Dr. Stacy Sims

So sometimes I always say toxins are to one place, a thing you can do.

You can look at your products.

You can start to, when they run out, say, is this one healthy for me?

Should I get something that's going to have less of an impact?

That one time of using very scented hand wash is no big deal.

But when you wash your hands with that highly scented hand wash five times a day over and over, it is just an avenue of endocrine disruption that can add up to the litany of the other ones that you're experiencing.

So we're all saying these little changes on one hand singularly probably do not matter much, but together they do.

Because it does cause chronic inflammation.

Yeah.

And the ovaries are highly sensitive to chronic inflammation.

We know that BPA exposure has shown that if you have a higher level of BPA exposure, you have lower ovarian reserve, meaning less eggs in your ovary will go into menopause earlier.

BPA is one of those environmental chemicals that we're exposed to largely through plastics, but it's also one that's in the thermal receipt paper that we're trying to avoid our exposure to.

And that's where some of the data, even when it comes back to food, where soy, in taking soy products, can actually be very protective because it combats BPA.

So how it works.

So when people say, oh, you shouldn't have tofu, you're a man, soy is so bad for you, that's actually false.

And we found that...

People who had a greater exposure to soy products actually had the lowest level of BPA and improved reproductive performance because of that.

So there's definitely correlation with these toxins in our world.

And we might say, oh, is it linked to menopause?

Maybe nobody's done that exact study, but it absolutely is.