Dr. Yvonne Burkart
Appearances
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Fragrances are generally not coming from the source that you think. So a lot of people think they see the word natural fragrance on their label. Oh, it's natural. It must be fine. Well, that just means that it wasn't synthesized from an unnatural source, but it doesn't come necessarily from a rose. If you have a rose scent, it doesn't have to come from rose.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
So it can come from any other quote unquote natural source. A certain percentage has to be natural. And a certain percentage can still be unnatural. It's very ambiguous. There's a lot of gray area and there aren't strict regulations on it because the industry regulates itself. That's a whole other issue.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
But some of the hidden toxins and the issues that we have with fragrance are number one, you mentioned how pervasive they are. They are literally in everything. Lip products don't need fragrance, in my opinion. A face lotion doesn't need fragrance, but people like them, people enjoy them because of the sensory stimulation that we receive.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
And we are, in my opinion, becoming overloaded with these fragrance chemicals. The amount of fragrances that are being churned out year by year, they're being pumped into public spaces. There are people that constantly send me messages asking what they can do. How can they get, for example, their apartment building to stop pumping fragrances into their gym?
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
They're trying to exercise and get away from this and be healthier only to be exposed to something that that they're trying to get away from. Some of the hidden toxins are endocrine disrupting phthalates. So the International Fragrance Association or IFRA is the industry self-governing body for the fragrance industry. They have a list of what they call the transparency list.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
If you go on their website, you can actually search and see all the different types of chemicals that could be in the umbrella term fragrance. There are nearly 4,000 at this point. So the word fragrance can be any combination of nearly 4,000 chemicals, any combination. They include phthalates, those are endocrine disruptors. There are carcinogens in there.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Styrene, for example, that's a known human carcinogen. Nothing is being done to regulate these because the industry regulates itself.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Well, phthalates have estrogenic activity. So xenoestrogens, meaning foreign estrogens that are coming into the body, they are not naturally occurring and they activate the estrogen receptor. And what that does is endless. You know, the human, let's say science has not yet fully established
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Yeah, absolutely. There's actually studies on young boys that are being exposed that develop breast tissue gynecomastia in young boys. there's actually a shortening of the anal genital distance, which is a measurement of the distance between the anus and the penis. And the shortening is an indication of feminization. Wow. And that has been shown with phthalate exposure.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Also linked with phthalate exposure is actually early death. So the higher the amount of phthalates that you are being exposed to over your lifetime can correlate with when you die. If that's not shocking enough, I don't know what is. These chemicals are not to be overlooked or to be ignored simply for the fact that it affects your lifespan.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
This study is literally groundbreaking in that there's a long-held belief in common culture as well as through the cosmetic industry itself that beauty and personal care products don't contribute to our toxic load. They don't contribute adversely to our health and they don't increase rates or risk of disease. This study basically completely shut that down.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
They're actually one and the same. So the same chemicals that we've been talking about Today, the parabens, phthalates, and even ones that you may have heard of called PFAS chemicals. So anything that's having an effect on the estrogen receptor can also stimulate your fat cells to store fat. And the ironic part is that the more fat you have, these chemicals come in, they get stored in fat.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
So it's just an endless loop of being exposed, storing more fat, getting exposed, storing more fat. And then these chemicals are being stored in your fat. So you just can't escape them once they're in your body, except for detoxifying, right? So supporting your natural processes of detoxification combined with practicing avoidance as much as you can. So they're in your body.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
You want to get rid of them. You also want to avoid bringing more in.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
I'll start with what is necessary for survival. So number one, we need air. Without air, we'll die in a few minutes. So the quality of our air is massively important for our health. And you've mentioned the candles, the fragrances, the scented products, things of that nature. So being aware that we can easily avoid a lot of these negative exposures in the air, that's huge.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
So simple things like opening your windows and reducing your exposure to these fragrance chemicals, those are going to go a long way. Second, we all need water to survive. Clean water, filtered water. Unfortunately, our water supply around the world is polluted. Just plain and simple, it's polluted.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
For the first time, we have been able to see exactly what certain ingredients are doing in the humans, in the human model. Because we ethically cannot study chemicals in humans. We can't subject people to toxic chemicals and see what happens. That typically happens in animals. Unfortunately, a lot of these chemicals are being released into our personal care products, into our consumer goods.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
with all different types of consumer products, pharmaceuticals, toxic chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals, whatnot. We need to filter it. So the better water filter you can get, the better your health will be because we're mostly made of water, right? Third is we need food to survive. Food, when we eat food, unprocessed, ideally organic. It doesn't have to be all organic.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
I know some people may have differences in what they can access, but just eating whole unprocessed foods is already going to be a huge reduction in toxic chemicals through your food.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Absolutely. food processing so any anytime you process every step that you add to this process of making ultra processed foods you're adding some other unknown undesirable chemical in there for example solvents food packaging plastic chemicals that are leaching into the food so on and so forth so if you can cook your own meals at home whole unprocessed foods that's going to be huge
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Next, in order of what we actually need, some people need things like oral care products, right? A lot of people use oral care, personal care products. So the very basic necessities, things like toothpaste, body lotion, things of that nature, deodorant, if you choose, try to make those as low tox as you can. Low tox meaning not trying to be non-toxic, zero toxic, because that doesn't exist.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Low toxic just means choosing the better option as best as you can, as frequently as you can. And I hope that gives hope to the listeners that we don't have to dump everything and run and hide. It's not about living in fear. It's really about making conscious and intentional informed decisions about what we're buying and applying to our skin. So that would be number four.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
And number five, if someone chooses to have makeup in their lives or cosmetics or some kind of product to that effect, then again, trying to choose the least toxic option as much as you can, especially for products that go on your lips since there is some ingestion involved.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
And it isn't until after decades of use that we start to see correlations and associations with disease. And this study basically asked 41 women to switch out their beauty and personal care products for a very short time, for 28 days, just 28 days.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Switch out your beauty and personal care products and stick to a list of approved products that does not contain parabens, phthalates, and other phenols, which are endocrine disruptors. Just to give you a background on endocrine disruptors, these are chemicals that are xenoestrogens that interact with estrogen receptors in the body.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
They can cause a host of health issues ranging from cancer, infertility, miscarriage, cognitive decline, and so much more. when these women switched out their products. So what they did was they took measurements by injecting the breasts of these really, really brave participants. They took breast cancer cells, measured breast cancer genes before and after the intervention.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
So the intervention, like I said, was very simple. Only switch out your beauty and personal care products, avoiding certain ingredients, parabens, phthalates, and phenols. After 28 days, they saw a significant reduction in breast cancer gene expression which is huge. This is in humans.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
So this is, we're not talking about rats that were subjected to extremely high doses, which is what you normally see. This is doses that you would see in products that are being sold on store shelves that people are using day in and day out as we speak. They have not been banned. They haven't been outlawed. They are still very much prevalent in the marketplace.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
The implications would be that even though there's 41 women, this study showed that the breast cancer genes were activated when they started, meaning that the products that they were using with those ingredients were responsible for activating those genes. Once they took those ingredients away, breast cancer genes turned off. What does this mean?
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
This means that once you stop using products that contain parabens, phthalates, and other xenoestrogens, that breast cancer genes turn off, meaning you reduce the risk of developing breast cancer. One of the risk factors for developing breast cancer is the activation of breast cancer genes. That's the first step in the process of developing cancer is the genes need to be turned on.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Something needs to be turned on because estrogen is actually a carcinogen. It's naturally occurring in the body, but what it does is stimulate growth. Stimulate growth in estrogen responsive tissues. The breast, the brain, the uterus, the cervix, the gut even has estrogen receptors in it. So these estrogen receptors are all over our bodies.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
And when we're putting products on our skin that have estrogenic ingredients, they're getting absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream and traveling to areas of the body that are responsive to estrogen, clearly the breast.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Absolutely, parabens being one of them. So there are several different types of parabens, and you can find these on your personal care products just by turning the bottle around and looking at the ingredients list. And you can see methylparaben, butylparaben, propylparaben, those tend to be the most commonly used parabens.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
There's a long-held belief within the cosmetic industry that these parabens are innocuous, that the amount absorbed is so low that it doesn't matter, but clearly the study shows otherwise.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
This is an excellent question. And I set out to do research myself. I walked into a store and I picked up several products to see how many out there still have parabens. What are the major products that I see being promoted online that still contain these ingredients? One of them being CeraVe. CeraVe is one of the major brands out there right now.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Some of their face washes still have parabens in them. For no good reason, parabens are completely unnecessary. They're basically used to extend the shelf life. They're preservatives. They don't need to be used. There are plenty of other safer alternative preservatives out there. And it's basically because they're extremely effective in sheep. So they're not being phased out as of yet.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Other products that I found were Nivea body lotion, which I personally used for quite a long time. And the issue with body lotion is that you apply it generally over large parts of the body and you don't rinse it off. So the chance for toxic absorption is greater than any other type of product.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
There could be several reasons for this. One of them is definitely profit driven, simply because of the effectiveness and the low cost, but also the higher cost of having to substitute their ingredients. but it isn't until consumers become aware of these problematic ingredients and demand safer ingredients that some of these companies will actually start taking action.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
So that's really the purpose of why I felt it to be so important to share this information, because most people who are using cosmetics these days are young women. There was a study showing that up to 70% of young girls below the age of 12 are actually using cosmetics.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Being lotions, fragrances, makeup, any of those type of products that are to enhance physical appearance, those are considered cosmetics. And kids are starting to use them at younger ages these days. And this is something that we really need to pay attention to. since disease rates are skyrocketing among younger populations. So they're not disconnected, I think.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Absolutely. When it comes to understanding the safety or the toxicity of a chemical, let's say, Most studies are done in animal models, so rats and mice, and they're given extremely high doses for short periods of time, maybe longer periods, but when it comes to doing these studies, it could be a million dollars. It could take two or three years to study.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Most companies are not going to do this because it's not mandated anywhere for them to do this, except in Europe. Europe has much stricter regulations when it comes to cosmetic ingredients in particular, and just ingredients in general, simply because of how their healthcare system is set up. So they're more of a socialistic setting. So it does not...
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
benefit the government for people to get sick, right? Whereas in our country, we live in a more capitalistic society. Things are different here. So it's more focused on profits as opposed to people's health, unfortunately. And so when it comes to understanding the complexity of chemicals that we're exposed to, there is no way to apply that into a laboratory setting. There's just no way.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Everybody's using different types of products. People eat different types of food. We have different genetic backgrounds. It's really difficult to make any meaningful conclusions with the complexity. There's hundreds of thousands of chemicals that are being registered and released into the commercial space every single year. There's no way to keep up with that. There's no way to study all of that.
Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
Nobody knows. So the framework is, innocent until proven guilty, which is exactly what we see with this study on parabens and phthalates.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Toxicologist: Stop Using Scented Candles! These Products Were Making Me Infertile! Using This Product Is Harming Your Future Kids!
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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Toxicologist: Stop Using Scented Candles! These Products Were Making Me Infertile! Using This Product Is Harming Your Future Kids!
Dr. Yvonne Burkhardt ist ein Toxikologe, dessen grundlegende Forschung die schreckliche Wahrheit über die versteckten Risiken von Toxinen in täglichen Produkten entdeckt hat. Und was wir damit tun können.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
No.1 Toxicologist: Stop Using Scented Candles! These Products Were Making Me Infertile! Using This Product Is Harming Your Future Kids!
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