Food Plastics = Estrogens in Your Body

It's true: Chemicals in common food plastics mimic estrogens in your body, potentially causing fertility problems in men, heart problems in women, and developmental problems in children. And if you think a "BPA free" label fixes the problem, think again. We get the latest research from Dr. Scott Belcher of North Carolina State University.

***SOURCES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE***

[matthewhernandez]

I realized I watched him for food and now it’s like I’m going to class

[lewisfolkner]

I work at a food processing facility. Even if you're buying it in a glass container the ingredients it was made from were still likely shipped and stored in plastic. My company is one of those 100% organic, GMO free, don't use corn syrup etc. type companies, but 100% of our raw materials are shipped to us in plastic bags buckets or drums.

[WilliamnotW]

At this point I'm just going to start taking bets on which carcinogen wins. Good odds on booze right now, but welcome to the game, tupperware.

[christosbelibasakis]

Why I put estrogen in my wife instead of my food

[robertm]

Yes, avoiding plastics and xenoestrogens is a good practice, but very difficult to do it completely. These compounds are almost everywhere: leeched into the water we drink, dust from our blinds, plastic on our food, you get the idea.

A more effective strategy could be to simply minimize their effects through diet modification. Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc) may help in this regard due to a naturally occurring compound: indol-3-carbinol. I3C prevents the conversion of xenoestrogens into estradiol, a more potent form of estrogen.

Do avoid plastics as much as you can, but also try working in more broccoli and cauliflower in your diet. Last time I tested my E2 (lab test name: estradiol with dilution), it was well within the normal range.

[totoroben]

I switched to glass containers several years ago. I microwave a lot of foods and feel better about glass. It lasts forever and cleans better than plastic as well.

[SreeramVenkitesh]

Meanwhile in the mirror Universe

".. and that is why glass is much more harmful for your sperm and the Earth than the usual plastics. Long live the Empire!" - Adam with goatee

[dlbstl]

When I was growing up, my parents had a liquor store. People returned their beer bottles and they would get recycled back to the Beer Company by placing them back into the beer cases. Why can't we do that today? some genius in distribution should figure out a way to send glass containers for everything back to where they can be reused again.

[gluteusmaximus]

Looking at this comment section, I got the feeling that no one really takes the topic that serious. Which is kind of sad I suppose

[trident]

Why I transition through my plastics and not my pills.

[cupofjoe]

I really appreciate this, not a ‘you’re doing this and killing all of us’ attitude, but a ‘we’re doing this and I don’t know if we can fix it but we should try’ attitude. A+ Adam!👍

[SpaveFrostKing]

I was honestly expecting this to be a video where Adam debunked the myth that plastics are harming us. Now I'm sad that it's a legit worry :(

[tylerdubose]

Not to mention the fact that literally every restaurant uses plastic cambros/ plastic cling wrap/ even plenty use plastic bags in hot water to hold hot food on top of all the canned products. It's quite literally impossible to avoid

[prettyvelvet]

I worked for a time at a grocery store. One of the big, "I didn't think about that, " exposures to bisphenols specifically is actually receipt paper. These days all the receipt paper ("thermal paper") manufacturers have jumped on the, "BPA-free, " bandwagon, but like you mentioned almost at the start of this video, that likely just means either BPS or BPF instead (& usually they don't exactly tell you with what they've replaced the BPA).
Ever wonder why you've seen a cashier change the paper in their printer but never the ink cartridge? There is no ink cartridge to change. The printer actually just applies heat, which causes a reaction in the coating on the paper so it changes colors according to what's being printed. That's also why they turn black if you leave them out in the sun, or, as was one of my favorite things to teach the people I was working with, if you spill alcohol onto them. It turns out that bisphenols are soluble in alcohol, as you'd expect them to be since they look pretty non-polar. You know how there's often a little bottle of hand-sanitizer gel at the checkout--maybe you've noticed it extra over the past year because of the covid-19 pandemic? That hand sanitizer is mostly various alcohols, ethanol and isopropyl, etc. Splash a little drop of that on a piece of blank receipt paper and you can see the elution of the coating on the paper pretty easily. I always used to caution customers who had just used hand sanitizer if I was about to hand them their receipt b/c I figured they'd probably want to know, "hey, let that stuff fully dry before you handle this receipt much because the endocrine-disrupting chemicals on it might leech off it and into your hands via the alcohol."

[radensatriadewanto]

Are we just gonna ignore the fact that Adam said he’s had a vasectomy

[realWTango]

Never thought I'd hear Adam Ragusea say "4chan fever dream".

[Searcher_]

This is the most depressing thing I've heard all day and I'm living in the pandemic

[Shteeeeeeeve]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE PHYSICAL TOLL 3 VASECTOMIES HAVE ON A PERSON

[centpushups]

There is a new material that Japan has come up with called *cellulose nanofiber*. Can be food grade. I dont know. It is still new and looks very promising as it seems just as strong as carbon fiber.

[osirisgolad]

1:43 That voice crack was perfectly placed.