The Plastic Detox is Netflix’s documentary film that delves into whether lowering daily exposure to microplastics – going on a three-month plastic detox – can improve fertility markers in couples who want to start a family.
Shanna H. Swan is an esteemed environmental and reproductive epidemiologist and helps guide the participants through their journeys, putting a human as well as scientific lens on the harms these tiny particles can have, and how we can try and avoid them. Swan is an engaging frontwoman as well as having the requisite smarts. Campaigners, medics and other experts also weigh in, but the storytelling is focused on the couples.
“We thought, how do we show this story, not just tell it? We started thinking about doing an intervention of some sort and that’s when we came across Shanna,” says Louie Psihoyos who co-directs with Josh Murphy. “The big Hail Mary with
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