BPA, A HIDDEN CAUSE OF PCOS AND INFERTILITY?

left and right ovaries showing evidence of PCOS

Most of us know by now that our environment has a lot to do with the state of our overall health and unfortunately this includes our reproductive health as well.

Below is a link to a study done by Researchers in the UK and Greece which say that women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) have a significantly higher burden of bisphenol A (BPA) than other women. BPA,  a chemical in our environment, is a known estrogenic hormone disrupter.


Read more:- http://www.ovarian-cysts-pcos.com/news124.html

From the site:

“The study compared 71 women with PCOS to 100 "normal" women. All women were subdivided into lean and overweight groups.

All together, the PCOS women had 1.5 times the amount of BPA in their blood than the other women did.

The lean PCOS women had 1.6 times the amount compared to other lean women. The overweight PCOS women had 1.3 times as much as the other overweight women.

The overweight women tended to have lower BPA levels in their blood than the lean ones. We can speculate that in the overweight women, they have more BPA stored in their fat cells and not as much in their blood. Fat cells are excellent storage sites for many environmental chemicals.”

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