Gender-Bending? EDCs? Nations Agree To End Plastic Pollution & Start Addressing Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs).
If you feel this conversation needs to be heard, explored, at least considered, feel free to send around. DLB
I wrote one of the 3 breakthrough books on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), that came out within 3 months of each other. Mine was Hormone Deception. Then there was Our Stolen Future. And Hormonal Chaos.
These books came out almost 25 years ago.
We were warning the community about what the pollution epidemic might be doing to our kid’s IQ, behavior, sexuality, and sense of self. Let alone risks of diseases from cancer to diabetes.
Based on my book I was invited to become a distinguished hormone scholar at an environmental estrogen research group at Tulane University, called the Center for Bioenvironmental Research or the CBR.
This was a think tank dedicated to researching endocrine disrupting chemicals. Their effects on humanity. Especially chemical exposure during pre-pregnancy (and even pre-pregnancy, in the egg and the sperm) that might effect future generational health. In “all” aspects.
One of our biggest questions all the scientists debated at length, was,
“Is gender bending coming down the road?”
EDCs may be behind many of our emergent cultural “is-nesses”. (Of course many phenomena are caused by multi-factorial streams of issues, but the role of polluting chemicals must be asked and explored).
What if your child, who now identifies as a different sex than what they were born, is actually and mostly finding themselves in this position, due to pollution occurring throughout many moments of genes being “set in stone”. And from chemicals introduced into our environment by industry?
How would you feel?
This question must be asked.
I have not been hearing these questions from environmental experts? Out loud that is.
I am putting myself out on a limb here, but it is a strong and major hunk of tree coming right out of the human tree.
Now, we live in a democracy. We get to choose who we are. That is such a gift.
But who we are may be a flood of “root-causes”. It’s healthy to view your life from a larger picture. That permits you to ponder how you got where you are. And where you really want to land.
EDCs might be part of it.
EDCs can alter our own human hormonal signals. This has been well proven.
EDCs can block, amplify, alter and in plain English, ruin healthy, normal human hormonal signals. Not in everyone. But in the vulnerable.
The fetus is the most vulnerable.
Hormonal signals in the womb set up much of human health - body, mind and spirit - of the offspring. As they grow up. Prospering… or not.
Animals have been the canaries in the mine.
Animals in polluted environments, like alligators in Lake Apopka in Southern Florida before it was remediated, were “gender-bending”.
I wrote about this in “both” Hormone Deception and in SEXY BRAIN.
Male alligators were making female eggs.
Female alligators were growing male genitalia.
(We learned this THANKS to the tireless work of the extraordinary embryologist Louis J. Guillette, Jr. PhD that I interviewed and got to hang with at Tulane; but who tragically and too early died from blood cancer that all who know him feel is due to his spending so much time in those polluted Apopka waters).
That’s how endocrine disrupting chemicals first got noticed.
By gender-bending of the offspring born to “exposed” maternal and or paternal parents.
Exposed to EDCs.