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Hi, everyone, this is Dr. Rochelle.

Let's discuss the association between pesticide exposure and hypothyroidism.

And just as a brief bit of background, there is some suggestion that exposure to pesticides and herbicides may interrupt and

interfere with thyroid function through a variety of mechanisms. But oftentimes here, the degree

of influence is important, meaning that there may be some mechanism of thyroid function

that could be influenced, yes, by an herbicide or

pesticide. But we also have to show that that has an appreciable influence in someone's

system and that we're not getting overly wrapped up in a very small perturbation of a mechanism that doesn't result in any meaningful type of impact.

However, this is one case, even with that in consideration, that we do appear to have evidence showing that pesticide exposure has been correlated with disruption in a significant fashion of thyroid function.

I'll put the abstract up here on the screen.

Pesticide use and incidence or incident hypothyroidism in pesticide applicators in the agricultural

health study.

So an important point here to lead with is this is not looking at people who ate non-organic

food and therefore were exposed to the

pesticides and herbicides that are higher in non-organic than they are in organic food. This is people

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