“If you’re human, or an animal of any kind, you are at risk for lead poisoning,” says Tamara Rubin, owner of Lead Safe Mama, LLC, whose mission became educating people on the danger of lead poisoning after her own sons were acutely poisoned when they were very young. Unfortunately, there are many barriers to the awareness of lead poisoning. For one thing, there is what Tamara calls “generational amnesia,” wherein the impact of lead has not been continuously communicated, so many people don’t think it’s a problem any longer. Or, they think it only affects children, and moreover, only children who eat paint chips. Another major factor is that many companies who benefit from the use of lead also control large swaths of the media, and won’t allow information that might affect their sales to be known to the public.    It’s alarming to hear Tamara discuss how much lead contamination there is and where it can be found. Lead paint is still used in many industrial settings including the machines that manufacture our food. It also exists in high levels in the many vintage and heirloom items that are so popular to incorporate into buildings and homes. It’s even in some of the supposedly healthy foods we eat. Still, there is plenty that moms can do to protect themselves and their children, from getting tested to creating a safe environment and shopping smarter.    Join Sasha and Tamara as they discuss methods of eliminating lead that’s already in the body, the myriad ways in which we are exposed to lead in the first place, and why where you live affects not only how much lead you’re exposed to, but whether or not a doctor will test you for it.    Quotes   • “My goal is to make science-based information freely available to parents everywhere so that they can make informed choices to protect their families.” (8:25-8:37 | Tamara) • “You do have to worry about the paint applied to your home if your home was built before 1978.” (17:53-17:59 | Tamara) • ‘It’s trendy to repurpose building materials so you might find bricks from a factory that was torn down in the 1800s being used as an aesthetic curiosity while in a new building.” (23:25-23:37 | Tamara) • “I want moms to know that it’s not hopeless, that you’re going to do fine.”(54:41-54:47 | Tamara) • “Unfortunately, pediatricians are racially profiling people and demographically profiling people, so you are more likely to be offered a blood lead test if you are a person of color, or if you are low income.” (56:42-56:57 | Tamara)   Stats • “According to reports by UNICEF in partnership with Pure Earth, a global nonprofit, lead exposure is particularly dangerous to children under five whose bodies absorb lead much more efficiently than adults, and are at greatest risk of developing lifelong physical and cognitive damage.”(0:18-0:38 | Sasha) • “Childhood lead exposure has also been linked to aggression, hyperactivity and other behavioral problems.” (0:38-0:45 | Sasha) • “The report finds that one in three children, that’s around 800 million worldwide, have blood lead levels at or above five milligrams per deciliter, a level considered cause for intervention by the Center for Disease Control and Intervention.” (0:46-1:03 | Sasha) • “The 1978 ban on lead paint limited lead to 600 parts per million in paint, and then later, the new legislation limited lead in paint to 900 parts per million, and paint today is lead-free.” (17:28-17:40 | Tamara) • “It wasn’t until 2008 that we outlawed lead in toys.” (19:38-19:44 | Tamara) • “There’s a study done by Dr. Rubido who found that even a blood lead level as low as 0.43 can have negative outcomes related to it, as well as conception issues and fertility issues.” (27:22-27:36 | Tamara) • “It only takes a microscopic amount of lead to poison a human, so you don’t actually have to eat a chip’s worth of paint to be poisoned.” (34:12-34:19 | Tamara) • “One sugar packet worth of lead dust distributed evenly across a football field is enough to contami

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The Silent Epidemic of Lead Poisoning in Children with Tamara Rubin

JUL 14, 202296 MIN
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The Silent Epidemic of Lead Poisoning in Children with Tamara Rubin

JUL 14, 202296 MIN

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“If you’re human, or an animal of any kind, you are at risk for lead poisoning,” says Tamara Rubin, owner of Lead Safe Mama, LLC, whose mission became educating people on the danger of lead poisoning after her own sons were acutely poisoned when they were very young. Unfortunately, there are many barriers to the awareness of lead poisoning. For one thing, there is what Tamara calls “generational amnesia,” wherein the impact of lead has not been continuously communicated, so many people don’t think it’s a problem any longer. Or, they think it only affects children, and moreover, only children who eat paint chips. Another major factor is that many companies who benefit from the use of lead also control large swaths of the media, and won’t allow information that might affect their sales to be known to the public. 

 

It’s alarming to hear Tamara discuss how much lead contamination there is and where it can be found. Lead paint is still used in many industrial settings including the machines that manufacture our food. It also exists in high levels in the many vintage and heirloom items that are so popular to incorporate into buildings and homes. It’s even in some of the supposedly healthy foods we eat. Still, there is plenty that moms can do to protect themselves and their children, from getting tested to creating a safe environment and shopping smarter. 

 

Join Sasha and Tamara as they discuss methods of eliminating lead that’s already in the body, the myriad ways in which we are exposed to lead in the first place, and why where you live affects not only how much lead you’re exposed to, but whether or not a doctor will test you for it. 

 

Quotes

 

• “My goal is to make science-based information freely available to parents everywhere so that they can make informed choices to protect their families.” (8:25-8:37 | Tamara)

• “You do have to worry about the paint applied to your home if your home was built before 1978.” (17:53-17:59 | Tamara)

• ‘It’s trendy to repurpose building materials so you might find bricks from a factory that was torn down in the 1800s being used as an aesthetic curiosity while in a new building.” (23:25-23:37 | Tamara)

• “I want moms to know that it’s not hopeless, that you’re going to do fine.”(54:41-54:47 | Tamara)

• “Unfortunately, pediatricians are racially profiling people and demographically profiling people, so you are more likely to be offered a blood lead test if you are a person of color, or if you are low income.” (56:42-56:57 | Tamara)

 

Stats

• “According to reports by UNICEF in partnership with Pure Earth, a global nonprofit, lead exposure is particularly dangerous to children under five whose bodies absorb lead much more efficiently than adults, and are at greatest risk of developing lifelong physical and cognitive damage.”(0:18-0:38 | Sasha)

• “Childhood lead exposure has also been linked to aggression, hyperactivity and other behavioral problems.” (0:38-0:45 | Sasha)

• “The report finds that one in three children, that’s around 800 million worldwide, have blood lead levels at or above five milligrams per deciliter, a level considered cause for intervention by the Center for Disease Control and Intervention.” (0:46-1:03 | Sasha)

• “The 1978 ban on lead paint limited lead to 600 parts per million in paint, and then later, the new legislation limited lead in paint to 900 parts per million, and paint today is lead-free.” (17:28-17:40 | Tamara)

• “It wasn’t until 2008 that we outlawed lead in toys.” (19:38-19:44 | Tamara)

• “There’s a study done by Dr. Rubido who found that even a blood lead level as low as 0.43 can have negative outcomes related to it, as well as conception issues and fertility issues.” (27:22-27:36 | Tamara)

• “It only takes a microscopic amount of lead to poison a human, so you don’t actually have to eat a chip’s worth of paint to be poisoned.” (34:12-34:19 | Tamara)

• “One sugar packet worth of lead dust distributed evenly across a football field is enough to contaminate a football field to 38 micrograms of lead dust per square foot. (34:34-34:48 | Tamara)

• “The amount of dust that’s considered toxic in children right now is ten micrograms. So that’s one quarter of a sugar packet of lead dust spread across a football field is enough to poison children.” (34:53-35:05 | Tamara) 

• “If you were born before 1996, you likely have lead exposure that is far above what younger people today have, because lead in gasoline wasn’t outlawed until 1996.” (38:40-38:58 | Tamara)

• “One in three kids under the age of 18 in the United States today has had a blood lead level of 2.5 or higher in their lifetime. So, that’s 22 million children. 30 percent of kids.” (45:41-46:05 | Tamara) 

• “Your oldest child will have the most lead from your body because you have the highest cellular turnover of your childhood exposure with your first pregnancy, and each child after that should have less of your body burden of lead from your own childhood.” (53:46-54:00 | Tamara)

• “Medical interventions aren’t recommended unless a child’s blood lead level is 40 or 50 micrograms per deciliter.” (1:05:00-1:05:08 | Tamara)

• “The amount of lead that’s toxic in items intended for children and illegal today is anything over 90 parts per million in the glaze and anything over 100 parts per million in the substrate. Brass tends to be 30,000 to 40,000 parts per million lead.” (1:26:24-1:26:56 | Tamara)

• “Chocolate is the food item that has the most lead in it because it is one of the most processed food items, and it is one of the least regulated and it comes from so many different places.”(1:27:59-1:28:12 | Tamara)



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