Show 1102: How Do Endocrine Disruptors Affect Your Health?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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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 […]

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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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