Well, hello, my friends, and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to

episode 585 of Sustainable Minimalists. This is a listener-supported show about intentional and

eco-friendly minimalist living. And on today's show, we are going behind the scenes with Dr.

Shauna Swan of Netflix's amazing new documentary, The Plastic Detox.

Now, have you seen the documentary yet? Have you watched it? If you have, you already know

that it's quite phenomenal. If you haven't watched it, you should definitely stop everything

and go watch it. But the film follows six couples with unexplained infertility.

So they have been trying to get pregnant for at least two years.

They're having no luck and the reason is unclear.

And so the film follows these couples as they seek to lower their exposure to plastic

in hopes that doing so will have an effect on their fertility and hopes that it will help them

conceive. Now, Dr. Shauna Swan, she is the environmental epidemiologist who guides them as they

embark on a 90-day plastic detox.

They remove plastic items from their home. They avoid plastic packaging. They replace synthetic

clothing, which is plastic clothing, with natural fiber options. They replace their personal

care products with ones that are fragrance-free, because remember,

plastic chemicals are not just in plastic. They are in our personal care products. And Dr. Swan

makes that abundantly clear in our conversation today. They even avoid touching receipts.

Okay. So the couples go on a 90-day plastic detox and then at the end of

those 90 days, we see what happens. Do they successfully reduce their exposures to these

classes of chemicals, these endocrine disrupting disrupting, these hormone disrupting chemicals?

And if so, does it have any impact on their fertility journeys?

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