A writer at Popular Science uses their body as a test rabbit to analyze the toxins in the body from everyday chemicals.
Below is an excerpt from the story
"Since 1940, we have seen in Western societies a marked and rapid increase in common types of cancer,” he wrote. Since 1974, leukemia and brain cancer rates in children have risen by 28 percent. The federal government began regulating environmental toxins with the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, but in a way, that’s when the real trouble began. The act established a weak system for chemical testing and regulation, but it also grandfathered in any previously produced chemicals, to the tune of more than 60,000 free passes. To Servan-Schreiber, surveying the situation 32 years later, the culprit was clear: “Reducing exposure to many of the well-characterized chemical carcinogens abundant in our modern environments (pesticides, estrogens, benzene, PCBs, PVCs and bisphenol-A from heating liquids in plastic containers; alkylphenols in cleaning products; parabenes and phthalates in cosmetics and shampoos, etc.) would contribute to lessen the cancer risk.”
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