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"Petrochemicals and solvents. Many general hygiene products—such as skin cream, lotion, soap, shampoo, perfume, hair spray, and room deodorizers—contain petrochemicals. These compounds often have chemical structures similar to estrogen and therefore act like estrogen when introduced into the body. Industrial solvents are another source of xenoestrogens and are commonly found in cosmetics, fingernail polish, fingernail polish remover, glue, paint, varnish, cleaning products, carpet, fiberboard, and other processed woods. Synthetic hormone replacement drugs and birth control pills." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"The commercial uses of volatile compounds break down into three major classes: formaldehyde, organic solvents and pesticides. "Formaldehyde is present in many, many commercial products. It is present in new homes in the building materials, paneling, floors, and ceilings made of plywood or particle board. It's also present in the carpets, fixtures and furnishings. The bad thing about formaldehyde in a building is that it is very slow to dissipate. Its half-life may be 6, 7 or even 10 years. It takes this long before it is dissipated to the point at which the building is safe to live in." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The proper choice of solvent systems is necessary, often requiring the application of gradients of more polar (normal phases) or more hydrophobic solvents (reverse phases), together with the above-mentioned chromatographic supports in different chromatography systems. The sequence and kind of separation methods used depends on the composition of the sample and the experience of the researcher. However, minor flavonoid components are difficult to obtain as pure compounds." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "Signals of solvents most frequently used in the reversed-phase chromatographic systems (CH3CN-D20 and CH3OD-D20) may be suppressed using the WET (water suppression-enhanced through ti effects) technique (Smallcombe et al, 1995). The LC-NMR technique has been applied successfully in several laboratories for the studies of flavonoid compounds from different plant species (Wolfender et al, 1997; Hansen et al, 1999; Lommen et al, 2000; Vilegas et al, 2000; Andrade et al, 2002; Queiroz et al, 2002; Le Gall et al, 2003; de Rijke et al, 2004a; Waridel et al, 2004)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"To conserve fuel, the greaves (precursors to meat and bonemeal) were not heated to the temperatures previously required, and the use of solvents that helped extract a higher percentage of the tallow was abandoned. Scientists theorized that the lower temperatures and lack of solvents allowed the BSE infectious agent to survive and spread through feed. "But meat and bonemeal have been fed to ruminants around the world," I told Prof one day. "Why aren't cases of BSE springing up everywhere?" No one, not even Prof, had an answer to this question. "There has to be another cause," I thought." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"When California researchers, for example, studied the association between autism and environmental pollution in the San Francisco Bay area, they discovered a potential connection between ambient metal concentrations, and possibly chlorinated solvents, and an increased risk for autism. A lot of controversy has also emerged concerning the mercury preservative called thimerosol used in vaccines, as some believe it can cause autism." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"In Britain, rendering then involved the use of organic solvents and steam applied under high pressure; this process sterilized the resulting mess and killed anything that might be infectious. The solvents were dangerously flammable, however, and the energy costs high. In the late 1970s, the British industry—but not Tenderers in other countries—adopted a cheaper method, one that omitted solvents and cooked the offal at lower temperatures. Most rendering plants in Great Britain switched to that system by the early 1980s.3 The new method killed most bacteria and viruses." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"At that time, only the four below-ground tanks of degreasing solvents, fuels, and unknown chemicals were emptied. Despite the fact that the soil and groundwater were contaminated at what were termed "high concentrations," the state classified the site as an inactive hazardous waste site—the area was not deemed as "presently constituting a significant threat to human health or the environment." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "You can green your home as best you can, eat organic, avoid dry cleaning the clothes, throw out the solvents, and buy bedding sans flame retardants, but can you find that hallowed ground far from the chemical-driven American industrial machine? It is difficult to locate that halcyon land where toxic waste sites, nasty landfills, dry-cleaner TCE spills, and PCB-laced soil don't linger nearby—which is part of the reason why it is so hard to prove cause and effect between toxic waste and any disease cluster." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The isolation of target compounds from plant extracts with different solvents permitted one to distinguish two groups of compounds: oligomers of flavan-3-ols and a series of their 5-O-glucosylated derivatives. It was demonstrated that the fragmentation obtainable in ToF analyzers due to the postsource decay (PSD) technique permits the achievement of fragment-protonated molecules of flavan-3-ol trimers and tetramers together with sequence information (Behrens et al., 2003). 3." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"The DEC had investigated the site in the mid 1980s and found the 6,250-square-foot locale to be heavily contaminated with de-greasing solvents such as trichloroethylene (TCE), vinyl chloride, and other particularly dangerous toxic agents commonly used in the manufacturing of metal items to clean off oils, greases, and other petroleum products, as well as a large number of other volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs. VOCs vaporize easily at room temperature and enter the surrounding atmosphere, where, studies show, vapors can linger as pollution for long periods of time." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Avoid pesticides, chemicals, solvents, and heavy metals. • Eat organic foods. • Drink purified water. • Maintain good digestion and regular bowel habits. • Avoid alcohol. liver's ability to break down environmental and naturally occurring estrogen, is worthy of consideration. Certain foods and supplements aid in enhancing the body's ability to mount a natural immune response. Optimal liver function involves enhancing the liver's ability to detoxify hormones, excess medicines, and toxins through two main phases, called phase I and phase II detoxification." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Nail varnishes and polishes include such toxic ingredients as formaldehyde, a carcinogen; parabens and phthalates, both hormone disrupters; and toluene and other petrochemical solvents, some of which are highly volatile Many nail polishes contain the phthalate dibutyl pthalate (DBP), so it should not have been a surprise when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested the blood of 289 people in 2000 and detected DBP in every person's body. The highest levels were recorded in women twenty to forty years of age, the prime childbearing years ?" - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Another major group of contaminants called phthalates (pronounced "thowl-ates"), which are used as solvents or fixing agents in perfumes, body lotions, and other cosmetics, were detected in most cord blood samples. The most commonly used phthalate, DEHP, was found in twenty-four of the twenty-seven samples. The report referred to numerous studies which, in the words of the researchers, "have shown a correlation between premature breast development in girls younger than eight years old and the concentrations of the phthalate DEHP in their blood." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The Six Families of Hormone Disrupters The six major classes of hormone disrupters in many cosmetics and personal care products include preservatives, detergents (or surfactants), solvents (or plasticizers), metalloestrogens, lavender and tea tree oil, and sunscreen ingredients. Preservatives Preservatives are the most widely used hormone-disruptive ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. Three types of preservatives pose major health concerns: parabens, triclosan, and resorcinol." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Resins, notably tosylamide or formaldehyde, to make the polish tough and resilient. • solvents, to facilitate application of the polish. These include toluene and ethyl acetate. • Clay, to suspend the ingredients and facilitate application. • Plasticizer, particularly dibutyl phthalate (DBP), to prevent chips and cracks. • UV stabilizer, to prevent fading from light, particularly sunlight. Artificial fingernails, also known as sculpted or acrylic nails, have also become increasingly popular." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"When the use of these solvents was discontinued this may have allowed the scrapie agent to remain viable. It was shortly after Tenderers stopped using these solvents that the first cases of BSE began to appear in cattle in the United Kingdom. Although this has been one of the theories posed, many other theories exist and an exact cause has never been established. Scrapie and BSE are caused by a prion, which is neither a bacteria nor a virus." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "In addition, the United States, like the United Kingdom, stopped using solvents as a regular part of the rendering process, which some scientists theorize could be related to the BSE outbreak in the United Kingdom. According to a report from the BSE Inquiry, "By 1970, most of the solvent extraction plants in the U.S. had blown up, burned down, or closed for safety."12 Basically, the United States was left wide open for a BSE outbreak. By 1985, renderers were still rendering sheep heads, solvents were no longer a part of U.S. rendering, and very few cattle were being tested for BSE." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"While we know from occupational studies that groups of people who are exposed to certain chemicals through their jobs, like those working with TCE-based solvents, have a much greater risk of developing autoimmune disease, we are still unable to see and document the cellular chain of events that causes that exposure to lead to disease. Nevertheless, the quest to make the invisible visible—and demonstrate, in lab animals, how exposure to a particular chemical causes autoimmunity—is the holy grail of autoimmune disease and immunotoxicology research." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Industrial solvents are another source of xenoestrogens and are commonly found in cosmetics, fingernail polish, fingernail polish remover, glue, paint, varnish, cleaning products, carpet, fiberboard, and other processed woods. Synthetic hormone replacement drugs and birth control pills. Synthetic hormone repla cement drugs such as Premarin, Prempro, Femhrt, Menest, Ortho-Est, Activella, and many other brand names, as well as birth control pills, contribute to the development or worsening of estrogen dominance." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Pesticides are disbursed in the mist of solvents and detergents, both of which are actually more allergenic than the pesticide itself. It may also be, when we say pesticide, we have to think of the whole picture. You don't get pesticide in pure form, you get it in the trade forms, whether it's kerosene or some other vehicle, and the vehicle itself may be more noxious and particularly more sensitizing than the pesticide." Among other everyday sources of environmental toxins are paint, perfume, furniture, and carpets." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"There are now some green dry cleaners out there that use silicone-based solvents instead of the conventional kind; there are also wet cleaners that use water and detergent instead of solvents. These are good alternatives to traditional dry cleaners, but they are both more expensive than the standard. So just remember that hand washing often does the trick." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In Britain, rendering then involved the use of organic solvents and steam applied under high pressure; this process sterilized the resulting mess and killed anything that might be infectious. The solvents were dangerously flammable, however, and the energy costs high. In the late 1970s, the British industry—but not Tenderers in other countries—adopted a cheaper method, one that omitted solvents and cooked the offal at lower temperatures. Most rendering plants in Great Britain switched to that system by the early 1980s.3 The new method killed most bacteria and viruses." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"From a mile away this woman would pick up drifts and her immune system was responding to the solvents and detergents that are used to disperse the sprays over a wide area. But when we measured her cholinesterase, we found that it fluctuated. When it went down—meaning it was inactivated by pesticide exposure—then she would have more symptoms, particularly depressions. When she would recover and be at her high level—meaning she was not impaired—she would feel perfectly healthy and normal and was a vivacious, dynamic person. I call this the 'pesticide neurosis." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Such reversal in the direction of the hydride attack could probably be explained in terms of the presence of hydrogen bonding in aprotic solvents. Catechin 80 represents the only flavan-3-ol synthesized from the corresponding dihydroflavonol (Weinges, 1958; Freudenberg and Weinges, 1958). Consecutive treatment of 2,3-/ra«s-3-0-acetyldihydroquercetin tetra-O-benzyl ether 78 with L1AIH4 and H2/Pd gave the free phenolic flavan-3-ol 79 in optically pure form (Scheme 1.7)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Common cleaning products, formaldehyde, toluene, and benzene are all solvents (meaning they are capable of dissolving other substances) we can typically encounter in daily life when we pump gas, shop for clothes, buy a new car, and pick up laundry. These fat-soluble chemicals collect in the fatty tissues of the body rather than being excreted quickly. They are particularly damaging to those who are deficient in essential fatty acids, because a body deprived of essential fats is a body that will grab onto oily substances—even if that includes toxic substances like diesel fuel?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"We are exposed to hazardous wastes, emissions from local waste incinerators, solvents, heavy metals, ground-water pollutants including industrial heavy metal waste products such as arsenic, common materials such as phthalates (plasticizers found in all plastic bottles), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants). A recent study of umbilical cord blood found 287 toxic chemicals, 217 of which are toxic to the brain and nervous system. And this is what infants are exposed to even before they take their first breath."" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Now let us give more exact definitions: CRYSTALLINE - means it had a natural food as its original source but probably was treated with various high powered chemicals, solvents, heat, and distillations to reduce it down to one specific pure crystalline vitamin or amino-acid. It is no longer natural. It no longer has its synergists (enzymes, coenzymes, minerals, mineral activators, and co-vitamin helpers). It has been reduced to a pure simple crystalline powder." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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