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How Environmental Pollution
Impairs Brain Development
— and How to Protect the Brains
of the Next Generation


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Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of
neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some
environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are
suspected of it, but few have been tested for such effects.

The brain’s development is uniquely sensitive to toxic chemicals, and even small
deficits may negatively impact our academic achievements, economic success, risk
of delinquency, and quality of life. Chemicals such as lead, mercury,
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arsenic, and certain solvents and pesticides
pose an insidious threat to the development of the next generation’s brains.
When chemicals in the environment affect the development of a child’s brain, he
or she is at risk for cognitive deficits, learning disabilities, more serious
mental retardation, ADHD, autism, cerebral palsy, and other disorders that will
remain for a lifetime.

The chemical brain drain can be halted to protect the next generation’s brain
power. First, we need to control all of the 200 industrial chemicals that have
already been proven to affect brain functions in adults, as their effects on the
developing brain are likely even worse. We must also demand routine testing for
brain toxicity, stricter regulation of emissions of brain-toxic chemicals, and
required disclosure on the part of industries who unleash these hazardous
chemicals into products and the environment. Decisions can still be made to
protect the brains of future generations – and some decisions appears to be
seriously overdue. This site aims at furthering information on chemical risks to
brain development and ways to protect the next generation against chemical brain
drain.

Read the October, 2013 interview for Healthy Child Healthy World and The
Atlantic Feature on “The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains” from 18 March, 2014.

Listen to the conversation about “Only one chance” organized by the
Collaborative on Health and Environment (CHE) on 3 December, 2013. CHE also
hosted a brief presentation by Dr Grandjean on “Chemical Brain Drain: How the
Next Generation’s Brain Functions are Endangered by EDCs and Other Environmental
Chemicals” on 16 April 2014. Both the MP3 audio file and the slides are
available here.

See the video on chemical brain drain by Philippe Grandjean (6 minutes):





NEWS BLOG

27
AUG
2019


FLUORIDE ON THE BRAIN

Posted By : Philippe Grandjean
Comments : 0

27 August 2019. A Canadian research study was released a few days ago and was
widely called “controversial”, as it linked water fluoridation to loss of IQ
points in children. Some commentators stated that nothing could be decided on
just a single study, others...

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20
MAY
2019


MERCURY – FROM COAL TO BRAINS

Posted By : admin
Comments : 0

20 May 2019. Mercury – in the form of methylmercury – is an established brain
drainer of global impact. The most recent estimate indicates that 250,000 IQ
points are lost every year in the U.S. due to mercury from contaminated fish and
seafood. In 2009, the United...

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10
MAY
2019


CANNABIS IN THE WOMB

Posted By : Philippe Grandjean
Comments : 2

10 May 2019. There was a time when nobody worried whether a pregnant woman drank
alcoholic beverages. No more. But what about cannabis? Marijuana and derivatives
were generally considered illegal until recently but can now be prescribed for
medicinal use in many countries,...

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18
MAR
2019


TOXIC ANESTHESIA

Posted By : Philippe Grandjean
Comments : 0

18 March 2019. Many surgical procedures are painful, and general anesthesia is a
frequent solution. However, this requires the use of vapors that induce
temporary loss of sensation and attention, in fact the use of neurotoxic agents.
Experimental studies have shown immediate...

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“ONLY ONE CHANCE”

The book was released in mid-2013. It can be ordered directly from Oxford
University Press – click here.

E-book versions are also available both for Kindle and Nook.

"Only One Chance shaves off layer after layer of ignorance, naiveté, and
corruption as it exposes the hidden dangers from industrial chemicals.
Grandjean's book reads like a thriller and gives us a unique chance to decide
that the next generation's brains must be protected against toxic brain
drainers." - Devra Lee Davis, PhD, author of The Secret History of the War on
Cancer and National Book Award finalist.

See scientific journal reviews here and here.

A Danish version now available from Gyldendal: publisher page. E-book and audio
versions are also available in Danish.

A French translation ("Cerveaux en danger") was published by Buchet/Chastel in
February, 2016. A Kindle version is also available.

In a review for Le Monde, Hervé Morin writes: "La démonstration de Philippe
Grandjean est implacable et désespérante... son ­exposé invite à
l’indignation... il est plus que temps de protéger le cerveau des enfants." In
Cerveaux & Psycho, André Picot concludes: “Dans cet ouvrage passionnant,
Philippe Grandjean delivre un message clair: il est urgent d’agir, sans quoi le
prix à payer pour les générations futures risqué d’être lourd. Merci à lui de
nous informer si précisément, son témoignage nous est essentiel.”


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