Angela Hind, M.D. practiced traditional Internal Medicine for 17 years. In 2007, when an illness forced her into the role of patient rather than physician, she became acutely aware of the inability of the current medical system to effectively prevent and treat the growing incidence of chronic disease. Her journey took her down the road of toxins in our environment, food, and water as a primary answer to modern society’s health crisis. In 2012 she received additional training in molecular toxicology and became certified as a Functional Medicine practitioner, working to understand and cure the root causes of chronic illness. In 2014 she opened You, M.D., a consulting firm that strives to inform and support attorneys, governmental entities, and patients seeking to understand and work with the intersection between toxins and human health.
Since 2015, Dr. Hind has been a PFAS health consultant for communities exposed to polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their public water and private wells, including working with PFAS scientific experts to development medical monitoring programs for exposed populations. She also served as the medical consultant to the hundreds of workers injured by toxin exposures in the Kingston coal ash spill. This was one of largest environmental and human health disasters in U.S. history, exposing workers to toxic levels of radiation, arsenic, PM2.5, cadmium, chromium, and lead. She also consults with communities suffering health injury from coal ash fill, aerial pesticide spraying, and arsenic contamination from leaking landfills.
She has over a decade of experience working with a wide range of toxin exposures and their effects on our health. In addition to her consulting work she served as the Chief Medical Officer for a 52-store chain of natural food stores, advising management and customers on pesticides and PFAS in produce, unhealthy additives in foods, and toxic ingredients in body care and beauty products.
As a physician and patient advocate, watching the epidemic of toxin-induced chronic disease has been disheartening. Its impacts on societal and individual health are unprecedented and tragic. The legal system, community organization, and citizen awareness are powerful forces that can lead to redress for people whose health has been harmed by toxic pollution or contamination, and for affecting societal change and improving health. Only when accurate and comprehensive scientific knowledge is brought into the public dialogue do policies and perceptions change.
“Our toxic environment, industrial food and medical systems are failing our long-term health. We must move toward the most effective way of reclaiming our health: a path grounded in scientific understanding that emphasizes real food, toxin avoidance, and community wellness as the essential ingredients of good health.”
-Angela Hind, M.D.
Since 2015, Dr. Hind has been a PFAS health consultant for communities exposed to polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their public water and private wells, including working with PFAS scientific experts to development medical monitoring programs for exposed populations. She also served as the medical consultant to the hundreds of workers injured by toxin exposures in the Kingston coal ash spill. This was one of largest environmental and human health disasters in U.S. history, exposing workers to toxic levels of radiation, arsenic, PM2.5, cadmium, chromium, and lead. She also consults with communities suffering health injury from coal ash fill, aerial pesticide spraying, and arsenic contamination from leaking landfills.
She has over a decade of experience working with a wide range of toxin exposures and their effects on our health. In addition to her consulting work she served as the Chief Medical Officer for a 52-store chain of natural food stores, advising management and customers on pesticides and PFAS in produce, unhealthy additives in foods, and toxic ingredients in body care and beauty products.
As a physician and patient advocate, watching the epidemic of toxin-induced chronic disease has been disheartening. Its impacts on societal and individual health are unprecedented and tragic. The legal system, community organization, and citizen awareness are powerful forces that can lead to redress for people whose health has been harmed by toxic pollution or contamination, and for affecting societal change and improving health. Only when accurate and comprehensive scientific knowledge is brought into the public dialogue do policies and perceptions change.
“Our toxic environment, industrial food and medical systems are failing our long-term health. We must move toward the most effective way of reclaiming our health: a path grounded in scientific understanding that emphasizes real food, toxin avoidance, and community wellness as the essential ingredients of good health.”
-Angela Hind, M.D.