Endocrine disruptor

What if you found out you were feeding your family an endocrine disrupting substance that causes cancer? You would immediately throw it out and never buy it again. It would be a little hard to even figure that out if the labels are fibbed to hide ingredients from the buyer. Now what if you were spraying detergents or even putting on face products that had the same thing in both of them. It’s a little odd that detergents, what we clean our bathroom with and beauty products, what we put on our face could contain the same thing. Endocrine disruptors like Carcinogen can be found in everyday home utilities such as detergents, pesticides, children’s toys, plastic bottles, cosmetics, and metal soda cans. Studies show exposure to high levels of Endocrine…

1. Research Question a. What is an Endocrine Disruptors, and how does it affect the normal function of the endocrine system? 2. Overview of Topic by the Book a. The endocrine system is responsible for controlling and organizing bodily functions. Hormones are first produced by the endocrine tissues, such as the testes, ovaries, adrenal, thyroid, pituitary, and pancreas. Once the hormone is produced, it is then secreted into the blood where it regulates the functions of organs in the body,…

Endocrine disruptors is the given name for a group of chemicals that, at certain doses, can interfere with the hormone system within mammals as well as fish and amphibians. They can be naturally occurring chemicals e.g. Arsenic, or manmade chemicals e.g. hormonally active substances excreted by humans using certain pharmaceutical products, as well as a number of chemicals derived from everyday cosmetics, plastics and personal care products. These disruptors can lead to a variety of debilating…

The Controversy behind Endocrine Disruptors Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can cause an individual’s endocrine, neurological or immune system to not function properly. Many chemicals have been deemed endocrine disruptors but are still used heavily today. They can be seen in things such as, plastics, cosmetics and pesticides among other products. Whether or not the benefits that using certain compounds affords us is worth the damage they can potentially cause is the basis for the…

The Endocrine system is a composition of organ glands that produces hormones and uses them to regulate bodily functions such as metabolism, tissue and bone development, and sexual reproductions. The collection of glands, however, are vulnerable to certain chemicals; these chemicals are known as Endocrine disruptors, or EDs for short. EDs can mimic and manipulate glands to cause irregularities to produce tumors or cancers. To make matters worse, EDs are elusive; these chemicals are hard to take…

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Pesticides are substances that are meant for attracting, seducing, and then usually destroying the pest itself. These substances can be chemicals or biological agents that are killing the pests. These toxic substances are released into the environment intentionally to kill living things. Specifically, an insecticide is a substance or chemical that is used for the killing of insects and herbicides are used to kill unwanted vegetation. Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) was one of the first…

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Endocrine disrupters are chemicals that may interfere with the bodies endocrine system and produce adverse development, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects in both humans and wild life. These disrupters can mimic natural occurring hormones in the body like estrogens, androgens, and thyroid hormones. They can bind to the receptor within a cell and block the hormone from binding and altering the natural production of hormones. One of the most commonly studied endocrine disrupters is…

During the mid 1990s, scientist had numerous discoveries about endocrine disruption, and that common occurring impurities can inhibit with the natural hormonal signals controlling foetal development. The term endocrine disruptor was created at the wingspread conference center in Wisconsin in 1991. Several articles had a key impact on such a creation. One paper in 1993 by Theo Colborn. Through this paper she stated that the “environmental chemicals distribute the development of the endocrine…