See also: This is why you need to be concerned about tiny doses of environmental chemicals like BPA Hormones are tremendously powerful. And yet, they have huge effects on your body and health at incredibly tiny amounts — parts per billion and parts per trillion. For example, this article published by the U.S. National Institutes […]
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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. […]
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 Dose Is The Poison (Not Always!): Non-Monotonic Behavior
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 […]
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 worst-ever cholera epidemic. A local doctor found links between the deaths and where people lived. Skeptical local officials repeatedly refused to believe the doctor because […]
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 […]