How To Detox Your Kitchen: Hormones, Plastics & Forever Chemicals w/ Jordan Nathan (Caraway Founder)

The average person consumes about a credit card's worth of plastic every week, and PFAS forever chemicals are now in roughly 97% of people's blood. I sat down with Jordan, the founder of Caraway, to talk about what's actually in your nonstick cookware, why Teflon was originally created for the atomic bomb, and how to tell in five seconds whether the pan in your kitchen is coated in it.

We get into the night he gave himself Teflon poisoning and called poison control, why 6 to 8 states have now banned PFAS in cookware, what happens when your nonstick coating starts to flake, and whether heating food in plastic is as bad as you think. Plus the easiest nontoxic swaps to make first, what to do about takeout containers, baby bottles and kids' toys, and the new nontoxic coffee maker that took five years and two dozen factories to build.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - One credit card of plastic a week

1:13 - Intro

1:30 - The cheap college pots and pans I had no idea about

2:16 - The three types of cookware, and where Teflon came from

3:42 - How to tell if a pan has Teflon in it

4:22 - What happens when your nonstick coating flakes and scratches

5:20 - Where these toxins go once they're in your body

6:15 - PFAS is in 97% of people's blood