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Why do I want you to throw out perfectly good kitchenware?

And it's certainly not to create more landfill and waste money.

But there are things in your kitchen you probably use every

day that are poisoning you and your family. As you know, I call them deadly disruptors. And there are numerous deadly disruptors lurking in your kitchen right now.

So, these contain, for the most part compounds that are called endocrine disruptors, sometimes

called estrogen mometics, sometimes called hormone disruptors. These are commonly found in almost

all plastics. And lest we forget, plastics are a relatively new invention.

Plastics did not exist until really after World War II.

And plastics are now so ubiquitous, they're in everything.

Plastics, the vast majority of plastics we now know contain these estrogen disrupting chemicals

and estrogen disruptors do exactly what they say. They mimic hormones and they mimic

hormones in ways that are incredibly detrimental to our child's development, to our development, to our development,

development, to our brain, and we need to get them out of our lives

because, quite frankly, we are disruptive. One of the first big offenders is non-stick pans. Now not all

non-stick fans are bad but most of the pans the early non-stick cookware made with Teflon. Teflon is PTFE and is a known endocrine

disruptor. Make sure you never buy a non-stick footwear

that says Teflon.

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