bisphenol A
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A chemical compound used as a plastic additive, known as an endocrine disruptor
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDr. Aly CohenCritically Speaking · Dr. Aly Cohen: Killers in the Environment · 31:08 · 11 Aug
…dramatically because it has a half-life of about six to eight hours. So if you stop, take, if you take away that exposure, which is mostly through ingestion as one route into the body, you can start to see that those numbers really seem to, to, you know, they really go down. So switching to, you know, frozen foods is a wonderful way to go or fresh foods or…
Dr. Aly CohenCritically Speaking · Dr. Aly Cohen: Killers in the Environment · 30:38 · 11 Aug
…quite, you know, dramatically reduce some of these exposures. So for instance, BPA or bisphenol A, which lines the inside of cans of, you know, every kind of can, drink soda cans and organic food cans, pretty much all cans. If you reduce your exposure from BPA by reducing, you know, canned foods, canned drinks, this can actually lower your BPA in your urine…
Dr. Aly CohenCritically Speaking · Dr. Aly Cohen: Killers in the Environment · 12:32 · 11 Aug
…And these are plasticizer chemicals. These are chemicals that really do make plastic soft. There are other chemicals that make plastics hard, like bisphenol A, BPA. But plastics that are soft tend to have phthalates in them, among other chemicals. And phthalates have been well, well studied around the world. There are wonderful studies by, you and I both kn…
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