Dr Karan Explores

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


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💬 “Anybody can fall prey to this type of misinformation. It does a lot of harm” ~Dr Andrea Love

⚡️ 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.

⚡️ 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.

🎧 Stay tuned to find out:

➡︎ How we all have the capacity to fall prey to misinformation - and how to spot it

➡︎ How cancer misinformation can be lethal

➡ The dangers of the raw milk trend

➡︎ What the science really says about fluoride

➡︎ Why organic probably isn’t worth your money

📕 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

📱 Connect with me:

TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan

Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr

📱 Connect with Andrea:

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

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

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