Show 1102: How Do Endocrine Disruptors Affect Your Health?
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Sperm counts have been falling around the world for the last several decades. In some regions, such as Europe and North America, the counts are down as much as 60 percent. What could account for this dramatic drop?
Are Endocrine Disruptors to Blame?
Compounds in many ubiquitous products, such as the BPA found in hard clear plastic and the linings of cans, have been identified as endocrine disruptors. They interfere with the normal activity of human hormones. Could such endocrine disruptors be contributing to declining sperm counts and quality? How will that affect fertility?
Endocrine disruptors such as BPA also have other important effects on health and behavior. For instance, BPA can interfere with the normal activity of the hormone insulin. The result can be metabolic disruption and obesity. Other common compounds, such as those found in flame retardants, can disrupt thyroid hormones.
Tune in to learn whether you should avoid such compounds and how you might do so. Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) also has information on how to minimize your exposure to endocrine disruptors.
This Week’s Guest:
Andrea C. Gore, PhD, is a professor of pharmacology who holds the Vacek Chair of Pharmacology at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Gore is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Endocrinology. https://academic.oup.com/endo
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:30.7 | Humans evolved to keep their hormones in balance. |
| 0:34.2 | Are everyday chemicals in our environment disrupting their equilibrium? |
| 0:38.6 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:50.1 | Compounds that interfere with estrogen, testosterone, insulin, or thyroid hormones may affect our health. |
| 0:57.2 | Where do these endocrine disruptors come from? |
| 0:59.5 | And what are they doing to us? |
| 1:01.5 | Most people have heard of the estrogen mimic bisphenol A or BPA. |
| 1:06.0 | It was once used in baby bottles and still may be found in the linings of cans containing food or beverages. |
| 1:12.5 | Is there any way to reduce our exposure to BPA and other chemicals that interfere with our hormones? |
| 1:19.0 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out how endocrine disruptors affect your health. |
| 1:25.5 | First, the news. |
| 1:29.9 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, |
| 1:33.4 | doctors may soon be offering some of their patients with serious diarrhea |
| 1:36.9 | a very unusual prescription. |
| 1:39.9 | Capsules filled with frozen poop from healthy people. |
| 1:44.1 | Technically, of course, these pills contain bacteria in the fecal matter. |
| 1:48.0 | They're used to replace a ravaged digestive tract that has been overwhelmed by Clostridium difficile, |
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