Show 1440: Protecting Your Immune System from Everyday Toxins

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We may not often stop to think about it, but our water, food, furniture and other ordinary items are frequently contaminated with toxic chemicals. In this episode, Dr. Aly Cohen describes these threats to our health. You may have heard of compounds that can disrupt hormonal balance (endocrine disruptors). Everyday toxins like these can also […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.5	We're surrounded by toxic chemicals in our water, air, and products we use every day.
0:20.5	Is it possible to detoxify?
0:23.5	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:33.9	Plastic seems so convenient. It's lightweight, doesn't break easily, and it's inexpensive.
0:39.9	But are we paying too steep a price with our health?
0:43.3	Our immune system balances between fighting off infection and overreacting to threats.
0:49.9	Autoimmune disease has been on the rise for decades.
0:53.3	Are environmental chemicals responsible for fatigue, hormone disruption, and autoimmune disease has been on the rise for decades. Are environmental chemicals responsible for fatigue,
0:56.6	hormone disruption, and autoimmune diseases? Our guest today will offer detox strategies for a
1:02.5	healthier life. Coming up on the people's pharmacy, protecting your immune system from everyday toxins.
1:14.0	In the P's pharmacy health headlines, nobody wants to think about COVID, but scientists
1:20.6	have just discovered a potential new risk for certain individuals. Infection with respiratory
1:26.3	viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2 or influenza, can
1:30.5	reactivate dormant cancer cells. Research in mice found that disseminated breast cancer cells in the
1:38.1	lungs suddenly sprang into action and increased by a hundredfold or more when the mice were infected with one of
1:45.7	these respiratory viruses. The infection appears to encourage immune cells to produce interleukin-6,
1:52.8	which in turn awakens the cancer cells. Under these conditions, though, the immune system
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