Dr. Yvonne Burkart
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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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...
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.
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.
Nobody knows. So the framework is, innocent until proven guilty, which is exactly what we see with this study on parabens and phthalates.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Styrene, for example, that's a known human carcinogen. Nothing is being done to regulate these because the industry regulates itself.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
You want to get rid of them. You also want to avoid bringing more in.
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.
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.
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.
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