| I am a scientist with over 300 inventions related to | | | | 1 parts per billion of perchlorate, which many others |
| health, longevity and medicine. This newsletter | | | | are beginning to advocate as well. |
| installment is about rocket fuel that contaminates | | | | Hormones for Everyone |
| drinking water and what effect they have on your | | | | Perchlorate in drinking water alters the production of |
| body. | | | | thyroid hormones in the body. These hormones are |
| He's A Rocket Man | | | | essential for the proper development of fetuses in |
| The next stop on the train of water contamination is | | | | pregnant woman. Fetal and infant development can |
| perchlorate. Commonly referred to as rocket fuel, | | | | be impaired significantly, and even if mothers don't |
| perchlorate is used in the solid propellant of rockets, | | | | consume perchlorate-contaminated water while they |
| missiles, and fireworks. Really, nothing to top your | | | | are pregnant, it is still possible to pass perchlorate to |
| morning Wheaties off better then some rocket fuel. | | | | their newborns through breast milk. |
| Waste from the manufacturing and improper disposal | | | | The hormone that the thyroid gland produces is also |
| of perchlorate is constantly being found in water and | | | | vital within adults. This hormone regulates the |
| soil, and the occurrence of these findings has been | | | | metabolism in the body, which dictates whether you |
| steadily rising over the last few years. 26 out of 50 | | | | gain or lose weight. People who suffer from obesity |
| states have toxic levels of perchlorate in their public | | | | typically have problems with their thyroid glands, so |
| drinking water. Produce from these states also | | | | without medical help, their health condition has little |
| contains high levels of perchlorate, and some food, | | | | chance of improving. Depression, mood swings, |
| namely milk, lettuce, beef, and berries, are known to | | | | mental health functions in general, are all linked to the |
| hold onto more perchlorate than other foods, so | | | | thyroid gland and it's functioning. |
| water isn't the only way to ingest this toxic chemical. | | | | Several defense contractors, including Boeing Aerojet, |
| Recently, the California Protection Agency (EPA) | | | | Kerr-McGee, Lockheed Martin, and McDonnell Douglas, |
| pushed the government to come up with a legal limit | | | | are severally opposed to California's new regulatory |
| on how much perchlorate would be tolerated in public | | | | levels on perchlorate. Such regulations would most |
| drinking water. Although they finally succeeded in | | | | likely force these companies to clean up perchlorate |
| gaining an actual number, the number that was given | | | | contaminations, and such actions would be very |
| was staggeringly different from what was expected. | | | | expensive. Cleaning up the Colorado River would cost |
| The legal limit, permitted now by law, has been set | | | | several billions of dollars, and seeing as how 15 million |
| at 6 parts per billion. Sounds low, but tests | | | | Californians drink from this river, this cleanup seems |
| performed by the National Academy of Sciences, and | | | | rather urgent. |
| later, corroborated by the United States EPA, | | | | Help is on the Way |
| showed that the legal limit could be no higher than 1 | | | | So many people have been exposed to this chemical |
| parts per billion, and that anything higher was a health | | | | that is it's imperative that you have tools to address |
| risk, especially for infants and fetuses. Tests prove | | | | the harmful chemicals that are fighting their way into |
| this, while the defense industry claims that 6 parts | | | | your body at every given moment. Your best option |
| per billion has absolutely no lasting effect on humans. | | | | is to help your body's defense team strike back. |
| However no tests were performed on their behalf to | | | | There are numerous ways to pull heavy metals out |
| verify this. | | | | of the human system. Some methods work for you |
| Out of 70 chemicals for which public health goals | | | | and help support your body's health at the same |
| have been set, perchlorate is one of four that has a | | | | time. The process of pulling heavy metal out of a |
| safety factor of 10, versus the usual safety rating of | | | | human system is called "chelation" (key-LAY-shun). |
| 100 to 1000. As of now, only 8 states have health | | | | Silica is a natural chelator and there are special forms |
| warnings for perchlorate in their drinking water. | | | | of microcluster® silica that are small enough to |
| Massachusetts is jumping on the health train by | | | | reach heavy metals. Ask your vitamin store for it. |
| requiring that their public water contain no more than | | | | |