This episode features an excerpt from Ruan Living’s 40-Day Home Detox masterclass with renowned reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Paul Magarelli. He explains how endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—found in plastics, personal care products, pesticides, and air pollution—are contributing to declining sperm counts, hormone imbalances, miscarriages, and lower embryo viability.

With over 1,000 known EDCs in our daily environments, Dr. Magarelli shares clinical insights into how these invisible toxicants are silently impacting fertility, IVF outcomes, and long-term child development.

You’ll learn:

• The 4 critical fertility checkpoints: sperm, egg, uterus, and fallopian tubes

• How EDCs impair sperm motility, DNA quality, and embryo implantation

• Why miscarriage rates are rising and what fecundity really means

• The transgenerational effects of chemical exposures on reproductive health

• What you can do now to support a fertile, healthy body

This conversation is an urgent yet hopeful reminder that detoxing your home and reducing endocrine disruptors can make a real difference—not just for you, but for generations to come.

🎧 Part of the 40-Day Home Detox from Ruan Living, this masterclass clip empowers you with science-based insights and practical guidance.

About Ruan Living

Grounded in the philosophy of Practical Nontoxic Living™, Ruan Living offers flexible ways for you to craft your Ultimate Home Detox™ to help you elevate your health and well-being—one thoughtful choice at a time. Specifically, we're zoned in on environmental influences—easy ones you can control—that can optimize your, and your intergenerational, healthspan and epigenetics through Practical Nontoxic Living™.

Rooted in mindfulness over perfection, we guide you with empowering insights to detox your home and body of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, and stress. Ruan Living offers books, online programs, customized support, and free resources to help you create a home and lifestyle that nurtures healing and thriving. Learn more at www.ruanliving.com.

Join Ruan Living's newsletter here.

About Sophia Ruan Gushée

Sophia Ruan Gushée is the founder of Ruan Living and author of the critically acclaimed bestselling book A to Z of D-Toxing: The Ultimate Guide to Reducing Our Toxic Exposures. Throughout her suite of Ruan Living Offerings, the diversity of Home detox paths that she has created are designed to welcome you to craft your Ultimate Home Detox™—rooted in the philosophy of Practical Nontoxic Living™, which protects your joy and convenience while guiding you to avoid toxicity. Learn more about Sophia here: Sophia Ruan Gushée.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Optimize Your Fertility, Assisted Reproductive Efforts, and Pregnancy Outcomes with Dr. Shanna Swan
• How Toxic Exposures Threaten Women's Fertility and Reproductive Health: Expert Hugh Taylor Explains
• Ruan Living's 40-Day Home Detox

In this heartfelt and eye-opening conversation, Sophia Ruan Gushée is joined by her colleague and niece Elizabeth McCormick to reflect on Sophia’s masterclass interview with reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Paul Magarelli (featured in Part 2).

Together, they unpack the most compelling insights from Dr. Magarelli about how endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—found in everyday products like shampoos, perfumes, deodorants, and even conventionally grown produce—are silently impacting fertility.

Topics include:

• What exactly are EDCs, and why should we care?

• The shocking decline in global fertility—over 50% in the last 50 years—and the halving of sperm counts since our grandparents’ generation (as explored in Dr. Shanna Swan’s book Countdown)

• Why awareness of EDCs is crucial for those pursuing assisted reproductive technologies (ART)

• The intergenerational effects of endocrine and metabolic disruption

• How detoxing your home can empower reproductive and generational health

This episode reinforces why the efforts you make to detox your environment—like those in Ruan Living's 40-Day Home Detox—matter deeply, not just for today, but for generations to come.

About Ruan Living

Grounded in the philosophy of Practical Nontoxic Living™, Ruan Living offers flexible ways for you to craft your Ultimate Home Detox™ to help you elevate your health and well-being—one thoughtful choice at a time. Specifically, we're zoned in on environmental influences—easy ones you can control—that can optimize your, and your intergenerational, healthspan and epigenetics through Practical Nontoxic Living™.

Rooted in mindfulness over perfection, we guide you with empowering insights to detox your home and body of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, and stress. Ruan Living offers books, online programs, customized support, and free resources to help you create a home and lifestyle that nurtures healing and thriving. Learn more at www.ruanliving.com.

Join Ruan Living's newsletter here.

About Sophia Ruan Gushée

Sophia Ruan Gushée is the founder of Ruan Living and author of the critically acclaimed bestselling book A to Z of D-Toxing: The Ultimate Guide to Reducing Our Toxic Exposures. Throughout her suite of Ruan Living Offerings, the diversity of Home detox paths that she has created are designed to welcome you to craft your Ultimate Home Detox™—rooted in the philosophy of Practical Nontoxic Living™, which protects your joy and convenience while guiding you to avoid toxicity. Learn more about Sophia here: Sophia Ruan Gushée.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Optimize Your Fertility, Assisted Reproductive Efforts, and Pregnancy Outcomes with Dr. Shanna Swan
• How Toxic Exposures Threaten Women's Fertility and Reproductive Health: Expert Hugh Taylor Explains
• Ruan Living's 40-Day Home Detox

For most of my life, sleep felt like a waste of time—something to minimize, not prioritize. And while recent science on the invaluable benefits of sleep—like how it detoxes your brain and is critical in learning and memory—I still didn't want to sleep more. Until one Hidden Brain episode changed everything.

In this short and personal Practical Nontoxic Living™ “Raindrop” episode, I share the surprising creations that originated during sleep. Whether you struggle with sleep or just want to optimize your healing, this episode offers fresh motivation to rethink rest.

👉 If you enjoy this episode, share it with a sleep-deprived friend and tag me @ruanliving.

Practical Nontoxic Living™ Raindrops | Ultimate Home Detox™ Unpacked

This “raindrop” of Practical Nontoxic Living™ wisdom is part of a new Thursday series designed to help you make small, meaningful changes that support your Ultimate Home Detox™. It’s also featured in the Ultimate Home Detox Unpacked—a curated podcast series unpacking the tools, science, and mindset shifts behind our signature detox programs.

About Ruan Living

Grounded in the philosophy of Practical Nontoxic Living™, Ruan Living offers flexible ways for you to craft your Ultimate Home Detox™ to help you elevate your health and well-being—one thoughtful choice at a time. Specifically, we're zoned in on environmental influences—easy ones you can control—that can optimize your, and your intergenerational, healthspan and epigenetics through Practical Nontoxic Living™.

Rooted in mindfulness over perfection, we guide you with empowering insights to detox your home and body of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, and stress. Ruan Living offers books, online programs, customized support, and free resources to help you create a home and lifestyle that nurtures healing and thriving. Learn more at www.ruanliving.com.

Join Ruan Living's newsletter here.

About Sophia Ruan Gushée

Sophia Ruan Gushée is the founder of Ruan Living and author of the critically acclaimed bestselling book A to Z of D-Toxing: The Ultimate Guide to Reducing Our Toxic Exposures. Throughout her suite of Ruan Living Offerings, the diversity of Home detox paths that she has created are designed to welcome you to craft your Ultimate Home Detox™—rooted in the philosophy of Practical Nontoxic Living™, which protects your joy and convenience while guiding you to avoid toxicity. Learn more about Sophia here: Sophia Ruan Gushée.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Hidden Brain—Eyes Wide Open: Part 1
• Hidden Brain—Eyes Wide Open: Part 2
• For tips on high-quality sleep: Practical Nontoxic Living podcast #24 "Protect Your Brain and Body from 5G and Other EMFs"