is the waters quite a bit. i think it's safe. that system is always a work in progress. and i can acknowledge to that our system has wrong people in the past, and i can completely understand a level of this trust. but in my opinion, i think we do focus on i think the focus in terms of what we put our attention to is again more in that micro rather than the macro. um, i do think a lot of what gets portrayed as what we should be focusing on is sort of

a distraction from these larger goals that would require a lot of systemic change like walkable cities and you know, not having to check your bank account every time you go to the doctor, food accessibility, that sort of thing. as a more holistic approach, i guess in terms of a stay on that line here because we're almost out of time terms of solutions and action, dr. tarik. if someone wants to take immediate action after watching this episode, what would you recommend as a 1st step towards being how fear and, and trying to stay away from things that harm us. i would say that's, that's a great question to the very 1st the easiest thing to do is stop all lift with sugar. so that includes putting sugar in your coffee. that includes coke and pop and the artificial sweeteners as well. that's a whole another topic and how those are got disrupters and they cause us to crate carbohydrates and actually cause us to gain weight and lead obesity and diabetes.

that includes smoothies and juices. i'm not st. purchases, you can't ever have like a 100 percent worst views. they do have some vitamins and minerals in it. if they are done in moderation is is ok. but in reality, our biggest, the biggest single thing you can do is cut liquid sugar. the more the better. and the 2nd thing i would add, again, from a macro perspective, as a rock, dr. roxanne was saying, is, is to limit or reduce as much as possible whole for process foods. these are toxins . and if we stop buying these abominations, these concoctions of it scientifically engineered foods to cause us to, to crave and cause us to overeat, calories and become obese and overlay to have metabolic dysfunction. they will make better food. i promise you can start to see better foods being produced, more and more organic, more whole thoughts, less ingredients, one ingredients, foods, all of this is extremely critical. it taking your 1st and taking the 1st steps to

better health it. those would be my 2 suggestions. avoiding liquid sugar in all forms, including smoothies and proof drinks pop, of course, and number 2, staying away from ultra process food which are not food. they're just abominations . roxanne, your attempts today. what would you suggest people there that i think the number one piece of advice when it comes to staying healthy now for correction, i'm up in science is not a nutritionist. i'm also not a doctor. i would recommend going slow, so our medium cycle goes so quick nowadays that we see don't eat the stoney that eat the speed that and i think to convert be very confusing for consumer. i think just stepping back and focusing on very pare down. it's simple goals like getting enough fiber, we do not get enough fiber here in the us, getting enough protein, making sure you're focusing on vitamins and minerals. and i think if you start

there, that is like sort of the most simple of stick and the easiest place to start getting caught up and health trends can often make things more cans more confusing. so it's really best to just keep it simple. roxanne, dr. to eric and donna, thank you so much for your time. thank you for joining us here on the stream today . and thank you all for tuning and keep in touch with us online for that you can use the hash tag or the handle angry stream and send those are questions and suggestions take care. and i'll see you soon. the frances influence over many of its former african colonies may be in decline, but this remains of potency cannot make a culture for a flurry of articles across french speaking africa is kind of paintings. a change that just ears, investigative unit forensically uncovers a murky world of faith journalists false accounts and forced identities with links

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