Childhood Illness

The State of our Children’s Health

The State of our Children’s Health

Rhetoric, regulatory capture, and the lack of governmental action have created and fueled one of the greatest crimes of the times which is the allowance and acceptance of the chronic poisoning of our children.  Although the root causes of this health-crisis-tsunami can be blamed on many factors, the overarching culprit began with the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the 1990s, developed with their associated pesticides.  The usage of a greater variety of GMOs in...

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OverSanitized

OverSanitized

The Clean Hand Obsession From supermarkets to schoolyards, it is hard to travel more than ten feet without running into a bottle of hand sanitizer!  Since the beginning of the COVID era, the usage of sanitizing products has expanded, particularly in areas that interface with children.  Of concern are the many compounds in these products that are antimicrobials.  Clearly, there is an obvious need for disinfection.  However, the potential toxicity of the various compounds in these products on...

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Pesticide Regulation:  We Can Do Better

Pesticide Regulation: We Can Do Better

 GMOScience Editorial mini review on the recent publication:  Novel strategies and new tools to curtail the health effects of pesticides; Benbrook C, et al. Environmental Health: volume 20, Article number: 87; 2021. Despite decades of research in the area of...

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Pediacide – An editorial by Drs. Seneff and Perro

Pediacide – An editorial by Drs. Seneff and Perro

The following article is a joint collaboration between Michelle Perro, MD (Executive Director) and Stephanie Seneff, PhD (MIT Research Scientist). In 2017, Dr. Perro and Dr. Adams produced the highly acclaimed book, What’s Making our Children Sick? with a focus on the...

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Dr. Michelle Perro on Healing Kids via the Gut Microbiome

Dr. Michelle Perro on Healing Kids via the Gut Microbiome

Our Executive Director, Dr. Michelle Perro, MD has published a guest blog on the Heartland Health Research Alliance website. Here's an excerpt. During the past several decades, I have observed rapid escalation in rates of chronic disease in my patients, as well as a...

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