247: How to reduce your exposure to endocrine disruptors | Leonardo Trasande, M.D., MPP

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Leonardo Trasande, M.D., MPP: "We cannot change our genome, which begs the question: What environmental factors are causing a spike in chronic conditions?” Trasande, a pediatrician, author, and professor at NYU, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to reduce your exposure to endocrine disruptors, plus: *How to tell if your canned food is really BPA-free* *Common household items where harsh chemicals lie* *Why "microwave safe" plastic isn't off the hook* *Why scratched plasticware means more than just wear-and-tear* *How opening a window can help limit your chemical exposure* Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Also be sure to check out Trasande's book, Sicker, Fatter, Poorer, which you can find at https://www.leotrasande.com/sicker-fatter-poorer-1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Dr. Leonardo Trusanday is a tenured associate professor in pediatrics, environmental medicine, and population
0:55.3	health at the NYU School of Medicine, in health policy at the NYU Wagner School of Public
1:00.6	Service, and at the NYU College of Global Public Health.
1:04.6	Dr. Chresanday's research focuses on identifying the role of environmental exposures
1:09.2	in childhood obesity and cardiovascular risks and documenting the economic costs for
1:14.6	policy makers of failing to proactively prevent diseases of environmental
1:19.1	origin in children. Very important subject. Also he's the best-selling author of sicker, fatter, poorer,
1:27.0	the urgent threat of hormone disrupting chemicals to our health and future and what we can do about it and we need to do something about it.
1:36.0	We definitely do and we're going to dive into that today.
1:40.5	Leonardo, welcome.
1:42.2	Thanks for having me.
1:43.0	So we are so excited you're here.
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