"Toxicant" refers to a substance that is poisonous or harmful to living organisms, including humans. It can cause sickness, injury, or death if taken in or exposed to.
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Other studies found that firefighters and other rescue workers had elevated levels of chemical
toxicants in their blood and urine; for example, 321 firefighters tested at the end of September 2001 had elevated levels of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that result from jet fuel burning and are human carcinogens.
«When we try to do the right thing by recycling nutrients contained in biosolids, we end up spreading a known
reproductive toxicant on the soil where we grow our food,» Halden says.
This results in a chemical cocktail made up of more than 80 percent styrene oil plus low volumes of
other toxicants.
Fat soluble toxic agents are a good place to start with your detoxification, because they make up the bulk of what we come into contact with — pesticides, hormones, heavy metals, antibiotics, BPA and most
toxicants from processed foods are fat soluble.
Using new population - level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002, this paper examines the short and long - term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental
toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particularly severe.
«Our findings provide important clues to design epidemiological studies to associate specific
toxicant exposures with health end - points.»
This is where you hear stories
about toxicants making you gain weight because the body will coat the fat soluble toxic agents in more fat to protect you from the negative effects that they could have on your health.
Processed and genetically modified foods are seen by the body
as toxicants.
«What we are trying to understand is how beneficial compounds can favorably influence gut bacteria and, in turn, help fight chronic diseases, as well as
how toxicants in the environment and in the food can negatively influence gut bacteria and, in turn, cause chronic disease,» said Vanamala.
These people are suffering from a breakdown in the immune system
called toxicant - induced loss of tolerance, or TILT.
Minimizing exposures to biology - disrupting
toxicants like fluoride in tap water, chemicals in common drugs like ibuprofen and statins, and fragrances in cosmetics will also encourage your body's healing process.
Water quality in any swimming pool can be affected by biological toxins, like bacteria, and
chemical toxicants, like chlorine.
«What our research shows is that hookah smoking contributes significantly to the burden of tobacco smoke - related
toxicants inhaled by our young people,» Primack said in a university news release.
Activated charcoal is another way to
absorb toxicants and naturally purify your indoor air.
1995 The National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council sponsor a panel study called «Hormone
Related Toxicants in the Environment.»
Given the urgent need to understand the safety of e-cigarettes in adolescents, we sought to identify exposure to
toxicants associated with e-cigarette use among adolescents.
There is evidence that shows how the antioxidative properties of milk thistle may show detoxification effects
against toxicants repairing, supporting and protecting the liver.
All other
toxicants go hand in hand with Rapine of the bloody spear, but H (a) oma's stirring power goes hand in hand with friendship.
We use only the most selective, effective and
humane toxicants with the least impact on the environment and nontarget species.
Its sufferers were once dismissed as hypochondriacs, but there's growing biological evidence to
explain toxicant - induced loss of tolerance (TILT).
Miller hypothesizes that exposure to
toxicants permanently decreases the threshold needed to excite the limbic network, setting the stage for a phenomenon much like kindling.
The two - step process of TILT — getting sick
upon toxicant exposure and failing to get well — may be driven by epigenetic changes, which occur when the environment alters the expression of genes without changing the core DNA code itself.
Food science literature and environmental
toxicant literature are difficult to sort out, and the doctors are not being taught about nutrition or contaminants in school,» said Hightower, who has authored a book and several scientific journals reports about unhealthful levels of mercury in fish.
The
word toxicant refers to a man - made poison, such as Dursban, whereas a toxin is a naturally occurring poison produced by living cells or organisms, such as spider venom.
«Residual effects would be due to long glass fibers and cement particles,» notes Lioy, who still uses 10 - year - old dust samples to teach students how to
measure toxicants.
The trial also showed that the extract detoxifies environmental carcinogens and
toxicants found in cigarette smoke, and that the effect is stronger in people who lack certain genes involved in processing carcinogens.
Stress, such as that caused by dislocation, uncertainty and concern about
unseen toxicants, has been linked to increased risk for physical ailments, such as heart disease.
In one study, ozone appeared to be a culprit behind diminished sperm counts, suggesting that it's a «
sperm toxicant,» say Rebecca Z. Sokol of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her colleagues.
Such clarification would be useful because the industry data appear to be full of potential faults, including, in the analysis of one dispersant, the use of the wrong
reference toxicant.
Lupus is considered a genetic disease and is triggered not only by inhaling crystalline
silica toxicants, but also by other environmental factors such as sun exposure.
In the absence of glucose -
toxicant mixtures, glucose - averse cockroaches grow more slowly than normal roaches in laboratory settings where there are no nutritional stresses.
Patulin is a naturally
occurring toxicant which, according to Nicholas Soames, the junior agriculture minister, has been with us since creation.
However, the authors caution that more study is needed to determine how specific,
individual toxicants or combinations may increase hospitalization rates.
If you want to feel young and sexy, make sure your hormones are in balance, and you detox the environmental
toxicants out of your system so they don't disrupt your hormones.
«Sweating is not only observed to enhance excretion of the toxic elements of interest in this paper, but also may increase excretion of
diverse toxicants, as observed in New York rescue workers, or in particular persistent flame retardants and bisphenol - A.
Dioxins have not been shown to be potent human carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, reproductive inhibitors or
immune toxicants; dioxins do not occur primarily in animal foods, and in some cases, as in Greece, occur primarily in plant foods; and intake is not the only or even primary determinant of toxicity.
Your body has three major processes to
detoxify toxicants, and our Physician Supervised Metabolic Optimization Program increases the body's ability to detoxify chemicals and reboot your metabolism and health.