Environmental Toxins
also known as environmental toxicants
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...
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...
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...
Guest PDF: US Oversight Committee on Gene Editing Disbanded
Note from GMOScience: The following has been submitted by Third World Network (https://twn.my) US rDNA Committee Disbanded, Exacerbating Poor Oversight of GE Research Few outside the world of science policy noticed late last year when the US Recombinant DNA Advisory...
COVID-19, the Gut Microbiota and Glyphosate: What are the links?
Written by Michelle Perro, MD; Executive Director GMOScience At-a-Glance UK scientists (Prof. Glenn Gibson, Dr. Gemma Walton, Dr. Kirsty Hunter and Prof. Tim Spector) requested that Matt Hancock (the country’s health secretary) call attention to the...
Supporting the Infant and Child Microbiome: Microbiome Clinical Grand Rounds with Dr. Michelle Perro
Power Up Your Immune System
It is never too late to support the body’s innate ability to heal itself, and as we continue to navigate the choppy waters of the COVID-19 storm, optimizing immune function should be one of our primary goals. A strong and balanced immune system is vital in defending...