cancer historically was a disease of Aging disease rates are skyrocketing among younger populations we're becoming plastic Dr ion Burkhart is a leading toxicologist and a passionate scientist dedicated to educating the public about harmful chemicals in our everyday lives these chemicals often found in common household items can contribute to serious chronic illnesses including cancer I'm a toxicologist so I study the basic science of poisons how do chemicals interact with the cells in our bodies and how do they cause harm how do our cells defend themselves against these toxins on our Channel we've highlighted the top five
products Dr burkhard frequently warns against items she advises avoiding to reduce the risk of diseases like cancer and infertility her insights are also personal she overcame infertility herself by eliminating products containing toxic chemicals I started to uncover the linkages between these lowd do environmental chemicals and products that we're using all the time and how they impacted my health and when I started to remove them and replace them with safer options my health recovered and I was actually able to conceive my own children without assistance what's shocking is that many of these harmful items are things
we use daily without a second thought the first product on her list nonstick cookware so what's the worst type of cookware anything with a non-stick coating guaranteed if you walk into any store right now nine out of 10 pans are coated with non-stick chemicals even all the air fryers that everyone's using the liners that go into the air fryers rice cookers pots pant P parchment paper these nonstick chemicals are literally everywhere so what's the issue nonstick coatings on cookware are primarily composed of man-made chemicals known as per and polyal alcohol substances or past for short
you might know them as Teflon which are just one type of chemical within this group these chemicals are so widespread in consumer products and are extremely persistent in the environment as such we're exposed continuously and there are past in all of our bodies and it is believed that because it is so chemically stable that it wouldn't come off the pan into your food but that's not true there's evidence showing that there is transfer from the cookware in normal cooking conditions into food not only that when you heat that pan high enough it will vaporize and
get into the air and if you inhale it you run the risk of experiencing what's known as Teflon flu if you ever had a non-stick piece of cookware it scratches very easily and some of these scratches are microscopic and invisible to the to the naked eye Studies have found that a surface scratch can release 9,000 particles from that non-stick coating into your food and if it's a crack that number jumps up to 2.3 billion particles that are transferred into your food what happens to our bodies after prolonged exposure to these particles well Pats are linked
with several types of cancers kidney and testicular cancer thyroid disorders thyroid problems are so common these days but they're not normal then we have incre increased risk of miscarriage pre-term labor pre-term birth preeclampsia which is high blood pressure during pregnancy that's could be deadly you also have increased obesity that's linked with past chemicals and past also contribute to an increase in endometriosis and PCOS people who have endometriosis and PCOS they have found to have higher levels of pasas in their bodies and pasas are found in everybody no one's exempt everyone has pasas in our bodies
what's a better option than the conventional non-stick plastic cookware cast iron stainless steel glass cookware ceramic cookware the next category of products to minimize using his beauty products particularly those containing harmful ingredients like fragrances parabens and Benzene Dr Ivon is a powerful living example herself she overcame infertility after eliminating beauty products with toxic chemicals from her routine this study is literally groundbreaking for the first time we have been able to see exactly what certain ingredients are doing in the humans in the human model so women without any history of breast cancer were asked to remove
these ingredients from their products for 28 days so that's very short they took cells from the breast tissue they were all normal they measured the amount of breast cancer gene expression so after 28 days of removing these ingredients they took another sample and they saw that the breast cancer gene expression dropped and the only thing that they were asked to change about their lifestyle was to remove these ingredients from their beauty and personal care products what does this mean this means that once you stop using products that contain parabens phalates and other xenoestrogens that breast
cancer genes turn off meaning you reduce the risk of developing breast cancer one of the risk factors for developing breast cancer is the activation of breast cancer genes there's a long-held belief within the Cosmetic industry that these parabens are innocuous that the amount absorbed is so low that it doesn't matter but clearly the study shows otherwise they're basically used to extend the shelf life they're preservatives they don't need to be used there are plenty of other safer alternative preservatives out there and it's basically because they're extremely effective and cheap Dr Ivon also highlights the significant
potential risks associated with fragrances and products some of the Hidden toxins and the issues that we have with fragrance are number one you mentioned how pervasive they are they are literally in everything some of the Hidden toxins are endocrine disrupting phalates so the international fragrance Association or ifra is the industry self-governing body for the fragrance industry they have a list of what they call the transparency list there are nearly 4,000 at this point so it can be the word fragrance can be any combination of nearly 4,000 chemicals they include those are endocrine disruptors there are
carcinogens in there styrene for example that's a known human carcinogen so avoid the word fragrance unless it says that the fragrance comes from essential oils so here she shares her very own experience once I started to clean out my makeup drawer I really saw a shift because of what I was doing on a day-to-day basis I was using several cosmetic products I was absolutely obsessed with perfumes and fragrances once I removed those one by one slowly disentangling myself I started to see real change and I noticed more energy return I was feeling more fit I
had more mental Clarity more Focus I didn't have as many headaches and migraines anymore and I just started to feel like more Vitality pregnant within 9 months while it may be impossible to get rid of all toxic materials she emphasized that we should aim for low tox try to make those as low tox as you can low tox meaning not trying to be non-toxic zero tox because that doesn't exist low toxic just means choosing the better option as best as you can as frequently as you can the third products that you should try to avoid
using is paper cups or takeout cups unfortunately the paper cup is lined with a thin layer of polyethylene plastic a lot of people would believe that the paper cups that you're getting are lined with wax but that simply isn't true more cups out there now are no longer lined with wax but with plastic and that plastic has been shown in studies to leech microplastic particles into your hot beverages within 15 minutes that study found that 25,000 microplastic particles are leeching into your drink not to mention there's also heavy metals lead and so on that are
leeching from those plastic Linings that's not even mentioning the the lid that goes on top bring your own mug or cup I love getting coffee out we should minimize plastic use whenever possible as it can break down into microplastics and eventually into even smaller nanop particles nanoplastics are smaller than microplastics so microplastics can break down and become nanoplastics and the issue with nanop particles are that they can easily penetrate cell membranes the effects are pretty wide reaching they can penetrate skin the same applies with any plastic containers even if it says BPA free do not
microwave plastic containers even after just a few seconds you'll get release of billions of microplastic particles into your food the fourth product type we should avoid is plastic water bottles and even be careful using tap water unfortunately our water supply around the world is polluted all different types of consumer products pharmaceutical toxic chemicals pesticides heavy metals whatnot we need to filter it the better water filter you can get the better your health will be because we're mostly made of water right in that case is bottled water safer the answer is no the following list out
what you should not do with bottled water one of them is if you put that plastic water bottle in the sun UV causes plastic to break down so that's releasing microplastics just squeezing it physical force is causing microplastic shearing and release but not just that just over time the plastic is just leeching on its own temperature is another Factor so if you leave that in a hot car microplastics if you've ever had a bottle of water sitting in a hot car and you drink it and it tasted like plastic that's because it is it's plastic
it's becoming more plastic the fif to do with clean air try to avoid burning at home such as using candles incense or even vaping quality of our air is massively important for our health if you are cooking turn on the vent fan make sure it's venting outside open your windows if you don't have a vent fan take a fan and blow those fumes out and open window and also don't burn your food cuz it's basically about the the particulat that are coming out from smoke we don't want to burn things unnecessarily for example burning candles
a lot of people burn their candles and they don't open their Windows there are five main reasons why I would not burn a conventional candle number one is that when you light those candles they liberate carcinogens like Benzene toine and from Malahide but not only that ultra fine particles ultra fine particles are some of the most hazardous substances so ultra fine particles are tiny particles less than 0.1 microns in diameter 100 nanometers invisible to the human eye as soon as you inhale them they'll go into your brain they also have the ability to go as
far down into the lung as one can go if AN ultrafine particle can get that down far down into your lungs it's guaranteed into your bloodstream it's getting all over your body it's causing inflammation and oxidative stress which are the basis of many chronic diseases number two is that they're also releasing volatile organic compounds number three they contain undisclosed fragrance and within fragrance there can be endocrine disruptors carcinogens and allergens so when you like these candles you're getting all of these toxins into your Air number four some of the dyes that are used to color
candles are carcinogenic and nobody has any idea is if you burn them what are the health effects of burning these carcinogenic dieses and number five candles are largely unregulated so they're just trapping in a lot of these toxins that we're creating that don't need to be there and then excess moisture can lead to mold formation so if you're not getting adequate ventilation sunlight and things like that into your rooms your home you could get mold taking off your shoes before you come in the house tracking in so much actual phys iCal Gunk from outside that's
actually contributing to air pollution as well air quality indoors can be up to five times worse than air quality outside which shocks a lot of people
