Dhru Purohit Show
Hidden Toxins In Everyday Products. Top Toxins You Need to Avoid to Decrease the Risk of Cancer, Parkinson’s, and More
02 Dec 2024
This episode is brought to you by LMNT, Manukora, and One Skin. Hidden toxins lurk in everyday products, increasing the risk of chronic diseases like cancer. These toxins aren’t just absorbed through the skin—they can also be present in the air we breathe and the water we drink daily. Understanding the impact of these chemicals and where they’re commonly found empowers us to make healthier choices, reduce exposure, and protect the well-being of ourselves and our families. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we bring you a special compilation episode featuring conversations with experts on reducing toxic exposure from everyday household products. Dr. Yvonne Burkart, a board-certified toxicologist, highlights the top sources of hidden toxins in products like cosmetics. She shares the latest research on toxin exposure, common toxic ingredients and where to find them, and her best tips for minimizing exposure and optimizing detoxification in the body. Neurologist Dr. Ray Dorsey delves into the root causes of Parkinson’s disease, focusing on how environmental toxins like trichloroethylene (TCE) significantly increase the risk of developing it. He provides practical steps to limit exposure—especially early in life—and explains how lifestyle interventions can help reduce the likelihood of this disease. In this episode, Dhru and his guests dive into: Toxic burden and the goal of reducing exposure (00:00:005) Hidden toxins in beauty products and expression of breast cancer genes (1:53) What ingredients cause this increase, and where can they be found (10:07) Why companies continue to use these ingredients (12:37) How the research is lacking (14:52) Fragrances and undefined sources and mixing of these endocrine disrupters (16:42) The impact of toxins on children and the increased risk of disease (21:37) What matters most in toxin removal: air, water, and food (26:27) How to live a low-tox life (29:57) 3 Toxins responsible for Parkinson’s disease (31:49) What is trichloroethylene (TCE), and how toxins impact mitochondria (32:37) Dr. Dorsey’s journey in learning about the role of toxins (36:47) The importance of both outdoor and indoor air quality for longevity (39:07) Testing and the importance of minimizing additional exposure (49:37) Final thoughts (52:07) Also mentioned: AquaTru and Air Doctor Filters Toxicologist Reveals the Top Sources of Hidden Toxins We’re Being Exposed to Daily with Yvonne Burkart, PhD Neurologist Reveals The 3 Shocking Reasons Why Parkinson’s Disease & Other Brain Disorders Are On the Rise Research on the daily use of parabens Research on the increase in cancer among younger individuals This episode is brought to you by LMNT, Manukora, and One Skin. Right now, LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase. Head over to DrinkLMNT.com/dhru today. Upgrade to the creamiest honey, packed with antioxidants and prebiotics. Just go to manukora.com/dhru to get $25 off the Starter Kit and boost your energy, immunity, and digestive health today! Right now, One Skin is offering my community 15% off; just go to oneskin.co and use coupon code DHRU to save 15% and give your skin the scientifically proven, gentle care it deserves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
Hi everyone, Drew Pruitt. You've seen the headlines and I've seen them too. They're all over the news. Our toxic burden is getting out of control. Forever Chemicals, PFAs, our water supply, microplastics, air pollution, you know just as much as I do, this is a serious issue. And it's a serious issue because these things aren't benign. They actually contribute to chronic disease.
And they're also obesogens, which mean that they are pro-obesity. They make us gain weight. Environmental toxins are a huge contributor to all sorts of
problems that can go on in the body and the more that we learn about them the more that we understand that they can contribute to things like Alzheimer's dementia mental health disorders cancer Parkinson's disease even things like heart disease can happen earlier because of these toxins hidden toxins especially that are all around us and the thing is I'm not trying to share this with you to scare you
And believe me, sometimes when we see the headlines, it can feel scary. The goal is actually to raise awareness of what the highest priority toxins are for us to avoid. We're not going to tackle it overnight. We're going to tackle it in chunks and we're going to do our best to reduce our exposure. That's the name of the game. Increase awareness, reduce exposure.
And there's a third bonus, which I'll get to here in a second. But on today's compilation episode, we're going to start off by sharing some incredible interviews. One with board certified toxicologist, Dr. Yvonne Burkhart. and another one with neurologist Dr. Ray Dorsey about the top toxins to avoid to protect your health and some of their tips on the ways to do that.
Let's dive right into my first conversation with Dr. Yvonne Burkhart about these hidden toxins and the role that they could potentially be playing when it comes to our risk of things like cancer. I learned that there's these hidden toxins in our everyday cosmetics especially, which we know that women use a lot more of them than men.
There's these hidden toxins that are in our everyday cosmetics that can actually turn cancer genes on inside of the body. My mind was blown when I came across this, and this is related to a study that you broke down on your YouTube channel. Tell us about this study and what some of the findings were.
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.
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.
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