Smoking, Sugars, & Toxins: Protecting Your Health

23 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Paul Savage MD highlighting three health threats: cigarette smoking (noting links beyond lung cancer, including breast cancer), high fructose corn syrup (claimed to enter cells without insulin/carrier), and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (chemicals such as BPA and phthalates that modify estrogen/hormones). The speaker recommends minimizing HFCS and avoiding exposure to certain toxins; exercise is mentioned as beneficial.

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We've known for a long time that cigarette smoking is problematic. It's not just the increase in lung cancer. It increases breast cancer. And then, of course, big time in the news now, high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is the only sugar in the world that gets into the phala without a carrier. That carrier is the hormone insulin. So minimizing or avoiding high fructose corn syrup would be grand. Exercise helps. And then, of course, you knew I would get along to and around. Two toxins, particularly chemicals that are endocrine disruptors. They actually modify the hormones in the body, particularly estrogen, BPAs, phthalates. There's a number of toxins that are endocrine disruptors.