A chemical widely used in manufacturing plastic food & drink containers and food bags can lead to brain damage and impair memory and learning. The culprit is Bisphenol A, aka BPA.

Researches at Yale University School of Medicine found that even low doses of BPA can damage the hippocampus (the memory engine of the brain) and lead to learning difficulties. The neurotoxic effects were seen at a dose of only 40ug/kg, well below the US Environmental Protection Agency’s daily limit for human exposure.

The study also suggests that BPA can worsen age-related memory decline.

Importantly, it turns out that not only is BPA bad for your brain, but is also toxic to the rest of your body- and there’s more than one study that illustrates this point.

What is really troubling, however, is what Dr. Belcher, a researcher from the University of Cincinnati says about Bispenol A:

In the face of more than 100 studies published in peer-reviewed journals showing the detrimental effects of Bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical industry and federal regulatory agencies have resisted banning BPA from plastics used as food and beverage containers, despite the fact that plastics free of BPA and other toxic chemicals are available.

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