Xenostrogens Essay

Xenostrogens are pollutants that come from products of the petrochemical industry. They mainly affect womens’ health. Some scanty cases have been reported in men, like cases of sex organ disorder, testicular cancer. These chemical become part of the body by mimicking the female hormones and other hormones.
They are found in almost anything we use in the house and office: They are in the environment, in plastics that are used to package foods, water, in paints, in plastics for baby food. These pollutants are not generally bad. Most of them have come about as an effort in technology to produce better products and good quality equipment like pesticides for the farm, and chemicals used to increase farm yields per acre. These chemicals enter our bodies through the plants and animals we eat that have consumed water or other plants that have the chemicals .DDT is one kind of such of chemical that is used to protect alfafa from pests, the alfalfa is later used to make chicken feed, from which we get our eggs. Xenostrogens are very dangerous to the health and cannot be easily washed off foods. When consumed by farm animals, they are stored in the fatty tissues. They can be passed from mother to child
Even though they are onto contaminate its contents. It is unfortunate that some scientists know the negative side effects of these products but, they hide it from the public and it is later discovered when large numbers of people have been adversely affected and correcting the situation is almost next to impossible.
There are steps that can be taken to minimize the effects of xenostrogens in the home: avoid the use of chemicals in farming. If possible do organic farming. The problem of chemicals in the environments is really very complex, that there is no one fixed solution to the problem, by taking one step at a time we can find a way