Dr. Aly Cohen
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah. And listen, maybe some of the kids out there don't like their greens, but cruciferous vegetables are really superpower foods, right? Because cruciferous vegetables, which include kale and broccoli, asparagus.
Sprouts. I mean, help me out here. There's just so many of them. I list them all in the book. But of course, you know, there's ones I've never even heard of, like kohlrabi. They're ones that we don't even usually use all the time. But they are remarkable in terms of the compounds that they contain that help detoxify the body. They churn up some of the chemicals in the liver.
They induce what's called stage two detoxification pathways or conjugation. They help break down these chemicals into much less toxic components to eliminate. So cruciferous vegetables, you know, like mom says, eat your vegetables, but choose cruciferous whenever you can. There's other ones. There's the omega-3 fatty acids are really critical in terms of human health history.
Getting that from small fish instead of large fish because large fish tend to bioaccumulate A lot of chemicals up the food chain. So thinking sardines and salmon and herring, mackerel, you know, are really wonderful in terms of choosing those smaller fish. So omegas are really great. You can get them from plants as well, and they convert into the more active forms.
antioxidants like quercetin, which is, you know, from apples and onions, vitamin C. These are really helpful in the body's detoxification processes. So there's lots we can do. Food is medicine. But particularly, as I call out in the book, certain foods actually offset some of the genetic or epigenetic changes that come from exposures to chemicals that you, you know, can and can't control.
So it's kind of a protection mechanism by what you eat.
Depends on the brand.
So I actually really believe that as much as fish is wonderful for protein and for nutrition, it's delicious. I love sushi, but we space it out quite infrequently so that we can manage some of those exposures. But unfortunately, I think that as the oceans get a little dirtier, we are going to have more problems with, you know, eating a lot of fish. And so your story doesn't surprise me, actually.
But, you know, like you said, there's lots of different ways we get exposed. And so it is thoughtful to think about different places that you can be exposed to mercury. I mean, it could be occupational. It could be.
Yeah, amalgams, you know, generally they don't leach. They're pretty solidly staying there in general. I heard the opposite from a lot of dentists. Well, when you start to manipulate them, that can also, you know, you want to be careful about your dental care, right? Because every time you're brushing and every time you're getting any dental work, you are manipulating them.
So it just depends on...
really what your degree of dental care is it's not on the top of my list when I tell people what to do because it's usually quite expensive and there's a lot of things that as you're doing here ranking makes a lot more sense to me for the average mere mortal right but when it comes to my recommendations with fish I really do try to limit it to two or four servings maximum per week of small fish
And that's not a lot. That's a reasonable amount. And then I do actually believe and I talk about this in my book in terms of the four fertilizer supplements, which I believe in modern day times, thinking about anthropology and evolution.
What are the highest yield supplements that I believe every human should be on from birth till death, which is very dramatic, but I really believe in the science. And one of those four fertilizer supplements, which has such high yield benefit to human body, to the brain, to sleep, to inflammation, is high quality Lactobacillus. well vetted omega-3 fish oil.
And I find that there's far fewer, you know, companies that are doing this well, the more watered down it is, which is, you know, like any good thing in life, maple syrup, honey, and everything else that's good and hard to source is often watered down. And that tends to be reflected in the price point.
So in the book, I talk about how to find and vet out those products, but omegas as a supplement to me tends to be at the level that we need to thrive and to be healthful and tends to be a supplement-based choice in addition to fish.
Oh, I know this literature, actually. Is there any truth to that? I had to present some of this literature, actually. Yeah, so selenium is actually remarkably protective to the human brain. And when they've done studies of ratios in the diet of fish, specifically where the selenium to mercury ratio was very high, it was actually shown to be protective clinically in populations that they looked at.
And so there is interesting science regarding selenium being incredibly protective regarding heavy metals, particularly methylmercury, which goes back to the fertilizer chemicals. that I've said, I mean, fertilizer supplements that I believe every human should be on, which I'll name them now because it involves selenium.
A multivitamin, a well-done multivitamin will have selenium in it daily, will have iodine in it daily, will have active forms of vitamins like methylfolate instead of folic acid. So a multivitamin that's done well is a remarkable flooring to your life in terms of just daily exposure to good, healthy nutrients that we have needed for millions of years. Selenium is in there.
The second fertilizer supplement that I believe is necessary, even with the best diets. I mean that even with the best organic diets, because our food system is so nutrient deplete. The second one is vitamin D, which a lot of people have heard of, right? It's pretty sexy to know about what your D level is. The question is, how do you get it to a level on your blood testing that's high normal?
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