Cologne Connected to Sperm Damage
By Linda on May 24, 2010 in Toxins
Linda’s comments:
I have been preaching this for years….People just don’t want to listen….when men and women bathe themselves in cologne I ask them if they don’t like their prostate and to women I ask them why put their ovaries and breast at risk….they look at me like I have THREE heads….You can buy good smelling things that do not contain chemicals, but I guess people would rather reek havoc on the bodies and fight Cancers…..of course, the industry would NEVER EVER give you these warnings. Hell even conventional/western docs bathe themselves in stinky smelling deodorants…
My pulmonologist office I have to wait outside as one of the docs bathes himself in cologne….I complained to my doc and she said, well he has a bad body odor….I suggested to her and him that he flush his liver so he wouldn’t stink….they looked at me like I had lost it…sooooooooo being who I am I flooded them with research and proof….of course they were trained in western medicine and don’t have a clue….however, the last time I was in there, there was NO cologne smell….good Lord they are pulmonologists and don’t have a clue…scary thought….<shaking head> Please read this article with great interest…
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The “secret” ingredients that give colognes their particular scents could also be damaging sperm, according to a study by the nonprofit consumer advocate Environmental Working Group.:::http://www.ewg.org/::::Researchers analyzed the chemical composition of 17 perfumes and colognes and discovered that many scented products contain compounds that have the potential to interact with hormones. One chemical, a solvent called diethyl pthalate, was found in 12 products and was linked to sperm damage in a 2006 Harvard study. Sperm damage can lower fertility.:::aoldb://mail/write/::::What’s more, DEP is just one of 12 different hormone-disrupting compounds found in the colognes. Georgio Armani’s Acqua di Gio, for example, contains seven compounds that interact with either estrogen or androgen (female and male hormones) or both, according to the study.“We don’t know how harmful repeated use of these colognes and perfumes are, because the emphasis in the industry is not on long-term testing,” says study author Dr. Olga V. Naidenko.“While infrequent use could be fine, because the same chemicals show up in many different products, over time they can build up in your body and have bad effects,” she says.
