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The Evan Brand Show

Toxic Scents: The Secret Endocrine Disruptor in Your Home

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8811 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Are your favorite perfumes, candles, and air fresheners silently wrecking your hormone balance? In this episode, we break down how synthetic fragrances act as stealth endocrine disruptors in your daily environment. Discover how artificial scents interfere with thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormone pathways, and get actionable, root-cause strategies to detox your indoor air and protect your hormonal health.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Dr. Justin Markagina here with Evan Brand. Today we're going to be talking about

0:04.1

synthetic fragrances and how they can negatively impact your hormones. This is an important topic,

0:09.6

especially if you have the little tree car fresheners in your car, you work on, you use lots

0:13.9

of synthetic perfumes and colognes and glaid plug-ins and fabrize and scented candles,

0:20.5

right? Fabric softener. I mean, the list goes on,

0:23.3

right? So these are all potential, right? Potential, not to guarantee hormonal stressors,

0:28.1

potentially xenostrogenic and can negatively impact your hormones and the feedback loop to your

0:33.4

pituitary that tells your body to make more of your healthy sex hormone. So very important topic today.

0:38.9

Evan, how are we doing, man?

0:40.5

Doing good, doing good.

0:41.5

Let's just drop it right on top of their heads here because there's still people that

0:46.0

fight us on the fragrance issue.

0:47.9

So let's just go through a little bit of the literature here quickly and then we'll dive

0:51.2

into the easy solution.

0:53.1

And it is disgusting how common fragrances are you

0:55.9

got fragrance garbage bags fragrance kitty litter like what you think your cat wants to smell fresh

1:01.5

breeze while they're peeing no they want to pee in on the earth they don't want that so here you

1:06.4

go this is a summary paper and a xenobiotic uh journal and it says here this is a summary paper in a xenobiotic journal and it says here this is based on i think they said

1:15.6

there were 37 different studies they put together and here we go the negative impact is right here

1:21.1

headaches asthma attacks breathing difficulties cardiovascular neurological problems and distress

1:27.4

in the workplace due to the issue

1:30.4

right here, the endocrine immune neural axis. And this is regarding the VOCs, particularly from

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