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December 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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#FlowersOnFriday is a potted California #Poppy blooming in front of my greenhouse. It’s a southern exposure so it keeps them cozy🔥😃

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Winter
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#health #pregnancy #ecology #pediatrics #midwifery #healthinformatics #SDGs

Associations between
placental concentrations of
metals
and low birth weight:

Manganese −27.2 g
Iron −51.5 g
Lead −72.7 g
Rhodium −1365.5 g
.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Placental concentrations of essential, toxic, and understudied metals and relationships with birth outcomes in Chattanooga, TN
Comprehensive examinations of placental metal concentrations and correlations with infant parameters are under-investigated. Chattanooga, Tennessee's …
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December 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#gerontology #sustainability #ecology #health #healthinformatics #publichealth #SDGs

Healthy ageing requires monitoring
toxic metal levels.

Cadmium (Cd)
and rubidium (Rb)
were found to be correlated with
lifetime cancer risk
in a positive linear relationship.
.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Metal/metalloid levels and variation in lifetime cancer risks among tissues
Extreme variation in lifetime cancer risk among tissues has been a riddle of cancer etiology. Considering that cancer risks were found to be contributed heavily by environmental factors, levels of ...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#sustainability #ecology #gerontology #exposome #healthequity #healthinformatics #ecotoxicology #geriatrics #primaryhealthcare #publichealth #nephrology #toxicology #health #environment

Patients with proteinuria (kidney damage)
require comprehensive assessments of
toxic metal/metalloid levels.
.
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#health #ecology #agedcare #menopause #aging

Even low levels of cadmium (Cd) exposure
are associated with
kidney damage in older women.

Positive association between
urinary cadmium
and tubular proteinuria (β2-microglobulin/creat)
and urinary calcium (UCa/creat)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Low-Level Environmental Cadmium Exposure and Its Effects on Renal and Bone Health in Brazilian Postmenopausal Women: A Cross-Sectional Study - Exposure and Health
This study aimed to investigate the long-term effects of low-level, chronic exposure to cadmium (Cd) on renal and bone health. A cross-sectional study was conducted on postmenopausal women (n = 380) f...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#sustainability #ecology #agedcare #Parkinsons #Alzheimers #healthinformatics

Healthy ageing
requires monitoring and addressing
lifelong exposure to
neurotoxic

metal/metalloid mixtures,
persistent pollutants,
exhaust fumes,
nanoparticles,
plasticizers
pesticides
solvents, VOCs,
antimicrobials, ...
December 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
#health #apps #AI #womenshealth #endometriosis #healthinformatics #healthtech #ecology #ecotoxicology #analytical #chemistry #sustainability #publichealth

Which health app is best for
monitoring

personal levels of
metallo-estrogens
and endocrine-disrupting chemicals

and levels in food?
.
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#sustainability #ecology #gerontology #hepatology #aging #publichealth #agedcare #Alzheimers #histology #ecotoxicology

Half-lives of persistent pollutants
in the human body
can last years and decades.

Healthy ageing requires
biomonitoring throughout life,
and addressing sources of exposure.
.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#gerontology #healthinformatics #microbiome #hepatology #agedcare #Alzheimers #neurology #health

Dioxin-like pollutants, such as PCB126,
promote harmful
amyloid and TDP-43 accumulation.

When preventive healthcare neglects biomonitoring,
blood levels of dioxin-like pollutants
increase with age.
.
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#health #apps #AI #nutrition #gerontology #pregnancy #menopause

Which consumer technology
is best at measuring
toxic metal mixtures in food?

Arsenic (As),
aluminium (Al),
cadmium (Cd),
chromium (Cr),
mercury (Hg),
manganese (Mn),
lead (Pb),
antimony (Sb),
tin (Sn),
Σ (sum of toxic metals)
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
#sustainability #agedcare #epidemiology #ecology #publichealth #datascience #healthinformatics #toxicology #SDGs #gerontology #menopause #womenshealth #geriatrics

Healthy ageing of a population

requires keeping track of

tissue concentrations of pollutants

and addressing sources of exposure.
.
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#WomenInScience #ecology #womenshealth #publichealth #healthliteracy #midwifery #analytical #chemistry #health #ecotoxicology #exposome #gynecology #pathology #prevention

Women are docile,
and do not ask
for their body burden of
endocrine-disrupting chemicals
to be assessed.
.
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
#ecology #sustainability #AI #publichealth #exposome #midwifery #ethics #urbandesign #healthinformatics #demography #datascience

Pollution and environmental destruction-enabling
digital health software/AI
omits
satellite-derived pollution and vegetation indices
from patients' health records.
.
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#sustainability #ecology #agedcare #epidemiology #health

The burden of neurological disorders
is increasing globally.

Which epidemiologists are in charge of analyzing

liver concentrations of
neurotoxic pollutant mixtures

for each
subtype of disease,
geographic region,
year of birth,
...
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Nothing But Class™ is a Hybrid Tea rose that lives up to its name with every bloom. Bred by Weeks Roses, this refined variety features massive, fully double spiraled blooms—reaching up to 5–6″ across—each petal layered like fine couture. The color is a bold, dark pink that holds beautifully.
December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#sustainability #menopause #agedcare #nutrition #health #publichealth #dietetics #midwifery #ecology #exposome

No amount of cadmium (Cd) exposure
is safe for healthy ageing in women.

Preventive healthcare AI
needs to monitor tissue concentrations of
cadmium (Cd)
and identify sources of exposure.
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#publichealth #pregnancy #occupationalhealth #exposome #endocrinology #midwifery #health #endocrinology #hepatology #gerontology #womenshealth

Adequate sunlight prescriptions (UV, infrared)
reduce iron deficiency anaemia in women,

while vitamin D supplements do not.
.
www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/11...
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#ecology #sustainability #SDGs #gerontology #CVD

Failing to address exposure to
- immunotoxic pollutants
- and immunotoxic environments

has enabled the rapidly increasing
profiting-from-disease immunotherapy market
to balloon to hundreds of billions of dollars
with a high side effects burden.
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM