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  1. Michael Harrop

    Article Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-air-pollution-disease-climate-affects.html
  2. Michael Harrop

    Article Scientists issue call to action underlining importance of microbial solutions to tackle climate crisis (Nov 2024) Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

    https://www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scientists-issue-call-to-action-underlining-importance-of-microbial-solutions-to-tackle-climate-crisis/4489.article https://www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/scientists-issue-call-action-underlining-importance-microbial-solutions-tackle-climate-0...
  3. Michael Harrop

    Article Dozens of ‘high hazard’ toxins are common in beauty products. The toxic substances in cosmetics include chemicals linked to hormone disruption and cancer (Oct 2024) Beauty & Personal Care Ingredient Intelligence Report

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/beauty-products-toxins-chemicals https://www.chemforward.org/news/safer-beauty-metrics
  4. Michael Harrop

    Study PFAS mixtures more toxic than single compounds. First-of-its-kind research highlights need for change to regulation (Sep 2024) Neurotoxic Effects of Mixtures of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) at Environmental and Human Blood Concentrations

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/01/pfas-mixtures-water-toxic https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c06017
  5. Michael Harrop

    Study Higher body mass index is associated with smaller brain volume (Mar 2024, n=1,074) Association between Body Mass Index and Brain Health in Adults: A 16-Year Population-Based Cohort and Mendelian Randomization Study

    https://www.psypost.org/higher-body-mass-index-is-associated-with-smaller-brain-volume-study-finds/ https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/hds.0087
  6. Michael Harrop

    Article Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula. It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil. (Oct 2024)

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/
  7. Michael Harrop

    Video Why Red 3 is still in your candy | Vox

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq9dhQIoDw8
  8. Michael Harrop

    Article Dozens of pre-eminent neurologists in Australia are calling on the chemical regulator to ban paraquat, a controversial herbicide that has been linked to the development of Parkinson's disease (Oct 2024)

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-28/neurologists-doctors-call-for-paraquat-ban-over-parkinsons-link/104502044
  9. Michael Harrop

    Study Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage and chromosome defects in sex cells (Oct 2024) Exposure to benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) leads to increased double-strand break formation and germline dysfunction in Caenorhabditis elegans

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-plastic-chemical-phthalate-dna-breakage.html https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011434
  10. Michael Harrop

    Article Will This New U.S. Project Make the World’s Children Smarter? (Oct 2024) The Biden administration announced a major global initiative to tackle lead poisoning in poor and middle-income countries where lead is an even greater problem than in the rich world

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/opinion/lead-poisoning-children-smart-science.html
  11. Michael Harrop

    Study New Study Looks At The Potential Carcinogenicity Of 3D Printing (Oct 2024, in vitro) Assessment of the carcinogenic potential of particulate matter generated from 3D printing devices in Balb/c 3T3-1-1 cells

    https://hackaday.com/2024/10/14/new-study-looks-at-the-potential-carcinogenicity-of-3d-printing/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-75491-1
  12. Michael Harrop

    Video Plastic Makers Have A Big Secret: They’re Experimenting On You (Oct 2024)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBEr9DjSxA
  13. Michael Harrop

    Article Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics (Sep 2024)

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics
  14. Michael Harrop

    Article Stop Drinking Bottled Water: Experts Warn of Health and Climate Impacts (Sep 2024) Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse

    https://www.newsweek.com/stop-drinking-bottled-water-experts-warn-health-climate-impacts-1959140 https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/8/e015226
  15. Michael Harrop

    Study Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned? (Sep 2024) Scientists reviewed 7,000 studies on microplastics. Their alarming conclusion puts humanity on notice

    https://theconversation.com/scientists-reviewed-7-000-studies-on-microplastics-their-alarming-conclusion-puts-humanity-on-notice-239105 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2746
  16. Michael Harrop

    Article UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptional lifespans wins Ig Nobel prize (Sep 2024, Dr Saul Justin Newman)

    https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/sep/ucl-demographers-work-debunking-blue-zone-regions-exceptional-lifespans-wins-ig-nobel-prize
  17. Michael Harrop

    Article Damage to the environment isn’t factored into the price of food. Researchers want to expose this hidden cost by displaying it — in dollars — to consumers. (Sep 2024)

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/19/climate/food-costs-protein-environment.html
  18. Michael Harrop

    Video What Microplastics Are Doing to the Brain, Body, and Reproductive Systems (and steps you can take to reduce exposure) | Rhonda Patrick (Sep 2024)

    https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/microplastics/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzw_grLzjw CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 The extent of the problem 00:02:12 Top sources of exposure 00:04:00 Contamination of our water 00:05:04 BPA, phthalates, & PFAS (forever chemicals) 00:07:07 How heating plastic...
  19. Michael Harrop

    Video Rhonda Patrick Q&A on the harms of processed foods

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZUJdN2WQc In this video, Rhonda discusses: • How there's more than 10,000(!!) chemicals allowed in food sold in the US • How almost 99% of chemicals introduced since the year 2000 were green-lighted by the food & chemical companies rather than properly reviewed...
  20. Michael Harrop

    Study Microplastics can reach the human brain through the nasal passages, raising significant health concerns (Sep 2024) Microplastics in the Olfactory Bulb of the Human Brain

    https://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20240918-study-reveals-microplastics-can-enter-human-brain-through-nasal-pathway One more reason to not buy plastic/polyester clothes. They shed microplastics that float in the air, which you then breathe in.
  21. Michael Harrop

    Study Scientists discover over 3,000 chemicals enter our bodies from food packaging or kitchen utensils (Sep 2024) Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/health/food-packaging-chemical-toxins-study-wellness/index.html https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-3600-food-packaging-chemicals-in-human-bodies...
  22. Michael Harrop

    Article ADHD costs society hundreds of billions of dollars each year (2021) The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8328933/ This is relevant as a comparison to the amount of funding needed (a few million) to run a clinical trial for a likely cure for ADHD and numerous other chronic conditions. Summary of Findings Findings Items The syndrome we now call ADHD...
  23. Michael Harrop

    Video School Lunch: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (Sep 2024)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YypArYDcjA School meals are unhealthy because they have about $1.25 per student, and they don't get any money if the student doesn't find the meal appetizing enough to order. Of course president Regan made things worse, and Obama improved things a bit.
  24. Michael Harrop

    Study Doctors Give Black Women Unneeded C-Sections to Fill Operating Rooms (Aug 2024) Drivers of Racial Differences in C-Sections

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/health/cesarean-sections-black-women.html https://www.nber.org/papers/w32891 C-section vs vaginal birth: https://humanmicrobiome.info/maternity/#c-section-vs-vaginal-birth
  25. Michael Harrop

    Article The 12 Cinnamon Powders You Should Never Use. Consumer Reports found high lead levels in a third of the cinnamon powders and spice mixtures we tested. (Sep 2024)

    Article: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/high-lead-levels-in-cinnamon-powders-and-spice-mixtures-a4542246475/ Petition: FDA: Take Action on Dangerous Lead Levels in Cinnamon https://action.consumerreports.org/nb-20240912-fdaleadcinnamon
  26. Michael Harrop

    Article Agriculture has a plastic problem and it’s threatening the future of food (Sep 2024)

    https://india.mongabay.com/2024/09/agriculture-has-a-plastic-problem-and-its-threatening-the-future-of-food/
  27. Michael Harrop

    Video No One Would Try the Carnivore Diet If They Knew This | Rhonda Patrick and Layne Norton (Sep 2024)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgWtFhSDL4I Clickbait title, but a great clip that covers all the basics such as the fact that carnivore is an elimination diet.
  28. Michael Harrop

    Study Mobile phones are not linked to brain cancer, a major review of 28 years of research (Sep 2024) The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: A systematic review of human observational studies – Part I: Most researched outcomes

    https://theconversation.com/mobile-phones-are-not-linked-to-brain-cancer-according-to-a-major-review-of-28-years-of-research-237882 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024005695 Graphical abstract
  29. Michael Harrop

    Article ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (Sep 2024) Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

    https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/ https://fourthievesvinegar.org/
  30. Michael Harrop

    Article Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. Scientists say it can contain high levels of the toxic substance. (Aug 2024)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/climate/pfas-fertilizer-sludge-farm.html This is pretty disturbing. Beyond PFAS, I'd also be concerned about prescription drugs.
  31. Michael Harrop

    Study Most baby foods in US grocery stores are unhealthy (Aug 2024) An Evaluation of the Nutritional and Promotional Profile of Commercial Foods for Infants and Toddlers in the United States

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-baby-foods-grocery-unhealthy.html https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/16/2782
  32. Michael Harrop

    Video The Global Conspiracy Behind Our Sugar Addiction | More Perfect Union (Aug 2024) [Collection of info]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EPRONZPcew More: Research highlights sustained efforts from the food and drinks industry to oppose public health measures aimed to tackling heart disease, cancer and diabetes. NCDs, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, account for over 70% for global...
  33. Michael Harrop

    Study Cambridge-led study of 2m people globally is most comprehensive evidence yet of red meat link to diabetes (Aug 2024) Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100 000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/20/two-slices-of-ham-a-day-can-raise-type-2-diabetes-risk-by-15-research-suggests https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(24)00179-7/fulltext
  34. Michael Harrop

    Article The FDA's top regulator for medical devices is married to a lawyer whose firm represents medical device companies. Ethics rules barred Dr. Jeffrey E. Shuren from working on matters involving clients of his wife’s law firm. But he did not always step aside. (Aug 2024)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/health/fda-medical-devices-ethics.html
  35. Michael Harrop

    Article WHO Drops Weak PFAS Guidelines and Starts Anew After Criticism Over Industry Influence. "This is unprecedented, but the WHO got unprecedented criticism,"

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/who-drops-weak-pfas-guidelines WHO to scrap weak PFAS drinking water guidelines after alleged corruption. Regulations ignored credible research and didn’t fully protect human health, independent scientists say...
  36. Michael Harrop

    Study Prenatal exposure to CBD and THC is linked to concerning brain changes (Jul 2024, rats) Prenatal tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol exposure produce sex-specific pathophysiological phenotypes in the adolescent prefrontal cortex and hippocampus

    https://www.psypost.org/prenatal-exposure-to-cbd-and-thc-is-linked-to-concerning-brain-changes/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996124001888 Graphical abstract
  37. Michael Harrop

    Study A fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake. UN estimates it's causing 500,000 deaths a year (Jul 2024) Prevalence of substandard, falsified, unlicensed and unregistered medicine and its associated factors in Africa: a systematic review

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/04/fifth-of-medicines-africa-substandard-fake-research https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20523211.2024.2375267
  38. Michael Harrop

    Study Heavy metals, including lead, found in many dark chocolate bars (Jul 2024) A multi-year heavy metal analysis of 72 dark chocolate and cocoa products in the USA

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/heavy-metals-lead-found-many-dark-chocolate-bars-rcna163516 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/well/eat/dark-chocolate-heavy-metals.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/health/cacao-dark-chocolate-lead-heavy-metals-wellness/index.html...
  39. Michael Harrop

    Article Some condom and lubricant brands contain alarming levels of PFAS. Condoms & Lubricants Tested For Indications of PFAS “Forever Chemicals” — Guide

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/28/condoms-pfas-forever-chemicals https://www.mamavation.com/health/condoms-lubricants-pfas-forever-chemicals.html
  40. Michael Harrop

    Article Nut Butters & Peanut Butter Sans Toxic PFAS “Forever Chemicals”– Purchasing Guide 2022

    https://www.mamavation.com/food/nut-butters-peanut-butter-sans-toxic-pfas-forever-chemicals-purchasing-guide-2022.html I've been trying to find plastic-free peanut butter. Even if I buy the peanuts, and roast & grind them on my own, it's difficult to find a plastic-free grinder/blender/food...
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