Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr.

Dr. Aviva Ram back here with you with Natural MD Radio, episode 139.

I hope this episode comes to you doing something

enjoyable, maybe something nourishing for yourself,

maybe some movement outside in nature, and I hope it finds you and your

loved ones well.

We're all painfully aware of the changes happening to our planet, global warming, loss of whole species of songbirds and butterflies

due to extinction, changing weather patterns that are wreaking havoc on communities around the world.

It's overwhelming at times to think about and

maybe even a little depressing. Not to add to your worries and I'm sorry if it does

but it's important to say the same burdens our planet is facing are being played out on the

landscape of our personal and our children's health. In the past decade we've seen continued

escalation in health conditions affecting kids from allergies like food

and environmental allergies to asthma, eczema and even autoimmune conditions.

I've had kids in my medical practice as young as two years old that I'm treating

for conditions like rheumatoid arthritis. Many of these conditions can be traced

back to environmental toxin exposures. These exposures also affect our fertility and genetics

and we pass the impact down to our babies at conception. Then we download more toxins during pregnancy.

In fact, several studies have shown that by the time babies

are born, they already have nearly 300 different environmental chemicals detectable in their blood.

Heavy metals are a big problem too. A study done in New York show that Asian women of child-bearing age,

due to their high fish consumption, had blood levels of mercury that exceeded federal lifetime safety standards, and that that mercury

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