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Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick

Uncanny Valley | WIRED

CHAPTER

The Effects of Clothing on Fertility

Some of the sources that you spoke to for this book developed allergies or severe autoimmune diseases. They believe may have been linked to the type of clothing that they were wearing or may have been compelled to wear. So, I was hoping you could share a little bit more about their stories and also talk about how certain chemicals in fashion can disrupt fertility. Yeah. We can't say definitively that being exposed to these chemicals, which she's very clearly allergic to day in and day out, was the trigger for her Crohn's. But given the latest research on how something like Crohn's or other autoimmune diseases can develop, it's not out of the question that this was directly linked to her failing

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