Chemicals in our Environment that Effect Hormones

There's actually a chemical that can make a male frog turn into a female frog. The male frog actually won't develop his male genitalia. It's called atrazine. This is a common pesticide that's been used for decades. Currently, it's not supposed to be used anymore. But you know how that works, right? This is a very common phenomena, putting chemicals in the environment to affect hormones. So what do these things do? The first thing these chemicals can do is they're called endocrine disruptors. Those are things that block hormones like testosterone, progesterone, estrogen. One of the interesting things about PCOS is part of that is the inability for progesterone to work at the receptors, as well as this thing called estrogen dominance. The next thing these chemicals can cause is damage to the reproductive tracts. It can cause incomplete development of testicles and ovaries. It can cause incomplete development, full maturation of the fallopian tube, as well as the infundibulum, which is where the egg kind of goes through and gets in the tube and gets to the uterus. These chemicals, once stored in the body, can affect. Affect implantation. So once the egg is fertilized, it won't implant. The other thing is we've already talked about is actually affects sperm count.