{"id":3609,"date":"2018-06-05T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2018-06-28T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T02:28:32","slug":"dirty-little-secret-synthetic-estrogen-in-our-fish-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"Dirty little secret: synthetic estrogen in our fish runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a link to this research paper by Canadian scientists studying fish runs after a few folks asked about it. This is one study, there are others you can also find that show how all the synthetic and estrogenic substances in our personal care products, birth control pills, anti-depressants, etc are affecting fish development.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Municipal wastewaters are a complex mixture containing estrogens<br \/>\nand estrogen mimics that are known to affect the reproductive<br \/>\nhealth of wild fishes. Male fishes downstream of some wastewater<br \/>\noutfalls produce vitellogenin (VTG) (a protein normally<br \/>\nsynthesized by females during oocyte maturation) and early-stage<br \/>\neggs in their testes, and this feminization has been attributed to<br \/>\nthe presence of estrogenic substances such as natural estrogens<br \/>\n[estrone or 17\u0001-estradiol (E2)], the synthetic estrogen used in<br \/>\nbirth-control pills [17-ethynylestradiol (EE2)], or weaker estrogen<br \/>\nmimics such as nonylphenol in the water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/pnas\/104\/21\/8897.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/pnas\/104\/21\/8897.full.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a link to this research paper by Canadian scientists studying fish runs after a few folks asked about it. This is one study, there are others you can also find that show how all the synthetic and estrogenic substances in our personal care products, birth control pills, anti-depressants, etc are affecting fish development. Municipal wastewaters are a complex mixture containing estrogens and estrogen mimics that are known to affect the reproductive health of wild fishes. Male fishes downstream of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3609\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Wd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}