Letter from the Director
Endocrine Disruptors and Personal Health, the theme of this summer issue, is about our relationship with a toxic world. Physician Mitch Gaynor speaks eloquently yet firmly about the need for environmental reform in regards to chemicals in our water, soils and in our bodies. Carolyn Raffensperger argues for precaution. Dr. Lani Simpson articulates a compassionate healthy approach to sun. Naturopath, Marianne Marchese, explores the complex yet compelling issue of hormonal balance and its disruption. My article introduces an emerging problem--pharmaceutical pollution in our water.
Symbiosis: the Journal of Ecological Medicine is filled with information and answers. Green Health Care provides leadership, advocating for one solutions to complex environmental issues, shift to sustainable medical practices. Medicine must be good for people and the environment.
Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA
Executive Director
Health in the News- Endocrine Disruptors
- Chemicals Linked to Declining Indigenous Male Birth
- Drugs in Waste Stream Causing Feminization of Fish
- E.U. Drafts Pharmaceutical Ecotoxicty Test
- Precautionary Principle Adopted in Oregon and Mendocino County, Ca
What You Can Do About Hormone – Disrupting Chemicals
By Marianne Marchese, N.D.
You may know that toxins harmful to human health abound in your everyday environment. You may even be aware that many of these toxins can disrupt human hormonal systems. What you may not realize is the extraordinary number of seemingly small choices you make during every hour of your day that can positively or negatively affect your own and your family’s health as well as the health of the natural world that supports your well-being. Why are these choices so important?
Facts about Endocrine Disruptors
The lateset research provides readers with interesting facts on the effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment on our health.
Gaynor Integrative Oncology:
Interview with Mitchell Gaynor, M.D.
Founder of the Gaynor Integrative Oncology Center in New York City, Dr. Mitch Gaynor, is not only a committed physician and healer, but a pioneer who offers a broad vision of cancer treatment for the future, individualizing his services for each patient with whom he works. Of particular interest to Teleosis readers is Dr. Gaynor’s record in environmental advocacy. Dr. Gaynor speaks clearly and eloquently about the importance and urgency of restoring healthy environments. Teleosis director Joel Kreisberg, D.C, met with him to talk about his groundbreaking work.
ESM Partner:
Science and Environmental Health Network
Science, Ethics, and Action in the Public Interest
In 1994, Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN), decided to act on concerns that she and fellow scientists had about the ways science was being used–and misused–resulting in a failure to protect the environment and human health.SEHN is especially known for promoting “The Precautionary Principle”, which requires action to prevent harm to the environment or human health, whether or not scientific research has proven definitively a cause and effect relationship.
SEHN works with issue-driven organizations, national environmental health coalitions, municipal and state governments and several NGO/government teams to implement precautionary principles and sound environmental policies at local and state levels.
SEHN’s partnerships with researchers, policy-makers, and scientists offer a positive model for moving toward a sustainable health care system for people and the planet.
Be Sun Smart
Member Profile: Lani Simpson, DC
With increasing reports on skin cancer, ozone depletion, and premature aging, many Americans have developed a fear of the sun. In hopes of protecting their children from the negative health effects of sun exposure, parents slather their children with the highest SPF available. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of the health dangers associated with the “protective” sunscreens themselves, which typically contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
What is the solution? How do we protect our skin and get the much needed vitamin D?
Book Review:
Nurture Nature/Nurture Health
written by Mitchell Gaynor, MD
reviewed by Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA
Nurture Nature, Nurture Health, by oncology pioneer Dr. Mitch Gaynor, presents a comprehensive review of the harmful toxins in the environment, where they are found, and how they assault various body systems and affect human health. This book may be the most complete summary of the scientific evidence on the detrimental health effects of human-made toxins that find their way into our bodies. With scholarship and compassion, Gaynor fills this book with facts as well as information on choices readers can make to minimize personal exposure to dangerous toxins.
