Re: Re: Maybe we should be testing for pesticide levels in our blood!

[Guest guest]

Janie,

Chemicals of all kinds are so deadly. Most of us just have no idea. Most of

them are not or barely tested for long term effects. Yet, our gov. agencies

continue to approve them.

My youngest brother, 47, died two years ago from using benzene. He was diagnosed

in Jan. with lung cancer and was dead the end of April. It was that aggressive.

He was a chemist and mud engineer and they just had no idea at the time he was

using it that it was that toxic. No damn long term studies.

But this country would grind to a hault without the big business of medicine and

pharmaceuticals. Hope I don't step on anyones toes but I am understandably

skeptical. They did chemo on my brother when they knew there was no hope at all

and it made him so sick. I DO NO TRUST ANY OF THEM. We are our own best

physician.

Off the soapbox!!

Deborah

P.S. I tested allergic to DDT and one other pesticide/chemical.

Re: Maybe we should be testing for pesticide

levels in our blood!

So ironic that you bring this up, Bev, because I had just posted in

the NTH Coffeehouse that I was concerned about the pesticide level

in coffee. Coffee is one of the top 5 foods with high levels!!

Several months ago, we switched to organic coffee, which uses less

or no pesticides. We ought to stay with this topic.

Janie

[Guest guest]

OH! a friend of mine is having a very serious health problem now. They believe

it goes back to 20 years ago when he worked with benzene. They tried to test his

bone marrow, and it is all fibrous - not good....

Cris

Re: Re: Maybe we should be testing for

pesticide levels in our blood!

Janie,

Chemicals of all kinds are so deadly. Most of us just have no idea. Most of

them are not or barely tested for long term effects. Yet, our gov. agencies

continue to approve them.

My youngest brother, 47, died two years ago from using benzene. He was diagnosed

in Jan. with lung cancer and was dead the end of April. It was that aggressive.

He was a chemist and mud engineer and they just had no idea at the time he was

using it that it was that toxic. No damn long term studies.

But this country would grind to a hault without the big business of medicine and

pharmaceuticals. Hope I don't step on anyones toes but I am understandably

skeptical. They did chemo on my brother when they knew there was no hope at all

and it made him so sick. I DO NO TRUST ANY OF THEM. We are our own best

physician.

Off the soapbox!!

[Guest guest]

I live 20-30 miles from Dow Chemical, Tx Division. Benzene has been known for

it's destruction for a long time now. They all DID know, during the last 20 yrs

or so, maybe more. Coverups.

Re: Re: Maybe we should be testing for

pesticide levels in our blood!

OH! a friend of mine is having a very serious health problem now. They

believe it goes back to 20 years ago when he worked with benzene. They tried to

test his bone marrow, and it is all fibrous - not good....

Cris

[Guest guest]

this poor man - he worked in the steel mills and was exposed to benzene. then in

a sewage treatment facility, and exposed to other chemicals. He's been in bad

health for years. about 9 years ago, they gave him 5 years to live at most.

and ...this is making me think..again! LOL - my dad had very young alzheimers. I

mentioned that I wondered if it could have been thyroid related. His family has

a History of alzhemers, but at an older age. and even when he died, and we had

his brain autopsey'd, the alzheimers showed up, but near as bad as it should

have for as bad as he was. He worked in a steel mill since he was 17 - with

exceptions of when he went in the military - served in WWII and the Korean war -

so he could have been exposed there - even in experimental tests thru our own

government -

Just after he died, there was a class action law suit from the steel mill - he

didn't qualify because they needed lung tissue, and we hadn't had that

autopsied. But it was about chemical damage - really makes me think.

Cris

Re: Re: Maybe we should be testing for

pesticide levels in our blood!

I live 20-30 miles from Dow Chemical, Tx Division. Benzene has been known for

it's destruction for a long time now. They all DID know, during the last 20 yrs

or so, maybe more. Coverups.