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Body Burden

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Every person alive today carries approximately 250 chemicals, a phenomenon known as body burden, resulting from industrialization since 1945.

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Every person alive today carries approximately 250 chemicals, a phenomenon known as body burden, resulting from industrialization since 1945.

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"Every person alive today carries approximately 250 chemicals within their body, chemicals that didn't exist prior to 1945. This concentration of chemicals within every human being on the face of the earth is called the "body burden" and it is considered our common legacy from the processes of development and industrialization. "

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