Food packaging behind of increase in testosterone levels?

13 September 2010
Food packaging behind of increase in testosterone levels?
George Atkinson

Analysis of the first of its kind, "regular" levels of exposure to a common food packaging chemical found to be associated increases in the level of testosterone in the sangre.El wih study, in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, aimed at measuring the daily Bisphenol A (BPA) loads excretado by adults, and to examine the statistical associations between the amount of estrogen and testosterone concentrations exposure and serum BPA.

Daily exposure level of average gap in this population of European study (more than 5 micrograms per day) was slightly higher than the recent comparable estimates for the population of States Unidos.El study found that greater BPA exposure was statistically associated with increases in testosterone blood levels.

"This is the first study of the gap of a European country and confirms that 'routine' population exposures are not insignificant."Also shows that increased exposure to BPA is statistically associated with modest changes in the levels of testosterone in the new hombres.Esta evidence justify appropriate human security studies to clarify the effects of BPA in people, "said David Melzer, researcher at the school of Medicine of the peninsula, Exeter, United Kingdom."

BPA is one of products high production volume chemicals in the world, with over 2.2 million tonnes produced anualmente.La main source of BPA in people believed that of residues in food, leaching of certain types of polycarbonate and packaging of detectable in the bodies of more than 90 percent of the population. resina.Es has been associated with the interruption of thyroid hormone, altered depending on pancreatic beta cells, cardiovascular disease and obesity.

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Source: Faculty of medicine and dentistry peninsula

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