691. How Microplastics Are Getting in Your Brain & Your Sperm w/ David Roberts

We’ve been ingesting microplastics, and no one is talking about it.

That result is what first got David Roberts, co-founder and managing partner of Mara Labs, interested in microplastics.

Most broccoli supplements don't contain what their labels claim. One doctor even teared up in front of him at a conference when they realized what they'd been recommending for years. The GLP-1 side effect story is even uglier than the headlines suggest, with nearly 4,000 lawsuits and up to 40% of lost weight coming from muscle.

Where do microplastics accumulate? Why is your dryer lint a warning sign? What do fenugreek and beta-glucan do in the gut? And what’s the two-step pathway that mobilizes plastic out of your cells and into your stool?

If you've ever wondered whether the supplements you're taking are actually reaching your cells, this one will change how you shop.

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You'll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:34] The companies selling sugar also promote the weight-loss solution

[19:36] Glucoraphanin grew breast cancer cells while sulforaphane killed them

[31:39] A patent-pending carrier molecule that smuggles compounds through the gut barrier

[38:47] Zeroing in on microplastics after an independent researcher's sulforaphane study