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Archives for July 2022
PFAS Contamination is Worse Than You Thought
“Forever chemicals” are added to many consumer products intentionally…but we’re learning that many more products are contaminated with PFAS unintentionally, making the threat to human health even more severe. Action Alert! For months now, we’ve been reporting on the dangers of PFAS chemicals, nicknamed “forever chemicals” for their persistence in the environment and the human body. We know that PFAS contaminates our drinking water and they are added to many consumer products to make them grease, stain, or water resistant; they are also added to cosmetics for consistency and texture. Read more.
10 Industrial Uses for Coke Which Prove It’s Not Fit for Human Consumption
Although Coke attempts to portray itself as a socially and environmentally conscious company, the reality is that it’s deeply connected to pollution and water shortages. Additionally, the acidity of Coke has led many to question the toxicity of the product, relating to long-term human health, as its pH rating is only one point higher than that of battery acid. Read more.
‘Hostile Takeover’ of Global Food System Already in Process, Ice Age Farmer Tells RFK, Jr.
It’s “common knowledge” that we’re headed for a food crisis, said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. during an interview with agricultural researcher, permaculturalist and author Christian Westbrook on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast.” Watch here.
Glyphosate: That Whole Story and an Urgent Call to Action
A gluten-free diet (no wheat, barley, or rye) lifted me out of a state of chronic illness several years ago. While gluten sensitivity is becoming more prevalent, impacting up to 13% of the population1, I still regularly experience the joys of explaining my various food sensitivities to well-intentioned, inquisitive friends as well as annoyed, skeptical waiters. It’s a challenging tightrope to walk, sharing my health experience while stopping well short of the fuller more heartbreaking picture…the steady rise in chronic disease over the last two decades. Read more.
Melanin: The Holy Grail of Radioprotective Food Compounds
Over the course of the past decade, one of the most interesting concepts I have run into while scouring the biomedical literature is the possibility that melanin’s biological role in the human body may extend far beyond simply protecting us against UV radiation. Read more.
Rapid Injury Recovery with DMSO, Vitamin C and Magnesium
OK, so I did something let’s just say not very bright. I was testing a bad looking board on a boat dock, when the board broke and I fell straight into the hole plunging down three feet into the slot where the board had been. During the plunge both bare legs scraped hard against the adjacent boards. My thighs were instantly red like a belt sander had been run across them. Although blood red, there were no splinters, embedded dirt, or blood to complicate the injury. Read more.
How Masks Make You Sick Instead of Protecting You
Using CDC data, researchers with the University of Louisville calculated total COVID-19 case growth and mask use for the U.S. No significant differences were found in case growth between mandate and non-mandate states during periods of low or high transmission. Read more.
Why are we Feeding Crops to our Cars when People are Starving?
There’s nothing complicated about the effects of turning crops into biofuel. If food is used to power cars or generate electricity or heat homes, either it must be snatched from human mouths, or ecosystems must be snatched from the planet’s surface, as arable lands expand to accommodate the extra demand. But governments and the industries that they favour obscure this obvious truth. They distract and confuse us about an evidently false solution to climate breakdown. Read more.
What the Story of DDT, America’s Most Notorious Chemical, Can Teach Us Today
In her new book, ‘How to Sell a Poison,’ Elena Conis explains how DDT is linked to other ubiquitous toxic chemicals, as well as social inequality, race, and environmental pollution—and why the tobacco industry funded a secret campaign to bring it back. Read more.