Hidden Microplastics In Tea, Shampoo & Everyday Products | Josephine Musco
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What should tea drinkers know about microplastics?
What should people who love to drink tea know? There are no safe tea bags as far as I know. These big tea companies that are making billions of dollars on the back of the consumers, they know what's in their tea bags. They know that when this tea bag is hitting the hot boiling water, what it's releasing, all these microplastics, and they just don't care. Elixir is a legacy that I would like to leave behind me and make the world a better place.
Nobody else was thinking to do this. Nobody else was tackling this tea problem. Did people think you were nuts?
Yeah, and that's when I knew I was doing the right thing.
Your clean girl routine is lying to you. The tea you love to drink, the skincare that's expensive, the designer clothes, and underneath all of it, plastic. Today we're exposing the invisible layer of modern wellness, how microplastics are impacting fertility, hormones, and aging, the everyday exposures that you're not thinking about, and why you might be paying a premium for plastic. Joining me is Josephine Musco, founder of Elixir, a completely plastic-free tea and environmental health researcher whose work on toxins, inflammation, and cellular aging has been featured in Vogue and Forbes and trusted by names like Beyonce, Madonna, Kendall Jenner, and Anastasia Beverly Hills. Watch this episode on the Real Alex Clark YouTube channel or Culture Apothecary on Spotify.
Leave us a five-star review to support the show. Please welcome founder of Elixir, Josephine Musco to Culture Apothecary. Did you get into wellness because you were sick or because you were smart?
I got into wellness because my father got sick. Okay. What happened with him? He got diagnosed at a very young age with colorectal cancer. So it was like a big shock for me. And I was like, okay, why? And I wanted to understand why. And I wanted to understand how can I solve this? So it became like the biggest puzzle of my life. It became something that I was really determined to decipher and fix and solve and make sure other people aren't getting sick. So that's kind of been my mission. What was the first thing that you really started looking into that transformed your life? What causes disease? Because you, you know, everybody talks about your genes, your genes, your genes, like you have it, it's in your genes, but you need to understand that your genetic makeup loads the gun, but your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Basically, I wanted to figure out what am I doing? What lifestyle changes will I be incorporating to prevent this gene from actually manifesting in my health and in my life?
So what were the first things that you started changing for yourself and your own family?
Well, I was like 14, 15. Oh, you were only a teenager? Yeah, I was really, really young. So I started like looking into figuring out, you know, just doing my own research, reading, asking questions to science teachers and biology and whatever. And, uh, I think the main thing that I did was exercise, build muscle and change the way I eat. So I went raw vegan at 14, 15. And, uh, cause I, I felt that was the, the way to deal with any and every cause, um, to, to, to get that disease to manifest in the body. Later on, I figured out that it was not the way to go. So now I am carnivorous, but I was raw vegan for like 10 years.
You know, it's funny. I feel like a lot of people become vegan when they're starting their health journey. If they are a teenager, I feel like that's what everybody says. Like, well, I went, I went vegan for a minute and then I got super sick. Then I, then I changed.
Yeah, no, I just knew better. I didn't get super sick. I just got super skinny. And I started realizing that this is not sustainable. And we need muscle, we need bone density, and skinny is not it.
How are microplastics affecting women's health?
We need to be strong and have a good foundation, which is muscle and bones.
For the first time, maybe ever, people are becoming super hyper aware about the plastic problem and not because everybody's a tree hugger. It's because they're starting to become concerned about the amount of plastic that is getting into our bodies based on what we're wearing, what we're eating, what we're drinking.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What should tea drinkers know about microplastics?
0:00–4:10
2
How are microplastics affecting women's health?
4:10–9:17
3
What lifestyle changes can help prevent microplastic exposure?
9:17–15:41
4
How does the Elixir tea brand address plastic pollution?
15:41–17:25
5
What are the hidden sources of microplastics in everyday products?
17:25–18:16
6
How can microplastics impact fertility and hormonal balance?
18:16–21:30
7
What is the relationship between diet and aging according to the guest?
21:30–33:55
8
What are the dangers of using traditional tea bags?
33:55–1:01:17
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