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13 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. Manasa Mantravadi explains endocrine disruptors: plastic-derived chemicals that mimic natural hormones and interfere with hormonal signaling. They accumulate in body tissues, causing hormone imbalances, sleep problems, and allergies. Children face the highest risk because their growth and development depend on a properly functioning endocrine system.

I think a lot of people may have heard of something called endocrine disruptors or endocrine disrupting chemicals. These plastic chemicals look like our natural hormones, and so they go in and kind of pretend to be those hormones, hence hormone disruptors, and they wreak havoc in the normal communication. Yeah.
These chemicals, they live in the tissue of our body. Right. Ourselves are someone very close to us that we know who's suffering from some sort of hormone imbalance, sleep disturbance issue around allergies. Like, the list goes on and on and on.
So that's particularly important for children who rely on these endocrine systems, these hormone systems, for them to grow and develop in the normal way. And so that's kind of how, from a plastics perspective, how it's entering our body and how it's interfering.