What did Joe Rogan say about eating freshwater fish and PFAS forever chemicals?

Joe Rogan told the Legion of Skanks hosts that almost all freshwater fish in American lakes are now polluted with PFAS forever chemicals carried in by rain, road runoff and plastics, because lakes have no flow to clear them. A lookup during the episode added that risk depends on the species, the water body and how often you eat the fish, so the usual advice is to eat freshwater fish rarely.

• Rogan said Steve Rinella told him of a tournament fisherman whose health collapsed after he lived almost entirely on perch.
• The same lookup named mercury and PCBs alongside PFAS as contaminants that build up in freshwater fish.
• Rogan recalled a Bahamas guide who said barracuda were safe to eat from one side of an island but not the other.

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on The Joe Rogan Experience (2026-10-30). Read the whole episode summary →

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