S9E1 (Ep 98) Is Nail Polish Bad For You? / The Healthiest Sweetener You Should Actually Use

Season 9 is officially here. To kick it off, one of us breaks down whether the stuff you put on your nails is quietly poisoning you, and the other one figures out which sweetener you should actually be reaching for. Two topics that sound small, both with answers that will make you rethink your daily routine. Christina takes the science chair and walks through the full landscape of sugars and sweeteners. Real sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, sucralose, stevia, monk fruit, and the ones nobody talks about. She covers what each one does to your body, which ones are actually as bad as the internet says, and (most importantly) which sweetener she'd tell you to keep in your pantry if you could only pick one. Then Caleb takes on nail polish. First, the history: where the practice actually came from (spoiler, way further back than you'd guess), how it went from a status symbol reserved for royalty to a five dollar bottle at the drugstore, and the moment it became a mainstream American obsession. Then the real question: is keeping polish on your nails 24/7 doing something to your body, and how worried should you actually be about the ingredients on the label. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end.