Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So now, do I think that Olipop is the worst thing that exists in the world? No. But do you want me to dig into this?

It's okay? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. All right. Yeah, you're sharing your honest thoughts. Let's put a couple of things on the table. Because ultimately, to me, nutrition is about choices. What are you consuming relative to what? And of course, from a beverage perspective, good old-fashioned water should be the backbone, right? But that's not the reality of what's happening out there.

It's okay? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. All right. Yeah, you're sharing your honest thoughts. Let's put a couple of things on the table. Because ultimately, to me, nutrition is about choices. What are you consuming relative to what? And of course, from a beverage perspective, good old-fashioned water should be the backbone, right? But that's not the reality of what's happening out there.

It's okay? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. All right. Yeah, you're sharing your honest thoughts. Let's put a couple of things on the table. Because ultimately, to me, nutrition is about choices. What are you consuming relative to what? And of course, from a beverage perspective, good old-fashioned water should be the backbone, right? But that's not the reality of what's happening out there.

So here are the choices. There's sugar-sweetened beverages like Coke. There's artificially sweetened beverages like Diet Coke. There's...

So here are the choices. There's sugar-sweetened beverages like Coke. There's artificially sweetened beverages like Diet Coke. There's...

So here are the choices. There's sugar-sweetened beverages like Coke. There's artificially sweetened beverages like Diet Coke. There's...

lollipop and there's kombucha all right or and we could throw juice in there too if you want so like to me juice the vast majority of juices are sugar sweetened beverages so i would put them like conceptually close but not as bad as coke and as coke itself or like a sugar sweetened soda

lollipop and there's kombucha all right or and we could throw juice in there too if you want so like to me juice the vast majority of juices are sugar sweetened beverages so i would put them like conceptually close but not as bad as coke and as coke itself or like a sugar sweetened soda

lollipop and there's kombucha all right or and we could throw juice in there too if you want so like to me juice the vast majority of juices are sugar sweetened beverages so i would put them like conceptually close but not as bad as coke and as coke itself or like a sugar sweetened soda

Yeah, just not to even make it even more complicated, it's not just a sugar thing. I'm sure that people have noticed that there's an acidity to Coke. It has citric acid in it. What happens when you take acid and you put it in plastic? You shed plastic into the beverage.

Yeah, just not to even make it even more complicated, it's not just a sugar thing. I'm sure that people have noticed that there's an acidity to Coke. It has citric acid in it. What happens when you take acid and you put it in plastic? You shed plastic into the beverage.

Yeah, just not to even make it even more complicated, it's not just a sugar thing. I'm sure that people have noticed that there's an acidity to Coke. It has citric acid in it. What happens when you take acid and you put it in plastic? You shed plastic into the beverage.

In the same way that if you go to your favorite coffee shop, and you get a takeaway coffee, and it sits on your counter because you forgot to finish it for three days, if that paper cup has not melted and seeped through, it's got a plastic liner. And these plastic liners are important because we're exposing ourselves to microplastics.

In the same way that if you go to your favorite coffee shop, and you get a takeaway coffee, and it sits on your counter because you forgot to finish it for three days, if that paper cup has not melted and seeped through, it's got a plastic liner. And these plastic liners are important because we're exposing ourselves to microplastics.

In the same way that if you go to your favorite coffee shop, and you get a takeaway coffee, and it sits on your counter because you forgot to finish it for three days, if that paper cup has not melted and seeped through, it's got a plastic liner. And these plastic liners are important because we're exposing ourselves to microplastics.

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But I am here to bring awareness to where there may be risk. There was a New England Journal of Medicine paper that came out recently. They took a look at people who were undergoing a carotid endarterectomy. So they were removing the plaque because these are people who are at risk for a stroke. They're surgically removing the plaque in their carotid artery, which is up in their neck.