environmental toxin

noun

: a small amount of poison found in air, water, food, etc.

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The effort eventually articulated five key aims: Combat America’s chronic disease epidemic — especially cancer, diabetes, and heart disease — by tackling its root causes: poor diet, environmental toxins, and inadequate health care. Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024 For example, sometimes the release of industry-altering trade secrets or dangerous environmental toxins are irreparable harms since their financial impact is difficult or impossible to calculate and no amount of dollars can fix the damage. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024 There is sound evidence that increasing amounts of environmental toxins are likely factors contributing to high rates of disease. David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024 No single French personality corresponds exactly to Alex Jones, but few onlookers would be surprised to hear someone on the fringes of a yellow vest assembly worrying that environmental toxins are turning frogs gay. Justin E. H. Smith, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2020 Innovators reducing these environmental toxins can potentially offer a near-term profitable business model and a generational outcome. Sanskriti Thakur, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Its primary drivers are negative shifts in biology and behavior due to environmental toxins, epigenetic influences, and other genomic disruptors. Sanskriti Thakur, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 When this damage occurs, it is called sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF), and many research studies are focusing on this area of focus when investigating the causes of miscarriage. SDF can occur for any number of reasons, including cell death, environmental toxins, and illness or fever. Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 30 July 2024 Beyond nutrition and diet, environmental toxins, especially endocrine disrupting chemicals, act as estrogen mimickers, binding to estrogen receptors and promoting estrogenic activity. Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 28 June 2024

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“Environmental toxin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/environmental%20toxin. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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