Most of you have learned, I truly hope, that pesticides are toxic and that they lead to disruptions of the endocrine system. This has been linked to MANY, many illnesses. Now, a brand new study links pesticides to the most prevalent degenerative illness in the U.S.
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Pesticide exposure, not obesity as a single factor was found to contribute to increased cardiovascular disease risk and inflammation in premenopausal women, according to this new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
This new study looked at the effects of exposure to polychlorinated pesticides such as DDT. Although DDT was banned in many countries in the 1970s, it remains widespread in the environment and food supply.
DDT was one of the first recognized endocrine-disrupting chemicals, according to the introductory guide to endocrine-disrupting chemicals published by the Endocrine Society and IPEN.
DDT and related pesticides are known as environmental estrogens because they mimic and therefore interfere with the functions of the hormone estrogen. Research has found DDT exposure is linked to birth defects, reduced fertility and increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, all of which have caught like wildfire in the U.S.
"After the body breaks down DDT along with similar pesticides, chemical remnants called metabolites accumulate in women's fat tissue," states one of the study's authors, Diana Teixeira, PhD student of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto in Porto, Portugal. "When higher amounts of these environmental estrogens collect in the fat tissue, it can compromise the protective effect the body's natural estrogen has on a premenopausal woman's heart health. This leaves women at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease and inflammation."
The study analyzed the amount of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in fat tissue and blood samples from 121 obese women who underwent bariatric surgery at S. João Hospital in Porto. Among the participants, 73 were classified as premenopausal and 48 were postmenopausal. The researchers tested the participants' fasting blood glucose and cholesterol. Using the Framingham cardiovascular risk score, the researchers assessed the women's 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Researchers found that among premenopausal women, women with higher concentrations of environmental estrogens in their visceral fat tissue from the belly were more likely to have higher average blood sugar levels. Among premenopausal women, those with higher levels of environmental estrogens in their blood tended to have more inflammation and faced a greater risk of cardiovascular disease according to the Framingham scale.
"Our findings show that endocrine-disrupting chemicals
tend to aggravate all the complications of obesity, including inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk, in premenopausal women," Teixeira said. "Measuring environmental estrogen levels may help physicians identify women who are at risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic disease so they can take preventative action."
Preventive action is avoiding the contaminants in non-organic foods. Collectively, I cannot think of a more worthwhile cause than protecting our food supply and planet earth.
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Content for this article taken from Science Daily and the original study as cited above.
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Journal Reference:
Diana Teixeira, Diogo Pestana, Cristina Santos, Luísa Correia-Sá, Cláudia Marques, Sónia Norberto, Manuela Meireles, Ana Faria, Ricardo Silva, Gil Faria, Carla Sá, Paula Freitas, António Taveira-Gomes, Valentina Domingues, Cristina Delerue-Matos, Conceição Calhau, Rosário Monteiro. Inflammatory and Cardiometabolic Risk on Obesity: Role of Environmental Xenoestrogens. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2015; jc.2014-4136 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-4136
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