Lady Chemicals, Plastics, Pesticides, Cosmetics: Disrupting Hormones and Turning Man & Animal into Sick Infertile Mutants

Essential oils ‘make male breasts develop’

A study finds chemicals in lavender and tea tree oil appear to be hormone disruptors.

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Estrogen-mimicking chemical BPA found in 80% of teens

For Britain’s teenagers, plastic pollution could be about to get personal. Scientists found more than 80% of teenagers have hormone-disrupting contaminants from the plastics industry in their blood…

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Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Homosexual

Male birds that eat mercury-contaminated food show “surprising” homosexual behavior, scientists have found.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/101203-homosexual-birds-mercury-science

Japanese Researchers Use Soybean Compound to Turn Male Fish Into Females

The technique is being applied in order to boost production efficiency because females grow quicker to a required shipping weight of around 600 grams.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/101203-homosexual-birds-mercury-science

Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs

The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly applied pesticides in the world. Atrazine-exposed males were both chemically castrated and completely feminized as adults. 10% of the males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20194757/

Humans have created 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics since the 1950s, with 5 billion tons now in landfills or the natural environment

https://westernman.org/landfill-plastics

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The Testosterone Epidemic: How Endocrine Disruptors are Crushing Men

A fifth of male fish in UK rivers now ‘trans-gender’ due to chemicals in human waste

“More than 200 chemicals from sewage plants have been identified with oestrogen-like effects”, including “ingredients in the contraceptive pill, and by-products of cleaning agents, plastics, and cosmetics”.

“20 per cent of male fresh-water fish” in English rivers, “tested at 50 sites, had feminine characteristics. Some male fish have reduced sperm quality and display less aggressive and competitive behaviour … which makes them less likely to breed successfully.”

Source: University of Exeter, ‘A fifth of male fish in UK rivers now ‘trans-gender’ due to chemicals in human waste’, 2017,
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_591899_en.html

Common Chemical Linked to Idiopathic Male Infertility

The term “idiopathic” means “no known cause.” In this 2013 study done by Nanjing Medical University, China, 877 men diagnosed with idopathic infertility had blood levels tested for chemicals known as phenols. The chemical mimics the female hormone estrogen and has been linked with infertility in previous studies.

Of all phenols tested, the scientists found one type, called “alkylphenols,” higher in men with abnormal semen parameters.

For men interested in reducing exposure to alkyphenols, they are used extensively in laundry detergents, as additives for fuels and lubricants and plastics. They are used as building block chemicals that are also used in making fragrances, thermoplastic elastomers, oil field chemicals and fire retardant materials. Through the downstream use in making alkylphenolic resins, alkylphenols are also found in tires, adhesives, coatings, carbonless copy paper and high performance rubber products.

Source: Journal of Hazardous Materials (Vol. 15), Association of exposure to phenols and idiopathic male infertility, 2013,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23435201