Environmental Toxins

also known as environmental toxicants

Synthetic Milk and Our Children: A Pediatrician’s Cautionary Tale

Synthetic Milk and Our Children: A Pediatrician’s Cautionary Tale

Article 7 in the Got REAL Milk Series Why Synthetic Milks May Be a Bad Idea for Children:A Pediatrician’s Perspective A summary for busy parents: Synthetic milks lack key bioavailable nutrients found in organic dairy, including healthy fats, essential amino acids, and fat-soluble vitamins which are necessary for brain development and immune function. These products are new to the market and have no long-term safety data in children whose developing systems may be more vulnerable to novel...

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Danger in the Dough: Unveiling the Toxic Contaminants in Girl Scout Cookies

Danger in the Dough: Unveiling the Toxic Contaminants in Girl Scout Cookies

Article by Michelle Perro, MD, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, and Zen Honeycutt BFA Introduction Consumer groups, GMOScience, Moms Across America, and supporters have commissioned the testing of Girl Scout cookies for toxic metals and glyphosate/AMPA (an herbicide and its byproduct), to promote awareness and positive change for health. The results were extremely concerning. 100% of the samples were positive for glyphosate 100% were positive for toxic metals 22 out of 25 (88%) of samples were positive...

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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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The Monsanto Papers

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....

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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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