Plastic Pollution: Good and Bad News

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plastic pollution has some good news and some  bad news okay the bad news is that there’s a lot of plastic in our environment there’s like  a hundred million metric tons of plastic in our environment and that was in 2016. i can’t imagine  what it is now in our oceans there’s eight million tons of plastic every single year that’s dumped  in our oceans mainly from several large rivers that dump into the oceans and we all eat swallow  and breathe 2000 tiny pieces of plastic every single week that’s 5 grams of plastic that is a  credit card every single week that we’re eating not bad we get this plastic from  our water shell fish salt and beer but of course if you’re on keto you don’t have to  worry about that beer now typically there’s seven different types of plastic okay and if you want  to isolate what plastic is you look at the bottom of your plastic water bottle whatever you have  and you’ll see this little triangle here and it’ll have a number one through seven and this one  is number one which is pet which is polyethylene pterophyllate which i could be butching the name  but anyway it’s a type of plastic okay so that is the bad news there’s some good news in japan in  2016 they identified a bacteria in other words it releases an enzyme which is pet ace that can  degrade plastics in other words it uses the carbon from the plastic for its main energy source which  is very interesting another company took this bacteria and genetically modified it to break down  plastic faster so it can degrade 90 of the plastic within 10 hours incredible and so right now  several companies are working on scaling up to be able to do this on a very large scale  so that is some good news there’s also ocean cleanup technologies which are becoming more  popular whether they can isolate where the plastic is on the planet and then they can  concentrate it and extract it from the oceans and lastly there are things that you can  do to help detoxify plastics from the body one thing you can take is it’s called calcium  d-glucarate which supports your detoxification pathways and of course my favorite cruciferous  vegetables if you consume these on a regular basis you’re going to increase your ability to get rid  of not just plastics but heavy metals pesticides other chemicals and poisons now also increasing  sweating can help you get rid of some of these plastics as well so regular exercise to the point  where you’re sweating will help you and lastly if you don’t already have a water filter a good one  get one because the main source of this plastic comes from tap water so you want a good water  filter so you can block these particles of plastics and so you don’t have to keep ingesting  plastic all day long all right thanks for watching and i will see you in the next video hey before  you go if you’re benefiting from any of my content i would love to hear about your success  story please share it in the link down below