Dr Shane Bergin
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first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Right.
It's just like all the matters of
I've been coming on the show for ten years and I think this is perhaps the broadest topic I've ever spoken about.
But uh as your introduction said, chemical is a term that has perhaps understandably a little bit of bad press 'cause we associate it with a certain type of things.
But to a scientist, a chemical means literally everything, right?
Be it the elements on a periodic table, the famous thing that we saw all up on the walls in our chemistry classrooms, through combinations of it.
uh to make up molecules and compounds.
You can have simple things like water, complex things like malachite, uh you could have a natural thing like a protein, synthetic thing like a paracetamol, benign stuff like cellulose, or deadly things like arsenic.
So basically absolutely everything out there ever is a chemical.
All things have chemical structure.
Things that are not chemicals are more sort
things like you know, maybe feelings or light or energy or force, some uh the stuff that basically doesn't have corporeal matter in it.
What do you make of that?
Well of course, like I think the undergrad scientists in me would roll my eyes and kind of touch and say, such nonsense.
But of course I I I understand what that means in reality, right?
In the real world, chemical free means natural or hasn't a huge amount of additives in it.
It can also be the case in for synthetics and uh cosmetics and this idea that the closer to the the
kind of more natural uh stuff that's out there, the better it might be for you.
So if you take a packet of something you pick up in the supermarket and you turn it over, you'd see a bamboozling and legally mandated list and I'd have to confess I don't know what most of them are.
So what
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