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Podcast: Big Brains
Episode: How PFAS āForever Chemicalsā Are Harming Our Health, with Linda Birnbaum
Description: By now, you've probably heard about the dangers of PFAS āforever chemicals.ā These chemicals are all around usāthey're in waterproof hiking boots, electronics, nonstick pans and even our drinking waterābut there's no way for them to break down in our environment. Epidemiological studies have linked to these chemicals to numerous diseasesāfrom kidney cancer, liver cancer, obesity, decreased fertility and more.American toxicologist LindaĀ BirnbaumĀ has been sounding the alarms about how PFAS are harming our health for the last few decades. She was previously the director of theĀ National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences at the NIH an...