14. BPA: Not A-gouti Thing for You
In 2010, Canada declared bisphenol-A (BPA) a toxic substance, yet BPA may be lurking right in your own kitchen. Today, BPA can be found in canned foods, plastic bottles, tupperware, and receipts. Cons...
14 Juni 202216min
13. Threatening Effects of Alcohol: How Alcohol Poisons an Alcoholic and Their Unborn Children
Alcoholism is a very serious disease that affects about 1 out of 14 Americans. Unfortunately, children of alcoholics are more likely to develop alcoholism. Environmental factors, such as influence fro...
13 Juni 20229min
12. Neuroepigenetics of Depression
Depression, a mood disorder associated with excessive sadness and cognitive dysfunction, is a debilitating mental illness that affects 350 million adults worldwide – more than the population of the en...
12 Juni 202222min
11. Through the Methylated Door
Imagine you’re in a room. It’s 110 degrees, you’ve drank the last of your water and you know you’re approaching dehydration. However, there are five doors in front of you and all you know is that behi...
11 Juni 20229min
10. Maternal Care 2: Early Mother-Child Relationship
This essay will be discussing how childhood environments, such as abusive homes, can influence a person’s biology and their risk for depression and suicide later in life. The last essay stated how mat...
10 Juni 202214min
9. Maternal Care 1: A Mother's Love
In 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland, a fourteen-year-old boy was sentenced to seven years in jail for stabbing his thirty-four-year-old foster mother to death. Leading up to this tragedy, the boy had suffer...
9 Juni 202211min
8. Neuroepigenetics of Lead: Flint Water Crisis
In April of 2014 Flint, Michigan changed its water supply from the Detroit-supplied Lake Huron water to the Flint River while waiting on a new pipeline from Lake Huron in order to save money. Resident...
8 Juni 202213min
7. Neuroepigenetics of Drug Addiction: Marijuana
Drugs are bad…or so we’ve been told over and over. With the topic of marijuana legalization making its way to the national and global spotlight, hard evidence and straightforward facts cannot come too...
7 Juni 202218min
