One America News Network By Abril Elfi
A new study has found that exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years.
Lead was banned from automobile fuel in 1996.
The study noted that the national population had experienced over 151 million excess mental health disorders that were linked to exposure to lead from car exhaust during early childhood development.
The exposure reportedly increased depression, anxiety, and made generations more inattentive and hyperactive, leading to ADD and ADHD. It also found that it lowered people’s capacity for impulse control in general and made them more inclined to be neurotic.
The study highlights the long-term mental health and personality impacts associated with exposure to lead, particularly for individuals born between 1966 and 1986, with Generation Xers born between 1966 and 1970 facing the highest burden. This period coincides with the peak use of leaded gasoline, which significantly increased environmental and individual lead exposure.
“People born during those years can’t go back in time and change that,” said Post-Doctoral Scholar Aaron Reuben, a co-author of the study.
“Studies like ours today add more evidence that removing lead from our environment and not putting it there in the first place has more benefits than we previously understood,” Reuben said.
Even though lead is no longer present in gasoline, it is still in other sources, including toys imported from foreign countries, water service lines not updated, some soil and paint in older houses before 1978…
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