Detoxify Your Home, Protect Your Brain: Dr. Aly Cohen on Everyday Toxins and Kids’ Health

Dec 13, 2025
31 mins

Episode Description

Avoid environmental toxins with smarter, practical knowledge to protect your family.

🎧 Listen for age-specific tips for grade-schoolers, middle-schoolers, and teens.

In this episode of the MindBodySpace Podcast, Dr. Juna Bobby speaks with Dr. Aly Cohen, board-certified rheumatologist, integrative medicine specialist, and author of Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them.

This conversation breaks down environmental health in a way that’s practical, science-based, and not fear-driven.

We cover:

  • How everyday toxins affect the brain, immune system, and hormones

  • Why children are more vulnerable to environmental exposures

  • The 4 A’s of Detoxify: Assess, Avoid/Swap, Add, Allow

  • Air quality, water filtration, gas stoves, EMFs, and personal care products

  • How to talk to kids about toxins without scaring them

This episode is about prevention, nervous-system protection, and realistic change—not extreme detoxes or product marketing.

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