Health:How to Minimize Exposures to Hormone Disrupters/Story: Bunnies on Ice

How to Minimize Exposures to Hormone Disrupters “We tend to think hormone disrupters are a mom and baby issue,” said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, the chief of the division of environmental pediatrics at N.Y.U. School of Medicine. “But it literally can be a life and death matter for folks who are not even trying to have a family.” Dr. Trasande is one of the doctors I work with in the pediatric clinic at Bellevue Hospital, and the author of “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: the Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future … and What We Can Do About It.” There is significant evidence that several types of chemicals can in different ways interfere with the hormones that our bodies use as messengers for everything from sexual maturity and fertility to how we handle appetite and fat storage. Evidence has accumulated that these substances can change the ways that children’s bodies develop, starting very early. “We are also looking more and more at not just exposures in pregnancy, but exposures before conception, which is very interesting,” Dr. Trasande said. “It may be early exposures are shaping how gametes develop.” “There are straightforward, simple steps to reduce exposures that don’t have to break the budget,” Dr. Trasande said. He suggested avoiding canned food consumption, along with foods that are highly packaged or processed, and in particular avoiding plastic bottles or containers marked on the bottom with 3, 6 or 7.  By Perri Klass, M.D. 
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/well/family/how-to-minimize-exposures-to-hormone-disrupters.html  Story: Bunnies on Ice. By Johanna Wright