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This information is best perused while reading and
consulting the book: Experimental Man: What one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world
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Featured Images: Environment
 Click the box above for slide show from "The Pollution Within",
National Geographic, 2006, by David Ewing Duncan. Photographs by Peter Essick
View the National Geographic
"toxic house" graphic |
Chemical body burden study: summary of tests
Environmental toxins tested for: 320
Number of toxins detected: 165
Types of chemicals tested: metals, pesticides,
dioxins, PCBs, flame retardants, phthalates, PFOs, Bisphenol A, and more.
The author's "chemical report card" (National
Geographic)
Chart of main results, author's levels compared CDC studies
Lab where most tests were run: Axys Analytical
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Flame Retardants: Results |
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Book Guide: "Light my fire", pages 117-123 |
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DDT: Results |
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Book Guide: "Idyllic childhood in Kansas, except for the
toxic waste dump", pages 129-138 |
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PCB: Results |
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Book Guide: "Hotspot on the Hudson", pages 139-144 |
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Phthalates: Results |
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Book Guide: "Whose body burden?", pages 145-146 |
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Metals: Results |
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Book Guide: several chapters, pages 3-10; 159-162; 171-173 |
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Additional information on the EPA superfund
site near author's boyhood home in Kansas: FINAL |
| SECOND FIVE-YEAR REVIEW REPORT, DOEPKE-HOLLIDAY
SITE, JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS (EPA, 2005) |
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Book Guide: "Idyllic childhood in Kansas, except for the
toxic waste dump", pages 129-138 |
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Definition: "The use of genetic risk factors to determine a
person's sensitivity to environmental influences, such as exposure to
chemical toxins." |
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Author's results for Genetic Markers for Mercury Sensitivity |
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Book Guide: pages 3-10; 159-162; 171-173 |
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Chart of several genetic variations linked to environmental
factors, with author's results (food, allergies, obesity, and skin cancer) |
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| Genetic Pathways Impacted by Toxins |
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What is this?: Toxins can impact a gene that is part of a
pathway of genes that regulate, say, the respiratory system. Impacting the
one gene can cause changes in genes throughout the system. |
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Book Guide: "Do my genes protect me", pages 161-162 |
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Click here for a section of the book on pathways that was
cut in the final draft, which includes charts from geneticist Carolyn
Mattingly showing pathways and genes that she links to some of the author’s
genetic results. |
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Links to Labs and Companies
Ake Bergmen
Axys Analytical
Comparative Toxicogenomic
Database
National Institutes for Health Chemical
Genomics Center
More contributors to come
For more information:
Centers for Disease
Control's National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: A
major source of information and data for the environment section of Experimental
Man
Environmental Protection Agency: A rich
source of information about chemicals, pollution, and U.S. regulations
Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry: This website provides comprehensive toxicological profiles
for many chemicals, including mercury, DDT, PCBs, and others.
Environmental Working Group: This
environmental activist organization has conducted pioneering work on chemical
body burden
Commonweal: A great environmental group based in Bolinas, CA that
has run chemical body burden studied on prominent Californians
America
Chemistry Council: An organization representing the chemical industry
Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH): Information
about the European Union’s new regulations on chemicals and their usage,
including laws that require the testing of many new chemicals for toxicity
before they are approved
National Library of Medicine: This website from the National Library of
Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, contains a wide
variety of specialized information regarding environmental health and toxicology
The Genes and Environment Initiative: A major program at the NIH
for studying this topic
"The
Pollution Within", by David Ewing Duncan, National Geographic, November,
2006
PBS: Bill
Moyer's Special: Trade Secrets: Chemical Body Burden
Our Stolen Future, by Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, website and blogs
More to come
E-wasteinsights
Our Stolen Future
The Daily Green
The Green Life (Sierra
Club)
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