Aaron Hartman, MD explains how phthalates and other "everywhere chemicals" in food, clothing, and the environment disrupt hormone development in children. These compounds have long caused genital abnormalities in animals and are now linked to testicular descent problems in boys and altered genital development in girls.
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Did CNN just discover this? And the answer is no. I Learned in college 20 some years ago that these things could actually affect male and female genital formation and frogs and other amphibious animals and lo and behold we're seeing issues with kids now being exposed to these everywhere chemicals these phthalates affecting testicle of descent and little babies female genitalia development. So this is a big deal. It's related to cardiovascular disease and some of these are also referred to as neuroendocrine disruptors or chemicals that actually affect your hormones. Again why am I talking about this right now? Because CNN posted about it but an article recently and so the concept is this the idea of chemicals around us in our food, in our environment, in our clothing. The issue is a lot of American clothing that that's really popular right now. A lot of the you know sports related stuff people wear actually are plastic petroleum products. The issue is that's now becoming quote unquote talked about to new but it's actually an old concept.