Chemical Complexity
What is the 30 year impact on genetically modified corn? How does that impact shift when combined with Novex hair spray inhaled once a day for 10 seconds? Or Shimo hair spray inhaled twice a day for 15 seconds? With or without a bathroom fan running? What about a negative ion clean air purifier? Is there a chemical reaction that takes place as hairspray passes through that? And mingled with unleaded fuel? Or diesel fumes. Does the temperature of inhalation make a difference, as in taking a sauna right after inhaling car fumes? Is there anyone at all tracking the complex interactions of any of these things together? 100 years ago one might be exposed to coal, wood smoke, and some gasoline smells, as well as alcohol and a few cleaning agents. Today the list is infinitely longer:- Fumes as you walk by the nail polisher
- Unleaded fuel
- Diesel fuel
- Fire starters
- Genetically modified food
- Chemically preserved, colored, fertilized and pesticide food with hundreds of variations.
- Artificial flavors.
- Vapors from new plastic.
- Off gassing from new houses, paint and carpet.
- Burning garbage containing many toxic substances.
- Medicinal drugs and supplements of all kinds.
It is not just the categories which have increased, but the variations within those categories. There are hundreds of types of sleeping pills, hundreds of supplements. And there are concoctions of these chemicals that can kill or weaken someone, when any one would not. No one is tracking the complex relationship of all of these things and not enough information is known about the impact of taking any one of them. For the last 10 million years the human body has not been subject to 99% of the items it is exposed to in today's lifestyle. This shift of exposure to unfamiliar substances can create stress that is hard to measure so no one can say how much a factor it is.
