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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IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT MAKING YOU INFERTILE???

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.
Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior’s hand
Psalm 127: 3 & 4

"HOPE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE"

When it comes to infertility/fertility, The more we know, the better off we are in terms of preserving our fertility and treating our infertility. With that said. I am not trying to scare anyone, but do you all know that your environment has a lot to do with your fertility?

While these days we are trying to prevent further damage to our precious environment by trying to adapt to a ‘living green’ lifestyle, which is very good and necessary, but sadly for many people, the damage has already been done, as they were either made to experience much difficulty in trying to conceive children and have the family of their dreams, or sadly, have had to make peace with not being able to have children of their own at all.

It is found that toxic materials, among them, mercury, copper and lead, which is found in our environment in several parts of the world, do have adverse effects on your fertility and can also result in miscarriages, should you become pregnant.

If you have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, it could be that this is a result of these toxic materials found in your environment.

Below are links to some sites, which speaks in detail to this issue.

http://www.annuaire29.org/articles/category/17/message/340/
http://www.annuaire29.org/articles/category/17/message/334/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1519933/?page=1

Please read and be encouraged and until next time, keep clinging to hope.