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- Today we're going to talk about the two fish
I am no longer going to eat.
Too much mercury.
That says it all right there Brad.
- Well, you know, we've been talking about this.
You know, we often talk about exercise.
We throw some diet in and it's time
to throw another diet one
in there. - That's right.
- This one's kind of across the board.
It's going to affect all of us.
- It's all about me. (laughing)
- Oh right.
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- Yeah, all right, this is one of these things, Brad,
when I first heard that you know,
you got to watch the mercury levels
in the fish that you eat, I thought, pshaw.
- Yeah.
- You know, I mean, - Yeah.
- everything's bad for you.
Everything's gonna kill you, everything's gonna--
- Sooner or later so enjoy and just go
and get something that looks like good quality.
- Yeah. So I did look it up and I'm like, okay,
I will cut back a little bit but, then two things happened.
- Okay. - My wife
- was talking to my aunt about it
and she was tested positive
for mercury poisoning because she--
- Recently?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Just within a couple months.
- How old is she?
- She's in-- - Your aunt, not your wife.
- Yeah, my aunt's in her seventies.
- Okay. - So,
so maybe take pause and she has a lot
of problems, too, medical diagnoses.
So then the second thing,
I listened to a podcast with Tim Ferriss again
and he's talking to Tony Robbins, the big--
- Yeah. - Y'know, ah,
I know he doesn't like to be called this
but he's a motivational coach, kind of like the,
he likes to be called a-- - Yeah say it quietly--
- Yep, yeah that's right.
- He's listening.
- So Tony Robbins is talking about how
he started losing his memory at these seminars.
He couldn't remember what he was going to say next
and he was also getting some weakness and some weird signs
and we are going to go over the signs
of having too much mercury by the way.
- Okay.
- So you can kind of look at that in your own life.
But he thought, oh my God,
what's happening I'm getting dementia,
I'm, y'know, and he's only 56.
- Oh yeah, - So.
- So the aging process coming early.
- He was 56 at the time of that podcast.
I don't know how old he is now.
Anyway, he goes in, turns out,
they test him for mercury, he's off the charts.
They said within a year you probably
would have had a heart attack.
I mean that's how high it was.
- Really, mercury causes,
can influence that?
- Apparently it is.
That's another one of the things that it can do.
He was eating, let's throw this up here Brad
because this kind of shows the ones
with the lowest level,
lowest, modest, high, and highest.
- So that's the level of mercury that these
fish have - Yeah.
- So he was eating swordfish, almost like daily,
and he was also eating tuna.
Now, it's not all tuna, like, it's the one,
more like the tuna steaks,
- Sure.
and he was eating that every day.
Cause you can eat the light canned chunk tuna
and that's only a modest amount of mercury
so that you're safe with that.
You can have a couple servings of that a week.
- Right.
- And not have to worry about it.
- I guess I don't understand why this tuna or that tuna.
I'm not going to worry about it.
- Yeah, a lot of these are even regional,
like some fish - Sure.
- are fine in this area but
they're not fine in this area.
- Okay. - They have good charts.
I just wanted to kind of give
you a general sense of what it was.
- One thing we were talking before is
if you're eating a larger fish that lives longer
- Right.
- Like swordfish, they live years or whatever--
- They have a lot more time to absorb.
- Right, to absorb that, which makes a lot of sense.
- And plus they're eating smaller fish that have the mercury
and they're taking it
into their systems. - Sure.
- You are what you eat, you know?
- There you go.
- So, and, you know, I thought,
well you're fine with the little lakes around here,
you know we, Minnesota, land of ten thousand lakes.
- Right.
- But you've gotta, they apparently
have warnings up there as to sometimes
the contaminate levels can be high.
- Yep, you can look that up, the DNR in Wisconsin.
It says, eat so many fish from this lake per day
and you're safe, if you go over that,
you're potential risk for mercury.
- Yeah, I was eating fish four days a week.
So maybe I'm fine but I'm going to cut down to two
and I'm going to stick the salmon.
Salmon's on the lowest amount.
- Right there.
- Yep. I was doing some cod, cod would be fine
but I don't want to do salmon and cod.
And then I was doing the tuna steaks which were really high
so I-- - Sure.
- I definitely want to hold back.
I mean to show you, I mean when you're pregnant
they do not recommend any of these.
- Sure.
- And they don't recommend young children
to have any of these either.
- Yep, yep. - So it shows you that,
like if you're going to become pregnant even,
you want to kind of cleanse your body before hand.
- Sure.
- And not have it in your system,
so-- - Right.
That makes a lot sense.
- One more thing to worry about, Liz, when you--
- Wow.
- Liz is probably going to have child
number three someday right?
Someday. - All right.
- All right, okay, well anyway.
What are the signs of mercury poisoning?
We'll go through those, one that makes sense,
the metallic taste in your mouth.
- You can actually--
- Yes, you can taste it
I guess. - Sure.
- Vomiting, the one that Tony Robbins was talking about,
memory problems He said, in fact,
his doctor told him that often people
who are getting dementia, they are misdiagnosed
they actually are having a mercury or some metal problem.
- Wow. - And yeah,
swollen or bleeding gums,
a loss of peripheral vision.
I can see you Brad.
I'm good in that way.
Pins and needles in the hands, feet, and mouth,
- Oh. - That's like neuropathy
- Right, right.
- It could be another thing you could,
muscle weakness, which I think that was another one
that Tony Robbins was feeling a little bit of.
- Sure, feeling a little weak.
- Impairment of speech, hearing, and walking,
lack of coordination,
uncontrolled shaking or tremors, and then,
of course we talked about the memory problems.
- Right. - So these are some
of the issues.
- If you're worried at all go ahead and
when you go in to see your doctor
have a metals test and they can check things out.
- So it's a relatively simple test?
- I think so, it's just a blood test.
- Right. - So,
- You know, like so many other symptoms,
I mean, if you look at half of these symptoms,
it's very consistent with a lot of
other diagnoses. - Of other issues, right.
- So don't get all excited,
you got mercury poisoning if two
of those are consistent with
what you have. - Well I think
if you eat a lot of fish.
- Right, - That's
- Yeah - Yeah, that's a good point.
- I mean, that's when you should start to maybe be aware.
- Yeah, which is unfortunate
because I always go to fish as my
this is going to be my good healthy meal, I got,
- Right, right. - with the omega three oils,
you know, with the salmon.
Luckily salmon is on the lower--
- On the lower end.
- So I'm pretty happy about that.
- So, all right.
- I just had salmon last night.
- I did too. - I made it
on the grill and it turned out good.
- I did. - It happens.
- I did, by the way, I used to eat the skin
and now I don't eat the skin anymore.
You said that you don't eat the skin.
- No, no. I would, that's probably where the bad stuff is.
- Actually that's what they're saying.
- Oh really? - So, yeah.
- Looks like I did something right.
- You did for once.
- Take care. Be careful.
- Thanks for watching.