How To Reduce Your Environmental Toxin Exposure

Published: June 9, 2023, 10 a.m.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and InsideTracker.\nWe\u2019ve become exposed to a greater number of environmental toxins than ever before. Environmental toxins can feed cancer, interfere with glucose and cholesterol metabolism, and induce insulin resistance and obesity through multiple mechanisms, including inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial injury, altered thyroid metabolism, and impaired central appetite regulation.\xa0\nIn today\u2019s episode of my series I\u2019m calling Health Bites, we\u2019re talking about how environmental toxins impact our health, the top endocrine-disrupting toxins, and my strategies for reducing your exposure. I also share which foods you should be sure to buy organic.\nThis episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and InsideTracker.\nRupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 35 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, and Great Plains. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.\nInsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they\u2019re offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.\nHere are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):\n\nHow environmental toxins impact our health (3:46 / 00:58)\n\nThe top endocrine-disrupting toxins (5:52 / 4:01)\n\nStrategies to reduce your toxic burden (10:41 / 8:49)\xa0\n\nEWG\u2019s Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen lists (16:02 / 15:00)\xa0\n\n\nMentioned in this episode\nEWG's Skin Deep Database\nEWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning\nThrive Market\nSeatopia.fish\nEWG\u2019s 2023 Shopper\u2019s Guide to Pesticides in Produce\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices