Dr. Stacy Sims

Essentially, it's anything in our world that is impacting your body and how it functions.

There's a few different types, right?

So we have endocrine disrupting chemicals.

These are actual toxins in the environment, in cosmetics, our kitchen, our food that change how our endocrine system works, our hormones.

There's also things like microplastics, like you mentioned, which are actually going to deposit in our body and can cause fibrosis even in our ovaries, therefore changing how an organ's

able to respond even if it is given normal hormone signals and then i also lump into this category behavioral toxins right things like alcohol marijuana cigarettes the the choices that are toxic in our world as well so that toxins is kind of a large category there are some toxins you can control you can try to filter your water you can learn what is in your water so that you can say i'm

You know, EWG, this is my zip code.

This is what's in my tap water.

What type of filter might I need to try to have healthier drinking water in my home?

You can change what you're cooking with, not using nonstick cookware or Teflon.

You can get rid of plastics and especially what you're putting hot foods and beverages in because the heat is allowing those toxins to leak into those things.

And then as Dr. Haber said, our cosmetics, things that you use every single day that you put in and on your body,

are things that you're having a higher exposure to.

And it's really important to decrease those because things like air quality, you might not have as much control over based on where you live.

And there's so many toxins in our world in general that it's unrealistic to say, let's avoid all of them.

And because of this, we have that same mentality that we see with exercise sometimes.

Well, it's just, there's too many.

I can't avoid them all.

So I will ignore this category because it's easier to just do nothing.

Mm-hmm.