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The Latest on Lead Poisoning in Chicago

I don’t know. Maybe you’re just getting too overwhelmed with relentless bad news one day after another so you might have missed what occurred last week in Washington. Senator Tammy Duckworth called the vote by Republican congressmen “obscene.” She’s absolutely right. They took money ($125M) that had been allocated to replace lead pipes in the […]

LITHIUM: YOU’LL BE AMAZED AT WHAT THIS ELEMENT CAN DO FOR YOU

Scientists who study the birth of the Universe believe there were only three elements at the very start: Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium. All three are “everywhere”. Lithium, which means ‘from stone’, is really not a ‘stone’, but rather a very light metal, so light that in pure form, it can float. If you were inclined […]

TED BUNDY (REMEMBER HIM?) AND THE EFFECTS OF LEAD ON A CHILD’S BRAIN

I wasn’t sure I really wanted to read “Murderland”,  a newly published book about the many serial killers from the Pacific Northwest. Throughout the 20th century, places like Tacoma and Seattle sounded seriously spooky. Writers dubbed them “Poisonvilles”, smelters crossed skylines belching toxic lead, arsenic, cadmium unchecked into the air, water, and soil of the […]

HEAVY METAL TOXICITY (ESPECIALLY LEAD!) AND YOUR HEALTH

For those who might not have been paying attention that day in high school chemistry, the heavy metals refer to a group of dense metals or metal-like substances (called metalloids) found in the environment. These metals–specifically lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and aluminum–can all be absorbed by your body and stored there. Our environment is already […]