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Of the 85,000 man-made chemicals registered by the federal government, we know very little. They are in our environment and they are in us. Here’s an interesting article about a guy trying to find out what he’s got inside and what it means.
“…we do know a few unnerving things. One, all American adults carry around hundreds of synthetic chemicals in their bodies. Two, as a study published in the British Medical Journal in 2004 put it, “many synthetic chemicals have intrinsic hormonal activity,” and hormonal disruptions carry a high likelihood of causing disease. And three, according to the same study, “it is clear that environmental and lifestyle factors are key determinants of human disease—accounting for perhaps 75 percent of most cancers.”
