Ever wondered what your body burden - in other words, the amount of chemicals in your body - is? Million Marker is a mail-in test kit that can help you answer that question when it comes to common hormone disrupting chemicals. This episode is an amazing conversation with Jenna Hua, CEO, and Jo Rochester, Chief Scientific Officer. We cover:

• How body burden testing works
• What the benefits and limitations of body burden testing are
• What toxicologists are saying about small amounts of ingredients we're exposed to every day
• What Million Marker tests for, and why

Jenna Hua has researched and published numerous studies that largely focused on citizens science, general health, and the impact of food consumption on a person’s well-being. Her extensive experience as an academic and health advocate led to her founding Million Marker in 2019.  She holds a BS in Nutrition and an MPH and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley.

Jo has spent the last decade studying how environmental stressors affect hormones and health. She has published several scoping and systematic reviews, including a pivotal one on BPA and human health that has been cited over 1,000 times, greatly furthering epidemiological BPA research, and was used as the basis for regulation of BPA under California’s Proposition 65. Jo holds an MS and PhD from the University of California, Davis, and did her postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She then worked at TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, the foremost non-profit in endocrine disruption research and science translation.

Links Mentioned:

www.millionmarker.com

www.instagram.com/million_marker
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