I'm Gwyneth Paltrow and you're listening to the Goop podcast.

Thanks for joining us.

If this is your first time, here's what you can expect.

Every Thursday and a bunch of Tuesdays coming up, Goop editors will be sitting down with

thought leaders who are pushing boundaries in their fields.

We'll talk to doctors, creatives, CEOs, and relationship experts.

You'll hear me interviewing some of the people I admire most in this world, and you'll

also hear a lot from my chief content officer at Goop, Elise Lunin.

I love listening to Elise's interviews because she asks the smartest questions and really

just listens.

Today Elise is sitting down with Jessica Helm.

Jessica is a postdoctoral fellow at Silent Spring Institute, her research, which is fascinating.

She focuses on how endocrine disrupting chemicals affect our health.

Some of her most important research has examined ethnic disparities in chemical exposure and

hormone-related health conditions.

Elise met Jessica in Boston to talk about what she's discovered.

And then to make us all feel better, they talked us through some simple ways that we can reduce

our exposure to endocrine disruptors and other chemicals of concern.

All of this can get pretty overwhelming.

As you see, you call it the rabbit hole.

It can get pretty overwhelming.

I think one thing to realize is that a single step and another single step adds up eventually

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