The Smart Human with Dr. Aly Cohen

ATTRIBUTION/INTRO LINE: Dr. William Li, physician, scientist and bestselling author of “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself” and “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer” SHORT BIO: William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.” His groundbreaking research has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments that impact care for more than 70 diseases including diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, Rachael Ray and Live with Kelly & Ryan, and he has been featured in USA Today, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and O Magazine. He is President and Medical Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and he is leading global initiatives on food as medicine. His newest book New York Times bestseller, “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer” was released March 21, 2023. HEADSHOT: BOOK COVERS: BOOK LINKS: https://drwilliamli.com/etb-diet-book/ https://drwilliamli.com/book-li/ A report on cancer statistics just published in, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, states that:

• The number of new cancer cases had ticked up to more than two million in 2023, from 1.9 million in 2022.
• According to the report, cancer rates are increasing for six of the 10 most common cancers: breast, prostate, melanoma, kidney, pancreas and uterine, while lung, colorectal and pancreas cancers cause the most deaths.
• Among adults younger than 50, colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer death in men and the second-leading cause in women, behind breast cancer. In the late 1990s, it ranked fourth in both men and women younger than 50.

So, it seems that there's no more appropriate time than now to listen to this important discussion I had with Dr. William Li about his research applying both biology and biotechnology to understand cancer preventing compounds in food and how the body responds to what it's fed!

Resources/Links:

https://chw.princeton.edu/people/laura-kahn https://www.amazon.com/One-Health-Politics-Antimicrobial-Resistance-ebook/dp/B01HQ4DF04 https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Epidemics-Bioterror-Security-International-ebook/dp/B0876F2FFZ

Using Shinrin-Yoku to Hike, Bike, Paddle, and Climb Your Way to Health and Happiness.

Suzanne Bartlett Hackenmiller, M.D. is an OB-Gyn and Integrative Medicine physician who resides in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She completed OB-Gyn residency at Western Pennsylvania-Temple University in Pittsburgh and is a fellowship graduate of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. She is board certified by both the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Board of Integrative Medicine. She holds additional certifications in herbal medicine and is a certified forest therapy guide. She currently serves as medical director for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and as medical advisor for the organization, AllTrails.

She is the author of an award-winning children’s book about autism called “A Friend Like John, Understanding Autism,” and speaks nationally and internationally about autism, integrative medicine, and nature therapy. Her book, “The Outdoor Adventurer’s Guide to Forest Bathing,” by Falcon Guides was released in July, 2019.

Suzanne and her husband Joe are avid outdoor enthusiasts and lead workshops combining outdoor adventure and the mindful practice of forest bathing.

She has been quoted and featured in numerous publications and radio programs on the subject of integrative medicine and nature therapy, including Prevention Magazine (October, 2016; August, 2017), WebMD, the Boston Globe, Prevention Australia, the New York Times, American Airlines American Way Magazine, Iowa Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, BBC World, Women’s Health, Forbes Magazine, among others.

More information is available at her website, www.IntegrativeInitiative.com.

Welcome to The Smart Human Podcast, today I have the pleasure of chatting with actor Fran Drescher! Yes, you may know her as the star of the TV show The Nanny, but she's also an author, an activist and an educator. Today we're talking about her work in health education, her history as a cancer survivor, her plans as new president of The Screen Actors Guild and much much more.

Fran Drescher was elected president of SAG-AFTRA in September 2021.

A 20-year cancer survivor, Drescher has a reputation for passion and commitment.

She is Founder and Visionary of the Cancer Schmancer Movement; dedicated to educating, motivating, and activating patients into medical consumers by connecting lifestyle to disease with her Master Class Health Summit and teen-targeted education video, Be The Change, starring Jamie Foxx.

Fran received two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal as the lovable “Miss Fine'' on CBS’s hit series, The Nanny, which she both created and executive produced. She also created, executive produced and starred in the groundbreaking TV Land sitcom, Happily Divorced, which was inspired by her real-life relationship with her gay ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson. Fran recently starred in the new NBC sitcom, Indebted, about a Baby Boomer couple who go broke and have to move in with their adult son and his young family. She has worked with many great directors in films such as Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap, to which Fran won Esquire Magazine’s One Minute Oscar, Milos Forman’s Rag Time, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Jack. She also starred in Beautician and the Beast opposite Timothy Dalton. Her famous voice is currently featured in the top-grossing SONY animated feature franchise film, Hotel Transylvania: In her role as Eunice, the wife of Frank Stein. In 2019, Fran starred in two indie films, The Creatress and After Class.

An accomplished author, Fran received the prestigious NCCS writer’s award for Cancer Schmancer, which, along with Enter Whining, were New York Times Best Sellers. She also penned the celebrated children's book, Being Wendy. Furthermore, Fran made her Broadway debut as “Madame” in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Tony-Award winning, Cinderella.

Fran has won countless awards for her leadership in the health space, including the John Wayne Institute Woman of Achievement Award, the Gilda Award, City of Hope Woman of the Year Award, The Albert Einstein Medical School Lifetime Achievement Award, Queens College Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Citizen Artist Award.

Resources/Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Non-Toxic-Living-Healthy-Chemical-Guides/dp/0190082356/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=aly+cohen+non+toxic&qid=1601467438&sr=8-1

In this interview, Dr. Cohen interviews Dr. Frederick vom Saal, her co-editor and writing partner for both the Oxford University Press textbook, “Integrative Environmental Medicine”, published in 2017, and now their new collaboration, “Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World”, available now! Aly and Fred discuss how they became writing partners, what it was like to work on two intense writing projects together, Fred’s history as a renowned researcher in endocrine disruption, key issues in environmental health, and future projects!

Dr. Fred vom Saal is a Curators' Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After college he taught biology as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia and after the revolution there, he also taught in Kenya and then Paris before entering graduate school. Dr. vom Saal has published over 240 articles and reviews on his research. His research is largely responsible for having bisphenol A (BPA) removed from plastic baby bottles from the U.S. market in 2012. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and federal research review panels both in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Fred vom Saal is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri- Columbia (MU). After college he taught biology as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia and after the revolution there, he also taught in Kenya and then Paris before entering graduate school. Fred has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students since joining the MU faculty in 1979, and has published over 240 articles and reviews on his research, which has been funded by grants from NIH, NSF, USDA, EPA, FDA and NATO, as well as a number of foundations and MU. In the mid- 1990s, he and his colleagues at MU discovered that the endocrine disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) disrupted fetal development at doses thousands of times lower than had been estimated to cause no effect by the FDA and EPA. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment, is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a recipient of the Heinz Foundation Award in Environmental Science, the Upstream Award from the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Environmental Health Hero Award from the CleanMed Association, and is a recipient of the University of Missouri Alumni Association Faculty Award. He has served on numerous editorial boards of scientific journals and federal research review panels both in the U.S. and abroad. Because his research has challenged the approaches used by regulatory agencies to assess chemical safety, he has testified about the hazards posed by environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals in numerous state legislatures, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and the EU Parliament, and he has been invited to lecture throughout the world. Fred, together with his wife Kathi, enjoys flying around the U.S. and Canada in their airplane, and particularly visiting their families and grandson Charlie.

Links/Resources:

Vapor intrusion: https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/vapor-intrusion/ Vapor Intrusion Archive Page (digital images of news articles thru 2008 discussing sites VI problems): https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/vapor-intrusion/vapor-intrusion-digital-project/ Radon Page: https://www.environmental-law.net/environmental-law/indoor-air/radon/ Dry Cleaner Page: https://www.environmental-law.net/key-practice-areas/environmental-due-diligence/dry-cleaners-and-commercial-real-estate/ List of contaminated NY Dry Cleaner Sites: https://www.environmental-law.net/key-practice-areas/ny-superfund-program/ny-contaminated-dry-cleaner-database/ Bible and the Environment: https://www.environmental-law.net/resources/the-bible-and-the-environment/ EPA Cleanups in my Community-Interactive Map for all federal remedial sites): https://ofmpub.epa.gov/apex/cimc/f?p=cimc:map::::71 EPA Superfund Sites Where You Live: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live EPA Lead Paint Page: https://www.epa.gov/lead EPA Drinking Water Page: https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water

Lawrence P. Schnapf is an environmental attorney based in New York City and New Jersey with over 30 years of national environmental transactional experience and is the principal of Schnapf LLC. https://www.environmental-law.net

With this background and his geology training, Larry is uniquely qualified to handle the legal and technical issues commonly encountered with environmental issues.

Larry primarily concentrates on environmental risks associated with corporate, real estate and brownfield transactions; commercial financing including asset-based lending, syndicated loans, mezzanine loans and distressed debt; bankruptcy, workouts and corporate restructuring. He has extensive experience with brownfield redevelopment and financing, including representing affordable housing developers and assisting local development corporations or not-for-profit organizations with their brownfield planning programs. Larry also counsels clients on environmental, represents clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and private cost recovery actions. He has also served as liaison counsel for PRP steering committees.

He has also written numerous articles on environmental law, is the general editor/contributing author of “Environmental Issues in Business Transactions” published by the Business Law Section of the ABA and is also the author of “Managing Environmental Liability in Transactions and Brownfield Redevelopment” published by JurisLaw Publishing. He is also contributing author for several chapters of “Brownfield Practice and Law: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Properties” published by Matthew Bender and the Matthew Bender “Environmental Law Practice Guide”.

Larry is the Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), co-chair of the NYSBA brownfield task force and served as the co-chair of the NYSBA Hazardous Site Remediation Committee from 1995 until January 2015 he became an officer of the NYSBA Environmental Law Section. Larry is also on the advisory board of the New York City Brownfield Partnership and served as the chair of the Brownfield Field Task Force of the Environmental Business Association of New York (EBA/NYS) from 2002 until EBA/NYS became inactive in 2009.

He is a past Chair of the ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is also a member of the board of BNA’s Environmental Due Diligence Guide and a ...