414 — Detox Your Body, Mind and Life With Angie Chek

There are 86,860 chemicals on the USTSCA inventory.

There are 42,000 578 actively in commerce.

A lot of those are toxic.

Pollution causes approximately 9 million deaths per year, which actually turns out to be one in every six deaths worldwide based on research.

And then we have the plastic chemicals, PFAS, are detectable in the blood of 97% of Americans.

We'll probably talk about that, but that's a problem.

There are approximately 10,787 substances which were permitted in the U.S. food supply, and the FDA never reviewed the safety of 3,000 of them.

Nearly 99% of new food chemicals introduced since 2008 entered the U.S. food supply through the generally regarded as safe self-certification, hint, hint, loophole rather than FDA review.

Self-certification means the company producing the chemicals and additives provided their own documentation of their proof, which is like dating the devil.

Let's see.

I wish this was the end of it, but it's not.

264 distinct pesticides and pesticide breakdown products were detected in conventional food products after washing, scrubbing, and peeling.

And if you look into the side effects of those, they include cancer, nervous system and hormonal dysregulation, and various diseases, and a lot of nasty stuff.

At least 16,325 chemicals are known to be present in plastics.

Over 4,200 of them, roughly one in four, are hazardous to human health or the environment.

Human brain tissue collected in 2024 contained microplastics at 7 to 30 times the concentration found in liver or kidney.

Concentrations were significantly higher in 2024 samples.

And in 2016, samples from the same office that was published in Nature Medicine, February 2025.

Flame retardants were found in the cabin air of 100% of tested vehicles, 99% contained TCIPP, a compound under U.S. National Toxicology Program investigation as a carcinogen.

In July 2025, the U.S. formally removed Thermosol, a mercury-based preservative from all influenza vaccines distributed in the United States.

Don't think that doesn't mean they're not still very toxic.

And plasma donation every six weeks for 12 months reduced PFAS chemicals by roughly 30% in a randomized controlled trial, which I think is quite funny because plasma donation... typically means blood donation.

So that means these chemicals are being reduced by donating blood because your body has to develop new blood.

And giving it to somebody else.

So anyhow, with that brief introduction, and I do mean brief, hi, welcome, honey.