For those of you still skeptical about the dangers identified in The Hundred Year Lie, check out the October issue of National Geographic and its 28 pages of articles on "The Pollution Within."

A science writer, David Ewing Duncan, became "journalist-as-guinea-pig" by having his blood tested for 320 chemicals commonly found in foods, medicines and consumer products. Based on the results (165 chemicals were detected in him, some at alarmingly high levels) he tried to trace their origin and how and when he was contaminated.

Some exposures apparently came from his mother while he was still in her womb. Other exposures came from childhood and those chemicals persist in his body for a lifetime. His more recent exposures, including fire retardants which were in his blood at a level 10 times higher than the U.S. average, may have come from the fabric and plastic interiors of airplanes.

Duncan quotes toxicologists as saying "dose is everything" and "minuscule smidgens of chemicals inside us are mostly nothing to worry about."

Then he proceeds to challenge those arguments in a variety of ways. He describes how certain illnesses over the past few decades have been "rising mysteriously." Autism has increased tenfold. Leukemia is up 62 percent. Male birth defects have doubled. Childhood brain cancer is up 40 percent. Etc.

"Over the years, one chemical after another that was thought to be harmless turned out otherwise," writes Duncan.

Again and again, Duncan quotes experts as saying "we don't have the data in humans to know if the current levels (of chemicals in the body) are safe." He also alludes to the potential dangers of 'chemical cocktails' -- mixtures of chemicals that may do "little harm on their own but act together to damage human cells."

On the morning of my appearance on The View, Duncan was on NBC's The Today Show talking about our chemical body burdens. Later he appeared on National Public Radio. Welcome to the 'sound an alarm' role, David!!!!!