Dr. Daniel Pompa (@Dr.Pomphealth) She regularly shares health advice with over 21,000 Tiktok followers. In a recent daily health tips video, he explained that not all stainless steel cookware is created equally. Eating food with certain types of metals may expose your body to harmful toxins.
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Additionally, Pompa also states that some cutlery can cause allergic reactions in people who are sensitive to certain metals. His recommendation: Look for numerical indicators related to stainless steel cutlery. As far as he is concerned, there is only one type of person that humans should eat.
18/0
At the beginning of the clip. The Pompa records having a large drawer filled with spoons, knives and forks. According to him, all items are made from 18/0 stage stainless steel. “What is the only silverware I buy? 18/0 stainless steel. Why? What is 18? What is 0?” he says.
Next, he explains what these numbers mean. The first number is the amount of chromium present in the cutlery, and the second is nickel.
Pompa said: “18 is the chromium part, 18% chromium. If it’s 18/10, it’s 10% nickel. So I’ll buy it with 18/0 as 0% nickel.”
At this point in the video, he shares why he is stubborn about purchasing stainless steel cutlery with nickel content.
“Why? Because nickel is toxic,” he shares. “Yes, it’s the more silverware you use, and more and more come out, and it adds to our gut.”
Furthermore, Pompa explains that people may be inadvertently self-inflammatory in themselves. That’s because they may not know they are allergic to nickel.
“Many people are allergic to nickel. They unconsciously eat silverware,” he insists. “Look, we all want 18/0 whether we’re allergic or not. Some people are reacting without us knowing.”
Is nickel in cutlery that bad?
According to National Medical Librarynickel is certainly dangerous to your health. The agency has published a study entitled “Nickel: Human Health and Environmental Toxicology.” Additionally, the prompt listed rittany for various side effects of consuming nickel. These include “allergies, cardiovascular and kidney diseases, pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, and nasal cancer.”
As to why this is the case, published documents hypothesize that metals’ “mitochondrial dysfunction” play a role in their toxicity. Oxidative stress also contributes to the disadvantageous phenomenon of eating nickel.
Mama Vationa blog specializing in product evaluations, and also reflects concerns about the nickel content of cutlery. The same piece delves into “non-toxic” flat options for consumers. As Pompa states, it is recommended that you choose nickel because it is “sensitive or allergic” to nickel. According to the website, this type of steel is called “ferai steel.”
However, in terms of durability, the same article calls 18/10 stainless steel cutlery “highest quality.”
“It lasts for decades and is rust and corrosion resistant,” he wrote. Conversely, flat products made of 18/0 stainless steel are prone to corrosion and are not as heat resistant as nickel packing alternatives.
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Viewers are angry at the news
One Tiktok user of the app joked that there was no need to worry about stainless steel cookware. That’s because they eat food without using dishes.
“I use tortillas to grab food from the plate,” they wrote.
Someone else wondered why tools that are not made of silver were still called silverware.
Another expressed concern about everything in the year that didn’t take into account the information that Pompa relayed. “Oh, my God has been having silverware for years from where I probably know from. This is mentally exhausting,” they said.
The app had one Tiktoker who offered an alternative. They asked, “What about wood spoons and a clean porcelain spoon?”
Dairedot contacted Pompa via Tiktok comments for more details.
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