Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford University-educated chief medical officer at metabolic health company Levels, said Alex Jones' long-standing commitment to atrazine, an endocrine disruptor and one of the most widely used pesticides in America, further justified their concerns.
tuesday episode “The Joe Rogan Experience”.
When asked about precocious puberty becoming increasingly common, Means said, “We live in an environment that is highly influenced by human-made estrogen.”
Professor Means suggested that the ingestion of plastics (which when broken down act like xenoestrogens) has been shown to have a huge impact, affecting humans even in the womb. He further pointed out that pesticides, especially those responsible for the increase, also play a key role. aromatase — “The enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen”
The doctor named an insecticide atrazine.
“So atrazine is banned in Europe, but the United States sprays 70 million pounds a year,” Means said. “We buy it from other countries. So China, Germany and other countries are selling us chemicals that have 70 million pounds sprayed on our food. In our eyes. It is invisible and tasteless and upregulates aromatase, converting testosterone to estrogen.”
“Why would we allow something like this to happen? Of course it affects the boys,” Means continued. “You don't have a ton of exogenous testosterone. Plastic isn't stimulating testosterone either.”
Means is not the only person in the burgeoning “Make America Healthy Again” movement willing to discuss atrazine and other apparently devastating pesticides.
recent robert f kennedy jr.
said Dr. Jordan Peterson, “The second most used chemical, pesticide, in this country is atrazine. It's banned in Europe, it's banned all over the world, but we're still using it here. It's in 63% of our drinking water.
“We don't know how it's affecting our children,” Kennedy later added.
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noticed “When you expose a frog to atrazine, which is a male frog, it changes its sex and can actually produce babies. It can produce eggs, fertilized eggs,” he said on his podcast in June 2022.
“They have zero chance of reproducing.”
“So we need to be thinking as a society about the potential for these chemicals that we're now showering on our children to cause very serious sexual changes in them,” Kennedy added.
warned Elsewhere, entire water supplies in the Midwest are reported to be “coated” with atrazine.
Atrazine was the chemical Alex Jones alluded to in his now famous 2015 rant.
shouted“I don't like it when they put chemicals in the water and change the cold frogs.” gay! ”
Like Kennedy, Jones was referring to the work of an endocrinologist and amphibian biologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tyrone Hayes Atrazine “wreaks havoc on the sex lives of adult male frogs, leading to three-quarters of them being castrated and one in 10 turning female.”
“These male frogs lack testosterone and everything it controls, including sperm. So their reproductive potential is as low as 10 percent in some cases. This is because these frogs are kept in isolation. and only when paired with a female,” Heise said.
said University of California Berkeley News 2010. “In an environment where animals compete with unexposed animals, the chances of them reproducing are zero.”
Some male frogs turned into hermaphrodites and mated with other males.
“Why not take a chance? What about all the other effects we know that atrazine not only has on humans, but also on rodents, frogs, and fish?”
Professor Hayes said: “Some animals are female in the sense that they behave like females. They have estrogen, they lay eggs and they mate with other males. Atrazine causes a hormonal imbalance and causes “I helped them grow into a different gender.” In terms of their genetic constitution. ”
The university paper states:
Approximately 80 million pounds of the herbicide atrazine is sprayed on corn and sorghum crops each year in the United States to control weeds and increase crop yields, but various studies show that this widespread use This makes atrazine the most common pesticide contaminant of groundwater and surface water. However, studies show that atrazine inhibits endocrine hormones such as estrogen and testosterone at levels of parts per billion in fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles, laboratory rodents, and even human cell lines. It has become clear that Recent studies have also found a possible link between birth defects and low birth weight and in utero atrazine exposure in humans.
Syngenta is an agricultural company that manufactures pesticides.
I tried it Downplaying the findings.
According to The New Yorker, a freelance science columnist whose nonprofit receives tens of thousands of dollars from Syngenta, wrote a hit article attacking Hayes on Fox News and characterized his paper published in Nature as junk science. I tried to attach it.
Hayes goes on to add, “Not all frogs and not all humans are affected by atrazine, but why not take a chance?'' How does that compare to everything else we know about the impact on fish? ”
When Alex Jones brought up Hayes' findings, much of the anger that had previously been directed at scientists was redirected.
For example, CNBC
characteristic Jones claims that “chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay” and lists it as one of the “5 most disturbing and ridiculous conspiracy theories”.
In an article that disputes Jones' claims that governments can manipulate the weather and that fluoride in drinking water can disillusion people, Forbes also proposed It turns out that Jones misunderstood Hayes' findings.
“One of the most important health issues affecting couples is infertility.”
The unfortunate truth about atrazine clearly survives such distortion efforts by mainstream and corporate media.
Just a few months ago, the respected peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports published the following paper:
study It confirms that “exposure to atrazine is toxic to the testes, affecting the normal structure of the seminiferous tubules and sperm.”
“Pesticides such as atrazine are frequently present in everyday environments, have negative effects on human health, and may contribute to male infertility,” the study said.
This study makes no secret of the harmful effects of pesticides on the reproductive system.
In adult women, atrazine intake may be associated with early onset of pituitary and breast cancer, prolongation of the estrous cycle, decreased intrauterine estradiol-induced weight gain, decreased uterine cytoplasmic progesterone receptor binding, and estradiol-induced uterine weight gain. It has been shown to be associated with a decrease in Adult men exposed to atrazine may experience decreased body weight in the anterior pituitary, prostate, and hypothalamus, decreased levels of dihydrotestosterone that binds to androgen receptors, and decreased sperm volume and motility. there is. One of the most serious health issues affecting couples is infertility. Approximately 30% of this is due to male factors. There are other factors that can negatively impact spermatogenesis and affect normal sperm production, such as chemotherapy, environmental toxins, and drug use.
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