Quotes About Toxicity

Growing up, all I learned was how best to diminish my own light for a partner.

recognizing the early signs of toxicity in our leaders can enable us to take preventive medicine, not passively imbibe their seductive poison.33

Speaking on the failure to test chemicals for safety and toxicity, the late Herbert L. Needleman, a noted pediatrician and pioneer in the study of childhood lead poisoning, observed, "We are conducting a massive toxicological experiment in the world today, and our children and grandchildren are the unknowing, unconsenting subjects.

There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.

cumulative effect of being forced to lead circumscribed lives is toxic. The psychic toll is measured in anxiety, depression, phobias, suicide attempts, eating disorders, and such stress-related illnesses as addictions, alcoholism, high blood pressure, and heart disease

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills," laxatives that were 50 percent mercury. I think they were reusable: you swallowed one, suffered the violent scatological consequences, reclaimed the pill, washed it and saved it for the next poor sucker.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along

It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt." -p. 201

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

La tuna de cactus no es tóxica. No hay ningún estudio que señale alguna reacción tóxica, ya sea aguda o crónica, debido al consumo de tuna o de algún producto derivado de la fruta.

Glyphosate also interferes with ATP production by affecting your mitochondrial membranes. When coupled with the so-called inert solvents included in Roundup, the toxicity of glyphosate is magnified as much as 2,000-fold. This makes the membrane more permeable, allowing the glyphosate to go straight to the heart of the mitochondria.

I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.

The city was poisoned with the venom of small fundamentalisms, and the venom ran beneath us, like dirty water in the sewers.

Fasting is by far the most effective method for purifying the blood, organs, and all bodily tissues, and in this age of pervasive pollution it is more important than ever in warding off premature degeneration of the body due to toxicity. In laboratory tests on rats and other animals, periodic fasting has proven to extend average life spans by up to 50 per cent.

Foulk and friends suggest the toxic effect of rudeness - some actually call it a neurotoxin - lasts an entire week. It can spread like wildfire around a contained office, leading to general hostility, lower morale, poorer performance, and worse coffee. ... In fact, it's been shown that even when the rude behavior is mild at best, it impairs a person's basic ability to think. F You Very Much pages 23-24

It's like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don't like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I might come across as desperate for affection or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!

dictum of Paracelsus, 'The poison is the dose',

glutamate and calcium are not inherently toxic, only becoming so when there is excessive activation leading to excitatotoxicity. This ability of magnesium to prevent excitatotoxicity is not just limited to gradual long term problems either. Magnesium is believed to reduce the brain damage sustained during a stroke by reducing the massive amount of excitatotoxicity

A black man in San Diego who developed hypertension because of exposure to toxic chemicals lost half of his disability award after a doctor reported that blacks are genetically prone to hypertension.

When mercury vapours are inhaled over a long enough period of time—particularly, for our purposes, in the close quarters of a hat-making operation—toxic and irreversible effects almost inevitably follow. One develops tremors of the hands; blackened teeth; slurred speech. In severe cases, dementia or outright insanity can occur. Hence the term mad as a hatter.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it.