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Dr. Vivian Chen

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Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Yeah, because it's contact time, right? If you're minimizing that contact time, you can minimize your exposure. And I love your point about the fact that you can't really avoid it. Even if you're trying to stay healthy, you just cannot avoid it. coming into contact with these endocrine disruptors now because they're everywhere.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Yeah, because it's contact time, right? If you're minimizing that contact time, you can minimize your exposure. And I love your point about the fact that you can't really avoid it. Even if you're trying to stay healthy, you just cannot avoid it. coming into contact with these endocrine disruptors now because they're everywhere.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Yeah, because it's contact time, right? If you're minimizing that contact time, you can minimize your exposure. And I love your point about the fact that you can't really avoid it. Even if you're trying to stay healthy, you just cannot avoid it. coming into contact with these endocrine disruptors now because they're everywhere.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

When they test Americans, 90 plus percent of us have BPA, PFAS, phthalates, it's everywhere. And so not to make your listeners depressed, I think it's a really urgent issue that we need to raise and people need to know what they can do to minimize their exposure. not to zero, just minimize.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

When they test Americans, 90 plus percent of us have BPA, PFAS, phthalates, it's everywhere. And so not to make your listeners depressed, I think it's a really urgent issue that we need to raise and people need to know what they can do to minimize their exposure. not to zero, just minimize.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

When they test Americans, 90 plus percent of us have BPA, PFAS, phthalates, it's everywhere. And so not to make your listeners depressed, I think it's a really urgent issue that we need to raise and people need to know what they can do to minimize their exposure. not to zero, just minimize.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

And once you minimize that, now your detox organs, the liver, the kidney, sweat glands, they can eliminate these toxins more efficiently because they're not overwhelmed.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

And once you minimize that, now your detox organs, the liver, the kidney, sweat glands, they can eliminate these toxins more efficiently because they're not overwhelmed.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

And once you minimize that, now your detox organs, the liver, the kidney, sweat glands, they can eliminate these toxins more efficiently because they're not overwhelmed.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Absolutely. I'll give you an example. So Harvard did a study. They looked at people who consumed just a serving, so 12 ounces of canned soup every single day for five days. They measured the BPA in the urine. just doing that over five days increased the BPA by 1200%.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Absolutely. I'll give you an example. So Harvard did a study. They looked at people who consumed just a serving, so 12 ounces of canned soup every single day for five days. They measured the BPA in the urine. just doing that over five days increased the BPA by 1200%.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

Absolutely. I'll give you an example. So Harvard did a study. They looked at people who consumed just a serving, so 12 ounces of canned soup every single day for five days. They measured the BPA in the urine. just doing that over five days increased the BPA by 1200%.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

But if you then stop eating the soup for two days, the levels fell to almost nothing. So what that means is you can, what you're doing can actually make a very big difference. So if you just reduced your canned soup consumption by two days, you can now bring that BPA level down.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

But if you then stop eating the soup for two days, the levels fell to almost nothing. So what that means is you can, what you're doing can actually make a very big difference. So if you just reduced your canned soup consumption by two days, you can now bring that BPA level down.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

But if you then stop eating the soup for two days, the levels fell to almost nothing. So what that means is you can, what you're doing can actually make a very big difference. So if you just reduced your canned soup consumption by two days, you can now bring that BPA level down.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

So if you're exposed to BPA from other things that you can't avoid, now your detox organs can get rid of that instead of dealing with a 1200% increase in BPA.

Dhru Purohit Show
Integrative Doctor Shares the Dangers of Microwaving Plastic, Eating Canned Foods and Top Sources of Endocrine Disruptors and How Simple Swaps in Our Home Make a Huge Difference with Dr. Vivian Chen

So if you're exposed to BPA from other things that you can't avoid, now your detox organs can get rid of that instead of dealing with a 1200% increase in BPA.