Pharmaceuticals

Condition
  • Pet products exposure: A lot of people get medication exposure from flea or tick powder or cream they apply to their dogs and cats, or from flea and tick-repelling pet collars.
  • Food supply exposure: Antibiotic-fed animals translate to our ingesting antibiotics when we eat their eggs, meat, fish, and dairy. Even grass-fed, free-range, pastured animals occasionally get infections and get treated with steroids and antibiotics.
  • List of common pharmaceuticals: Common pharmaceuticals include: Antibiotics, Antidepressants, Anti-inflammatories, Sleeping pills, Biologics, Immunosuppressants, Prescription amphetamines, Opioids, Statins, Blood pressure medications, Hormone medications, Thyroid medications, Steroids, The Pill, Pharmaceutical alcohol, Recreational drugs.
  • Medicated creams outgas: From steroid creams to chemotherapy creams, medicated creams outgas a very potent, pungent smell that the person using the cream is unaware of because they live in it. Breathing in this outgassing is exposure.
  • Medications cross blood-brain barrier: Medications of any kind, whether intended for the brain or elsewhere, have the ability to get past the blood-brain barrier and enter every part of the brain because pharmaceuticals are tissue-soluble—there's no part of the brain that's immune or unexposed.
  • Water supply contamination: Pharmaceuticals are entering the water supply because people who take them eliminate them when they go to the bathroom. Medication-laced water becomes part of our food through reservoirs, irrigation, public water supplies, well water near septic tanks, and fish swimming in lakes, rivers, and oceans.
  • Shopping cart handles: Shopping cart handles are where a lot of pharmaceutical residue resides, from pharmaceutical creams and sweat from individuals' palms, which contain pharmaceutical residue if they're on medication.
  • Pool and water park pharmaceutical baths: Swimming in a pool doesn't only lead to pharmaceutical exposure via water supply. There's runoff from people's bodies—their skin, armpits, genitals, mouth, urine, feces, and gas. Chlorine doesn't remove pharmaceutical residue. Pool water can stay for 5+ years, concentrating year after year. Pools are never tested for pharmaceutical levels.
  • Liver stores and time-releases medications: When medication is out of your bloodstream, it's stored deep inside the liver, where it's then time-released back into the bloodstream over future years. A sluggish liver with old pharmaceuticals has to pop a cork every so often, releasing residuals that find their way to the brain.

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