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Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton See book keywords and concepts

Fabric and carpet stain repellents or "guards" may contain plastics and have a history of containing organofluorines, powerful hormone disruptors, and accumulate in the tissues of humans. During application and drying, the chemicals in these carpet products evaporate and may concentrate in the air, causing indoor air pollution, especially if the room is not well ventilated. Carpet shampoos generally contain solvents and detergents that must be applied for a specific period of time and then vacuumed to remove the product.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Environmental toxins Avoid chemicals and mercury—small amounts of these potent hormone disruptors can significantly affect the thyroid and other endocrine organs (sex organs and adrenal glands). Essential fatty acid deficiency Essential fats are important in helping thyroid hormones do their work at the cell membrane. Adrenal disfunction Low thyroid function and low adrenal function can each make the other condition worse. Be sure to treat and deal with adrenal dysfunction when it occurs. Gluten allergy This results in celiac disease, and may be present if the thyroid is malfunctioning.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

In wildlife, when hormone disruptors enter an animal's body, these "wrong messages" have been shown to mimic, amplify, or block the working of the animal's own hormones. What happens? Male fish start making female egg proteins. Female gulls, called "gay gulls," start nesting with other females. Panthers are born with undescended testicles. Male alligators have such small penises they cannot reproduce. Research experiments with laboratory animals also show the effects of endocrine disruption on mammals. But has endocrine disruption been proven in humans?

When certain plastics are burned in incinerators (for example, medical waste like iv bags burned in hospital incinerators), they can release dioxins, which are potent hormone disruptors. • Plasticizers (phthalates, pronounced thalates)—compounds added to some plastics to make them more flexible. Sitting in your new car inhaling that new-car smell, you're actually breathing in the phthalates that are used in polyvinyl chloride (pvc) in different car parts. Eventually, your car dashboard will crack when there are no more phthalates in there.

When a pregnant woman consumes these foods, along with other hormone disruptors she has stored in her body from the environment, some of the fat-soluble chemicals get transferred to the fetus. In a lactating mother, the chemicals may be concentrated in the breast milk and transferred to the baby. Did loud alarm bells go off in your head when you heard the words breast milk} Hormone-disrupting chemicals are known to contaminate our most perfect food—mother's milk.

Many things, from hair dye to the pesticide-laden manicured greens of our golf courses to processed foods such as commercially colored and fat-laden ice cream, contain chemicals that are known or suspected hormone disruptors. However, the environment that affects our health is not only what surrounds us in our first home—the womb—and also in our houses, our towns, or our nations, although those are significant. Endocrine disruptors travel on global air and water currents and end up thousands of miles away from their place of origin.

In 1992 German researchers published a study on the relationship of pollutant exposure to the exis- TABLE 8.

All within one year. All within the United States alone. Off-site releases add another 461.1 million pounds of toxic chemicals to the environment. that may be altering the wonderful hormone signaling system we share with other species. A century ago, this chemical legacy didn't exist. Now, anywhere from a dozen to 500 chemicals can be found in measurable quantities in the body fat of every living human. (Different studies cite different numbers, although I've found no studies that say there are people with no chemical residues in their bodies.

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