Nov 09
29
BPA Chemicals Linked to Male Impotence
It’s been long suspected that BPA’s, which is the short way for a long name belonging to a group of suspected harmful chemicals that originate from hard plastic containers, have contributed to a lot of things such as breast cancer and even other degenerative diseases. So much so, in fact, that over just the past few years people have been giving up their traditional hard plastic Nalgene type bottles and swapped them out for stainless steel or glass water drinking bottles just so that their water won’t leach those potentially harmful chemicals and diffuse them into their bodies, doing whatever type of damage they may do.
I’ve been drinking from a stainless steel water bottle for a few years now. Being a woman, I’ve been a little crazy about preventing things in my body that have been even remotely linked to breast cancer, and since BPA’s are one of them, I know that just drinking out of a bottle that is anything other than plastic is better for me or at least has the potential of being better for me, makes me feel better about what I’m drinking. What further convinced me is that their wasn’t that funky, plastic-y flavor to my water any more either, unlike when it sat in a plastic container a few hours.
This to me is further proof that your water does indeed leach something from plastics, otherwise, why would your water taste somewhat like plastic if it had even just spent a few hours in a plastic container?
I digress though with my reasons for believing this theory, however guys, this does now have something to do with you too, so you may want to listen up. While I think it would beneficial for everyone, men and women to drink from stainless steel or glass instead anyways, there is now further evidence that it may sexually affect men as well. It has actually been linked to impotence in men. The reason is that it was found that men who worked around BPA’s had a higher incidence of sexual dysfunction and impotence, which lead researchers to believe that it also affects men in a particularly adverse way.
The theory goes that BPA’s contain artificial estrogens, which interfere with both men’s and women’s natural ability to balance their own hormones, equally for them whatever sex they happen to be, so that they have the correct portions of male hormone, or testosterone, and female hormones, or estrogens, at any given time in their bodies. This synthetic hormone mimicking chemical can throw that off and lead to sexual problems for men, hypothetically.
