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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wellness on Mass. I'm doctor Nicole Sapphire and

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Speaker 1: this is your weekly rundown. First, microplastics and brain health.

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Speaker 1: A massive literature and view examining more than one hundred studies,

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Speaker 1: is raised in concerns about micro and nanoplastics and how

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Speaker 1: they interact with the human body. These tiny particles, we've

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Speaker 1: talked about them before, found in our food, our water, air,

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Speaker 1: even the clothes we wear, may trigger neuroinformation and certain

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Speaker 1: proteins clumping in the brain. These same protein clumps that

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Speaker 1: are associated with Parkinson's disease. Now, this research, like a

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Speaker 1: lot of research, shows correlation not causation. So the conclusion

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Speaker 1: of this huge review was, well, more research needs to

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Speaker 1: be done, but at this point there's a lot of research.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of research that shows microplastics and nanoplastics

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Speaker 1: in our brain, in our gut, they're disrupting our hormones,

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Speaker 1: potentially causing levels of infertility and other things. We know

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Speaker 1: they cause blanket inflammation throughout the brain. So I guess

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Speaker 1: my takeaway, it's not panic, but it's awareness, like following

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Speaker 1: some simple steps like don't heat up your food in

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Speaker 1: plastic containers, try to use glass containers or even stainless steels.

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Speaker 1: You can stop wearing those synthetic athletic clothes that so

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Speaker 1: much of us are wearing, you know, try to use

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Speaker 1: more natural clothes. Water filters are always great to help

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Speaker 1: give us clean water, but the reality is they are

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Speaker 1: not good enough to replace and filter out the nanoparticles.

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Speaker 1: So try to make sure that you are getting the

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Speaker 1: healthiest and most pure water sources possible. Okay, moving on

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Speaker 1: from microplastics, because I don't want to bore you because

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Speaker 1: I've talked about them. We just keep getting more and

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Speaker 1: more research. The time is now to start lowering your exposure.

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Speaker 1: Another big thing that came out this week childhood obesity

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Speaker 1: and the GLP one medications. Multiple pharmaceutical companies are now

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Speaker 1: starting trials in children as young as four now. Remember

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Speaker 1: GLP one medications have already been approved for kids twelve

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Speaker 1: years and older, just like many adults are on them,

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Speaker 1: But now they are shifting their research to kids who

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Speaker 1: are even younger than twelve. Is this a good idea? Well,

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Speaker 1: nearly one in five American children are obese. So while

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Speaker 1: medications like GLP ones can help reduce weight loss, we're

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Speaker 1: seeing that they're designed for that. My huge concerns when

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Speaker 1: it comes to this is we need to focus on

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Speaker 1: the foundation of healthy living when it comes to these kids,

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Speaker 1: because these medications are designed for lifelong and long term use.

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Speaker 1: The majority of people who take these medications, Yes, they

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Speaker 1: do lose weight, but as soon as they stop taking

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Speaker 1: the medications, they gain weight back. Not to mention the

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Speaker 1: fact that these medications cause nutrient depletion. If you're depleting

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Speaker 1: nutrients and kids that are still developing, how will it

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Speaker 1: impact their brain health, their muscle health, their bone health,

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Speaker 1: their hormonal health. Is it going to even increase the

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Speaker 1: rates of infertility? My guess is probably yes. And if

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Speaker 1: we're not teaching kids health healthy behaviors when they're in

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Speaker 1: elementary school, how can we expect them to ever adopt

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Speaker 1: these healthy behaviors as they get older. We need to

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Speaker 1: focus on nutrition, physical activity, healthy sleep, and reducing environmental

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Speaker 1: toxins that are disrupting their metabolism. We have to get

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Speaker 1: them off their screens. Sure, medication may have a role

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Speaker 1: in very limited, rare cases, maybe kids who were born

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Speaker 1: with some levels of metabolic disorders, but the long term

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Speaker 1: solution here is building healthy habits early and absolutely not

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Speaker 1: prescribing lifelong, expensive medications to children. I think that there

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Speaker 1: will be severe short term and long term consequences, and

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Speaker 1: I am staunchly opposed to these medications being used in

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Speaker 1: younger people. That's it for me on this week's Wellness

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Speaker 1: unmass weekly run down. I hope you're having a wonderful week.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to tune in next week and I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you. Then, be sure to listen to Wellness Unmasks

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