Improbably Small, Exquisitely Complicated, Incredibly Fragile = Easy To Disrupt It’s hard to imagine how such impossibly small amounts of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) can harm you. But they can because your cells are complicated and fragile in ways that are also hard to imagine. But remember: Hormone Disruptors are active in the same incredibly […]
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Can’t Really Rely On Lab Rat Tests
Hormone Disruptor skeptics frequently say that, “Rats and humans are too different for us to base regulatory decisions on experiments using rodents.” And, they add, “There are no controlled experiments with humans because that would be unethical.” Really? Every human in America today is a lab rat in an uncontrolled, un-consenting, stealth Hormone Disruptor experiment. […]
BPA’s No Sweat: Your Body Gets Rid Of It Quickly
Like Grains Of Sand In an Hourglass Skeptics of Hormone Disruptor dangers like to poke fun at the low concentrations that come from any single source in our environment. But never forget your body functions at those levels: your nose can detect odors in the low parts per trillion and your body’s natural hormones are […]
The Dose Is The Poison (Not!)
The phrase “The dose is the poison,” carries with it the implication that if something is toxic, then less will be less toxic, and a lot less is safe. This just seems so terribly logical: half as much is half as toxic. One-hundredth as much is one-hundredth as toxic. A millionth as much is a […]
Industry Myth: Links & Associations Don’t Count
Please Note: Environmental chemicals include Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs). EDCs can also be referred to as hormone disruptors. How Links, Associations & Connections Save Lives Epidemiology – the science of connections — began with a lot of dead people. The dead and dying suffered littered the streets of Soho, London in 1854 during the country’s […]
No Solid Link Between Cancer And Endocrine Disruptors (Wrong!)
10 Deadly Steps To Cancer’s Perfect Storm (Also see: Cancer: The Perfect Storm On Planet You) One of the ways that Hormone Disruptor skeptics mislead the public is to say, “This [name a chemical] has not been proven to cause cancer (or diabetes or some other disease).” This is a very old argument rooted in […]