Aly Cohen, MD

Dr. Aly Cohen is a board-certified rheumatologist and integrative medicine physician, recognized nationally for her expertise in environmental health, and medical education. She is the author of Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them, which connects the dots between everyday chemicals and the epidemic rise in immune disorders and autoimmune disease...and what we CAN all do about it! She continues to teach, lecture, and practice medicine in Princeton, New Jersey.

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She studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused her studies on medical anthropology and human evolution - topics that have greatly influenced her work. She is on faculty of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine https://aihm.org/ (AIHM), Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU), and the Integrative and Functional Medicine Fellowship of the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute (SSIHI) at the University of California, Irvine, where she created and manages the environmental medicine and integrative rheumatology curriculum for medical colleagues. Dr. Cohen has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease- prevention organizations, and is coeditor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press/Weil Integrative Medicine, Academic Series. She is the co-author of the bestselling, consumer guidebook, Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World, also published by Oxford University Press. In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environmental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for elementary/ high schools, colleges/ universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for television, print, and podcasts. She is a legal medical expert for toxic tort environmental exposure cases. She has been the recipient of countless awards, including Top Docs NJ in rheumatology from 2016-2025, Top Docs Philadelphia and New York Magazines 2020-2025, Exceptional Women in Medicine 2020-2025, the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform in 2015, and the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.

Dr. Cohen is working to educate and empower the next generation to make safer, smarter lifestyle choices through the creation of environmental health and prevention curricula for schools nationally. Her TEDx talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCeP0hyuTI&feature=youtu.be), “How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals", has garnered over 10 thousand views and can be found on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb6NhglVIu6ruM19QNhpJDw/videos, and you can follow her health and wellness tips and recommendations on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheSmartHuman/, X, Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/thesmarthuman.bsky.social, and Threads: @thesmarthuman, and TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@thesmarthuman.

Sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, subscribe to The Smart Human YouTube channel, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast The Smart Human https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-smart-human-with-dr-aly-cohen/id1518816002. She lives on a farm in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and lots of furry friends!