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The Toxic Danger Hiding In Store Receipts ☠️🧾 | Shanna Swan #HealthTips #BPA #HormoneHealth #Shorts

28 May 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Shanna Swan explains how paper receipts contain bisphenols and phthalates that disrupt hormones: bisphenols increase estrogen, phthalates lower testosterone. Skin cream makes absorption worse. Cashiers face the highest exposure.

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So all those credit card receipts, yeah, don't touch the receipts. Because you, when you touch that, we've done a study which shows that you touch that, particularly if you have hand cream on, you're getting a lot of bisphenols into your body. And every cashier gets a lot. And the bisphenols, I think of bisphenols and phthalates as kind of evil twins. One of them, the phthalates, makes plastic soft and flexible and it lowers testosterone. And the other one makes plastic hard and raises estrogen. I just say send it electronically. Why would you touch it?