"Your Water Bottle Is Poisoning You" — Sami Khoreibi on the Hidden Health Risks of Microplastics

In this episode of What They Don't Tell Us, I sit down with Sami Khoreibi, founder of Wisewell, and we start with a number that stopped me cold. One credit card's worth of plastic. Every single week. Inside your body.

We talk about where it comes from, what it does when it gets there, and why the thing most of us reach for without thinking — a bottle of water — is the number one source. We get into the health implications nobody is talking about, from fertility to cardiovascular disease to the fact that plastic particles are now found in higher concentrations in the brain than in the kidney and the liver.

We also get into something that will make you look at your water bottle differently forever. The majority of popular bottled water brands in this region are purified tap water, sealed into plastic and left to sit in the heat for months before they reach you. You are already drinking from the tap. It just happens to be a much bigger one, much further away.

Sami built Wisewell to fix that. We get into how the technology works, what it actually costs compared to what you are spending now, and what it took to build a hardware product from scratch with no engineering background.

We also go deep on entrepreneurship. Going from zero to one, why business plans are almost always wrong, and what Sami has learned across three companies about failure, adversity, and what success actually feels like when it arrives.

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