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A test told me I'm basically made of plastic. You probably are too

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A test told me I'm basically made of plastic. You probably are too
By Jeffrey Kluger
Editor-at-Large
I got some bad news from a mail-in test I recently took: my body is teeming with the plastic ingredient bisphenol A (BPA)—a known hormone disruptor. Bisphenols and another chemical class, phthalates, are ubiquitous and dangerous. But there are ways you can get screened and purge your body of the chemicals (some of them, anyway).

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Today's newsletter was written by Jeffrey Kluger and edited by Angela Haupt.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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