Julia Cohen

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · The Great Recycling Scam: How Big Plastic Fooled America | Julia Cohen · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

And, you know, spoiler alert, happy ending, right?

If you ever want to get pregnant, if you ever want to biologically have your own children, you need to reduce your exposure and use of single-use plastics and, you know, the chemicals in plastic.

So wearing athletic clothing, your body is absorbing the chemicals and the microplastics from those yoga pants, etc.

Those chemicals, as I mentioned before, endocrine disruptors, number one, most important related to fertility.

phthalates, visphenols, you know, flame retardants, all of those things affect your hormones and your endocrines, which are basically the conductor of a symphony of your body.

So from, you know, inception through birth and development of children in the first two years in particular, and as, you know, childbearing age, your hormones

fertility is directed and impacted by these endocrines.

So, like, they tell your body when to start growing, when to develop, when you develop, you know, when you go into puberty, all these kinds of things.

And the chemicals in plastic change that score.

They're changing it in ways that are, you know, male fertility is down 50% in the last 50 years.

So Shauna Swan, the scientist in The Plastic Detox and in a new film that just premiered in London yesterday called Infertility, all about male infertility.

talks about, you know, she also is the author of a book called Countdown to Sperm Count Zero, which we are heading to by like 2045, potentially.

So like the future of the human race is dependent on us all working together, not just in this country across the aisle, but like globally with international treaties, et cetera, to turn off the tap on plastic pollution.

Anything that goes in their mouth, number one.

So bottles, pacifiers, glass bottles, natural rubber nipples, pacifiers, number one.

Toys.

So, you know, wood or metal, no paint.

And all these things exist, but you, you know, not everyone can afford them.

And that's one of the things we're working to try and change.

You know, diapers.

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