The term “estrogenic” refers to hormone disrupting chemicals like BPA and other chemicals from plastics, pesticides and other sources that can affect the health of both men and women in ways that are similar to estrogen. Most hormone disruptors exhibit estrogenic action. The Endocrine Society (www.endo-society.org) — the world’s oldest and largest organization for doctors […]
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Trust Glass, Not Plastic
You can trust glass, but you can’t trust plastic for water bottles, dishes or other uses. While a small percentage are safe, no reliable guide exists, thus damning all plastics that contacts anything you put in your body. “BPA free” no guarantee Significantly, most plastics that claim to be “BPA Free” just have different types […]
What Is A Hormone/Endocrine Disruptor?
Potent chemicals that can damage your health while present in the same incredibly tiny concentrations as your body’s own hormones are Hormone Disruptors. Scientists and medical researchers call these chemicals “Endocrine Disrupting Compounds,” but we’re going to call them “Hormone Disruptors.” Why? Because “hormone” is a much more familiar word than “endocrine” and connects more […]
Small Exposures Don’t Matter (Ah, But They Do)
Improbably Small, Exquisitely Complicated, Incredibly Fragile = Easy To Disrupt It’s hard to imagine how such impossibly small amounts of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) can harm you. But they can because your cells are complicated and fragile in ways that are also hard to imagine. But remember: Hormone Disruptors are active in the same incredibly […]
You Are A Lab Rat
You’re a lab rat. You and every other American – our families, friends, co-workers, children (born and unborn) – are lab animals in the largest global experiment in chemical exposure and altered evolution in the history of mankind. Indeed, for several decades, we have all been un-consenting test animals for hundreds of unregulated and largely […]
Can’t Really Rely On Lab Rat Tests
Hormone Disruptor skeptics frequently say that, “Rats and humans are too different for us to base regulatory decisions on experiments using rodents.” And, they add, “There are no controlled experiments with humans because that would be unethical.” Really? Every human in America today is a lab rat in an uncontrolled, un-consenting, stealth Hormone Disruptor experiment. […]
Conventional Ignorance: BPA’s No Sweat: Your Body Gets Rid Of It Quickly
Like Grains Of Sand In an Hourglass Skeptics of Hormone Disruptor dangers like to poke fun at the low concentrations that come from any single source in our environment. But never forget your body functions at those levels: your nose can detect odors in the low parts per trillion and your body’s natural hormones are […]
The Amounts Are Too Small To Matter (A Deadly Misconception)
Improbably Small, Exquisitely Complicated, Incredibly Fragile = Easy To Disrupt It’s hard to imagine how such impossibly small amounts of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds can harm you. But they can because your cells are complicated and fragile in ways that are also hard to imagine. In addition, Hormone Disruptors are active in the same incredibly small […]
The Dose Is The Poison (Not Always!): Non-Monotonic Behavior
The phrase “The dose is the poison,” carries with it the implication that if something is toxic, then less will be less toxic. And a lot less is safe. This just seems so terribly logical: half as much is half as toxic. One-hundredth as much is one-hundredth as toxic. A millionth as much is a […]
How Links, Associations & Connections Save Lives
Epidemiology – the science of connections — began with a lot of dead people. The dead and dying suffered littered the streets of Soho, London in 1854 during the country’s worst-ever cholera epidemic. A local doctor found links between the deaths and where people lived. Skeptical local officials repeatedly refused to believe the doctor because […]