What's in your tap water? with Dr. Aly Cohen

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Hello Friends! Today I bring you Aly Cohen, MD a triple board certified Integrative Rheumatologist and environmental health expert. I have followed Dr. Cohen and her work with The Smart Human for a while and also have been reading her book Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World; In this episode we go so many interesting topics. I know you will learn a lot!

Here is the rundown:

(00:00) Opening

(02:03) Intro to Dr. Cohen's interest in Integrative Rheumatology and Environmental Medicines

(09:01) What is in our tap water.

(15:23) Regulation Challenges

(17:39) Xenobiotic health effects

(23:44) Avoidance of water contaminants

(28:55) Water Filtration Systems

(32:45) Testing your water

(36:24) Community water quality

(38:31) Skin Water Exposures

(42:28) Installing a RO filter

(48:16) Containers For drinking water

(54:05) Closing Thoughts

Dr Aly Cohen is the co-author of the, bestselling, consumer guidebook, Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World, Non-Toxic, published by Oxford University Press, and part of the Dr. Weil Healthy Living Guides. About Dr. Aly Cohen Dr. Aly Cohen is triple board-certified in rheumatology, internal medicine, and integrative medicine, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She is on faculty of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM), where she created and manages the environmental medicine curriculum for medical colleagues. Dr. Cohen 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. She has been the recipient of countless awards, including Top Docs NJ in rheumatology from 2016-2021, the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform in 2015, and 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. Sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast The Smart Human. She lives on a farm in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and lots of furry friends.

Links Mentioned In this episodes

Dr. Weil's 4-7-8 breathing

Modern Castle Water Filters Review

Movie Dark Waters

My Tap Score

EWG tap water database

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