[Xenoestrogens--danger for the future generations?].
In this work I would like to speak about a group of substances which invisible are present in our environment. We come across with them every day. We eat them, drink them, breathe them and use them at work, at home and in the garden. They are present in soil, water, air and food, household products, packing materials, probably in the breast milk and during development in our mother's womb. These substances are "xenoestrogens". "Xeno" literally means foreign. So xenoestrogens means foreign estrogens. They are also known as: endocrine or hormone disrupters, environmental estrogens, hormonally active agents (EPA), estrogenic substances, estrogenic xenobiotics, and bioactive chemicals. The human health risks, that may be associated with these low-level but constant exposures are still largely unknown and highly controversial. May be, more knowledge in this area could give us an answer to the questions which every one of us asks many times: what is the reason of appearance of this or that disease or condition, why suddenly, without visible reason childs' breasts start to grow, the menstrual cycle break off, why prescribed by me therapy does not work? Etc....
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D000818:Animals; D004968:Estrogens, Non-Steroidal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D015262:Xenobiotics / Q000009:adverse effects*
D004968:Estrogens, Non-Steroidal; D015262:Xenobiotics