The Hormonal Consequences of Plastics – With Dr. Shanna Swan & Stacey Colino

The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy

Dr. Mindy Pelz

Alternative Health, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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This episode is all about what toxins and plastics are doing to our hormones.

Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. An award-winning scientist, her work examines the impact of environmental exposures, including chemicals such as phthalates and Bisphenol A, on men's and women's reproductive health and the neurodevelopment of children. Shanna Swan is the author of Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Health, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race co-authored by Stacey Colino and published by Scribner in February 2021.

Stacey Colino is an award-winning writer, specializing in science, health, and psychological issues. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post Health and Wellness sections and in dozens of national magazines, including U.S. News & World Report, Prevention, Scientific American, and Health. She is the co-author, with Shanna Swan, Ph.D., of Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race (Scribner, 2021).

In this podcast, we cover:

How toxins are having a dramatic effect on our reproductive health
Which toxins to look out for and what we can do to clean them up
About the changes you should make to decrease your toxin load
Solutions to any of your hormonal problems

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0:00.0	You need to open your eyes to everything you bring into your life with an eye to its risks for damaging your health.
0:10.0	I am a woman on a mission that is dedicated to teaching you just how powerful your body was built to be.
0:17.0	I like to do that by bringing you the latest science, the greatest thought leaders, and applicable steps that help you tap into your own
0:25.0	internal healing power. The purpose of this podcast is to give you the power back and
0:30.8	help you believe in yourself again. My name is Dr. Mindy Pells and I want to
0:35.3	thank you for spending part of your day with me. On this episode of the Resetter
0:40.9	Podcast I bring you Dr. Shauna Swan and Stacy Kalino. They are the authors of a
0:48.8	wildly popular book that came out this year called Countdown. Now what intrigued me about this book
0:55.8	is how people gravitated to the subject matter. The subtitle and I'm just going to
1:01.9	read it for you the subtitle of their book is called
1:05.0	How Our Modern World is Threatening Sperm Counts,
1:09.0	Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development,
1:12.0	and Imperiling the future of the human race.
1:15.4	So if you're not familiar with what toxins are doing to our hormones, we've talked a lot on this
1:21.2	podcast about the hormonal consequence of toxins to the
1:26.0	menopausal woman but what I don't feel like is being addressed enough is
1:31.7	infertility rates anxiety in our children, learning disabilities, thyroid challenges,
1:40.0	early puberty, all these hormonal challenges that were seen in the human race and the connection
1:46.7	from that to the increase in toxins.
1:51.0	So I so desperately wanted to have this conversation with these ladies because
1:55.3	Dr Swan has been researching toxicity and infertility for some time. You will hear in her remarks just how bright she is and the
2:06.9	evidence is very very clear that not only are we living in the most toxic time
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