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Dr. Aly Cohen

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

But the cause and effect is not always direct. And I started following the papers that were available even 15 years ago. People like my co-author Fred Vomsal, who was largely responsible for having BPA removed from plastic baby bottles in 2012. And I started looking at all the research and reaching out to the authors and really trying to figure out if this was true.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Because again, when you're trained in medical school and medical training, you believe that is it. You believe there's nothing else that can affect your opinions about how you go through life and how you make choices and what disease risks we can avoid. So it was kind of relearning. Not relearning, because I believe in science. Obviously I treat with medications and

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Because again, when you're trained in medical school and medical training, you believe that is it. You believe there's nothing else that can affect your opinions about how you go through life and how you make choices and what disease risks we can avoid. So it was kind of relearning. Not relearning, because I believe in science. Obviously I treat with medications and

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Because again, when you're trained in medical school and medical training, you believe that is it. You believe there's nothing else that can affect your opinions about how you go through life and how you make choices and what disease risks we can avoid. So it was kind of relearning. Not relearning, because I believe in science. Obviously I treat with medications and

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

I really walk a fine line between just learning both sides of the stories and things that were just left out and still are in medical training.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

I really walk a fine line between just learning both sides of the stories and things that were just left out and still are in medical training.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

I really walk a fine line between just learning both sides of the stories and things that were just left out and still are in medical training.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

When you say both sides of the stories, which both sides?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

When you say both sides of the stories, which both sides?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

When you say both sides of the stories, which both sides?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Well, both sides of the stories, meaning when doctors, and this is happening now, roll their eyes when patients go to see them and say, hey, doctor, what can I eat that might help make my flares and lupus and rheumatoid arthritis reduced? Or why did I get this disease? What can I do about exercise? And does that make a difference? Or if I go gluten free, is there a benefit to it?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Well, both sides of the stories, meaning when doctors, and this is happening now, roll their eyes when patients go to see them and say, hey, doctor, what can I eat that might help make my flares and lupus and rheumatoid arthritis reduced? Or why did I get this disease? What can I do about exercise? And does that make a difference? Or if I go gluten free, is there a benefit to it?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Well, both sides of the stories, meaning when doctors, and this is happening now, roll their eyes when patients go to see them and say, hey, doctor, what can I eat that might help make my flares and lupus and rheumatoid arthritis reduced? Or why did I get this disease? What can I do about exercise? And does that make a difference? Or if I go gluten free, is there a benefit to it?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Or, you know, there's just a million questions that I think patients are now asking. They're getting smarter, they're getting sicker, but they're getting smarter. They're getting more inquisitive. And a lot of, unfortunately, I think the medical institution, not the doctor's fault, the training fault. You know, I look at the system as the place to fix it.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Or, you know, there's just a million questions that I think patients are now asking. They're getting smarter, they're getting sicker, but they're getting smarter. They're getting more inquisitive. And a lot of, unfortunately, I think the medical institution, not the doctor's fault, the training fault. You know, I look at the system as the place to fix it.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

Or, you know, there's just a million questions that I think patients are now asking. They're getting smarter, they're getting sicker, but they're getting smarter. They're getting more inquisitive. And a lot of, unfortunately, I think the medical institution, not the doctor's fault, the training fault. You know, I look at the system as the place to fix it.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

I'm always looking at the system approach, um, And that's really walking the fine line is really trying to measure as much science into the equation and using medications when I'm thoughtful and judicious about them. But really incorporating lifestyle and diet and again chemical reduction as a really great starting point because we know that has such an effect. Why can't we integrate all of that?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

I'm always looking at the system approach, um, And that's really walking the fine line is really trying to measure as much science into the equation and using medications when I'm thoughtful and judicious about them. But really incorporating lifestyle and diet and again chemical reduction as a really great starting point because we know that has such an effect. Why can't we integrate all of that?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

I'm always looking at the system approach, um, And that's really walking the fine line is really trying to measure as much science into the equation and using medications when I'm thoughtful and judicious about them. But really incorporating lifestyle and diet and again chemical reduction as a really great starting point because we know that has such an effect. Why can't we integrate all of that?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Are Everyday Chemicals ACTUALLY Harming Your Health

all aspects of human health and lifestyle into our teaching to patients.