The Best Dietary Detox
By eating at a lower rung on the food chain, those choosing plant-based diets suffer less exposure to the industrial pollutants that bioaccumulate up the ladder.
The video on meat that I mentioned is Is Organic Meat Less Carcinogenic? ( ).
I previously touched on Fasting to Detox ( ).
In The Wrong Way to Detox ( ), I talk about the transfer of pollutants from mothers to their children.
For more on how we acquire toxins in the first place, see:
• Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue ( )
• How Fast Can Children Detoxify from PCBs? ( )
• How Long to Detox from Fish Before Pregnancy? ( )
• California Children Are Contaminated ( )
• Pollutants in Salmon and Our Own Fat ( )
• Dietary Pollutants May Affect Testosterone Levels ( )
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Then you’ve been brainwashed. I’m sure your god will forgive you.
WoW! 🤘 Very interesting information – thanks 💝
I’m a huge fan of heavy metal, but prefer it in music form rather than in my food. 🤘
The band Cattle Decapitation seem suitable for this channel since they tackle things like anthropocentrism, animal cruelty and climate destruction.
I’m a dietary detox
Yes on sweating per one study I saw. Focus was on benzene. Another study showed that long term plasma donation also reduced persistent pollutants.
@@peterz53 Yes, I have heard that people donate blood regularly tend to become less polluted or contaminated with pollutants.
I tried plant based diet for 6 months, had no energy, got sick often, hair lose and low iron anemia, I switched to eggs+meat+fruit and feel amazing . What was I doing wrong? Please explain because I really believe science of plant based eating but it has not worked for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVZ0Vqb9VQs
@@xtmfitness might be vitamin B12 deficiency you might see some of Dr Gregor’s videos on B12. Hope you try again
Where you eating enough dark green leafy vegetables and good raw seeds and nuts?
When you were plant based, did you add some plant based fats to your diet like nuts, seeds, coconut butter and make sure to take in enough calories especially from high protein plant sources like lentils?
Did you take b12 supplements?
One day im going to stick to a diet. And on that day my health will be failing me so bad that i wont have a choice. Unless i do something now.
“The best dietary detox is to not tox in the first place.” 👌🏼
@@falsificationism You cannot detox unless you have been toxified already. Your statement is nonsense (or word games).
@@Hertz2laugh It’s a direct quote of a play on words in the video. Get a life.
@@falsificationism In other words, you’re quoting something that is a contradiction. Gotcha’.
@@Hertz2laugh A penny saved is a penny earned.
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0:36 – Do these diagrams only show chemicals in animal foods? Is there nothing in plant foods at all?
Based on what I could read of the study that’s available for free they only analyzed animal products.
@@dianeladico1769 Ok, thanks. I think there’s a graph later in the video that shows it’s 10-20x lower in plant foods.
@@misterx3188 There is. That study focused on fats as the toxins are fat soluble and no plants were tested. Yes, the lower on the food chain the better off you are.
Of course there are chemicals in plant foods. I’ll swear to that because I’m sensitive to most of them. The natural ones are defensive chemicals in the plants that are designed to kill insects and other invading things. But now, the pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are dumped on our food day after day and have been for fifty or sixty years now and they’ve been making us very ill. We’ve been living so long with illness now, we’ve just grown old not realizing that our food is the cause.
I found out about the dangers of vegetable matter thirty-five years ago when I was placed on an elimination diet by an immunologist. I’ve been a carnivore ever since.
Thank you so much <3 so important. Glad I am already vegan ^^
the one main thing i have noticed about plant based eating is the reduction of body odor.
@@bntravelin2 Veganism trades out body odor for increased, flatulent odor. Those broccoli farts can make you gag…
Same!
@Hertz2laugh
The only thing that makes my farts smell is proteine shakes, but since I stopped taking those I fart less and they don’t smell. My omni gym buddy on the other hand absolutely reeks when he farts, and that’s without proteine shakes.
Everybody is different, and it could be that your gut flora needs to adjust when you make the change. But I personally have very good results with my whole food plant based diet.
@@thepianoaddict Suuuuure…😉
Showering now seems to be enough unless it’s a busy day out in 90f weather, then the stick deodorant gets its time.
amazinggggg
Well that was horrifying. I’ve read all his books, seen similar info on other platforms and I’m a chemist so I’m aware but to see it in concentrated form like this really drives the point home. Makes me kind of sick thinking of all the years I wasn’t WFPB. Good thing it clears over time.
Thanks for doing the research and sharing!
Smug phrasing at the end of the video and clickbait title really only panders to your audience and does little to break through to the people you want to reach. Diet is so hard to discuss without challenging someone’s personal identity. Despite my criticism, I found the video informative and eye opening.
Of course, animals have filters just as we do. We and they filter out the stuff that *for the most part are bad for them. Plants draw it all up and keep it for you to consume. You have no choice.
So gee… then those nursing moms eating animals would have less contaminants in breast milk than those moms eating just those awful contaminated plants…right?…oops
“Welcome to our TED Tox”
My main concern is how to survive all of these financial and political crisis, especially in light of the US political power scuffle. The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can’t sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance.
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Great video Michael! Yet another great reason to go plant based.