Since 1981, FASE staff and associates have participated in studies relating to the Hubbard detoxification program, a precise regimen that utilizes sauna, exercise, vitamins and minerals to mobilize and eliminate stored toxins and reduce symptoms associated with chemical exposures.

Studies regarding the use of this program to reduce body burdens of common contaminants such as DDT and PCBs have been published by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health, UNESCO and the American Society of Civil Engineers, among others. Some highlights of this work:

In cooperation with the University of Ljubljana Medical Society and the Slovenian Science Foundation, FASE researchers examined the benefits of detoxification for a group of Slovenian and Croatian workers with long-term exposure to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), electrical coolants long banned in the United States.

In cooperation with the World Health Organization, the U.S. EPA, the U.S. National Cancer Institute and the Commission on the European Communities, FASE presented a study regarding the detoxification of HCB (hexachlorobenzene)-exposed workers at an international symposium in Lyon, France.

FASE associates participated with scientists at the Medical Radiological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (in Obninsk, Russia) in a study evaluating the benefits of detoxification for persons whose health was harmed by the Chernobyl disaster. Findings were presented at U.S. EPA conference on post-emergency response to radioactive incidents.

Case studies regarding Gulf War veterans whose condition improved following detoxification were presented by FASE associates to a Presidential Oversight Board addressing the problems experienced by Gulf War Veterans.

Presentations by FASE Associates at a conference sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) led to an official recommendation by CDC that detoxification be studied as a treatment option for Gulf War veterans.

In partnership with rescue workers, unions and public sector partners, FASE helped to establish a project in New York City that has provided detoxification services to more than 900 men and women exposed to toxic smoke, dust and gas during the WTC rescue and recovery operations. These services have been provided to these men and women on a humanitarian basis, at no cost. The Foundation remains engaged in this work, facilitating scientific meetings and research projects to document the reductions in symptoms and improvements in work fitness that have been accomplished in hundreds of cases. For more on this project, click here.

The Foundation has also recently provided assistance to the Utah Meth Cops Project, an initiative created at the request of the Utah Attorney General to bring relief to police officers suffering the effects of toxic exposures during raids on illegal methamphetamine labs. For more, click here.

To provide a forum for FASE helped organize three international conferences—in Los Angeles, California, Stockholm, Sweden and New York, New York. These gatherings were the first to consider similarities in the human consequences of environmental chemical exposures and drug abuse. Hundreds of professionals from the U.S., Europe, Russia and Asia attended these meetings, from drug rehabilitation specialists and occupational physicians to government officials and journalists.