Show 1158: Will Hormone Disruptors Affect Your Children’s Health?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Over the last several decades, our environment has changed enormously. Comparing a playground in 1962 to the same playground in 2019 gives some sense of how thoroughly we have surrounded ourselves and our children with chemicals that may have profound impacts on the hormones in our bodies. As just one example, bisphenol A found in […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com.
0:15.1	When you nuke your lunch in the microwave,
0:17.2	do you leave it in the plastic container?
0:19.8	Are there health consequences?
0:21.9	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. We are surrounded by endocrine disrupting chemicals in our food and beverages, our homes,
0:39.4	our clothing and our cosmetics.
0:41.8	They have the power to change basic human biology. Why are
0:45.9	children especially vulnerable to hormone disruption? How can we protect them?
0:50.7	Sperm counts have dropped dramatically over the last few decades.
0:57.0	Could exposure to man-made toxins be contributing to this frightening decline?
1:02.0	Coming up on the people's Pharmacy, the urgent threat of hormone disrupting chemicals to our health and future.
1:09.0	First, the news.
1:17.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, a new study suggests that you can lower your risk for type 2 diabetes with resistance training.
1:24.0	Over 4600 adults between the ages of 20 and 100
1:28.1	were recruited from the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Texas.
1:31.8	None of them had type 2 diabetes at the beginning of the study. Researchers
1:36.8	had them performed lead presses and bench presses on resistant weight machines to measure
1:41.9	muscular strength.
1:43.0	During the eight-year follow-up period,
1:45.0	approximately 5% of the volunteers were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
1:50.0	Those with lower muscle strength
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