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so today i want to talk about a very interesting  topic the lead in nutritional supplements now  

there’s a california regulation called prop 65.  it’s known as the safe drinking water in toxic  

enforcement act of 1986. so it was probably a  really good idea when they started it 25 years ago  

but now it’s kind of gotten out of hand because  now it involves over 900 different chemicals and  

so this bypasses the fda and they have their own  guidelines or thresholds that you can’t go over  

in certain chemicals and heavy metals etc and so  certain companies are forced to put warning labels  

on their products so the labels say something  like ingestion of this product is known to  

californians to cause potential cancers  or reproductive harm now what’s really  

fascinating to me about this prop 65 is that  let’s just take lead for example the fda allows  

12 micrograms of lead to be consumed per day  if you’re an adult if you’re a child it’s  

three micrograms but if you’re in california  because of this prop 65 the threshold is 0.5  

as far as creating some reproductive toxicity  so the fda allows 12 micrograms per day and prop  

65 allows 0.5 micrograms per day as far as their  limit now it’s almost impossible to differentiate  

the naturally occurring lead that comes from  the soil versus lead that comes from pollution  

so anything grown in the soil is bound to have  a certain amount of lead in it just because we  

live on the earth and the earth is made up of  elements and lead is one of the elements now  

there’s a couple very interesting things on how  these numbers were set number one they used animal  

studies okay i mean animals are similar to humans  but they’re not identical so that’s one variable  

right there that it’s very difficult to equate  what’s happening to an animal to humans all right  

number two they measured the quantity of exposure  of a given element like lead that will result in  

an observational effect now first of all what is  an observational effect this is what they use as  

statistically significant increase in risk of  either cancer or reproductive harm but this next  

point is quite mind-blowing to me check this out  they then take this number whatever it is certain  

amount of lead that creates this observational  effect and they set the threshold at 1 1000th  

of that number so for example if they  found some effect that was created at 49  

milligrams of lead they would set the threshold  at 49 micrograms a thousand times less so to me  

these numbers don’t necessarily mean they’re  unsafe at all in fact what is said on the  

warning labels is what’s called misleading  speech and this is a legal term that means  

speech that is actually or inherently deceptive  such that an ordinary consumer would be misled by  

the statement why because it reports a false fact  now what’s false about this we’re using numbers  

that are a thousand times less than the actual  number that they found some observational effect  

so if someone sells a product that is food based  or a whole food type product they’re bound to be  

over this limit in fact if you actually just look  up the lead in certain vegetables actually it’s  

quite interesting potatoes have over 30 milligrams  of lead per kilogram radishes have just under 50  

milligrams per kilogram and spinach  leaves have just under 60 milligrams  

per kilogram of lead cauliflower is just  under 70 milligrams per kilogram of lead  

so it’s fascinating how much lead is in our food  supply already that may be naturally occurring  

we don’t know it’s impossible to differentiate  the pollution from naturally occurring in the  

soil so anyway i just wanted to bring up this  very interesting topic on lead and let you know  

uh how these numbers were really created because  apparently it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s unsafe  

simply because the threshold is set up to be a  thousand times less than what they found so if  

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