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 show, but today I do. My guest today does not have a household name. Well, unless you're an environmental health geek like I am.

But in my opinion, he should. Dr. Philip Landrigan's work has directly impacted our daily lives.

Every time you're in your car, filling it with fuel, or walking into your house,

and don't have to worry that your child might be exposed to lead paint. It's thanks to Dr. Landrigan.

Dr. Landrigan was the first to document the effects of lead poisoning on American children,

which led to the US government mandating the removal of lead from gas now over 40 years

ago in 1976.

His contributions also directly led to restrictions on lead in air and lead in paint. With the reduction of

lead from these sources the blood level of every child, actually every American

fell by more than 40 percent and with it he spared children significant losses in their

intelligence, moods, and overall well-being. The expression you can't fight

City Hall just doesn't apply to this man. He has fought City Hall on all of our

behalf and has had major monumental winds. After getting the lead out, Dr Landrigan turned

his attention to cleaning up our food supply.

He chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee between 1988 and 1993, whose work culminated

in pesticides in the diets of infants and children, a groundbreaking

report that brought light to the fact that children are uniquely susceptible to the effects

of pesticides. The report called for making pesticide standards

ten times more stringent than they had been previously and two major

pesticides were banned from the residential market. This work also fueled the Congressional Passage of the Food Quality Protection

Act of 1996, a major federal pesticide law that finally considered children's

special vulnerabilities to food chemicals.

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