About Me
I’m deeply passionate about environmental health, in particular, the role that “everyday” chemical exposures play in the development and worsening of chronic health issues.
I take a balanced, evidence-based view and center affordable, accessible interventions to meaningfully lower exposures.
Who I am
I’m Lara Adler, environmental health consultant, grant researcher, and MPH candidate, with a longtime belief that environmental chemical exposures are one of the major health threats of our time.
For more than 14 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of science and communication—first as an educator, now as a consultant and researcher—helping health professionals, organizations, and nonprofits translate complex evidence into work they can use with confidence, whether that’s a communication strategy, a grant proposal, or a public conversation.
What I Believe
+ Environmental exposures matter, more than most people realize, and more than the current conversation often reflects. + Exposures presented in binary, good/bad, safe/toxic language, especially online, are often wrong. + Context and nuance are required when 'talking toxins'. + Sensational, fear-based messaging does more harm than good. Good science communication should inform, not alarm. + PFAS, microplastics, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals are among the most urgent environmental health issues of our time, and they deserve to be discussed openly, and without dismissal
My Journey
Over the past 14+ years, I’ve trained and supported more than 5,000 health professionals across 35+ countries, helping them integrate environmental health discussions into their practices. During this time, my work was focused on online courses to fill a gap I saw in health professional training: a lack of meaningful education around everyday chemical exposures and chronic disease risk.
This work has been deeply meaningful to me, and I watched the conversation about “toxins” exploding online—becoming heavily sensationalized, distorted, and polarized. I realized that environmental health education needed a new approach. Or that I needed to approach it differently!
This shift guided me away from course delivery and toward consulting, speaking, and, more recently, grant research and narrative support for nonprofit health organizations, while I pursue my Master of Public Health (MPH) to bring a deeper public health perspective into all of it.
What I Do Now
Today, my work takes a few different forms: consulting, grant research, teaching and speaking, and resources for health practitioners (white-labeled social media content & downloadable resources). Whether I’m advising a wellness startup on environmental health claims, architecting & mapping educational content, designing a communication strategy for a health brand, teaching or podcasting, writing on Substack, or creating practitioner resources, my focus is on presenting the evidence for harms from environmental exposures in a balanced, grounded way.
You can read more about the ways I work here.
