April 18, 2026

DOCTOR WARNS! MICROPLASTICS WILL POISON YOU (UNLESS YOU DO THIS)

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Microplastics are now inside the human body, and the real question is what they are doing to your health at the cellular level.

Dr Daniel Pompa explains what microplastics and nanoplastics may be doing at the cellular level, including their role as endocrine disruptors. The discussion also covers how plastic chemicals like BPA and phthalates can interfere with hormones, mimic estrogen, and impact fertility, sexual health, inflammation, and long term metabolic function.

The episode breaks down the biggest daily sources of exposure, including plastic water bottles, food packaging, tea bags, and common kitchen habits like storing hot food in plastic, using plastic utensils, and cutting boards that shed particles into food.

You will also learn basic detox support strategies, including glutathione, NAC, and how cellular energy and membrane health play a role in clearing toxins. The conversation touches on tools like sauna and red light therapy and how they may support a broader detox approach.

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TIMESTAMPS
1:31 - Biggest Sources To Avoid First
3:03 - Produce And Tea As Hidden Exposure Risks
4:42 - Food Storage Mistakes That Leach Plastic
6:43 - Cookware And Packaging To Watch Closely
9:01 - Cellular Detox Tools And Next Steps

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Microplastics In The Human Body

Dr Pompa 

Microplastics, how do I avoid them? How do I get them out of my body? Because I heard they accumulate in our body and that we're now cyborgs. We're not even humans anymore because we're mostly plastic. Is that true? Okay. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that they're right. Plastics are accumulating in the human body from our brain, literally the weight of a teaspoon of plastic and autopsies in the brain, in our penis, our testicles. Oh my gosh, yes, all the sexual organs. Why is that a problem? Because it's causing sexual dysfunction and hormone problems. Plastic is a major problem. It interferes with our conversion of our hormones, meaning from an inactive hormone to an active hormone. That is a conversion. Plastic can block that. It literally just mimics hormones. They call them xenoestrogens, where they can actually create a false estrogen in the body and drive up estrogen levels, dangerous estrogen levels. But also they can cause inflammation of our cells, blocking hormones. There's multiple ways. The chemicals in plastic, phthalates and BPA, there's many chemicals that are in plastics, can cause hormone disruption just by altering our hormones. So the fact is, is we need to avoid plastic. And I've been teaching the reason why we have to get it out of our bodies because it accumulates there. So we need to detox it. I'm going to tell you what I believe is the best way to do that. But let's start with avoidance. What are the major sources? Because I think that is a problem, right? Because we we would say, oh my gosh, I can't get rid of plastic in my life. Plastics everywhere. So you know what people do when they say that? They do nothing. They literally do nothing. So they make that as the excuse. Not true. You need to avoid the big plasticizers where we're getting most of the microplastics. Those are the small pieces of plastics that turn into nanoplastics and accumulate in our tissue. And how those are the ones that end up in our brain. So, yes, do I drink bottled water, water out of a bottle? I do not. I make no exception. You know why? Because plastic gets worse. The contamination gets worse when things are heated. So plastic water, that's why this is a glass bottle, right? Plastic water bottles eventually get heated and also hit with sunlight, which causes the plastic to leach into the water. There was a study. One liter of water literally was a quarter of a million microplastics. Okay, that's a lot of plastics that turn into millions and millions of nanoplastics. That's one bottle. How many bottles of water do people drink in a day? Get an RO filter, right? Or drink glass. When I travel, my wife and I, we go to a store and we buy glass bottled water. We will not drink the plastic. Okay, that's a major source. I'm going to give you some that I think will surprise you. There was just a recent study out. Um, this is a new study. They found that one of the major sources was produce, fruits and vegetables. Why? Because number one, they said that non-organic, they're spraying it with certain pesticides and fertilizers that contain plastic and a lot of plastic, evidently. So if you're buying organic, you're going to avoid a lot of the plastic. But here was another surprising source. Don't buy the fruits and vegetables in the grocery store that are wrapped in plastic. You know how they have the it's on a plastic styrofoam container, which styrofoam leaches very easily, and then they wrap it with more plastic. Invariably, those things get hit with different light and heat, which causes microplastics to be on the surface. But it is coming from the groundwater, especially when you buy non-organic. So that was a surprise. But here's one of the number one exposures: tea. Billions of nanoplastics in just one tea. Where's it coming from? Because I'm buying the organic stuff in this case, or the better teas. Well, it's coming from the bag. Well, I'm not buying those plastic bags. Of course, that's a big exposure. But no, even the paper bags, the glue that they're using is actually loaded with plastics. And of course, then it's heated and it dissipates right into the tea. Uh, Elixir is a company that makes tea strips. Find them. You can find them online. Evidently, they're gonna be starting selling them at Target, but Elixir tea is the tea that I drink. It's little strips, so there's no bag, and they're all organic and they're super healthy. But the bottom line is most teas, you're getting plastic exposures. Okay, what about one of the warnings that I've given people on Instagram is be careful what you store in plastic. Let me give you an example. So um, when you have the plastic containers that everyone has in their house, right? And they take leftovers or food and things and put it in the plastic containers, hot acid food is the biggest culprit. What does that look like? Tomato sauce. How about fatty, hot acid food? Those three things, fatty things, absorb the chemicals out of the plastics. Uh acid y foods like tomato sauces, things like that, leach the chemicals out of the plastic. And hot foods, hot is never good in plastic, and it causes it to come right out. Glass. You can find Costco, Walmart, whatever, glass dishes. It can have a plastic lid. Just don't allow the food to touch the lid. Now, if you're using the, you're gonna ask the question, what about what do I do with all these uh plastic uh containers that I have? Put hard things in them. Uh, for example, a pretzel is not going to, it's not gonna leach out the plastic because it's hard, it's not hot, it's not spicy. So you can store certain things in them, um, but just definitely not fat, hot and uh acid y foods, not a good idea. Those are major, major contaminants. Here's another one. Um, I've given warnings about the plastic ziplocks. When you freeze things, typically things were freezing as leftovers, which have fat, typically acid, at least you know, some of the food. Um, and of course, when you put it in, it's hot, typically. And then the freezing process causes a leaching of the plastic. So do not store food in plastic bags, ziplocks. I believe there's some lawsuits against some of these companies, but do not put that in the freezer because the plastic levels go through the roof. So think of another way of storing it. Um, but the um the other major sources are utensils. Um, so when you're using utensils to cook with, typically they're plastic and they're heated because you're putting it on the pan and it's getting heated. That plastic is going right into the food, even major pieces of the plastic, which brings me to cutting boards. Cutting boards um are a big plastic problem. Why? Because you're sawing on the plastic. Typically, it's a hot food, but or a fatty food, which doesn't help, but the plastic fragments are going right into the food, which is a major contaminant. Obviously, be careful what you get your hot drink in. I see people drinking um hot things out of styrofoam. There's a chemical in there called styrene, it is a major cancer causer. Uh, avoid styrofoam with everything, it's very easily releases that chemical that is a known cancer causer. Also, here's one that's probably not um as widely known, but is the lining in cans. So be careful. I should don't think you should be eating a lot of canned food anyway. And many of the cans will say BPA free on it, but then there's still phthalates. So now there's cans that say BPA-free and phthalate-free. So um there are better liners now, um, but avoid eating out of cans as much as you can. Uh, also, cosmetics. Uh, be careful with certain cosmetics. Buying better organic cosmetics uh is definitely your standard cosmetic, believe it or not, has a lot of plastics. Plastic straws, I'm always asked the question, what about plastic straws? Well, the problem with plastic straws is oftentimes you're drinking, um, definitely don't drink a hot liquid, but you're drinking something that uh can have a little high uh or actually have a low pH, so it can be a little acid, and you don't want that going through the straw. So I avoid straws personally. They make metal and glass straws. All right, so those are the majors. Of course, I I know there's some of you out there, but you forgot, you forgot, you forgot. I'm trying to make it to where if you just dealt with these big sources, uh, then you're going to really minimize your plastic exposure. That said, we all have accumulated a lot of plastic in our bodies. And that is where my work for 20 years comes in cellular detox. We have to get our cells removing plastic. We have to get our cells removing toxins, period. Uh, one of the ways in a very good plastic remover is glutathione. Glutathione, I always say, is not great for heavy metals, but glutathione does do good for plastics. And microplastics absolutely end up in our cells, in our cell membranes. So um glutathione tends to be able to move the plastic out of the body. And of course, we want to assist the detox all the way out of the body. My system for doing that is the cell has certain uh detox pathways that need upregulation, upregulated, meaning uh get working again. Um, and glutathione is just one of those pathways. I believe that keeping our cell membranes healthy, avoiding seed oils, is very, very crucial for good detox. I've developed a few products around the fats that we need to regenerate cell membranes. One is called membrane R2. Um, phosphatidylcholine is very good for the cell membranes that help uh actually detox our cells. But glutathione, you can take, I'm I'm trying to give you things that you can buy places. There's a transdermal glutathione called gluterol. I think is a very good product. Um, NAC, NAC, N-acetylcysteine, as it's known, um can help you make glutathione. I think it's very good. It helps us get rid of some of the microplastics. Um, I've been asked the question: do saunas help us get rid of microplastics? Not as much at the cellular level, but I, you know, I'm a fan of saunas, but it's not that easy. Real detox, we have to fix what's going on at the cell. Um, but I think that there's some other modalities that can be useful. Red light therapy, I've been asked if that can be useful. Indirectly, it can, uh, because it helps you make energy in your cell. And that's one of my five R's of what I call cellular detox. But increasing ATP, and believe it or not, through red light can actually help you make more energy. And if you make more energy in the cell, you actually can help detox the cell. So, but I, you know, some of you say, well, I can't get red light. Believe it or not, being outside in the sun, you're opening up the sweating detox pathway, but you're also getting a lot of frequencies like red frequencies that can actually give you cellular energy, which can actually help. Look, I've been teaching detox for many, many years. Many of these types of toxins, like heavy metals, biotoxins, hidden infections, slow down cellular detox pathways. And unless you get to those sources, you won't be able to get rid of even something as simpler, I would say, as plastic. So, you know, it is very important to get to those big, big toxic sources. And I've trained doctors around the country. I have something called Pompa Program. We'll put a link, but if you go to pompaprogram.com, watch some of my work that I've done there, some of the trainings. I even have coaches, over 100 coaches in that program that help you with cellular detox and um also even some of the dietary things that we need to pay attention to. But most important for you right now, where you can take full responsibility, is avoidance for you and your family. And again, if you want assistance for detox, um, then absolutely hire a POMPA program coach. And I'll make a we'll put a link on in the show somehow, make that available. Um, but something as simple as supporting glutathione and using some of the modalities like saunas and red lights can also be helpful. There you go. There's the show. Share the show. We need to avoid it. We, if we care about our hormone health, weight loss resistance is a new thing. Plastic is a big part of this. We need to get rid of plastic, de plastic our life. Otherwise, we'll be a cyborg. We don't want to be a cyborg. We want to be human and function like a human. So, therefore, avoidance and detox is key.