Fluorosurfactant

Well, why? And they will have read, they will have Googled, they will have some of the data.

And again, we have to say that, yes, there's evidence for these gut microbiome issues, for the PFAS, the forever chemicals.

There's all sorts of theories, but in terms of for that individual sitting in front of you, it's not particularly useful or helpful because, again, as we mentioned, but I never did that.

I've not been exposed to that.

What it's not great for is how do you deal with these environmental toxins? So when apoptosis happens, you have heavy metals that are inside that cell.

You have environmental toxins like PFAs and PFOAs and endocrine disruptors and plastics.

I can't even tell you how many toxins we have in our environment right now.

And they're all living in the cell, damaging the cell.

And then they measured their antibody reaction to that measles vaccine.

And what they found is the people that had a weaker reaction to the vaccine, meaning their antibodies were less powerful, actually had higher levels of what they call PFAS or forever chemicals.

So we now know that these toxins are suppressing our immune system.

And so the power of detoxing, I'll continue to talk about that here on my channel.

And so we could be eating the wrong foods and we could be drinking unclean water or water that has contaminants.

And nowadays, even in the state of Colorado, which is where I live, most of the water supplies that have been tested are have already been contaminated with levels that are higher than allowed for PFAs, which are polyfluorinated compounds, Teflon, Gore-Tex.

Those are forever chemicals, David, which means we don't even know.

We can't even calculate how long they stay there, let alone we don't even know what to do to get rid of them.

So very broadly speaking, we have those hydrophilic coatings that are mainly used on the outer surface of many endovascular devices, wires, but also catheters.

Whereas the inner lining of many catheters is composed by these water-repellent substances, which PFAS are part of.

And so this interaction of surfaces of very water-rich substances and water-repellent substances really reduce friction.

And so for the hydrophilic coating, we already knew that these can shut off, but there are no dedicated tests for this.

Whereas for the PFAS, they're a very good standardized test.

And this was never actually looked at before.

And I felt that it could just be part of a potential release.

Yeah.

We're going to talk about eating stuff.

One issue with eating anything these days, in particular fish, is contaminants and how healthy is it? But here we have some new research saying that PFAS levels are declining in Great Lakes fish.

PFAS levels are declining.

Let's start here.

Katie O'Reilly, what are PFAS exactly and why should we care about them in fish?

Yep.

So PFAS are per and poly fluorinated compounds, but essentially they are a chemical compound, a group of chemical compounds that began being used in consumer products in the mid 20th century, so 1950s or so.

And when you think about things that we use in our everyday life, stuff that is water repellent or no stick pans, firefighting foams, anything that is kind of, again, that water repellent-ness- Like fancy

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And that water system supports not just the city of North Pole.

It supports Moose Creek and several other areas because of the PFAS issue.

So this isn't just about, you know, and it would not be a huge expenditure compared to many of the other things in the state budget.

So if there was going to, I mean, we tore down a building in Fairbanks.