Detoxify

“Read Detoxify as if your life depended on it. Because as it turns out, it does. Dr. Aly Cohen has been a courageous champion at the forefront of environmental health for decades. Now she combines her wealth of knowledge and experience with patient care to help you develop a commonsense, science-based, personal plan to rid yourself of the multitude of toxic chemicals we encounter in our food, water, personal care products, and practically every other corner of daily life.” –Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group“Dr. Aly Cohen is one of our most trusted resources and a crucial member of Cancer Schmancer’s Board of Medical Advisors. She is one of the few practicing MDs who makes the vital connection between environmental exposure and illness. DETOXIFY lays out simply and clearly how the plethora of environmental toxins makes us sick, and even more importantly, gives you simple, practical steps to reduce your exposure and get healthy. This is a book that everyone should read!” –Fran Drescher“In Detoxify, Dr Aly Cohen combines her background as a classically trained rheumatologist with her additional training in integrative medicine to provide advice about how to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals in your water, food and living environment to prevent the development of environmentally related diseases. Everyone is exposed to thousands of unregulated toxic immune disrupting chemicals that can create a chronic state of inflammation in our bodies leading to numerous diseases. If you want practical, science-based advice to improve your health and longevity, follow Dr. Cohen’s detailed 21-day detoxification plan. Detoxify is the book that can be your guide to a healthier life.” –Frederick S. vom Saal Ph.D, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dvision of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia“In a world filled with invisible threats to our health, Aly Cohen, MD, illuminates the hidden connections between the toxins in our food, environment, and daily lives and their powerful influence on inflammation, immunity, and chronic disease. Dr. Cohen weaves the wisdom of a scientist and experienced clinician with a storyteller’s clarity, compassion, and wit. This book presents practical strategies for detoxifying your life and reclaiming your health- one informed choice at a time.”–Tieraona Low Dog, MD, ABOIM, Founding Director, Integrative & Functional Medicine Fellowship UC Irvine Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute

Dr. Aly Cohen is a board-certified rheumatologist and integrative medicine physician, and one of the country’s leading medical and legal experts in environmental health. In addition to lecturing on environmental health at universities, medical schools, and physician-training programs, she is on the faculty of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, Southern California University of Health Sciences, and the University of California, Irvine. In her tenure as an environmental health expert, Dr. Cohen has been interviewed by countless national print and television outlets, given popular TEDx talks, published peer-reviewed medical articles, acted as a legal medical expert for exposure cases, and she has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other eminent disease-prevention organizations. She has received countless awards for her work in health education, including the Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism. Today, Dr. Cohen manages The Smart Human social media platform and podcast and continues to see patients in her medical practice in Princeton, New Jersey, where she lives on a farm with her husband, two sons, and lots of furry friends.