From CBC News, this article appeared today: Synbiota biohacking kits let you do genetic engineering at home. From the article: A Canadian company is trying to make it possible for anyone to be a “biohacker” and make custom genetically modified organisms in their home kitchen. Homemade GMOs may sound scary to some, but Toronto-based Synbiota […]
Sarah Howard Coordinator of CHE’s Diabetes-Obesity Spectrum Working Group Two important studies have been published this month on chemical exposures that cause obesity in subsequent generations of rodents, long after the exposure ends. Until now, no prior studies on transgenerational obesogen exposures had been published. The results are alarming. In the first study, pregnant mice […]
On June 7-8, 2012 over a hundred and fifty participants gathered at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) for the “Healthy Environments Across Generations” meeting which focused on the impacts that multiple, interacting environments can have on health (including the socioeconomic, chemical, food, built, natural, and psychosocial environments) as well as intergenerational and creative […]
Shelby Gonzalez Mind-body medicine pioneer, Dean Ornish, MD, explains surprising new research Based on the March 26 CHE Partnership Call Years ago, Dean Ornish, MD, brought a well-respected yoga teacher to speak at a medical school. The teacher made a remark along the lines of, “When you do yoga, even your genes can begin to […]
written by Laura N. Vandenberg, PhD Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences Reprinted with permission from Environmental Health News Cancer. Diabetes. Autism. Infertility. ADHD. Asthma. As the rates of these diseases increase over time, the public and researchers alike have […]
written by Ted Schettler, MD, MPH Science Director An unprecedented alliance of leading scientists, health professionals, and children’s health advocates has come together to publish a consensus statement concluding that scientific evidence supports a causal link between exposures to toxic chemicals in food, air and everyday products and children’s risks for neurodevelopmental disorders. The alliance, […]
written by Elise Miller, MEd Director NOTE: While CHE primarily highlights emerging environmental health science, we also occasionally bring attention to how this new research is being applied (or not) to decision-making in the marketplace and regulatory policies. Every day new mountains are being born—not because of shifting plate tectonics but due to electronic waste, […]
written by Sarah Howard Coordinator of the Diabetes-Obesity Working Group Two worldwide gatherings of experts have published consensus statements on the role of environmental chemicals in diabetes, obesity, and metabolism: Parma Consensus Statement on Metabolic Disruptors, Heindel et al. Environmental Health. 2015 Jun 20;14:54. Uppsala Consensus Statement on Environmental Contaminants and the Global Obesity Epidemic, Lind […]
written by Sarah Howard Coordinator of the Diabetes-Obesity Spectrum Working Group Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), EPA, research centers and universities have just published an article, Prioritizing environmental chemicals for obesity and diabetes outcomes research: a screening approach using toxcast high throughput data (Auerbach et al. 2016). The intent of […]
written by Elise Miller, EdM Director The scientific evidence is mounting that glyphosate-based herbicides, which are the most heavily applied in the world, may not be the panacea for feeding the world’s hungry as its proponents have argued. A year ago the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that glyphosate (also known […]
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