Microplastic Dangers? [How to Avoid Microplastics] - 2024 

My dad worked for a DuPont subsidiary. He opened up chemical plants during the 50,60’s & 70’s. He would bring home cool plastic cups & little tv trays. I’m sure I’m LOADED with microplastics. He lived to be 94. But died with or from Leukemia. When I looked into his type of leukemia, it’s usually due to chemical exposure. He DID exercise & stayed 10 pounds under the recommended wt for height. What really helped him was his walking regiment. Daily 5 miles. In the mountains. Walked to post office, grocery store, everywhere. He could move unassisted up until the week before his death. At the end, he lost all interest in food so it was obvious his organs had stopped functioning. Zero pain as well. Thankfully

This guy is a hero, no selling products no marketing, just educating people 👏

Finally a famous RU-vid doctor is pointing this very real threat out. So many people are ignoring this!

I don't think people realize how much plastic we are surrounded by. I live on a farm and I pick up so much plastic from the side of the road so it doesn't end up in your food. It's my small step. Farmers on big farms can no way do what I do so the plastic just ends up in your food. It's just a small example of plastics in our lives.

Microplastic dangers have been known FOR DECADES -- and now they've made them totally unavoidable.

I can’t handle ONE MORE thing to worry about. I’ll just die when I die.

And here I thought I was being a little OCD on trying to limit the plastic stuff and try going back to the old ways of glass, stainless steel, wood, cotton fabric, etc. Family has been making me feel like I was being too paranoid. I can now show them the research and tell them to leave me the hell alone.

Do NOT use dish washer soap that comes in pods. Do NOT use laundry soap that comes in pod form. Using the straight liquid or powder form.

Corporations are more worried about being woke than about micro plastics.

I'm old enough to remember when plastic started showing up more and more. I hate plastic and do my best not to have any in my house. But they wrap meat in it. I bought a quarter beef and have them wrap it in paper. We lived just perfectly without plastic for eons. Reject plastic in every form.

The reason why they're finding harm in amphibians is because it's in the water

Im a nurse and cannot think of hardly anything that isnt packaged, stored, or used thats not plastic. 😢

At my age, I can’t generate any energy towards this issue. It’s quite literally already too late for me and everyone else around me.

I've been progressively eliminating plastics from my food supply for the last year. One neat thing I discovered; the food products in glass containers typically have healthier ingredients.

We dumped all of the plastic we could years ago. Glass food storage containers, glassware and such, wood cutting boards, try to buy food products that are in glass containers instead of plastic, etc. May not be much, but every little bit helps.

I am a Ronald Regan Gen X conservative and I am now realizing most of the Industrial Revolution was a mistake even though it did give us cool electronics and cars. Dupont (see the movie "Dark Waters"), Big Food, Big Pharma, etc. has resulted in so much harm to not only us, but everyone on this planet. I am like Lt. Exley in LA Confidential after he and Bud White get into a fist fight. Bud White asks Exley, "The Night Owl made you. You want to tear that down?" Exley replies "With a recking ball. You wanna help me swing it?" Don't get me wrong. I am still for Capitalism, Free Markets, and Christian values. It is just that I hate the harm companies did fooling around with chemicals. "Better living through Chemistry." BS!

I knew some of these things before, but today I decided to throw away my plastic kitchen equipment. I bought a lot of things made of glass, wood and steel for my kitchen. Thank you for reminding me, Dr. Berry!

Meat at the grocery store is almost always wrapped in plastic, and usually is sitting on styrofoam in the package.

Don't worry. Since it's impossible to get rid of, they'll just come up with studies telling us it's good for us.

Transfer anything in a plastic container like spices, refrigerated products such as yogurt, cottage cheese containers etc. start collecting jars from your neighbors. Become known as the “glass jar” person in your neighborhood.

I read an article that microplastics were found in 6 out of 6 placentas! 😮 This topic is such a great concern! I’ve stopped buying plastic water bottles. I’m in the process of removing plastics from our lives as much as possible. I think if we go back to “ old school “ living, it would be of great help. Like Dr Ken says, we can’t remove it 100% but let’s do what we can to reduce.❤

At 62 & 64 I guess we are now a Barbie & Ken!😂

There are some cool bacteria that eat petrochemical elements like oil and plastics and poop out water, Great use in solving tankership accidents, maybe they could help out in medicine too.

We bought a water-distiller and are now distilling ALL our drinking and cooking water with our distilled well water (remineralizing with Redmond real salt in small dissolved amounts to create trace amounts in our now awesomely clean water). We store all our water in glass jugs!

Thank you Dr. Berry I saw my neurologist today and he was amazed to the point he wished he could video me today because the positive change in my Dystonia. He of course did not listen to me saying I had change my diet recently but felt I had just found my sweet spot. He said you were the person with the worse case of Dystonia that I have seen to wow you look normal. Do not get me wrong I still have Dystonia but was amazingly improved. More to the story but thank you for convincing my husband and I to follow the PHD.🎉🎉🎉🎉. I will challenge him with my diet at my next appointment in 12weeks. It was so exciting to see him so surprised with me.

I'm sure the pharmaceutical industrial complex will have a pill or vaccine for that.

Also be aware that most clothes and fabrics ( I'm thinking sheets towels etc) have a coating to prevent stains and wrinkling. Also plastic. It's everywhere 💩

I could be wrong, but when I heard about this I asked the tech that was doing an ultrasound on me & he said "Oh yeah, you can see the plastics in your blood." I just kept thinking "This can't be good."

Carpet, rugs, furniture, dryer lint, PEX water pipes, car interiors, mobile homes, RVs, PPE masks, clothing, anywhere plastics are worn down, broken, and become airborne is your greatest exposure to these particles. Sorry Dr Berry, packaging may be the least dangerous. Efforts to escape this exposure would require eliminating everything mentioned in this comment. There is no escape in our current society of consumerism.

Also, think about bedding...we spend a lot of time asleep. I am gradually swapping my bedding for natural fibres. Already have all 100% cotton sheets and wool blankets. Eventually I will change my synthetic pillows, but I'm stepping forward slowly. I would love to get a non-toxic mattress, but they are expensive.

Much microplastic exposure potentially comes from the bags for fresh vegetables in grocery stores and food wraps. In the laboratory work I do, we use various microscopic equipment like scanning electron microscopes. When a sample comes in for analysis and it has been wrapped in common plastic or put in a sandwich bag, under magnification we see it covered with plastic particles. Oftentimes the sample can not be analyzed properly because of the plastic contamination all over it from these common wraps. We eat vegetables that have been wrapped and transported in these materials.

Think about all the carpeting in all the houses in all the world... Plastic!

NIH "Covid-19 face masks: A potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment?" 2020 Jun 16

I love seeing Dr. Berry going natural hair color. Good content. Greetings from Germany

I have called my representatives and told them instead of going for our cars, they need to get rid of plastic for food etc. But they do not care.

We're all doomed. Keep up the excellent work.Thanks a million Dr Berry.

No make up or hair dyes for me ! I’ve always believed in natural beauty but sadly most ppl feel they need it to feel good it’s sad

We only use wood / stainless steel / glass / we watch very closely any products we use on our bodies as well

Huge need for factual, research based information about plastics and PFAS type forever chemicals. Switched to dry laundry detergent sheets and glass food storage containers but that is small impact. But if people stop putting plastic in the dish washer that might help stop putting small particles into the waste water. Hand washing plastic is much less abrasive than dish washer detergent. Education! Also get a good water filter. I am confused about boiling water to drop plastics out of suspension but then what type of filter will work? Will a coffee filter remove those particles. Getting rid of my coffee maker because of plastic coffee basket. Switching to a glass water kettle and a stainless steel mesh basket "pour over" filter. Most air fryers are plastic but a few available in stainless steel. Also confused about ceramic non-stick coatings; are they PFAS free? So much to discover. So much to learn... So much to discern!!!!!!

Wow, every this in a hospital is plastic cleaned with chemicals

Thank you for speaking out about this!!

I use steel utensils, ceramic dishes, wooden stove utensils, but I still have a nonstick pan to chuck out and replace with either a cast iron or stainless steel skillet. I have some new stainless steel sauce pans, etc. Most of my food is nonprocessed, whole natural food. Thank you!!

Thanks for telling people to contact their representatives,and take action in every way possible.

They are dropping from the sky every day in the CHEMTRAILS😢😢😢

Thank you thank you Dr Berry❤❤❤

I have known about micro plastic problem for years and this is the best practical advice I have received

Great subject! Thanks for covering this.

Everything we buy is either plastic or wrapped in plastic. Redmond's real salt was in a plastic bag. Stainless mugs, Yeti or otherwise have a plastic lid. Big problem to deal with.

The utter insanity of drinking bottled water may very well be the cause of most of this exposure. Even if you don't ingest much actual plastic from one bottle of water, that bottle ends up in the waste stream and generates all the little bits of plastic that subsequently get into everything. Drink well water if you can and filter it as much as you can.

Dr. Berry, thank you for everything you do for humankind. I never ever would have thought about plastic particulates coming off our clothing. I am anaphylactic to latex since 1998, back when Universal Precautions was hitting heavy due to AIDS virus. I should have been more scared of latex than the AIDS virus. The medical field is still ignorant of latex allergy. The only thing I can do is avoidance. I guess I will have another thing to be cautious about. I have been modified keto, sugar free, refined foods reduction and using only good oils since November. 30 lbs gone. I have watched many hours of RU-vid just to educate myself on our food industry and big pharma. I just can not wrap my head around our Washington people. I am 68 and I tell my 21 year old grandson what is wrong with our current world and that he can make a difference, maybe not a big difference but a difference none the less.

Thank you, Dr. Berry for bringing up a fearsome yet critically important subject .

The good news is plastic has a 1000 year life, the more we become plastic the longer we will live. The bad news is, there is no escaping this , plastic is our life. But like the doc says eat real food and hope for the best, worry, worry, worry is not going to change anything.

Pex, cross linked polyethylene, tubing is used in household plumbing now instead of copper tubing. Doesn't showering, washing your hair & hands allow your body to recieve these particles from the supply lines even if you don't cook with house tap water. Most medicines come in & are stored plastic bottles

Thanks for sharing, Dr Berry.

Thank you so much Dr Berry for your willingness to tell us that we need to do something about this.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Well this brings lots of things to mind. I love fish, but fish swim in a sea of mico plastics, so what about eating sardines and salmon? We have plastic plumbing pipes in homes now, even the water filter is made with a plastic housing.... We are avid campers, we use a Brita water pitcher, made of plastic, worse, the fresh water holding tank of our trailer is made of plastic....

Don't forget that if you are a parent, all of the plastic toys that sometimes end up in our little ones' mouths.

Wow😢 thanks for sharing. We appreciate you.

Shared! Thank you so much Doc... always love learning from you!

I am one of the 2% that are affected by ABS printing process. Miro plastics is a biproduct of the commercial printing of ABS. Citric acid cleaning fluid (lemon based) is uses a the chemical break down the support plastic, high impact polystyrene (HIPS). The broken done particle appear to have floated into my pours which were opened by the cleaner. Now I am just holding ABS commercial printed parts where there is a strong smell of the cleaner but dry. It has taken almost 8 years for my body to reject the plastic. The body removal process, fluid pushing the micro plastic out caused the dead skin layer to be hard and crack easily. It also weakened the connection to the living skin. Since I was the only person effected. I and a dermatologist didn't identify the problem. The doctor addressed the symptoms, I was unhappy with his incompetence in not finding the cause. I developed a fugal infection that masked, prevented by body from rejecting the micro plastic. Retiring was the clue to the underlying problem of the ABS parts. The two issues presenting symptoms together. First had to address the fungus that took months since I was likely had it for some time. My doctor gave me a two week prescription, but the off the shelf remedy were the same thing at a lower cost. Rejection of the miro plastic only started once the fungus was eliminated.

1st) before we worry about it, what severe health effects have been proven (not possibly but factually proven) from nano/micro plastics? ,2nd) plastics are everywhere obviously so why should average people stress? ,3rd) eat natural animal based proper human diet stretch & walk daily in nature helping live less stressful life & you’ll be healthier than majority of society today, “thanks for the informative video Dr.Berry”

Appreciate this video & appreciate you being realistic with your audience

Everyone needs to hear this

I have to think about Adidas how they recycle plastic from the ocean to make tennis shoes, but my brag about it …..and then you wear the shoes and you get hot and sweaty during a run or just a relay wear and tear on them seeps into your skin topically and then into your blood…. Same with plastic shower poofs you’re in the hot water scrubbing your skin with plastic…..😳 I use everything cotton/ glass/ metal if I can

Lobbying should be illegal.

My wife has been onto this micro and nano plastic issues for several years now. Thank you Dr. Berry for bringing this to the masses. This is huge and we ALL need to pay attention. Now!!

Thank you Dr. Berry❤ you are a gift to humanity

For most people, eradicating plastic from our lives immediately is impossible. Certainly for myself, The effort would cause more stress and harm to health then it's worth. We need to know what are the worst sources of contamination to focus on. For example, heating food in plastic is much worse then cold food in plastic containers. Cutting food on plastic is worse than scraping a spoon against plastic because the knife causes more damage. Some types of plastic are more harmful than others. I would like to see a lot more research on risk levels of all different variables.

Cut what you can fast often and just live your life as healthy as possible as long as you are allowed.

THEY CAN REVERSE A HECK OF A LOT OF THE DAMAGE THEY'VE DONE WITH PLASTIC, GOO BACK TO WHAT WAS BEFORE PLASTIC BECAME SO DAMN PREVALENT. THANKS FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS. SURPRISED YT HASN'T SHUT YOU DOWN.

Thank you Dr.Berry for sharing with us.

I just got rid of my plastic air fryers that also had fn Teflon.

thank you

Thank you for this! So many tell of problems but very few ever tell of anything we can do to prevent or treat these issues. As a southerner born and raised in MS I love your tell it like it is no nonsense no sugar coating personality! So many professionals in any profession try to come across as professional as possible, try to mentally monitor what they say as they are speaking, and use words some people don’t understand. I love that you let loose and are passionate about what you say. You just use everyday words that everyone should understand. People can tell when someone isn’t being their true self. You are as real as it gets. I’d love to see a video if you don’t already have one that tells how to feed bigger than average family carnivore without breaking the bank or on a budget. If you have made one and could tell me around what date I need to look for it that would be great! I have 5 kids. God has a sense of humor because when we tried for baby #4 he gave us boy/girl twins. We still have 3 of 5 at home. They are now 20yr old son in college. Twins are 15. So they eat a lot! Do you or your wife have a recipe book for families living this way? I have lupus so I’m sick and tired of being sick & tired. My oldest daughter 26 was diagnosed at 14 but hasn’t needed meds because it’s barely active thank the Lord! My oldest son has tested positive several times but always gone back to normal levels when he was being monitored by a children’s hospital for a year twice for elevated liver enzymes. Had an amazing doc from Africa who said it was his adhd med the first time & the acne med the second time. He’s sensitive to meds. And he wasn’t eating enough fruits and veggies according to the doc. He hasn’t had any issues since. That said we found out last year my youngest son, one of the twins, has a leaky heart valve that he’s had since birth. The doc heard a heart murmur that no one had ever heard during one of his last appts for accutane. She sent him for a scan and called us back to let us know what they found and sent us to LeBonheur. They confirmed it and now he has to be monitored every 6 months and cannot play contact sports. I think of all those years we didn’t know and we had him playing sports. Thankfully it was baseball and basketball and nothing happened but it could have. After I found out it will have to be fixed eventually but can be done thru the artery in his groin area I felt a little better. We’ve been blessed not to of had anything major in our kids so far even though that is major to me. I’ve had friends whose kids have had major issues and have lost children so I’m thankful we haven’t. I just think we are reminded from time to time how lucky we really are. But it’s caused me to be more cautious and aware of what we eat and are exposed to. We live in the middle of soybean fields. I know we are exposed to pesticides, herbicides, & fertilizers. We did drink only bottled water because our community water system was over 20 years outdated and was supposed to of been replaced. We had leaks all the time. They finally replaced it all but with all the fields I don’t trust it. I did buy a water filter countertop system but not an osmosis because I couldn’t afford one. I spent a year researching them before buying one. I got the best one I could afford. Now the osmosis systems have come down especially the countertop models. Do you have one you recommend? And in the event that we are without power for any reason are there any gravity fed systems you would recommend just as a back up? I kid you not but I have 4 massive black lawn bags packed full of Tupperware my mom gave me in storage when she got divorced. She had an addiction that started in the 80’s and never stopped! Some of it is worth some money. Now I have an excuse to sell it. 😂 Thank you for all you do!

Brilliant video, 👏 thanks Dr. Ken

What about all the plastic tubing in medical treatments like respiratory therapy, CPAP, oxygen therapy, tubing for blood & IV transfusions and all of these things? What was used before these products came on the market? Super scary!

There us no way to avoid microplastics. Absolutely none. It is everywhere.

Thank you svm for this very vital information👍

Thanks Doc for making this video. Very helpful and to the point.

Many carnivores advocate for sous vide (boiling in plastic bags) cooking. I have always been reluctant to have anything to do with heated plastics and food. Thoughts?

Thanks!

Thank you for caring and sharing.

Thank you for your straight talk and great info!!!

thank u sir

Lobbying ahould be illegal. No under the table money passing. Most of the senators and reps would quit and maybe good, honest people with a heart for our Country and People would fill their seats.

Thanks Doc. Refreshing to hear a MD call BS on BS. I knew it was bad but its wose than I thought.

never heard of this. thanks for making us aware!

As much as I appreciate this it sure is depressing.

Paper cups are also lined with it. Dryer sheets are FULL of it and stink, btw

Thank you for your work! What a gross negligence of our medical industrial complex that more doctors and so called "medical professionals" are not investigating and covering these very prescient health concerns.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Way to go dr. Berry!

I wonder how bad it is for me working in a plastic factory

Had an “incredible” experience recently! I bought a bunch of organic bananas and it was wrapped in plastic! Bought them since there weren’t even regular bananas for sale. I think I left the plastic on overnite and next day all banana skins were splitting and ripening! Overnite!!! They were basically inedible. Took them back to store the next day…related my story to manager. Got new bunch for free! Manager later told me that the banana supplier was low on staff and this processor decided to wrap bananas in plastic to speed up packing process. Incredible, huh? Organic plastic-wrapped bananas!!

I think if consumers started demanding more natural materials for everyday household items, companies in time will start producing more items in natural materials and phase out the plastic items. As individuals we can't move market demand curves alone but aggregately we can.

Excellent information on this subject.

What about all the chemicals they are spraying in our sky????

Yep

I love his honesty and matter-of-fastness! 😅

Thank you, Dr Berry ❤

We use a reverse osmosis in our home and only drink mineral water from glass bottles