On top of that we may spray our air with yet
more synthetic chemicals in the form of air fresheners, which are actually designed to be directly breathed straight into your body.
As we created
more synthetic chemicals, we exposed ourselves to a wider range of compounds, each of which could potentially cause damage and trigger an allergic reaction.
Let's face it, the more vaccines you are injected with, the more drugs you take, and
the more synthetic chemical products you use, the more likely it is that some of them are going to interact with each other in unknown and harmful ways.
Not exact matches
CERTIFIED ORGANIC food, drink and fibre means a lot
more than being grown free from
synthetic chemicals.
It's your guarantee that what you're consuming will be free of the harmful
synthetic chemicals that are widely used in conventional production: endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, asthma triggers, skin irritants and
more.
But can't we trust the
chemicals in an apple a little
more than the
chemicals in something
synthetic?
This includes
chemicals used for pest control, livestock growth enhancers (
more widespread in the United States, but limited to beef cattle in Australia), plastic containers used for food and water, and
synthetic food processing aids.
In addition, natural herbs and vitamins are
more easily absorbed by the body, which makes them
more effective than
chemical or
synthetic ingredients.
AA is
more stringent, while A permits some use of
synthetic agricultural
chemicals.
No need to worry about suspected carcinogens (sulfates, parabens, formaldehyde,
synthetic fragrances and colorants and
more) or pesticide and herbicide residues, as well as contamination from
chemical fertilizers.
There are
more than 30 kinds of anabolic - androgenic steroids — the infamous» roids used and abused to promote muscle growth — but they are all
synthetic compounds mimicking testosterone's
chemical structure.
But while Venter's
synthetic genome will be housed within an existing bacterial cell, other scientists are aiming for the even
more ambitious target of building an entire living cell from the basic
chemical ingredients.
It's true that conventional baby clothing and bedding — conventional referring to that made with cotton grown using
synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and bleached and dyed with yet
more harsh
chemicals — hasn't seemed to present a problem thus far for generations and generations of babies.
But lab - based efforts are insufficient to understand and predict the individual or collective impacts long - lasting
synthetic chemicals and their breakdown products can have when they enter an ecosystem and start to accumulate — and potentially grow
more toxic — in the tissues of living organisms.
«We need to know
more about how
synthetic chemicals are altering ecosystems and interacting with other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.
«Recent advances in
chemical protein synthesis make it
more feasible to produce larger
synthetic D - proteins,» says Michael S. Kay, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah School of Medicine and senior author of the study.
Many other benefits have been claimed for biochar, including managing waste, storing carbon in the soil and being
more environmentally friendly than adding
synthetic chemicals to the soil.
«While previous molecular studies have provided simple snapshots of the gene transcript variations that are associated with the exposure of insects to natural and
synthetic chemicals, the genomics approaches used in this study offer a significantly
more complex perspective on the biochemical and physiological processes occurring in plant - insect interactions,» Schuler said.
However, the precise nature of that role is undergoing a visible change, not only because of the new
synthetic methods and technologies now available to the
synthetic and medicinal chemist, but also in several key areas, particularly in drug metabolism and
chemical toxicology, as chemists deal with the ever
more rapid turnaround of testing data that influences their day - to - day decisions.
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Unfortunately, children are much
more vulnerable to the potentially harmful effects of
synthetic chemical exposure than adults are.
In the wide world of personal care products and cosmetics, there are
more synthetic and
chemical ingredients than any one of us can shake a stick at,...
What's
more,
synthetic marijuana — referred to by a number of names including Spice, K - 2, Moon Rocks, and
more — relies on a mixture of manmade
chemicals sprayed onto miscellaneous dried plants and herbs and often incites erratic behavior in users.
Fortunately, as is the case with most deceptions, educated consumers are now seeking alternatives to these
chemical laden products in turn forcing food producers to get creative... That is why
more often than not, food
chemicals are renamed with less «
synthetic names» than their older original ones.
Synthetic chemicals have largely been responsible for accomplishing the task but the agricultural industry has
more recently started a biological warfare campaign against insects with an organism known as Bacillus thuringiensis, or the Bt toxin.
Synthetic hormones are taken in by the body, and the body treats them as foreign toxins and is unable to metabolize their
chemical makeup, causing unwanted side effects that range from non life - threatening to
more serious medical conditions.
More than 700
synthetic chemicals mimic estrogen in a toxic way, and their prevalence in our environment is on the rise.
According to Chris Astill - Smith, DC, DIBAK, there are
more than 75,000
synthetic chemical that exist.
In a collaborative study performed at Duke University with the Environmental Working Group, they found in 26 women that a common
synthetic chemical in nail polish called triphenyl phosphate (TPHP, sometimes TPhP or TPP) is leaking into the bodies of women who wear nail polish.1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26485058 They think it leaches through the cuticles or possibly that another ingredient in the nail polish makes the nail itself
more permeable.
Synthetic Fragrance / Parfum — Often made up of
more than 200 ingredients, these
chemicals can cause hormone disruption, skin irritations, as well as many other issues.
According to the organization Beyond Pesticides, it takes a ton of
chemicals to preserve the pristine green turf and that includes
synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and
more.
We are witnessing
more obesity, diabetes, pituitary, thyroid, ovarian, and other endocrine gland disruption due to
chemicals such as perchlorates (residues of
synthetic fertilizer in produce), polyfluorooctanoic acid (non-stick cookware), bisphenol A (polycarbonate plastics, resin lining of cans), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants), along with many others.
Our environment contains
more than 85,000
synthetic chemicals yet only a handful of them have been tested.
Synthetic products are lurking, since clary sage oil is
more expensive than average, meaning that if you're here for this oil's unique herbaceous, floral and woody smell, it's particularly important to avoid a mass - produced
chemical substitute.
Please avoid using
synthetic and / or
chemical laden moisturizers under rms beauty products and opt for a
more natural / organic one.
«USDA Organic» (also called «Certified Organic») is supposed to mean that 95 percent or
more of the ingredients are certified organic, meaning free of
synthetic additives like pesticides,
chemical fertilizers and dyes.
«My sense is that, as people become
more and
more cognizant of ingredients, products with
chemicals and
synthetics will likely slide off the radar,» she says.
Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce
synthetic fuels and
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Though it was announced over two weeks ago, perhaps because of Exxon's backing of
Synthetic Genomics, Dow
Chemical's backing of Algenol Biofuels is getting a bit
more play.
For your body: Learn
more about the
synthetic chemicals in your personal care products.