Another thing I think that is important to note is where PCBs are found. Those can cause cancerous affects to the body and be toxic to the immune, neuro, and repro systems. Therefore, I believe its highly imperative that we watch our exposure to PCBs. Many PCBs were found in older products and now are discontinued since they were found to have cancerous affects on the human body. Personally, I am very aware of what chemicals I am exposed to and would like to limit my use of anything that causes more exposure to toxins. It would be important to me to find out what toxins are in my body so I could be more careful to the exposures around me so I could limit it.
Monday, September 10, 2018
M3.1 Biomonitoring
Body Burden testing unpleasantly surprises me that there are so many chemicals that can affect our body in a negative way. Children are exposed to high risks of these chemicals and its frightening that human health is so affected by so many products. There are so many chemicals that can have a negative affect on the human body. Many chemicals were found in Cooper's body and they were determined by the environment he grew up in. I would like to be cautious of any chemicals that would cause infertility since I aspire to have children someday.
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Hi Snay,
ReplyDeleteI agree that as women there is a need to be more cautious with our exposure to toxins. As we know, for those of us that would like to have children, the dangers increase as exposures increase. It's quite frightening though that we may do our best to limit exposures, but they still find their way into our system, many times via avenues we can not control. However, I praise you for being mindful and doing the best to control what you have the ability to control.
It's great that you're consciously aware of the chemicals you're placing in your body. I would like think I'm that mindful as well, but I can't say it some level of uncertainty. One aspect of the body burden test that's unfair (besides the results) is the cost of the test (Avg cost is $1500), and most insurance companies will not pay for this test. Which means most of us wouldn't be able to get a test like and make the pertinent changes based on those results to make a difference for ourselves.
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