Sentences with phrase «of endocrine disrupters»

Simple things like eating a clean diet, hitting the sack on schedule, and being aware of endocrine disrupters will ensure they're running smoothly — so you can, too.

In recent times, however, there has evolved a greater understanding of endocrine disrupters and their effects.

And, even these «[s] lightly elevated [levels] of endocrine disrupters in [the] milk of mothers with a seafood - rich diet [may be] associated with adverse effects on neurological development, foetal and postnatal growth, and memory functions [in] breastfed infants,» because «these contaminants may interfere with the endocrine [or hormonal] system.»

Thresholds for Endocrine Disrupters and Related Uncertainties, Report of the Endocrine Disrupters Expert Advisory Group.

Beefed up He and his colleague David Cwiertny, an environmental engineer at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, decided to find out whether the breakdown products of endocrine disrupters could be boosting their environmental impact.

Not exact matches

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

Vom Saal has spent several decades researching the potent effects of everyday low - dose exposure to chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) that are known as endocrine disrupters.

A threefold increase can not be genetic, it is most likely environmental, and many of us believe it is due to endocrine disrupters.

Of particular concern are a group of toxic chemicals called endocrine - disrupters, which interfere with reproductive hormones and may cause sterilitOf particular concern are a group of toxic chemicals called endocrine - disrupters, which interfere with reproductive hormones and may cause sterilitof toxic chemicals called endocrine - disrupters, which interfere with reproductive hormones and may cause sterility.

But Emma Whitelaw of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia, cautions that the jury is still out on whether endocrine - disrupters are acting through epigenetic mechanisms.

Hiding in plain sight Kolodziej says that the work casts considerable uncertainty over sampling results for steroid endocrine disrupters, and suggests that a survey of their breakdown compounds in the environment is now urgently needed.

Indeed, concentrations of known endocrine disrupters in rivers often seem to be too low to explain harmful effects in aquatic wildlife, says Kolodziej.

He studies the impact of very brief «pulse» exposures to contaminants and endocrine disrupters on aquatic life.

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 devEndocrine 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 devendocrine system by mimicking or blocking the activities of hormones in wildlife leading to impaired development.

The study, which is financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Centre on Endocrine Disrupters, is described in detail in a scientific article in the publication Society of Toxicology: Multiple Endocrine Disrupting Effects in Rats Perinatally Exposed to Butylparaben (pdf).

The toxicological effects of these so - called endocrine disrupters on the reproductive system have so far been tested more thoroughly in boys than in girls.

One of the biggest downsides to helpful industrial products like, say, plastic, or female contraceptives, is that they contain bad chemicals called endocrine disrupters.

In this report the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) explores the endocrine disrupter hypothesis, which asserts that certain (primarily man - made) chemicals act as, or interfere with, human hormones (specifically estrogens) in the body and thus cause a range of defects and diseases related to the endocrine system.

Some of the key research findings that propelled the endocrine disrupter hypothesis have been retracted, are not reproducible, or have not been reproduced.

There currently is a trend in most environmental sectors (i.e. air, water, and soil) toward decreasing concentrations of many environmental contaminants, including several that are suspected of being endocrine disrupters.

«Many of them are endocrine disrupters that mess up our hormones — we really don't want these chemicals in our bodies.»

Unfortunately, this lack of transparency could be masking whether the product contains allergens, toxic ingredients linked to illness, and known endocrine disrupters like phthalates.

Developed last year, this relatively new certification for nonfood items like household products, skin care, cleaners, etc., names a product safe when third - party scientists find that it's free of chemicals thought to harm human health (meaning no carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, fire retardants, or VOCs allowed).

These researchers have proven that many of these ingredients are endocrine and estrogen disrupters.

Medicine has also proven that endocrine and estrogen disrupters increase the incidence of certain cancers.

With a history of breast cancer on my mother's side, my tofu cleanse didn't mean anything if I was exposing myself to endocrine disrupters in other ways.

Conventional sunscreen is full of endocrine - disrupters and cancer - causing carcinogens, so make this the summer you switch to something natural.

One of the culprits in plastics that you allude to are the endocrine disrupters (e.g. phthalates).

First congratulations on the vegan nutritional approach to pregnancy... you have already taken a huge step in avoiding exposure of your baby to persistent organic pollutants such as dioxin and endocrine disrupters and metals such as mercury and arsenic.

However, there is a general thesis that because of the potential for synergistic effects, human exposure to all endocrine disrupters, such as the soy isoflavones, requires urgent reduction (8).

Many now view the multiplicity of effects that endocrine disrupters can induce as toxic effects (8).

In fact it was the toxicity of dietary levels of isoflavones to animals that first raised the awareness of the scientific community to the fact that soy isoflavones were endocrine disrupters (11).

The list of pesticides that have been shown to be endocrine disrupters, and which are used in the Bitterroot Valley, includes 2, 4 - D, picloram, benzene, benzoic acid, atrazine, nonylphenols and others.11 Many pesticides have either not been tested for endocrine disruption, or they have been tested using the CD - 1 mouse species, which have been bred to be genetically more resistant to endocrine disruption than other mouse strains.

Scientific evidence suggests that the influence of stress, external estrogen - like agents in our diet and environment (endocrine - disrupters), and aging can dramatically disrupt this delicate balance.

Most of them are toxins and a great many are carcinogens and endocrine disrupters.

Nearly everything you'll find on shelves is vegan (apart from a small number of products made with honey and beeswax), palm - oil free, and clear of toxins like endocrine disrupters and parabens.

Rather ominously, phthalates are known as endocrine disrupters, meaning that they can change the body's production of the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen and, in animal studies, alter the onset of puberty in mouse pups exposed to high levels of the chemicals in utero.

The authors say that there needs to be more research into the possible causes for the decline in semen concentration and percentages of normally formed sperm, and that environmental stresses, including endocrine disrupters, must be considered.

2007 Bruce J. Berger and Michael L. Junk, Endocrine Disrupters: The Potential Cloud of Manufacturer Toxic Tort Liability 2008 Thomas Rouhette, The Availability of Punitive Damages in Europe: Growing Trend or Nonexistent Concept?