I was thinking about fertility the other day and the fact that so many people have a hard time....I have been thinking about the different things we each do and come into contact with and I have since started looking into it....
I have found that fluoride (which has been added to our drinking water since the 1950's) is a byproduct of the aluminum and nuclear industries. The Merck index lists fluoride's primary use as rat and cockroach poison. The first known instances of deliberate water fluoridation were in Nazi Germany ghettos and prison camps. Sodium fluoride was added to the human inmates' water to sterilize them and to cause them to become docile, subservient subjects willing to comply with orders. Among other things it causes hormone disruption and premature births. I know, I know 'they' say it is good for our teeth, but interestingly enough it actually causes dental fluorosis (a disease of the teeth) and weakening of bones through bone loss!!
http://www.naturalnews.com/027693_fluoride_cancer.html
The second thing I thought of was chlorine. It is in cleaning products, swimming pools, tap water (that most drink, shower in, and cook with), toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, baby wipes, diapers, cotton swabs, and TAMPONS.....several of these things come into contact with ours and our babies most sensitive places. I will attach the link to an article that I just finished reading but I am going to copy and paste some of the most interesting info in case you can't read the entire article!!
http://makingloveinthekitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/tampax-tampons.pdf
The average woman, menstruating for five days a month for 38 years will use approximately
11,400 tampons in a lifetime.
Most tampons are treated with chemicals that have no place in a product to be used so intimately by women. Tampax manufactures tampons from a blend of rayon/viscose and conventionally grown cotton. Approximately “84 million pounds of pesticides are sprayed on 14.4 million acres of conventional cotton grown each year in the US… These chemicals are some of the most toxic used in agriculture and the [Environmental Protection Agency] has declared seven of the top 15 to be ʻpossibleʼ, ʻlikelyʼ, ʻprobableʼ, or ʻknownʼ human carcinogens” (“A Periodic Problem”). The toxic cotton is a problem, but certainly not the only one.
The rayon/viscose used in Tampax is made from wood pulp and hundreds of chemicals are used during the process of converting wood to rayon. The chlorine bleaching of wood pulp is where the greatest danger lies. The process creates chlorinated hydrocarbons, a hazardous group of chemicals with byproducts that includes dioxins, some of the most toxic substances known.
Given that dioxin is cumulative and slow to disintegrate, the real danger comes from repeated contact. I think itʼs safe to consider five days a month, 12 months a year, for nearly 40 years to be repeated contact.
WHAT IS DIOXIN?
Dioxin is a term used to describe a group of hundreds of highly persistent and highly toxic chemicals that accumulate in the environment and in our bodies. This toxin is a highly dangerous byproduct of many different industrial processes involving chlorine including waste incineration, chemical and pesticide manufacturing, and pulp and paper bleaching (this includes the rawmaterials used in conventional tampons). Dioxin is an organochlorine and is produced by a combination of chlorine and organic compounds. As the primary toxic component of Agent Orange, it is considered “the deadliest substance known to humankind”(“Chlorine Bleaching, Dioxin and Womenʼs Health”), where “literally, a tablespoon [of dioxin] would kill everyone on the planet”(Citrinbaum).
HEALTH EFFECTS
The risk with dioxin is not about how much is present, but that it is there at all. The “subtle reproductive and health effects occur at doses low enough to present no blatant effects, and is insidiously spreading slowly throughout populations” (“Chlorine Bleaching, Dioxin and Womenʼs Health”). Dioxin accumulates in humans, particularly womenʼs body fat and breast milk. The main means of elimination is therefore through the breast milk or the placenta and then begins to accumulate in the fetus and into infancy. The “greatest risk is to developing children and fetuses” (“Chlorine Bleaching, Dioxin and Womenʼs Health”) as their immune and nervous systems are only just developing. This persistent toxin is not only spreading through populations but through generations.
In addition to cancer and endometriosis the enzyme, hormonal and growth disruption caused by
dioxin exposure has been linked to birth defects, the inability to maintain pregnancy, decreased
fertility, reduced sperm count, diabetes, learning disabilities, immune system suppression, lung
problems, skin disorders, and lowered testosterone levels.
Something to think about for the ladies.... pass this on to any women that you know!
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