 The worst cookware and storage containers lurking in your kitchen to toss out right now All right Why do I want you to throw out perfectly good kitchenware? And it's certainly not to create more landfill and waste money But there are things in your kitchen you probably use every day that are poisoning you and your family As you know, I call them deadly Disruptors and there are numerous deadly disruptors lurking in your kitchen right now so These contain for the most part Compounds that are called endocrine disruptors sometimes called estrogen mimetics sometimes called hormone disruptors these are commonly found in almost all Plastics and less we forget plastics are a relatively new invention Plastics did not exist until really after World War two and Plastics are now so ubiquitous. They're in everything Plastics the vast majority of plastics we now know contain these estrogen disrupting chemicals and and estrogen disruptors do exactly what they say they mimic hormones and they mimic hormones in ways that are incredibly detrimental to our child's development to our development to our brain and We need to get them out of our lives because quite frankly we are disrupted One of the first big offenders is non-stick pans Now not all non-stick pans are bad But most of the pans the early non-stick cookware made with Teflon Teflon is PTFE and is a known endocrine disruptor Make sure you never buy a non-stick cookware that says Teflon and you can still see him lining the store shelves so put them down Alternatives are the ceramic based non-stick cookware Sometimes they're called diamond cookware. Sometimes they're called ceramic cookware in general These are not using these PTFE compounds but You should not feel safe to use Metal utensils with this cookware. You'll see advertisements on TV. This cookware is metal safe Just don't do that and I'll get to what utensils you should use in a second On the other hand Aluminum pans unless they are lined with ceramic you should throw them away as well Because aluminum in itself is toxic to our brain Aluminum foil get rid of it You should never line a baking pan with aluminum foil Heat makes that aluminum penetrate into the foods you eat now Can you use aluminum as a tent when you're baking a roast or something like that or a piece of salmon? Yeah, as long as it doesn't come in contact with the aluminum foil Use parchment paper parchment paper used to be the way all of us baked and covered something It's really easy to find again get rid of the aluminum How about stainless steel cookware stainless steel cookware is great? Yes, you're right It's a pain in the neck to clean if you don't take some alternatives such as Adding olive oil to your pan and you should be adding olive oil to your pan Anyhow because remember the only purpose of food is to get olive oil into your mouth Plastic storage containers one of the things I think did us in Where's Tupperware parties? Little did we know that these plastic containers leech Endocrine disruptors into our food There are plenty of now glass containers that you can use to store food in we have a whole Pantry full of glass containers Plastic bags plastic bags Contain these endocrine disruptors instead of plastic bags use paper bags There are now lots of paper lunch bags on Amazon when I was a kid and we took paper bags to school and Our sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper You can still find wax paper and it makes a great way of wrapping things Butcher paper is readily available now. We need to get back to things. We used 70 years ago that work just fine If you must use plastic bags or containers please only by BPA and BPS free Plastic just seeing BPA free is no longer enough BPA is a known endocrine disruptor But its replacements like BPS look to be just as mischievous and Obviously don't buy your water in Plastic containers don't buy anything in plastic containers these things contaminate your food with endocrine disruptors Now throw away your cast iron pan unless it is ceramic coated why Iron ages us and the last thing you want is additional iron in your body And I can't tell you the number of patients who are healthily using their Season cast iron pan and have elevated iron levels in their blood when I look at them and they're shocked And the first thing I do is have them throw away their cast iron skillet and Remarkably their iron levels plummet to normal the next time I see them Iron ages us and the last thing you want to do is Introduce additional iron The same with copper copper pans while gorgeous Leech copper into the food you're eating and copper has to be very carefully balanced in our body with zinc and so people who are using copper pans or Similarly have copper piping in old houses or at risk of actual copper toxicity So it's an easy thing to avoid Hang your copper pans on the wall and admire them, but please don't cook with them. How about utensils? I personally use wood utensils I have a drawers and drawers full of wood utensils would luckily can't break through the linings of ceramic pans some of these plastic liners Metal absolutely can if you're going to use metal look for the stainless steel The last thing you want to use is plastic utensils that plastic particularly if you're cooking with them It's going to leech into the food and you're going to eat endocrine disruptors, which I assure you you don't want to do Finally and this is something I think all of us should be aware of all of us love convenience And there's nothing easier than going home from work stopping by a store and Buying some packaged Pre-washed at salad greens. I mean what could be better? It's been washed for you. It's been double washed But recently I decided to do an experiment Some of you may remember my experiment with Costco strawberries versus the farmers market years ago And I bought a big package of Costco organic strawberries and I bought some organic strawberries Simultaneously at Santa Barbara farmers market and I put them in the refrigerator After about three days the farmers market organic strawberries were covered with mold The Costco strawberries sat there in my refrigerator for a month Looking as pristine as the day I bought them Now That makes me wonder if a self-respecting fungus or mold Wouldn't want to eat those strawberries What the heck was on them that prevented that from happening? So just this past few weeks I've done an experiment with pre packaged salad mixing and I've done them in bags and I've done them in plastic containers and I've put them in my refrigerator now going on two and a half We're about to finish three weeks and all of those packages look as pristine as the day I bought them if Mold and funguses and other things that want to eat your food Won't eat your food even after three weeks Then why would you want to put that food in your mouth? Because these things have been treated with chemicals that don't have to be displayed on a label that disrupt the microbiome that's on these vegetables in the first place and You don't want microbiome disrupting chemicals in You swallowing these things Plus they come in plastic containers What's the option? buy your food whole buy the lettuce whole by your Broccoli whole Take it home. It will take you an instantaneous second to chop up that head of lettuce Throw it in a Salad spinner. I have two salad spinners One is a pump action one and when you're really having a bad day There's nothing better than pumping on that salad spinner to get your aggression out the other I have a pulling salad spinner and it's really fun to start the engine and watch it spin It'll get the water out. You won't have any storage issues you can put it in a glass container if you're done and Let's start really thinking about what convenience means It may be very convenient to pick up these bags in plastic But the way they have made these foods shelf life stable Quite frankly scares me to death and it ought to scare you to death Convenience is not worth harming your gut microbiome Harming you from endocrine disruptors We don't want to be disrupted and get yourself a couple salad spinners and have fun I think you're gonna love this one believe it or not some of the best Ingredients nutrients in citrus are actually in the white piss. That's the stuff that you peel off and throw away