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Katherine Albrecht Interviews Dr. Leonard Sax: Boys Adrift/Girls On the Edge — “What happens when you expose prepubescent children to substances that act like female hormones? Girls go through puberty earlier and boys’ testosterone levels drop.” “Avoid the plastics, and avoid the phthalates.”

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

“…what happens when you expose prepubescent children to substances that act like female hormones? Girls go through puberty earlier …  and boys’ testosterone levels drop.”

A young man living today has a sperm count about half of what his grandfather’s would have been. He has a testosterone level roughly half of what his grandfather’s would have been at the same age.”

“You find a growing number of young men who prefer video games to girls.”

“Over the last 30 years, the age of onset puberty for girls has continued to drop, and that’s not been true for boys.”

Teenage boys and young men rely on testosterone for a big chunk of their motivation. Girls do not. … Hardworking, driven girls do not have higher levels of any hormone than girls who are less motivated. … And when testosterone levels drop, as they have done … then young men will be less motivated. And they are.”

A girl should not be going through puberty at eight years of age, because those years—7, 8, 9 years of age—those years are very precious years. The brain is plastic prior to the onset of puberty in a way that it is not once puberty has begun. A child before the onset of puberty can learn any language in the world without formal instruction….

Girls who go through puberty earlier are much more likely as teenagers to have anxiety, depression, to be cutting themselves….”

“If your daughter wants to use skin lotion … make sure it doesn’t have the word fragrance in the ingredients (if it’s Johnson and Johnson).”

– Dr. Leonard Sax

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No wonder, you look around at the mall, you look around anywhere in the United States and everybody looks like they’re half dead. No wonder. No wonder.”

Avoid the plastics, and avoid the phthalates.”

– Katherine Albrecht

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From: Katherine Albrecht archives

Thu., July 15, 2010

Full show ( Listen as streaming MP3 | Listen as streaming RealAudio )

Hour 1 ( Download the MP3 )

China // Internet of Things // Dr. Leonard Sax //

China is trying to use RFID chips to track all items and create and Internet of Things as described by Ron Callari.  Read Spychips for more information.  Proctor & Gamble and Walmart are trying to further this agenda – boycott them to keep from funding them and their agenda.  ★★★★★Dr. Leonad Sax and Katherine have a fascinating and thought provoking discussion about the impact of the environment and chemincals on both boys and girls.

China’s ‘Internet Of Things’ To Become Semantic Web Superpower?

Ron Callari

Spychips (order form)

Dr. Leonard Sax

Why Gender Matters

Boys Adrift

Girls on the Edge

Polyethylene Terephthalate May Yield Endocrine Disruptors

Shopper’s Guide to Safe Cosmetics

Hour 2 ( Download the MP3 )

Advice and Cautions // Soy // Plastics // Teflon //

Katherine tells us that we must appreciate what we have and keep fighting for our freedom and privacy.  Don’t fall into the trap of giving up because some freedoms have been lost.  Shentrition Bulk Special has been extended – if you use coupon code “spychips” on website or mention Katherine Albrecht when calling in at 866-497-SHEN you get an additional 10% off.  Do not use soy or endocrine disruptors (found in plastics), Katherine will be doing a show on the toxicity of Teflon and reads the headlines of a host of stories where birds have been killed from the fumes.  PFOA emitted from teflon is a listed carcinogen and ubiquitous in the environment.  Do not buy food from China – the melamine tainted ingredients have been resurected.  If you are a listener on the local radio dial, please email kma@spychips.com and let her know the station name and/or number. Please help support this listener supported show.

Shen Life

Shentrition

Startpage

Spychips (order form)

Good News Friday on Linkl.ist

Canaries in the Kitchen: Teflon Toxicosis: Teflon kills birds

Teflon labeled cancer risk

UCLA study: U.S. Women at Greater Risk from Teflon Chemical

Is Plastic Making People Fat?

Being fat has long been seen as a personal problem, fixed only by struggling against the proliferation of fast food restaurants, unlucky genes, and a sedentary life.But could something in the environment also be making Americans fat in epidemic numbers?

Animal studies in recent years raise the possibility that prenatal exposure to minuscule amounts of common chemicals – found in everything from baby bottles to toys – could predispose a body to a life of weight gain. The chemicals, known as endocrine disrupters, mimic natural hormones that help regulate, for example, how many fat cells a body makes and how much fat to store in them. …

A recent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that about 93 percent of the US population had bisphenol A, a chemical that can be found in canned goods and in hard, clear plastic items such as baby bottles and hiking containers, in their body. A study at the University of Missouri-Columbia showed that mice fed bisphenol A during early development – at lower amounts than what would have resulted in the levels found in most people in the CDC study – become markedly more obese as adults than those that weren’t fed the chemical. Tufts University scientists observed similar phenomenon in rats.

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