Sentences with phrase «synthetic chemicals in our environment»

Though this is depressing, understanding the situation can help you better protect your body from the tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals in our environment.

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Importantly farming organically improves the environment with no synthetic or chemical herbicides or pesticides used in the growing of the grapes.»

What I find most frightening is that there is no testing to determine what happens when multiple products are used concurrently or sequentially, or what happens when they combine with other chemicals (synthetic and natural) in the environment or in organisms.

Endy recalls a 2006 New York Times article on synthetic biology in which Frances Arnold, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, said, «There is no such thing as a standard [biological] component, because even a standard component works differently depending on the environment.

Synthetic biology is expected to provide major advances in the areas of biomedicine, biopharmaceuticals synthesis, biosecurity, energy and environment, sustainable chemical segment, and biomaterials / smart materials production.

Now, a team from UC Berkeley has found a way to keep them alive and functioning in a synthetic environment, and used them to make mats that can break down toxic chemicals.

More than 700 synthetic chemicals mimic estrogen in a toxic way, and their prevalence in our environment is on the rise.

Other synthetic chemicals used in food production, and found in our environment, appear to damage the thyroid gland, which secretes hormones that regulate metabolism.

UL Environment — «GREENGUARD Gold — Health Impacts of Indoor Air Quality» Oprah.com — «Count Sleep, Not Harmful Synthetics: How to Find an Eco-Friendly Mattress» UT News — «Crib Mattresses Emit High Rates of Potential Harmful Chemicals, Cockrell School Engineers Find» EWG — «Toxic Dreams: Crib Mattresses May Release Risky Fumes» Archives of Environmental Health — «Respiratory toxicity of mattress emissions in mice.»

Detox treatments are usually recommended due to exposure to toxic chemicals in the diet or environment, like synthetic chemicals, pollutants, heavy metals and other dangerous elements.

Nylon is a synthetic fabric manufactured using petroleum and treated with several chemicals such as formaldehyde to prevent shrinkage, not to mention, nylon production emits harmful greenhouse gasses that linger in the environment.

During the past few decades, the United States produced about 50,000 new synthetic chemicals, and many of those chemicals are dispersed in the environment.