Environmental Estrogens

Environmental Estrogens


1. Environmental estrogens are a variety of natural compounds, and synthetic chemicals that are like the female sex hormone, estrogen. Hormones are the chemical messengers of the body’s endocrine system. Environmental chemicals alter the function of the endocrine system by imitating and either triggering or blocking a response to the body’s natural hormones.

2. Environmental estrogens occur in nature and may be found in plants, or in
one’s diet. Synthetic environmental estrogens, can be found in insecticides, and plastics and the chemical diethylstilbestrol which has been used to prevent miscarriage and to enhance growth in livestock and poultry. They can also be found in pesticides.

3. Studies have shown that environmental...