NOTE: This is a case study using a new precision paradigm on how to assess risks of environmental chemicals by reliance on the pharmaceutical development process and its science. More about that new paradigm at: Precision evaluation of environmental chemical risk assessment The development of a cancer’s resistance to chemotherapy has become a disheartening and […]
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Precision evaluation of environmental chemical risk assessment: Using existing pharmaceutical evaluation results as a more accurate paradigm
The PharmBlocker: A new paradigm in assessing the risks of environmental chemicals PharmBlocker: An environmental chemical which acts on the identical cellular process as a pharmaceutical, but in a manner that decreases the effectiveness of the drug therapy. In plain words: If a substance is causal enough to investigate as a pharmaceutical, then it is […]
Fate
Of course, it might be tempting to dismiss the probability that ten carefully balanced events could all coincide at the right time. But those sorts of things actually happen to people every day in crime, accidents, cancer and other diseases. Consider for a moment something that gets reported in the news almost every day: innocent […]
Cancer And Voldemort: 10 Horcruxes To Disaster
This is Part 2 of 2 articles. Part 1 can be accessed here: Cancer: The Perfect Storm On Planet You Cancer is a lot like Lord Voldemort, the exceedingly evil villain of the Harry Potter series who had his soul divided among seven horcruxes in order to provide himself with immortality. In the Harry Potter […]
Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat Farmed Salmon
By Lewis Perdue Salmon is on a lot of plates when people resolve to make healthy changes in their diets. Many articles have emphasized the benefits of fatty fish, citing the heart-healthy benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids and other micro-nutrients. Those benefits have been gradually narrowed down to salmon because other mild, oily-fleshed fish like […]
Small Exposures Don’t Matter (Ah, But They Do)
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 […]
Ötzi The Prehistoric Iceman And How Tiny “Harmless” Droplets Can Add Up To A Perfect Storm
A growing body of published scientific studies indicates that cancer, obesity, diabetes, infertility, Alzheimer’s and other diseases need a series of relatively small things to go wrong for the disease to wreak its havoc. Like most perfect storms, cancer is the devastating sum of small incidents involving the molecular structure and signaling pathways in cells. […]
Conventional Ignorance: 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 Amounts Are Too Small To Matter (A Deadly Misconception)
Improbably Small, Exquisitely Complicated, Incredibly Fragile = Easy To Disrupt It’s hard to imagine how such impossibly small amounts of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds can harm you. But they can because your cells are complicated and fragile in ways that are also hard to imagine. In addition, Hormone Disruptors are active in the same incredibly small […]
Cancer: The Perfect Storm On Planet You
This is Part 1 of 2 articles. Part 2 can be accessed here: Cancer And Voldemort: 10 Horcruxes To Disaster Most cancers are years in the making and require repeated damage to your cells to become malignant. Your body is strong and robust. And like a well-armored battleship which can shake off one torpedo…or two […]