In a recent study researchers revealed that gender-bending chemical found in non-stick pans and food packaging are associated with early onset of menopause. Women having the utmost levels of those chemicals in their bodies experience menopause early in comparison to those having the lowest levels of chemicals.
The chemical per-fluorocarbons or PFCs are often found all through the house. These are frequently breathed in through dust or vapors, or eaten in food. They have been connected with problems of immune system, heart disease and thyroid cancer. Several experts believe that they also disrupt the working of hormone in the body.
They keep away water and fat that is why they have been used to create non-stick cookware, greaseproof food packaging and anti-stain sprays for clothes and carpets. In the latest study carried out by researchers from West Virginia University examined levels of PFCs in blood samples of twenty-six thousand US women.
They found levels of PFCs were highest in women aged more than forty-two and those who had gone through the menopause. The women in this age group with highest PFCs levels had considerably poor concentration of female hormone oestrogen, reported the study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
According to study author Dr Sarah Knox, there is no qualm that there is a connection between exposure to PFCs and onset of menopause. But, the study had not shown that higher PFCs actually cause earlier menopause. The fraction of the elucidation could be that women in these age groups have higher PFC levels as they are no longer losing PFCs with menstrual blood anymore.
However, it is still clinically distressing because it would imply augmented PFC exposure is the natural result of menopause, stressed Dr Knox. The environmental crusaders urged women to diminish their revelation to man-made hormone disrupting chemicals in the home. Now there is extensive revelation to sex hormone unsettling chemicals that can have intense effects on your well-being, stated Gwynne Lyons from of CHEM Trust.