On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast, there were heavy metals and teflon.

So that was used on the uniforms to give them stain repellency.

Some of them had super saturated dyes that would come off and stain the skin of the airline

attendants or their bras.

One of them had Chloridane, which is a pesticide that has been banned for all uses and sale in the United States since the 80s.

It was just like a variety of things on all of these different uniforms.

Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology Podcast.

I'm your host, Courtney Swan, and today's guest is Alden Wicker.

She's an award-winning journalist, sustainable fashion expert, an author of the book to die

for, how toxic fashion is making us sick. This is an episode that I think many of us been waiting for

for a long time. I get a ton of questions on my Instagram of people asking me what workout clothes

I buy, what normal clothes I buy, am I concerned about PFAS is being found in our clothes, am I worried

about fertility and how our clothes are affecting us? And the answer is yes. And I finally found the

perfect person to do this episode with, we dive into everything. We talk about

the different chemicals that are being used on our clothing. We talk about what to look for,

what labels to look for, what brands to avoid, some brands to buy, how to know if you should

buy it. We talk about what kind of fibers you want your clothing to be made out of.

She also talks about the airline flight attendant litigation that was happening a couple years ago.

Actually, some of it is still happening right now. But a lot of airline flying attendants were getting

really sick. And it turns out it was from their clothing so we dive into that

we talk about the dose does not necessarily make the poison how to reduce your exposure what we can do

and we give you some really hopeful tips so don't worry this is not all doom and gloom but it is

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