CRITICAL: Detoxify Your Brain from Microplastics

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that the brain accumulates 7 to 30 times more microplastics than the liver and the kidneys? In this video, I’m going to tell you how to detox microplastics and forever chemicals that can wreak havoc on your health.

Forever chemicals can bind with proteins in your blood, creating problems as they bioaccumulate in the body over time. One report found that the average person has 7 grams of plastic in their brain!

Plastic recycling is a scam! Only 9% of plastic can actually be recycled, and the majority sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

Scientists are working to develop microbes, fungi, and enzymes that can eat plastic, but until those are developed, there are only two things you can do to detoxify your body of microplastics. First, avoid plastic!

High-quality deep sleep is vital to detox microplastics from the brain. Inducing autophagy can also detox microplastics. Fasting for at least 18 hours is one of the best ways to induce autophagy.

Plastics and forever chemicals create oxidative stress in the body, which can be countered with strong antioxidant systems. Foods high in sulfur, such as garlic, onions, and cruciferous vegetables, can help strengthen your body’s antioxidant networks. NAC and milk thistle are great for detoxification.

Try these tips to reduce microplastics:

•Use a water filter

•Eliminate plastic cutting boards

•Avoid dishwasher pods

•Switch to biodegradable coffee filters

•Use sea salt from an ancient seabed

•Choose natural tea bags without plastic

•Avoid plastic baby bottles

•Use a stainless steel water bottle

•Use plastic-free sponges

•Avoid canned food and liquids

•Use bamboo toothbrushes

•Avoid Teflon

•Use glass Tupperware

•Avoid plastic dental floss

•Use 100% organic cotton tampons

LINKS TO WATER FILTERS:

https://www.amazon.com/Travel-Berkey-...

https://www.amazon.com/ZeroWater-7-Cu...

https://clearlyfiltered.com/products/...

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to discuss a very important topic. How to detoxify the plastic out of your brain,
0:06.7	the microplastics. The brain accumulates the most microplastics of all of the organs. The brain
0:13.9	accumulates seven to 30 times more microplastics than the liver and the kidneys. Today I'm going to
0:20.1	talk about how to get rid of
0:21.6	this plastic, not just the plastics, but something else called forever chemicals. They bind
0:27.2	with proteins in your blood, creating all sorts of problems, especially as they built up in,
0:31.5	it's called bioaccumulate over time. This is a very important video because if you can do something
0:36.0	about this now, you can prevent a lot of
0:38.3	problems down the road. In one report that I saw, an average person has seven grams of plastic in their
0:44.6	brain. The first thing you need to know about plastics is the big scam about plastic recycling.
0:51.2	As simply a way to get you to keep buying plastic items. Only 9% of all the plastics
0:56.8	are able to be recycled. The vast majority of plastics, either they're incinerated or the great
1:02.6	majority of it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. If you look on the bottom of the plastic
1:08.0	containers, you'll see a little, it looks like a recycling symbol.
1:12.3	Just gives an impression that, oh, yeah, oh, this can be recycled.
1:15.4	Well, check out this clip right here.
1:16.9	Recycling is expensive and labor-intensive, and making new plastic from fossil fuels
1:21.8	is almost always cheaper forever.
1:24.3	Plastic industry documents clearly concluded that there were no effective market mechanisms
1:28.9	for mixed plastic and that there is a serious doubt that it can ever be made viable on an economic
1:33.9	basis. There was never an enthusiastic belief that recycling was ultimately going to work in a significant way.
1:45.0	I think they knew that the infrastructure wasn't there to really have recycling amount to a whole lot.
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