Dr. Mark Hyman

Your body already knows how to detoxify.

You just have to help it.

The problem isn't that your detox systems are broken.

You're just a little overwhelmed.

So in today's office hours, I want to make sense of the science.

I want to walk you through the most common environmental toxins we're exposed to every day and how they actually impact your body.

And most importantly, the simple, realistic swaps you can make right now to lower your toxic load.

No extreme cleanses, no expensive protocols, just practical steps to make a real difference for you and your family.

So by the end of this episode, my goal is that you feel clear, you feel empowered, you feel confident about where to start, because you don't need to do everything.

You just need to focus on what matters most.

You, my friend, are the CEO of your own health, and today we're gonna help you take back control.

So let's get into it.

Here's the first topic, how environmental toxins actually affect the body.

Now, before we talk about specific chemicals or products, I wanna take a step back and simplify the science.

Environmental toxins affect the body in a few core ways.

First, they disrupt hormones.

They're hormone disruptors.

I read a book.

that blew my mind about 30 years ago called Our Stolen Future, all about the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that were ubiquitous in our environment that no one was talking about.

Now, these chemicals, they're known as xenohormones or xenoestrogens or xenobiotics, xeno means foreign, they disrupt our hormones, they're endocrine disruptors, they interrupt estrogen, testosterone, thyroid function, fertility, I mean, everything.