New data from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has shown that 90% of those tested from 2016 to 2017 had plasticizers in their urine. Plasticizers are chemicals used to change the elasticity of plastic in the manufacturing process.

Plastic is in virtually every corner of our world today from the food we eat and the water we drink, our cups and plates, our clothes, and a million other things we use every day.

The study analyzed urine samples from 44 men and 100 women in Norway. Scientists measured three different groups of chemicals, plasticizers, bisphenol, and parabens.

Eight different plasticizers were found in 90% of those tested. Around 50% of people had parabens in their urine, more commonly men than women. Parabens are commonly found in cosmetics and skincare products, likely why they are more common amongst women than men.

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Dr. Mercola’s article on this subject covers many different areas where plastics may be present, in everything from your food to your baby’s bottles.

Health issues associated with plastic ingestion are related to their powerful hormone disruption capacity and include feminization of males, miscarriage, infertility and low levels of vitamin D

Eight Different Plasticizers Found in 90% of People

To avoid plastic toxicity or detox from plastics we recommend that you avoid plastic as much as you can. Try to use all-natural fibers, glass bottles, reusable bags, and eat fresh whole foods while drinking cranberry lemonade.

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Hundreds of species of fish are ingesting microplastics. Data gathered from multiple studies has shown that a total of 386 marine fish species have ingested microplastics, with 210 species that are commercially important.

With time, microplastics can end up in the muscle tissue of the fish, which is consumed by humans. Other marine life that consume fish were more likely to ingest microplastics as well.

In the last decade alone, the proportion of fish consuming plastic has doubled across all species. Studies published from 2010-2013 found that an average of 15% of the fish sampled contained plastic; in studies published from 2017-2019, that share rose to 33%.

Hundreds of fish species, including many that humans eat, are consuming plastic

The first report of plastics being ingested by wildlife came in 1969 when they found plastic in the stomach of a sea bird. Today, the number of microplastics that we find in wildlife continues to increase. This is likely due to improvement in technology that detects microplastics, and of course an increase in microplastics in the environment.

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A new study has shown Glyphosate and Roundup disturb the gut microbiome and blood biochemistry at any level, even the levels that have been deemed safe.

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The study was conducted by an international team of scientists bases in London, Italy, France, and the Netherlands, and was led by Dr. Michael Antoniou of King’s College London. The study is published in the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives.

The research found that that glyphosate disrupts the microbiome the same way in which it kills weeds.

Humans and animals do not have the shikimate pathway, enabling industry and regulators to claim that glyphosate is nontoxic to humans.[2] However, some strains of gut bacteria do have this pathway, leading the researchers on the new study to investigate whether Roundup and glyphosate could affect the gut microbiome. Imbalances in gut bacteria have been linked to an ever-growing array of diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and depression.

Glyphosate and Roundup disturb gut microbiome and blood biochemistry at doses that regulators claim to be safe

Numerous studies have been done to show the negative effects of glyphosate on humans. Glyphosate has been shown to cause cancer and numerous other health problems.

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The coronavirus pandemic has changed many aspects of everyday life, and with covid-19 cases being front-page news, many of the repercussions of trying to combat the pandemic, have been swept under the rug.

New research has shown that wearing masks can impair children’s speech and language development as they begin to see and hear communicative signals. Babies of different ages were shown videos of people talking while their attention was tracked with an eye-tracking device.

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Researchers discovered that babies begin to lip-read around eight months old, corresponding with development in their own language skills. This indicates that babies begin lip reading when they become interested in language and speech.

Crucially, once lip-reading emerges in infancy, it becomes the default mode of speech processing whenever comprehension is difficult. This is illustrated by our latest studies in which my Spanish colleagues, their graduate student Joan Birules and I found that 4–6 year-old bilingual children lip-read more when they are confronted with speech in an unfamiliar than in a familiar language.

Masks Can Be Detrimental to Babies’ Speech and Language Development

Beyond eight months, babies and children use visual speech cues to understand what people are saying. Obviously, visible speech cues are undetectable with masks. Unfortunately, not all parents are in a position to stay at home with their children all the time, and many children are spending most of their time with care providers who are often masked for the entire day.

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A new study has shown that the effects of a poor diet as a child can affect the microbiome well into adulthood, even after you switch to a healthier diet.

“We studied mice, but the effect we observed is equivalent to kids having a Western diet, high in fat and sugar and their gut microbiome still being affected up to six years after puberty,” explained UCR evolutionary physiologist Theodore Garland.

Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact

The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, examined the effects of different diets on mice. Mice were divided into four groups, half were fed with the standard diet, considered healthy, and half were fed the unhealthy diet, and then within those two groups, mice were divided into groups with access to a running wheel, and groups without.

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After three weeks all mice were returned to the standard diet and no exercise. At 14 weeks, the mice’s diversity and abundance of bacteria were examined.

The group found that certain beneficial bacteria were lacking in the group fed the “unhealthy” diet. Researchers saw a significant decrease in the number and diversity of gut bacteria in the mature mice who had been fed an unhealthy diet.

It’s likely that the “healthy” diet that the mice were put on after the unhealthy diet, did not promote gut diversity, as it was said the diet was the standard diet for lab mice. To further see the effects of a poor diet on the microbiome, they should feed mice an unhealthy diet, and then split that group up and feed one group a “standard” diet, and another group, a diet that promotes gut diversity.

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Data has shown that the adverse effects from the coronavirus are 50x higher than that of the flu shot. Through December 22nd with less than a million vaccine doses administered, there have been more than 300 reports of emergency room visits and nearly 20 “life-threatening” events.

In the 2019-2020 flu season, 175 million flu vaccine doses were administered, with 1220 emergency room visits and 73 “life-threatening” events reported.

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The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is seeing a surge in new cases of COVID-19 vaccine injury that is massively outpacing similar cases for influenza vaccines and other jabs.

Rate of adverse events caused by cv vaccines 50x higher than flu shots

In addition to adverse effects, many elderly people have died after being administered the coronavirus vaccine. Most people report more adverse effects after the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

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Microplastics in our environment have been a concern for quite some time. These tiny 5mm pieces of plastics are everywhere, from the highest to the lowest points of the Earth. Most of the concern around microplastics is focused on ocean contamination.

Anywhere from 93,000 to 236,000 tons of microplastics end up in the ocean each year. Unfortunately, while we talk about the microplastics in the ocean, anywhere from 107,000 to 730,000 tons of microplastics are dumped onto agricultural soils in Europe and the U.S each year.

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Microplastics end up on farmland through processed sewage sludge, plastic mulches, slow-release fertilizers, and protective coating on seeds. In fact, many of the microplastics ending up in the ocean are land-based, coming from agricultural areas.

Research conducted by Mary Beth Kirkham has shown that microplastics affect the way the plants grow significantly. Plants grown with microplastics have higher levels of cadmium contamination. Cadmium is a carcinogen found in the environment due to human activity. It comes from batteries, car tires, and is naturally occurring in the phosphate rock used to make agricultural fertilizers.

Sixteen days into Kirkham’s microplastics and cadmium experiment, her plastic-treated wheat plants began to yellow and wilt. Water had been pooling on the top of the soil in the plastic treated plants, but to keep her experiment consistent, she had to give all the plants the same amount of water.

There is an Alarming Amount of Microplastics in Farm Soil—and Our Food Supply

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