lead safety · this week

4 free tools to cut your family's lead exposure.
plus the kit is 60% off.

the tools are digital. free, no signup, use them right now. the physical kit — the one that tests dishes and surfaces for lead — is on sale this week only. 60% off. not doing another sale after this.

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lead in food — 4 tools, all free

most people know about lead paint and old pipes. fewer people know how much comes in through food. these tools are already built.

tool 01 — food calculator

blood lead food calculator

type in any food. get the best available data on lead exposure from that food. also shows cadmium, arsenic, and mercury.

free · no signup Pb + Cd + As + Hg

1,293 foods in the database

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tool 02 — baby food

baby food lot lookup

look up the lot number on the jar before you feed it. or just use it to know which brands to avoid — that alone does a lot.

free · search by lot # Pb + Cd + As + Hg

72 brands · 48,279 tests

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tool 03 — formula

infant formula lead levels

years of data on specific brands and types. the fda put out general good news recently. brand still matters more than they let on.

free · by brand

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tool 04 — prenatal vitamins

prenatal vitamin lead guide

easy techniques to choose better vitamins and reduce exposure if you want them.

free · easy wins

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higher ADHD risk at blood lead levels most pediatricians call "normal"

5 IQ pts

lost per 10 ug/dL of blood lead — no safe threshold found

1 in 4

U.S. children have detectable lead exposure from dishes, dust, and food

five signs lead is affecting your kid's attention

lead is upstream of ADHD. the kids with the highest lead have 4x the diagnosis rate — at levels most pediatricians call normal.

worry 01 · age 3 to 5

can't sit still at circle time

pre-K teacher pulls you aside

the first call usually comes from the preschool teacher. your kid won't sit on the carpet. pops up. wanders. bothers other kids. lead changes the part of the brain that handles "stay still and listen" — the same part stimulants act on. kids with the most lead are about 4x more likely to land in an ADHD eval by elementary school.

Braun et al., Environ Health Perspect 2006

worry 02 · grades K to 3

falling behind on reading

the gap doesn't close on its own

Iowa tracked 305,000 kids from toddler blood lead through eleventh grade. the reading gap that showed up in second grade was still the same size in eleventh. not "he's a late bloomer." the gap stays the size it started at. these were kids with blood lead the government once called normal.

Wehby, JAMA Network Open 2021

worry 03 · ages 6 to 12

homework takes three hours

the fight every weeknight

30 minutes of math, three hours later half of it is still blank. the trouble is working memory — the brain's ability to hold a thought long enough to use it. lead damages exactly that. it's not about effort. the hardware took a hit.

Cecil et al., PLOS Medicine 2008

worry 04 · ages 8 to 18

the ADHD diagnosis

the school is "recommending" you see someone

the pediatrician fills out a Vanderbilt form. you fill one out. the teacher fills one out. nobody asks what the dishes are painted with. the first thing a kid getting evaluated for ADHD should get is a blood lead check and a home sweep. it almost never happens. the prescription comes first.

CDC clinical guidance, 2021 BLRV update

worry 05 · ages 6 to 18

the stimulant

Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, Focalin

a stimulant turns up the volume on the brain network lead damaged. it helps. a lot of kids genuinely need it. but it doesn't undo what's already there. find the source while your kid is still small and you stop adding to the deposit. the pill manages the symptom. pulling lead out of the house is the only thing that touches the cause.

NHANES 2017–2020 ADHD prevalence data

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lead and ADHD: see the numbers yourself

the Braun 2006 NHANES study tracked 8,000 children. at blood lead levels your pediatrician wouldn't flag, ADHD risk climbed steadily.

your child's blood lead level

CDC reference value is 3.5 ug/dL. average U.S. child: ~0.8 ug/dL. dishes, dust, and food can push it higher.

1.5 ug/dL

est. ADHD risk

7.1%

IQ impact

-0.9 pts

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ADHD odds ratio by blood lead quintile (Braun, NHANES)

children in the top quintile (>=2.0 ug/dL) had 4.1x higher adjusted ADHD odds vs. lowest quintile.

Braun et al., 2006 (NHANES, n=8,000): children with blood lead in the top quintile had 4.1x higher odds of ADHD diagnosis after adjusting for confounders. the association held at levels below 5 ug/dL.

Lanphear et al., 2005 (meta-analysis, n=1,333): IQ loss is steepest at low levels. going from 1 to 10 ug/dL costs more IQ points than going from 10 to 30 ug/dL. no identified safe threshold.

Olympio et al., 2010 and subsequent replications confirm the ADHD link in independent populations. this is not controversial in the research literature.

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