Aly Cohen

  • Founder and Medical Director at The Smart Human LLC
  • Integrative Rheumatologist

Credentials

  • MD
  • FACR
  • FABoIM

Education

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD) – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Affiliations

  • The Smart Human LLC
  • Princeton Integrative Health Center

Research Focus

  • Environmental health
  • Wellness and prevention
  • Integrative health

Notable Publications

  • Integrative Environmental Medicine (2017)
  • Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World (2020)

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Awards & Honors

  • Health and Environmental Education Award (2015)

Key Contributions

  • Dr. Aly Cohen has dedicated her career to educating patients and physicians about the links between environmental toxins and health.
  • She has contributed to the field through her published books and public speaking engagements.

Contact

https://thesmarthuman.com/contact/

What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 0:00 0
“May utilize active farmstone ingredients that have been FDA approved but in order for a drug to be considered FDA approved it has to go through the FDA approval process and that process may take 10 plus years and billions of dollars.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 0:33 0
“We use a lot of compounded Pharmaceuticals and drugs and compounds that your company makes called EMP power Pharmacy.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 2:29 0
“Compounding has been around since the beginning of time before big Pharma existed uh everything was compounded.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 7:15 0
“when this doctor took my blood he noticed that I had the testosterone level of an 80-year-old man which kind of described why I was so skinny my entire life and why I couldn't get any muscle and why I probably got injured because I was lifting a very large piece of mass that my body could not support”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 8:00 0
“I had low testosterone because I was born with a pituitary disorder my body doesn't create lutenizing hormone or follicle stimulating hormone”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 9:33 0
“got my first injection of testosterone and it completely changed my life for the better I became normal”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 12:54 0
“minoxidil aelc acid finasteride and ketoconazol those are all medications”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 13:43 0
“taking it topically you actually can get the benefit without having to kind of load your body up with the drug”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 14:10 0
“drugs like finasteride can become debilitating for many men not just causing Ral dysfunction but a subset causing post finasteride syndrome”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 19:48 0
“one of my favorite is is in hormone range you know a lot of women have um low libido or sexual dysfunction especially going through menopause hormones change testosterone is incredible for libido and women actually have naturally occurring testosterone in their bodies but it can get lower just like in men as you go through androp”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 20:14 0
“compounded testosterone drops that are applied directly on the clitoris that are topical local don't get systemic side effects like maybe hair loss or hair growth where you don't want it and you know masculation effects but they're extremely effective because I know they work because I keep getting calls for refills”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 20:55 0
“natural bioidentical hormones now available by prescription that you can get at your regular Pharmacy like you know some of the patches for estrogen or the oral micronized progesterone that's a prescription”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 26:52 0
“I use the testosterone injections and my arm healed like that.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 26:25 0
“one of the things that really helps strong bones is testosterone.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 31:30 0
“it's a vasodilator and you know it's actually used in intracavernosal injections as well.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 31:37 0
“for men that fail on oral pd5 Inhibitors like viager Calis and Levitra, they can then utilize a compounding pharmacy and a urologist to have prescribed a combination therapy of pavin fentol mesilate and prostaglandin that can then be injected in the side of the penis in the corporal cavernosa.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 32:26 0
“Triix is something you actually can't buy from your regular pharmacist but it's incredibly effective and urologists recommend it and use it even from academic medical centers.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 33:27 0
“peptides have been a big phenomena over the last few years in the culture everybody's taking peptides shooting peptides and actually the biggest selling drug in the world now is a peptide.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 38:09 0
“CJC 1295 stands for con chemical which is the name of the company that created the peptide and was studying it during clinical trials.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 38:26 0
“these drugs have significant effect especially that one on growth hormone release”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 38:50 0
“netal cysteine, which is basically actually something we use in the emergency room for treating talent overos but now they don't want you to sell it over the counter”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 39:36 0
“compounding pharmacies can start to make them and it's one of the things you do make which is semaglutide which is a s of generic version of OIC”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 44:18 0
“these are natural compounds like testosterone or estrogen or vitamin C or vitamin D that exist in nature that are not new to Nature molecules and so n nature molecules they are like things that we make up as in the pharmaceutical industry but these are things that naturally exist”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 45:51 0
“I think there's some evidence that it may not be the drug itself it may be the fact that people are losing all that weight fixing their metabolic dysfunction which causes all those problems.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 46:17 0
“obesity is one of the leading causes of death because you know cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death number two is cancer well we know that obesity increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and cancer.”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 51:13 0
“a lot of these Ivy cocktails that these IV nutrition centers or mobile nurses are administering to patients you know they are 100% bioavailable when infused and some of these you know you'd have to take you know tens of grams or hundreds of grams Orly to be able to get an equivalent effect”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 51:42 0
“vitamin C can be very helpful for allergy I had a patient with an acute allergic reaction to like environmental allergies not like a peanut allergy but like he was just miserable and I hooked him up and I gave him 50 grams of IV vitamin C”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 52:19 0
“for oncology treatment you know vitamin C has been known to be used off label to potentially help the patient's immune system you know fight whatever disease”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 52:45 0
“we're starting to find out that natural vitamins minerals amino acids they are you know the best form of medicine in a lot of cases and by giving patients this medicine that they are typically lacking in their diet”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 56:54 0
“theyve been exposed to tons of toxins just by living in the modern world even though I try to live a clean life”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 57:00 0
“I had significant mitochondrial injury and damage from the things that have happened to me”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 57:34 0
“glutathione for detoxification and then a whole series of amino acids and minerals to help with also detoxification”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 59:12 0
“they randomized them to two groups one group got the surgery one group didn't they just fed them the same diet afterwards”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 0:45 0
“everyday toxins are an unfortunate reality of living in 2025.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 1:25 0
“Less is more in general and vetting the ones that we like to use is a great way of keeping stuff out of our homes which make our their way into our bodies, into our kids, into our pets.”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 3:06 0
“Number one, we're we're filled with chemicals we may or may not be able to control, but most we can. Especially if you're controlling what comes into your home, your workspace, where you eat, how you if you or how you filter your water, you know, some of your furniture.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 5:51 0
“Maybe it's unknowingly having, you know, their couch may be loaded with flame retardants cuz maybe it's been 20 years since they swapped out a couch and maybe they're due and this is a great opportunity to switch to something that doesn't have some of those chemicals.”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 7:00 0
“So what are the really quick things that people can think about as sort of high yield? And that goes to a couple things. Number one, your habits. If you're drinking hot, you know, hot tea or coffee every morning, which is part of your volume of water, cleaning things that are habit habits in your life.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 7:18 0
“I certainly, you know, push for reverse osmosis. We know the technology is critically important for removing more contaminants than say a carbon block in a pitcher or on a refrigerator door or on a faucet.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 10:55 0
“I've even tested my water to see which ones do the job that they claim to do um with a third party testing kit um like Tap Score.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 12:16 0
“People argue it's dead water. I have no qualms in saying that water is not the source of nutrition for humans.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 12:37 0
“USDA organic is the only regulation we have in the US market for food quality in terms of safety.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 15:56 0
“I knew mine had flame retardants from the tag for like six years and every time we were on the couch, I would just be ticking, you know, cuz I knew that it was a problem.”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 17:12 0
“It turned out that people, kids, adults had some of the highest levels of these flame retarding chemicals in their blood when they were tested over the years.”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 19:11 0
“Your home is your castle and it used to be so enormously and it still is really airtight, right? This is how we save money on our bills, right, for air heating and air conditioning. But the problem with that is that we're so tightly enclosed that we don't open windows and we are breathing and recirculating a lot of the chemicals from things that we either know are in the products or things that we unknowingly bring into our home.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 20:58 0
“you really want 20:58 to be thinking higher MV level, like say 21:01 12 or 13 when you're when you're 21:03 replacing your filters.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 21:10 0
“there are some functional things you can 21:10 do, but there's also windows that can be 21:12 opened in environments where the air 21:14 quality is better outside than in.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 21:19 0
“You can get um air filters if you want and a 21:19 lot of the quality of air filters 21:21 depends on the CADR.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 21:57 0
“And changing them 21:57 routinely is very helpful because they 21:59 do back up. I mean, they do get uh, you 22:01 know, dirty. And when they get dirty, 22:03 you can actually make the air a little 22:05 bit worse quality.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 22:52 0
“an air filtration system or a 22:52 purification system that's HEPA really 22:55 cleans 99.97% of the air.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 26:19 0
“when it comes to mold, you really have to be thinking humidity, right? How do we maintain the humidity at a lower level? Because essentially that's mold thrives in humid environments, you know, it's just it's just a fact.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 27:13 0
“So before we go to remediation, like what are some of the areas where we should just be aware that might be susceptible to mold? So for example, I've heard the washing machine. Leave it open. Don't leave it closed cuz humidity gets trapped in there.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 28:11 0
“I think it's important to do at least maybe once a year, maybe every 6 months if you have the time, do a walk through through your home, look to see if there's any water stains that were never there before.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 31:40 0
“I had no VOCC paint and I was certainly very careful about any renovations and being around that environment while these things were going on.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 32:23 0
“It's really the low inolent levels that we're experiencing is what I'm trying to let people know is how best to clean out our bodies and lower risk.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 33:50 0
“light pollution and noise pollution have been linked to a lot of, you know, health issues, health risks, higher cardiac risk, just a lot of non-anthropologic environments that we've created.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 36:34 0
“We don't really want to use microwave radiation around our bodies. Um we have a microwave and it's a Faraday box. It's a box that contains and circulates those EMF for purposes of heating, but we actually don't want them close to the human body for a variety of reasons.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 37:34 0
“And you know, it's exhausting, but it's it's something to say, listen, you know, we do know that there are some the radiation is coming in. It's pulsed about 90 beats per second um between antennas.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 38:20 0
“So, it's a layer of thoughtfulness that I think everyone can do 100%. We don't let our kids one, they really don't use laptops, but in they're they're still young. If they do have to use a laptop for something, we never ever let them put it on their lap. It's got to be on a table.”

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Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 41:44 0
“Um, but they also have lead and when they get heated up these fields and my son actually played faceoff which means his face, you know, similar to like goalies, his face is in the turf on the ground huddled against another kid.”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 42:24 0
“So, you want to patch up, you know, knees and elbows and whatever else that might have more exposure. Um, and then really the general rule is wash with soap after as soon as you can.”

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Avoid toxins & protect your health: Aly Cohen, M.D.
Protect Health by Avoiding Toxins: Expert Advice on Toxin Exposure 44:25 0
“But in hospitals, they use materials like um IV bags and feeding tubes and respiratory equipment for even NICUs and babies and toddlers that are filled with chemicals, but there's an option away from them.”

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