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In the process of producing gas and oil, chemicals are released that disrupt the endocrine system

This is according to a meta-study that included a review of over a hundred studies that dealt with the effects of various substances. The researchers who conducted it recommend a process to examine activity from complete endocrine disruption from exposure to harmful mixtures, which may cause disorders in human development and reproduction

Natural gas and oil extraction process (Fracking). In addition to the direct environmental effects, chemical mixtures are emitted during activity that may disrupt the endocrine system responsible for regulating many hormones in the body . Photo: AuntSpray / Shutterstock
Natural gas and oil extraction process (Fracking). In addition to the direct environmental effects, chemical mixtures are emitted during activity that may disrupt the endocrine system responsible for regulating many hormones in the body. Photo: AuntSpray/Shutterstock

More than 15 million Americans live within a mile (1.6 km) of gas and oil production facilities that combine drilling and hydraulic fracturing, a process known as fracking, in order to release the natural gas trapped in underground rocks.
The scientific studies on the long-term effects of the method on this activity on health were inconclusive, but when you put them together you get a completely different result. However, recently Susan Nagel and Christopher Kasotis from the University of Missouri and their colleagues, including geologists and environmental health professionals, conducted a review of studies dealing with the health effects of these mining operations and concluded that there is a danger of the release into the environment of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), which may harm children's development and the process Human reproduction.

 

the endocrine system (Wikipedia) Or the endocrine system is a collection of glands that produce and secrete hormones into the bloodstream. The function of the system is to control the processes of acceleration, regulation, growth and metabolism that take place in the various organs of the body. The authors reviewed over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and investigated the pattern and connections between the data that dealt with the various chemicals and their impact on human development.

"The composition of the materials emitted in the fracking process is not yet fully known"

 

In their peer-reviewed commentary, the researchers concluded that the existing studies point to a concern about the effects of the activity on health as emerged from evidence-based studies that dealt with oil and gas extraction processes.

 

"We recommend a process that will make it possible to examine the disruption of the endocrine system as a result of exposure to mixtures of substances used in the production process, and this is in addition to reviewing the effects of each chemical on its own," Nagel said. "Studying the composition of the materials emitted during fracking, since the chemical composition of the materials emitted is not always known. In addition, there is strong evidence that endocrine-disrupting compounds have additional effects, so the approach must be more sensitive."

 

Nagel, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, and an associate associate professor in the Division of Biological Sciences, examined the studies together with Chris Kasotis - a PhD graduate in the Division of Biological Sciences Professor Jane McElroy, a family and community specialist at the Dan School of Medicine Tillitt - a biology professor and toxicologist working at the US Geological Survey also contributed to the study, which was recently published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

 

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  1. the censored
    Stop feeding the trolls.
    They can't contribute anything. Neither in science nor in politics. They are just looking for attention and you are giving it to them.

  2. golden friend,
    Yes, 38 years of which the left was Rabin, some Peres, Barak and that's it.
    Olmert, what to do, he is right wing. He made all his fortune on the right and the fact that you deny it, speaks volumes for you. In any case, he did nothing but demonstrate what a magnificent army Bogie had left behind. Boogie from the Likud. Those who did do it were Begin who returned Sinai, Netanyahu who returned Hebron and voted in favor of secession, and Sharon who returned Gaza. Oh yes, during the period of the Magnificent Three: Sharon, Olmert and Netanyahu, tens of thousands of immigrants/refugees/jobseekers entered Israel and this is of course a huge failure of yours on the right, in dealing with them and let's not forget the colossal and huge failure in dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue.
    You are zeros without strategy and endless philanderers, but why promote the agenda of Hamas?

  3. Troll,
    You are just a troll because the article has nothing to do with the topic you are talking about and therefore you deserve a title.
    Your master's degree is "golden friend of Hamas"

  4. Troll,
    The High Court does not require anything. If anything, and only when he is really forced and even then he is hung up on technical arguments, he orders the government to enforce the law it itself enacted. If you want to imprison refugees/immigrant workers forever, change the law. The problem started only with you, under the regime of the days. Take care of it. Want to allow settlers to steal land and cheat, change the law. Want to keep your message, together with Hamas (your best friends) change the law and annex the territories.
    But you are zeros from zeros who only know how to bark and blame others for your endless failures.
    You have been in power for 38 years. dominate.

  5. And treat the substance of the matter without calling names like a child in kindergarten when you don't have a contradictory response to the truth

  6. The High Court of Justice (with the help of the "Zionist" left who submits endless petitions) cancels laws designed to keep Israel Jewish. Laws against infiltrators, the nationality law, the High Court of Justice actually demands the evacuation of parts of settlements and much more
    The left actually supports the state of all its citizens and the right of return and works with all its might to tie the hands of the IDF and its inability to protect Israel.
    So who doesn't want a Jewish state?

  7. Shmulik, you feed trolls.
    The article deals with the effects of oil extraction using the fracking method.
    It has nothing to do with politics, left-right or, apparently, the secret control of the left in the country.
    Personally, I do not believe that the censor believes what he writes. No one can be that stupid.
    His working method is to invent a loose and illusory connection between a scientific article and the "international left" and to go against them.
    His sole purpose seems to be to upset readers and enjoy the attention he believes he is getting.
    Ignoring it will eventually cause it to return to YNET's comment pages.

  8. Troll,
    Everything you write is Opinion Based. You write excuses because your side is a zero from zero that is unable to uphold its own doctrine. No one forced Begin to return Sinai. He did it because he was smart. Olmert is right-wing and made all his fortune in Likud, although he did not return anything. Coincidentally, because every Likudnik must give something back, and the fact that you write that he is not right-wing is embarrassing. I understand. It's embarrassing that every emerging right-wing leader has to give something back, no matter how bombastic his election promises were. I understand. It is embarrassing to find out that Elon and Steinitz are not "men".
    What a joke at the High Court. What a joke the left is. Since when did the High Court stop something? How exactly does the left rule? joke.
    What I also understand is that you have a member of Hamas on your delusional right and you are degrading us to an apartheid state, where a Jewish minority will live together with an oppressed Arab majority and the cost of living will be insane. Just as Hamas wants.

  9. The Likud ate the fruits of the left's bauches. And Olmert and Kadima are really not right wing. Begin ate the fruits of the Yom Kippur war and not a preventive war and the mobilization of Golda's reserves. Netanyahu ate the fruits of the bush of the criminal Oslo Rabin and Peres and the beginning of the suicide attack.
    Barak is responsible for the withdrawal without an agreement with Lebanon and the strengthening of Hezbollah and therefore the Second Lebanon War. And also responsible for the second intifada. Even today the left actually rules with the help of the High Court and the media and spreads poison and incitement against Israel in the world.

  10. Haim,
    You think?
    Everything you wrote is what is called opinion based. You wrote, then you wrote. Prove your claim. I, on the other hand, wrote facts.

    No one in the Labor Party forced Begin to return Sinai.
    No one forced Netanyahu to return Hebron. Actually, here I am ready to flow with you and mention that he was committed to previous government decisions. I'll give him that. They will answer, because he showed that he knows how to text everything, if only he wanted to, but he is zero from zero and therefore returned Hebron.
    No one forced Sharon and the Likud to secede. Netanyahu voted in favor of disengagement.
    No one forced Netanyahu to allow the Palestinians to dig under our kibbutzim without interference.
    No one forced Netanyahu to fail miserably on the Iranian nuclear issue.

    The truth is that I know exactly why the Likud did all these things: because after Begin, the Likud is mainly a zero from zero, lacking ideas and strategy and only an execution contractor. You are great at talking, like Steinitz and Ya'alon who talk very loudly, but at the moment of truth, they ran away. Lightning killed them totally. You can say whatever you want about Barak, but I have not heard one denial about the truth of the things that came out of his mouth. Not from Mialon and Steinitz and not from Lieberman.
    That the Likud will go further to the right? what a joke The Likud is so far to the right that it has become the execution contractor of the left and the execution contractor of Hamas, since both (and you too) advocate for one state between the Jordan and the sea. After all, no one will let you deport/destroy all the Palestinians living in the territories, no matter how much you pray for it to happen, and therefore you and your Likud are striving, together with Hamas, to make the Jews here a minority and on the way to create an apartheid, messianic, illusory and horribly expensive state here.

    May you fail, Amen.

  11. Shmulik
    The irony and sarcasm in your words. conspicuous. Everything you point out is the brainchild of the Labor Party for decades and of Meretz. The result was that the Likud internalized some of the ideas and it will name some and the results speak for themselves. Check a little history and the political processes and you will understand what I mean. As for Sharon, fundamentally and in his soul, he was a true Phoenician. The trickle-down method of the left's ideas over time has taken its toll. I have every hope that new forces will emerge in the Likud that will move it from the center to the right and that you yourself will find your place in the new Likud. Amen yes may it be.

  12. Haim,
    Aha. You are absolutely right.
    After all, the Labor Party met Hitler and issued the declaration in question. The Labor Party, not the Likud, carried out the disengagement. The Labor Party was in power when the tunneling season began. The Labor Party was in power when the refugees/immigrant workers started entering the country. The Labor Party and the left have failed to deal with the failure to stop the Iranian nuclear program and the world's ignoring us. Basically, the Labor Party that has ruled Israel for the past 38 years with the exception of Begin (returned Sinai), Shamir (Madrid Conference), Netanyahu (returned Hebron), Sharon (disengagement and return of Gaza), Olmert, Netanyahu (starting the tunnel project?) and more Netanyahu is also to blame for the high cost of living.
    You're right. The facts are with you

  13. Strong
    In one thing that is censored in all this. right. The left is at least partially out of touch with reality. The left is often wrong and the right is often right. Examples The British Foreign Minister after the meeting with Hitler in 1939 announced that he had brought peace. And in Israel, after the disengagement from the Gaza Strip, the season of the Qassems and the tunnels began. I have the impression that the people of the left are basically innocent people from a political point of view. They probably didn't read Machiavelli or misinterpreted him

  14. The left is against the West's independent energy production so that it will always depend on the Arabs who are incapable of anything except selling natural resources. This way the West will distribute its wealth to the backward and tyrants and this will create equality.
    These are indeed the views and ideologies of the left for all doubters. The delusional leftists call it "wealth distribution" and "equality" between the countries. This is also what Obama's book deals with, who dreams of reducing the power and wealth of the USA and turning it from an empire into another ordinary country. This is also the reason why the left supports and helps the invasions of immigrants in the world. So that there is homogeneity and no nation states. Or in short world 3 all over the world and anarchy.

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