Estrogen mimmicking hormone

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Has anyone heared of this?

Plastics apparently causew the release of an estrogen mimmicking hormone. In rivers where a plastic factory has poluted it, male crocodiles started to become female! In a nutshell their cocks fell off!

The worry is that by esting/drinking from plastic containers we could end up like the crocs. At the moment it is still a theory, no one has proven it. My bioligy teacher drew my attention to it, has anyone else heard of it?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I've heard of this before, but I've seen no more substantiation behind it than any other urban legend.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Research has also shown that lavender has the same effect. Baby boys who use lavender products developed breasts.

[piet11111]

baby boys with breasts :o

to counter this troubling situation we have to expose those baby boys to massive amounts of alcohol and the most disturbing internet porn we can find !!
that ought to make men out of em.

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 20, 2007 08:36 pm
Research has also shown that lavender has the same effect. Baby boys who use lavender products developed breasts.
What research? By whom? Where?

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

I read it in a magasine

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 22, 2007 01:41 am
I read it in a magasine
What kind of magazine, how do they vet their articles, what was the title?

[Luís Henrique]

Originally posted by Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 20, 2007 08:36 pm
Research has also shown that lavender has the same effect. Baby boys who use lavender products developed breasts.
I don't believe this, it seems rather outlandish.

Baby boys who drink their mother's milk do suffer some kind of feminilisation?

Luís Henrique

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Originally posted by Jazzratt+December 22, 2007 01:59 pm--> (Jazzratt @ December 22, 2007 01:59 pm)
Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 22, 2007 01:41 am
I read it in a magasine
What kind of magazine, how do they vet their articles, what was the title? [/b]
The science and environment section of "the week", and again in the yearly round up magazine which is in shops now

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg+December 22, 2007 04:48 pm--> (Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg @ December 22, 2007 04:48 pm)
Originally posted by [email protected] 22, 2007 01:59 pm

Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 22, 2007 01:41 am
I read it in a magasine
What kind of magazine, how do they vet their articles, what was the title?
The science and environment section of "the week", and again in the yearly round up magazine which is in shops now [/b]
Sorry to keep on at you like this but you wouldn't happen to have more information as to how a science article gets approved by the magazine and whether or not there are references to these findings elsewhere (for example in peer-reviewed journals). I'd look it up myself but I was hoping you might have something on it, to save time.

[counterblast]

Valerie Solanas' wish may come true.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

WIKIPEDIA
Lavender oil has recently been implicated in gynecomastia, the abnormal development of breasts in young boys. Denver endocrinologist Clifford Bloch discovered the link after several boys presented with enlarged breasts. Subsequently, Derek Henley and Kenneth Korach of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C., discovered in lavender and tea tree oil the presence of compounds which both suppress male hormones and mimic female hormones.

Because sex hormone levels are normally low prior to puberty, young boys and girls are particularly sensitive to estrogenic and androgenic compounds. The discovery of the gynecomastia link in boys has led some researchers to suspect lavender and tea tree oils, which are present in various personal care products including shampoos and lotions, may also contribute to the increased incidence of early breast development in girls.

Discontinuation of use of these products resulted in rapid reversal of gynecomastia in Bloch’s young patients.[2][3]

However, the conclusion that the gynecomastia was actually caused by the essential oils in these products are currently being disputed by the Artisan Perfumers Guild and Cropwatch due to insufficient evidence.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art...rticlekey=79274 (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79274)

Thats a good link for it...

A simple google search returned it

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 24, 2007 08:14 pm
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art...rticlekey=79274 (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79274)

Thats a good link for it...

A simple google search returned it
I'm really not convinced, to be honest. I haven't seen any other research into this and the evidence given in the article you posted doesn't seem sufficient and nothing else I could find really satisfied me as far as evidence is concerned.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Originally posted by Jazzratt+December 24, 2007 09:25 pm--> (Jazzratt @ December 24, 2007 09:25 pm)
Y Chwildro Comiwnyddol [email protected] 24, 2007 08:14 pm
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art...rticlekey=79274 (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79274)

Thats a good link for it...

A simple google search returned it
I'm really not convinced, to be honest. I haven't seen any other research into this and the evidence given in the article you posted doesn't seem sufficient and nothing else I could find really satisfied me as far as evidence is concerned. [/b]
Yes, it does seem to be a bit of an urban myth...interesting none the less.