Environmental Toxins
also known as environmental toxicants
OverSanitized
The Clean Hand Obsession From supermarkets to schoolyards, it is hard to travel more than ten feet without running into a bottle of hand sanitizer! Since the beginning of the COVID era, the usage of sanitizing products has expanded, particularly in areas that interface with children. Of concern are the many compounds in these products that are antimicrobials. Clearly, there is an obvious need for disinfection. However, the potential toxicity of the various compounds in these products on...
An Indigenous Woman Fights Back Against Monsanto and Wins
One person can make a difference! A 55-year-old native Mayan beekeeper, Leydy Pech, has won out against Monsanto in a grassroots effort to protect her precious bees from glyphosate poisoning. Mexico is the sixth largest honey-producing country in the world, and the indigenous communities are major producers of honey from the Mayan stingless bees native to the area. When her bees became threatened by Monsanto's pesticides used on neighboring GMO soy crops, Pech led a lawsuit against the Mexican...
Turning Sewage Sludge and Food Waste into Carbon Free Vehicle Fuels
Highlights Sewage dumped into the ocean harms sea life Sewage sludge converted to fertilizer has too many harmful chemicals in it Food waste and sewage sludge can be turned into valuable fuel, but toxic chemicals (e.g., glyphosate, prescription drugs) are still...
Press Release: Regeneration Health International – Who We Are
Contact after June 1, 2022: Michelle Perro, MD at michelle@rhi.bio Ruth Westreich at ruth@rhi.bio Regeneration Health International Who We Are In 2021, a team of scientists, farmers, activists, artists, physicians, and lawyers came together to facilitate and catalyze...
Virtual Children to Help Combat Overpopulation
Story at-a-glance Artificial intelligence expert Catriona Campbell predicts virtual children will be commonplace within the next 50 years, which can help combat overpopulation The virtual children would only exist within the metaverse, and parents would interact with...
What’s Making our Children Sick?
Regenerating Our Health and Food So many ill children reveal the ways we have outgrown our medical model and our predominant food production systems. The problems our kids suffer from most persistently today are complex, arising from a multisystem dysfunctional...
Can we talk about Regenerative Agriculture?
As an organisation, we’ve always had a complicated relationship with regenerative agriculture; this is probably no surprise to anyone who has followed our work for any length of time. But in some ways, we’ve shied away from really diving into the conversation, partly...
Big Farms, Empty Food, Chronic Disease
Modern agriculture has made food plentiful and abundant—but not healthy. Half of the American population have chronic diseases, utilizing 86 percent of health care dollars. Oftentimes the blame is placed on those who are ill for their lifestyle choices. But the...
Farming Nature’s Way
Highlights •Noni trees are a medicinal fruit tree that is native to a large area across Asia and Australia. •Noni was popular among the ancient Polynesians for its many beneficial phytochemicals and its ability to ease pain topically. •Steve and Richele Frailey have...
Microbiome Health for Kids: The Effects of Pesticides in the Diet
The microbiome is finally being recognized and valued for its crucial role in creating and maintaining a robust immune system. We’ve all been inundated with information on how to best boost our immunity, so that if/when we become part of the population that contracts...
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
At-A-Glance •Unlike industrial agriculture, regenerative agriculture improves the land rather than depletes it. •Regenerative agriculture uses practices that regenerate and revitalize the soil and the environment. •Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon dioxide...
GMO Myths & Facts: A Summary
The following article summarizes the recent publication, GMO Myths and Facts, by Claire Robinson. GMO Myths & Facts: A Summary By Melissa Diane Smith For the past several decades, the public has been fed the rhetoric that genetically modified (GM) crops and foods...