Dave Asprey and Dr. Tracy Gapin discuss the health risks of K cups, including chemical exposure from plastic pods. They cover refillable metal alternatives and other brewing methods that avoid the environmental and personal health downsides of single-use pods.
Another hidden source that I don't think a lot of people recognize is K cups. So when you're brewing coffee and using those plastic K cups, you're putting hot boiling water into this little plastic small space and all the chemicals, the phthalates, the BPA and the plastics are coming out of that K cup into your coffee.
I'm torn about K cups. I don't like them. As a coffee guy, I don't think they make great coffee. And the environmental costs. We've made enough K cups to go K cups to go around the world right now.
Yeah, now there are compostable ones that are a lot better. Then you got to look at the quality of coffee, but.
And you also get microplastics in those too, right?
Well, if. If they're paper, cardboard, you should not. Now, what's your water supply source that you're using is another question. What's the quality of the coffee?
Is there mold in the coffee? Why does the paper stand up to water? Because it's coated either in endocrine disrupting chemical.
Absolutely right.
In fact, there's a study showing that when you use use compostable containers, they have high levels. I think it's perchlorate, but I don't remember what the chemical is. High enough levels that it makes toxic soil.
So the fact that it will break.
Down in soil doesn't mean that it makes good soil.
So I would say your best bet.
If you really have to use a K cup machine, is you can get a refillable metal K cup thing and you put coffee in that and then it's just as messy as a normal coffee maker.
So here's the hack for coffee. You get the cleanest boiled water you can get. And if you have no equipment, that's okay. Take a relatively big coffee cup, put.
Some coffee in there, about 20 grams for, I'll call it 12 ounces. It could be plus or minus, depending on the strength of coffee.
Pour the water over the coffee and.
Stir it up a little bit and then shake it around a little bit and just let it sit for about four minutes. Maybe stir it once, once or twice. The coffee, if it's finely ground, will just drop to the bottom and they call it cowboy coffee.
And then you just pour it into another mug.
It's not even like a French press where you have to clean the plunger. It just does that and you leave an inch in the bottom of like.
Murky water when you do that. It's cheaper, way cheaper than the K cups. So you buy a $20.
Water kettle.
Bonus points if it's metal and not.
Plastic, that would be a good idea. Or glass.
And then you need to be able.
To get a coffee grinder. The cheap ones are $12 and the expensive ones are $29. And they're worth it because they make finer coffee.
And then even if you're at your.
Office, you grind the coffee, you grind it all ahead of time at the.
At the store in their grinder to be ultra fine, and then you're good to go. It doesn't take all this equipment. You don't need a K cup machine. You don't need anything but hot water and two glasses to make a good cup of coffee. And so we could just get rid of K cups. It'll help the environment, but more importantly, your testosterone levels and those of your descendants. Well, thank you for learning how to make a cup of coffee with hot water and ground coffee. It's not that hard to do.
And bonus points if you want to use Danger Coffee because it has those trace minerals that help bind to toxins and things in it.
