Dr. Aly Cohen
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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You know, let your lawn go or at least cut it down because keeping up with the Joneses means hiring pesticide companies where your feet track all those chemicals, your pets track all those chemicals into your home.
So, you know, kind of sitting back and observing and thinking about what you've been marketed to and keeping it more simple, I think is a really general way of looking at how we walk through modern day life with all these toxins.
But it's pre-order now?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you start with the high yield stuff. You know, drinking water, your habits, you know, when you make coffee or tea in the morning. Get that corrected as best you can in a way that makes you feel good because you're doing- Can we talk about that for a second?
You know, look, I'm a tea drinker. My husband's a coffee drinker and he uses a French press that's made of glass and metal. Old school stuff. I mean, let's think about how people made coffee before we had, you know, a plastic machine with with the K cups, you know, I think there's a lot of simple ways that we can make it more work for sure. But you have to value that. Right.
But from a tea perspective, I use loose leaf tea to cut back on microplastics. So I'm using like sort of a, you know, a metal stainless steel, you know, diffuser in my tea. And I'm using filtered water. I'm using organic cream and sugar. If I choose to use that, I'm using a ceramic container.
I carry my stainless steel, you know, water bottle with no, by the way, plastic, you know, straw, plastic cap that people drink. I think to myself, that's great that you've got the stainless steel bottle, but maybe finish off your process and have to, you know, take off the lid. But essentially the habits that you create, that you layer in cleaner changes and smarter choices,
That's a great place to start because that's your largest load, right? You're getting that on a daily basis. So that's a good place to start other than, you know, worrying about, again, going out for a night out with friends. And, you know, are you going to go in the back kitchen of a restaurant that you go out to and you're going to look to see if it's canned foods?
You're going to look to see if they filter their water. There's only so much you can control. So quality of life and not freaking out is a key portion, you know, key point of what I do. But I like to say, keep it simple, stupid. Start with, you know, high yield changes, keep your hobbies as clean as possible or work your way through it. This is a process. You know, this is a journey for everyone.
It was a journey for me for 15 years. And I don't expect and I hope it doesn't take 15 years for anyone else. Hopefully with the book and anything I post on social media, because, you know, I have a social media handle for the smart human. But anything I post tends to be, here's the problem, here's the solution, or else I don't post on it.
You know, I want people to know there are solutions for all of this. But take your time. Make it stick. This is not a diet. This is really about layering in a process to make good choices throughout your life.
My podcast actually focuses on the researchers that create... you know, the data and the research that the headlines use, right? I wanted to get to the source of great science. I had a, I'll give you an example. I had Dr. Goodson, Will Goodson. He's a breast surgeon and he did some remarkable work where he took fine needle biopsies of volunteers, 28 women, normal, healthy women, 28 volunteers.
He did fine needle biopsies voluntarily on these women. They changed out their personal care products. And about a month later, I think it was exactly 28 days later, they all showed up voluntarily to have a repeat fine needle biopsy.
And he was, and this is his work, he was able to show that there was a change on the signal towards reduction of cancer risk by changing out their personal care products over that month.
It was remarkable. And, you know, these are the people that I like to have on my podcast, the people that I have just been watching their research, you know, but they don't always have a voice in the media. It's not what they do. And so I have doctors on that talk about integrative medicine from a cardiology perspective, from a pediatric perspective, researchers. So the podcast is really a hobby.
It's really my, you know, it's a joy for me to do. Gets me a chance to get people at the table that I've always respected.
The Smart Human Podcast. Amazing. And same with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook. All of it is The Smart Human. And thesmarthuman.com, I actually have courses up now. So people can take small courses on pesticides, drinking water. integrative rheumatology, things about my career as an integrative rheumatologist. So I hope people will access all this information.
Thank you so much, Drew. I appreciate your support over the years. Thank you.
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