Men: What Common Household Plastics Could Be Robbing YOU of Your Masculinity?
Calling all men! Could a chemical found in many common household items be
undermining your masculinity and sex appeal? A new study on laboratory mice suggests this may be the case.
For some time now, health officials have questioned the safety of a
chemical called bisphenol–A, or BPA. Just recently, the American Medical Association recognized BPA as a compound that interferes with human hormones. This decision was based partly on the result of a study showing that male mice exposed to BPA in the womb were not attracted to female mice. These males were also more likely to behave more like female mice than their male peers. Interestingly enough, female mice exposed to the chemical were unaffected.
The dangers of BPA.Researchers believe that BPA exposure short-circuits the male mice’s hormone signals. From a human perspective, this information is important because BPA can have the same effect on humans by altering the development of sexual traits in both boys and girls.
Cheryl Rosenfeld, associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri says of the experiment, “BPA has been shown to suppress the early production of testosterone. In short,...
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