Why You Might Be Actually EATING Plastic without Even Knowing it

About this episode

This episode discusses the hidden dangers of cookware and kitchen items that may leach harmful substances into food, featuring an interview with Jordan Nathan of Caraway.

Most people think their kitchen is the safest place in their home. The truth is the opposite. The cookware you use every day, the cutting boards you trust, the utensils you stir with, even the coffee maker on your counter, may be quietly leaching forever chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals into your food and into your brain. In this episode, I sit down with Jordan Nathan, founder and CEO of Caraway, the brand redefining what nontoxic actually means in the modern home. Jordan walks me through the night he called poison control after overheating a Teflon pan, the 2-year journey to launch a cookware line free of PFAS, and why six U.S. states have now banned forever chemicals in cookware. We unpack what PFAS, PFOA, and PTFE actually are, why they accumulate in fat tissue and cross the blood brain barrier, and why scratched pans, plastic cutting boards, and black nylon utensils are some of the most dangerous things in your kitchen. Then we go deep on the science. I break down the Nature Medicine 2025 study showing microplastics in human brain tissue at higher concentrations than the liver or kidney, with the highest accumulation found in dementia brains. We cover the rise of…

People in this episode

Host: Louisa Nicola

Guest: Jordan Nathan

Topics covered

• kitchen safety
• toxic cookware
• PFAS
• microplastics
• health risks
• autoimmune disease

Keywords

• PFAS
• microplastics
• kitchen safety
• toxic cookware
• Jordan Nathan
• Caraway
• autoimmune disease
• Nature Medicine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Caraway

Books & works: Nature Medicine 2025

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