It's no secret that chronic illness is on the rise.

Robert Kennedy Jr. himself even stated

"The greatest crisis that America faces today is the chronic disease epidemic in our children" - RFK Jr.

If you search pubmed (or any other publicly available scientific databse), you'll find hundreds of research studies done and scholarly articles written about the dangers of exposure to certain chemicals, delayed risks associated with C-section, adverse effects after antibiotic use in early childhood, chronic exposure to EMFs, too little exercise, too much screen time, and the list goes on..

Unfortunately, basically every study out there only looks at risks associated with a single variable (whether it be a single chemical or any other variable, such as the ones listed above).

But in the real world, most of us are exposed to hundreds of these stressors before even leaving our house. And what does that synergistic effect lead too? *spolier alert* : no one knows.

Beth Lambert, the founder of Epidemic Answers, is spearheading a study that aims to answer this question.

The hypothesis posed is such that: the amount of environmental exposures a child is exposed to and during key points in development affect their propensity toward chronic conditions. They also hypothesize that exposures during the 1st year of life, in-utero, and prenatally are more impactful than exposures later in childhood (~6-10 years old).

The more people that participate in this landmark study, the more concrete and statistically significant answers we can get.

If you feel called to participate, please head over to documentinghope.com/chirp-study/

Topics discussed include:

What is a toxin load and how it might be affecting us and our loved ones
How some stressors are relatively unknown - such as health risks with CFL lightbulbs
What happens when an extremely toxic chemical comes into contact with many other toxic chemicals i.e. synergistic effect
How the health of the whole family seems to improve when reducing the toxin load within the home
Moving from stories to science. At what point do these anecdotal stories become data? The CHIRP study is aiming to do just that.
In the U.S. over 50% of children are diagnosed with a chronic condition. The CHIRP study can help give us tangible answers so we can combat these statistics. Head to documentinghope.com/chirp-study to participate.

Other Resources:

https://www.ewg.org/research/body-burden-pollution-newborns/detailed-findings - EWG study showing a minimum of 101 chemicals found in newborn babies' umbilical cord blood
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