Environmental Toxins
also known as environmental toxicants
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...
An Indigenous Woman Fights Back Against Monsanto and Wins
One person can make a difference! A 55-year-old native Mayan beekeeper, Leydy Pech, has won out against Monsanto in a grassroots effort to protect her precious bees from glyphosate poisoning. Mexico is the sixth largest honey-producing country in the world, and the indigenous communities are major producers of honey from the Mayan stingless bees native to the area. When her bees became threatened by Monsanto's pesticides used on neighboring GMO soy crops, Pech led a lawsuit against the Mexican...
Dr. Michelle Perro – The Standard American Diet: Overfed and Undernourished
Michelle Perro, MD,is interviewed on The Brain Possible podcast to discuss how the Sandard American Diet has led to us being overfed and undernourished. She shares the impact on our children's health and tips for how we can make changes.
Moms Across America Guest Panel
https://vimeo.com/593539624/eb9c4e14df
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...
The Monsanto Papers
Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice By Carey Gillam Island Press, March 2021 Press Release When global conglomerate Bayer AG paid $63 billion in 2018 to buy Monsanto Company, the deal was seen as a boost to Bayer’s wealth and power....
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...
Secret Ingredients Film
Secret Ingredients, is an award-winning film which shares the journeys of individuals who have discovered that the “secret ingredients" in their food were making them sick. Their dietary changes consisted of a trial of going to completely organic food without GMOs...
Stress, the microbiome and pregnancy: The protective role of omega-3 fatty acids
By Rachel Benbrook (Hygeia-analytics.com) and Dr. Michelle Perro (GMOScience.org) A multi-disciplinary team of psychiatrists, doctors, and epidemiologists crafted a fascinating study that looked at how adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, impact the gut microbiome...
You Are What You Ate
Theresa Marquez, host of Heartland Stories, is in conversation with Dr. Michelle Perro, Executive Director of GMOScience, co-author of “What is Making our Children Sick” and a veteran pediatrician with over thirty-nine years of experience in acute and integrative...
Webinar: New Techniques, Same GMOs
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded to the developers of CRISPR-Cas9, the gene-editing tool that promises to "rewrite the code of life". In this webinar, hosted by Rachel Parent, Director of Social Media for GMOScience, and organized by the Non-GMO Project,...
Prepregnancy, GMOs and Glyphosate: The Era of Infertility
"There was a time when couples were actively seeking to prevent pregnancy, having too many kids and deliberately trying to slow down family growth explosions. However, there has been a marked shift in family planning and there is no doubt that we have entered the era...