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Speaker 1: I'm doctor Nicole Saffaire and this is your weekly rundown.

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Speaker 1: Let's dive into the top three stories making waves right now.

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Speaker 1: The first one a glimmer of hope in the battle

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Speaker 1: against microplastics. New research out of China suggests that certain

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Speaker 1: gut bacteria, specifically a strain of Buffittobacterium, may be able

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Speaker 1: to actually break down the microplastics inside our body. Yep,

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Speaker 1: you heard that right. Maybe the key to ridding microplastics

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Speaker 1: is how healthy and active our gut bacteria are. Microplastics

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Speaker 1: they're found in our water, our food, even in the air,

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Speaker 1: and they have been linked to bodily inflammation, hormone disruption,

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Speaker 1: and even cancer risk. But these newly discovered bacterial strains

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Speaker 1: seem capable of degrading small plastic particles, well at least

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Speaker 1: in lab models. Now, it's early days and this hasn't

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Speaker 1: been tested widely in humans, but if future probiotic therapies

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Speaker 1: could help he talks the body from plastic exposure, that

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Speaker 1: would be a game changer. For now, we have to

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Speaker 1: continue minimizing our plastic use, especially in our food packaging,

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Speaker 1: and we need to make sure we're focusing on our

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Speaker 1: gut health with fiber rich food, whole food diets, prebiotics,

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Speaker 1: and probiotics. Next up, an explosive claim from HHS Secretary

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Speaker 1: RFK Junior on the Tucker Carlson podcast. RFK Junior alleged

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Speaker 1: that the CDC is actively hiding vaccine safety data, including

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Speaker 1: potential links between the hepatitis B vaccine and autism, citing

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Speaker 1: an appearent eleven hundred and thirty five percent increase in

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Speaker 1: autism among certain vaccinated infants. Now, this figure that he

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Speaker 1: cited is based on his own interpretation of an old

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Speaker 1: study that wasn't even pure reviewed, and he accused the

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Speaker 1: CDC of cherry picking the cohorts or the people that

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Speaker 1: were included in the study. Now, it's worth stating clearly

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Speaker 1: the current consens the current consensus, based on massive amounts

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Speaker 1: of peer reviewed, finalized data, is that vaccines do not

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Speaker 1: cause autism. So as comments are inciting frustration among the

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Speaker 1: scientific community because the very thing he's accusing the CDC

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Speaker 1: of doing not being wholly transparent with data. He made

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Speaker 1: these wild claims on a podcast, and he didn't put

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Speaker 1: forth any evidence to support it. Now that being said,

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Speaker 1: RFK Junior's comments tap into real public frustration over lack

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Speaker 1: of transparency and regulatory capture. Agencies like the CDC should

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Speaker 1: release all safety data, not just what supports the narrative.

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Speaker 1: Trust comes from transparency, not censorship. We learned this the

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Speaker 1: hard way during COVID and finally an important update from

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Speaker 1: the FDA this week they have officially revised the safety

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Speaker 1: label for mRNA COVID vaccines to more specifically and clearly

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Speaker 1: reflect the risk of miocarditis and perycarditis following the vaccine,

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Speaker 1: especially in young males age twenty to twenty nine. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is not new information. Cases of post vaccine milecarditis

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Speaker 1: have been tracked since twenty twenty one, but the FDA's

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Speaker 1: labeling is more detailed and it emphasizes the risk because

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Speaker 1: if you remember back in twenty twenty one, anyone who

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Speaker 1: spoke about the cardiac inflammation after these vaccines and question

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Speaker 1: whether these younger people, especially younger males, should be getting

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Speaker 1: the vaccines, they were deemed Charlatan's t VACS conspiracy theorists.

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Speaker 1: How do I know this well because I was one

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Speaker 1: of them. I was outcasts from the scientific community. I

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Speaker 1: lost friends over this. The one size fits all approach

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Speaker 1: has finally been questioned, and it's time we evolve our

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Speaker 1: vaccine guidance to reflect age, sex, individual risk factors, and

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Speaker 1: prior immunity. Medicine is never static, and neither should our

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Speaker 1: public health messaging be. As physicians, we must support vaccine

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Speaker 1: safety but also demand honest, independent oversight. I'm doctor Nicole

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Speaker 1: Sapphire and this has been your Wellness Unmass weekly rundown.

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