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Dr. Joel Warsh

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Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

I would just say this, that as a practitioner, as a pediatrician, as a doctor, it's really frustrating that we're not talking more about prevention when it comes to these topics. We're not thinking about toxins. It's here's your pill or your disease. That's it. And that is leading to this epidemic of chronic disease. It absolutely is. We have to shift our focus back.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

We have to talk about these things like toxins. You don't You don't look at a fish who's sick and you don't look at the water that's filled with a bunch of chemicals in there, right? I mean, we know that that's the reason why that fish is dying. You don't give them a pill. You have to clean up the water. And I think that we forget about that for ourselves. We forget that we need sunlight.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

We have to talk about these things like toxins. You don't You don't look at a fish who's sick and you don't look at the water that's filled with a bunch of chemicals in there, right? I mean, we know that that's the reason why that fish is dying. You don't give them a pill. You have to clean up the water. And I think that we forget about that for ourselves. We forget that we need sunlight.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

We have to talk about these things like toxins. You don't You don't look at a fish who's sick and you don't look at the water that's filled with a bunch of chemicals in there, right? I mean, we know that that's the reason why that fish is dying. You don't give them a pill. You have to clean up the water. And I think that we forget about that for ourselves. We forget that we need sunlight.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

We need clean water. We need nutrients. We need food. We need to minimize the chemicals and toxins that we're exposed to. And we just don't think about it in that light. it's hard sometimes to prove these things. Just like you said, a lot of these chemicals are not researched there. Some of them were grandfathered in,

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

We need clean water. We need nutrients. We need food. We need to minimize the chemicals and toxins that we're exposed to. And we just don't think about it in that light. it's hard sometimes to prove these things. Just like you said, a lot of these chemicals are not researched there. Some of them were grandfathered in,

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

We need clean water. We need nutrients. We need food. We need to minimize the chemicals and toxins that we're exposed to. And we just don't think about it in that light. it's hard sometimes to prove these things. Just like you said, a lot of these chemicals are not researched there. Some of them were grandfathered in,

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

The company puts out whatever research they do, and then it takes us 20 years to give them lawsuits to fight it back. It's really not an easy thing. Well, that's one big topic. And we didn't really talk about metals. That's a big concern for I think a lot of parents and families these days, metals and food being supposed to lead arsenic, cadmium, aluminum. I think that's another.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

The company puts out whatever research they do, and then it takes us 20 years to give them lawsuits to fight it back. It's really not an easy thing. Well, that's one big topic. And we didn't really talk about metals. That's a big concern for I think a lot of parents and families these days, metals and food being supposed to lead arsenic, cadmium, aluminum. I think that's another.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

The company puts out whatever research they do, and then it takes us 20 years to give them lawsuits to fight it back. It's really not an easy thing. Well, that's one big topic. And we didn't really talk about metals. That's a big concern for I think a lot of parents and families these days, metals and food being supposed to lead arsenic, cadmium, aluminum. I think that's another.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

I think that's another of it's in soil. So it's not that. we're going to have zero amount of that in the food. There's going to be some, but we're probably getting too much. It's very common in a lot of the foods that we're eating. And a lot of children with chronic diseases, they test their blood.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

I think that's another of it's in soil. So it's not that. we're going to have zero amount of that in the food. There's going to be some, but we're probably getting too much. It's very common in a lot of the foods that we're eating. And a lot of children with chronic diseases, they test their blood.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

I think that's another of it's in soil. So it's not that. we're going to have zero amount of that in the food. There's going to be some, but we're probably getting too much. It's very common in a lot of the foods that we're eating. And a lot of children with chronic diseases, they test their blood.

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

If you test their urine, if you test their hair, these metals come up in high amounts, same with adults. And so I think it is, again, it's just another important thing that we should think about. It's complicated to be a

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

If you test their urine, if you test their hair, these metals come up in high amounts, same with adults. And so I think it is, again, it's just another important thing that we should think about. It's complicated to be a

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

If you test their urine, if you test their hair, these metals come up in high amounts, same with adults. And so I think it is, again, it's just another important thing that we should think about. It's complicated to be a

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

a parent it's complicated to live right now to think like that we everything can be toxic i don't think that's the way to go about it but i do think that we need to be mindful that these these things can contribute and so we need to to keep looking into it because i've been looking into autism a lot lately because i've been talking about it a lot and there actually is a lot of research on

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

a parent it's complicated to live right now to think like that we everything can be toxic i don't think that's the way to go about it but i do think that we need to be mindful that these these things can contribute and so we need to to keep looking into it because i've been looking into autism a lot lately because i've been talking about it a lot and there actually is a lot of research on

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

a parent it's complicated to live right now to think like that we everything can be toxic i don't think that's the way to go about it but i do think that we need to be mindful that these these things can contribute and so we need to to keep looking into it because i've been looking into autism a lot lately because i've been talking about it a lot and there actually is a lot of research on

Dhru Purohit Show
How to Minimize Toxic Exposure to Keep Our Children and Ourselves Healthy

a variety of chemicals and toxins that are contributors to autism nothing's definitive but there ha there has been some good meta analyses that that really dive into what some of the triggers are for autism and i think that's a very good way to kind of look back at chronic disease in general and we know that pollution increases your risk so the kids that are close to highways