Professor Tim Spector
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And I think if there's something easy you can do, I try and avoid plastic containers.
I try and avoid plastic bottles.
And I think that's good for the planet as well.
They, anecdotally, they say things like plasmapheresis.
You know, you can go to a spa in LA and get your plasma taken out and filtered and put back into your body.
This is from your blood.
But I don't think there's any real clinical trials that...
satisfy me, that would be worth... And they cost, I think, sort of $10,000 a go.
So it's not a cheap process to have that done.
So wait and see.
But at the moment, yeah, it's a worry.
But I think there are...
Other things in the environment are probably worse.
You know, dust, pesticides.
Is it better to have organic food rather than worry about plastics?
We don't know the answer to these problems.
They're going to be a part of our life anyway.
So they're going to transform medicine and obesity in a way we can't imagine at the moment, especially now this year that the pills are available.
And it's coming off patent in many countries.
So it'd be much cheaper.