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Flushing Our Forests. How does your toilet paper rank with regards to sustainability? The Natural Resources Defense Council developed a sustainability scorecard to toilet paper brands due to the destruction of Canada’s Boreal Forest. However...

Toxic Outdoor Air. While China may be releasing a banned chemical into the air that is ozone-destroying, we’ve got our own problems here in the U.S. The Guardian reports, “Chemicals experts outside the industry say lobbying efforts demonstrate strategies...

It Isn’t Talked About. One thing rarely mentioned in initiatives to combat obesity and disease is exposure to obesogenic environmental chemicals. This group of chemicals acts directly on fat cells to increase their number or storage by altering...

Couples Are Having Less Sex. An article published in USA Today suggested the pace of modern life is to blame for couples having less sex. Sure. I get it. The pace of modern life could certainly be a factor. But could there also be other factors to...

The Watchdogs Have Our Back. The Environmental Working Group reminds us that if you can’t purchase a particular “ingredient” from your grocery store in order to prepare a food at home, you probably shouldn’t be eating it! VOCs...

And Dr. Daniel Amen Understands. After studying over 140,000 brain scans in his 30-year career, he knows that substance abuse and drug abuse can affect brain functioning. And he understands the importance of avoiding toxicants. Because toxicants are also...

Caution. You Can Lose Your Job. CBD is part of the panel testing for THC in mandatory drug testing for work or for those on parole who are tested for drugs in Michigan (and probably other states.) The name of the drug test is “MUST” =...

And We Swim In It. Water, that is. How do we know if the water is safe to swim in? Has it really come to this on our planet? Unfortunately, the answer is “yes.” Dumping Chemicals in Our Surface Water. Ann Arbor’s MLive news posted a story where 2,693...

It Starts with Floss. USA Today published an article on Oral-B Glide floss potentially tied to levels of the toxic chemical family of PFAS in our bodies. Higher levels of one PFAS chemical was found in women who flossed with Oral-B, when compared to those...