Sentences with phrase «disrupt hormone function»

Parabens have been known to cause endocrine disruption and they disrupt hormone function.

Not exact matches

Aside from the disturbing fact that over 90 % of the soy available in the United States is genetically modified, soy has been found to contain questionable hormone - mimicking isoflavones, which have the potential to disrupt endocrine function and alter growth patterns.

Among other issues, this has been show to disrupt thyroid function and hormone production.

The results may suggest a potential to disrupt the body's endocrine system, the traffic of hormones that regulates reproduction and other functions.

Frank Gilliland, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, became intrigued when laboratory studies suggested that certain pollutants in the environment might function as «obesogens,» contributing to weight gain by mimicking or disrupting the action of hormones, or having other effects.

Many of these identified endocrine - disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which include pesticides and substances used in manufacturing a multitude of products, have been reported to interfere with thyroid hormone function, yet public health policy does not fully address the risks to vulnerable populations.

In addition, the treatment process appeared to convert a less harmful form of estrogen into one with greater potential for disrupting the function of animals» endocrine systems, which produce hormones that regulate growth, reproduction and other biological functions.

Many animal studies have demonstrated that several classes of flame retardants act as endocrine - disrupting chemicals and interfere with thyroid homeostasis (function), partly because they share a similar chemical structure with thyroid hormones, Sosa said.

Regulators are concerned because growing evidence shows that some synthetic chemicals — including those found in in insecticides, herbicides, fumigants, fungicides, detergents, resins and plasticizers — may disrupt the body's endocrine system, which controls many important functions by emitting hormones, or natural chemical messengers.

«As endocrine - disrupting chemicals, PCBs interfere with the way the thyroid hormone functions, but they don't actually change the amount of the hormone found in the body,» said one of the study's authors, R. Thomas Zoeller, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

Endocrine disrupters, which are found in almost 25 percent of our streams, rivers and lakes, can disrupt the normal functions of the endocrine system by mimicking or blocking the activities of hormones in wildlife leading to impaired development.

Hormone disruptors, formally called endocrine - disrupting compounds (EDCs), are agents that disrupt the normal function of the body's own hormones.

In women, pesticides negatively affect fertility by disrupting hormone production, hormone release and storage, thyroid function, and the central nervous system.

BPA is considered an endocrine - disrupting chemical, which means it may act like a hormone in the body and affect the functioning of natural hormones, like estrogen.

Phthalates and parabens in personal care products like lotions and shaving creams, and BPA in plastic bottles and on store receipts, are anti-androgens, meaning they disrupt the production and function of multiple hormones including testosterone.

Even medications can interfere with other hormones: birth control pills, estrogen replacement therapies, and beta - blockers can disrupt the thyroid function and contribute to less than optimal hormone balance.

Phthalates are notorious for triggering inflammation and they are known endocrine disruptors too — they can disrupt the functioning of hormones like insulin and estrogen.

«High exposure to estrogenic compounds during fetal and early childhood development through soy - based food products could disrupt the function of the natural steroid hormones and contribute to the high incidence of seizures associated with many childhood, neurological disorders including autism and FXS (Fragile X Syndrome).

Exposure to toxins, including endocrine disrupting compounds, promote weight gain by affecting metabolism, the ability to balance blood sugar, hormones, and brain function.

There are a couple of reasons why menopausal women might be experiencing more digestive problems than previously: hormonal imbalance disrupts the natural transit of food in the gut, and stress has an adverse effect on the normal functioning of hormones.

Animals treated with MSG developed brain lesions, caused stunted skeletal development and weight gain, and disrupted the neural centers responsible for hormone function [5].

By bombarding our body with toxins that disrupt hormones and endocrine function (are carcinogenic, and teratogenic which are bad for the organs in our body that filter toxins like our kidneys, liver, skin, lungs, and bowels) we are causing a slow build up of junk in our body that we can't get rid of fast enough.

Excessive drinking can hinder the production of hormones, disturb the functioning of HPT axis, and disrupt thyroid function in both direct and indirect manner.

This includes expelling environmental chemicals that disrupt our proper hormone function, called xenoestrogens.

Not surprisingly, the synthetic progesterone disrupts the way your own hormones function.

They've been shown to screw up hormone levels and disrupt brain function.

Don't Eat Raw Cruciferous Vegetables — Cruciferous vegetables like: broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, collard greens, bok choy and cabbage contain goitrogens which is a chemical that suppresses the function of the thyroid gland by disrupting and blocking the enzyme that lets your thyroid use the iodine in your body to make the thyroid hormone.

However, when the threat is persistent and the stress response system does not return to its resting state, continuous elevations of the stress hormone cortisol actually disrupt the formation of new brain circuits and suppress immune function.

Because neutering can be expected to disrupt the normal physiological developmental role of gonadal hormones on multiple organ systems, one can envision the occurrence of disease syndromes, including those listed below, to possibly be affected by neutering as a function of gender and the age at which neutering is performed.

The accumulation of visceral fat is dangerous, since these fat cells actively secrete hormones that can disrupt the functioning of the liver, pancreas, and brain, causing problems such as insulin resistance, inflammation and metabolic syndrome.