I’m afraid many products worldwide are made in China. Unfortunately, goods made in China are often of poor quality and harmful. It’s disappointing. (I’m Chinese and currently living in China, unfortunately.)
I'm tackling part of the issue of toxin remediation with my new venture, NeutraOat (neutraoat.com). It's a modified oat fiber supplement that selectively traps BPA, PFAS, and plasticizers in the gut and reduces levels in the blood serum.
The funding for this is tough, though. Everyone loves the idea, but it's difficult to find people to fund R&D to make sure the product actually works over brand building and marketing. I've had to be very scrappy.
Have you tried Kickstarter or any of the social funding platforms? Don’t know if R&D is allowed but maybe you start with brand & marketing then quickly move to testing.
There are infinite problems in health. Check out the book Bottle of Lies about the Generic Drug Industry. There are tonnes of Industry Standards, unfortunately many of them are not used as much as they should be. Standards only work if people demand certification - or through supply chain. If you want to discuss this, happy to chat. You can only try to solve this problem through standards + certification + awareness.
Sounds like total b.s. I grew up in a town with lead mining and a lead smelter. Some of the highest levels of lead recorded were found in some children. The air was visibly polluted, the dirt was polluted, the river through the middle of town was white with pollution. Many from my high school worked in the mines and smelter and were exposed to yet more pollution before going to university and becoming a number of engineers, a number of lawyers, a few doctors and-for the less intelligent- a number of teachers. We had incentives to improve and go. I would never say pollution is good (though radon may actually be); but the hysteria over some of it suggests fundamental, biological stupidity before the exposure.
I work in a lab where we do metals testing. I have time to do some personal work on the side. I could test a product or three every day and publish the results. I can’t afford to buy the products. Any suggon which products to start with (a whole list is fine) and how to fund the project?
Why is "empowering people as citizen scientists" the right approach?
It's clear to me that no one has succeeded at solving this yet, but not at all clear that citizen science is going to be the winning solution. How do you empower citizen scientists in such a way that it actually changes the market?
You are on the right track in terms of these toxins directly impacting children.
When it comes to the part of the problem though with respect to the outcomes, the toxicity is far overshadowed instead by subversive elements that people have been blinded to in the structure of centralized education for quite a long time now. Centralized education since the 90s has been about destroying minds, not fostering them.
You may not be aware, but there are techniques that originate from actual torture that are solely psychological. Torture is the practice and study of imposing psychological stress on a person beyond their ability to cope, primarily for physiological effect. These things have been silently and subtly embedded into the classroom in diabolically clever ways, and these techniques are taught as pedagogy which the teachers learned to parrot without knowing what they were doing. Its a spectrum of course, so there are some better teachers but these are such a minority and all it takes is 1 bad teacher to set these things up on a lag for many students (i.e. to induce trauma).
To even have a rational framework to recognize these things, you literally have to go back and read case studies from publications following the Korean Conflict (1950s), and then move forward among several diverse subjects and related developments that came out of Mao's China, from there to the CIA(COINTELPRO/KUBARK)/Stasi (Zersetzung), and beyond (Paulo Freire, Common Core, etc).
Once you have an objective framework and definition for these things, you see these things being used literally everywhere, primarily to induce reduction of rational thought, thought reform in the form of involuntary hypnosis, and even school mass shootings match up with the criteria when a person breaks to the 2nd cohort of mental breaks which are semi-lucid psychosis seeking annihilation.
People often think they'll know torture when they see it, and that may have been true when it was crude and required resorting to physical violence, but that is no longer true for the psychological torture of the modern world, and people have been blind to it for over three decades.
Worse yet, the most intelligent people are impacted the worst because they have more perception and awareness than other people, people that are less intelligent habituate the torture shrugging it off, intelligent people are sensitized by such patterns of abuse through operant conditioning.
There's a harsh truth. For the last 30 years, people have been getting dumber because its profitable. The intelligent people that would normally raise people around them up have been dying silently. Sometimes its just their minds that are destroyed, either from needing so much anti-anxiety or depression medication that they are effectively chemically lobotomized, and other times these things just drive them to suicide (from bullying etc), in the end it disrupts their lives enough that they aren't having children, and the cycle fails.
Atlas who holds the weight of the world is not unlike the gifted, but who will hold the weight of the world when all the intelligent people have died and vanished, and who will solve the impossible problems created on a lag by the last generation that threaten future existence at a species level.
Where all the canaries in the coal mine died without notice. Whose to say any of us will survive.
A lot of people think the educated are intelligent, but the two are independent of each other and education in most places today actively selects the truly gifted out at early stages inducing trauma and conditioning which reduces or negates the benefits of cognitive speed and performance. Its not just environment fallout like heavy metals doing the poisoning, you have a lot of subversives poisoning the well too. We now live in a disadvantaged environment, that will eventually threaten our existence. While these things are slow moving, the hysteresis between recognition often ensures no action can be taken in time. When hysteresis has you the only thing you can do really is brace for a random chance at survival and then triage afterwards.
I’m afraid many products worldwide are made in China. Unfortunately, goods made in China are often of poor quality and harmful. It’s disappointing. (I’m Chinese and currently living in China, unfortunately.)
I'm tackling part of the issue of toxin remediation with my new venture, NeutraOat (neutraoat.com). It's a modified oat fiber supplement that selectively traps BPA, PFAS, and plasticizers in the gut and reduces levels in the blood serum.
The funding for this is tough, though. Everyone loves the idea, but it's difficult to find people to fund R&D to make sure the product actually works over brand building and marketing. I've had to be very scrappy.
Have you tried Kickstarter or any of the social funding platforms? Don’t know if R&D is allowed but maybe you start with brand & marketing then quickly move to testing.
There are infinite problems in health. Check out the book Bottle of Lies about the Generic Drug Industry. There are tonnes of Industry Standards, unfortunately many of them are not used as much as they should be. Standards only work if people demand certification - or through supply chain. If you want to discuss this, happy to chat. You can only try to solve this problem through standards + certification + awareness.
You can see many standards here https://standards.nimonik.com
Sounds like total b.s. I grew up in a town with lead mining and a lead smelter. Some of the highest levels of lead recorded were found in some children. The air was visibly polluted, the dirt was polluted, the river through the middle of town was white with pollution. Many from my high school worked in the mines and smelter and were exposed to yet more pollution before going to university and becoming a number of engineers, a number of lawyers, a few doctors and-for the less intelligent- a number of teachers. We had incentives to improve and go. I would never say pollution is good (though radon may actually be); but the hysteria over some of it suggests fundamental, biological stupidity before the exposure.
I work in a lab where we do metals testing. I have time to do some personal work on the side. I could test a product or three every day and publish the results. I can’t afford to buy the products. Any suggon which products to start with (a whole list is fine) and how to fund the project?
Why is "empowering people as citizen scientists" the right approach?
It's clear to me that no one has succeeded at solving this yet, but not at all clear that citizen science is going to be the winning solution. How do you empower citizen scientists in such a way that it actually changes the market?
You are on the right track in terms of these toxins directly impacting children.
When it comes to the part of the problem though with respect to the outcomes, the toxicity is far overshadowed instead by subversive elements that people have been blinded to in the structure of centralized education for quite a long time now. Centralized education since the 90s has been about destroying minds, not fostering them.
You may not be aware, but there are techniques that originate from actual torture that are solely psychological. Torture is the practice and study of imposing psychological stress on a person beyond their ability to cope, primarily for physiological effect. These things have been silently and subtly embedded into the classroom in diabolically clever ways, and these techniques are taught as pedagogy which the teachers learned to parrot without knowing what they were doing. Its a spectrum of course, so there are some better teachers but these are such a minority and all it takes is 1 bad teacher to set these things up on a lag for many students (i.e. to induce trauma).
To even have a rational framework to recognize these things, you literally have to go back and read case studies from publications following the Korean Conflict (1950s), and then move forward among several diverse subjects and related developments that came out of Mao's China, from there to the CIA(COINTELPRO/KUBARK)/Stasi (Zersetzung), and beyond (Paulo Freire, Common Core, etc).
Once you have an objective framework and definition for these things, you see these things being used literally everywhere, primarily to induce reduction of rational thought, thought reform in the form of involuntary hypnosis, and even school mass shootings match up with the criteria when a person breaks to the 2nd cohort of mental breaks which are semi-lucid psychosis seeking annihilation.
People often think they'll know torture when they see it, and that may have been true when it was crude and required resorting to physical violence, but that is no longer true for the psychological torture of the modern world, and people have been blind to it for over three decades.
Worse yet, the most intelligent people are impacted the worst because they have more perception and awareness than other people, people that are less intelligent habituate the torture shrugging it off, intelligent people are sensitized by such patterns of abuse through operant conditioning.
There's a harsh truth. For the last 30 years, people have been getting dumber because its profitable. The intelligent people that would normally raise people around them up have been dying silently. Sometimes its just their minds that are destroyed, either from needing so much anti-anxiety or depression medication that they are effectively chemically lobotomized, and other times these things just drive them to suicide (from bullying etc), in the end it disrupts their lives enough that they aren't having children, and the cycle fails.
Atlas who holds the weight of the world is not unlike the gifted, but who will hold the weight of the world when all the intelligent people have died and vanished, and who will solve the impossible problems created on a lag by the last generation that threaten future existence at a species level.
Where all the canaries in the coal mine died without notice. Whose to say any of us will survive.
A lot of people think the educated are intelligent, but the two are independent of each other and education in most places today actively selects the truly gifted out at early stages inducing trauma and conditioning which reduces or negates the benefits of cognitive speed and performance. Its not just environment fallout like heavy metals doing the poisoning, you have a lot of subversives poisoning the well too. We now live in a disadvantaged environment, that will eventually threaten our existence. While these things are slow moving, the hysteresis between recognition often ensures no action can be taken in time. When hysteresis has you the only thing you can do really is brace for a random chance at survival and then triage afterwards.