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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1194: Endocrine Disruptors | Skeptical Sunday

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Chemicals in water, food, and receipts are messing with our hormones. Nick Pell helps us understand and reduce the risks on Skeptical Sunday!

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and a guest break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions. This time around, we’re joined by writer and researcher Nick Pell!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1194

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday:

  • Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with your body's hormone signals by either blocking them or mimicking them, potentially affecting testosterone, estrogen, and other crucial hormones that regulate mood, growth, and reproduction.
  • These chemicals are virtually everywhere — in drinking water, plastic bottles, receipts, shampoos, soaps, food packaging, and even birth control runoff in groundwater. Complete avoidance is impossible in modern life.
  • Evidence suggests EDCs may contribute to declining testosterone in men, early puberty in girls, and male fertility issues. Frog feminization studies show real hormonal effects in wildlife and Alex Jones.
  • Unlike typical toxins, endocrine disruptors follow a "non-monotonic dose response" — meaning lower doses might actually be more harmful than higher doses, making it impossible to determine a "safe" exposure level.
  • You can reduce exposure by filtering water, avoiding receipt handling, using glass/metal containers instead of plastic, choosing bar soap over liquid, and not microwaving food in plastic wrap — small changes that add up.
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0:00.0

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Skeptical

0:07.5

Sunday co-host writer and researcher Nick Pell. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the

0:11.9

stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into

0:16.0

practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission is to

0:20.2

help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. During the week, we have long-forms

0:24.3

conversations with a variety of amazing folks from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and

0:29.2

performers. On Sundays, though, it's skeptical Sunday where a rotating guest co-host and I

0:33.6

break down a topic you may have never thought about and debunk common misconceptions about

0:37.8

that topic. Topics like acupuncture and astrology, recycling and chem trails, ban foods,

0:42.9

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taste of everything we do here on the show. Just visit jordanharbinger.com slash start or search for us

1:05.0

in your Spotify app to get started. What if I told you that there were chemicals in the food

1:09.9

in the water that were messing up your entire endocrine system?

1:13.3

That's the bodily system which helps your hormones regulate mood, physical growth and development, metabolism, and reproduction.

1:20.1

Some of you might say, well, that would explain a whole lot.

1:22.6

And others of you are trying to call BS on things like this.

1:25.6

These chemicals are called endocrine disruptors,

1:28.0

and they're a hot topic right now in health circles. Some argue that endocrine disruptors are

1:32.5

responsible for everything from declining testosterone rates and men to turning the frogs gay.

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