Run don’t walk to your local newsstand and pickup the October 2006 copy of the esteemed magazine National Geographic especially if you’re interested in reading about a growing problem which I have lectured about around the world, environmental toxicity and health. Author David Ewing Duncan wrote a brilliant article about the staggering number of chemicals found in his own blood stream that will make your blood boil with anger and scare you to your core. While I don’t think that banning all chemicals and returning to cave life is the answer, we can’t continue to deny that these chemicals can harm to our health, especially infants and unborn fetuses.

What we need to do is to force companies to do safety studies on all of their chemicals to prove that their benefits outweigh the risks associated with low level exposure. Until then, we need to monitor our ability to excrete these chemicals using laboratory testing from such labs as US Biotek for solvents and other chemical pollutants or Doctor’s Data for heavy metals.