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Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. Today I have the pleasure of

interviewing Dr. Leonardo Chresundi and I get to do this all by myself because Brian had an emergency this time

So it's just me and I'm very very excited about this podcast because Dr. Leonardo Trisande, he's another fellow physician, he's a pediatrician, he's also a public policy expert and an author of the book called Sicker, Fatter, or an excellent book about hormone

disruptors and I'm very excited to have him here. He's on the cutting edge of of

several research studies over at NYU with a focus on pediatric obesity and

pediatric metabolic disease something we talk about here. on Pediatric Obesity and Pediatric metabolic Disease,

something we talk about here all the time.

So Dr. Leonora Trisand, very happy to have you here.

Oh, delighted to be with you, great.

So can we call you Leonardo, Leo, how do you like...

Leo, okay, awesome.

So I just finished your book recently and I have to say that it sent a chill down my spine.

I have three kids, ages seven, five, and three and the fact that they're growing up in an environment filled with endocrine disruptors is something that I'm very concerned about.

Can you talk about the problem and give our listeners an idea of what we're facing?

Sure, so I'm going to roll the clock all the way back to the 1960s where a book that was really

prescient called Silent Spring was written by Rachel Carson so she described effects on wildlife of a pesticide used back thing called

D. E.T. still used only in certain parts of sub Sahara in Africa to combat malaria. Now that book was focused

on human health. It was focused on one chemical.

About a decade later, a group of the Massachusetts General Hospital identified an unusual

cluster of a rare cancer young girls had not been seen in the history of the hospitals

experience.

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