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I just came upon another study about toxic plastics lurking in your kitchen,

and I just need to tell you about it.

I've talked for years now about the seven deadly disruptors and plastics are right up there. But there

are compounds in plastics that you really need to know about. So let's talk about one of

the obvious ones first. Bisfenols. Most people know about Bisfenol A, BPA. They've been banned from most of the

countries in the world. There's a kind of partial ban on BPA now. But these are in plastics. They're

in reusable food and beverage containers. They're in most water bottles, the lining of food cans,

eyeglass lenses, thermal paper receipts, and plastic water pipes. Now, unfortunately, they

has been a movement to replace these with bisphenol S, bisphenol Z, but we don't think they're actually any safer than the replacements.

What that means for you in general is you really want to stay away from plastic containers,

plastic that you take your food home with, plastic water bottles.

Now, why are these so bad? All of what we're going to talk about, it comes down to most of these

plastics behave as what are called endocrine disruptors, sometimes called estrogen mimicking compounds,

testosterone mimicking compounds.

And they act as if you're actually intaking hormones.

And we now know that these unfortunately not only affect you,

but they affect your kids.

They've been associated with polycystic ovarian syndrome.

They've been associated with depression, hyperactivity, inattention, you name it, it affects it.

We know now that these plastics affect sexual function, and if you've been paying attention,

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