[Music] do you eat a lot of chicken and rice or do you love Chinese food Middle Eastern food Mexican food that has a lot of rice or are you gluten-free so you eat a lot of rice based foods if you said yes you might be being exposed to too much arsenic which is toxic and dangerous arsenic is a naturally occurring substance in the Earth's crust and it's found in our soil water and air when rice is grown in water it easily absorbs Arsenic and while there's measurable safety limits of arsenic in water there's not in rice the big picture problem with arsenic on our health is that it causes oxidative stress meaning it damages our body and DNA to be more specific it causes inflammation in the body it substitutes where we have zinc in our our body it disrupts our fat and cholesterol metabolism it disrupts our brain and psychological functions it can cause vascular or arterial damage causing clumping and clotting it weakens our immune system and we know it stimulates the growth of cancer stem cells for all these reasons arsenic is classified as a potent carcinogen meaning it increases the risk of cancer particularly liver lungs bladder and skin we also know that prolonged arsenic exposure increases the risk of neuropathy heart attack stroke gout diabetes depression h a lot of chronic disease so obviously arsenic is something we need to be aware of and we want to avoid how do you do that stay tuned we'll get into that research shows that clicking the Thumbs Up And subscribe button will make fingers healthy and strong and besides it's free