The Dirty Truth About Environmental Toxins (And How to Protect Yourself)

Coming up on this episode of the Doctor Hyman Show. We are all inundated with these microplastics and these environmental toxins, but there is good news. You can detoxify from these things. You can actually get rid of them from your body. You have to do a little work, but you can. BPA has a rapid clearance rate, so it doesn't really last that long in the body, only about five or six hours. Means about it takes five or six hours for your body to kind of metabolize and get rid of half of the BPA in your body. Now before we jump into today's episode, I'd like to note that while I wish I could help Everyone by my personal practice, there's simply not enough time for me to do this at scale. And that's why I've been busy building several passion projects to help you better understand. Well you.

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spread pervasiveness in the water, in our soil. And our air. And it can take anywhere between 2 and 500 years for plastic waste to decompose. Even then it never really fully disappears. It just gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Examples of how microplastics show up in our environment are everywhere. Now because of their small size, microplastics infiltrate ecosystems from the bottom of the ocean to the tops of glaciers. I mean And the Great Pacific garbage pad is a microplastic island the size of Texas. It spans from the west to the west. coast of North America.

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