In the mid-1990s, when writing a paper for a toxics and hazardous substances class, I had a theory combining what I knew about nature and what I read in medical school journals.\u00a0 It was that manufactured toxic and hazardous substances like organochlorine (including dioxin) are endocrine disruptors because of hormone mimicry.\u00a0 This theory had to do with the cause of breast cancer but may cause cancer itself.\u00a0 Do drugs cause mimicry?\u00a0 It may be the mimicry of calcium that causes cancer.\u00a0 Does this cause bone cancer as well?\u00a0 Is it the same process for mimicry of insulin?\u00a0 Could this be the cause of pancreatic cancer that metastasizes to other organs?\u00a0 Do tampons contain any manufactured chemicals that may cause hormone mimicry?\u00a0 Does my paper on organochlorines have an association with paper mills?\u00a0 Are we all exposed to hormone-mimicking chemicals in the environment, food, paper products, and water?\u00a0 Do hormones in meat contribute to hormone mimicry in people?\u00a0 When exposed to hormone-mimicking chemicals, does the body respond by increasing water retention and lipids?\u00a0 Does breast size increase when exposed to these hormone-mimicking chemicals?\u00a0 Does this mean that everything we do must adapt toward desired future conditions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the mid-1990s, when writing a paper for a toxics and hazardous substances class, I had a theory combining what I knew about nature and what I read in medical school journals.\u00a0 It was that manufactured toxic and hazardous substances like organochlorine (including dioxin) are endocrine disruptors because of hormone mimicry.\u00a0 This theory had to … Continue reading Because hormone mimicking chemicals are endocrine disruptors (which may cause cancer), should Medical schools have Nature and Natural systems foundations. Should they be Nature schools?<\/span>