Americans are exposed to over 83,000 industrial chemicals as part of modern civilization. Virtually all pregnant women are walking chemical repositories.
The linked article is interesting and disturbing.. Why is autism so high? Sure, we’re told that it’s because of ‘better screening.’ I am getting tired of the ‘better screening’ argument.. anyone with common sense knows that there are many more instances of severe autism hitting families across the planet.. especially America and other ‘industrialized nations’…
Counties and states killing weeds with sprays.. Food filled with chemicals.. BPA in plastics.. heavy metals, fluoride in water for babies who still don’t have their first set of teeth..
The article details toxins in food, air, and everything. Every place your child plays.. every place your baby in a womb goes..
The money quotes you should consider:
Americans are exposed to over 83,000 industrial chemicals as part of modern civilization. Virtually all pregnant women are walking chemical repositories. Tracking 163 chemicals, 99 percent of pregnant women tested positive for at least 43 different chemicals
And
Other studies show that the average newborn enters the world on day one “pre-polluted,” harboring hundreds of chemicals and heavy metals acquired during intrauterine life, and many of those undoubtedly reach the brain during critical windows of embryonic development. None of those chemicals enhance the natural process of brain maturation; many of them are known to be toxic to neurons and brain tissue.
And this:
Most pesticides work by causing chemical disruption of the brain and nervous system of insects. In fact, many pesticides are merely derivations of chemical warfare agents of the World War I and World War II era, i.e. nerve gases. It should be no surprise, then, that human nerve cells could also be affected, especially when considering that at the critical embryonic stage, the human fetal brain is no larger than that of many insects.
How ‘safe’..
Often I offer only bad news with no hope.
There may be hope today though, hope that wasn’t here before.
There could game changing positive breakthroughs coming.. 7 SAN DIEGO says this,
Autistic stem cells are starting respond to experimental drugs in what San Diego researchers are calling a breakthrough in the disorder affecting one in 68 children.
UC San Diego scientists took stem cells from children with autism and reprogrammed them into brain cells.
Amazing times we live in.
But poisonous times, too..
While we work on the ‘cure’ for autism, we should also try to find the trigger. Or triggers. Or chemicals.
The truth is out there… maybe in the air, water.. or land. But it’s there somewhere..
Autism Nation: America's Chemical Brain Drain
