The Environment and Health

Modern humans evolved 200,000 years ago yet our immediate environment hardly changed until the onset of the industrial revolution about 250 years ago. Antibiotics, plastics, gasoline, and in fact much of what we are exposed to in our environment every day did not even exist 100 years ago. Daily our genes, our skin, our respiratory tract, our intestines, our brains are exposed to relatively new substances compared to exposures for 200,000 years. What are the effects on our health? On the next Line One we discuss some concerns about our current environment’s impact on health.

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HOST: Dr. Thad Woodard

• Pamela Miller, Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics
• David O. Carpenter, MD, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment University at Albany

LINKS:

• Institute for Health and the Environment
• Alaska Community Action on Toxics
• National Center for Environmental Health
• 6-minute video describing the work of the National Center for Environmental Health

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LIVE BROADCAST: Monday, September 12, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. AKDT

REPEAT BROADCAST:  Monday, September 12, 2016, at 8:00 p.m. AKDT

DR. WOODARD’S FAVORITE HEALTH AND SCIENCE LINKS:

• Cleveland Clinic
• Mayo Clinic
• MedlinePlus
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• HealthyChildren.org
• American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
• American College of Allergy,  Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI)
• Science Based Medicine
• Quackwatch
• Super Smart Health
• Understanding Health Research

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