Chemicals that don't break down and are harmful to our health are in everything.

Follow me down the rabbit hole about forever chemicals.

... Hello, friends, and welcome back to the rabbit hole.

I'm your host, Danny, and today we are talking about forever chemicals.

So I told you last week, we were going to do it.

So let's do it.

It is as bad as you think it is. And honestly,

it's probably worse than what I could find on the internet. And you all already know that I can't

pronounce half these words. So I'm going to do my best. Let's just do it. Let's just do it.

What are forever chemicals? They are a chemical bond that is so strong that they are nearly indestructible.

They do eventually break down, but it takes like thousands of years. The most common ones that we know and the ones that we talk about today are

PFAs and BPAs. PFAs are per and poly floral alcohol substances and they are a group of synthetic

fluorine-based chemicals called fluorocarbons.

Because they use like this carbon fluoride bond, which is like so super strong.

So we're talking like PFOA, PFOS, Gen X, these types of bonds are good for letting air pass through, but not much else gets through them.

Which is why they're super good at like stain resistant type things because you can spray it on something or like a starch.

You can spray it on something.

The air will get through,

but water's not getting through those suckers, stains, anything else that gets spilled on that,

that's not getting through. These were discovered in the 1930s, and their use was kept from

the EPA or the Environmental Protection Agency until the late 1990s.

It's like everyone knew just how bad they actually were, but didn't want them to be taken away.

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