I wanted to publish a few pages from fourth upcoming publication: Baby Boys: The Next Endangered Species: A Manual on Detoxification for your Years of Fertility. This publication is in the 1st/2nd rough draft form, and I still want to bolster some of the shocking research I have come across with additional meta analysis and expert testimonies. I have read a substantial body of literature (261 papers) on this subject, but I am lacking in some of my research on the biochemical mechanisms, although the papers I have read on observational and geographic studies allude to the existence of this information.
Studies have found that the concentration of EDC pesticides in mother’s breastmilk can be alarmingly high, ranging from 100 to 400 times greater than typical levels. This finding is profoundly concerning, as it suggests that infants, believed to be in good health, are being exposed to pesticide levels far exceeding safe limits—not just by double or even tenfold, but up to four hundred times the acceptable amount. The full implications of these high exposures on infant development and health are not yet fully understood, underscoring the urgency for further scientific investigation. The notion of inadvertently poisoning infants with significant quantities of pesticides, such as those found in products like Roundup, should serve as a stark motivator for urgent changes in our dietary habits and lifestyle choices. If such extreme contamination doesn’t prompt a reevaluation of our environmental impact and personal health strategies, then we must question the broader societal values that prioritize short-term convenience over long-term well-being. Indeed, both physical and mental health, critical determinants of life success, are deeply intertwined with our environmental exposures and lifestyle choices
What are the source of common endocrine disruptors?
The environment is rife with hormone disruptors, but they are frequently found in the following list of consumer products. By changing these items to clean or homemade products you can, with an upfront cost, but little labor or pain, improve your health and the health of your children.
Tampons and Pads
Laundry Detergent and Dryer Sheets (largest contributor of EDCs to the common household)
Non-stick cookware
Plastic cookware, generally any plastic that comes in contact with foods or beverages.
Cosmetics
Anything with a fragrance (natural fragrance or otherwise, only essential oils are not EDCs in the same sense that we are discussing her)
House cleaners
Baby diapers, baby wipes, baby products such as a plastic baby bath (better to bath your baby in the kitchen sink.
Birth Control
Water (tap water)
Air Freshers (huge offenders)
Food Packaging, from boxed food on the grocery store shelf to to go containers such as styrofoam and coffee mugs.
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals ie Xenoestrogens: making baby boys the next endangered species
Why should I care so much about xenoestrogens? I can still get pregnant so I am probably fine, and in general I feel good.
Yes, your fine, but will your child or grandchild be fine? As you will see below, the biggest effects of xenoestrogens are on the baby in the uterus. And the effects are not seen in full until that child is grown and ready for reproduction. In short, xenoestrogens are the biggest danger the human race currently faces because these compounds are engaged in an ongoing slaughter of the human race…. rather than the threat of a slaughter of the human race through potentials such as nuclear war or global warming. This threat to us and animals existing is insidious because it acts in a slow manner. In fact, the World Wildlife Federation Conference has brought the threat of these chemicals to the scientific community by declaring EDCs to be important at the global level as they are implicated in an extensive range of diseases and in the infertility of many animals, amphibians, and aquatic species, especially for those creatures that live in areas of runoff.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (Lambert et al.) are substances that can mimic, block, or interfere with the body’s natural hormones. They do this by interfering in almost every aspect of production or action of the body’s natural blood borne hormones. This includes the synthesis, secretion, transport, metabolism, bonding action, or elimination of your innate hormones (Mishra, 2013). This means they act at the place of the steroid hormone receptor as an agonist or antagonist thus, respectively, either increasing or decreasing the effect of a hormone. They can act on the genome of a person to affect, for example, if synthesis occurs. Any compound that can affect one’s genome is especially worrisome when it comes to reproduction because these compounds are acting on the germ line, or the cells that turn into babies, and even, for example, in a baby girl, the baby girl’s eggs can be affected in addition to the baby girl inside her mother’s uterus(Roig et al., 2013). These compounds can engage in many nefarious actions, for example, bind to the thyroid receptors (Roig et al., 2013)}. These disruptions can lead to adverse effects on development, reproduction, neurological function, metabolism, and immune function.
There is a great deal of crossover between Toxic Chemicals in general and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. Many of the compounds above are also disrupting to the endocrine system, but those in this section are particularly worrisome for the depth of research on these compounds and how they negatively affect the endocrine system which is the system responsible for fertility and reproduction.
For both sexes, EDCS can function as pubertal influencers in both sexes which mean they increase the speed at which secondary sex characteristics develop, this includes breast, genital size, body hair and odor(Kaniklidis, 2022).You will find that these endocrine disrupting chemicals are the most damaging to our darling baby boys. Props to the mommas making baby boys, and especially healthy ones that are not sick and have big dicks and properly formed testicles, and act like little men running around, attacking and hitting and wanting to play fight. This may sound grossly extreme, but all these factors are those that are measured by researchers and things that are affected by the chemicals in the environment. Read further for more details.
Great news for us because it turns out that we are somewhat in control of our physiology, rather than it being subject to fate from the karma of our ancestors. We love to blame our genetics on things. Oh, well my genes make me fat, or my genes are interfering with my ability to learn math. Well, science is discovering more and more it is not genes, but environment. The environment makes changes above the gene level (called epigenetics) as well as to general signaling in the body.
Our current environment causes minor to major changes though your health through daily living. Endocrine disrupting chemicals are found everywhere, including laundry detergents, oral contraceptives, environmental waste products, plastics, and pesticides. Food additives are also a class of EDC’s and if you are consuming food from restaurants, any food in a box, plastic bag, or can, you are likely consuming compounds that are damaging your endocrine system. Your endocrine system is likely being damaged on a daily basis as result of this constant onslaught.
At the current level of exposure and intake of these chemicals it is amazing humans are still fertile. Nevertheless, there is no deficient in the depth of compelling evidence that shows fertility is on a severe decline, and other species are affected due to the compounds we have made and are putting into our body. This is in opposition to the idea that a decrease in fertility is due to genetics or a population bottleneck. Interference with the germ line is initiated in utero during gestation. For example, there is evidence that the decrease in sperm quality and motility is due to the oestrogens exposure of baby boys en utero. A higher load of chemical exposure of your baby during pregnancy can result in a baby boy being born with a smaller penis and more feminized genitalia than those baby boys born to women who are eating organic, less meat (which means fewer chemical exposures), and have changed their kitchen and self care products to contain fewer toxins.
It is crucial to recognize that the total chemical burden a fetus encounters is influenced not just by exposures during pregnancy but by the mother’s environmental interactions throughout her life. The prenatal period, often discussed in term of the nine months of pregnancy, actually extends well beyond this timeframe. Particularly significant is the preconception period—the 6 to 18 months prior to conception-which is increasingly acknowledged by healthcare professionals. During this time, optimal nutrition and the accumulation of nutrient reserves are essential to support a healthy pregnancy. This extended preparatory phase plays a pivotal role in maternal and fetal health, underscoring the need for a long-term perspective on prenatal care.
But it is not only the effects of a girl child from her mother’s prenatal environment. Women are affected in their fertility in different ways throughout their life in regards to endocrine disrupting chemicals. For example, when exposed to them in puberty in higher levels, this can affect their fertility later in life in aspects such as decreasing reproductive potential and ovarian reserve, which is a measure of how many eggs left a woman has in her ovaries, especially as she ages.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (Flaws et al.) not only affect women’s fertility but also have far-reaching impacts on human health and the reproductive systems of wildlife. Research has documented that higher levels of EDC exposure during critical developmental periods, such as puberty, can significantly impact female reproductive potential and ovarian reserve later in life. This reflects a broader, often underestimated threat that EDCs pose to reproductive health across the lifespan.
Moreover, the impact of EDCs extends beyond human populations. Vertebrate and invertebrate species worldwide are experiencing profound disruptions in reproductive functions due to environmental contamination. Notably, areas with substantial runoff from wastewater treatment facilities, where substances like excreted contraceptives persist in the ecosystem, illustrate severe ecological disturbances. Such pollution has led to abnormal developments in wildlife, such as intersex conditions in fish, where male individuals exhibit egg development within their testes.
The implications of these disruptions are not isolated to small or localized populations. For instance, studies have reported that is not only humans that are affected, the male sex of both vertebrate and invertebrate species are being severely affected all over the world. It is especially obvious in areas that are more heavily affected by environmental runoff such as that which comes from wastewater plants where compounds such as birth control (excreted from women’s urine) is not removed from the water. This causes improbable mutants such as boy fish that start making eggs in their testes and cockroaches that turn from male to female. We must remember that female is the default sex. And hormonally speaking males are the weaker sex in that they can be turned into male-female mutant hybrids (that cannot reproduce) if they are exposed to too many compounds that are estrogen mimetic or oestrogens. In addition, one must be aware that these effects are sometimes, but not always dosage responsive in that even small amounts of a compound can have drastic effects on your baby, especially baby boys.
The changes in animals, both birds, fish, and mammals are not just small, localized occurrences in areas of heavy pollution. For example, “Two-thirds of male Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska have been found to have undescended testes and deformed antler growth” {Lean, 7 December 2008 #718}. The other examples of affected animals and birds is abundant but in general ranges from fewer boys, mutant boys, males that have affected genitals (smaller and changed to be more like girls such as urogenital length), and inability to reproduce. The effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals is also affecting the sex ratio of humans worldwide. In the past the ratio of males to females was 106 males for every 100 females. Now things are very different in that the ratio of baby boys is decreasing. For example, in the US and Japan combined it has been calculated that 250,000 babies have been born as girls that would have otherwise been born as boys due to EDCs. Sperm counts are also approximately half of what they used to be…. from 160 million/ml sperm to 50 million/ml sperm. This has occurred in a tiny span of fifty years. This would only be unconcerning if you’re an ostrich because this is the fastest pace of evolutionary change in the total history of humans. Over 100,000 chemicals are released into the environment every year and unless we refuse to use these compounds, such as plastic in our kitchen and plastic to go containers, we are going to eliminate little boys as well know them.
The estrogenic compounds in the environment are the primary culprit for the surge in little gay boys and teenagers acting like queens. If this is your teen or little boy, a good detoxification such as only green juices and brown rice will go a long way in curing “gayness.” Although much of effects of hormones causes changes in development, so this is a medical condition that will take longer. This is because hormones put the body on a trajectory of growth and development, or even manner of reacting to the world. A growth trajectory can be changed, but I do not know if physical development that has already occurred can be changed. You can change the ways that body is producing hormones. Hormone production is environmental responsive. In conclusion, if you change the environment through diet, exercise, neuronal coding, and detoxification, you can change the body.
This is not an issue about political correctness, this is a genuine biological “illness” on the brain due to the chemicals in the environment. That is not to say that in the most EDC free environment you will not have a gay man. Attraction to the same sex can be natural, but the incidence it is occurring in our era is not natural but an illness. It is occurring in bugs, birds, animals, and humans. It should be more of a concern than natural resources and the monetization of such. EDC’s are destroying the natural order of the world and unless we on the individual level begin to refuse consumer products that contain these compounds, the world will not change and the baby boy will become a rarity.
Studies are demonstrating the physical changes of boys such as changes genital size such as penile length and distance from anus to genitals (a key formative effect for turning the default baby girl into a baby boy, and a factor that also reflects concurrent and less measurable changes in the brain). But it not the physical changes that are most concerning. It is the behavioral changes in boys/young men that remove the innate characteristics of men that have been instrumental in maintaining a healthy society. An important role of men has always been to provide guardianship and protection of the family and the familial unit. And outside of the family a societal role of men is to take interests in the political checks and balances of the government to make sure that the government conforms to the will of the people and does not overstep the lines of morality or anti-corruption. This behavior is hormonally driven. It is testosterone driven.
Scientific evidence demonstrates that the feminization of boys from EDC’s is also behavioral. For example, the first testosterone surge in little boys occurs at age 3-9. Around this age, your little male creature should start running around a lot. They should hit you or their dog, or their friends once in a while, not out of maliciousness, but out of the male desire to engage in play fight so that the masculine need to fight is trained. They should throw rocks and balls; they should stop their feet with demands and want to play with transformers and trucks and get dirty. This is not sexist. This is just the effects of testosterone which make a boy want to fight, be tough, and rough. Playing with dolls and being gentle all the time signifies a lack of testosterone. Studies have shown that when little boys have been exposed to high levels of EDC’s in utero they prefer to play with dolls and traditional girl clothes over traditional boy toys. These sentiments are not politically driven. And as the author, I believe it perfectly okay for boys to play with dolls as well. In fact, I think that young boys should be given their own baby doll to also help grow their limbic systems responsible for empathy and nurture the human drive to care for another. What this information is trying to present is that the masculine qualities of play need to be desired by little boys as well.
The environment has a particular ability to make changes to the physiology of a person in utero. En utero is a critical time of development for the nervous system, including brain development. The placenta contributes to the development of brain and nervous system. EDC’s interfere with the functioning of the placenta and therefore this affects brain development as well as many other aspects of development(Marinello & Patisaul, 2021). The placenta is itself a neuroendocrine organ which means it affect the mother’s and baby’s nervous system hormonally.
If you happened to read “Opening the Door Beyond RDA’s: An Exploration of Nutrition for Pregnancy and Lactation,” you would have seen that when the placenta does not receive sufficient nutrition, this can lead to issues such as restricted growth of your baby, preterm birth, and eclampsia/preeclampsia. The brain is essentially programmed in utero as neuronal and glial (supporting cells for the neurons) proliferate (replicate), have their specific function determined (differentiation), and the neuronal cells go where they need to go(Marinello & Patisaul, 2021). There is evidence that the placenta acts as a bio monitoring organ and contaminants in the environment change how the placenta interacts with the magical female physiology to make a baby. Of course some changes of the placenta can be for the fetus to survive in an unclean and toxic world. But considering that these compounds cause changes away from normal healthy physiology and that mothers whose blood, urine, and placenta, and cord blood have higher amounts of toxins along side more negative physiological results such as poor endocrine function, decreased neurodevelopment, and increased incidence of negative birth effects, then you will begin to see that it is not just the normal physiology that we are moving away from but we are practically devolving. Instead of being more fit and powerful as generations go on, as is allowable by the advent of technology and medicines, we are making ourselves less genetically fit. The fitness of your child is programmed in utero. Your child can change it to a certain extent. But to deprogrammed a toxic lifestyle it will take several generations (3 to be exact) of a radically healthy and toxin free lifestyle. Just like you want to save money for the well-being/college/expenses of your child, you should also be aware of the concept of saving health…to live in a fitter and better way so that your child has “health savings” so that life is easier for them, so they have greater mental acuity…. better immune function…greater athleticism, and so on.
“EDCs can occur through a variety of mechanisms, including, but not limited to, the interference of protein synthesis, secretion, cellular transport, and receptor binding” In general these chemicals are man-made and you get exposure through cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and even the things you cook/bake with. These compounds interfere with your hormones and also reduce fertility (Martin et al., 2022) Although this is not an exclusive list of chemicals in our environment and food supply that disrupts the endocrine system, these are some of the major classes that are classified by governments and scientists as being disrupting to the endocrine system. This is especially important during pregnancy, a process that is 100% reliant on optimal functioning of the endocrine system. If you could make one major change to your life to improve your pregnancy, it would be to detox from these compounds and remove them from your lifestyle. This will have far greater improvements for your system than something like a prescribed diet or going gluten/dairy/meat free or free of whatever food (Lambert et al., 2015).
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