Sentences with phrase «early exposure to toxins»

Childhood cancer, learning disabilities, and autism can possibly be tied to early exposure to toxins,» says pediatrician Philip Landrigan, director of Mount Sinai's Children's Environmental Health Center in New York.

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There are «critical periods» in early childhood development when exposure to a toxin can permanently alter the way an individual's biological system operates.

Miller is widely recognized for his research on the impact of toxins in Parkinson's disease (PD) and has created a unique mouse model of the disease to develop biomarkers of exposure, risk and early disease.

It turns out that the more microbial exposure we have at a young age — and the more diverse our microbiome — the healthier we are long - term, because all those microbes we encounter in our early years train and challenge our immune system to respond appropriately, whether that means taking action against toxins and harmful microbes or laying low when confronted with harmless allergens.

Early exposure to infections or toxins has been proposed as a possible etiological trigger for schizophrenia (Andreasen, 1999).