Showing posts with label chemicals in water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chemicals in water. Show all posts

Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Drugs Added To Water Supply




'As if flouride and hexavalent chromium in public water supplies aren’t bad enough, health authorities are now pushing for the addition of drug statins as well. Drug companies claim that statins will lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks and strokes, but researchers have proven that the drugs only benefit a quarter of people taking them. There are some very troubling side-effects, especially if there is no history of heart problems.'


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Chemicals in the Water Still Bending Genders in Wildlife -- Is it Happening to Us, Too?


Endocrine disrupters are still changing the sex of some aquatic organisms, which may continue to find its way into humans later on down the food chain.

'As the world takes pause to recognize the importance, and often perilous state, of its waterislands of plastic drifting in the ocean, to industrial runoff and poorly managed waste polluting lakes and rivers--it's all too easy to feel overwhelmed. But, as disturbing the image of animal tangled in our discarded waste is, one less visible contaminant continues to wreak havoc on aquatic ecosystems worldwide, and its implications are almost more troubling. For decades, substances found in many common products have found their into our planet's water and are altering the hormones of wildlife until, in some cases, it changes their sex entirely--and the same thing may be happening to us?'


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