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Synthetic Estrogens Wreak Havoc On Your Reproductive System

Researchers are developing a clearer understanding of why the synthetic estrogens found in many widely-used plastics can cause damage to a developing fetus, fertility problems, and vaginal and breast cancers.

Past research has shown that exposure to the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) alters the expression of HOXA10, a gene necessary for uterine development. By studying the DNA of the offspring of 30 pregnant mice injected with DES, researchers found changes in certain regions of the HOXA10 gene that continued beyond the time of development and persisted into adulthood.

HOXA 10 protein expression was shifted to the bottom portion of the uterus in the female offspring, indicating that DES is actually changing the structure of the HOXA 10 gene.



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BY seg   
  
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[ Posted on April 02, 2008 ]
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What is really bothersome is that most of these studies done today are incriminating Synthetic chemicals as a real,real culprit but nothing is being done to keep them of the markets....

Synthetic Estrogen, or Estrogen mimicking chemicals are not just in our water bottles they are everywhere, in our lakes, oceans, foods, clothes, the air we breathe, name it......Look at young girls today around 8, 9 years old starting to experience puberty, with fully developed breasts, big butts etc......Even guys are developing breasts- Pillsbury Dough Boy look, enlarged prostate, constant fatigued etc.etc........

When will the powers to be wake up from their long slumber and act for once in the name of mankind. Signs of the times people.....

 
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I wish our scientific and medical communities would STOP for a minute and think about the ramifications of their products.   Look at all the carcinogenic products that have come out of the past 100 years?  The products that have made people sick and/or killed people.  They never, for once, even gave a second thought to mass producing this stuff. 

 
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BY mmc88121   
  
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[ Posted on April 01, 2008 ]
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This could also help explain why there is such an increase in PMS complaints.  It might just have something to do with all the bottled water people are drinking.

Mary
 

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BY Aaltrude   
  
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Plus the plastic containers a lot of processed food is sold in and the plastic storage containers used in the home etc.

 
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BY Cherina   
  
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[ Posted on April 03, 2008 ]
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This is interesting for the explanation about why synth estrogens are bad, but it isn't very helpful to me as a woman trying to avoid those synthetic estrogens in plastics in the first place. 

My son just threw out his plastic water bottles with a #7 on the bottom of them, because it was casually mentioned in his biology class that plastics with a 7 on the bottom might "give the boys boobs".

Most people have no idea what kind of plastic they're using or what that means to their health.  This article would be much more valuable to me if it went into those details as well.