Hello! Well, if you feel like what I'm about to say you heard it a couple of days
ago. Well you will be right. Your mind is not playing tricks on you
The initial video that I published, I used the wrong product in the
presentation and I felt I needed to fix that. You see...as a medical doctor I owe
you a duty of care and I feel that if I'm recommending or suggesting any
intervention especially if it is based on research, then it's got to be on point
and if it isn't then I've got to fix that. So, where was I? Well, I was talking
about the fact that I actually love fruits and vegetables and that you too should
actually love your fruits and vegetables. So, if I love my fruits and vegetables
what's the problem? Well, the problem is pesticide contamination of our fruits
and vegetables. I sympathize with farmers. They have to use pesticides to actually
increase your yield at the end of the season but that is not to say, pesticides
are good for human consumption. Pesticides have actually been linked to
a host of medical conditions. Things like neuro-degenerative diseases, birth defects,
respiratory problems as well as cancers. Hence my concern. Now one solution is for
you to buy organic produce but even that is not foolproof because organic farmers
actually do use pesticides. It's just that they use a lot less than other
farmers. So, what should you do? Well in this video I'm going to show you four
methods that you can actually use to reduce your exposure to the pesticides
in our fruits and vegetables. The first method is the bare minimum you should do.
The other three...well you should adopt them and you should use them every now
and again. So what am I talking about? Well you stay tuned and I'll see you in
a couple of seconds. Now for today's 20/20 idea to better health, please
welcome on stage Dr Joe
Welcome back. I'm Dr Joe of TheDrJoe.com Now, if this is your first time on this
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get notified of future videos that I make. So, today's video is about how we
can actually reduce our exposure to pesticides in our fruits and vegetables
so I'm just going to give you 4 methods that you can use to reduce your
exposure. Well you know you might be asking well actually the fruits and
vegetables I get from my supermarket they look clean so why should I bother
trying to clean them again? Well the point is; for a start you cannot actually
see the pesticides on the fruits and vegetables and secondly your supermarket
wash is really concerned with removing dirt from the produce. So they're not
interested at all in getting rid of pesticides so it's your responsibility
as an adult to actually get rid of the pesticide residue in the fruits and
vegetables that you buy. So, I'm gonna use strawberries for this demonstration
Why strawberries? Well, (A) I like strawberries, one of my favorite fruits
(B) strawberries have actually been classified as the dirtiest fruit in the
fruits and veg category when fruits and vegetables have been tested, so it's
probably not a bad idea to use strawberries as an example. So, method
No. 1 is very simple. Method No. 1, this is the bare minimum that you
should do. All you need to do is put your strawberries in a strainer (very
important) you should use a strainer and then you simply run water over the
strawberries and at the same time you are washing the strawberries, just
moving them around okay. You do that and what you're trying
to do here you try to leech off the pesticides of the produce. That's what we
need to do. So let it run and you do this for about a minute and when you do
that you'll get rid of most of the pesticides. Not all of it but most
of it okay. So that's the first method Method No.1. Method No. 2, Method
No 2 requires the use of alkaline electrolyzed water. You may be asking
yourself: What is alkaline electrolyzed water? Well, essentially you're gonna need
a water ionizer to actually get your alkaline electrolyzed water. Now, if you've
got a water ionizer in your house already. Great! If you're looking to get one
at the end of this video I'm going to leave links down below if you want to
get one for yourself. They don't come cheap though. Just something for you
to be aware of. But what is clear is that it's been shown by research that the
alkaline electrolyzed water is actually very effective in cleaning produce. In
getting rid of pesticides. The alkaline electrolyzed water is actually a
disinfectant as well as a cleanser. So, you end up having two functions from one
product. So, how do you make your alkaline electrolyzed water? We add salt into the
water in the water ionizer and of course you've run the current through the water
ionizer and you end up with two products. An acidic water in one chamber and alkaline
water in the other chamber. What you need for cleaning purposes is the alkaline
water. That alkaline water is what's actually called alkaline electrolyzed
water (AEW) and that water contains sodium
hydroxide and that is what's going to do the cleaning for you. So, all you need to
do is add your strawberries or any produce that you have into the alkaline
water. Let it produce soak there for about 10 to 15 minutes and you're good to go
you're gonna end up with very clean products as shown in this research and
this other research. That's method No. 2. Method No. 3 is... Before
I talk about Method No. 3 => Note to self...
Use the right product. Because this was where I used the wrong the last
time in the demonstration. So what you need is Baking soda. That's what you need
for Method No. 3. Now in the initial video I used baking powder. It's
okay just that baking powder has less sodium bicarbonate compared to baking
soda. Baking soda is purely sodium bicarbonate. So, that's what you need and
it's based on this research that was done a couple of years ago. That showed
that baking soda is very effective in cleaning produce. So, here's a
demonstration for you. You need...step 1 for method number 3, you need to
add some water into a bowl and then you open up your baking soda. Add
about 2 tablespoon full of the baking soda into the water
that's one there and that's two. So baking soda and I give it some time to
dissolve. Let it dissolve. It's almost like salt really, just like table salt
let it dissolve and what you do next? You just add the produce into the baking
soda water just like I'm doing here. So you add the produce in this case I've
got a strawberries in there and let it soak for a good 15 minutes and then
come back 15 minutes later and then we're gonna revert back to what we did
in method No. 1. Pour the produce with the Soda water there and then
you have to rinse using a Strainer as well okay
Rinse. That way and just move the produce around the strainer just to wash off
everything. So you're also leeching the pesticides off the produce when you do
this okay. So, that's Method No. 3. So, Method No. 4. Method No 4
requires using a vinegar solution because you've got acetic acid here. It's
the acetic acid that's going to do the cleaning. Any vinegar solution will do
I've got apple cider vinegar here. The Bragg's brand. You can use any vinegar
It doesn't have to be apple cider vinegar. You can use red wine vinegar, white
vinegar, rice vinegar. It doesn't matter. Any vinegar. So, all you need to do is
just similar to Method No. 3. You're going to add about 1 part of
the vinegar to 4 parts of water okay. So here I'm just going to add the that's
one tablespoon full, two, three, four. So you just have to estimate. Usually 4
parts to water to 1 part of the vinegar solution. So it's the acetic acid
just mix it up. Make sure it's thoroughly mixed and then you add the produce just
like we did for Method No. 3. You just add the produce again and with the
vinegar method you have to let it soak a little bit longer. A minimum of 20
minutes preferably 30 minutes okay. Let
it soak for a good 30 minutes and then you come back after 30 minutes
and then you do as we did in step one. Pour the produce and
the vinegar solution with the produce into a strainer and then you rinse again
just like we did. Every time you do this, you're leaching the pesticides off the
produce okay and you just wash them again. You do that
so once you do this; you know that your produce is now safe to be eaten. There
you go. 4 methods there for you to adopt to reduce your exposure to the
pesticides in our fruits and vegetables. Now, if you got some value from this
video as usual give it a 'Thumbs up'. If you are using any other method that is
actually working for you to reduce your exposure, please let us know about it
down below and if you got any other comments to make regarding this video
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subscribe and I think that's about it. Until next time, well this is Dr Joe
signing out