Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, PCB's half-life is 8.4 years, meaning that after 8.4 years, only half the pcb in your body will have been eliminated.
Studies of women poisoned during two major accidents involving pcb consumption, one in Japan and one in Taiwan, found that their babies were very small, had skin and nail deformities, and suffered psychomotor impairment.296 Much of the transfer of the poison was via breast milk.
Again, don't be overcomforted by reports that PCB-use has been severely restricted. As with many of these long-lasting compounds, PCBs bioconcentrate in the food chain. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  Most toxicity experts agree that the main source of human contamination comes from eating fish from waters in which the pcb levels are high, which today can be almost anywhere. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that fish can accumulate up to nine million times the level of PCBs in the water in which they live. PCBs have been found in fish from the deepest and most remote parts of the world's oceans.
Fish and shellfish are natural accumulators of toxins, because they live and are flushed by the water in which they dwell. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
See book keywords and concepts |  Although pcb manufacture has been banned in most nations—including the United States, where Congress regulated pcb production in 1977—they continue to be persistent pollutants in the environment, especially in urban areas. As with the other tip-of-the-iceberg compounds, PCBs are more destructive to the cognitive development of brains in childhood. Pre- and postnatal exposure—the latter experienced largely through the act of breast-feeding—has been associated with lower IQs, delayed developmental milestones, and lack of endurance,41 as well as impaired motor skills and short-term memory. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Using recognized scales to assess typical male or female behavior, the researchers found that, "In boys, higher prenatal pcb levels were related with less masculinized play . . . whereas in girls higher pcb levels were associated with more masculinized play. . . . Higher prenatal dioxin levels were associated with more feminized play in boys as well as girls. . . . These effects suggest prenatal steroid hormone imbalances caused by prenatal exposure to environmental levels of PCBs, dioxins, and other related organochlorine compounds. | | I mean, I remember the levels of pcb in some of the fishermen and women of Venice Pier when I was researching contamination of the Santa Monica Bay as a reporter in Los Angeles. They had such high pcb levels. I remember one woman who had a level of DDT that was about 150 parts per billion in her blood, and she was nursing a baby and eating the fish that she had caught right off the pier and barbecuing them. Real people. Real consequences. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Studies of women poisoned during two major accidents involving pcb consumption, one in Japan and one in Taiwan, found that their babies were very small, had skin and nail deformities, and suffered psychomotor impairment.296 Much of the transfer of the poison was via breast milk.
Again, don't be overcomforted by reports that PCB-use has been severely restricted. As with many of these long-lasting compounds, PCBs bioconcentrate in the food chain. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  PCB spills from transformers also soaked some areas. The local Scaja-quada Creek, which accepted the majority of stormwater overflow in this area of Buffalo, was located about eleven hundred feet south of the property. The DEC survey in the mid 1980s reported that TCE-contaminated runoff from the site was found in high concentrations in nearby groundwater along the creek as well as down along a railroad spur area in the rear of the Vibratech facility. | | In 1979 a new receptor was discovered, called the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, which binds specifically with dioxin and pcb. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor is found in arfnost every tissue of the body and it is found far down the evolutionary chain, even in fish. Even though we've known about this protein for nearly thirty years, says Silverstone, we "still don't have a good idea of what it normally does." But scientists know this much. When dioxin enters the body and binds with this receptor, says Silverstone, "it's like a bad accident happening in the body. | | That night was also the first time residents learned of a third toxic hotspot—a pcb "inactive hazardous waste site" located at 318 Urban Street—a few blocks south of East Ferry Street and little more than a stone's throw from Rhonda Dixon Lee's home. The site had been investigated in 1990 but was not remediated until 1999. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation investigated the site, which was owned by General Electric and the Pyramid Steel Corporation, as part of its routine oversight into industrial manufacturing plants. | | Many of these residents were from socioeconomically underprivileged families who formerly sharecropped near the plant when it was dumping factory waste from pcb production. And in Libby, Montana, a town polluted by asbestos, recent studies conducted by the University of Montana's Center for Environmental Health Sciences show that local residents are 28.6 percent more likely to have antinuclear antibodies in their blood than a control group from a nearby town without asbestos pollution.
From Buffalo to Arizona, from Boston to Oklahoma, we live in an increasingly complex sea of autogenic agents. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Birth defects related to high-dose pcb exposure include low birth weight, premature delivery, and small head circumference.
In the late 1970s, manufacturers in the United States voluntarily stopped sales of PCB-containing chemicals for uses that might have environmental consequences. However, years of improper disposal of PCB-containing chemicals have made this chemical a major environmental threat. Disposal of industrial fluids in lakes and rivers have contaminated fish in both fresh and coastal waters; the ground of many industrial sites is saturated with PCBs (see Chapter 13, "Water" ). |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  The most frequently detected chemicals were pcb congeners 99 and 118 and the DDT metabolite pp.-DDE, which were detected in all but one of the 155 volunteers.
?Ten chemicals were found in more than 95 per cent of volunteers
8 www.gordonresearch.com/answers/chlorella_and_cilantro.html
9 The earliest types of chelation involved synthetic agents such as BAL, penicillamin e and EDTA administered intravenously for acute toxic metal poisoning. Subsequently, DMSA and DMPS were utilized, first intravenously and later orally and now even transdermally. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | The toxic pcb and lead-laced soil would not be trucked out of the neighborhood. In fact, nothing was going to be done about the site for the foreseeable future: the state Superfund had just gone belly up, and there was simply no money left to remove the hazardous waste that permeated the 858 East Ferry property. Case closed.
Grant was dumbfounded by the senselessness of what she was reading. There was no money to remediate a toxic waste site that had been sitting there unbeknownst to residents for decades—and that the city had known about for the past three years? How could that be? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  American consumers nationwide are exposed to elevated pcb levels by eating farmed salmon.
So to get the real benefits of this amazing fish, you really have to go for the wild variety. I've gotten in the habit of asking at restaurants, "Is it wild?" If it's not, I don't order it. It may take some effort to find the wild Alaskan variety, but it's totally worth it.
Salmon is not only a superb source of omega-3 fats, but it's also a great source of high-quality protein. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Thirty-eight states issued pcb advisories and four states added nine new pcb advisories in 2002. The number of dioxin advisories is small compared to the other four major contaminants'. But although its use has been banned since 1975, the number of advisories currently in effect for DDT continues to increase.
Some fish and shellfish are a significant source of purines. Since purines can be broken down to form uric acid, excess accumulation of purines in the body can lead to excess accumulation of uric acid. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  According to court documents, Monsanto executives knew that its pcb factory in Anniston, Alabama was exposing the town's population to serious health risks. They regularly dumped PCBs in the town but covered-up the fact for more than forty years. According to the Washington Post, "In 1966, for example, Monsanto managers discovered that fish dunked in a local creek turned belly-up within ten seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dropped into boiling water. In 1969, they found a fish in another creek with 7,500 times the legal pcb level. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Alaskan sockeye salmon: Responsibly caught fish; high in omega-3 fatty acids; mercury and pcb either low or nonexistent.
4. Red/yellow/orange peppers: Rich in antioxidants, B vitamins, and flavonoids not generally consumed.
5. Kale: Rich in well-absorbed calcium, vitamin K.
6. Lean, organic red meat: Genetically perfect for carnivores and one of the only sources of CLA, a kind of fat that helps people lose weight.
7. Sea vegetables: These often-overlooked foods contain iodine and protein, and are perfect for vegetarians.
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David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | In the Raloff article, Weiss calculated a five-point downward shift in IQ for the United States as a result of pcb exposures. This "could move nearly 6 million children who had been above an IQ of 130 to below 130, and push an equal number of children into the below-70 category."
So when you look at populations, he said, even small reductions in IQ come to represent "very substantial shifts." Moreover, he argued, the financial consequences "could be stupendous." Economists have developed relationships that correlate IQ and earning power. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | Avoid farmed salmon, which has a high pcb content, and high-mercury fish such as king mackerel, marlin, orange roughy, shark, swordfish, tilefish, and tuna. Essential fatty acids are also available in omega-3 rich eggs and flaxseed, as well as in supplement form. A growing number of studies show omega-3 to be beneficial in the prevention and management of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Thirty-eight states issued pcb advisories and four states added nine new pcb advisories in 2002. The number of dioxin advisories is small compared to the other four major contaminants'. But although its use has been banned since 1975, the number of advisories currently in effect for DDT continues to increase.
Some fish and shellfish are a significant source of purines. Since purines can be broken down to form uric acid, excess accumulation of purines in the body can lead to excess accumulation of uric acid. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | Besides being responsible for pcb pollution of the Hudson River Valley, GE contributes to some seventy-five to one hundred Superfund sites. The company's long list of alleged environmental misdeeds can be traced back to 1949 and were publicly highlighted during 1995 with the establishment of a Presidential Advisory Commission on the full extent of our nation's environmental and humanitarian misdeeds with nuclear radiation. | | They had such high pcb levels. I remember one woman who had a level of DDT that was about 150 parts per billion in her blood, and she was nursing a baby and eating the fish that she had caught right off the pier and barbecuing them. Real people. Real consequences.
In the study, prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls was associated with lower full-scale and verbal IQ scores after control for potential confounding variables such as socioeconomic status. The strongest effects were on memory and attention. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts | | DDT and lindane), 45 pcb congeners and 21 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) flame retardants, including those found in the commercially traded penta-, octa- and deca-BDEs.
Their FINDINGS:
?Every person tested is contaminated by a cocktail of known highly toxic chemicals which were banned from use in the UK during the 1970s and which continue to pose unknown health risks.
?We found 70 (90 per cent) of the 78 chemicals we looked for in the survey. The highest number of chemicals found in any one person was 49, nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of the chemicals looked for.
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Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Pres2Pure Mobile Water Filter Uses microfiltration and ionic adsorption that removes odors, silt, rust, industrial pollutants, asbestos, nitrates, lead, mercury, aluminum, organic chemicals, pcb, DDT, herbicides, pesticides, petroleum byproducts, chlorine, volatile organic compounds, benzene, acetone, trihalomethanes, microbial agents, e. coli, giardia, Cryptosporidium, cysts, spores, and radioactive materials. One filter gives one year survival water of200 gallons, and retains calcium, magnesium, and other nutrients.
Rockland Corp. | | Bluefish Tainted with PCB's, and considered inedible from July, 1988 on in America. In France, the 1-mile deep-sea Great Bluefish were caught by ancient Celts and Romans and fermented with salt to make nutritional Garum Armoricum fish extract having Neuropeptides like in human nerve cells improving well-being 75%, mood, alertness, sleep 39%, lessens mental fatigue 44%, anxiety 20% (in asthenics, without side effects or sedation like Valium), and depression 27%. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Perhaps the most problematic pesticides are the halogenated hydrocarbon family, such as DDE, pcb, PCP, dieldrin, and chlordane. These chemicals persist in the environment almost indefinitely. For example, a similar pesticide, DDT, has been banned for nearly thirty years, yet it can still be found in soil and root vegetables, such as carrots and potatoes. Our bodies have a tough time detoxifying and eliminating these compounds, which end up being stored in our fat cells. What's more, inside the body these chemicals can act like the hormone estrogen. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts | | European male malignancy; protects from the vascular constricting effect of toluene diamine toxic compound TDA; disease fighter slows cancerous chemicals like DMBA, pcb, and Nitrogen Dioxide in brownish smog; helps alcoholism. Prevents kidney, bladder, and gallstones; cystitis, albuminuria (1 capsule daily), and maintains alkalinity. |
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