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Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Poisoning Our Children: The Parent's Guide to the Myths of Safe Pesticides

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Health, Alternative Health

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the U.S., there are about 80,000 registered chemicals. Of these, only a few hundred are actually tested for safety, and even that testing is considered inadequate by most toxicologists. Part of the problem is that most chemicals are tested in isolation. In real world application, however, most chemicals are combined with others, and the few studies done on synergetic effects reveal even nontoxic chemicals can become toxic when mixed together.

While there are many sources of chemical exposure, our food is a significant one, as most conventionally farmed foods are sprayed with pesticides. The chemical industry would have you believe pesticide residues on food is of no major concern. Learn more at mercola.com

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Andrew

0:04.6

Loy, who is the former president of Organics International for six years from 2011-2017,

0:12.0

and he is now the international director of Regeneration International,

0:17.9

which we'll talk about a bit in a bit.

0:20.1

But he's written a book called Po poisoning Our Children.

0:27.0

And we're going to talk about that book today.

0:29.2

And I just want to caution you that he is,

0:32.2

as you can tell by his accent coming to us from Australia.

0:35.2

So anytime we have long distance over international interviews, they said the bandwidth becomes challenged, so please excuse the less than optimal video.

0:46.6

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

0:50.6

Thank you for having me.

0:52.2

This is my second book. My first book was called The

0:54.4

Myths of Safe Pesticides when I looked at the science and I realized that

1:00.4

there is no science on the safety of pesticides that's actually based on data-free

1:07.1

assumptions and you know these are really mythologies. When I was researching that I realized there's absolutely no

1:16.7

scientific evidence at all about the safety of pesticides and other chemicals

1:22.2

for our children yet we have hundreds of scientific

1:26.1

studies showing the damage that the smallest amount of pesticides can do. The fact is the site shows there's absolutely no safe level of these

1:39.3

chemicals for children and I think it's very important for parents to learn about it and be aware of what the science says.

1:48.0

One of the key arguments in your book is that the agricultural industry and global chemical industry have actually

1:58.3

ignore the concerns and manipulate.

2:01.8

Can you imagine that they manipulate the data?

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