You’ll rinse a substantial amount of chemical residue down the drain. If you follow just one piece of advice from this list, make it this small, easy thing: Wash your hands frequently (avoiding fragranced and antibacterial soaps), and always before eating. JGI/Jamie Grill/Blend Images LLC/Gallery Stock 1. Yes, it sounds scary, but we aren't without recourse: While NRDC works to get better safeguards in place, there are ways you can try to steer clear of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, or EDCs. “When a hormone-disrupting chemical gets in the way during these windows, it can change the ways these processes happen. “We have very tight windows of when, say, our brain and liver are made,” explains Kristi Pullen Fedinick, an NRDC staff scientist. We’re exposed to these chemicals daily, and we’re especially vulnerable to them during phases of accelerated development-in utero and throughout childhood. Here’s the bad news: Synthetic chemicals in products like plastics and fragrances can mimic hormones and interfere with or disrupt the delicate endocrine dance. Most often, we think about this system-the endocrine system-in the context of puberty, but it actually plays a starring role in all phases of development, metabolism, and behavior. You may remember learning in biology class that our bodies are run by a network of hormones and glands that regulate everything we do.
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