Uncovering Environmental Toxins with Dr. Jenna Hua of Million Marker

As you know if you’re a regular here on the podcast or if follow me on social media, I have spent many years swapping out products to reduce my exposure to environmental toxins. We know that these chemicals are around us, but it’s difficult to know if they really are inside of us and how they might be impacting our health. While I think I am doing all the right things, I have always been curious to know what chemicals were still making their way into my body. 

Today’s guest is Dr. Jenna Hua, the founder of Million Marker, a health-tech startup that empowers people to detox environmental toxins out of their lives through mail-in test kits, lifestyle audits, product recommendations, and counseling. When I learned about Million Marker and the work that Jenna is doing to help make these invisible chemicals visible, I knew I had to share. 

In preparation for this episode, I completed the Million Marker Lifestyle Audit and urine analysis to test for 13 hormone-disrupting chemicals including parabens, bisphenols, and phthalates. Today we are going to walk through my step-by-step experience going through the audit and test kit and we’re going to talk about the results.

This episode will educate and empower you to do what this podcast is all about, know better and do better.  

About Jenna

Jenna’s extensive experience as an academic and health advocate led to her founding Million Marker in 2019, shortly after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Throughout her career in academia, Jenna has researched and published numerous studies that largely focused on citizens’ science, general health, and the impact of food consumption on a person’s well-being. In one of her most recent publications, Jenna used machine learning to identify people based on food consumed in order to offer healthier food options. She also published another report that studied the arsenic exposure and risks of eating rice among adolescents in Kunming, China. Jenna has been a Project Manager for UNC’s Carolina Population Center, a Graduate Instructor and Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, and a Project Manager at UCLA’s Center for Population Research. She was also a US Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of International Education in Kunming, China. Jenna holds a BS in Nutrition and an MPH and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley.

Connect with Jenna

Website https://www.millionmarker.com

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/million_marker/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MillionMarker/

Twitter https://twitter.com/Million_Marker

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