119: The Hidden Toxins Making You Fat, Dumb, and Impotent | Leonardo Trasande, MD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dr. Leo Trasande 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. He is an internationally renowned leader in environmental health. His new book is called Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... and What We Can Do About It.

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0:00.0	What a family welcome to episode 119 of the Genius Life.
0:04.0	What's going on everybody?
0:14.0	Welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.
0:22.4	I'm your host Max Lugavira Filmmaker, Health and Science here in Austin, the author of
0:25.6	The New York Times bestselling book, Genius Foods and the Genius Life.
0:30.0	I am so excited for you to be with me for this episode of the show in which I welcome Dr.
0:35.1	Leonardo Trasande M.D.
0:38.2	He is an internationally renowned leader in children's environmental health.
0:42.2	He's also the author of the new book, Sicker Fatter, Poor, The Urgent Threat of Hormone
0:46.6	Disrupting Chemicals to our Health and Future and what we can do about it.
0:50.8	I loved having this chat with Dr. Trasande.
0:54.5	He is a powerhouse of knowledge and we talk all about chemical obesogens that are probably
0:59.8	very likely lurking in your environment right now contributing to an ever-expanding waistline
1:04.4	for all of us irrespective of calories consumed.
1:08.8	He talks about xenoestrogens which can negatively affect your system of sex hormones influencing
1:14.0	your risk for certain cancers and even developmental problems.
1:17.2	What chemicals in particular we need to worry about?
1:21.4	He talks all about herbicides and pesticides and flame retardants and what they're doing
1:26.7	collectively to our cognition, the cognitive cost of all these chemicals.
1:32.4	There is going to be a lot that we discuss and it was really a potent conversation I felt
1:38.1	on toxicology and why we all need to be taking these chemicals more seriously.
1:43.8	I've talked about it in my recent book The Genius Life and I was really excited to have
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