Dr. Aly Cohen
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first heard Apr 2025
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white vinegar, you know, lemon juice, Castile soap, sea salt for scrubbing. And I even have do it yourself recipes for those products in the book. Or you can use resources that are in the book as well to choose safer, lower toxicity products.
I would put them, they're pretty gnarly. I would put them probably around F.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, it's proprietary fragrance, you know, antimicrobials, antibacterials, just real things that we don't want in our system anymore or ever.
Let's put that up at A or S. A is fine. Yeah, it's wonderful. I mean, these are the things that are harmless to the human body, been around forever, completely accessible, and completely inexpensive. So I'm a big fan.
This response is not only is it cleaning, it's actually antibacterial as well and antiviral. So when we're thinking back to, you know, some of the most common exposures, the
flu there's lots of things that can be killed off from just white vinegar but also if you're thinking about that level of cleaning in terms of say covert exposure or the flu uh in your household being rampant you can also think of isopropyl alcohol which is this rubbing alcohol So there's even stronger stuff if you need it that's really safe as well. But vinegar is really classic.
It's been around forever and it has different percentages. There's sort of 3% for cooking and 5% for cleaning that's available even at big box stores. So if you're really going to be using it for cleaning, I would choose the higher percentage.
So it is complicated. And we are now finding some genetic predispositions for autoimmune disease in addition to what we call environmental hits or environmental exposures. But there's no question about it. There are many more personal care products directed, marketed to women, for sure.
And even African-American women who have a different set of products that are marketed to them as well with different ingredients. Some of them have
estrogenic components that are much higher than in other products that too has become a problem not just even amongst earlier puberty amongst young kids and boys are included in this not just women but but young girls young boys as well but we have to be thinking if that's if we know that the associations for shifting puberty younger over the last several hundred years that
is an endocrine disruption component, it's also very, very strongly connected to the idea that we can have autoimmune and immune disorders, which again, endocrine system and the immune system are much more connected than anyone really thinks about. We think they're siloed, but really there's crosstalk between these very important systems in the human body.
So absolutely, there's no question that has a lot to do with maybe why we're seeing more autoimmune disease and immune disorders in women. But there's other theories involved. Hormones are really quite important. Estrogen, androgens are key. But again, there's these genetic findings such as the Xist gene, which I talk about in the book.
that really is helping us to understand why it is that most autoimmune diseases affect women more than men. Although there's many, type 1 diabetes included, that are equally slated amongst both genders, as well as some that are more male-dominated, like ankylosing spondylitis and, yeah, psoriatic arthritis, definitely.
Well, most of the stuff that's marketed has fragrance, okay? That's the selling point, right?
So fragrance, again, these phthalates, which is a class of chemicals, which is, you know, one of many classes of chemicals that are used in these products. But phthalates are specifically designed to keep the smell and odor of a product lasting longer, whether it's laundry detergent, whether it's cleaning products, whether it's personal care products.
We also know, like, for instance, feminine care products can have chemicals that you wouldn't think of, like antimicrobials in the cotton. And if it's not cotton, it may be rayon or other types of polyester making up a tampon, for instance. There's also, you know, chlorine in cotton and some of these plasticizers.
So when we think about personal care, we should also be thinking about feminine care products. And internal exposure as well, because women should understand how absorptive that part of the body really is as well in terms of, you know, getting those chemicals into the body.
But, you know, when it comes to these personal care products, we have chemicals like mercury and makeup that have actually been at very low levels, not a problem in terms of regulation. There's no oversight. And it's used as an antiseptic. There are parabens. There are chemicals that help skin absorb chemicals to make them smoother and softer, such as lotions.
They're functional chemicals that are synthetic that are really trying to sell the product in terms of what they do. So it's one of those things where it's a mishmash of anything best to go with the least amount of ingredients and the ones you recognize. And if you can't see those findings on a label,
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