Physical Health as Environment

Discuss how you believe you, your students, or anyone else you know may have been impacted by mercury exposure or dispute the argument that mercury can affect brains and bodies. Support your thinking with scholarly sources.

Share another environmental influence, besides heavy metal exposure, that you believe negatively impacts the brains and bodies of young people regularly and that potentially interferes with the learning process.

Environmental influences are varied and many of them can negatively impact a person’s brain functioning, behavior and their ability to learn at age and/or grade level expectation. There are many studies with regard to Mercury (Hg). Exposure to Mercury is very common, even though there are many alternatives in the building and construction industry which can easily prevent the negative impact of Mercury, however many construction companies have not taken the initiative to utilize alternate material and/or methods, particularly in low socioeconomic areas and/or communities (Brainline, 2014). As many ...

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