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Our Stolen Future: Brominated flame retardants disrupt thyroid function
Stolen Future: Brominated flame retardants disrupt thyroid function Navigate the site Newest developments Book Basics New Science Consensus Statements Commentary Myths vs. Reality ... powerful than the natural hormones themselves at binding with transthyretin, a protein crucial to normal thyroid hormone function.These retardants are present. They are powerful. And their impact could be profound. What ...
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Corporation (Aerojet) is located in Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County.... Perchlorate in Drinking Water and Newborn Thyroid Function - Public Health Activities -- Historic waste disposal practices at the Aerojet-General Corporation facility in Rancho ...
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In adults, the thyroid helps to regulate the metabolism. In children, the thyroid plays a major role in proper development, in addition to metabolism. Impairment of thyroid function ...
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PROFESSIONALS' STATEMENT CALLING FOR AN END TO WATER FLUORIDATION .
These include an increased risk of bone fractures, decreased thyroid function, lowered IQ, arthritic-like conditions, dental fluorosis and, possibly, osteosarcoma. The average ... diabetics, people with poor kidney function and other vulnerable sub-groups. For example, the average fluoride daily intake associated with impaired thyroid function in people with iodine deficiency ( ...
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Excerpts from NRC Report: "Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards"
EFFECTS ON THE THYROID: “several lines of information indicate an effect of fluoride exposure on thyroid function.” p197 “it is difficult to predict exactly what effects on thyroid function are likely at ... iodine often is not reported in studies of fluoride effects. The effects of fluoride on thyroid function, for instance, might depend on whether iodine intake is low, adequate, or high, or ...
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Environmental Working Group. What are the health effects of perchlorate exposure? Impaired thyroid function, tumors, cancer, and decreased learning capacity and developmental problems, such as loss of hearing and ...
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An experiment on patients in mental hospitals to determine if their thyroid function was normal. Among the subjects were patients with schizophrenia, manic-depression, mixed psychoneurosis, and anorexia ...
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L., Carr, J.A. & Anderson, T.A. (2002) Environmentally relevant concentrations of ammonium perchlorate inhibit thyroid function and alter sex ratios in developing Xenopus laevis. Envtl. Toxicol. & Chem. 21: 590-597. Goleman ...
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Our Stolen Future: Endocrine disruption of thyroid hormones
Thyroid 8:827-855. In an ambitious review of the literature from laboratory experiments, wildlife observations and human epidemiology, Franoise Brucker-Davis concludes that wildlife data clearly demonstrate thyroid ...
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Our Stolen Future: Thyroid hormone disruption
They conduct competitive binding experiments to measure the potency of brominated flame retardants to intefere with thyroid hormone function. ... thyroid function. Thyroid 8:827-855. In an ambitious review of the literature from laboratory experiments, wildlife observations and human epidemiology, Franoise Brucker-Davis concludes that wildlife data clearly demonstrate thyroid ...
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