How Lead And Other Environmental Toxins Are Affecting Us

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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How Lead And Other Environmental Toxins Are Affecting Us | This episode is brought to you by Simple Mills

Eighty thousand toxic chemicals have been released into our environment since the dawn of the industrial revolution, yet very few have been tested for their long-term impact on human health. This has both major health and economic consequences. Every year we spend 50 billion dollars and lose 23 million IQ points to lead toxicity alone, which affects people of color the most, regardless of social class and income level. And you may be surprised to learn that there are many government policies and even sanctioned decisions to dump toxins that end up poisoning communities of color and stealing children’s cognition and health.

Dr. Hyman sat down with Harriet Washington to discuss how we are ignoring this massive health crisis and what can be done to fix it.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada’s Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law. She has held fellowships at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.

This episode is sponsored by Simple Mills. Right now, Simple Mills is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 20% off. Just head over to simplemills.com and use code HYMAN20 to try their Artisan Bread Mix and other amazing products to stock up for the holidays.

Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation, “How We Are Poisoning Our Children,” with Harriet Washington here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/HarrietWashington

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, what happens is that it's not diagnosed until problems appear and then it's not diagnosed as lead poisoning. Part of the problem is when you have an exposure that precedes the discovered symptoms by 13 or 14 years or even by 20 years, it's really hard to tie it to the initial exposure.
0:22.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. Well the holiday season is fast approaching, I'm already starting to plan some meals with family and close friends who are part of my quarantine bubble.
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2:11.0	Just head over to simplemills.com and use the code Hyman20 to try their Artisan Bread Mix and other amazing products to stock up for the holidays.
2:21.0	Now let's get back to this week's episode of The Doctors Pharmacy.
2:24.0	Hi, I'm Kya Peruit, one of the producers of the Doctors Pharmacy podcast.
2:28.0	80,000 toxic chemicals have been released into our environment since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
2:34.0	And very few have been tested for their long-term impact on human health.
2:38.0	You might be surprised to learn that there are many government policies and even sanctioned decisions to dump toxins in areas that poison communities and steal children's cognition and health.
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