The Smart Human with Dr. Aly Cohen

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Joel Warsh, MD, MSc aka DrJoelGator https://www.instagram.com/drjoelgator/ of the popular parenting Instagram account is a Board-Certified Pediatrician in Los Angeles, California who specializes in Parenting, Wellness and Integrative Medicine. He is the author of Parenting at Your Child's Pace: The Integrative Pediatrician's Guide to the First Three Years. #parenting #wellness #medical

Deanna Minich, PhD, is a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and the food and dietary supplement industries, and currently the Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health. She has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™). She is the author of seven consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications. Through her talks, workshops, groups, and in-person retreats, she helps people to transform their lives practically and artfully through nutrition and lifestyle. Visit her at: www.deannaminich.com #healthyliving #nutrition #health

Jeanne Lenzer is an award-winning independent medical investigative journalist and author whose hard-hitting investigations and analyses have appeared in medical journals, such as The BMJ and the Journal of Family Practice, and in outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, the Atlantic, Washington Monthly, Newsweek Japan, Mother Jones, and Discover. Her first book, The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It, explores themes that have been at the heart of Lenzer's work over the past three decades: the intersection of money and medicine and how profiteering distorts medical science and undermines the public health, often by gaming or misrepresenting research to obtain a desired outcome. The book served as a basis for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' award-winning Implant Files project on medical devices and for the Netflix show, Bleeding Edge . It was used by John Oliver for his segment on medical devices as well as by the television show, The Resident for segments on the vagus nerve stimulator. It was favorably reviewed by Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker.  Her investigations have revealed hidden financial ties between industry and public institutions, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. In each instance, she documented flawed scientific recommendations that serve to protect profits over public health. Examples include the CDC's recommendation for oseltamivir (Roche, Tamiflu), a campaign that was paid for by Roche; and the FDA's approval of drugs over the (sometimes unanimous) recommendations of their own scientists - after being contacted by politicians beholden to manufacturers. http://www.jeannelenzer.com/

Maria “Adi” Benito is an integrative adult endocrinologist and the director of Princeton Integrative Endocrinology. After her residency in Internal Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital (1997-2000) (University of Pennsylvania Health System), she completed a Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania (200-2004) and a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (2008-2010). She has attended David Winston's Center for Herbal studies (2012-2014 )and the Khalsa Healing Arts and Yoga Center (meditation teacher training 2005-2006). Adi joined the fellowship faculty of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (University of Arizona) in 2012. She developed and authored the first course on Integrative endocrinology for this program. She has contributed a chapter in thyroid health to the 2nd edition of Integrative Women's health (Weil Integrative Medicine Library) and has been an invited guest reviewer for www.dr.Weil.com. Adi lectures on the integrative management of endocrine conditions including diabetes prevention and thyroid disorders to the community. She is the chief medical advisor of Eating for Your Health, a non-profit organization based in Princeton, NJ, whose mission is to help people lead healthier lives by eating deliciously prepared whole foods in a supportive setting. In her private practice, she uses an integrative approach to the management of pre-diabetes, thyroid conditions, and PCOS, blending the best of the healing arts.

… it's back to school and work time! Lots of people buying personal care products and cosmetics…listen to my podcast guest @dryvonneburkart (link in bio) and learn: Why we need to care about the cosmetics/personal care/cleaning products that we use The known health effects of many toxic chemicals used in everyday products…ex. fertility, weight gain, hormone disruption and immune health How certain populations/demographics are more vulnerable to the health effects from toxic chemicals How many toxic chemicals contribute to weight gain Why teens are experiencing puberty years earlier than the generations before us How to understand product labels ….and so much more!  Dr. Yvonne Burkart is a PhD Toxicologist, Mom of two, and Consultant. She is a 23-year veteran of Toxicology with expertise in reproductive toxicity, particularly endocrine disruption, infertility, cancer, and glutathione homeostasis. She has also served as a Senior Toxicologist in the flavor and fragrance chemical industry where she helped to ensure the safety of flavor ingredients. After experiencing the power of a low tox lifestyle, Dr. Yvonne began a mission to help consumers slash their toxic exposure with confidence and ease. She is extremely passionate about helping parents protect their children from toxic exposure. Dr. Yvonne lives in California with her husband and two children. LINKS My website https://dryvonneburkart.com/ YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@dryvonneburkart/videos Hormone Disrupting Ingredient Cheatsheet and Training https://info.safeingredientacademy.com/3738-9693

In this interview, we discuss: -What is integrative cardiology and how does it differ from conventional cardiology? -How many people have heart disease today? Is this number growing? -How do women differ when it comes to heart disease...risk, management, and even symptoms of heart problems?  -Which lab screening tests do you use for heart disease?  -What is advanced lipid testing (ex. apolipoprotein B, lipoprotein(a), CRP, small dense LDL) are best for predicting heart disease risk? -Which imaging studies are best for diagnosing heart disease? -What are the pros and cons of pharmaceutical therapy?  -Are statin medications bad for us? How are statin medication best managed when necessary? -How do lifestyle approaches, such as diet, sleep, exercise, affect our risk for heart disease? Which diet is best to prevent or manage heart disease? -Do mind-body approaches, like meditation and yoga,  affect blood pressure and/or heart disease risk? -What 3 things can we all do RIGHT NOW to make our hearts healthier? Vivian A. Kominos, MD, FACC, a nationally recognized clinician and educator in integrative cardiology, is a graduate of St Louis University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in her home state of New Jersey. She is board certified in both Integrative Medicine and Cardiology. She has practiced cardiology for over 35 years and has concentrated on integrative medicine and integrative cardiology for the past 15 years. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM) where she completed her integrative medicine fellowship in 2007. She is a founding member of the American Board of Integrative Medicine where she served as vice chair and remained an active board member until 2020.Besides being a mentor for the AWCIM fellowship, she is intimately involved in the fellowship educational curricula, authoring modules on topics ranging from cardiovascular health and disease to nutrition, mind body medicine, and obesity. She is a speaker and educator for her peers, medical students and residents, nurses, allied health professionals and the community. She enjoys volunteering at the Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank, New Jersey. She loves running, kayaking, cooking and spending time with family and friends. Her greatest joy is her 2 1/2 year old granddaughter

Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, is widely recognized as one of the environmental community's most prominent and effective critics of establishment agriculture and U.S. farm policy. On November 2, food policy authority Michael Pollan named Cook one of “the world's 7 most powerful foodies”, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, nutritionist Marion Nestle and The New York Times' columnist Mark Bittman. On November 19, The Times' Bittman listed EWG among 25 people and organizations for whom he was thankful as Thanksgiving approached. In its 2011 roster of Washington's top lobbyists, The Hill, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, said Cook “is at the forefront of challenges to corn ethanol and subsidies for Big Agriculture, upcoming hot-button issues as Congress tackles energy matters and starts work on a new farm bill.” Cook was voted the “Ultimate Green Game Changer” in 2009 by the readers of The Huffington Post. As Arianna Huffington put it, “The EWG is an environmental superhero with a full set of digital tools in its arsenal.” Cook is a principal architect of the landmark conservation provisions of the 1985 farm bill, which for the first time attempted to shift U.S. farm policy from a narrow focus on maximum crop production to conservation of land, water, wetlands and wildlife. The legislation was the most important environmental farm policy reform of recent years, affecting more than 400 million acres of privately owned - and publicly subsidized - farmland. EWG's online database listing every farm subsidy recipient in the nation and the amount of money each receives has generated thousands of stories about America's broken farm policy. A New York Times profile of Cook said the website helped “transform the [2002] farm bill into a question about equity and whether the country's wealthiest farmers should be paid to grow commodity crops while many smaller family farms receive nothing and are going out of business.” Cook and EWG played a similarly prominent role during the crafting of the 2008 farm bill. In the 1990s, EWG's research on pesticides was a major factor in the passage of the landmark pesticide reform law, the Food Quality Protection Act. EWG was among the first organizations to draw attention to the health threat posed by the weed-killer atrazine, conducting the first extensive tests for the chemical in tap water in 29 Midwestern cities. Cook has addressed food and agriculture policy in numerous interviews, including 60 Minutes, the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX Business News, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle. Cook testifies regularly before House and Senate committees, has briefed top Congressional staff and has met with senior Obama administration officials, including Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack and Environmental Protection Administration chief Lisa Jackson. Cook earned a B.A. in history, B.S. in agriculture and M.S. in soil science from the University of Missouri Columbia. He is a board member of The Organic Center and the Amazon Conservation Team. He is married to Deb Callahan and lives in northern California with their young son, Callahan.  Environmental Working Group:  https://www.ewg.org/ Skin Deep Database:    https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ Tap Water Database: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/ State of American drinking water: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/state-of-american-drinking-water.php The 2024 Dirty Dozen: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php   Ken Cook's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kencookspodcast/and     HEADQUARTERS 1436 U St. NW, Suite 100 Washington, DC 20009 ❘ P: 202.667.6982 F: 202.232.2592 CALIFORNIA OFFICE 2201 Broadway, Suite 308 Oakland, CA 94612 ❘ P: 510.444.0973 F: 510.444.0982 MIDWEST OFFICE 103 E. 6th Street, Suite 201 Ames, IA 50010 ❘ P: 515.598.2221

David Kriebel, Sc.D., Director, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production https://www.uml.edu/research/lowell-center/ Professor Emeritus, Department of Public Health https://www.uml.edu/Health-Sciences/Public-Health/faculty/kriebel-david.aspx David Kriebel is a professor emeritus of epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Trained at Harvard in occupational/environmental epidemiology, his research has helped to identify many important environmental and occupational causes of cancer, lung diseases, injuries and other health hazards. For over 30 years he taught in the Department of Work Environment at UMass Lowell, an interdisciplinary graduate program that trained hundreds of occupational health researchers, practitioners and activists. Dr. Kriebel has co-authored two textbooks and published more than 150 peer reviewed papers. As a member of a committee of the U.S. National Research Council, Dr. Kriebel helped establish the link between exposure to Agent Orange among Vietnam veterans and cancer, leading to compensation for many disabled veterans. He advised the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences on its long term study of the health effects of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill and clean-up operations and conducted research to identify cancers and other diseases among the first responders to the World Trade Center Disaster. Dr. Kriebel is also the Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, which collaborates with industries, government agencies, unions, and community organizations on the redesign of systems of production to make them healthier and more environmentally sound. He continues to teach epidemiology and also frequently speaks to community groups and government agencies on the role of science in democratic decision making, particularly in cancer prevention.  A few articles that you may find useful: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thesmarthuman/FDA_Consumer_Update_on_tattoos_FDA_Cosmetics_Facts-Tattoos_Foerster_Tattoo_inks__cancer_Negi__Tattoo_inks_toxicological_risks_systematic_review_Toxicol_Indus_Health_2022_Sabbioni_Carcinogenic.pdf Other podcasts with David Kriebel: https://www.whatmamawants.org/archived-episodes/david-kriebel

Dr. Goodson grew up in Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri Columbia and Harvard Medical School. He trained as a general surgeon and specialized in breast surgery before it was a recognized field. He was a member of the research group that established breast conservation, i.e., lumpectomy, as the preferred treatment for early breast cancer. Recognizing that he was treating more young women with breast cancer, he joined with Dr. Shanaz Dairkee in 2005 to investigate how common environmental chemicals such as BPA, methylparaben, PFOA, etc. disrupt the normal biology of non-cancerous, human breasts. He has been a professor at the University of California San Francisco and a Senior Scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, and a spokesperson for The Halifax Project. In addition to research, he enjoys photography, writing, and creating hand-drawn animation as on his website, www.drwilliamgoodson.com A Ternary Mixture of Common Chemicals Perturbs Benign Human Breast Epithelial Cells More Than the Same Chemicals Do Individually. Dairkee SH, Luciani-Torres G, Moore DH, Jaffee IM, Goodson WH 3rd. Toxicol Sci. 2018 Sep 1;165(1):131-144. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfy126. PMID: 29846718 Free PMC article.   Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead. Goodson WH 3rd, Lowe L, Carpenter DO, Gilbertson M, Manaf Ali A, Lopez de Cerain Salsamendi A, Lasfar A, Carnero A, Azqueta A, Amedei A, Charles AK, Collins AR, Ward A, Salzberg AC, Colacci A, Olsen AK, Berg A, Barclay BJ, Zhou BP, Blanco-Aparicio C... See abstract for full author list ➔ Carcinogenesis. 2015 Jun;36 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S254-96. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv039. PMID: 26106142 Free PMC article.   Consensus on the key characteristics of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a basis for hazard identification. La Merrill MA, Vandenberg LN, Smith MT, Goodson W, Browne P, Patisaul HB, Guyton KZ, Kortenkamp A, Cogliano VJ, Woodruff TJ, Rieswijk L, Sone H, Korach KS, Gore AC, Zeise L, Zoeller RT. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2020 Jan;16(1):45-57. doi: 10.1038/s41574-019-0273-8. Epub 2019 Nov 12. PMID: 31719706 Free PMC article.   Exposure to the polyester PET precursor--terephthalic acid induces and perpetuates DNA damage-harboring non-malignant human breast cells. Luciani-Torres MG, Moore DH, Goodson WH 3rd, Dairkee SH. Carcinogenesis. 2015 Jan;36(1):168-76. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgu234. Epub 2014 Nov 19. PMID: 25411358 Free PMC article.   The Key Characteristics of Carcinogens: Relationship to the Hallmarks of Cancer, Relevant Biomarkers, and Assays to Measure Them. Smith MT, Guyton KZ, Kleinstreuer N, Borrel A, Cardenas A, Chiu WA, Felsher DW, Gibbons CF, Goodson WH 3rd, Houck KA, Kane AB, La Merrill MA, Lebrec H, Lowe L, McHale CM, Minocherhomji S, Rieswijk L, Sandy MS, Sone H, Wang A, Zhang L, Zeise L, Fielden M. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Oct;29(10):1887-1903. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-1346. Epub 2020 Mar 9. PMID: 32152214 Free PMC article.   Testing the low dose mixtures hypothesis from the Halifax project. Goodson WH, Lowe L, Gilbertson M, Carpenter DO. Rev Environ Health. 2020 Aug 24;35(4):333-357. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2020-0033. Print 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 32833669 Review.   Using the Key Characteristics of Carcinogens to Develop Research on Chemical Mixtures and Cancer. Rider CV, McHale CM, Webster TF, Lowe L, Goodson WH 3rd, La Merrill MA, Rice G, Zeise L, Zhang L, Smith MT. Environ Health Perspect. 2021 Mar;129(3):35003. doi: 10.1289/EHP8525. Epub 2021 Mar 30. PMID: 33784186 Free PMC article.   Bisphenol-A-induced inactivation of the p53 axis underlying deregulation of proliferation kinetics, and cell death in non-malignant human breast epithelial cells. Dairkee SH, Luciani-Torres MG, Moore DH, Goodson WH 3rd. Carcinogenesis. 2013 Mar;34(3):703-12. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgs379. Epub 2012 Dec 7. PMID: 23222814 Free PMC article.   Activation of the mTOR pathway by low levels of xenoestrogens in breast epithelial cells from high-risk women. Goodson WH 3rd, Luciani MG, Sayeed SA, Jaffee IM, Moore DH 2nd, Dairkee SH. Carcinogenesis. 2011 Nov;32(11):1724-33. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgr196. Epub 2011 Sep 1. PMID: 21890461 Free PMC article.  

ATTRIBUTION/INTRO LINE:  Dr. William Li, physician, scientist and bestselling author of  “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself” and “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer”   SHORT BIO: William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.” His groundbreaking research has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments that impact care for more than 70 diseases including diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, Rachael Ray and Live with Kelly & Ryan, and he has been featured in USA Today, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and O Magazine. He is President and Medical Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and he is leading global initiatives on food as medicine. His newest book New York Times bestseller, “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer” was released March 21, 2023.   HEADSHOT:    BOOK COVERS:                      BOOK LINKS: https://drwilliamli.com/etb-diet-book/ https://drwilliamli.com/book-li/   A report on cancer statistics just published in, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, states that:  The number of new cancer cases had ticked up to more than two million in 2023, from 1.9 million in 2022.  According to the report, cancer rates are increasing for six of the 10 most common cancers: breast, prostate, melanoma, kidney, pancreas and uterine, while lung, colorectal and pancreas cancers cause the most deaths.  Among adults younger than 50, colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer death in men and the second-leading cause in women, behind breast cancer. In the late 1990s, it ranked fourth in both men and women younger than 50.   So, it seems that there's  no more appropriate time than now to listen to this important discussion I had with Dr. William Li about his research applying both biology and biotechnology to understand cancer preventing compounds in food and how the body responds to what it's fed!

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Smart Human Podcast. Today, I have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Rachel Massey, who is Senior Science and Policy Advisor at the Collaborative for Health and Environment and a Senior Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts. Today, we are talking about a very important topic to me, artificial sports turf. We talk about materials, health effects, alternatives, and ways to stay safe. So stay tuned.   Here are some suggested links/resources: https://www.healthandenvironment.org/join-us/blog/playing-on-plastic-artificial-turf-hazards-and-safer-alternatives https://www.healthandenvironment.org/join-us/blog/6ppd-in-tires-a-concern-for-playgrounds-artificial-turf-and-more Full set of TURI resources: Athletic fields landing page: turi.org/artificialturf Full set of TURI's materials on the topic: https://www.turi.org/Our_Work/Community/Athletic_Playing_Fields/Resources_Playing_Fields_and_Playgrounds   Some individual TURI resources from within the above list:   One-page overview of artificial turf concerns: https://www.turi.org/content/download/13559/206802/file/ArtificialTurfConcerns_flyer_April2021.pdf TURI's extended fact sheet on athletic fields (2020): https://www.turi.org/content/download/13271/203906/file/Factsheet.Artificial_Turf.September2020.pdf.pdf TURI report on athletic fields (2018-2019): https://www.turi.org/content/download/11980/188623/file/TURI+Report+2018-002+June+2019.+Athletic+Playing+Fields.pdf PFAS in artificial turf carpet: https://www.turi.org/content/download/12963/201149/file/TURI+fact+sheet+-+PFAS+in+artificial+turf.pdf (Note: We may have an updated version of this ready by March.) TURI's natural grass field case studies: turi.org/organicgrasscasestudies Short videos on natural grass fields in MA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmjv1qteLho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nws-ZpeaQJc   Resources from Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai: https://mountsinaiexposomics.org/artificial-turf/ https://icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/Departments/Environmental%20Medicine%20and%20Public%20Health/CEHC/CEHC%20Artificial%20Turf%20Consumer%20Guide%205.2017.pdf https://icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/Departments/Environmental%20Medicine%20and%20Public%20Health/CEHC/CEHC%20Artificial%20Turf%20Position%20Statement%205.2017.pdf Healthy Playing Surfaces website – multi-organization site, housed at Mt. Sinai: https://www.healthyplayingsurfaces.org/   Other:   CHE webinar (from a  year ago – more detailed than the one we did recently): https://www.healthandenvironment.org/webinars/96595 Q&A after the webinar: https://www.healthandenvironment.org/assets/images/webinarimages/Artificial%20Turf%20Q&A_FINAL.pdf Healthy Building Network: https://healthybuilding.net/products/11-turf Webinar by CCE and PEER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCi6-8JI8zE Non Toxic Communities: https://www.nontoxiccommunities.com/  

Theodora Scarato MSW is Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust (EHT). Scarato has published several research papers include a paper on reducing EMF exposures in buildings.    Davis and Scarato co-authored a major state of the science review paper with numerous experts entitled “Wireless technologies, non-ionizing electromagnetic fields and children: Identifying and reducing health risks” published in Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care.    EHT filed a historic lawsuit-  EHT et al., v the FCC- against the FCC regarding their wireless radiation safety limits and received a favorable decision whereby the FCC has been mandated to re-examine the record evidence on wireless radiation.    Environmental Health Trust Read the Science on Wireless   Action Steps Wireless radiation limits should protect people and wildlife!  Protect children  Sign up For EHT's Newsletter   Learn easy ways to reduce exposure at Healthy Tech at Home, Factsheets For Healthy Home  Read Science  

Barry H Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.P. Dr. Cohen is one of the founders and medical directors of Mercer Kidney Institute, in New Jersey, specializing in the treatment of kidney disease and hypertension for over 51 years. He is board certified in Nephrology and is a Fellow of American College of Physicians. He was Director of Dialysis Services at Capital Health Regional Center and St. Francis hospital and Chairman of the Nephrology section at Capital Health System in New Jersey for over 45 years. He has been past president of the Capital Health medical staff and is currently the Medical Director at FMC Princeton Dialysis Unit. Dr. Cohen was instrumental in bringing dialysis to New Jersey over 50 years ago, when he started the first chronic outpatient dialysis program in Trenton in 1977, soon after its introduction into mainstream medical care. He has trained hundreds of young physicians as a founder and chairperson of continuing medical education for over 40 years has held countless conferences for continuing medical education (CME), and remains ones of the most highly respected clinicians in the east coast for his profound knowledge of medicine, his humility, warmth, gentle demeaner.

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of The Smart Human Podcast. Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Professor Heather Stapleton, an environmental chemist and exposure scientist in the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University. And also Dr. Stapleton serves as director of the Duke environmental analysis laboratory. Today we're talking nonstick, waterproof and greaseproof chemicals, flame retardant chemicals, drinking water quality and different types of water filters and so much more! Here are a few links that might be helpful  Heather's research website: https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/stapletonlab/?_ga=2.18850623.768299926.1674595325-2095479730.1672774084 Heather's foam testing website: http://foam.pratt.duke.edu Company website for under the sink RO water filter Heather had installed back in 2019: https://www.theperfectwater.com/reverse-osmosis water filter study: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00004 article on flame retardants: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/success/2021/stapleton/index.cfm Heather Stapleton Bio: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es2007462   Heather M. Stapleton, Ronie-Richelle Garcia-Johnson Distinguished Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.  Professor Heather Stapleton is an environmental chemist and exposure scientist in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.  Her research interests focus on identification of halogenated and organophosphate chemicals in building materials, furnishings and consumer products, and estimation of human exposure, particularly in vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children.  Her laboratory specializes in analysis of environmental and biological tissues for organic contaminants to support environmental health research.  Currently she serves as the Director for the Duke Superfund Research Center, and Director of the Duke Environmental Analysis Laboratory, which is part of NIH's Human Health Environmental Analysis Resource.

Rob is a partner in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky offices of the law firm, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, where he has practiced in the Environmental and Litigation Practice Groups for over 31 years. During that time, Rob has handled and led some of the most novel and complex cases in the country involving damage from exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), including the first individual, class action, mass tort, and multi-district litigation proceedings involving PFAS, recovering over $1 billion for clients impacted by the chemicals. In 2017, Rob received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” for his decades of work on behalf of those injured by PFAS chemical contamination.  Rob is the author of the book, “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont,” and his story is the inspiration for the 2019 motion picture, “Dark Waters,” starring Mark Ruffalo as Rob.  Rob's story and work is also featured in the documentary, “The Devil We Know.”  Rob is a 1987 graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, and a 1990 graduate of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Rob also serves on the Boards of Less Cancer and Green Umbrella and is frequently invited to provide keynote lectures and talks at law schools, universities, colleges, communities and other organizations all over the world.  Rob is a fellow in the Right Livelihood College, a Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and an Honorary Professor at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina.  Rob also has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Ohio State University and New College. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/pfc/index.cfm https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/01/pfas-forever-chemicals-rob-bilott-lawyer-interview https://time.com/5737451/dark-waters-true-story-rob-bilott/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html https://www.taftlaw.com/people/robert-a-bilott  

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials in the setting of Multiple Sclerosis. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine's Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care and patient advocacy. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, (http://terrywahls.com/about-the-wahls-protocol/) and the cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. (https://terrywahls.com/wahls-protocol-cooking-for-life/) Learn more about the current study Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis at https://wahls.lab.uiowa.edu/. Pick up a one-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet at https://terrywahls.com/diet/

Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (2021). He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Boards of the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, Levels Health, and ReadOut Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.

Welcome to The Smart Human Podcast, today I have the pleasure of chatting with actor Fran Drescher! Yes, you may know her as the star of the TV show The Nanny, but she's also an author, an activist and an educator. Today we're talking about her work in health education, her history as a cancer survivor, her plans as new president of The Screen Actors Guild and much much more. Fran Drescher was elected president of SAG-AFTRA in September 2021.   A 20-year cancer survivor, Drescher has a reputation for passion and commitment. She is Founder and Visionary of the Cancer Schmancer Movement; dedicated to educating, motivating, and activating patients into medical consumers by connecting lifestyle to disease with her Master Class Health Summit and teen-targeted education video, Be The Change, starring Jamie Foxx. Fran received two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal as the lovable “Miss Fine'' on CBS's hit series, The Nanny, which she both created and executive produced. She also created, executive produced and starred in the groundbreaking TV Land sitcom, Happily Divorced, which was inspired by her real-life relationship with her gay ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson. Fran recently starred in the new NBC sitcom, Indebted, about a Baby Boomer couple who go broke and have to move in with their adult son and his young family. She has worked with many great directors in films such as Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, to which Fran won Esquire Magazine's One Minute Oscar, Milos Forman's Rag Time, and Francis Ford Coppola's Jack. She also starred in Beautician and the Beast opposite Timothy Dalton. Her famous voice is currently featured in the top-grossing SONY animated feature franchise film, Hotel Transylvania: In her role as Eunice, the wife of Frank Stein. In 2019, Fran starred in two indie films, The Creatress and After Class. An accomplished author, Fran received the prestigious NCCS writer's award for Cancer Schmancer, which, along with Enter Whining, were New York Times Best Sellers. She also penned the celebrated children's book, Being Wendy. Furthermore, Fran made her Broadway debut as “Madame” in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Tony-Award winning, Cinderella. Fran has won countless awards for her leadership in the health space, including the John Wayne Institute Woman of Achievement Award, the Gilda Award, City of Hope Woman of the Year Award, The Albert Einstein Medical School Lifetime Achievement Award, Queens College Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Citizen Artist Award.

Dr. Caplan is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. Prior to coming to NYU, Dr. Caplan was the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he created the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota, where he founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics; the University of Pittsburgh; and Columbia University. He received his PhD from Columbia University. Dr. Caplan is the author or editor of 35 books and more than 800 papers in peer reviewed journals. His most recent books are Vaccination Ethics and Policy (MIT Press, 2017, with Jason Schwartz) and Getting to Good: Research Integrity in Biomedicine (Springer, 2018, with Barbara Redman). He has served on a number of national and international committees including as chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; and chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability. He has also served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses; the Special Advisory Committee to the International Olympic Committee on Genetics and Gene Therapy; the Special Advisory Panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on Human Experimentation on Vulnerable Subjects; the Wellcome Trust Advisory Panel on Research in Humanitarian Crises; and as the co-director of the Joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study on Trafficking in Organs and Body Parts. Dr. Caplan has served since 2015 as a chair of the Compassionate Use Advisory Committees (CompAC), independent groups of internationally recognized medical experts, bioethicists, and patient representatives that advise Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals on requests for compassionate use of its investigational medicines. Dr. Caplan is a regular commentator on bioethics and health care issues for WebMD/Medscape, WGBH radio in Boston, WOR radio in New York City, and CNN. He appears frequently as a guest and commentator on various other national and international media outlets. Dr. Caplan is the recipient of many awards and honors including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association and the Franklin Award from the City of Philadelphia. He was a USA Today 2001 “Person of the Year” and was described as one of the ten most influential people in science by Discover magazine in 2008. He has also been honored as one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine, one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal, one of the ten most influential people in the ethics of biotechnology by the editors of Nature Biotechnology, and one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology by Scientific American magazine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he is co-directing an advisory group on sports and recreation for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, created a working group on coronavirus vaccine challenge studies, developed an ethical framework for distributing drugs and vaccines for J&J, and helped develop rationing policies for NYU Langone Health and many other health systems. He is a member of the WHO advisory committee on COVID-19, ethics, and experimental drugs/vaccines, and he helped set policy for WIRB/WCG for research studies. He was an adviser to Moderna, Inc., and he serves on the NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group. Dr. Caplan received the Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics for 2011. In 2014, he was selected to receive the Public Service Award from the National Science Foundation/National Science Board, which honors individuals and groups that have made substantial contributions to increasing public understanding of science and engineering in the United States. In 2016, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) honored him with its Rare Impact Award; that year he also received the Food and Drug Law Institute's Distinguished Service Leadership Award and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities' Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, he was honored by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA with its Innovation Award. Dr. Caplan's faculty page: https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/arthur-l-caplan Dr. Caplan holds seven honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools. Dr. Caplan's electronic long-form (ELF) disclosure statement can be found here: https://bit.ly/3ilyprJ Dr. Caplan's twitter address: https://twitter.com/arthurcaplan?s=21&t=RLCoVC9ZUsFtn5g_mllyxw COI disclosures. https://bit.ly/3eixl7l Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access (CUPA) https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/research/working-group-compassionate-use-preapproval-access Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Policy http://vaccineworkinggroupethics.org/ Working Group on Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/research/working-group-pediatric-gene-therapy-medical-ethics Transplant Ethics and Policy https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/research/transplant-ethics-policy  

Dr. Low Dog is an internationally recognized expert in dietary supplements, herbal medicine, women's health, and integrative medicine. In addition to her continued work as a clinician and educator, Dr. Low Dog has engaged in national health policy and regulatory issues for more than two decades. In 2000, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, followed by a 3-year appointment to the Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Dr. Low Dog has been the elected Chair of four United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Dietary Supplements and botanical expert panels from 2000 until the present. A prolific scholar, Dr. Low Dog has published 50 research articles in medical/science journals, written 25 chapters for medical textbooks, authored four books with National Geographic, and is the co-editor for Integrative Women's Health by Oxford University Press. She was a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Fellowship Director for the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine from 2008-2014, served as the Founding Fellowship Director for the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine from 2015-2017, and was a Founding Board Member for the American Board of Physician Specialties Board of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Low Dog's many honors of distinction include Time magazine's “Innovator in Complementary and Alternative Medicine” (2001), Bioneer's Outstanding Contribution to Medicine Award (2001), NPR's People's Pharmacy award (2010), New York Zen Center's "Contemplative Care Award" (2013), "Herbal Insight Award" from American Herbal Products Association (2015), Scripps Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), Nutrition Business Journal's Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), and the American Botanical Council's Fredi Kronenberg Award for Excellence in Research in Botanicals for Women's Health (2018). Founding Director of Medicine Lodge Ranch: A Natural Medicine Academy in Pecos, New Mexico, Dr. Low Dog also currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Healthy Lifestyle Brands, LLC, and is a consultant with MegaFood supplement company.

Eileen Laird is a writer, podcast host, and autoimmune warrior, living a vital life with rheumatoid arthritis. She's reached millions of people through her popular website and podcast, Phoenix Helix, where she shares information and inspiration for autoimmune health. She recently published a new book, called Healing Mindset: A Guide to the Mind-Body Connection for People with Autoimmune Disease. That's the topic of our conversation today. Links Website: https://www.phoenixhelix.com/ Book Sales Page: https://www.phoenixhelix.com/healing-mindset/

Heather White is a changemaker. She's the founder and CEO of the nonprofit OneGreenThing.org, an author, environmental lawyer, consultant, motivational speaker, nonprofit executive, and a former Senate staffer.  She has more than 20 years experience in nonprofit management and environmental advocacy. She's the former President of the nonprofit partner to Yellowstone National Park, Executive Director of EWG, and Director of Education Advocacy at the National Wildlife Federation. Heather also served as Counsel on Energy and Environment to United States Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) and an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims law firm. She was a recount attorney and presidential campaign staffer for Vice President Al Gore in 2000. Learn more at heatherwhite.com.   Heather has also been named "One of the Top 100 Women in Wellness" by MindBodyGreen and recipient of the Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards by Green Building & Design Magazine. She serves on the board of several national nonprofit organizations. Heather has testified before Congress, appeared on PBS, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and has been cited in national outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian on a wide range of climate and environmental policy issues. Heather is optimistic about the future and determined to create intergenerational partnerships to create a healthier, greener, more equitable world. Her favorite #onegreenthing is hiking with her family and friends near her home in Bozeman, Montana. Please check out my new book, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet!  LinkedIn      Instagram      Twitter   

Madiha Saeed, MD, also known as HolisticMom, MD on social media, is a practicing board certified family physician in the USA, international speaker and a best-selling author. Her best-selling book The Holistic Rx: Your Guide to Healing Chronic Inflammation and Disease, a functional medicine children's book series, Adam's Healing Adventures (one of Dr Mark Hyman's favorite pics), The Pandemic Prescription: Restoring Hope from the Quran, Sunnah and Science, The Quranic Prescription: Unlocking the Secrets of Optimal Health, and The Holistic Rx for Kids: Parenting Healthy Brains and Bodies in a Changing World  empowering the world towards healthier living. She is the director of education for Documenting Hope and KnoWEwell. She sits on multiple medical advisory boards including Wellness Mama and is the president of The International Institute of Islamic Medicine. Dr. Saeed and her children speak internationally at the most prestigious holistic conferences, TV (including ABC, NBC and CBS), summits, radio, podcasts (including mindbodygreen), newspapers and the United Nations recently published her paper on religion and the food system. Dr Saeed's children host "The Holistic Kids' Show" podcast, interviewing the biggest names in the functional, holistic and integrative medicine world, and helping kids empower and educate other kids.   Important Links Link to Amazon (hardcover): The Holistic Rx for Kids: Parenting Healthy Brains and Bodies in a Changing Worldhttps://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Rx-Kids-Parenting-Changing/dp/1538152150  Adam's Healing Adventure: The Power of Rainbow Foods   https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Healing-Adventures-Power-Rainbow/dp/1684338182/  Note: You can generate your own Amazon affiliate link to Dr Saeed's book.  Madiha's Book Page (where people can claim bonuses after book purchase):   https://theholisticrx.com/kids-book-bonuses/

John McBurney MD is the chief of in patient neurology and medical Director of the Bon Secours St Francis Stroke center in Greenville SC. He is a graduate of Auburn University and Emory University School Of Medicine. Dr McBurney completed a residency in neurology and fellowship in EEG and Epilepsy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 2014 he completed the fellowship in Integrative medicine at University of Arizona. In 2020 Dr McBurney co edited Integrative Neurology (OUP) along with Ilene Ruhoy MD PhD. He is board certified in neurology, EEG and Sleep Medicine.  Dr McBurney is passionate about the environment and Heath Disparities. He is a life long cyclist and strives to live a car free life as a bike commuter. In his free time he can often be found deep in Pisgah National Forest on a bikepacking expedition.    https://bikewalkgreenville.org   https://momentummag.com/momentum-bike-clubs-empowering-underserved-youth/ https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-epigenetics-and-how-does-it-relate-to-child-development/   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846126/pdf/kepi-11-01-1135286.pdf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad_(novel)  

Jessica Ware is an Associate curator in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Ware's research focuses on the evolution of behavioral and physiological adaptations in insects, with an emphasis on how these occur in Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and Dictyoptera (termites, cockroaches and mantises). Her research group focuses on phylogenetics/phylogenomics and uses these tools to inform their work on reproductive, social and flight behaviors in insects. Jessica holds a BSc from the University of British Columbia in Canada, and a PhD from Rutgers, New Brunswick. She was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the AMNH 2008-2010, before being hired at Rutgers Newark where she was an associate professor of evolutionary biology. She is the current president of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association, and VP of the Entomological Society of America. She was recently awarded a PECASE medal from the US government for her work on insect evolution.   website: www.jessicalwarelab.com Other website: https://www.amnh.org/research/invertebrate-zoology/staff/curators/jessica-ware Jessica Ware | AMNH American Museum of Natural History 200 Central Park West New York, NY 10024-5102 Phone: 212-769-5100. Open Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5:30 pm. Also Open: Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30 www.amnh.org   Twitter: @jessicalwarelab Kids Book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781684492114 Systematic Biology: https://www.systbio.org/dei-committee.html DEI Committee - Society of Systematic Biologists DEI Director: Dr. Jessica Ware Bio: Jessica Ware is an associate curator in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on the evolution of behavioral and physiological adaptations in insects, with an emphasis on how these occur in Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and Dictyoptera (termites, cockroaches and mantises). www.systbio.org Entomological Society of America: https://www.entsoc.org/jessica-ware-elected-vice-president-elect-entomological-society-america   World Dragonfly Association: https://worlddragonfly.org/about/board-of-trustees/ Board of Trustees | Worldwide Dragonfly Association 2019–2021 Board President Jessica WareDepartment of Biological SciencesRutgers University, Newark, NJ, USAwebsite President-elect Yoshitaka TsubakiKyoto UniversityJapan Immediate Past President Frank SuhlingInstitute of GeoecologyLandscape Ecology and Environmental Systems AnalysisTechnische Universität BraunschweigBraunschweig, Germanywebsite Secretary/Treasurer Peter Brownemail: wda ... worlddragonfly.org Entomologists of Color: www.entopoc.org #ENTOPOC Diversifying Entomology. Help us support People of Color (POC) members in Entomological ( ento ) Societies. www.entopoc.org   Black In Ento: www.blackinento.com

Pete Myers is founder and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on environmental and human health, especially on how chemical exposure even at low doses can cause serious adverse effects. He is also a founder and board member of Sudoc LLC, a chemical company that makes catalysts that clean up bad stuff and also replace dangerous chemicals used as disinfectants and cleaners. Sudoc.com. For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Pete served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote “Our Stolen Future,” a best-selling book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. Vice-President Al Gore wrote the foreword. Pete is actively involved in research on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health. He is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. He is on the boards of the Science Communication Network, the Food Packaging Forum of Zurich, and the Jenifer Altman Foundation. He has also served as board chair of the National Environmental Trust and the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Over the last few years he has received 2 major national and international scientific awards: the first “Champion of Environmental Health Research” award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health; and the Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service from The Endocrine Society. Myers lives just outside White Hall, Virginia. As he was growing up he lived near Baltimore and in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay. Dr. Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Reed College.

Dr. Maricel V. Maffini is an Independent Consultant based in Maryland, US. She has more than 25 years of research experience in the fields of carcinogenesis and breast cancer in particular, reproductive biology and endocrine disruption. For the past 10 years, her work has focused on the safety and regulation of chemicals in food and the decision-making process behind them. Before becoming a consultant, she was senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council; a senior science officer at The Pew Charitable Trust and a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, blogs and book chapters.

Jane Muncke holds a doctorate degree in environmental toxicology and a MSc in environmental science from the ETH Zurich. Since 2012 she has been working as Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the charitable Food Packaging Forum Foundation (FPF) in Zurich, Switzerland. FPF is a research and science communication organization focusing on chemicals in all types of food contact materials. Prior to this, Jane worked for Bucher Emhart Glass, a Swiss mechanical engineering company and glass packaging industry supplier. Before leaving academia, she was a scientific associate at Eawag, the Swiss Aquatic Science Institute, collaborating in various different research projects, including endocrine disruption in developing zebrafish, sustainable urban wastewater management, and removal of Arsenic from drinking water in Bangladesh. Jane has extensive experience as science communicator and presenter, and she works with scientists on live presentation skills. She is a full scientific member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT), the Society for Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology (SETAC), the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Endocrine Society. She lives with her family in Zurich, Switzerland.

Shanna H. Swan, PhD, is one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. An award-winning scientist, her work examines the impact of environmental exposures, including chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenol A, on men's and women's reproductive health and the neurodevelopment of children. For more than twenty years, Dr. Swan and her colleagues have been studying the dramatic decline in sperm count around the world and the impact of environmental chemicals and pharmaceuticals on reproductive tract development and neurodevelopment. Her July 2017 paper “Temporal Trends in Sperm Count: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis” ranked #26 among all referenced scientific papers published in 2017 worldwide. Dr. Swan has published more than two hundred scientific papers and myriad book chapters and has been featured in extensive media coverage around the world. Her appearances include ABC News, NBC Nightly News, 60 Minutes, CBS News, PBS, the BBC, PRI, and NPR, as well as in leading magazines and newspapers, ranging from the Washington Post to Bloomberg News to New Scientist. You can find her at shannaswan.com.

Isabelle is the National Women's Health Network's (NWHN) Senior Policy Manager, where she is responsible for developing and leading their women's health and consumer safety policy efforts, with a particular focus on historically marginalized communities. Isabelle actively lobbies, at the grassroots and federal level, on women's health and cosmetics policy and has provided expert testimony before Congress and the Food and Drug Administration. Her advocacy has been recognized by Democracy Now!, PBS NewsHour, Good Morning America, NBC News and a host of other publications and networks. Over the course of her career, Isabelle has held clerkships with government, labor unions, and nonprofit organizations including, AFL-CIO, National Education Association, National Lawyers Employment Association (as a Peggy Browning Fellow), and Congress. Prior to NWHN, Isabelle served as a law clerk for the Senate HELP Committee, and as an Associate Staff Counsel at the Pennsylvania State Education Association. Isabelle earned a J.D. with distinction in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Howard University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and is currently an LL.M. candidate in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law. She also serves as a Board Member for Women's Voices for the Earth.

Mikhail Kogan, MD, ABOIM is a leader in the newly established field of Integrative Geriatrics. He is the editor of “Integrative Geriatric Medicine” Oxford University Press textbook. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Integrative Medicine. Dr Misha Kogan currently serves as medical director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine, associate director of the Geriatric and Integrative Medicine Fellowships at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr Kogan has been early adopter of DC Medical Cannabis program and has been instrumental in DC Rx Medical Cannabis education program. Dr Kogan is a frequent speaker at a variety of international conferences and has multiple media appearances related to medical cannabis. At present Dr Kogan is conducting pilot research program on assessing non psychoactive forms of cannabis such as CBD and CBDa for neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases. http://www.gwdocs.com/physicians/mikhail-kogan

Resources/Links: http://www.shanaweber.com/ Weber comes from a long line of artistic and intellectually curious people with a great love for nature and the outdoors. Her interests range from music and climate change research, to teaching, sustainability, community-building and broadcasting. She currently serves as Director of the Office of Sustainability at Princeton University where she has implemented cross-disciplinary sustainable demonstration systems since 2006. Dr. Weber's past research areas include the intersection of climate change impacts with land use history, and population biology of culturally-significant wetland vegetation. Current interests revolve around fieldwork studying the American pika, and collaborative applied sustainability research across academic institutions. Dr. Weber received her BS in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and MSES and Ph.D. In Environmental Science from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington.

Resources/Links: https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Age-Chemists-Millions-Relationship/dp/022669724X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1606601474&refinements=p_27%3AFrank+A.+von+Hippel&s=books&sr=1-1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-history-podcast/id1325288920 https://frankvonhippel.github.io Frank A. von Hippel is a professor of ecotoxicology at Northern Arizona University. Frank was born and raised in Alaska, received his A.B. in biology at Dartmouth College in 1989, and his Ph.D. in integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996.  He taught for Columbia University (1996-1999) and the University of Alaska Anchorage (2000-2016) before moving to Arizona in 2016. Frank has taught ecology field courses in over twenty countries, and conducted research in the Americas, Africa and Australia. Frank's research has been widely covered in the press, including The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, the BBC, and many other media outlets. Frank is the author of The Chemical Age (University of Chicago Press, 2020), he hosts the Science History Podcast, and he loves to write about science for both technical and general audiences.

Dr. Jason James is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist who has been in private practice in the Miami area since 2003. He is the immediate past Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is currently the Vice President of the Medical Staff at Baptist Hospital. Dr. James completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania and attended medical school at the University of Miami. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he was recognized for his outstanding teaching skills. Dr. James has a special interest in postpartum depression and was named the 2010 ACOG Issue of the Year Research Award Recipient for postpartum depression research. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer for MomsWell, a maternal health platform that supports the clinical decision-making providers need to identify, educate, and support patients with maternal mental health complications, like postpartum depression. For at-risk patients, MomsWell provides a lifeline as they navigate towards recovery providing access to care through tailored digital referrals, brief care coordination, and ongoing support.   Apart from his practice of medicine, Dr. James is a national speaker and well-regarded expert and key opinion leader on various topics, including the prevention of elective early-term deliveries, umbilical cord blood banking, postpartum depression, and contraceptive technology. He is the symposium director of the annual Sanford Cole Memorial Ob/Gyn Symposium in Miami, Florida. Dr. James is fluent in English and Spanish and is welcoming new patients. He enjoys spending his free time traveling around the world with his wife, Lisa, and three children. You can follow Dr. James on Twitter at @drjasonjames or learn more at https://about.me/drjjames.

Links/Resources: Vapor intrusion:  https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/vapor-intrusion/ Vapor Intrusion Archive Page (digital images of news articles thru 2008 discussing sites VI problems): https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/vapor-intrusion/vapor-intrusion-digital-project/ Radon Page: https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/indoor-air/radon/ Dry Cleaner Page:  https://www.environmental-law.net/key-practice-areas/environmental-due-diligence/dry-cleaners-and-commercial-real-estate/ List of contaminated NY Dry Cleaner Sites: https://www.environmental-law.net/key-practice-areas/ny-superfund-program/ny-contaminated-dry-cleaner-database/ Bible and the Environment: https://www.environmental-law.net/resources/the-bible-and-the-environment/ EPA Cleanups in my Community-Interactive Map for all federal remedial sites): https://ofmpub.epa.gov/apex/cimc/f?p=cimc:map::::71 EPA Superfund Sites Where You Live: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live EPA Lead Paint Page: https://www.epa.gov/lead EPA Drinking Water Page: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water Lawrence P. Schnapf is an environmental attorney based in New York City and New Jersey with over 30 years of national environmental transactional experience and is the principal of Schnapf LLC. https://www.environmental-law.net With this background and his geology training, Larry is uniquely qualified to handle the legal and technical issues commonly encountered with environmental issues. Larry primarily concentrates on environmental risks associated with corporate, real estate and brownfield transactions; commercial financing including asset-based lending, syndicated loans, mezzanine loans and distressed debt; bankruptcy, workouts and corporate restructuring. He has extensive experience with brownfield redevelopment and financing, including representing affordable housing developers and assisting local development corporations or not-for-profit organizations with their brownfield planning programs. Larry also counsels clients on environmental, represents clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and private cost recovery actions. He has also served as liaison counsel for PRP steering committees. He has also written numerous articles on environmental law, is the general editor/contributing author of “Environmental Issues in Business Transactions” published by the Business Law Section of the ABA and is also the author of “Managing Environmental Liability in Transactions and Brownfield Redevelopment” published by JurisLaw Publishing. He is also contributing author for several chapters of “Brownfield Practice and Law: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Properties” published by Matthew Bender and the Matthew Bender “Environmental Law Practice Guide”. Larry is the Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), co-chair of the NYSBA brownfield task force and served as the co-chair of  the NYSBA Hazardous Site Remediation Committee from 1995 until January 2015 he became an officer of the NYSBA Environmental Law Section.  Larry is also on the advisory board  of the New York City Brownfield Partnership and served as the chair of the Brownfield Field Task Force of the Environmental Business Association of New York (EBA/NYS) from 2002 until EBA/NYS became inactive in 2009. He is a past Chair of the ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is also a member of the board of BNA's Environmental Due Diligence Guide and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Larry has also served on a number of ASTM Task Groups, including Chair of the legal subcommittee for the ASTM E1527  task force for the 2013 revisions to ASTM E1527 phase 1 standard and was Co-Chair of the legal sub-committee for the ASTM Vapor Intrusion Task Group. Larry is an adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School and a faculty member of the NYLS Center for Real Estate Studies where he teaches “Environmental Issues in Business Transactions”, “Environmental Law and Policy” and a mini-course on brownfields. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Christian Studies at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church where he teaches “The Bible and the Environment.” He is listed in the New York Super Lawyers-Metro Edition (2010-2015; the Super Lawyers Business Edition (2011-15); The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers (2008-2015) as well as appearing in Chambers USA Client Guide of America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Larry has received the AV® Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible Peer Review Rating

Links/Resources:   https://drspar.com/   https://www.amazon.com/Optimal-Health-Integrative-Medicine-Optimum/dp/0190654872/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=dr+spar&qid=1601404162&sr=8-1   Myles Spar, MD, MPH is a national leader in the field of Men's Health, author of the book Optimal Men's Health from Oxford University Press having co-edited Integrative Men's Health for the same publisher. He is Chief Medical Officer of Vault Health, the first national medical practice specializing in men's health.  Before joining Vault in 2019, Dr. Spar was founder and CEO of Tack180, an optimal health program for men based in Los Angeles, and directed the Integrative Medicine program at the Southern California Men's Medical Group and at the Simms-Mann Health and Wellness Center at Venice Family Clinic. He has been a clinical faculty member of the UCLA and University of Arizona Schools of Medicine and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Spar is Chair of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and has presented internationally on Integrative Men's Health and on issues relating to bringing integrative medicine to underserved communities. For this latter work, Dr. Spar was the recipient of the Bravewell Award for Leadership in Integrative Medicine in 2013. 

Links/Resources: https://chw.princeton.edu/people/laura-kahn   https://www.amazon.com/One-Health-Politics-Antimicrobial-Resistance-ebook/dp/B01HQ4DF04   https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Epidemics-Bioterror-Security-International-ebook/dp/B0876F2FFZ Dr. Laura H. Kahn is a physician and research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs.  Her education and training span nursing, medicine, public health, and public policy. She is the author of Who's in Charge? Leadership during epidemics, bioterror attacks, and other public health crises. Originally published in 2009 by Praeger Security International, a second edition has been issued in 2020 with a new preface discussing leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. (https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Epidemics-Bioterror-Security-International-dp-144087817X/dp/144087817X/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=)   She published Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in April 2006 in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases that helped launch the One Health Initiative (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com) which seeks to improve the health of all species by increasing communication and collaboration between human, animal, and environmental/ecosystem health specialists. She writes online columns for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (https://thebulletin.org/biography/laura-h-kahn/) and has published in many peer-reviewed journals. Her second book, One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance, was published in June 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. An April 2017 book review in CDC's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases described the book as “an essential primer for anyone who chooses to grapple with this challenging but crucial public health issue.” (https://www.amazon.com/One-Health-Politics-Antimicrobial-Resistance/dp/142142004X)   Princeton University awarded her course, Hogs, Bats, and Ebola: An Introduction to One Health policy, with a 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. Recently, the course has been released as a free, online Coursera course, Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics. (https://www.coursera.org/learn/onehealth) A native of California, Dr. Kahn holds a B.S. degree in Nursing from UCLA, an M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, a Master's degree in Public Health from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is a recipient of the New Jersey Chapter's Laureate Award. In 2014, she received a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Public Health Physicians, and in 2016, the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) awarded her with their highest honor for her work in One Health: the K.F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award.                           

Resources/Links: https://drmarvinsingh.com/   https://www.amazon.com/Integrative-Gastroenterology-Weil-Medicine-Library/dp/0190933046   Marvin Singh, M.D is an Integrative Gastroenterologist in San Diego, California, and a Member of the Board and Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine. He is also trained and board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Singh completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System followed by fellowship training in Gastroenterology at Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines. Singh was trained by Andrew Weil, M.D., a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Singh is currently the Director of Integrative Gastroenterology at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute at UC Irvine. He is also currently a voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSD in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health; prior to this, he has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at UCLA and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Singh is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and many other societies. He is actively involved in the American Gastroenterological Association. He is one of the editors of the textbook of Integrative Gastroenterology, 2nd edition (a Weil Series text) and has written several book chapters and articles. He is dedicated to guiding his clients toward optimal wellness every step of the way, using the most cutting edge technologies to design highly personalized precision based protocols and help them stay on top of their health, rather than underneath disease. Towards this end, he founded Precisione Clinic, to bring the best in preventive medicine to his clients.

Resources/Links: https://www.amazon.com/Non-Toxic-Living-Healthy-Chemical-Guides/dp/0190082356/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=aly+cohen+non+toxic&qid=1601467438&sr=8-1 In this interview, Dr. Cohen interviews Dr. Frederick vom Saal, her co-editor and writing partner for both the Oxford University Press textbook, “Integrative Environmental Medicine”, published in 2017, and now their new collaboration, “Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World”, available now! Aly and Fred discuss how they became writing partners, what it was like to work on two intense writing projects together, Fred's history as a renowned researcher in endocrine disruption, key issues in environmental health, and future projects! Dr. Fred vom Saal is a Curators' Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After college he taught biology as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia and after the revolution there, he also taught in Kenya and then Paris before entering graduate school. Dr. vom Saal has published over 240 articles and reviews on his research. His research is largely responsible for having bisphenol A (BPA) removed from plastic baby bottles from the U.S. market in 2012. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and federal research review panels both in the United States and abroad. Dr. Fred vom Saal is a Curators' Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri- Columbia (MU). After college he taught biology as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia and after the revolution there, he also taught in Kenya and then Paris before entering graduate school. Fred has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students since joining the MU faculty in 1979, and has published over 240 articles and reviews on his research, which has been funded by grants from NIH, NSF, USDA, EPA, FDA and NATO, as well as a number of foundations and MU. In the mid- 1990s, he and his colleagues at MU discovered that the endocrine disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) disrupted fetal development at doses thousands of times lower than had been estimated to cause no effect by the FDA and EPA. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment, is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a recipient of the Heinz Foundation Award in Environmental Science, the Upstream Award from the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Environmental Health Hero Award from the CleanMed Association, and is a recipient of the University of Missouri Alumni Association Faculty Award. He has served on numerous editorial boards of scientific journals and federal research review panels both in the U.S. and abroad. Because his research has challenged the approaches used by regulatory agencies to assess chemical safety, he has testified about the hazards posed by environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals in numerous state legislatures, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and the EU Parliament, and he has been invited to lecture throughout the world. Fred, together with his wife Kathi, enjoys flying around the U.S. and Canada in their airplane, and particularly visiting their families and grandson Charlie.

Resources/Links: https://chw.princeton.edu/people/laura-kahn   https://www.amazon.com/One-Health-Politics-Antimicrobial-Resistance-ebook/dp/B01HQ4DF04   https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Epidemics-Bioterror-Security-International-ebook/dp/B0876F2FFZ Using Shinrin-Yoku to Hike, Bike, Paddle, and Climb Your Way to Health and Happiness. Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmiller, M.D. is an OB-Gyn and Integrative Medicine physician who resides in Cedar Falls, Iowa.  She completed OB-Gyn residency at Western Pennsylvania-Temple University in Pittsburgh and is a fellowship graduate of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.  She is board certified by both the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Board of Integrative Medicine.  She holds additional certifications in herbal medicine and is a certified forest therapy guide.  She currently serves as medical director for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and as medical advisor for the organization, AllTrails.   She is the author of an award-winning children's book about autism called “A Friend Like John, Understanding Autism,” and speaks nationally and internationally about autism, integrative medicine, and nature therapy.  Her book, “The Outdoor Adventurer's Guide to Forest Bathing,” by Falcon Guides was released in July, 2019.  Suzanne and her husband Joe are avid outdoor enthusiasts and lead workshops combining outdoor adventure and the mindful practice of forest bathing.  She has been quoted and featured in numerous publications and radio programs on the subject of integrative medicine and nature therapy, including Prevention Magazine (October, 2016; August, 2017), WebMD, the Boston Globe, Prevention Australia, the New York Times, American Airlines American Way Magazine, Iowa Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, BBC World, Women's Health, Forbes Magazine, among others.   More information is available at her website, www.IntegrativeInitiative.com.