Health Matters

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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