Political Quotes

“There was an excellent question posed by a nonphysician as to why it would be safe for a medical device to exist within the baby and approved by the FDA, and I think it is important to understand the physiology of what is the pathophysiology of these chemicals in the human body. The danger with these chemicals is when they actually cross either the air-blood barrier or are deposited into tissue, whether they are ingested, inhaled in a specific form, that then gets deposited and accumulates over time. When they are packaged in a specific device, they don't necessarily start to get absorbed or within a certain amount to prevent certain illnesses. But when you break them down into chemical reactions to actually get deposited, then that is when you come up with illnesses. That is why it is so dangerous, because in terms of the tissue, in terms of the route of ingestion, in terms of the different forms of the way it is accumulated, it can have dire effects. Ninety-seven percent of Americans have or have had harmful PFAS chemicals in their bloodstream. They are known as forever chemicals because, once consumed, they take years and years and years to leave your body. We eat these chemicals when our foods are stored in PFAS-containing packages. And, like I said, there is some leakage there. We drink them when they accumulate in our drinking water in their most basic form.…”