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New Book Helps Protect Children from Environmental Neurotoxins

 

As an investigative journalist who has written extensively about environmental toxins, I was honored to help edit Dr. Gurian’s latest book, The Minds of Girls. Every parent can surely benefit from Dr. Gurian’s chapters about protecting children from the hazards of neurotoxins and excessive screen time/social media, two topics which are especially salient to our ailing modern society.

Dr. Gurian points out that while we must continue to combat harmful gender stereotypes and discrimination, we must also be willing to burst our media bubbles and examine other sources for the alarming increases in depression, anxiety, addiction, and developmental disorders among modern girls. Dr. Gurian demonstrates that one of the chief causes of these maladies are environmental neurotoxins which attack healthy gene expression and can even be passed along epigenetically for multiple generations.

Sadly, these environmental neurotoxins are ubiquitous in our modern environment. They usually originate from pesticides, plastics, heavy metals, and other under-regulated chemicals — often winding up in common foods, drinks, lotions, bottles, toys, etc. While it’s not easy, these chemicals can be avoided with vigilance, and Dr. Gurian provides many tips for helping keep your children as strong and vivacious as nature intended.

The Minds of Girls abounds with wisdom, scientific insight, and old-fashioned common sense. It will arm you with practical and philosophical tools to defend your children. I encourage you to join Dr. Gurian in this courageous conversation.

Saving Our Sons by Dr. Gurian

A Timely and Courageous Book from Dr. Michael Gurian

 

Saving Our Sons is a timely and courageous book, and I am proud to have contributed my small share to the editorial process.

While some may bristle at Dr. Gurian’s assertion that boys in the U.S. and abroad are falling behind girls in many measures of health and well-being, numerous studies and statistics support this observation. In 2015, the World Health Organization published a major study of male health worldwide in which the study’s authors conclude that: “In most parts of the world, health outcomes among boys and men continue to be substantially worse than among girls and women. Yet this gender-based disparity in health has received little national, regional or global acknowledgement or attention from health policy-makers or health-care providers.”

Some of the statistics Dr. Gurian cites about American boys are truly shocking. Boys are twice as likely as girls to be labeled “emotionally disturbed” and twice as likely to be diagnosed with a behavioral or learning disorder. Boys are four times as likely as girls to be suspended or expelled from early childhood and K – 12 learning environments. In school, boys receive two-thirds of the Ds and Fs, and less than 40 percent of the As. While much has been made of the STEM gap, few are aware that boys are much farther behind girls in literary skills than girls are behind boys in math and science. Tragically, males between the ages of 15 and 24 are four times more likely to commit suicide than young women.

Saving Our Sons by Dr. Gurian

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