Hey, this is Outside In a show where curiosity and the natural world collide. I'm Nate Hedgy

here with Halima Shaw. Hi, Nate. I want to start with a question. What is your relationship

with plastic like? Well, it is a part of my everyday life. I get my produce, probably in one of those

little plastic containers. I feel like everything I get off Amazon is wrapped in plastic.

Yeah, ubiquitous.

Right.

I am a reluctantly plastic conscious person.

And what I mean by that is that my husband is always on my case

about not leaving hot food in plastic takeout boxes or, you know,

throwing out plastic cutting boards.

I will just say my wife very similar. Like we've got plastic cutting boards. I will just say, my wife, very similar.

Like, we've got plastic cutting boards that we're, like, trying to not use as much.

And same with, like, Teflon, we're trying to stay away from that.

Yeah, that's a big one.

And, you know, your wife and my husband are reasonable people for being concerned about this,

because studies do show that tiny pieces of these plastics that we use

all the time are getting inside our bodies. And we can't see them, but you can kind of assume

that they're there. Yeah, absolutely. Like it's something that like, I should probably be thinking about

more. Well, if you want to raise your anxiety more, you can get a home testing kit to literally

test how much plastic is in your blood. Oh, man. I don't know if I want to do that. Well, I did.

Did you really? I did. I did. I got a $360 mail-in blood testing kit from Blueprint, which is a company that's founded by Silicon Valley's own

self-proclaimed longevity athlete, Brian Johnson. Do you know who I'm talking about? I do know Brian

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