Sentences with phrase «doses of other substances»

Not exact matches

The Food and Drug Administration has long permitted its use, but in recent years concerns about the chemical have grown as studies have indicated low doses of the substance can disrupt hormone systems in laboratory animals and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness.

Low doses also protect against the harmful effects of higher, toxic doses of lithium and other substances such as the pesticide paraquat,» said co-author Dr Ivana Bjedov from the UCL Cancer Institute.

In an attempt to adhere to Caucasian beauty ideals, the researchers found, women of color are more likely to use chemical hair straighteners and skin lighteners, which disproportionately expose them to high doses of phthalates, parabens, mercury and other toxic substances.

The idea is that the drug, being within the nano - hydrogels, is transported directly to cancer cells where it can be released without damaging other parts of the body, because hydrogels offer the possibility of dosing a myriad of active substances on the site desired and can be administered as dry or swollen hydrogels by different routes: oral, nasal, buccal, rectal, transdermal, vaginal, ocular and parental.

«In other words, you can take a 150 - pound male light drinker and a 150 - pound male heavy drinker and give them each the exact same dose of alcohol, but their brains respond very differently to this substance, hence the divergent experiences and mood reports after consumption.

Finally, steroid abusers usually don't use testosterone alone — in addition to the huge doses of testosterone they take, they're adding other substances on top, some of which may be illegal.

When you remove toxic substances & add probiotics like Kombucha and Kraut, not only do you get bouts of healing induced reactions, you also get periodic doses of poisons and other undesired (by the body) stored substances in body fat that your newly healing body is consuming.

OBJECTIVE: To describe how the tobacco industry attempted to trivialise the health risks of second hand smoke (SHS) by both questioning the science of risk assessment of low dose exposure to other environmental toxins, and by comparing SHS to such substances about which debate might still exist.