{"id":53381,"date":"2025-07-04T13:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=53381"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:43:33","slug":"endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-edcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-edcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond choking oceans and clogging landfills, plastics are now infiltrating our bodies through microplastic particles and a cocktail of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>What is the Endocrine System?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The endocrine system is <\/span><b>made up of glands that make hormones.<\/b> <b>Hormones <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are the <\/span><b>body&#8217;s chemical messengers.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>carry information and instructions from one set of cells to another.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The endocrine system <\/span><b>influences almost every cell, organ, and function<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of our bodies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>About Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDCs are <\/span><b>natural or man-made chemicals <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interfere with the normal function of your body\u2019s endocrine system.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since EDCs come from many<\/span><b> different sources,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> people are <\/span><b>exposed in several ways<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including the<\/span><b> air <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we breathe, the <\/span><b>food <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we eat, and the <\/span><b>water <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we drink.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDCs also<\/span><b> can enter the body through the skin.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDCs <\/span><b>interfere <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the way<\/span><b> the body\u2019s hormones work.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Some EDCs act like &#8220;hormone mimics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; and trick our body into thinking that they are hormones, while other EDCs block natural hormones from doing their job.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other EDCs can<\/span><b> increase or decrease the levels of hormones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in our blood by affecting how they are made, broken down, or stored in our body.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">other EDCs can <\/span><b>change how sensitive our bodies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are <\/span><b>to different hormones.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are approximately <\/span><b>85,000 man-made chemicals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world, with at least <\/span><b>1,000 classifiable as EDCs.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are<\/span><b> common examples of EDCs found in plastic.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/138216\/OPS\/GBIEJB52I.1+G0REJB6G6.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals are natural or man-made chemicals that interfere with the normal function of your body\u2019s endocrine system. 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