Greening the Womb

02/21/2017

01/17/2017

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11/30/2016

If you want to know why you’ve been married three – or more — times. Or why you just can’t stop smoking. Or why the ability to control your drinking is slipping away from you. Or why you have…

11/30/2016

This is "The Midwives of Standing Rock" by Keegan Gibbs on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/23/2016

November 2, 2016Low-income and Latina pregnant women who seek care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General have widespread exposure to environmental pollutants, many of which show up in higher levels in newborns than the mothers, according to a new study from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Biomonitor...

11/03/2016

If you were to tell the cofounders of Sausalito-based Safe Catch their business is fishy, they’d have to agree. But it would be strictly literal, not figurative.Sean Wittenberg and Bryan Boches, who gr

09/29/2016

What’s Your ACE Score? (and, at the end, What’s Your Resilience Score?) There are 10 types of childhood trauma measured in the ACE Study. Five are personal — physical abuse, verba…

09/29/2016

Cutting-edge research tells us that experiencing childhood emotional trauma can play a large role in whether we develop physical disease in adulthood. In Part 1 of this series we looked at the grow…

09/29/2016

Leading scientists recently identified a dozen chemicals as being responsible for widespread behavioral and cognitive problems. But the scope of the chemical dangers in our environment is likely even greater. Why children and the poor are most susceptible to neurotoxic exposure that may be costing t...

09/23/2016

Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may reduce levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream, according to a new study.

09/15/2016

The microbes living in a baby's gut during its first month of life may directly impact the developing immune system, leading to a higher risk of allergies and asthma later in childhood, according to a new study. The findings highlight the importance of developing early interventions to improve micro...

09/13/2016

“Dr. Hyman, can you tell me more about probiotics? Can supplementing with them really help reduce belly bloat and IBS symptoms? How do you know which ones are good and which ones are a waste of money?” Well – to be frank, our p**p and all the bugs that live in there are the great …