Our Chemical Lives

[mrs izzy]

Our Chemical Lives

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4207313.htm

Tuesday, 31 March 2015 | ABC Catalyst

"Thousands of chemicals are used in everyday products – in our water, our food and in the air we breathe. It's the chemical soup of modern life and it's virtually impossible to escape them. In this special edition of Catalyst, Dr Maryanne Demasi investigates the safety of these chemicals, and compares the level of chemicals in her own body with clean living convert and media personality Sarah Wilson. Is there adequate regulation and testing, or are we in the midst of an uncontrolled, human experiment?"

Professor Peter Sly
"The placenta itself detoxifies the oestrogens from the mother, the natural oestrogens, and stops them crossing into the foetus. Unfortunately, some of these synthetic chemicals, and particularly things like bisphenol A, while they have endocrine and oestrogen activity, they're not recognised by those detoxification enzymes as oestrogens and they pass straight through the placenta."

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You think there might or could be a link? 

[Cindy]

I watched this last night. I thought it was very good.

Strange world? Maryanne is an ex medical student of mine

[Eva Marie]

Fascinating piece.

When I was watching this I started wondering if these estrogenic effects of BPA could possibly have any cause and effect on transgender people that are around  my age? BPA went into commercial use in 1957 and I was born in 1962. The piece mentioned changes to reproductive organs but didn't say anything about mental effects such as possibly playing a part in causing ->-bleeped-<- even through endocrine disrupting was mentioned over and over again.

I know that the chemical companies were playing fast and loose back during that era with what they produced with little government regulation, so we got drugs like Thalidomide (also went into commercial use in 1957 like BPA) and Diethylstilbestrol that caused tremendous damage to people.