Nick Norwitz
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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The cost of me taking this prescription is basically nothing, and there might be benefit. So why not? It seems pretty reasonable to me.
It's an interesting point. I did. There were a lot of studies actually that came out last year. I think starting with one in the New England Journal about microplastics in plaque. And it was pretty shocking. I think I did a video a while back on ways to avoid microplastics. And I was doing the research for it and it was just like the most depressing thing. They're everywhere.
They're literally everywhere. How can you avoid it? And I think it's one of those things where... I'm not sure what the absolute risk exposure is and how we need to reevaluate what our modern risk profile might be as we age, you and me being generally younger men versus, say, our grandfathers.
I think it's something to take into consideration independently and then do your best to try to, you know, avoid. I think my impression is, yes, they're everywhere, but there is still the big like heavy hitting items you can avoid. So I don't get plastic takeout containers and microwave plastic. Do not microwave your food in plastic. Don't have plastic water bottles, things like that.
Maybe if you get some grass-fed regenerative beef, there might be a little microplastic in there. I think that's probably a lower absolute exposure than the things that people typically do. So if you carry around a water canteen and use purified, filtered water, you're not microwaving in plastics. I think that probably should bring most people a decent peace of mind.
Other than that, it's just like, what can you do in your lifestyle? For example, I live in downtown Boston. you know, next to a couple hospitals. We live there because my girlfriend works at one. She has to get up at like 4 a.m. for her surgical residency. So like it makes sense to live in a city. In the city, is the air quality that great? No. Is there probably a lot of plastic exposure?
Yes, but it's where I am in my life. So I think everybody just kind of needs to make the... reasonable decision for themselves and realize that might not be perfect. So yeah, microplastics, probably a problem. Do what you can. That's where I stand.
You want to create insulin resistance and crazy blood sugar levels and lots of stress. So I would say this person would probably be a shift worker working at night, but not just at night, like their schedule will be changing. So maybe, you know, they, you know, work, you know, the eight hour shift. So they're like constantly cycling with a change in their circadian pattern.
You know, they're probably a smoker. You know, that's definitely going to promote heart disease. Snacking on sugar. All the time. So, like, always with some M&Ms or Oreos in their pocket. This is a very high-stress lifestyle. So, you know, always worked up. Always raging at things. Probably a little social connection. Not a lot of time for de-stressing. Very little exercise.
So, they're eating 2,000 steps per day. And that's only when they're walking to the vending machine to get more Oreo cookies. Not exercising. Sleep-deprived. Smoking. Junkie diet. And, yeah... I think that'll probably manifest in heart disease pretty quickly.
Um, let's put it in the context of something that like people would realistically eat. Because of course, you'd say, oh, he's just eating Oreos for every meal. But I would say, imagine this person's going to Starbucks and they're getting a coffee, but they're getting it with like, you know, you know, multiple pumps of like syrup and sugar.
I mean, you can go to Starbucks and get some of these what like like white mocha lattes with two times or more the sugar of like a regular 12 ounce Coke, something like 79 grams of sugar. So something that, you know, might seem like, all right, it's not the healthiest, but might not be too bad, can actually be really bad.
So let's say they're getting a sugary frappuccino or like a mocha, you know, white chocolate latte at Starbucks with some sort of breakfast pastry. So they're loading up on the carbs and sugar, but something that people realistically eat.
And just because of the culture and, you know, maybe they work in a hospital setting and there's like donuts at the nurse's station, they pop a couple donuts at 10 a.m. For lunch, what's in the cafeteria? Let's say there's like pizza and fries. And a salad. But the salad has, you know, pretty low quality oil. Maybe it's made with like old soybean oil.
So having this like salad with pizza and maybe a chop of milk just because it's available. So a little carbon has 40 cents. So more sugar, more processed food, all of that. Maybe they have a snack later. Maybe they have an energy bar. Let's say it's a Clif Bar. Again, lots more sugar. Something that people generally eat. They think, oh, there's some protein in here.
It has micronutrients because it's been fortified. But it's just sugar on sugar on sugar. You know, they're spiking their blood sugar all the time. They're dropping their blood sugar because it's spiking. So they're probably going to be hungry again for dinner at around like six, seven or eight. So, you know, what do they get for dinner? Well, let's just get some Uber Eats. What's good?
Oh, let's get, you know, a burrito and a soda. And then they're hungry later. So, you know, YOLO, let's treat myself. It's had a stressful day. Let me have, you know, some potato chips and maybe an ice cream bar from the vending machine. And, you know, that sounds kind of, you know, actually, what I would say is the person listening should pause. How did that sound to them?
Because I actually think you're probably going to have a bifurcation of listeners. Some people are going to be like, oh my God, that's disgusting. I can't believe anybody eats like that. And then other people are going to be like, Yeah, I can see it.
So I think that's actually interesting for an interesting exercise for the listener to pause and do a reflection on what their response was as I was describing it. Because it's so interesting how we can calibrate and recalibrate to what is normal. Like when I was a teenager, that would have been like, yeah. It's a reasonable day of eating. It's not the healthiest, but, like, okay.
Now I cannot imagine eating like that. I just truly can't imagine it. Or, you know, my recalibration for sweet has totally changed. I used to be like, oh, yeah, ice cream daily. That's pretty normal. You know, if you're healthy, you know, you probably can outrun that, quote, bad diet. Just, like, a little bit of empty calories. No biggie. Now I can have, like, a few frozen cherries.
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