947 - The Truth About Microplastics and Health with Dr. Ian Mudway
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
I had an eye-opening discussion with environment and health expert, Dr. Ian Mudway about the prevalence and risks of microplastics in our everyday lives. How do we consume microplastics? Are they a danger to our health? How can we lessen the exposure of microplastics? Tune in to answer all these questions and more!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
05:28 Microplastics & how we consume them
15:27 Do microplastics create health risks?
26:02 Sources of exposure
34:42 Lifestyle habits to lessen microplastics
43:07 Reducing microplastic exposure
59:14 Foods & environmental damage
Featured Studies
📉Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822
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| 0:00.0 | If we're eating a credit card of plastic every week, how much everything else would be accumulating? |
| 0:07.4 | Everybody will quote that statistic. It is inaccurate. It is a distortion of the truth. Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:39.1 | Ian, welcome to the show. |
| 0:41.4 | Well, thank you very much for having me. |
| 0:43.9 | This topic of microplastics, I've seen a lot of it come through my YouTube feed, my |
| 0:51.2 | Instagram feed, you know, all over the internet. And on the one hand, I do believe |
| 0:57.3 | that it's probably a good idea to avoid plastics. I've always cringed if you've ever been in a |
| 1:04.2 | family member's house and they took food and microwaved it in plastic and then handed it to you and you could just feel the plastic |
| 1:13.5 | hot and sort of, you know, lose its sort of integrity. Intuitively, I always thought to myself, |
| 1:21.0 | boy, this must not be healthy to do. There must be some leaching. And this has been |
| 1:26.1 | bore out that when you heat plastic, you accelerate the leaching. So I think there's, there's some argument here, but I just, |
| 1:34.5 | I've had this intuition that on the one hand, there's probably some things people should be |
| 1:38.4 | aware of and from a public health and an environmental perspective. We want to have some guidelines |
| 1:43.9 | and some awareness, totally. |
| 1:45.8 | On the other, there might be a little bit of hysteria where people, like so many things, |
| 1:50.6 | as we were discussing before we started the recording, we see a lot of this with diet. |
| 1:54.8 | People go to these extremes, and it's probably for some people going to act more as a detriment extreme dieting than it is |
| 2:03.4 | something to improve their health. |
| 2:05.5 | You seem to have been the person when we researched guests for this topic who had the |
| 2:10.6 | most balanced perspective. |
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