Bryan Johnson· Author
Phalates are chemicals that are put into plastic to make them soft and flexible. They leech into your food, water, body where they can cause inflammation, endocrine disruption, and metabolic dysfunction.
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Phalates are chemicals that are put into plastic to make them soft and flexible. They leech into your food, water, body where they can cause inflammation, endocrine disruption, and metabolic dysfunction.
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okay and then and then we'll talk about um phalates which are another class of chemicals that are kind of like um the I think of them is sort of the opposite of the of the BPA so these are the things that are used in Plastics to make plastic more flexible um and to to to have more kind of Bend in it they're also found in products that we use like shampoos lotions laundry detergents um it makes fragrances last longer