Hey guys, Dr. Axe here, founder of draxe.com and doctor of natural medicine.
Hey, I want to talk to you about the dangers of plastic bottles.
Now these are things that most people consume almost every day.
Whether you’re stopping at a gas station or grocery store, lots of us are drinking
it out of plastic.
But here’s what I want to tell you, is that these plastics are not necessarily a natural
material.
What happens is they can accumulate toxins in our body over time, which have both foreseen
and unforeseen consequences to our bodies.
Here are some fast facts.
Americans buy half a billion . . . think about that . . . half a billion bottles of water
every single week.
That’s enough to circle the globe five times.
And it costs 2,000 times more than tap water.
So bottled water is something that obviously is a more recent phenomenon.
But again, these things are adding up and actually causing health issues in millions
of people around the world.
So let’s talk about what’s in bottled water and the risks.
Number one, they contain hormone-disrupting chemicals.
Now, most of us have heard by now of a compound called BPA, that’s Bisphenol A, and BPA
has been shown to be an endocrine disruptor, okay?
So this is going to cause issues with hormones.
Whether it be estrogen and progesterone, testosterone, it’s going to throw off these hormones and
cause issues like infertility, can increase PCOS, can cause low testosterone in men.
You don’t want to drink out of plastic bottles if you can help it, especially those with
Bisphenol A. But again, hormone-disrupting chemicals, that’s what’s in our water.
Number two, antimony trioxide.
Now, antimony is a compound that’s found in the earth, it’s a metal element.
But this is actually found in a lot of plastic bottles.
So imagine that . . . we’ve heard press on the dangers of mercury from silver fillings,
we’ve heard the dangers of lead-based paints and eating those and being exposed.
We’ve heard also of even arsenic in some of our food supply.
Well, antimony falls into the same category with those, so where if you have too much
of it, it’s neurotoxic, it's been linked to heart and cardiovascular issues, liver
issues, kidney issues.
But it’s a toxin to the body and again, many of this is found in bottled water and
antimony.
Number three, there’s been more than 25,000 chemicals discovered from what’s . . . a
lot of times when we’re buying bottled water, there’s tap water in there, there are more
chemicals in there.
But also, again, just the chemicals found in plastic alone are severely toxic to the
body and they’re not natural for the body to handle.
So really, it’s causing liver toxicity.
You may not realize this, but if your liver becomes overly toxic, it actually affects
your hormones as well.
Your liver is actually part of what filters out and detoxes excessive estrogen in the
body.
So hey, one of the biggest causes of infertility today and PCOS is when women get estrogen
too high and progesterone gets too low.
Well, if estrogen gets too high, your body needs to lower it.
You know what?
It can’t do that when your liver is too toxic.
So again, this contributes to that issue as well.
Here are other bottled water risks.
Plastic pollution.
Think about what we’re doing to our environment.
Plastic does not degrade naturally as other things do over time, and so what it's going
to do is . . . we’re polluting the ocean, we’re polluting the earth here as well.
It’s resource-intensive.
The resources it’s taking and what we’re having to do to produce plastic can destroy
the earth as well.
And then also, there are safer solutions out there today.
Think about this.
Especially when we’re talking about drinking water and your own personal health and safety,
it’s easy to make the switch to glass or to stainless steel.
And those are the two things in the Axe household we use every single day.
You’ll see lots of glass, lots of stainless steel, much healthier and safer options there
as well.
So listen, get rid of the plastic, get rid of the Bisphenol A and the phthalates and
all the other chemicals, use glass, use stainless steel.
By doing that, you’re going to avoid all of these environmental issues, all of these
personal health risks as well.
And hey, if you’ve enjoyed this live training video and appreciate the warning here about
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I’ve written articles on almost every health issue you can imagine.
Got a lot of videos here as well.
So hey, search on YouTube my name, search on Google, and I think you’ll find more
information to help you reach your next level of health.
Guys, thanks for watching.
Remember, stay away from plastic bottles.
Hi, Dr. Axe here.
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