How Chemicals Wreak Havoc On Your Hormones and Weight Loss with Dr. Aly Cohen

Dr. Aly Cohen, medical doctor, rheumatologist, and an expert on toxins, joins the show to discuss how chemicals affect your hormones, weight loss, and so much more! She also provides some incredible tips on how to live a healthier non-toxic lifestyle. On today’s podcast, you will learn: The specific ways that toxins inhibit weight loss and cause weight gain. The problem with hand sanitizer and disinfectants - what you don’t know is harming your immunity. The insidious nature of toxins - how something you can’t see causes so much harm. Why your hormones are a mess - how the most common chemicals do the most damage to our hormones. How drinking water only has 91 chemicals removed out of the 90,000 in our environment. Why teenagers are the most at risk group for chemical exposure. How the most lasting damage from toxins began when you were in utero, and how to have a healthy child. The health issues, namely autoimmune, that toxins cause. The problems with vapes. Dr. Aly Cohen Bio: Dr. Aly Cohen is a board certified rheumatologist and integrative medicine specialist, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease- prevention or­ganizations, and is coeditor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press/Weil Integrative Medicine, Academic Series. In 2015, she created thesmarthuman.com to share environ­mental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for el­ementary, high schools, colleges, universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for tele­vision, print, and podcasts. In 2015 she received the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform and she was awarded the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism. Dr. Cohen is working to educate and empower the next generation to make safer, smarter lifestyle choices through the creation of en­vironmental health and prevention curricula for schools nationally. Her TEDx talk, How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals", can be found on YouTube, and you can follow her health and wellness tips and recommendations on Facebook at The Smart Human, Twitter, and Instagram: @thesmarthuman. You can also sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast The Smart Human. Dr Aly Cohen is the co-author of the new consumer guidebook, Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World. Non-Toxic is part of the Dr. Weil Healthy Living Guides. You can learn more about Aly and her incredible work at alycohenmd.com   🌿 Get Started With Detox: http://bit.ly/3pWmzWK 📊 Do You Need to Detox? Take the Heavy Metals Quiz: http://bit.ly/3pZJFvO 👩‍🔬 Discover my Top Detox Hacks: http://bit.ly/3nwBXYt Wendy Myers, FDN-P, NC, CHHC is a best-selling author, podcast host, and expert in detoxification, specializing in the adverse effects of heavy metal exposure. Wendy founded Myers Detox to share her research and support people in restoring wellness with natural detox solutions.