A 2005 NIEHS Study where DES appears to permanently disrupt the hormonal mechanisms regulating body weight…
… ” Exposure to tributyltin is increasing the number of fat cells, so the individual will get fatter faster as these cells produce more of the hormones that say ‘feed me ” … ” Once these genetic changes happen in utero, they are irreversible and with the individual for life ” …
Abstract
Taken together, our data support the idea that brief exposure to low levels of environmental estrogens early in life increases body weight as the mice age. Whether our results can be extrapolated to humans, as in the reproductive abnormalities from the DES mouse model, remains to be determined, but this is a fruitful area for further research. In addition, the use of this mouse model to study mechanisms involved in altered weight homeostasis (direct and/or endocrine feedback loops, e.g., ghrelin, leptin) by environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals is an important basic research area that may shed light on the future prevention and treatment of obesity.
- Read Chemicals May Play Role in Rise in Obesity
by Elizabeth Grossman, TheWashingtonPost, March 2007.
DES and Obesity
- Developmental Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors and the ObesityEpidemic – 2007
- Developmental exposure to estrogenic compounds and obesity – 2005
- Endocrine Disruptors and Obesity – 2017
- Environmental Estrogens and Obesity: the Developmental Exposed DES Animal Model – 2009
- Perinatal exposure to environmental estrogens and the development ofobesity – 2007
- Prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure and risk of obesity in adult women – 2015
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