So now let us get into what we are drinking out of. I love a good old glass mason jar to drink out of with water. We really enjoyed drinking out of glass. Yes. Sometimes we drop more glass, we drop dishes. We, everyone, freeze as we get the vacuum and we clean it all up. But it is worth it because we do not want to be drinking out of plastic. You do not want your kids drinking out of plastics. They are a little. They have a, you know, compared with all the chemicals they take in, it affects their body more. Okay. Adults have a little bit more buffer. So glass, make sure you are drinking out of glass. Another option to drink out of is silicone too. I prefer glass first and then that second. And then also you have stainless steel. So grab a coffee mug. This is really important. So bring your own coffee mug like my husband brings his own to church. You do not want to be drinking out of Styrofoam. Styrofoam is very toxic. Okay. The other thing, if you think of not even have because the lids are plastic. So whenever I can I take the lid off and just drink. But, you know, we are minimizing our exposure. So when you go to a coffee shop and you get a coffee to go, that lid is plastic. But then also the inside of the cup and I’m not talking about Styrofoam. I’m talking about paper, but the inside is usually lined with some sort of plastic. Okay, BPA or maybe even a forever chemical so that is another thing I want to share. Speaking of forever chemicals, if you have a Teflon pan, throw it away. Okay? If it says nonstick, that is not going to be good. That means that it has the PFA acids which are forever chemicals and they affect your endocrine glands and stay in your body, the half-lives are decades and decades. You are never, they are never going away. So really try to minimize that at home. And if you minimize your toxic exposure at home, that means that if you go out in their cooking in a nonstick pan or something, you know, at least you are reducing your risk at home. So that is what I really try to focus on, on what is going on at home.
Now, another thing, let us talk about food storage. So food storage, I love these. These are all silicone collapse containers. They are great like look at this, they are so great. I love taking these to sports games and putting fruit in them. And then when you are done, they just they just collapse like that. They are dishwasher-safe and oven safe. So these I love and then good old glass, good old Pyrex. So these are also great. And the lids are plastic, which is not ideal but they are so great. They are also great because you can heat them up in the microwave. Okay. So both of these options, you can heat up in the microwave. You can not heat up plastic in the microwave. It is leaching that BPA, that chemical that is an endocrine disruptor and it is bad for your thyroid, it is leaching into your food. So you want to use these and make swaps. So, you know, ask for a holiday for a set of Pyrex. You know, you could go to Goodwill and get a lot. I have a lot of cool glass containers that I store my herbs and they are really cool. And, you know, some of them I got at Goodwill. So Glass is just such a great storage option for food. A lot of the times I will take food like oats out of the plastic container they are in and I will put them in glass storage and it looks so pretty too. The other thing, I love these little mason jars and then you can buy lids. These are plastic but they are, they are really good lids because they seal, you know. So I will go if we, we went to the zoo and I filled this up with blueberries. So it is really nice and convenient and it is so cute. They make little ones, big ones. So you can also drink out of this. This we have for drinking and we just, you know, swap them out if we want to use them as storage containers. So I really like how versatile mason jars are. They are really convenient. There is really no reason why we can not store our food and heat up our food in glass. Why we can not, right? Why we, we, we need to. We can make these little swaps at home super easy.
Another thing that I call my patients out on all the time is if I see they have a plastic water bottle. Okay. Now, if it is like an emergency, then yes, you can drink out of plastic water but otherwise, do not drink out of plastic water bottles. Okay. Not only is the BPA leaching into the water also when it scrunches it makes little breaks in the plastic and that can increase bacteria in your water. So just do not do it and it is usually gross crappy water. So you can use a nice stainless steel water bottles this is what my kids use, glass also works but it is a little bit heavier, a little bit harder but we do have some glass containers that I really like. My kid broke one going to school so then no more glass for school but it was really nice for adults to use. They make the glass water bottles with some silicone around so I like glass also. I tend to drop my water bottle all the time. I usually just carry mine around in stainless steel but that is also an option.
Now let us talk about another thing is ceramic, ceramic glazes. So ceramic glazes can sometimes have lead in them and lead, as we have found out, is a heavy metal that is not good for the thyroid. So when I drink my teas in coffee at home, I do just use plain glass. I know it is not cute. There is not a cute saying on it or anything but I do not need that because I want to save my thyroid and I care about that. So these are just nice glass coffee mugs that I have. I have transitioned. Gave away most of my ceramics glaze, you know, mugs because a lot of them, if they are made in China, if you do not know where the glaze is coming from, then you can assume that it might have lead in it. Okay. And when we look at hot drinking hot things that are heating up things, okay, so coffee or heating up things in the microwave, that is going to cause more leaching as that warms up. Okay. So that is the kind of all I have to show you guys. I hope that helps. So here is the thing. Little small changes in your home, making your home less toxic is it is going to reap major benefits. And it is kind of fun, right? It is satisfying to have these things in our kitchen and to drink out of that. We know we’re clean. It’s also a time that you can educate people. So if you have people over, you could just say, yeah, we just we use glass because it’s healthier. We do not want that BPA. They are endocrine disruptors. We do not want that leaking into our kids, leaking into us. So we definitely also use it as a way to inform others and open up discussions for health. Because the more of us that talk about it in our health, the better we can all be together. So I hope those tips are great. So cheers. Right? Cheers. Thank you for listening to this many talk with Dr. Jenn.
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