The other day I was scrolling on Instagram and this chart popped up.

It showed everyday items in my house that could actually be messing with how my body functions.

Things like shampoo, floss, water bottles.

The charts that all these items contain things called indocrine disruptors.

Indicrine disruptors are chemicals that can interfere with the complex system that produces and

interacts with our hormones. There's research linking some of these endocrine disruptors

to a bunch of health problems. They can affect the reproductive system, our kidneys, and even

increase our cancer risk. And these chemicals are everywhere. In our food, our hygiene products,

our makeup, our pots and pans.

This scared me.

But rather than continuing to doomscroll, I thought, you know, let me talk to someone who actually

knows the science and isn't getting all of his information from social media.

That person is Dr. McKell Sechrist.

He's an oncologist, professor, and cancer epidemiologist.

And as part of his research, he tracks potential links between environmental exposures and cancer.

So, we called them up to ask,

how freaked out should I be?

Let me try to lower your freakout range.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post reports. I'm Elahe Izadhi. It's Wednesday,

August 6th. Today, Dr. Secarus answers all my questions about endocrine disruptors and cancer.

He shares with me how he makes his own choices on what products to buy and avoid and how I can do the same.

He's the chief of the haematology division and professor of medicine at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami.

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