Sentences with phrase «disrupting their hormone systems»

The Food and Drug Administration has long permitted its use, but in recent years concerns about the chemical have grown as studies have indicated low doses of the substance can disrupt hormone systems in laboratory animals and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness.

«Pharmaceuticals that get out into the environment can harm aquatic life, making them react slowly in the wild and disrupting their hormone systems,» notes Olya Keen, Ph.D..

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Our endocrine system (which regulates our hormones) is so delicate that only a small amount of synthetic oestrogen will disrupt it — and unfortunately we are absorbing so much of it.

These fragrances can not only be irritating to a baby's respiratory system, but many of them have been known to cause things like disrupted hormone activity as well as liver and breast cancers.

When consumed, BPA mimics the hormone estrogen (becomes «estrogenic») and disrupts the natural balance of your endocrine system.

Medical societies were warning that BPA's similarity to estrogens could disrupt the human hormone system and pose health risks, especially to fetuses and newborns.

These can disrupt baby's healthy flora development, immune system integrity, daily hormonal rhythms, and stress - handling hormone responses.

Chronic stress in the mother during pregnancy overwhelms her ability to cope, and results in the release of neurochemicals and hormones that can disrupt key systems in a developing baby (especially vulnerable is the baby's neurological development), much in the same way as a chemical like lead does.

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

6 Each year, consumers in the United States spread 300 million pounds of chemical insecticides, including compounds that the EPA says may impair the nervous system, disrupt hormones in the body, or cause cancer.

Some chemical issues that Geoff?s team deals with have a high - profile, like endocrine - disrupting substances; many chemicals, both natural and man - made, are known to adversely effect the hormone systems of humans and animals, and there is growing concern about the link between the presence of these substances in their environment and their harm to wildlife.

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.

Stylized representation of a newly - discovered signaling pathway active after spinal cord injury, which sees the injured central nervous system use adrenal hormone production to potentially disrupt the immune system in a way that lead to severe infections.

But it could play a role, as the chemical mimics hormones and can disrupt endocrine systems.

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.

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.

In order to keep up with the demand to grow them faster and fatter, they are injected with hormones, which is a huge cancer risk and also disrupts our own endocrine system making us gain weight and creating real problems with our metabolism.

Stress hormones that drip continually into your system (instead of just occasionally, when they boost your heart rate and speed your breathing to help you deal with immediate emergencies) can suppress your immune system, disrupt your sleep, and trigger inflammation that plays into chronic diseases such as arthritis, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and gastrointestinal problems such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

«When they're disrupted, levels of hormones that impact your risk for heart disease, obesity, even your immune system are all affected.»

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

BPA disrupts the human endocrine system by mimicking body substances like estrogen and thyroid hormone.

«Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are found in pretty much every commercial product imaginable — shampoos, soaps, makeup, toothpaste, cleaning products, nonstick coatings, and plastics — and they've been shown in studies to interfere with the body's hormone system, or endocrine system.

Larger amounts of fluoride, which most people do consume from tap water, disrupt the whole endocrine system and wreak havoc on hormone production.

Largely during developmental exposures, soy endocrine disruptors disrupt the reproductive system and are toxic to multiple hormone systems.

Exposure to POFA from Teflon cookware alters the endocrine system including decreased levels of reproductive hormones and disrupted thyroid hormone regulation.

Soy phyto - estrogens also abnormally manipulate ER - alpha and ER - beta hormone systems, further disrupting extensive endocrine systems throughout the entire body and brain.

From a dietary perspective, you really need to avoid anything that disrupts the endrocrine system including fluoride (water, toothpaste), pesticides, BPA / BPS, added hormones, GMOs, etc... basically you need to go back to basics with your diet and avoid added chemicals.

Chemical sunscreens, penetrate the skin and may disrupt the body's hormone system.

Restricting fat can disrupt your hormones, impair digestion, weaken your bones and muscles, affect your kidneys and compromise your immune system.

Some scientists worry that triclosan can disrupt hormones in the human system, increasing the risk of problems like infertility, early puberty, other developmental issues, and even cancer.

They are not suitable for the human body because the isoflavones — which are present in massive levels in soy to protect it from pests — these isoflavones, think of this like estrogen that isn't native to us; it doesn't belong in our body, because it disrupts our system and hormone levels.

Low - dose, progesterone only — it's all synthetic hormones that have the purpose of disrupting your endocrine system and suppressing the cycle.

Hormone imbalance (especially with bisphenol A, which mimics estrogen in the body and disrupts the endocrine system — home to your thyroid, adrenal glands and hormones)

PCOS is a complex endocrine system disorder that disrupts the endocrine system's ability coordinate female hormones.

The major choice in the U.S. is between «chemical» sunscreens, which have inferior stability, penetrate the skin and may disrupt the body's hormone systems, and «mineral» sunscreens (zinc and titanium), which often contain micronized — or nano - scale particles of those minerals.

EDCs often disrupt the endocrine system by mimicking or interfering with a natural hormone.

Your cortisol and adrenaline hormones are imbalanced, and the excessive amount of hormones being pumped from your adrenal glands disrupts your NeuroEndoMetabolic (NEM) Stress Response system.

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.

After a year - long investigation of China's giant textile industry, Greenpeace has found that hormone - disrupting chemicals and other toxins are being discharged into the country's major water systems from major plants that

After a year - long investigation of China's giant textile industry, Greenpeace has found that hormone - disrupting chemicals and other toxins are being discharged into the country's major water systems from major plants that supply big sports brands like Nike, Adidas and Puma, as well as international fashion brands like Lacoste, H&M;, Calvin Klein and Converse.