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It started with a nightmare. Researcher Philippe Grandjean dreamt "that we are polluting the world with chemicals that are negatively affecting brain development, and that those chemicals are damaging the parts of the brain needed to understand what is going on." In other words, a downward spiral.

The scariest part was waking up and realizing that if he didn't do anything, the nightmare could become reality. That's because we are in the midst of a "worldwide silent pandemic of brain damage" that's "not being recorded in medical statistics, and is not part of our medical diagnostic vocabulary," Grandjean said.

The nightmare inspired Grandjean, a doctor and medical epidemiologist at Harvard University, to write a book about the harm caused by industrial pollutants like mercury, lead, pesticides, and others, titled Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development—and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation.

"We seriously need to figure out how to protect the next generation so they will have optimal integrated brain function so that they can be fully capable of dealing with

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