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what I'm talking about here are Thal now this is a funny word it's hard to pronounce it's hard to spell the basic gist of it is that this is a plasticizer it's found in plastic tubing it's found in Plastics and it's ending up in these oils because in the processing of these oils the oil is touching plastics it's being stored in plastic or it's in plastic tubes and you end up with an avocado oil or an olive oil that has a lot of these thades in it
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the levels of phalates in these oils are actually pretty high even if you look at something like bottled water you're going to see levels of phalates like 1.5 to 4.5 parts per billion so some of these have thousands or 50,000 parts per billion of phalates in that avocado oil that's significantly higher than even what you find in bottled water and plastic
Contrast this with studies that have been done on butter and ghee and coconut oil even studies done on raw milk or milk which show significantly lower levels of phalates so what we're talking about here are levels of phalates that are significantly higher than what you might find in other foods like milk like butter like ghee or even coconut oil
When you're looking for an avocado oil I don't think you want a refined one I think you want a cold pressed avocado oil and again you want that cold pressed avocado oil to be an opaque class
limiting the amount of these phalates in your diet could significantly improve your health if you have hormonal issues in general this could either be in the short term or the long term
because the issue here is that there's an actual attraction between the phalates and these oils these oils will pull the phalates out of the Plastics they come in contact with because of the chemical properties of an oil versus the chemical properties of water
Many olive oils contain pretty darn high levels of phalates hormone disrupting chemicals in many olive oils states are a class of chemicals that are plasticizers they're in plastic tubing they're in Plastics and they are hormone disrupting chemicals associated with decreased fertility and hormone issues in humans
and knowing which olive oil you are using can also significantly reduce your and your family's exposure to these hormone disrupting chemicals
And the third one to consider is that the vegetable oils are actually quite high in phthalates. We haven't talked about this at all. Phthalates are endocrine disrupting sort of- Phthalates are in vegetable oils? Yeah. They say it in the title, non-negligible exposure source to humans.