496: Are Plastics Killing Us? Phthalates, Endocrine Disruptors, and the Hidden Risk of Heart Disease | Leonardo Trasande, MD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Dr. Leo Trasande is a pediatrician, professor at NYU, and one of the world’s leading researchers on how environmental toxins like endocrine-disrupting chemicals impact human health.
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| 0:00.0 | Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. |
| 0:04.0 | Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s. |
| 0:08.0 | Tea break. |
| 0:09.0 | Lunch break. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe listen to the outbreak. |
| 0:12.0 | Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right? |
| 0:15.0 | It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down |
| 0:23.8 | tombola open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware dot org what up team it's episode 496 of the genius life let's go |
| 0:35.6 | yes of the genius life. Let's go. And say genius of film. |
| 0:39.3 | Max Lugabeer. |
| 0:42.3 | Max Lugabeer. |
| 0:43.3 | What is the genius life? |
| 0:47.3 | The genius life. |
| 0:49.3 | What up everybody? I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life. |
| 0:57.3 | A show where we break down rigorous science and an accessible and, dare I say, fun way to help you live better, think sharper, and feel your absolute best. |
| 1:06.1 | My guest today is one of the most important voices in environmental health. |
| 1:09.6 | And this conversation is sure to leave you |
| 1:11.5 | questioning what you touch, eat, and even breathe. Dr. Leo Trasande is a pediatrician, professor, |
| 1:18.7 | and world-renowned researcher at NYU focused on the health effects of endocrine disrupting |
| 1:23.5 | chemicals like thalates, bisphenols, and PFAS, aka Forever Chemicals. His book, Sicker, Fatter, |
| 1:30.8 | poorer has become a cornerstone in the movement to expose how chemical exposures are contributing |
| 1:35.7 | to chronic disease, infertility, obesity, and even brain shrinkage in children. In this episode, |
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