Dr. Stacy Sims

Thinking about hot beverages, things that go in the microwave or the dishwasher especially, right?

But then other things like thermal receipts.

So getting receipts, thermal receipts have BPA in them.

So getting receipts or receipts.

Yeah.

So the airline tickets or that thermal paper.

So just the receipt from the grocery store when they say, Stephen, do you want your receipt?

You can just say no.

And then if you work with thermal paper, maybe you're a cashier and you touch it over and over.

I highly recommend you wear gloves because your exposure to that thermal paper is so much higher that it can become problematic for you.

You know, there's a lot of things where you can do that will say that person touched receipts all day and they still got pregnant or their sperm was great or they lived a long time.

We can list a whole lot of negative behaviors or habits or exposures that one person might tolerate just fine.

And for somebody else, the sum of all of these behaviors add up to be something that puts them in a place

That is very pro-inflammatory, not healthy for the now or for the future.

That, to me, is an easy – on the scale of decisions that are hard or that are easy, trying to change the things that you're exposed to in your world, you have to spend some time to learn about it.

You might have to buy some new things.

But over time, those decisions are ultimately easier than –

how you eat, your exercise, those take longer commitment.

And especially if you're partnered, if you live with somebody, then the foods that you eat, your sleeping habits depend on them.

You both have to be together on this.