Physicians & Scientists for Global Responsibility
@PSGRNZ
Stewardship. Precautionary principle, science, public interest, human & planetary health, tech, pollution, nutrition, genetics & epigenetics. Substack @PSGRNZ
🔥🔥🔥Extraordinary RCT results - Safe way to treat #depression in #pregnancy. - Much more likely to respond to multinutrients than placebo ‘substantial and dramatic’. - No RCTs for psychiat. drugs 4 depression😵💫😲 - Showed RDI/RDAs likely under-dose youtu.be/RPaGAqjNnqo?

Mental health - young people in NZ. Prof Grant Schofield (AUT): "We're not stopping this it's not a matter of more diagnosis... We're the adults in society... It's hard not to want to cry & shout about it." youtube.com/watch?v=SqByJC…

Deadline 27th for a consultation which deregulates where telecommunications infrastructure can go - but which explicitly drafts out risk to health from radiofrequency electromagnetic exposures. Link to MBIE and Ministry for the Environment consultation: consult.environment.govt.nz/resource-manag…
Interested in EMFs in New Zealand? Consultation underway with the Ministry for the Environment. Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p/c…
Interested in EMFs in New Zealand? Consultation underway with the Ministry for the Environment. Big concerns - Health effects are out of scope. open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p/c…

Key review by @leotrasande et al 💥childhood EDC exposures & harm to the brain: findings underscore the profound and lasting effects of prenatal EDC exposure on brain development, emphasizing the need for better regulation & strategies to reduce exposure' link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Co-author Professor Michael Antoniou discusses the carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure to glyphosate - rodent trial. Species of rats preferred by global regulators for use in trials for acute & long-term risk assessment. youtube.com/watch?v=RbOmX4…
Sugar carb addition. The difference between medical text books & people's experiences. 'people described what other people would associate with an episode of mainlining opioids or drugs of addiction ... they were doing the same stuff with food.' youtu.be/NJ55YPj4DPI

Older, healthy people w/ vitamin B12 levels on the low end of the "normal" range had signs of neurological & cognitive deficiency, a study finds. B12 may "impact cognition to a greater extent than what we previously thought,” UCSF’s @abeaudryrichard says. ucsfh.org/4b8MovJ
Do the Swiss know something NZ policymakers don't?! Swiss lawmakers want more time to discuss how to deal with new genetic engineering methods by extending a long-running moratorium. swissinfo.ch/eng/various/pa…
The Gene Technology Bill allows pre-application discussions between applicants and regulators to be hidden from the Official Information Act. Why the secrecy if this technology is safe? #Transparency #GeneEditingNZ #RightToKnow Read more here 👇psgr.org.nz/component/jdow…

‘At 11.5 billion euros (67 percent), milk and dairy products again accounted for the largest share of the 17.1 billion euro consumer spending on food with the "Ohne GenTechnik" seal in 2024.’ ohnegentechnik.org/en/news/articl…
Time for real stewardship following a decade of lost opportunities. This is a similar presentation to one given to Ministry for Primary Industries officials. Audio/video. @FedFarmers @BeefLambNZ @ZespriCorporate @ninetonoon @NewstalkZB @RCR_NZ psgrnz.substack.com/p/glyphosate-2…

A review from Murdoch University in Western Australia has stressed that agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans or waterways. farmersweekly.co.nz/news/soil-to-s…