Lead in Gasoline Has Damaged Your Mental Health and IQ, with Dr. Aaron Reuben

Lead was added to car fuel back in the twenties and wasn’t phased
out in America until 1996. By then, according to
neuropsychologist and researcher Dr Aaron Reuben, the damage had
very much been done. He’s one of the authors of a new study
pointing to 151 million cases of mental illness that correlate
with the presence of lead in gas tanks. The people damaged the
most were those born during the highest usage of lead, the mid to
late sixties through the early eighties. Dr. Reuben says that
while circumstances and individual cases vary widely, the average
Gen X-er may have also lost four to six IQ points as a result of
lead exposure. 


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