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Optimizing Health in a World of Chemical Toxicants: Understanding the Critical Importance of Environmental Medicine

Presenter

Felice Gersh, MD

Overview

No one can fully escape the hazards posed to our health by our modern environments. We are living with off-gassing solvents, plastics of all sorts, flame retardants, preservatives, pesticides, flavorings, air and water pollution, heavy metals, and much more. Acknowledging the health challenges created by environmental toxicants, identifying the most prevalent and toxic, and designing an efficacious therapeutic strategy to reduce the harms and optimize health is the focus of this webinar.

Objectives

By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:

  • Identify the most prevalent environment health hazards

  • Differentiate the various toxicants commonly found in homes, outdoors, and in workspaces and understand their various health harms

  • Specify ways to identify the specific toxicants impacting the health of our individual patients

  • Recognize the specific ways various toxicants can harm health

  • Develop an integrative treatment approach to optimize detoxification pathways and promote health restoration

The material contained within this presentation is not intended to replace the services and/or medical advice of a licensed healthcare practitioner, nor is it meant to encourage diagnosis and treatment of disease. It is for educational purposes only. Any application of suggestions set forth in the following portions of this article is at the reader’s discretion and sole risk. Implementation or experimentation with any supplements, herbs, dietary changes, medications, and/or lifestyle changes, etc., is done so at your sole risk and responsibility. Views expressed are those of the presenter and not necessarily those of Mosaic Diagnostics.

About the Author

Felice Gersh, MD

Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a practice that provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine. For 12 years, she taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor, and she now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Felice is a prolific writer and lecturer who speaks globally on women’s health and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is the bestselling author of the PCOS SOS series and her latest book, Menopause: 50 Things You Need to Know.

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