Note: This is the first part in an ongoing series on our blog in which we place the focus on a mostly overlooked threat to currently enlisted and former U.S. military personnel: toxic heavy metals and radiation exposure both domestically and overseas. In an effort to highlight this serious issue, we plan on incorporating videos, third party articles, stories from the media, question-and-answer sessions, and much more into this ongoing project. If you or a loved one has any experience with exposure to these substances, and wish to make to your opinion heard, please feel free to comment or email us your own story at info@foliumpx.com, or contact us via this website, and we will try to make it part of this project on increasing awareness of this vitally important military health and medical issue. Every American is at risk when it comes to toxic heavy metals and radiation. The harmful substances...

 In 2012, the state of California became the first in the U.S. to formally recognize that access to safe, clean and affordable water is a fundamental human right. Unfortunately, some seven years later, due to poor California water quality, many of its residents are denied that right. It looks pristine to the naked eye, but contaminants are a fact of life for most of California’s lakes, streams and rivers   More than 300 of the states’  approximately 2,800 water providers offer tap water that is out of compliance with federal standards,  affecting at least a million Californians each year. Additionally, about 6 million Californians live in areas with water providers that have violated state water standards at some point since 2012, and the agency that regulates water in the state just reported that as many as 1,000 providers may be at risk of delivering potable, or drinking, water.             All this on top of a study in April by an...