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Dr. Sara Warber received her MD from Michigan State University. She is the former co-director of the U-M Integrative Medicine program and was a practicing physician at the Integrative Medicine Clinic. Her research interests include Human-environment relationships, Integrative medicine and Reproductive and Women’s Health. In 2000, Dr. Warber became a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and, in 2003, she expanded her clinical practice to include Holistic Women’s Health and Holistic Herbal Medicine consultations. In 2014 Dr. Warber won a Fulbright Scholarship to study integrative medicine therapies and environmental values at the University of Exeter in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Dr. Warber retired as a professor at the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine and remains with the Department as an active emeritus professor.

Dr. Ellen Vora received her MD from Columbia University medical school and received her BA from Yale University in English. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist and yoga teacher. Dr. Vora takes a holistic, functional-medicine approach in addressing mental health through focusing on diet, sleep, stress and other lifestyle changes. She considers the whole person to identify the root cause of the problem. Dr. Vora has done corporate wellness presentations at companies such as Etsy, Refinery29, and Allen and Co! She also leads an online small group to teach participants holistic techniques to manage depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, or bipolar and creating optimal mental health.

Our guest today is Dr. Aly Cohen, a triple board-certified doc in internal medicine, rheumatology, and integrative medicine, who also is a trained specialist in environmental health. She specializes in rheumatologist ailments as well as mental health issues, dementia prevention, obesity, and women’s health. Her practice founded in 2011, Integrative Rheumatology Associates P.C., focuses on both traditional western medical management of rheumatological ailments, as well as integrative options for total “wellness”, such as acupuncture, diet and exercise counseling, environmental toxin counseling, and much more! Dr. Cohen’s work in environmental chemical exposure has also led her to collaborate with the Environmental Working Group. She co-edited the "Integrative Environmental Health" textbook for the Weil/Oxford University Press academic series in 2017 and her new book, “Non-Toxic: Living Healthy in a Chemical World”, was just released in September, 2020, which is a book I HIGHLY recommend!