Overthinking About Toxins

Magical Overthinkers

Amanda Montell & Studio71

Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.3 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What could be more ripe for thought spirals than the concept of tiny, invisible poisons secretly lurking in our food, clothes, and the air we breathe? With such mystery, misinformation, and conspiracy surrounding "toxins"—everything from forever chemicals in our sparkling water to carcinogens in our skincare—it's impossible not to overthink about them. To help soothe our noxious spiraling on the subject, we're pleased to welcome a very special guest Dr. Denise Montell, a cancer researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara and host Amanda's (@amanda_montell) very own mother. Mother Montell joins the pod to answer a plethora of unfiltered, listener-submitted questions on the relationship between our bodies and the environment, and what we can do to limit our "toxic" exposure while protecting our precious mental health. Get an additional 15% off any annual membership at https://masterclass.com/MAGICAL - Join the "Magical Overthinkers Club" by following the pod on Instagram @magicaloverthinkers. - To access early, ad-free episodes and more, subscribe to the Magical Overthinkers Substack. - Pick up a hard copy of Amanda's book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, or listen to the audiobook. To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MagicalOverthinkersYouTube ; Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, DM, email, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/MagicalOverthinkers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A quick message before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to humbly ask, nay, beg, you listeners, that if you like magical overthinkers and want to keep listening to it, that you'll consider taking 10 seconds or even a whole minute to leave five stars and a little nice sentiment about it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you're listening. I think Father
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0:54.7	episode, every other week. You can find that YouTube link in our show notes. Okay, thank you for listening
1:00.1	and onto the episode.
1:06.8	Welcome to The Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spirallers, exploring the subjects we can't stop overthinking about, from imposter syndrome to millennial cringe.
1:19.2	If you ever get the feeling that despite living in the information age, the world only seems to be making less sense, or that for some mysterious reason, it just feels
1:29.5	especially hard to exist as a human in the world right now.
1:33.8	Then you're in the right place.
1:35.7	This podcast is here to help us think less about the things that don't matter and more
1:41.1	about the things that do.
1:43.0	I'm your host, Amanda Montel.
1:45.6	Today, we're overthinking about toxins.
1:54.8	I feel like this topic almost needs no introduction.
1:58.9	It's hardly a stretch, this notion of thought spiraling over invisible,
2:04.9	poisonous entities that lurk in our food and our clothes and in the air all around us that
2:10.4	are probably killing us slowly, some of which are actually just made up by conspiracy
2:14.7	theorists who might have political motivations, and others
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