We wrote about the documentary “The Disappearing Male” some time ago and have posted a permanent link in the right sidebar of this blog to it. If you haven’t watched it yet, we highly recommend doing so.

More data on the potentially damaging effects of endocrine disruptors and how to identify them has come to light in the past week. In this Alternet article, Joan Melcher not only goes into the various studies that have proven the effects of endocrine disruptors, but studies which have been trying to pinpoint exactly which chemicals and compounds cause problems genetically in lab animals. The results are promising; scientists may be able to determine the exact causes of genetic mutations that have had the following effects over the last century:

-one in 17 boys born in the United Kingdom have undescended testicles.
-the incidence of testicular cancer in young men has doubled every 25 years over the past 60 years.
-malformation of the penis has increased in incidence in some European countries, the United States and China

All bullet points are extracted from a study published in May 2009 by the British NGO Chemtrust.

Tags: endocrine disrupter, endocrine disrupting chemicals, endocrine disruptors, environmental endocrine disruptors, our stolen future

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