Little Things Matter

It's true not all chemicals are bad but toxic metals like lead and mercury are found in all of us so are persistent toxins like PCB's and endocrine disruptors such as Bisphenol A and flame retardants we've been studying the impact of toxins on children for the past 30 years and reached the inescapable conclusion little things matter. Toxins can have a lifelong impact on children we've also discovered that extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development. Let's take a look at the percent of children who are exposed to some of these toxins using a national study in the United States. To keep it simple we'll use one hundred children to represent all children. Mercury is found in eighty-nine percent of children primarily from eating large fish contaminated by pollution. Lead is detected in the blood of all children regardless of race, income or where they live. Over eighty percent of children