💥Microplastics making you Fat & Infertile?! Discover how plastic pollution, microplastics and nanoplastic is silently sabotaging your health & How to detoxify them 🔑

🎙️ Summary:

Episode 56 of the Fitness Wisdom Podcast, Trenton Sweet author of The Microplastic Plague, discusses the pervasive issue of plastics and microplastics in our environment and bodies.

He explains the history of plastic production, the differences between microplastics and nanoplastics, and the various sources of exposure.

The conversation delves into the health impacts of these substances, including hormonal disruptions, fat gain and fertility issues, and emphasizes the importance of detoxification and resilience! Additionally, Trenton highlights the environmental consequences of plastic pollution and the urgent need for change.

Key Takeaways 🧠

• Plastic was invented in 1907 and became widespread after WWII.

• Microplastics are 5mm or smaller, while nanoplastics are even smaller.

• Plastics are found in every part of our ecosystem, including the air and water.

• Exposure to microplastics can lead to health issues like fatigue and infertility.

• Detoxification is essential for reducing plastic accumulation in the body.

• Exercise and sweating are key to detoxifying microplastics.

• Environmental pollution from plastics affects wildlife and ecosystems.

• Human resilience is strong, but many species are not as resilient.

• The production of plastics is expected to triple by 2060.

• Awareness and action are crucial to combat plastic pollution.

Chapters 📖

00:00 The Impact of Plastics on Health

00:47 Understanding Microplastics and Nanoplastics

06:49 The Ubiquity of Plastics in Our Environment

12:29 Symptoms of Microplastic Exposure and Solutions

20:27 Understanding Inflammation and Microplastics

22:46 The Hormonal Impact of Microplastics

25:23 Detoxification Strategies for Microplastics

31:58 Building Resilience Against Environmental Toxins

45:00 The Environmental Impact of Plastics

51:44 The Future of Humanity and Plastic Pollution

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⬇️ Full Podcast Transcript 🗣️

Andreas (10:46.538)

Hello and welcome back to another exciting episode of the fitness wisdom podcast. Today we have a very special guest, Trenton Sweet. He's an author and most importantly, a father and a husband. And he's also the owner of energy studio gym, I believe.

from what I can see from the background. Welcome to the show Trenton, it's a pleasure to have you.

Energy Fitness Studio (11:22.259)

Yeah, thanks brother. appreciate you having me.

Andreas (11:25.557)

So we're going to talk about a very important topic today. You know, we're going to talk about plastics. You know, it's in our brain, it's in our testicles, it's in newborn children, you know, it's absolutely everywhere. And it's having all of this massive havoc on the ecosystem and also inside of our bodies. So why don't we start off with a little bit of a background or history, if you know, when did the plastic industry actually begin in the world and, you know, how has it progressed since?

Energy Fitness Studio (11:55.528)

Yeah, so plastic actually was invented in 1907. It's called bakelite. guy named it after himself. And it was like synthetic things mixed together. even though it was that long ago, it didn't become widespread until after World War II. That's when World War II, they realized that plastic could be used for a lot of things. They realized it can be made extremely cheap. It's really malleable. And they can be turned into pretty much anything. And which was great for that time. You know, the whole world was not doing so well.

Andreas (12:15.977)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (12:25.222)

And so cheap products that could do multiple things seemed like a savior. And that's when it become really widespread. at this point now, the world has created roughly 9 billion metric tons of plastic. And we make about 430 million metric tons a year globally, which is a pretty big problem because it doesn't decompose. It doesn't biodegrade. It just gets smaller and smaller. And then as it gets smaller and smaller, ends up in ecosystems.

Andreas (12:27.443)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (12:53.896)

and human bodies and like you said in the intro and testicles and follicular fluid and breast milk and you know first feces for babies and in our brain and everywhere else that you can imagine it's become a real problem.

Andreas (13:08.521)

Wow, that's really insane. So basically the problem is, especially when it comes to the human body, is I can believe is particularly the size. So maybe you can give us a little bit of a definition about what a microplastic is. What's the difference between plastic and a microplastic. And I'm sure there is all these other fancy names as well that you see on different products, about BPA free and all this kind of stuff. So maybe you can give us a bit of a definition.

Energy Fitness Studio (13:37.083)

Yeah, absolutely. So that's a good question too, because microplastics really, they're a problem, but our real problem are nanoplastics. Microplastics is just the term that's been kind of widespread use that everybody understands. But microplastics are about five millimeters or smaller. And then your nanoplastics are like one to a hundred nanometers, which is very, very small. But basically you can think of a microplastic as something that you can, you need to see under a microscope. And there are lots of different.

names and the plasticizers and there's so many different ways you can wrap it in. I just use microplastics a lot when I talk because that's a term that everybody understands but our big problem is really the nanoplastics because the microplastics get into your body through ingestion mostly because that's the bigger particles. Now a lot of them as long as you have a decent diet you can wash out you know you can as long as you don't have leaky gut and you don't have a lot of other irritable bowel syndrome and issues like that.

Andreas (14:15.954)

Yes.

Andreas (14:29.906)

Mm-hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (14:34.683)

you'll flush it out through your feces. So that's not as big of a problem, but the nanoplastics, those are the ones that get through, they get out of your gut. You breathe them in, they get into your bloodstream through your lungs. You get them dermally through your skin. The nanoplastics are the big problem and that's every plastic that ever gets created will eventually become a nanoplastic. So those 9 billion metric tons that have been created since the introduction of plastic in 1907.

will become a nanoplastic and it just gets smaller and smaller. The smaller it gets, the more places it gets into. We have built in biological barriers that shouldn't allow that to happen, but they just get so small and they get mistaken for estrogen more often than not. They can also coat themselves. The plastic is sticky. The way it's ionized, it sticks to a lot of things, including heavy metals, which is another big problem like we see in the ocean. So it's a big problem.

Andreas (15:30.353)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (15:31.738)

but it also sticks to biological material as well, which then tricks the body. It's almost got like a coating around it that it looks like it's something it's not. So the body accepts it and puts it in a place that it doesn't belong. If that answers the question about microplastics.

Andreas (15:44.562)

yeah, that was fantastic. Yeah. Thank you for that breakdown. And so yeah, it's so important to actually understand that it's not only from, guess, from the ingestion, as you said, but it's also coming transdermally, like we're breathing in. it's actually in our environment, right? So it's polluting the environment. So I can assume then it's in the air, in the water, in the soil. So it's actually everywhere in every part of our ecosystem and affecting our bodies, right?

Energy Fitness Studio (16:16.282)

Yeah, and that sounds all doom and gloom, huh? That sounds pretty bad.

But it's true. They're everywhere. And that's a big reason why I wanted to write the book was because like it's ubiquitous. It's everywhere. You can't escape it. Even the Amazonian tribal people that still live off the land. There's plastic in the Amazon River. There's plastic in the rainforest. There's plastics in the Mariana Trench. In the Arctic icebergs. You know, it's on the top of the Himalayan mountains. It's literally everywhere because the smaller it gets,

Andreas (16:22.256)

Ha ha!

Andreas (16:39.407)

Wow.

Energy Fitness Studio (16:51.332)

the more easily it can ride through air streams and through our ocean. And incineration is a big problem because most people think that incineration means that the plastic's gone. It's gone forever. But what actually happens is most of it becomes ash. And so all those plastic particles just become ash, which now has to be put in a landfill or getting rid of some other way, which just ends up in our land somewhere. And then the rest.

Andreas (16:54.0)

travels.

Energy Fitness Studio (17:19.671)

it's broken down small enough that it flows away and fumes. And so you breathe it in all day long. And that's not including just like your tire or your brake dust and stuff like that from the roads and the asphalt and the chemicals that actually go in the road and all of that stuff as well. But yeah, it's literally everywhere. It's on the clothes that we wear. this is a Tencel. I don't know if you've heard of Tencel before. It's like eucalyptus and beechwood. But that's a big one.

Andreas (17:44.433)

wow, that's cool.

Energy Fitness Studio (17:47.225)

Yeah, it's super good. It's a little expensive and it doesn't fit exactly like polyester, which is a problem too, because we wear our plastic, we ride in our vehicles in plastic, we sit on plastic. It is, it's everywhere. So it's something that you really can't escape. Even if you wanted to just go live in the forest and be a hermit, you're still going to breathe it in. You're going to get it in the water that you pull from the streams, unfortunately. And production is not slowing down. In the beginning I said,

Andreas (17:56.397)

Yes.

Andreas (18:01.805)

Mmm.

Andreas (18:09.891)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (18:17.029)

We make about 430 million metric tons a year is the estimated global production of plastic. And they're expecting by 2060 for that to be tripled. That's like 1.2, almost 1.3 billion metric tons of plastic produced globally per year. And it doesn't go away.

Andreas (18:40.132)

As I was preparing for this podcast today, I was looking around at my house and I was actually thinking like, okay, there's actually so much stuff that is made from plastic, including this microphone right here and my earphones and my glasses. you know, it's like there's so much stuff that is made from plastic. It's literally like everywhere. It's unavoidable, right? And I guess it's because of, as you mentioned, it's like very cheap. It's light. It's affordable. It's convenient. It's easy.

Energy Fitness Studio (18:54.564)

Yeah.

Andreas (19:08.66)

like even all like modern cars and stuff like that have it in. And you talked about obviously some common sources, you know, which are, you know, I guess from drinking bottles, know, Tupperwares, like these kinds of things. Maybe you can just rattle off a list of all the things that people are using every day, which are loaded with these plastics and maybe some of the more uncommon sources, which people might not be aware of.

Energy Fitness Studio (19:37.432)

Yeah, that's a really good question. I would say the thing that most people aren't aware of, I already mentioned, would be clothing, but most people know our water system sucks. Like, where are you located? Are you in the UK or where are you at?

Andreas (19:49.716)

in Cypress which is in Europe.

Energy Fitness Studio (19:53.398)

Okay, so you guys likely have much better water than we do in the United States. Our tap water system is quite horrible. But for the most part, pretty much all the water you get, like right before I published the book, The Microplastic Plague, I saw, came across a study that even glass-bottled water can have up to even 50 times more plastic particles in it than plastic-bottled water.

because of the production process, the lids, the painted lids. Like, yeah, so this whole time I was drinking glass bottled water thinking that I was, you know, saving myself, but turns out it could be worse. That's a big one. You know, I think everybody should invest in either a whole house or just under their tap water where they're drinking from, you know, a filtration system because it's that that's your biggest source is going to be bottled water or tap water for sure.

Andreas (20:23.852)

Wow.

Andreas (20:30.017)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (20:49.792)

It's in a lot of things though, like I'm a big coffee drinker. If anyone's a tea drinker or coffee drinker, if you're drinking from like a Keurig coffee machine or something like that, you got your plastic cups, they go through a plastic filter and the whole machine itself is plastic. Everything that the water runs through is plastic. The whole thing is plastic. That's a big one. Those ones are pretty bad. I highly suggest brewing it the old school way if you can, using

filters that are, you know, 100 % organic, endocrine disrupting chemical free, which they're in the back of the book, the very last chapter, I made a kind of made a joke of a chapter and wrote about how our world could change this. And one of those things that they could do is they could create some kind of like EDC, endocrine disrupting chemical free, like certification that products could put on their tags so the consumers could know, okay, this is

Andreas (21:43.722)

Bye!

Energy Fitness Studio (21:45.923)

plastic free. There's no endocrine disruptors in this. This is a toxic free. But currently there's no legit certification for that, whether it be for consumables or wearables or anything like that. But also the coffee cups. A lot of people here in the States, everybody stops at Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts and they drink out of these plastic coffee cups. Well, the inside is almost always lined with BPAs.

Andreas (21:59.678)

Mm-hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (22:13.898)

which are one of the worst offenders when it comes to plastics. They only stay in the body for about six to eight hours, depending on the way that your, your fascial and your lymphatic system work. But while they're in your body, it's like a massive overload of estrogen and your body responds to that at a high level. And most people are drinking multiple hot beverages out of those to go cups every single day. So it just stays in your body. And then clothing, clothing is a big one.

because pretty much are wearing clothes all day long and those clothes are plastic and you wash them over and over again. Every time you wash them, they break down more and more, you and you're breathing it in, you're soaking it in transdermally. That's a pretty big problem too. I think a lot of people get surprised about like the tea bags. lot of your tea bags, the bag itself is actually made out of plastics.

Andreas (22:56.069)

Hmm. Hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (23:11.906)

And so you're steaming that in hot water. Anytime you get a plastic heated up, it's going to leach. And all those chemicals, the salates, the BPA, BPSs, it's a funny thing. Everybody knows BPAs are bad. So a lot of things will say BPA free. But instead of using BPA, they'll use BPS, which is the same thing they're doing with like, okay, oh, so you guys are going to ban Red 40. Oh, okay. Well, let's use Red 39 instead.

Andreas (23:19.282)

Mm-hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (23:44.041)

So, they do the same thing with BPA. So, BPS is actually in some studies and it's showing that it might be worse than BPA. So, you kind of got to look for all of it.

Andreas (23:47.066)

Yeah.

Andreas (23:55.589)

Hmm. So in general, like what your advice would be then like instead of trying to obsess about the, names you'd rather just decrease your exposure than that would be more like, you know, one of the solutions I assume rather than trying to look for the, you know, BPA free or whatever plastic it's just rather, you know, make some hacks and swaps, but maybe what's, what are some

symptoms that people are experiencing that you are aware of or that you have researched in connection to microplastic exposure.

Energy Fitness Studio (24:31.714)

Yeah, first off, I would absolutely agree with that. Yeah, it's better to instead of trying to find a plastic that doesn't have those things, just don't go with the plastic at all. Absolutely. You're absolutely right. Just go with glass, stainless steel, cast iron, copper, know, something that is something you know is good for your body. And then, yeah, a lot of people actually like, okay, so there's a I think you mentioned this previously in a conversation about it's been estimated that people consume about a credit card's worth of

plastic per week. That's quite exaggerated. In the research, it's not. It's more like between 0.1 milligrams and 5 milligrams a week, but that's a huge scale from 0.1 milligrams to 5 milligrams. And that depends on how you live. That's a big scale. You're talking like from a credit card to a paperclip. It's a big range. More generally, it's about probably

Andreas (25:19.045)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (25:31.035)

credit cards worth of plastic per month for like the people they really like they live maybe close to a landfill you know they're drinking tap water they eat highly ultra processed foods you know that's like the really high end but a lot of people have microplastic issues they have issues from the bpas from the phthalates from all the other plasticizers that they don't realize because it's how everybody feels now you know most people

that aren't health conscious would say that they're tired, they are fatigued, they get brain fog, they're tired in the afternoon, you know, their energy levels are crap and those are like your baseline levels. But like here in the United States, fertility is a huge issue right now. Most couples are having a really hard time getting pregnant. Well, that's something that these endocrine-destructing chemicals influence on a massive scale.

Andreas (26:19.782)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (26:29.061)

is they disrupt your hormone production. They're hugely stressful, oxidative stress. They're all sorts of internal inflammation. They block the anti-inflammatory hormones and they act as estrogens inside the body. They're anti-androgenic. So for any man out there who's trying to be strong, build muscle, they're anti all of that. And they also mimic estrogen in the body, which is

going to cause a lot of issues. know, in men, it leads directly to infertility. know, sperm counts are extremely low right now. I forget, I don't have the stats directly on me right now, but they're in the book on that. The fertility rates are really low. it's one of the difficult things is it's hard to just say it's caused entirely by endocrine disrupting chemicals that are from plastics because our entire life

Andreas (27:08.682)

Mm-hmm.

Andreas (27:22.948)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (27:26.228)

There's so many things. There's so many people, like you talk about circadian health all the time, and that's a big thing. Most people live indoors. That obviously influences your fertility. So it's like, people also don't move as much. They're not exercising as much. You know, they're not eating as well. It's a whole cacophony of crappy things that we're doing to ourselves. And they all coalesce into this, you know, nobody can have babies anymore without medical assistance. And you've probably read,

Andreas (27:43.872)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (27:55.881)

Shannon Swan's book Countdown, you know, it's predicted that in less than 100 years that if we keep going this direction, hardly anybody will be able to conceive a child on their own without medical assistance because fertility rates keep going down. Polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, super common. That is something that is directly correlated with extremely high estrogen levels, which can be caused by these endocrine disrupting chemicals and a lot of

Andreas (28:09.035)

Wow.

Andreas (28:20.64)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (28:25.32)

A lot of women are kind of the culprits when it comes to drinking, you know, seven or eight Starbucks coffees every single day. And that's, that's extremely high in those BPAs. So that's a, that's a big one right there. I think a lot of people have the issues and they don't know it, but what people will realize is once they, if you change some of these things, you change up your, you know, your toughwares, your, you know, your bottles, whatever you start using.

Andreas (28:37.622)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (28:53.097)

cast iron or stainless steel, copper, glass, all these containers, you don't put anything hot in plastic ever again, because it just leaches and now your food is all plastic. You do your best to avoid food from the grocery store that's wrapped in multiple layers of plastic packaging, because there's absolutely no regulation on any of that. There's no regulation on the cellophane that wraps your cucumbers at the grocery store. Absolutely none.

So they use the cheapest products they can possibly use because it's a business and they're trying to make money. And if it costs more to wrap their stuff with paper, then they're not going to do that. And they also want it to be see-through. There's a whole selling point to that. But you stop using all those things. You get away from all that stuff and you will start to feel better. First, you will have less brain fog. You won't crash in the afternoon as much as you used to before. You'll find that you actually want to.

Andreas (29:25.087)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (29:46.697)

to live like a human being again, because your hormones will start to optimize themselves. You'll want to exercise. You'll want to go outside. You'll have the capacity to handle a little bit of heat and a little bit of cold. And you'll want to be in your environment. So those are things that I've definitely noticed a lot of people. And I actually don't have a copy of the microplastic plague with me right now. But I do have a couple of copies of Rewilding the Environment, which was the second book I wrote. that book led to the microplastic plague because

Andreas (29:59.508)

Hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (30:15.839)

This book, Rewilding a Modern Man, was all about optimizing hormones naturally for men. And you can't talk about hormone optimization without learning about endocrine disruptors. And so that led me down the huge rabbit hole that was the microplastic plate. So I talked to a lot of guys that are, a lot of fellows are in their mid-30s and they're trying to figure out why they have no libido. They have no give a crap.

Andreas (30:16.448)

Mmm.

Andreas (30:21.792)

Mmm.

Andreas (30:31.872)

Wow, thank you. Thank you.

Energy Fitness Studio (30:42.675)

They don't have any motivation to go to the gym. They got man boobs. And so that's one of the big things that I'm always telling guys. Like number one, just like you're always talking about, like you need to get yourself out in the sunshine. That's extremely important. And then you need to exercise. Even if it's hard, you still got to do it. And then you need to get away from all these plastics because you, can't avoid them entirely, but if you can limit your exposure.

to a massive extent, you're gonna help yourself a lot. And then you do the detox pathways, which I know you wanted to talk about as well, but I rambled on a little bit right there. I that answered your question.

Andreas (31:17.234)

Mmm.

Andreas (31:21.04)

No, no worries at all. I love it. And thank you for that breakdown. It's super important for people to be aware about the symptoms associated with this exposure because a lot of people might be experiencing a lot of symptoms like headaches or brain fog or not feeling good, know, feeling like lethargic or not optimizing, you know, or feeling like more feminine as a man, you know, when you're, you know, you don't feel like you have the drive or the

the motivation or the discipline to do things in your life, right? And you're wondering why is that? And you just want to lay down on the couch all day. Of course, as you mentioned, it's multifactorial and also women are experiencing more of these hormonal disturbances as well with their reproductive organs too. But men, it's more like, to men, it's more like a silent war, right? It's more like the feminization of man, which is happening without us even realizing it, you know, just by simply

going about our daily life, we're just living modern life and we're attacking our bodies and we're not even realizing it. So that's why I think it's so important for us to have this discussion and to bring the awareness about the symptoms, where it's coming from, the exposure. So let's maybe get into the mechanisms then. So for example, we are exposed to these microplastics, they get inside of our body. Once they get inside of our body, what happens? Where do they go? What's actually happening? Why is it?

you know, bringing about all of these issues.

Energy Fitness Studio (32:47.217)

Yeah, so they go everywhere. That's the easiest answer. they go everywhere. So it's also like you just said too, it's that cacophony. It's multifactorial because all the other things going on. But the higher inflammation you have in general, if you are an average Western person and you eat a crappy diet, you don't spend time outdoors, you don't exercise, you probably are super inflamed. Your whole body is probably super inflamed in your...

immune system is struggling just to keep you alive. And so that makes it even worse. You know, that more likely or not this person I just described that doesn't exercise, eats crappy food, doesn't care about what they put in their body so much. They probably have some type of irritable gut syndrome, probably have leaky gut. And so that's probably your first pathway because, you know, we drink, we consume so much plastic.

through just ingestion, through drinking out of whatever your water source is, through eating food. Any food that's ultra processed is gonna have a pretty high amount of plastics in it. From the machinery that process the foods and then just from the lack of care that goes into producing those foods, there just ends up being plastic in a lot of that stuff all the time. And so you ingest it, it makes its way down in there. It makes its way into your intestines. If it's liquid, it winds up in your blood.

Andreas (33:59.737)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (34:11.069)

pretty quickly and if it's small enough, your blood is going to carry it into every facet of your body. Depending on how good your circulation is, those particles are going to get stuck in various places. Plastic has been found in pancreas, liver, kidneys. It's been found in every corner of the body. It's been found in follicular fluid. It's been found in oocytes. It's been found in the testicles, in the brain. It's literally been found.

Andreas (34:19.68)

huh.

Energy Fitness Studio (34:38.653)

everywhere in the body. And when it gets into those places, depending on where it goes, depending on where your blood takes it to, or where, once it gets out of your gut, of course, where I was going with that, once it gets out of your gut, it makes its way into your bloodstream. Pretty much every pathway that it comes in, it makes its way into your bloodstream, and then your blood carries it to wherever. And the blood's job, in part, is to carry minerals and vitamins and all of these different things to various parts of your body. It's the transport system. And

Andreas (34:57.69)

Mm hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (35:07.96)

it's just going to do that. Whatever gets in there is going to get transported through your body. And wherever it ends up, it's most likely going to act as estrogen wherever it goes. And an excess of estrogen throughout your entire body. Most people know, I would say, especially your crowd of people who are listening to your show, they already know that your hormones are very sensitive. It's a sensitive...

Andreas (35:20.762)

Mmm.

Andreas (35:32.516)

Yes.

Energy Fitness Studio (35:34.086)

hormonal game inside your body. Very small things can change it. Like if you don't happen, if you happen to stay up super late one night, that's going to affect you for a couple of days. You know, it seems really basic, but it's also kind of complicated at the same time. But essentially the more microplastics you have in your body, can think of it like the more estrogen you have in your body. It's exogenous, which means it's from outside of your body.

Andreas (35:57.361)

Mm. Mm-hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (35:59.996)

And that's going to change the way in which your body produces estrogen. And for women, progesterone and all these things, which are super important for a woman, it's also important for a man too. Estrogen helps with the absorption of calcium and all sorts of other things. I've heard you talk about that as well. It's a delicate balance. And when you throw off that balance, like you said earlier, you're going to have the feminization of men. Women are going to find themselves unable to reproduce and with these, like the poly, the POCS.

or short, you find themselves infertile. And it just piles into this whole mess of things. And then because we live in a world where there's so many other factors that contribute to crappy health, it just, next thing you know, there's disease, there's cancer, lot of these like phthalates and things like that have been connected to tumors and causing cancer. And it's a really fine line.

Andreas (36:43.181)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (36:58.511)

depending on where this plastic goes and how it accumulates in that area. excuse me, chapter 11 in the microplastic plague is all about detox, which is the important part of that because like we've been talking this whole time, it's not all doom and gloom, but you can't avoid it. But there's no reason to live scared. That's actually gonna cause more stress, which is gonna influence where the plastic goes.

Andreas (37:19.905)

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Andreas (37:25.747)

Exactly. That's what I was going to say that we've, we've like scared the audience enough now. I feel like, you know, we've made them aware about all the, all the mechanisms, all the reasons, like how it gets into the body and why they should be aware of it, you know, why they should be avoiding it. guess they're, they're figuring that out now about their solutions, about how to reduce their exposure, about the things that they're aware of. But yeah, I was going to ask you, is it possible to get rid of these things? You know, once they're inside of the body.

can they actually get out because there are some substances that are they not called forever chemicals, right? Where they kind of like last forever. And then, know, some of these substances, they stay in the body like forever, you know, and this is why it's so problematic. So I guess it's not only important to detoxify the body, as you mentioned, but it's so important to build resilience. And maybe based on that, you can give us a couple of tips.

on how to build resilience. But before that, let's talk about detox. How can someone go about detoxifying their body? What are your favorite methods?

Energy Fitness Studio (38:31.332)

Yeah, absolutely. That's entirely true. There's no reason to be too scared. So the best way you can detox from microplastics actually through, I think I said it earlier on, just through your gut, through regular bowel movements is the easiest way. But in order to make that effective, you have to have a healthy gut. You need to make sure that what's coming in is staying inside of the gut. Nothing's leaking out. Nothing's getting out.

Andreas (38:48.212)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (39:00.955)

should be in there. So that's a huge thing. I'm not a huge proponent of things like fiber. I'm pretty much an animal based guy, but fiber does serve a big role when it comes to detoxing the body. Like if you've ever done, I'm sure you or some of your listeners have done like parasite cleanses and stuff like that before. And when you do something like that, you do want a little bit of fiber just to help, to help capture some of that stuff on the way out. So if you're, if you're doing like a big detox,

Andreas (39:17.459)

Yes.

Andreas (39:25.544)

Yes.

Energy Fitness Studio (39:28.0)

And you're doing this like, okay, I'm going to dive into this head first and I'm going to change my products that I'm using. I'm going to change out my lifestyle. I'm going change my clothes, have glass stuff, drink out of glass, whatever. Maybe you do a detox in the beginning as well. And you're like, okay, I'm also going to do like a three week detox. Number one, I would say eat some cruciferous vegetables. I wouldn't go crazy and like take fiber because you want fat soluble fiber.

So you want to eat cruciferous vegetables, maybe asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, know, stuff like that. Something that also has some other benefits to it. And it is, you're not just taking the supplements. So don't do that. But eat some broccoli, stuff like that. Eat a good anti-inflammatory diet, something that's going to bring the inflammation down internally so that everything that goes in your gut stays in your gut, gets used the way your body needs to use it, and then exits properly without infecting the rest of your body.

Andreas (40:00.916)

Mm-hmm.

Andreas (40:05.672)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (40:23.266)

And then number two, if you don't already exercise, you need to exercise because exercise is, well, in my opinion and in my research, exercise is the one thing that influences how long you're gonna live and the quality of your life. Even if your diet isn't perfect, the more muscle mass you have, the longer you generally live. And that's just a fact for the most case as long as you develop cancer from your shitty diet.

Andreas (40:24.019)

Mmm.

Andreas (40:37.587)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (40:49.145)

When you exercise, it moves your blood into different parts of your body. You're going to get some vasodilation. You're going to get blood moving, circulating through your body. It's going to pick up the trash that got stuck in other places. It's going to help circulate some stuff out of there. And then you also get a lot of anti-inflammatory responses when you exercise, especially the several hours after you exercise. And that's going to be huge for bringing down inflammation in your body. Yes, exactly. Yep. And so that's going to help massively.

Andreas (40:59.847)

Yes.

Andreas (41:11.495)

Yeah, myokines.

Energy Fitness Studio (41:18.617)

for bringing down inflammation and helping your body detox. And then you really need to sweat. Sweat is the number two way that is the best way to detox this stuff out of you. So it doesn't matter too much how you sweat. It just, need to every single day, whether you go sit in the sunshine and you sweat because you're getting beat on by the sun, or if it's from exercise or if it's from a sauna. I'm a big fan of using saunas. Some of the research does point if you have access to an infrared sauna or a near infrared sauna.

Andreas (41:41.075)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (41:48.547)

that those saunas can actually induce a deeper sweat and that it can pull toxins out from deeper in your body when you sweat. But a big caveat when you are sweating is to make sure you're wiping the sweat off of you and not letting yourself soak in it because you can sweat it out and then soak it back in. Exactly, yes. can reabsorb it. So just make sure you're wiping the sweat off as you go. Those are the biggest ways. can also, a good bit of it does get.

Andreas (41:52.349)

Mmm.

Mmm.

Andreas (42:00.915)

Yeah.

Reabsorb.

Energy Fitness Studio (42:16.811)

urinated out as well. A big part of that is to make sure that you're drinking high quality water. Because you're going to go against yourself if you're drinking your typical gas station really soft plastic water. That's going to be worse for you. So drink it filtered water that's filtered with a good filter. I'm not sponsored by them. I wish I was, but I use iSpring.

Ice spring is my favorite. We've been using them for almost a decade now. We have a nine filter one and then a whole house filtration system. So it gets filtered through the whole house and then under the sink. Yeah, it's great. And that's my favorite. Make sure it's filtered and make sure you're changing the filters when you need to change them according to how much you use because otherwise you end up with mold and stuff like that. And that's no good either. That's a whole nother conversation.

Andreas (42:50.318)

nice.

Andreas (43:06.707)

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (43:10.784)

filter your water. that's a whole nother issue that also compiles into the inflammatory response. you but drink, drink a good amount of water. You know, there's multiple different people say multiple different things for how much water you should be drinking. just drink as much water as you need. In my opinion, you know, if you're sweating a lot, drink more water, you know, I like to play that by ear, but

Andreas (43:16.05)

Yes.

Energy Fitness Studio (43:34.392)

Those are the biggest things, you know, make sure that you get your internal inflammation down. You're eating a good clean diet. So you're limiting your exposure. You're getting a little bit of fiber. I don't recommend a ton of fiber like throughout your entire life, but during like a detox period, I do think it helps a little bit. You can also do stuff like zeolite, charcoal tabs, you know, there's other things that you can use for extra detox as well. But I'm sure you're aware of those. That would definitely be like my protocol.

Andreas (43:51.875)

Yes.

Energy Fitness Studio (44:02.783)

My recommendation would be that make sure you're sweating every day and make sure you're exercising, even if the exercising is just going for a walk. You can work your way into lifting heavier weights or doing more high intensity stuff, but you gotta get moving. You gotta get your facial system moving. You gotta get your lymphatic system doing, working the way it's supposed to work. Otherwise these other detox pathways like sweating, you're not gonna get a whole lot out of your sweat if you're not, if your lymphatic system hasn't been.

Andreas (44:26.883)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (44:31.347)

squeezed and squenched and you talk about the factual a lot. that stuff isn't getting worked the way it's supposed to work, then you're not going to detoxify it the most effectively you can.

Andreas (44:35.341)

Yes. Yeah.

Andreas (44:41.518)

And talking about the importance of movement and exercise, I think a lot of people don't actually realize how important movement and exercise actually is because people think that they associate exercise and movement always when it comes to some specific goal, know, whether it's like just to feel better or to look better or to perform better.

But people don't actually realize that it's a biological necessity. Your body literally relies on movement every single day just in order to function normally, never mind optimally. And so to get optimally, obviously you need to optimize other areas of your life as well, and then you can add resistance training on top of that, which is what I call hard exercise, but movement, like walking, just doing some yoga, some stretching, some swimming, like light movement constantly throughout the day.

is what your body craves. And when we are stagnant, that's when issues begin to show up in the body because we have stagnation of blood, stagnation of the lymphatic system. And as you mentioned that with that movement of the muscle, your heart is not supposed to do everything. Your heart is not a pump. Like your muscles are literally meant to pump the fluids around the body and they're supposed to assist the heart. So you're going to have a better cardiovascular fitness and condition just by simply moving more.

even without running, don't need to run to improve your cardiovascular fitness. You just need to move your body more. need to nasal breathe and you need to move your lymphatic system in order to detoxify your body efficiently because that is what literally picks up the metabolic waste and all these things that we're talking about, like the mold, the heavy metals, the microplastics. It gets excreted through our urine, our feces, our sweat, like all our detoxification organs, our breathing.

These are our major detoxification pathways. And if those are not all working as they should be, or if we're not taking advantage, for example, of the sweat, or if we're not drinking enough and not peeing out enough, you know, we're minimizing that detox, right? And obviously when you have an accumulation of metabolic waste in your system, even if you are moving a lot, you are basically causing stagnation in your lymphatic system, which then therefore causes inflammation, as you mentioned. So

Andreas (46:56.108)

When we have high inflammation, causes all kinds of issues, aches and pains, nervous system issues, nervous system dysregulation. Even if you are a calm person, you can feel like you're getting symptoms of anxiety or depression. All these things which are associated with physical manifestations due to the fact that you're not taking care of your body. And a lot of people, they associate mental health disorders just with their mind, but they don't realize that their brain is an

It's an organ, right? That's just literally sitting on your body, which is the soil and it's feeding off of your soil and it's like a feedback loop, a feedback system. So you can't take care of your brain if you don't take care of your body. So let's talk a little bit about how to build resilience then, you know, because of course we talked about how to extract or excrete all of these substances out of the body, but

Energy Fitness Studio (47:27.606)

Hahaha.

Andreas (47:53.268)

Maybe now we talk about building the resilience to be able to tolerate more crap, right? Because of course living in fear is not a good thing. So in order for us to be healthy and vital, it's not only important to distance ourselves from all of this stuff, but we must, you know, build the strength and the resilience to be able to tolerate more stress.

Energy Fitness Studio (48:15.542)

Yeah, absolutely. I love this conversation so far. I'm totally on the same page with you on all of this stuff. It's so important to have the resilience because like we said, we live in a world where you can't escape it entirely. there's absolutely no point in living stressed out about it. You can't be stressed. Just like we all know at some point, unfortunately, we're gonna die. If you live your whole life with that fear of death in every moment, then it's gonna be a pretty miserable life. You don't get to live that way.

Building their resilience is crazy important because you will become exposed to them no matter how Well, you limit yourself you will become exposed to them at some point in your life and maybe at a massive level Maybe you breathe in You know some really polluted air somewhere you go. Maybe you drink a gulp of water that is you know, whatever so it's gonna happen and so the resilience is important I just I was trying to talk to my kids

about the blood brain barrier the other day. And I've got four kids and they're the biggest blessing in my life. And I was talking to them about this micro nanoplastics making their way through the blood brain barrier and this blood brain barrier. Yeah, like I'm not a scientist. I'm a researcher. I'm kind of a meathead. And these are all things that I've just learned. So the way that I described it to them actually worked pretty well for me. It was like this, the blood brain barrier. Essentially, there's these like

guards or these like soldiers that are standing at the door and if they're really well trained and they're very resilient and they're they're They have diligence. They're good at their job They're not gonna let anything come across that is not going to serve the highest authority to the brain It's not going to provide everything that the brain needs they're going to keep everything out But if they're stressed out and they're overworked and they're tired, which is an inflamed and stressed out body

They're just, they're going to be like those crappy bouncers at the nightclub. They're just like, yeah, whatever, come in, come in, man, whatever, screw it. Like, you kind of look, you kind of look like an amino acid, screw it, come on in. Like we could try to use you. And so that's kind of where the resonance is. Cause there's a blood barriers all throughout your body. There's testicular blood barriers. There's barriers in all sorts of places that are meant to protect organs and protect certain parts of your body, especially like your reproductive organs and your brain.

Andreas (50:12.935)

Yeah.

Andreas (50:33.543)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (50:38.229)

this is really important, but when these barriers, when you have a high level of inflammation in your body, they're weakened. And when they're weakened, now it's easier for these things to cross those barriers and to get into the places that they're gonna cause the most disruption, like in the testes or in the ovaries or in the brain or in the pancreas or anywhere that's in your endocrine system, your hypothalamus, any of these endocrine creating organs, it's gonna cause a pretty big issue. So if you have...

good resilience because you've been eating as clean as you can. You're not stressed out about your eating, right, but you've been clean about your eating, you've been clean about your water consumption, you've been spending time outside because inside we haven't talked about yet but inside pretty much anywhere you are inside all the things that are made out of plastic are constantly leaching into the air and so the more often you're indoors breathing.

Andreas (51:29.372)

Yes.

Energy Fitness Studio (51:31.71)

you're breathing in those microplastics. So spending as much time outdoors as you can, breathing nice, fresh air that's circulating, super important. That resilience will come up because your body naturally, when you bring down inflammation, your body will start to rebuild and it will rebuild in those really important places, which are those barriers. Same with your gut. Your gut does the same thing. Your barriers from your intestines and where everything leaks out into the rest of your system that gets harmed through everyday living.

will repair itself and now you'll have the resilience. if you do, you know, you do accidentally eat a plastic bag or something, your body will be able to work with it and get rid of it and detox it in a way that won't harm you as much as it would have before. So resilience is actually a really big deal because the less resilient you are, the more affected you are by these things, which is a big reason why

babies like in utero can be so affected by the tiniest amounts of DPAs or salates, they can really harm and really affect. For any women that are listening and any men too that are trying to conceive, there's very fragile phases in the development of a child that you really want to stay as far away from plastics as you can. You want to have resilience before you even try to have a baby and then make sure you're staying away from lot of those things because

The hormone system is very sensitive and when a newborn child is trying to become a man or a woman, it's even more sensitive. It needs a very specific amount of very specific hormones at a very specific time. And if that's influenced by an outside source, it's going to change things that may not be reversible. And I know that sounds really horrible and that's scary, but that is a fact. And that's something that people should be concerned about.

Andreas (53:03.459)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (53:30.515)

to a point where they start making changes. actually, as you see behind me, I'm in our gym and it's class-based. So group fitness is around 80 % women. So most of my clients here at the gym are women. And a lot of women, they're younger women, they're all talking about how they're trying to conceive. And one of the big things is like, if you are trying to conceive, you need to get away from the plastics, you really do.

Andreas (53:33.685)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (53:59.41)

You really just got to get away from them, but you got to build the resilience at the same time as you're eliminating your exposure and then learning how to detox. It kind of all works together. I heard someone say the other day in a podcast that they believe that using a sauna should be something that everybody does now because of all the toxins in our environment between the mold, the plastics, everything. And I agree with that. I do. I think it's important. think a lot of people, well, you you're a coach as well. so

Andreas (54:17.919)

Yes

Energy Fitness Studio (54:28.06)

Some people come to you and they can barely walk a mile. But for someone who can barely walk a mile, they can still sit in You know what I mean? I think, so I do. I think that's important. I really do.

Andreas (54:36.65)

Yes.

Andreas (54:42.051)

yeah, fantastic tips. Thank you so much for that breakdown. And yeah, like it's so important for people to sweat for sure, because if you think about it, so many people are not sweating these days because they are not exercising. They are not moving. They are not being outdoors. And generally when you live a natural lifestyle, you're not indoors, right? You're outside. And when you're outside, you're more likely in the sun. And when you're in the sun,

you're getting so many benefits on a mitochondrial level, which is giving your cells more energy to do their job, which is to clean, to repair, know, to destroy themselves if they need to, you know, apoptosis or in general, like as well, if you are grounded and you're rebalancing your nervous system state, now your body has that resilience to take care of the problem. But if it's lacking that cellular energy on a cellular level, if you're stuck indoors and exposed,

the microplastics and all these other endocrine disruptors like the fragrances, the so much stuff, the non-native electromagnetic fields, the blue lights, all of this is impacting our hormones, right? And our lymphatic system and our immune system, it all goes hand in hand, then the outcome is going to be way worse and we're going to be feeling the consequences of those things so much more. Like for me, for example, I'm exposed probably to quite a lot of microplastics like every modern human being is.

but I'm also spending a lot of time outdoors as much as I can. You know, I'm sweating a lot every single day. I'm getting grounded multiple times throughout the day, you know, getting in the sea. I'm just making sure that I'm taking care of my detoxification, my immune system, my overall vitality, health and charge, which is giving my cells that energy that they need to function and thrive. And then therefore they can function as they should. And how do you say,

Identify the invader. You know, of course, a of, a lot of times these things, are unidentifiable, as you said, by the body, they can sort of bypass the immune system response. And that is what makes them so dangerous. So guess the biggest thing would be for sure to reduce our exposure. So now it's not only important to do the things to build the resilience, you know, to feel good and to optimize and to make our body thrive, but we need to also eliminate the stressors, the exposure.

Energy Fitness Studio (56:34.001)

Yeah.

Andreas (57:00.482)

all of the other things that come along with the microplastics because as well a lot of things what I tell my clients is when they go to the supermarket just try and don't buy anything packaged just buy everything that's loose you know just buy meat vegetables everything that's loose whatever and just eat only that or seasonal local fruits and vegetables don't eat anything that's packaged because that way you can avoid not only a lot of crap you know processed foods but you're avoiding also a lot of microplastics and

you know lot of things that you don't actually need to be consuming along the process which are these pre-packaged things like, here's 500 grams of berries when you can get them yourself and put them in your own little net or whatever your organic net that you brought to the supermarket to take them home or you know simple things like that because our convenience is killing us. You know, we do a lot of things for convenience in our modern world like temperature and the type of light that we're exposed to and also these things, the packaging.

Energy Fitness Studio (57:48.731)

Yes, yes.

Andreas (57:57.848)

And also the transportation as well, instead of moving our bodies, we're just taking a car everywhere or instead of cycling, you know? And so it's really like super detrimental. So let's maybe talk a little bit about the impact of plastics and microplastics on the planet, on the ecosystem, on the environment. Why is it actually a problem on the planet? And is it doing something to the oceans, to the fish? Let's dive into all of that.

Energy Fitness Studio (58:25.615)

Awesome, yeah, I agree with everything you said right there. And I love all that. Yeah, so human beings actually, we're actually an extremely resilient creature. We really are. We're very resilient. The human body is beautiful and it's fantastic at getting rid of so many toxins. The human body is like, I could go on, the human body is just so beautiful. And I love how resilient we are as a species. But many species on our planet are not as resilient as we are.

amphibians and reptiles, many other species on our planet are, you they're the canaries in the coal mine, one could say, you know, like especially our fish, our fish, our amphibians and our reptiles get influenced on a massive scale by these endocrine disrupting chemicals, whether it be from pesticides, know, herbicides or from plastics, from really anything that's endocrine disrupting harm them on a massive scale. There's a

I wrote about this lake in Florida here in the United States, Lake Apopka. Through like two decades, had just this massive amount of waste was just dumped and it all ended up in this lake. And alligators and fish were found to, there was gender abnormalities, issues where, you know,

There's like micro penis and like all sorts of like horrible things were happening to the fish species and the alligator reptiles in this water. people can say, well, you know, yeah, yeah. And everybody knows about Alex Jones and the frogs. Like that's a real thing. That's really, that really happened. Like he's, might be a little crazy, but that's real. That really happened. And I didn't want to dive deep into that, but that's, that's a fact. And that happened with the fish. happened with.

Andreas (59:55.47)

frogs.

Andreas (01:00:08.504)

Yeah. Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:00:15.438)

The reptiles, you know, they, because they're so, they become so estrogen dominant, they, don't even know how to reproduce anymore. And so they're trying, there's a biological thing that says I need to reproduce, but they aren't reproducing with the right sex even, or, you know, just a whole host of disgusting things. And humans are really resilient, but those are the canaries in the coal mine. And there's a population in Brazil.

because of these type of pesticides and the crin disruptors and because what happens is a lot of The big countries in the world with a lot of money. They'll dump their waste on smaller countries They don't have a good military service They don't have you know, the authority or the ability to say no don't dump your shit here and So they just kind of get bullied and then they're left to handle these super toxic waste chemicals that

Andreas (01:00:55.096)

Mmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:01:09.839)

You know the bigger countries didn't want to deal with so they do this out of sight out of mind thing and this ends up in You know rural places and ends up in countries They can't really defend themselves and they're left to try to figure out what to do with this and they obviously don't have the finances to be able to do the most right thing because really none of it really officially works in the long term, but they can't even You know get it out of their way. They can't really quarantine it and protect their people

And so there's this population in Brazil that is experiencing the same things at a massive level, 44 times higher than that in Egypt, which is the second highest place that experiences issues like we're talking about genital abnormalities where things are misshapen. They're not the correct proportions that they should be. Lots of really big issues that become huge mental health issues for these young children as they get older, like not even able to identify the gender.

at birth or even until a couple years old because it know visually can't determine because nothing is is visible. Really really horrible stuff. There's a big population in Brazil that's that has to deal with this right now. 45 times higher, 44 times higher sorry, than Egypt which is the next highest. And then it's just you know it's just what happens to our wildlife will happen to us.

They may happen to them first, you know, like we'll see frogs disappear and become extinct because of our actions, which is, you know, pretty heinous of us to continue doing, but it happens all the time. And it ends up, it kind of starts at the bottom, you know, you have your cephalopods and you have these creatures that kind of deep, they eat off the bottom of the oceans and then, you know, works up to like your plankton and stuff like that.

Andreas (01:02:35.624)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:03:03.519)

Everybody knows like you should try to stay away from like tuna and things like that because these are huge fish that eat a ton of smaller species and generally they end up with like the mercury carrying all the heavy metals but they're also carrying a ton of microplastics as well. And then the processing of them fish just adds to it when you eat it. It just works its way through our ecosystem in a way that it like slowly kills things in the process and influences.

their entire ecosystem on a massive scale because as a species, humans, we just hide stuff. We get stuff out of sight, out of mind, and so with all of our plastic pollution and all of our pollution in general, most countries hide it somewhere. They put it somewhere out of sight, out of mind. You know, there are giant garbage patches the size of, you know, small countries in Europe all throughout our oceans, throughout the whole world. The Pacific garbage patch is one of the biggest

loading garbage patches on our planet and it's destroying ecosystems and our ocean. It's killing coral reefs. It's destroying the things that provide us life. In the end, we're killing ourselves. To be completely doomed, if we don't fix this, human beings could put themselves on the endangered list. It might take a while. It might take a hundred years or so, but it's a definite possibility between us.

Andreas (01:04:26.781)

That's not long.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:04:29.555)

it's technically it's really not that long. It's really not that long. We could find ourselves infertile and then we could find ourselves without an environment they can provide for us. It's a huge deal. It really is a big problem. It's a big reason why I wanted to write this book in the first place was the deeper I dove into the endocrine disrupting because that's what I really cared about in the first place was natural testosterone and you trying to be the best version of myself that I could be.

As a man moving into my 30s and feeling that like slow decline, I was like, I need to do some things to feel better. You know, I want to keep my testosterone high. I don't want to use it exogenously until, you know, maybe one day I'll have to and I'll cross that bridge at that point, but I want to be as natural as I can for as long as I can. And, but the further I dug into this, the further it became like a real issue for me and something I felt like I needed to get out there because like I said, I have four children and.

Andreas (01:05:03.603)

Mm-hmm.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:05:25.537)

They're not only are my children our future, but everybody's children are our future and it is integral to the species of human beings to have a place to live in the future. Even if Elon gets us to Mars, there's still no environment on Mars, right? So we need to fix what we have here. There's a lot of ways we can do it. I talk about it in the final chapters of the book.

There are certain bacteria and microbes that can metabolize plastics, which is big. the problem is... Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's a great conversation because there are many microbes that can metabolize plastic, just like some people are listening and maybe you have too heard like in the oil spills, they'll dump certain microbes and bacteria and they'll basically metabolize and clean up the spill.

Andreas (01:06:02.864)

I was going to ask you about that actually.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:06:24.392)

It can be done. The problem is right now is that there's not much funding to help research because it can be done in a laboratory setting right now. But as everybody knows, the laboratory setting in real life are quite different. There's so many variables in real life. And then you also don't know the impact of that bacteria or microbe or enzymes because some of them are just enzymes, what that will do to the environment afterwards. So there's so many variables.

Andreas (01:06:37.927)

Yeah.

Andreas (01:06:50.843)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:06:53.142)

there needs to be a lot of funding towards that. I think that would be really important because if you can only get bacteria to consume a coffee cup size of plastic in one day, that's not gonna help our problem. We're making 430 million tons every year. But there is potentiality in that. There is, that's probably the one savior that we might have, like a real savior to this problem.

Andreas (01:07:11.461)

Yeah.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:07:22.143)

Besides, obviously, companies resourcing differently and making products out of hemp and eucalyptus and bamboo and other natural products that don't cause harm to our ecosystems but can be farmed at a relatively fast pace.

Andreas (01:07:31.537)

Mmm.

Andreas (01:07:42.641)

Yeah, so, so I was actually thinking because there is the, feel like there is also a bit of a scam going around with these massive industries where they are shrinking their packaging down. They are still using plastics. Are they shrinking their packaging down, making you feel like you are using less plastic, but then they are dumping their massive production of plastic.

behind you not knowing at all in these other countries like you mentioned or in the landfills or whatever out of out of sight out of your awareness to make you believe that you are making a good decision now when you go to the supermarket for example or a kiosk you find these like water bottles with these caps on top instead of them being bigger like they used to be in the past now they're super small

like they shrank them by like cup, like half an inch or something. And I'm like, what's that going to do? You know, if someone's going to throw the bottle in the ocean, they're still going to throw the bottle like as if that's going to make any difference, you know, and the way that they attach the cap on the bottle now, so it doesn't come off. it doesn't like fall off and all this kind of business. Of course, it kind of helps to some extent, you know, the pollution in your immediate environment that you can see with your eyes, but it's still not helping the overall bigger picture, which is this mass.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:08:27.078)

Ha ha.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:08:38.635)

Yeah.

Andreas (01:08:54.552)

production that's probably happening in China and these very big developing countries where they are making all of this mass production of products, cheap products that they are selling all around the globe and they are made from these plastics and they don't actually care. So the solution that you are suggesting is they actually swap to plastic alternatives, which would be so much more healthy for the planet and maybe

biocompostable or something like this, you know, made out of cellulose. I've seen many brands actually, you know, when they sell clothing, for example, they put the in this plastic looking thing and it's made of cellulose and apparently it's biodegradable. You can put it in your plant pot or whatever, and it can just, you know, dissolve. And that's pretty cool. And it's, it's a really good direction that, you know, brands are going in that direction. But unfortunately, do everybody's taking it as seriously and the massive players in this like

you know, like the soda industry, know, the massive fast food industries that are producing a lot of this plastic, they are not taking it as seriously as, you know, the smaller companies because they don't actually care. And they have so much money that they can hide a lot of the issues that they are creating. So I feel like we really blasted the audience today with a lot of like,

You know, truth bombs. hope that people take this message extremely seriously and they start taking action against it and they start to avoid and eliminate these plastics from their lives as much as they can. And in general, the message is always reconnect back with nature, right? Being connection with nature as much as you can. Be outside, sweat, detoxify, move, gather charge, become more resilient. Don't be indoors because the more indoors you are, the more exposed you are to these volatile compounds, these microplastics.

and just reduce your overall exposure through your lifestyle habits and practices. So where can people find your book Trenton? Your The Microplastic Plague.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:10:59.06)

Yeah, thank you so much, man. I appreciate you a lot. And I appreciate your time too. Yes, so can find it at Amazon. It's right now exclusively through Amazon. I stopped going through all the other places I went with through my books. So everything is now directly through Amazon. It's available on Kindle, if you're a Kindle reader. And also it's paperback as well. So you can just type in the Microplastic Plague by Trenton Sweet and you'll find it right there. And then if anybody wants to follow up.

Andreas (01:11:24.833)

And how about the other books?

Energy Fitness Studio (01:11:28.73)

Same with them. Yep. So Awakening the Trimple Warrior was my first book. You can also find that on Amazon as well. And then same thing with Rewilding the Modern Man, which was my second book. The first book was about my journey. My journey through addiction and substance abuse and being a minor league football player and then becoming a fat shit and then getting back into shape and infertile. That's a part of the story was my wife and I were infertile and we were going through all these different things to try to get pregnant and then.

changing our life to living the way that we do now, fixed it, and now obviously have four children. So yeah, but you can find all three of those books on Amazon. And just type in, if you type in Trenton Sweet in books, should build, all three should pop up as well.

Andreas (01:12:14.003)

Awesome brother, it was an absolute pleasure to talk with you today and I feel like, you know, I was really excited to talk to you because this is such a, you know, a crucial and important topic to share with the world and to bring the awareness because the more aware people are, the more action they can take, right? If you're not aware that there's this issue, you know, with your environment or these little changes and swaps that you can make on a daily basis that can have a massive impact on your health because you know, that stress is sort of, I mean, health is sort of like a book it.

and that you've basically filled the bucket up, you know, and you can do all the good things to fill the bucket up. And the same thing, you have a stress bucket as well. And you must make sure that you don't overflow that stress bucket. And microplastics are one of those things that fill the stress bucket. So we want to keep the stress bucket as low as possible, right? So can they find you anywhere else on Instagram? Do you have a website?

Energy Fitness Studio (01:13:07.624)

The only website I have right now is currently for the gym. So if you're local to Pittsburgh, yeah, you can you can take an energy fitness studio and find us there but for everyone else I'm the most active on Instagram. I'm trying to be more active and better about that. But yeah, you can find me Instagram just at TrentonSweet. That's pretty much it, man. And I'd love to return the favor and I'd love to have you on the energy fitness podcast as well one time. I think we have a really fun conversation over there as well. So we'll make something work.

Andreas (01:13:36.2)

It will be a pleasure. Thank you so much.

Energy Fitness Studio (01:13:40.239)

Awesome brother, thank you for your time man, thanks for having me. Take care.

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