EP 24: Reducing our Exposure to Harmful Chemicals with Dr. Leo Trasande

In this episode, I am talking with Dr. Leo Trasande,  a pediatrician, professor and world-renowned researcher in environmental health. Dr. Transande’s research focuses on how chemicals like phthalates, bisphenols, and many others that are long and hard to pronounce disrupt our hormones and damage our health in irreparable ways. In his book, Sicker Fatter Poorer, Dr. Transande shows us where these chemicals hide as well as the workings of policy that protect their continued use. 

Today Dr. Transande and I are talking about what these hormone disrupting chemicals are and how they are contributing to all types of disease and chronic conditions. We’re talking about the lack of regulation and the need for more health protective policies. Most importantly, Dr. Transande is sharing ways for us to protect ourselves and our families by minimizing our exposure. 

Episode Highlights

• Dr. Trasande’s background and how he became interested in environmental health
• The importance of policy to protecting people from harmful chemicals
• The short, medium and long term benefits of reducing toxic load
• Organophosphate pesticides and their impact on health
• Four of the most widely used chemicals categories and where to find them
• Bisphenols: where to find them and how to avoid them
• What types of plastics to avoid
• Simple and small steps you can take to reduce your exposure 
• The impact of flame retardants and where you find them
• The threat of these chemicals of economic stability 
• The impact of these chemicals on immunity 
• PEGs in the COVID vaccination

Resources Mentioned

Sicker, Fatter, Poorer https://www.leotrasande.com/sicker-fatter-poorer

About Dr. Trasande

He is the Jim G. Hendrick MD Professor, Director of the Division of Environmental Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine. He also serves on the faculty of the NYU Wagner School of Public Service and the NYU College of Global Public Health.Dr. Trasande is an internationally renowned leader in environmental health. His research focuses on the impacts of chemicals on hormones in our bodies. He also has led the way in documenting the economic costs for policy makers of failing to prevent diseases of environmental origin proactively.He is perhaps best known for a series of studies published in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism that document disease costs due to endocrine disrupting chemicals in the US and Europe of $340 billion and €163 billion annually, respectively.  For information about this work, READ MORE

He is also Principal Investigator for a research project comparing neurodevelopment, cardiometabolic and respiratory profiles of children exposed in utero to the World Trade Center disaster to a comparison group.

Connect with Dr. Trasande

Website https://www.leotrasande.com 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/leotrasande/?hl=en

Twitter https://twitter.com/leotrasande?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor