• DOI:10.1289/ehp.7811
Corpus ID: 18832408

Fundamental Flaws of Hormesis for Public Health Decisions

@article{Thayer2005FundamentalFO,
  title={Fundamental Flaws of Hormesis for Public Health Decisions},
  author={K. Thayer and R. Melnick and Kathy Burns and Devra Davis and J. Huff},
  journal={Environmental Health Perspectives},
  year={2005},
  volume={113},
  pages={1271 - 1276}
}

• K. Thayer, R. Melnick, +2 authors J. Huff
• Published 2005
• Psychology, Medicine
• Environmental Health Perspectives

Hormesis (defined operationally as low-dose stimulation, high-dose inhibition) is often used to promote the notion that while high-level exposures to toxic chemicals could be detrimental to human health, low-level exposures would be beneficial. Some proponents claim hormesis is an adaptive, generalizable phenomenon and argue that the default assumption for risk assessments should be that toxic chemicals induce stimulatory (i.e., “beneficial”) effects at low exposures. In many cases… Expand

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