Jan 31, 2024
It's without question that environmental toxins are wreaking havoc on our health today. The prevalence of these toxins is posing a significant threat to public health, affecting everything from childhood development to adult chronic illnesses. A toxic environment and inflammation may even play a role in cancer. Fine-particulate air pollution present in the air we inhale daily can incite an inflammatory cascade and spur previously dormant mutant cells to form tumors.
Our guest, Dr. Tom O'Bryan, a renowned functional medicine expert in environmental medicine and a leading voice in the field of holistic health and wellness and the author of You Can Fix Your Brain and The Autoimmune Fix, guides us through understanding the unseen threats in our everyday environment while offering practical solutions for safeguarding the health of our families – especially our children.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
1. Some of the most common environmental toxins affecting family health today
2. How toxins impact children's health and development
3. The long-term health implications of early exposure to toxins
4. Some common misconceptions about environmental toxins and health
5. Why functional medicine is particularly well-suited to treating toxin exposure
6. Strategies for reducing exposure to environmental toxins at home
7. The role nutrition plays in combating the effects of environmental toxins
You can learn more about Dr. Tom at https://thedr.com/ (how simple is that?). His new docuseries THE INFLAMMATION EQUATION: Decoding the Steps for Optimal is available to stream and we’ll be sure to put the link to that in the show notes.
As always, we’ll have all of the links in the show notes at https://ronandlisa.com/podcasts/95-navigating-the-toxins-hiding-in-plain-sight/.