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These things are everywhere, and science is beginning to reveal how bad they are for us
Despite your healthy eating, exercising, and getting good sleep, you may unknowingly coexist with harmful chemicals that undo all that careful living.
Phthalates are a family of chemicals known as plasticizers, used to make plastics last longer. They are found in hundreds of everyday household products like soaps, shampoos, nail polish, perfume, shower curtains, hairsprays, and even the capsule surrounding ingestible medicine. Phthalates are not only in the containers that can leach into what’s inside, but are often used as fragrances or thickeners, added directly into the product.
But phthalates are no run-of-the-mill contaminant. These ubiquitous chemicals have been linked to all kinds of health problems, and 99% of adults and children have been exposed, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Phthalates are particularly troublesome because they are not chemically bound to the plastics they reside in. They move around over time and contaminate indoor dust and air, which settles on and inserts itself into nearly everything, including your food.
“A substantial body of literature has linked these chemicals to obesity, diabetes and heart disease,” Leonardo Trasande, MD, director of NYU Langone’s Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards, said in a Today article. “They’ve been called hormone disruptors because men (and women) exposed to high levels of phthalates tended to have reduced level.of testosterone in their blood. Low testosterone is a marker of cardiovascular disease in men.”
New research adds to the known risks, finding phthalates may interfere with getting pregnant. A lower probability of becoming pregnant was found in women with higher levels of phthalates in their urine, according to the study. published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Women already have issues achieving pregnancy. In the US, 19% of married, childless women aged 15 to 49 say they are unable to get pregnant after a year of trying, according to the CDC. Though the causes are numerous, from inadequate hormone levels to older age…
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