Heads-Up: Massive Public-Interest Health Paper About to Land. New Zealanders have been told that rising rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression, & neurocognitive disorders are complex and best managed one condition at a time. psgrnz.substack.com/p/heads-up-m...

A Brief Response: The Telecommunications and Other Matters Amendment Bill. Our thoughts for the Select Committee. A particular focus on MBIE's Regulatory Impact Statement - which provides the underlying reasoning for the Bill. psgr.org.nz/pub-res/gene...

2025 -That's a Wrap! 🔥The latest: 1. A scientific squabble on outdoors gene editing. 2. Amazing results with health coaching to shift diets away from refined carbs. 3. Water Fluoridation: US moving away while NZ enforces it. psgrnz.substack.com/p/thats-a-wrap

Health coaching which adopts a three-pronged approach: whole food, carbohydrate reduction; a health coach, behaviour-change-based delivery approach; and community- or peer-based initiatives - seems to work! NZ paper just out -prediabetes and type 2 diabetes declines. www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17...

Along with many others, @psgrnz.bsky.social expressed alarm that the Australian OGTR required so little evidence before proposing to release a genetically modified mosquito strain to help prevent dengue outbreaks. The company application has since been withdrawn. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

EXPOSING THE TREATMENT GAP: When New Zealand’s long-term mental wellbeing strategy ignores the role of nutrition in protecting and sustaining mental health. 🔥SAANZ CONFERENCE 2025 psgrnz.substack.com/p/exposing-t...

Building in policy for ‘fantastically cheerful medicine’. Why NZ's Ministry of Health may choose to ignore a key UK Case study. New Zealand Sociology (SAANZ) conference 2025 presentation on health reform. #diabetes #metabolicsyndrome psgrnz.substack.com/p/building-i...

Great to be involved with this nationwide protest TOMORROW 🥰

🔥Glyphosate = case study of regulatory capture. Symptom of a broader problem. NZ EPA haven't risk assessed glyphosate since the '70s. Rejected ELI's application for risk assessment. @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social sought judicial review. Now off to Court of Appeal. psgrnz.substack.com/p/what-is-ha...

Breaking: We are appealing the High Court ruling that upheld the NZ EPA’s decision finding no grounds to reassess glyphosate or glyphosate-containing herbicides. Despite being the most widely used herbicide in Aotearoa NZ, the EPA has never conducted a comprehensive risk assessment of #glyphosate.

Zespri HQ. Prof Jack Heinemann & economist Dr Kris Kramer-Walter: gene editing & risk - economic & environmental. If you're interested in the scientific problem of substantial equivalence as a regulatory trigger for environmental GMO risk assessment - this talk is for you! vimeo.com/1135963956

🔥Big constitutional problem. PSGR's open letter to NZ Members of Parliament. Do MPs know? 👉EU legislation not finalised, NZ legislation would be premature. 👉MBIE didn't do cost-benefit assessment 👉Regulation moves to agency with big COIs - MBIE. psgrnz.substack.com/p/psgrs-open...

Doctors struggle to advise patients to consume low-carb diets - when the evidence for refined carbs as a driver of mental & metabolic illness explodes. However 🔥🔥🔥the addictive potential of these foods must be taken into account. psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-link-b...

Thank you RCR for interviewing @PSGRNZ trustee @JodieBruning on MBIE's plan to migrate regulatory powers from the agency responsible for environmental regulation, to MBIE - an institution dedicated to pursuing economic growth. rcr.media/episodes/jod...

🔥New Zealand Big Risk: Will Parliament expedite the Gene Tech Bill into legislation? The Health Select Committee have failed to reject or amend MBIEs Gene Technology Bill to reflect public concerns & have recommended that the Bill progress to law. psgrnz.substack.com/p/big-risk-w...

Gene technology panel: Innovation or irreversible risk? Select Committee report out soon - what will their decision be? Great wide-ranging discussion on RCR. psgrnz.substack.com/p/gene-techn...

NZ EPA consultation on a brand new toxic, endocrine disrupting herbicide ends next Wednesday. Strangely, the EPA drew from European info but then deviated to contradict the EU position. psgr.org.nz/pub-res/nzep...

We’re familiar with the commercial and in confidence nature of chemical formulations from personal care products to pharmaceuticals and pesticides, the formulation for AI LLMs are also confidential in nature, enshrined in silico. psgrnz.substack.com/p/it-is-not-...

Why is the NZEPA using European data to support their position, but then failing to adopt the European position on a risky new sulfonylurea herbicide? psgrnz.substack.com/p/nzepa-cons...

The dilemma for farmers and livestock producers, is that regulatory agencies downplay complex biological processes that are essential to sustain the health & fertility of livestock over the long term. By ignoring them, they write them out of concern.' psgrnz.substack.com/p/glyphosate...

Privileged access for industry lobbyists👉the 'stakeholders'. Exceeds standard comms re: chemical approvals & assessments. 'Some scheduled meetings involved representatives from multiple companies and their legal counsel or lobbyists.' @thenewledenews www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/epa-...

Risk from chemicals - PFAS The built-in delay cycle: 🔥Researchers report a health effect. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️❓Industry consultants point to uncertainty/potential other factors. 💯Regulators nod: 'study must be replicated' ⌛Years pass blanphear.substack.com/p/the-scienc...?

‘SHAP analysis revealed age and daily Bluetooth headset usage duration as the 2 most significant factors affecting thyroid nodule risk. Longer daily usage durations of Bluetooth headsets were strongly linked to an increased risk of developing thyroid nodules’. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Formidable first long form video by @jonathanjarecki.bsky.social 🔥19 y/o Pre-med student (Bio & Neuro, B.S.) Yes, there is speculation concerning modes of action, but claims are tied to published data. ​Why Sunlight Beats Supplements as Your Strongest Antioxidant. youtu.be/eY5hU19hrYM

Duration Effects of Micronutrients in Children with ADHD: Randomised Controlled Trial vs Open-Label Extension. 'Symptoms improved over time'. Chand, Darling, Rucklidge et al 2025. Springer Nature. blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/science/2025...

In 2020 the NZEPA stated that they were looking to reassess the neurotoxic fumigant chlorpyrifos-methyl, but they discretely separated that out in the recent review of chlorpyrifos. 😟https://www.epa.govt.nz/news-and-alerts/latest-news/first-step-towards-reassessing-controversial-insecticide/

Is chlorpyrifos-methyl a risk to infants & children? The evidence suggests this. But NZ & Australian regulators have steered away from frankly assessing the individual & combined toxic risk of the insecticide & the fumigant. Families are let down by the 'safety' agencies psgr.org.nz/component/jd...

Direction prohibiting the use and requiring the disposal of chlorpyrifos-containing substances now published. NB: this does not include chlorpyrifos-methyl. People will still be exposed to chlorpyrifos-methyl share the same toxic primary metabolite. gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20...

We've been busy! For Kiwis interested in membership, our annual newsletter provides a good snapshot of work in recent years. Please note that our work programme changes from year to year - exciting plans in progress for the next 12 months! psgr.org.nz/component/jd...

👀New Zealand-based lowdown on fluoride filters for drinking water. 🥤Reverse osmosis? Distillation? Pros & Cons? We also address 💰household affordability & highlight the problem of demineralised water which potentially result in health knock-on risks. psgrnz.substack.com/p/the-questi...

Wow. NZ still not acknowledging that the lowest threshold level for fluoride safety is not known. U.S. regions moving ahead to ban. Will NZ's Ministry of Health lose its political license as parents find out that the govt has buried its head in the sand? psgrnz.substack.com/p/wow-nz-rea...

The importance of public health for prevention - 'very little of that reduction in mortality was because of medical care'. @BrucePLanphear Population-level strategies to increase the nutritional status, and to decrease exposures to toxicants. Original video: youtu.be/VgB9lXMkH_o

Former National Toxicology Program (NIEHS) scientist Dr Ron Melnick, chairperson of the Int. Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) explains why existing safety standards for wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation are outdated. icbe-emf.org/ronald-melni...

🔥HUGE 🔥🔥 interview with @blanphear.bsky.social public health physician & paediatric epidemiologist. Chemical Exposures & the Toxic Risks. Making Sense of Science, Public Health, & Economic Benefit. #DoHaD #lead #pesticides #fluoride #pollution #babies #brains www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgB9...

🔥HUGE 🔥🔥 interview with @blanphear.bsky.social public health physician & paediatric epidemiologist. Chemical Exposures & the Toxic Risks. Making Sense of Science, Public Health, & Economic Benefit. #DoHaD #lead #pesticides #fluoride #pollution #babies #brains www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgB9...

🔥🔥🔥Beautiful paradigm shifting, game changing article by Martin Picard If you are into health & reversing chronic metabolic & mental illness - this will help you understand why you are doing what you are doing! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Economic growth agency MBIE can short circuit good policy process by failing to undertake cost-benefit analysis or do risk assessment. But apparently PSGR lack any 'personal interest'. Then we are sent the Ombudsman's annual survey to fill out ... psgrnz.substack.com/p/our-compla...

Deadline 27th for a consultation which deregulates where telecommunications infrastructure can go - but which explicitly drafts out risk to health from radiofrequency electromagnetic exposures.

Key review by @leotrasande.bsky.social et al 💥childhood EDC exposures & harm to the brain: findings underscore the profound & lasting effects of prenatal EDC exposure on brain development, emphasizing the need for better regulation & strategies to reduce exposures' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interested in EMF radiation and risk to human health 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...

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 acute & long-term risk assessment. @paneurope.bsky.social @pesticideactionaus.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbOm...

🔥🔥🔥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 & pregnancy?😵‍💫😲 - Showed RDI/RDAs likely under-dose Interview clip youtu.be/RPaGAqjNnqo

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

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." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqBy...

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. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

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

‘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.’ www.ohnegentechnik.org/en/news/arti...

Really? Australia wants to release GMO mosquitos? Where is the evidence of screening for undeclared mutations and/or unintentional transgenes? Gene flow between species within the Culicidae family is a recognised phenomenon. #GMO #mosquito open.substack.com/pub/psgrnz/p...?

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

Yes - gene flow & contamination is expected. Link to a transcript of our presentation to the Select Committee, on the Gene Tech Bill: psgr.org.nz/component/jd...