The Deadliest Room in Your House — And How to Detox It for Better Health | Aly Cohen MD : 1278
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Your environment is rewiring your hormones, fertility, and long-term health without your consent.
In this episode of The Human Upgrade, Dave Asprey sits down with Dr. Aly Cohen, board-certified rheumatologist, integrative medicine specialist, and environmental health educator. Together they expose how common toxins in plastics, pesticides, drinking water, personal care products, and food packaging are hijacking your biology.
Dr. Cohen explains how daily chemical exposures contribute to autoimmune disease, thyroid dysfunction, hormone imbalance, infertility, obesity, cancer, and accelerated aging. You will learn how to identify hidden endocrine disruptors, spot surprising sources of microplastics and PFAS (“forever chemicals”), and apply science-backed detox strategies to protect your hormones, fertility, metabolism, and longevity.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
• How chemicals in household, cleaning, and beauty products disrupt hormones
• The link between environmental toxins, autoimmune disease, thyroid issues, and infertility
• Hidden sources of microplastics and PFAS chemicals and how to eliminate them
• Affordable, practical steps to detox your home, water, and personal care routine
• Dr. Cohen’s top biohacks to protect fertility, balance hormones, and build toxin resilience
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Resources:
• Dave Asprey’s New Book - Heavily Meditated: https://daveasprey.com/heavily-meditated/
• Aly’s Website – https://thesmarthuman.com/
• Aly's Website - https://alycohenmd.com/
• Aly’s New Book – Detoxify: https://alycohenmd.com/books
• 2025 Biohacking Conference: https://biohackingconference.com/2025
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Timestamps:
00:00 Trailer
02:01 Introduction
02:15 Rheumatism and Rheumatology
03:36 Autoimmune Diseases and Toxins
04:17 Chemical Impact on Health
04:49 Personal Health Journey
06:15 Microplastics and Immune Disruption
08:21 Resilience and Lifestyle Changes
21:45 Nutritional Deficiencies
26:48 Lab Results and Assessments
34:40 Detoxification and Resilience
41:14 Personal Journey Continued
42:22 Clean Drinking Water
44:20 Travel Hacks for Water
46:15 Hotel Room Detox Tips
50:06 EPA Water Standards
53:06 Restaurant Toxins and Home Safety
55:36 Top Toxic Household Items
01:08:31 Synthetic Materials Impact
01:13:30 Final Thoughts and Book
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| 0:00.0 | People wander around with all the greatest stuff in the world, cosmetics and cleaning products. |
| 0:03.6 | But when it affects your heart, when it really gets to you, then you start to explore what's been missing. |
| 0:08.9 | In the United States alone, between 7 and 14% of the U.S. population has an autoimmune disease. |
| 0:14.9 | It's happening because we are really surrounded in everything we do with a lot of chemicals that are not regulated, not tested. |
| 0:21.8 | You drink filtered water, buy organic, work out, try to stay healthy. But what if none of it's enough? |
| 0:28.5 | You face 80,000 unregulated chemicals before breakfast. And it's not just in your food. It's in |
| 0:34.7 | your mattress, your makeup, your kids at school. I scoured position |
| 0:38.9 | statements from the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the |
| 0:43.5 | Endocrine Society. Let me tell you, I was shocked and enraged. Where are the regulations, |
| 0:50.1 | the consumer protections? Where's the labeling and the appropriate testing? |
| 0:54.6 | This is Dr. Cohen, not just a doctor, |
| 0:56.9 | a triple board certified physician who left the system |
| 1:00.3 | to uncover the silent threats who no one's talking about. |
| 1:03.8 | She's advised Congress, co-authored with Oxford, |
| 1:06.5 | and now she's here to warn you. |
| 1:08.0 | You're not paranoid. |
| 1:09.4 | They're poisoning you. |
| 1:10.8 | Knowledge is power, but in a toxic world, it's your to warn you. You're not paranoid. They're poisoning you. Knowledge is power. |
| 1:12.2 | But in a toxic world, it's your only antidote. |
| 1:15.2 | A single liter of a plastic bottle contains upwards of 240,000 microplastics. |
| 1:20.8 | And another study showed that up to 90% are nanoplastics. |
| 1:24.9 | Everyone knows microplics and synthetic fragrances. |
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