Saw this on “TogetherTV” last night, after some trawling I found the documentary in full online: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo8aja
Quote; “The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer. At the same time, boys are now far more at risk of suffering from ADHD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia. The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world. Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called “hormone mimicking” or “endocrine disrupting” chemicals and they may be starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human development.” Go to: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thedisappearingmale
On other platforms: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thedisappearingmale, https://www.binged.com/streaming-premiere-dates/the-disappearing-male-movie-streaming-online-watch/, https://www.togethertv.com/disappearing-male
In-fact BPA is only one of the “endocrine-disruptors” mentioned, also for your information, quote; "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Handling receipts may increase the body’s level of a chemical that has been linked to reproductive and neurological problems, suggests a new small study.
The researchers write in JAMA that bisphenol A - commonly known as BPA - typically enters the body when people eat food from a can. But it can also be absorbed through the skin from receipts, according to the study’s lead author.
“It’s not the main source of exposure, but it’s an additional source that wasn’t previously recognized,” Dr. Shelley Ehrlich of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohttps://www.binged.com/streaming-premiere-dates/the-disappearing-male-movie-streaming-online-watch/hio told Reuters Health.
BPA is used in the process of making hard plastics, and has been banned from use in manufacturing baby bottles. The chemical is also used in the interior lining of many food cans.
The chemical can leach into foods that are stored in such containers and eventually end up in the body when people eat the food. More recent research has found that people can also end up with increased BPA levels after touching materials containing the chemical.
BPA is in thermal paper, which used to be a mainstay in fax machines and is still commonly used for receipts.
Thermal paper is coated with a material that turns black when heat is applied. At the cash register, the printer applies small amounts of heat to create numbers and letters.
BPA is chemically similar to the hormone estrogen, and is thought to mimick that hormone’s effects in the body, making it a member of a class of chemicals known as “endocrine disruptors.”
In the past, BPA has been linked to a number of health problems, including reproductive disorders and brain development anomalies among children exposed in the womb.
Higher levels of BPA in urine have also been tied to an increased risk of obesity among children (see Reuters Health story of Sep. 18 here: reut.rs/NzOQht).
For the new study, Ehrlich and her colleagues recruited 24 Harvard School of Public Health students and staff between 2010 and 2011. The participants were at least 18 years old and not pregnant.
First, the participants were asked to handle receipts for two hours with their bare hands. After at least one week, they were asked to handle receipts again while wearing gloves.
Before they handled the receipts, the researchers found that 20 of the 24 participants’ urine samples had small but measurable amounts of BPA. After the first experiment, BPA was present in all urine samples, though at levels that remained within national averages.
The concentration of BPA in the urine samples had increased, though by an amount equivalent to about a quarter of what would be expected from eating canned soup, for example." Go to: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-endocrine-disruptor-idUSBREA1O1U020140225 for full article.
It seems the consumer society also leaves little “party favours” with its participants.
Quote; "Story at-a-glance
Thermal paper typically used for receipts contains the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA)
After handling receipts, BPA was found in all study participants’ urine and the concentration of BPA in the urine samples had increased as well
Past research has shown that holding receipt paper for only five seconds was enough to transfer BPA onto your skin, and the amount of BPA transferred increased by about 10 times if fingers were wet or greasy
Other common sources of BPA exposure include canned foods, soda cans, plastics (even some BPA-free plastics), and paper currency, which may be contaminated by receipts stored nearby (such as in your wallet)" Go to: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/12/receipt-endocrine-disruptor.aspx for full article.
I also recommend the work of Dr.Paul Connett and Dr. Vyvyan Howard re: #Envirotoxins (a term Howard coined), and #Endocrinedisruptors.
Also see: https://twitter.com/i/events/937997845344473088
#Interventionism #CutandShut
If I don’t think I’ll need one I say; “no thanks!”…
funny how our society is now solicitous…