Dr. Aly Cohen
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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You know, I'm here traveling and to find glass water bottles, and we can talk about that, water bottles and how to manage water and water, you know, system, but it's really impossible to find any water in glass. And when I go out to dinner and they actually say, would you like, you know, fizzy water or still? And they come to the table with a glass bottle. I'm just like thrilled.
I'm like crying and hugging the waitress.
It's honestly, it's like, you know, oh, my God, you know, it just made my heart just, you know, fill. So, you know, the idea is that we unless you make your own food. Unless you control the food system, we are at the whim of that. We have to get savvy around it. And there's lots of things in the book that I share and I'm sure you're aware of that really help us to do that.
I would say probably, you know, I would say almost like a B. I think that's okay because when I think of how easy the change out is to the benefit, you know, the risk benefit ratio there, it's really a good one. You know, it's very easy.
Yeah, interesting. BPA is used for a lot of things. It's not even just used in canned foods as the epoxy lining, the plastic interior of all cans, even organic food cans, believe it or not, even baby food cans, right? It is part of the food packaging and BPA itself is part of that.
When it says BPA-free, it's really, as you said, really unlikely that it is truly healthy or safer because there are so many what we call regrettable substitutions to BPA that were designed by the manufacturers of BPA to get around the problems with BPA and the reputation of BPA.
BPA was actually removed from plastic baby bottles and plastic sports bottles in 2012 due to a lot of the work of my co-author for two previous books, who's an emeritus reproductive neurobiologist from University of Missouri. So his work, along with colleagues around the world, was a heavy lift. But they were only able to get it out of baby bottles that are plastic and sports bottles.
But it's everywhere else still, unfortunately. Now, Canada has actually just put forth legislation based on his work and others to get BPA out of packaging, food packaging, because it's such a huge source into the human body. And the substitution bisphenols, BPS, BPSIP, BPF, they are, again, used instead where BPA was used. formally used in many products.
So the long story short is, or the short story short, is stay away from plastics. Don't believe BPA-free really means that much. Try to use glass and stainless steel when it comes to even water bottles and carrying water. And that's a good start, really.
I would say it's equally weighted between the food itself, which has its upwards of we now have 12,000 food additives that are allowed under the generally recognized as safe designation. which is a very weak, if not terribly poor regulation that was, you know, basically a problem from 1958, you know, amended food additives amendment, basically. And so essentially we have no protections.
The food itself can have all these ingredients that we don't want that are unhealthy for the human body. And then the food packaging that is often part of processed foods is another component. I think people don't often think about food packaging as kind of a, you know, a mechanism for getting exposed to these chemicals.
When you go with whole foods more often than not, you're getting far fewer chemicals than Now, that being said, what I wanted to bring to the table here is that even the best diets that are green leafy vegetables and fruits and vegetables can have high loads of pesticides.
And so not to make everyone upset, but to really think about not just the quality of your food, which is fruits and vegetables and thinking about sort of like a Mediterranean diet, nuts and seeds and all those good, healthy things that we've been eating for millions of years up until now. really the last 100 years.
But thinking about USDA organic as an option, it is probably the only, I say, redeemable component of our food system that we have. It's because it really limits thousands of pesticides and fertilizer chemicals and really doesn't allow any genetically modified ingredients as well in the food. So we can find this now accessibly at low cost at any big box store.
And mind you, frozen USDA organic produce, which is really pervasive around the country, especially in big box stores who know how lucrative it is to make these, they have the added benefit of being nutritional products. and nutritionally sufficient. In fact, they are picked and flash frozen in order to keep them fresh, but also that maintains all of the nutrient value.
So you get this wonderful combination of cleaner food in terms of USDA organic regulation But then also the nutritional value, which is that add portion of my four A's, is already packed into those frozen produce. You just want to swap them out, put them in glass and stainless steel to heat them up.
But essentially, it's democratized, you know, food and, you know, healthy food in a way, because now everyone can reach those goals of getting those in their local, you know, big box store if they can find. And we're talking big box stores all over the country.
I'm going to put it next to my water filter at S. Okay.
It's that important. And we can't live without food and we can't live without water. So those are the two biggest inputs that I really want people to think about. And it doesn't have to be perfect. But when you're talking about stocking your home fridge, things that you can control for the most part, that's where you can start to have the most impact.
Yeah, absolutely.
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