Toxins

How plastic food containers could be making you fat, infertile and sick

October 27, 2011 in Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Toxins | 120 comments

In previous articles here, here and here, I wrote about the dangers of an environmental toxin called bisphenol-A (BPA). BPA is a chemical that is found in several plastics and plastic additives. It’s in the water bottles some folks carry to gyms, the canned tomatoes and coconut milk they cook with, and in the baby bottles moms use to feed their infants. We’ve known for decades that BPA has estrogenic activity. In vivo animal studies and ...
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Free public talk on detoxification in San Francisco: Saturday 12/4 11:00am @DIAKADI Body

November 9, 2010 in Events, Classes & Groups, Toxins | 5 comments

In the next few months I'm going to be offering several free talks in the SF Bay Area. The first of these is on the importance of detoxification in promoting health and longevity. It's on December 4th, from 11:00am - 12:30pm at DIAKADI Body, a fantastic personal training and wellness center in the SoMA area of San Francisco. You can read more about the talk and register for a space here. Please do register, ...
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How toxins are making us fat and diabetic

November 5, 2010 in Diabesity, Toxins | 6 comments

Each year the toxic burden in our air, food and water - and thus our bodies - grows higher than ever before. Companies manufacture 6.5 trillion pounds of 9,000 different chemicals each year. That's about 3.25 billion tons - enough to fill an ocean supertanker. And the same companies release over 7 billion pounds of 650+ different pollutants into the atmosphere and water. A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found the ...
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Warning: drinking bottled water could make you fat!

April 19, 2010 in Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Toxins | 18 comments

I came across some interesting research the other day concerning the potential role of Bisphenol-A (BPA) in regulating weight. BPA is a chemical that is found in several plastics and plastic additives. It's in the water bottles folks carry to gyms and in the baby bottles moms use to feed their infants. And it's in almost all of our bodies. A CDC study in 2007 found that 92% of 2,500 subjects ...
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