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Raw Milk, Fluoride, and Cancer Myths: Are You Falling for These Health Scares? With Dr Andrea Love


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šŸ’¬ ā€œAnybody can fall prey to this type of misinformation. It does a lot of harmā€ ~Dr Andrea Love

āš”ļø Dr Andrea Love is an immunologist and microbiologist, and founder of ImmunoLogic - an organisation dedicated to debunking the worst of internet pseudoscience and improving science literacy.

āš”ļø Andrea and I have a long list of misinformation to get through in this episode. Claims like fluoride lowers your IQ, GMOs are scary and mammograms give you cancer - and that’s not the half of it.

šŸŽ§ Stay tuned to find out:

āž”ļøŽ How we all have the capacity to fall prey to misinformation - and how to spot it

āž”ļøŽ How cancer misinformation can be lethal

āž” The dangers of the raw milk trend

āž”ļøŽ What the science really says about fluoride

āž”ļøŽ Why organic probably isn’t worth your money

šŸ“• Chapters

(1:02) Why good information is hard to find

(3:36) Coffee and aloe vera gives you cancer?

(9:45) Mammograms cancer myth

(16:06) The real harm of misinformation

(23:14) Do supplements work?

(30:34) What does organic actually mean?

(34:53) GMO fear

(42:31) Fluoride lowers IQ?

(49:04) Rise of the raw milk craze

šŸ“± Connect with me:

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šŸ“± Connect with Andrea:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.andrealove/Ā 

Website: https://www.immunologic.org/Ā 

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šŸ”„ For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book ā€œThis Book May Save Your Lifeā€: https://geni.us/DrKaranBookĀ 

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